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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/2016/15 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can ask to change to options in your language in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53852[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116020 - Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these projects. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48580[4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/The_visual_editor_at_Wikisources_and_Wiktionaries - ORES https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service is using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely. ORES also has a new API https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface. [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085258.html - The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130535

*Problems*

- There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the visual editor. This has now been fixed. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128861

*Changes this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all wikis from 14 April (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap). - The wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that were added in March. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130755

*Meetings*

- [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 12 April at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=04&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee. The topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130567 and balanced templates https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114445. The meeting will be on 13 April at 21:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=04&year=2016. Seehow to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings.

*Future changes*

- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [9] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2016

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//Johan Jönsson