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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/2015/49> are available. The symbol for advanced news items has been changed. This is because the symbols were too similar. If a news item is for more technical readers it now looks like this: [image: Octicons-tools.svg]. You can give feedback on this change <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News>. *Problems* - On September 29 users' skin preferences were removed by mistake on small and medium-sized wikis. This changed preferences back to Vector <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector>. Restoring all data would cause even more problems. Affected users who want to have their preference changed back globally can ask for it as a comment on Phabricator task T119206 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119206> until December 21 2015. [1] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150930-enwiki-readonly> - Some scheduled tasks were not working properly from September to recently. This meant some pages in the special pages namespace were not updated. It has now been fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113721> *Changes this week* - Wikinews, Wikispecies, MediaWiki.org and Meta will be able to use information from Wikidata. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109780>[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117524> - There are no MediaWiki deployments this week (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 1 December at 19:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=01&month=12&year=2015>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>. - [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is using the <figure> tag <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118517> for media. The meeting will be on 2 December at 22:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=22&min=00&sec=0&day=02&month=12&year=2015>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>. *Future changes* - Category watchlists are now available on test wikis and MediaWiki.org. The plan is to enable it on most wikis in January. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T9148> - Cross-wiki notifications are being developed. When this is done you will not have to go to the wiki where something happened to be notified. 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