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Latest *tech news
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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/2015/51> are
available.
*Changes this week*
- Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117524>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.9> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all
Wikipedias from 17 December. (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 December at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=08&month=12&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is talking about the agenda for
the Wikimedia Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit_2016>. The
meeting will be on 16 December at 22:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=02&month=12&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/E121>
*Future changes*
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] A new gadget
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Gadgets> manager will come
next year. The new gadget system is called Gadgets 2.0
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadgets_2.0>. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31272>
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