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		M. V. Pylee (talk)						Cleanup
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		Trans-Mars injection (talk)						Merge
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This week's article for improvement (week 11, 2016)

A typical Swedish school lunch.

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Lunch

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Tech News: 2016-11

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Recent changes

The mobile web interface no longer suggests HiDPI thumbnails. This is to take up less bandwidth on slow or expensive connections. [1]
The search engine on wikipedia.org has been updated. [2]

Changes this week

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short period of time on both 22 March and 24 March. This could be postponed to April 18. You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. Because of a test, there will also be a couple of minutes where you can't edit the wikis on 15 March starting 07:00 UTC. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
Administrators and other users with advanced permissions will need to have an 8-byte long passwords. This change takes place on 15 March. Users with too short passwords will be asked to change password the next time they log in. This was decided in a discussion on Meta and is because they can use tools that can hurt the wikis. [3]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 March. It will be on all wikis from 17 March (calendar).
The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red, green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue ones. [4]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 15 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are backlog and thumb API. The meeting will be on 16 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2016)

Critic by Lajos Tihanyi. Oil on canvas, c.1916.

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Critic

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Tech News: 2016-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. The Wikimedia Technology department planned to test it this week. This will take place the week of April 18 instead. You can read more about the server work. There will be more notifications and updates about this.
In Firefox, the visual editor would sometimes just jump down to the bottom of the page when you double-clicked on a table cell. This has now been fixed. [5]

Changes this week

It will now be easier to list IP addresses that don't have to solve CAPTCHAs. [6]
You will now be able to mark Echo notifications as unread. [7]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 March. It will be on all wikis from 23 March (calendar).

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 22 March at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed. This will happen on May 2. [8]

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16:04, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

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		Aalkkoottathil Thaniye (talk)						Add sources
		Government of India (talk)						Add sources
		Automated guided vehicle (talk)						Cleanup
		Communications satellite (talk)						Cleanup
		Avant Browser (talk)						Cleanup
		Yahoo! (talk)						Expand
		Houston (talk)						Expand
		Culture of Malaysia (talk)						Expand
		Hindu nationalism (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
		Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
		Personal web page (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
		HTTP cookie (talk)						Merge
		Sethurama Iyer (talk)						Merge
		Signal transduction (talk)						Merge
		Belarus (talk)						Wikify
		V. Ramachandra Reddy (talk)						Wikify
		Sudev Nair (talk)						Wikify
		Outline of Bihar (talk)						Orphan
		Association for the Protection of Mixed Families' Rights (talk)						Orphan
		Alltynex (talk)						Orphan
		Satyameva Jayate (talk)						Stub
		IRNSS-1G (talk)						Stub
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This week's article for improvement (week 13, 2016)

The Gates of Hell sculpture by Auguste Rodin, an example depicting the concept of the gates of hell

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Gates of hell

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Tech News: 2016-13

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 now supports the semantic web standards of Microdata and RDFa 1.0. On Wikimedia projects, a configuration change must be requested in order to enable RDFa 1.0. [9] [10]

Problems

Adding references with Citoid was broken for approximately 6 hours on 24 March. This was fixed. [11]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on all wikis from 31 March (calendar).
You will be able to remove the header and footer style from User language (babel) boxes. This will make it easier to use them with other userboxes. [12]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with part of the Architecture committee, which will discuss a few topics. The meeting will be on 30 March at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
The Architecture committee has sent a summary of new and ongoing RFC discussions.

Future changes

Commons will soon have improved access to Wikidata's data. It will then be possible to access data about any concept on any page on Commons. Assistance with testing this on the beta cluster is appreciated. [13]
Wikibits.js will not be loaded by default anymore starting April 2016. Gadget and script authors should have already updated their code since the previous announcements, but there is another migration path available if needed. See wikitech-l for details.

Corrections

Last week Tech News said the new MediaWiki version would come to wikis from 21 March to 23 March. The right dates were 22 March to 24 March.

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19:43, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 14, 2016)

A pecan pie

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Pecan pie

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Tech News: 2016-14

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

You can filter Special:Log in more detail. [14]
Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [15]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from April 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from April 6. It will be on all wikis from April 7 (calendar).

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22:13, 4 April 2016 (UTC)