Hi,

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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/2015/32 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The ContentTranslation extension has been updated: - You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103504 - Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106241 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105799 [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106643 [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106437 - The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/223012/ - MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73201 - Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92376

*Problems*

- There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106895 - We can't search by file type https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MIMESearch on Wikimedia wikis now. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107265

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf17 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap).

*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 August 4 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=08&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal .

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//Johan Jönsson