I would add to that, this:
*On CA, EL, EN, HE, IT, RU, UG, and ZH language wikis, HTTPS is now
mandatory for all users. It is expected other languages will be added
soon. Some bots may need to be adjusted, and users of Internet
Explorer 8, 9 and 10 will no longer have the edit summary field
auto-completed, and are encouraged to upgrade to Internet Explorer 11
if that presents an issue to them.
[
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS#2015]
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bawolff
On 6/15/15, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi,
The latest technical newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/25 .
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next.
More information on how to contribute is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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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/2015/25> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Users have created more than 5000 articles with the new translation
tool. [1]
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/06/09/content-translation-tool/>
- Editing a page is now faster. This is because some statistics about
edit filters were removed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101648>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf10>
of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will
be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from 17 June. It will be on all Wikipedias from
18
June (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the
meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on June 16 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=16&month=06&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
- You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on June 19
at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=19&month=06&year=2015>
. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-June/006376.html>
*Future changes*
- Developers are working on a new tool to get and send newsletters. If
you read or write a newsletter, share your ideas
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100604>about it. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76199>
- If you use Pywikibot, soon you won't be able to use compat anymore.
[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101214> [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101524> [7]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Compat_deprecation>
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