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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/2016/19> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data
from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May
3. [1]
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Development_plan&diff=326125500&oldid=318553405>
- You can use Wikipedia GapFinder
<http://recommend.wmflabs.org/#Recommend> to find missing articles
between languages. [2]
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/04/27/article-recommendation-system/>
- Users are invited to try Cross-wiki Notifications
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki>
on
all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default,
scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117669>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130655>
- You can use keyboard shortcuts
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts>
to
open the visual editor (*meta*+V) or the wikitext editor (*meta*+E) (on
certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor). [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116406>
- Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons
required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131496>
- The UploadsLink
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadsLink> extension
is now available on Wikimedia Commons. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130018>
- Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding
content from the translation page. This is now solved. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41415>
- Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on
Mediawiki.org. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133008>
*Problems*
- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due
to a performance issue. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134553>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.1> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/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 May 10 at 19:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=10&month=05&year=2016>.
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 topics this week are Overhaul Interwiki map,
unify with Sites and WikiMap <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113034>.
The meeting will be on May 11 at 21:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=11&month=05&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
- 2017 European hackathon will happen on May 19 - 21, in Vienna
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2017> (Austria).
*Future changes*
- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We
plan to
reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please tell the
developers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Community_Tech/Numerical_sorting_in_categories>
if
the change will cause problems. [11]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T8948>
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