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Tech News weekly report.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
[1][2][3]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to
the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems.
[4]
Special:Random (used by the Random article link) now excludes disambiguation pages.
[5]
Problems
Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
[6][7]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.
[8]
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (
calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category.
[9]
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 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
The following content has been republished as-is from the
Tech News weekly report.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent changes
Many Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Wikipedia article. Before they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
[1][2][3]
Some auto-saving problems and other issues in the Content Translation tool are now fixed. Please report to
the Content Translation feedback page if you still have problems.
[4]
Special:Random (used by the Random article link) now excludes disambiguation pages.
[5]
Problems
Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
[6][7]
On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.
[8]
Changes this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 19. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 20 (
calendar).
You can soon watch when something is added to or removed from a category.
[9]
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 18 at 19:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
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