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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/2015/26> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Some wikis can now be used only with HTTPS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS>. This includes the English,
Russian and Chinese Wikipedias, among others. Soon all wikis will use only
HTTPS for all users. [1]
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/12/securing-wikimedia-sites-with-https/>
[2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-June/001184.html>
- You can't use HTTPS wikis with Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP. You
need to use another browser. [3]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Supported_browsers>
*Problems*
- On June 15, search was broken on all wikis for several hours. [4]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150615-Elasticsearch>
[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102587> [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102463>
- On June 16, images were broken for several hours on wikis that use
InstantCommons <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/InstantCommons>. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102566> [8]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/218419/> [9]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/218536/>
- Many Labs tools were broken for several days. Almost all of them are
back now. They may be missing some data for the last 10 days. [10]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150617-LabsNFSOutage>
[11]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-June/003786.html> [12]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-announce/2015-June/000042.html>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf11> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from June 23. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 24. It will be on all Wikipedias from June
25 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the
meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on June 23 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=23&month=06&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
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