Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/29 . Below is the English version.
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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/2015/29 are available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now see a list of pages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_syntax_highlighting_errors with errors in code coloring. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103586
*Problems*
- There was a problem with editing on Thursday. Some tools like bots and VisualEditor were broken on all wikis for 10 minutes. [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150709-poolcounter - There was a problem with images on Thursday. They were broken on all wikis for 15 minutes. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105304
*Changes this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf14 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 14. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 15. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 16 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- You can join a technical meeting at Wikimania in Mexico City this week. [4] https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hackathon
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