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Tech News: 2015-32
 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 Problems Changes this week
 * The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
 * You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts.
 * Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look.
 * The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo.
 * MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages.
 * Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore.
 * There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error.
 * We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now.
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

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 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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Tech News: 2015-33
 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
 * MediaWiki can now hide the signature button when you edit a content page.
 * The "Your preferences have been saved" message has changed. You can now see more easily what was saved when you change preferences several times.
 * You can now play Ogg video files in some browsers that don't support this format. This solution uses JavaScript and works on desktop browsers only for now. It will work on mobile later.
 * You can now use the same tools to edit style in VisualEditor on mobile as in desktop browsers.
 * It is now easier to see if there is a JavaScript error in a user or site script.
 * JavaScript authors:
 * You can no longer use the Sajax library. You can see a list of pages to fix.
 * You can no longer use  on Wikimedia wikis. You can see a list of pages to fix.
 * The content translation tool now works better. It is easier to use math, and useless tags are no longer added.

Problems
 * More edits have been rejected due to loss of session data lately. This is now fixed.
 * Importing a Lua module sometimes didn't work. This is now fixed.
 * Text was sometimes lost in the content translation tool. One part of the problem is now fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 12. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 13 (calendar).
 * UploadWizard is getting a new look. The look of buttons and checkboxes has already changed. This week, UploadWizard gets a new date picker. The other text fields will change soon.
 * You can now test VisualEditor on mobile devices of all sizes.

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 11 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * Some things in the watchlist will get a new look.

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Tech News: 2015-34
 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.
 * 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.

Problems
 * Older gadgets that are not using ResourceLoader are not loading anymore. They need to be updated.
 * On August 12 the machine translation servers and the Content Translation tool didn't work. This was fixed on the same day.

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.

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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Tech News: 2015-35
 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
 * Disambiguation pages are now excluded from the random page function.

Problems
 * There was a problem with CAPTCHAs in VisualEditor. This has now been fixed.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 25. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 26. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 27 (calendar).

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 25 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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GNews
Are articles presently being pushed to GNews? The last two don't appear to have turned up on popular articles at all, which is unusual. BRS (Talk)   (Contribs) 09:44, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Last I thought I understood from bawolff, the stats drawn on by popular articles were 24 hours out of date, so that the template was telling what was popular 24 hours ago. Could that be skewing things? --Pi zero (talk) 13:35, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * It's possible. I knew the stats were gradually slipping back for some reason, but no that they'd gotten that bad. What sort of pageviews are typical these days? The last two have only shown up in the last few hours and are still fairly low. Not sure, however, if that's par for the course atm or a sign of a problem. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 14:36, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Honestly, I haven't been tracking them lately. --Pi zero (talk) 14:39, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Whatever's happening is complicated; two of the last three are missing, one is there however. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 14:48, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Stats are now increasing, however,so it seems reasonable to conclude the initial pageview question was just delayed statistics. BRS  (Talk)   (Contribs) 18:06, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * The source of the stats now take longer to generate. The bot code is pretty old, and if the most recent hour isn't available yet, the bot looks at yesterday's stats instead (Which really isn't good). That said, I wonder how much google news actually contributes to our page views. My bet would be not that much. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:37, 24 August 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-36
 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
 * VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC.
 * The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
 * VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module . Use   instead.
 * Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.

Changes this week
 * The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (calendar).

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 September 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes
 * The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9.

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