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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/2015/20 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now make charts and maps https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Graph/Demo on your wiki with the new "graph" tool. If you have an old browser, you will see images instead. It uses a tool called Vega; you can learn how to use it https://github.com/trifacta/vega/wiki and write help pages for your wiki. You can use the Vega edit tool https://trifacta.github.io/vega/editor/?spec=scatter_matrix to make charts and copy the code to your wiki. Charts and maps use complex code and you should put them into templates. In the future, you will be able to create charts with VisualEditor. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081665.html [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87406 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93585 - You can apply for technical jobs to develop tools for the community. [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-May/077751.html - The logos of all wikis are now in a new place. It will make pages load faster. You can still ask to change the logo https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes. You can also use local CSS for brief changes. [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/209616 [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98640

*Problems*

- There was a problem that caused slow editing. [7] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150503-JobQueueRedis - Pages were sometimes removed from your watchlist in VisualEditor. This problem is now fixed. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97838

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf5 of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 6. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from May 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from May 13 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). - You can now use data from Wikidata on more pages. The page doesn't need to be linked to the Wikidata item. It works on a few wikis and more wikis will be added soon. [9] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata-l/2015-May/006038.html [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49930 - You should get fewer errors when you add files to Commons. [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71691 - When you use an external link to link to a wiki page, VisualEditor now converts it to a wiki link. [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94334 - When you add a link in VisualEditor, you see pages that match what you type. It is now easier to see where they match. [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T93697

*Meetings*

- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on May 13 at 18:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=05&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal .

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