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Latest *tech news
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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/2015/24> are
available.
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf9> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from June 9. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from June
11 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
[1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-May/081863.html>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97553>
- If you use the Monobook skin, the buttons and other controls now look
more the same in VisualEditor and other tools. [3]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/212919/>
- When you edit links and other items in VisualEditor, you now need to
apply your change before closing the tool. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55546>
- The title of dialogs is now easier to see when it is near long
buttons. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76947>
*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 9 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=06&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
- You can join a meeting with the Language team. The meeting will be on June
10 at 14:30 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=30&sec=0&day=10&month=06&year=2015>
. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081960.html>
*Future changes*
- If you have a bot, you may need to fix it. The default continuation
mode of the API for action=query will change at the end of June. [7]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-June/081931.html>
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