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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/2015/41> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - The link editor in the visual editor now shows results below the
   search box. This improves the usability on desktop and mobile. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T101169>
   - The description at Special:ChangeEmail
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ChangeEmail> now clearly
   explains that the page can also be used to remove your email. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98799>

*Changes this week*

   - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.2> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from October 6. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from
   October 8 (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
   - UploadWizard will remind users to add a category. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51710>
   - UploadWizard's category selectors will be easier to use. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112764>
   - A new Cite <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:Cite> error
   will be shown if a named reference is defined more than once in the same
   article. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85386>

*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 6 October at 19:00 (UTC)
   
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=6&month=10&year=2015>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.

*Future changes*

   - Wikidata requests your input on how to improve the editing of
   Wikidata's data in other locations
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Client_editing_input>, such as
   Wikipedias.

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