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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/2015/39> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- There is now an experimental Wikimedia maps service
<https://maps.wikimedia.org/>. You can give feedback here
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps>. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-September/083277.html>
[2] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps>
- Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was
done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something
went wrong. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T42921>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48741>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T61646>[6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106968>
- More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any
Wikipedia article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that
matched the subject of the article. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100788>
- The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is
to make it more helpful for new users. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112354>
*Problems*
- Wikimedia Labs' HTTPS certificate
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:HTTPS> expired for most of Tuesday 15
September. To reach Wikimedia Labs and Tool Labs securely you had to ignore
your browser's security error message. There was no risk to data security
during this time. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112608>
- Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was
temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will
return to two parts this week. [10]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112552>[11]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-September/001260.html>
- UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using chunked
uploads <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/commons:Commons:Chunked_uploads>.
This has now been fixed. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111908>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf24> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from September 22. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 23. It will be on all
Wikipedias from September 24 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for
forms. [13] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86865>
- You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in
VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type
before and after the link is part of it. [14]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91285>
- Wikibooks can now use data from Wikidata. [15]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107999>
*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 22 September at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=22&month=09&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on September
23 at 17:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=00&sec=0&day=23&month=09&year=2015>
. See how to join
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/007052.html>
.
- You can register to the Wikimedia Developer Summit 2016
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016> in San
Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are
welcome as well. Call for participation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016#Call_for_participation>
and
travel sponsorship requests are open until 2 October.
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