Il 06/04/2015 17:45, Guillaume Paumier ha scritto:

Hi,

The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/15 . Below is the English version.

You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next.

More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly.

As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.

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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/2015/15 are 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

Yes.

*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

"Flow"

*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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-- Guillaume Paumier

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