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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
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available.
*Recent changes*
- Revision scoring
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Revision_scoring_as_a_service>
will
help to automatically identify bad-faith and good-faith edits. The point is
to make it easier to block vandals and welcome newcomers. It currently
supports Wikidata and 14 Wikipedias. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-December/084176.html>
*Problems*
- Meta was not given access to information from Wikidata last week. This
will happen later. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117524>
*Changes this week*
- You will be able to use wikilinks in Flow topic titles. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59153>
- IP users will have a toolbar with links to the user talk page and user
contributions. Some Wikipedias already have this feature. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112724>
- You will be able to edit the graph size in the visual editor. You can
either specify the size in the graph dialog or drag it to be the size you
want it to be. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109631>
- It will be easier to write math in the visual editor if you don't know
LaTeX <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:LaTeX>. You can use symbol
buttons instead. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114163>
- You will be able to use syntax highlighting
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:syntax_highlighting> when you write
math with LaTeX <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:LaTeX> in the visual
editor. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118618>
- UploadWizard will look a bit different. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96914>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.8> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 8 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 December. It will be on all
Wikipedias from 10 December. (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
- New MediaWiki versions will now be on Catalan and Hebrew Wikipedia on
Wednesdays. Other Wikipedias get the new MediaWiki version on Thursdays.
[9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115002>
*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 8 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 topics this week are
"Graph/Graphoid/Kartographer
– data storage architecture <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119043>"
and "Parametric JSON builder
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119050>".
The meeting will be on 9 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>.
*Future changes*
- A new beta feature will show users links to related articles at the
bottom of an article. It will not be enabled by default. [10]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116676>
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