Tech/News/2015/15

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Recent changes

You can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1]
You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [2] [3]
The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [4]
You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [5]

Problems

The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [6]
Labs was broken several times this week. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [11]
Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12] [13]
You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [14]

Meetings

You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [15]

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