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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

Phabricator has been upgraded. [1][2]

Problems

There was no new MediaWiki version last week. Changes that were planned to happen last week will happen this week instead. This is because of a bug that made saving pages take longer time. [3][4]

Changes this week

After February 23, you can use Wikidata for inter-language links on Wikiversity. [5]

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 23 February at 20:00 (UTC). See how to join.
You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is Assign RFCs to ArchCom shepherds. The meeting will be on 24 February at 22:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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What is an "ArchCom" and what is a shepherd? All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 00:15, 26 February 2016 (UTC).[reply]

@Rich Farmbrough: The ArchCom is the Wikimedia Architecture Committee which takes care of the software architecture behind MediaWiki. A shepherd is a role for RFC handling adopted from another project (Rust (programming language)), basically the assigned person "is responsible for keeping the discussion moving and ensuring all concerns are responded to." [6] --Micru (talk) 10:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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