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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/2015/37> are available. *Recent changes* - You can now mention up to 50 users in a post and they will get a notification. Previously you could notify up to 20 users. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110306> - A new version of the Wikidata Toolkit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/mw:Wikidata_Toolkit> has been released. It now has Wikibase API support. [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2015-September/006999.html> - You can now use Wikidata to find all good or featured articles in a Wikipedia version. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72209> *Problems* - There was a problem with Tool Labs <http://tools.wmflabs.org/> due to kernel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Kernel_(operating_system)> issues. This has been fixed. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110827> - The Content Translation tool published some pages with the same reference repeated several times. This has been fixed. [5] <https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/09/03/september-3-update-fixed-duplicated-references-issues-with-norwegian-and-publishing-errors/> [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110007> *Changes this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf22> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 8. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 10 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>). - The maximum character length when you search for something on the Wikimedia wikis is now 300 characters. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107947> - The notifications list has been split into two lists. As a first step, notifications about messages on your user talk page will be placed in the second list. Feedback is requested at the Echo talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Sobaaiky57zs7py7>. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108190>[9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108760> *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 8 at 19:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=08&month=09&year=2015>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - You can join the Wikitech ambassadors mailing list. The list is for Wikimedians interested in spreading information about Wikimedia technology news. See how to join <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors>. *Future changes* - The Wikimedia mailing lists will be moved to a new server and the software will be upgraded. This will happen on September 9 at 14:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=00&sec=0&day=09&month=09&year=2015>. The mailing lists will not be working during the move. It can take up to four hours. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110133> - Wikidata will soon be able to store measurements, such as a mountain's height or the distance between two places. 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