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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/2015/45> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - You can now see how many editors are using a gadget on a wiki on
   Special:GadgetUsage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GadgetUsage>
   . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115152>
   - If you are using the mobile version of Wikipedia, you can now see
   Wikidata descriptions under article titles in search results. [2]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083770.html>
   - Editing conflicts are now detected when you edit on a mobile device.
   Before, this did not work properly on mobile. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T111894>

*Problems*

   - On October 26 the Wikimedia sites went down for ten minutes. [4]
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=197206>

*Changes this week*

   - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on
   non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4. It will be on all Wikipedias from
   November 5 (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).

*Meetings*

   - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
   VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
   you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 3 November at
   19:00 (UTC)
   
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=11&year=2015>.
   See how to join
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
   You can also read the latest VisualEditor newsletter
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/October>.

*Future changes*

   - [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] A help link will be added
   to Special:Search <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search>.
   Administrators might have to update the MediaWiki:Search-summary
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Search-summary> message to
   avoid two help links. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115429>
   - Empty list items could be allowed in the future. If so, this could
   affect some templates. [6]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-October/083790.html>

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