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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/2016/49 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can choose to see users from specific user groups in Special:ActiveUsers https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116354 - Everyone can now see Special:UserRights https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UserRights. Previously only those who could change user rights could. Other users got an error message. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27319 - ORES https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service can now show how likely an edit is to be damaging to the wiki with different colours. This only works for languages that have trained ORES https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_labels to recognize damaging edits. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144922

*Changes this week*

- You will now see categories with 0 pages in Special:Categories https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Categories. Previously you did not see empty categories there. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T12915 - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 December. It will be on all wikis from 8 December (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap).

*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 6 December at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=06&month=12&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- The 2016 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey will decide what the Community Tech https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech team will work on next year. You vote for wishes on the survey page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey until 12 December. You can see what has happened to last year's wishes on the 2015 results page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Results.

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//Johan Jönsson