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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
Editors can join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1]
The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. Please 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).
It is now possible to 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]
Editors 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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