Hi,

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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/2015/35 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9937

*Problems*

- There was a problem with CAPTCHAs https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/mw:CAPTCHA in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109113

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf20 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap).

*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 August 25 at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=08&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

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//Johan Jönsson

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