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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/2015/48 are available.

*Recent changes*

- [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] A new Pageview API has been announced https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2015-November/004529.html. Feedback is requested https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112956 to help decide which data to add to it next.

*Changes this week*

- There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- You can join the next meeting with the Language Engineering team. The topic is: Content Translation updates and Questions & Answers. The meeting will be on 25 November at 13:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=13&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=11&year=2015. See how to join https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours. - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] 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 24 November at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=24&month=11&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "RfC: Raise MediaWiki's PHP version requirement and update coding standards https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118932". The meeting will be on 25 November at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=11&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings.

*Future changes*

- [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] From 1 December, the MediaWiki API will no longer support the dbg, txt, and yaml output formats. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2015-November/000098.html

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//Johan Jönsson