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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/2016/34 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The ORES review tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/ORES_review_tool is now available on Special:Contributions as a beta feature. It can make it easier to find contributions that are probably damaging the wikis. The ORES review tool is available on Wikidata and Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Dutch, Turkish and Russian Wikipedia. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T132371 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The norm and ccnorm functions have been updated to make it easier to write abuse filters. This also affects the TitleBlacklist https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TitleBlacklist extension. You don't have to transform "I" and "L" to "1", "O" to "0" and "S" to "5" anymore. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T29987#2557227 - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The old pageview data in the "pagecounts-raw" and "pagecounts-all-sites" files is no longer being updated. You can find the new pageview data here https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/pageviews/. This happened on August 5. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2016-August/005339.html

*Problems*

- Some big image files could not be thumbnailed. This has now been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111815 - When you moved a page over a redirect it would delete the redirect without saving it in the logs. This has now been fixed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106119

*Changes this week*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.16 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 August. It will be on all wikis from 25 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 23 August at 19:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=23&month=08&year=2016. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings.

*Future changes*

- Sometimes when you mention another user they don't get a notification. You will be able to get a notification when you successfully sent out a mention to someone or be told if they did not get a notification. This will be opt-in. You can test this on the test wiki https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139623[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135717 - How you add text after an edit conflict might work in a different way in the future. You can test the prototype https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Prototype_ready_for_testing . [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139601

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