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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/36 are available.

*Recent changes*

- VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Standard_Book_Number, PMID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PMID, or RFC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Request_for_Comments#Production_and_evolution . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54204[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109498 - The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101290 - VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/229442/ - Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/mw:Manual:CORS#Using_mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66636

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on September 1 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=09&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/d:User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015. This will probably happen on September 9. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-August/082949.html

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//Johan Jönsson

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