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*Tech News*

- Because of the holidays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Christmas_and_holiday_season, the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 11 January 2016. - The writers of the technical newsletter are asking for your opinion. Did you get the information you wanted this year? Did we miss important technical news in 2015? What kind of information was too late?Please tell us https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News! You can write in your language. Thank you!

*Recent changes*

- CompletionSuggester is a new suggestions algorithm for Search. It is available as a Beta feature since 17 December. (more information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CirrusSearch/CompletionSuggester ) - The Multimedia team is running an A/B test for the cross-wiki upload tool. They are testing four different interfaces. The test is running from 16-23 December. (more information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/December_2015_cross-wiki_upload_A/B_test )

*Changes this week*

- There is no deployment of MediaWiki scheduled until 12 January 2016 ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- Should administrators and other users with advanced tools need stronger passwords? You can discuss about it in a Request for Comments https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Requests_for_comment/Password_policy_for_users_with_certain_advanced_permissions . - No meeting with the VisualEditor team on 22 and 29 December, and 5 January.

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