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Latest *tech news
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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/2016/26> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The ORES service <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ORES> has
now moved to a new location <https://ores.wikimedia.org/>. This should
make it easier to use ORES. The ORES review service
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES_review_tool> is now available as a
beta feature on Wikidata and Persian Wikipedia. ORES is an artificial
intelligence system for Wikimedia wikis to help editors. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2016-June/005220.html>
- The order of wikis in collapsed cross-wiki notifications was different
than when the list was expanded. This is now fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138115>
- A new category for tracking pages with math errors was added:
Category:Pages
with math errors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_math_errors>. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49037>
*Problems*
- The Wikimedia Etherpad <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Etherpad> crashed
on June 23. Some edits done that day have been lost. They can be found at
etherpad-restore.wikimedia.org for another few days. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138516>[5]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160623-etherpad>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.8> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 28 June. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 June. It will be on all
wikis from 30 June (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap>).
- The way to mark notifications as read or unread will be changed to be
more clear. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126214>
*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 28 June at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=06&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- The Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation will look at
developing better tools for edit review. This is because research suggests
we scare away newcomers who want to help. [7]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Edit_Review_Improvements>
- An e-mail from the Editing Department explains the technical work that
is planned and being researched for the future. Items include better
wikitext and visual editing, prompts for edits, language improvements,
annotations, and meta-data separation. [8]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Roadmap/Update_2016-06-23>
- The sorting of Notifications into the two fly-out menus is going to
change on July 5 to 7. Bundled notifications should be easier to explore
and mark as read individually. [9]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123018>[10]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114356>[11]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T120153>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] From 29 June
git.wikimedia.org (running
Gitblit) will redirect all requests to Phabricator. The vast majority of
requests should be correctly redirected. [12]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-June/000215.html>
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedias will have Wikidata descriptions added to
articles in the mobile view by default. This is currently a beta option for
the mobile versions. This might come to other wikis later. [13]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135429>
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