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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/2015/08 are available.

*Software changes this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf17 of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap). - On Wednesday your Meta user page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/001092.html [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72576 - You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52809 - In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57976 - The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.​ [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177946/

*Meetings*

- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. [7] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080803.html - You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T08&p1=224&ah=1. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal . [8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076781.html - You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300 . [9] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2015-February/000973.html

*Future changes*

- You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools .

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