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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
- On September 5th, the GuidedTour extension will be enabled on Catalan, Hebrew, Malay, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian Wikipedias. This extension gives developers or local admins the ability to create interactive guided tours of their wiki. Add "?tour=test" to any URL where the extension is available to try an example tour.
- Special:Listfiles now has an option to display old versions of files a user has uploaded. Additionally a new alias was added, Special:AllMyFiles/Special:AllMyUploads that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (That aren't deleted)
- wikitech:Deployments
Problems fixed
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VisualEditor news
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Future
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- Calendar: Metrics Meeting (3 Oct), Beta Features office hours (3 Oct), MediaWiki 1.22 release plan tech talk (9 Oct), Flow office hours (17 Oct)...
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