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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/15> are available. *Recent changes* - You can join a new email list <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-announce> for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-April/003573.html> - You can read the last monthly report <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/December>. In the future you can read team reports every three months <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews>. You can see current work on the roadmap <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/roadmap/>. [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-March/001139.html> [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94180> - The number of articles in Special:Statistics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics> is now updated once a month. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68867> - You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia&hl=en>. Using the app, you can now share a fact <https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/04/02/share-a-fact-with-friends-on-android-app/> with your friends. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91693> *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] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T94325> - Labs was broken several times this week. [7] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150331-LabsNFS-Filesystem-Switch> [8] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150331-LabsNFS-Overload> [9] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150401-LabsNFS-Overload> [10] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2015-April/003572.html> *Changes this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf24> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap> ). - You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91608> - Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71494> [13] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T68229> - You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [14] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90764> *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) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=08&month=04&year=2015>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal> . *Future changes* - You can again comment <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Watchlist_integration_improvement_input#First_iteration_on_feedback_by_dev_team> on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. 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