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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/2015/28> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a
page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94713>
*Problems*
- The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this
problem on the pages of long gadgets. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104109>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf13> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July
9 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You
can now see how many are active. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-July/001205.html>
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51506>
- You can now translate articles into English with the new translation
tool. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94123>
*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 July 7 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=07&month=07&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
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