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*Problems*
- There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were
down after the issue was fixed. [1]
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.labs/3284>
*Software changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf15> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since January 14. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 3. It will be on all
Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather
than green. This is the same as on the mobile site. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86507>
- You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the
Russian Wikipedia and Hebrew Wikipedia. You can ask to get VisualEditor for
a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86688> [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T87027>
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