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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/2015/37 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110306 - A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/mw:Wikidata_Toolkit has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/006999.html - You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72209

*Problems*

- There was a problem with Tool Labs http://tools.wmflabs.org/ due to kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Kernel_(operating_system) issues. This has been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110827 - The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [5] https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/september-3-update-fixed-duplicated-references-issues-with-norwegian-and-publishing-errors/ [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110007

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf22 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). - The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107947 - The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sobaaiky57zs7py7. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108190[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108760

*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 8 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=08&month=09&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. - You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors.

*Future changes*

- The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=09&year=2015. The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110133 - Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T77977[12] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-August/006982.html

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