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*Recent changes*
- Tech News is trying to make reading the newsletter easier. The [image:
Recurrent item] icon means the item is in the newsletter every week, but
with new dates. The [image: For technical readers] icon means the item
is mainly relevant for readers with technical knowledge. You can leave
feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> on this change.
- Timestamps in the protection log will now be in the user's timezone.
Previously they would show Coordinated Universal Time
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Coordinated_Universal_Time> (UTC). [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T47988>
*Problems*
- A problem with MediaWiki made some pages show no content on October
14. This has now been fixed. [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20151014-MediaWiki>
- Some templates were misplaced in the Flow description bar. This could
make it impossible to click on links. This will be fixed this week. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112281>
- The deployment of the new MediaWiki version was stopped on October 14.
No new code was deployed for the rest of week. This meant planned changes
did not happen. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083598.html>
*Changes this week*
- Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week.
[5]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_October_19th>
- Wikispecies, Meta and
MediaWiki.org will be able to use Wikidata for
sitelinks. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007106.html>
[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108825>[8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109674>[9]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115653>
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 20 October at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=10&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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