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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/2015/35> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9937>
*Problems*
- There was a problem with CAPTCHAs
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/mw:CAPTCHA> in VisualEditor. This has
now been fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109113>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf20> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from
August 27 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
*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 25 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=25&month=08&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
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//Johan Jönsson
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