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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/32> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
      - You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left
      scripts. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T103504>
      - Some user interface updates changed how details in the
      ContentTranslation extension look. [2]
      <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106241> [3]
      <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T105799> [4]
      <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106643> [5]
      <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106437>
   - The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler
   and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [6]
   <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/223012/>
   - MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [7]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73201>
   - Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [8]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T92376>

*Problems*

   - There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July
   24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [9]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106895>
   - We can't search by file type
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MIMESearch> on Wikimedia wikis
   now. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107265>

*Changes this week*

   - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf17> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be
   on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from
   August 6 (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the
   meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
   meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC)
   
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=04&month=08&year=2015>.
   See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
   .


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