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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

You can now use the Wikidata query service. [1]
Belarusian-Taraškievica Wikipedia was moved from be-x-old.wikipedia.org to be-tarask.wikipedia.org. This caused some issues, but most of them were resolved. [2]
Language preferences might not be changed immediately when you adjust them. Language selection might work slower. Please report any problems. [3][4]

Problems

There was a problem when editing International Standard Book Numbers in Visual Editor. This has now been fixed. [5]
The Wikimedia mailing lists should have been upgraded on September 9. It didn't work as planned and will now happen later. [6]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 15. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 17 (calendar).

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 15 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

ContentTranslation will show more data on the Special:ContentTranslationStats page. For example, it will show translation trends and information about deleted translations. [7]
The first version of the translation suggestions feature will be deployed soon. [8]

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