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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/2015/34> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any
Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that
matched the subject of the article. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100786> [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100787> [3]
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Arbitrary_access>
- Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation
tool are now fixed. Please report to the Content Translation feedback
page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:CX> if you still have
problems. [4] <https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/2015-08-13/>
*Problems*
- Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading
anymore. They need to be updated. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107399> [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-August/001232.html>
- On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content
Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day. [7]
<https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/08/13/2015-08-13/>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf19> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from
August 20 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a
category. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9148>
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the
meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on August 18 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=18&month=08&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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