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*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.
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