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*Recent changes*
- The report for phase 1 of the talk pages consultation 2019 has been
published
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Phase_1_report>.
Communities are invited to start phase 2 of the consultation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_consultation_2019/Participant_group_sign-up#Phase2>
on
their wikis.
*Problems*
- File descriptions for files from Commons were not shown properly on
other Wikimedia wikis for a few days. For example the image descriptions
and license information were missing. This has now been fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222935>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222954>
- Some diffs show an error message when you try to see them. The
developers are working on fixing it. It could be because of some edit
comments. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222857>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222628>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.6> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 22 May at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190521T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- The content translation tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation/V2> on Wikipedia can
use machine translations. There is a system to stop translations where the
editors do not fix machine translation mistakes. This warns or stops them
if they seem to just copy what the machine translation gives them. If this
system is too strict or not strict enough you can tell the language team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Content_translation>. [5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Content_translation/Translating/Translation_quality>
- [image: Advanced item] The Wikidata wbeditentity API
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface>
endpoint
will remove all aliases if the request includes an empty alias. This is how
it supposed to work. It has not been working this way because of a bug.
This will start on 12 June. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-May/013051.html>
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