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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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