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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/2015/36> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or
   paste an ISBN
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:International_Standard_Book_Number>,
   PMID <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PMID>, or RFC
   
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Request_for_Comments#Production_and_evolution>
   . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54204>[2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109498>
   - The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same
   width as the automatic citation tool. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101290>
   - VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the
   backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use
   ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [4]
   <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/229442/>
   - Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/mw:Manual:CORS#Using_mediawiki.ForeignApi>
to
   communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66636>

*Changes this week*

   - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf21> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias
   from September 3 (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 September 1 at 19:00 (UTC)
   
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=09&year=2015>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.

*Future changes*

   - The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/d:User:Addshore/API_Break_September_2015>.
   This will probably happen on September 9. [6]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-August/082949.html>

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//Johan Jönsson

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