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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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