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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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