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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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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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