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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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Input to the Visual Editor team appears to have worked in one instance. Adding citations is the big barrier for new editors at editathons, and this is a task where Visual Editor can be helpful. The Visual Editor citation tool is now much, much improved, and it fills in citations automatically for many websites. Improved citations, combined with improved speed of response, are making Visual Editor a viable option for in-person editing events. Hope that this progress will continue! --Djembayz (talk) 17:04, 20 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, for just this reason I intend to push VE for my next gig as Campus Ambassador. Jim.henderson (talk) 00:35, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
As a general note, citation generation tools such as Dalba's Yadkard or Apoc2400's Google Books citer need to be made orders of magnitude more prominent. FourViolas (talk) 04:27, 21 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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