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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/2015/16 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/April . - You can now use the new translation tool on 22 Wikipedias https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/08/the-new-content-translation-tool/. You now see the tool the first time you create a new page. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95147 - The list of bad user names on your wiki https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P384 no longer works. The global list replaces it. You can ask to add rules https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Title_blacklist for bad user names on Meta. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38939 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/195623/

*Problems*

- Some wikis had issues on Wednesday. [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150408-s2-SiteStatsInit [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95426

*Changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf1 of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 14. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 15 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap). - Developers will start to rename 1.5 million accounts on Wednesday. After that all accounts will be unique and will work on all wikis. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-April/001151.html [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T37707 - All users can now test link previews https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards ("Hovercards") on several Wikipedias. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88164

*Meetings*

- You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 15 at 18:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=15&month=04&year=2015. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal .

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