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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/2014/42 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- You can now log into Phabricator https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/, the new tool to track bugs. Create your account https://phabricator.wikimedia.org//auth/start/ and add your Bugzilla email address https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account. We are copying the bugs from Bugzilla. Bugzilla is still open. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-October/078939.html [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T572 - You will now get the VisualEditor newsletter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter in your language if someone has translated it. You can add translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2014/October. You can know about the next translations by joining the translators list https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/translators-l or asking Elitre (WMF) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WMF).

*Problems*

- 10% of Tool Labs was down on October 7. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-October/002982.html - Tool Labs was also broken on October 11. [4] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.labs/3005

*Software changes this week*

- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf3 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf3) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 9 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 14 October, and on all Wikipedias from 16 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap). - 5% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures . [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000965.html

*Meetings*

- You can join a meeting https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours with Language developers on October 15, 2014 at 17:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141015T1700 . [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-October/078987.html - There is a proposal to organize file pages better https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Structured_data. It would use the same tools as Wikidata. You can join a meeting https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours about it on October 16, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141016T1800 . [7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/commons-l/2014-October/007371.html - You can join a meeting https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours about VisualEditor on October 18, 2014 at 18:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141018T1800 . [8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-October/078987.html

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