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*Feature news*

- Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing .

*Bugs status*

- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370304 were mainly due to the addition of new linter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing. - Editors can use the IP Information tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/IP_Info to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks#2024-07-25 that were resolved last week.

*Project updates*

- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/316/iterative_improvements/ . - There is an update on the Charts project https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9056 (voy:cs: https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/cs:) [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370905

*Learn more*

- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/26/the-journey-to-open-our-first-data-center-in-south-america/ in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times. - There is new user research https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/22/the-perplexing-process-of-uploading-images-to-wikipedia/ on problems with the process of uploading images. - Commons Impact Metrics are now available https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/19/commons-impact-metrics-now-available-via-data-dumps-and-api/ via data dumps and API. - The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2024/July is now available.

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