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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 join a new email list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-announce> for
important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-April/003573.html>
- You can read the last monthly report
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/December>.
In the future you can read team reports every three months
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews>.
You can see current work on the roadmap
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/roadmap/>. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-March/001139.html>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94180>
- The number of articles in Special:Statistics
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics> is now updated once
a month. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68867>
- You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>.
Using the app, you can now share a fact
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/share-a-fact-with-friends-on-android-app/>
with
your friends. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91693>
*Problems*
- The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log
entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94325>
- Labs was broken several times this week. [7]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150331-LabsNFS-Filesystem-Switch>
[8]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150331-LabsNFS-Overload>
[9]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150401-LabsNFS-Overload>
[10]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-April/003572.html>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf24> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from
April 8 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>
).
- You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with
the wikitext editor. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91608>
- Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71494> [13]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68229>
- You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>. You can add links, bold and
italics. You can also mention people. [14]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90764>
*Meetings*
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the
meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=08&month=04&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
*Future changes*
- You can again comment
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Watchlist_integration_improvement_input#First_iteration_on_feedback_by_dev_team>
on
how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [15]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-March/001123.html>
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