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| ankstesnis | 2017 m., 29 savaitė (2017 liepos 17, pirmadienis) | kitas |
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Naujausi pakeitimai
- "Wikimedia Labs" is now called "Cloud VPS". "Wikimedia Tool Labs" is now called "Wikimedia Toolforge". This is to help clarify the purpose of these services. [1]
Problemos
- On some pages, the Table of Contents is not being shown. It will normally appear if you edit the page again. Investigation is currently ongoing. [2]
Changes this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 Liepa. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 Liepa. It will be on all wikis from 20 Liepa (calendar).
Susitikimai
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 18 Liepa at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is: Migrate to HTML5 section ids. [3] The meeting will be on 19 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Page Previews, currently a Beta Feature, will be enabled for logged-out users for all remaining Wikipedias (with the exception of English and German) the week of 24 July. An A/B test will be run on English Wikipedia to collect data before approaching the community for further discussion. [4]
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