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Recent changes
- MediaWiki2LaTeX <https://mediawiki2latex-large.wmflabs.org/> can put
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around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
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Meetings
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meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13
November at 16:00 (UTC)
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See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Google_Code-in>. This is for young
students who want to help with open source software. You can read more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-in/2019>. Experienced
technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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