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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/2015/31 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73200 - You cannot use the compact user bar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar any more. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104659 - You can change your options https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering-files to see bigger images. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65440 - You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/GIFs - You can now edit pages linked in "what links here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere" more easily. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97269

*Problems*

- There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some pages using them did not list them in "what links here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere". You can fix those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any change. - There was a problem with the abuse filter page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter on big wikis on July 23. It was due to a code error. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106798

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf16 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 30 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). - JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts anymore. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85984

*Meetings*

- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 28 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=07&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal .

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