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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 join a new email list for important news about Wikimedia Labs. [1]
• You can read the last monthly report. In the future you can read team reports every three months. You can see current work on the roadmap. [2] [3]
• The number of articles in Special:Statistics is now updated once a month. [4]
• You can use a new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. Using the app, you can now share a fact with your friends. [5]

Problems

• The import tool was broken for a few days. Imports didn't add log entries. You can delete and import pages again if necessary. [6]
• Labs was broken several times this week. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since April 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from April 7. It will be on all Wikipedias from April 8 (calendar).
• You can now add the same special characters with VisualEditor as with the wikitext editor. [11]
• Many bugs around copy-paste in VisualEditor are now fixed. [12] [13]
• You can now use basic tools of VisualEditor in the new talk tool. You can add links, bold and italics. You can also mention people. [14]

Meetings

• You can join the next weekly meeting with the Editing team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on April 8 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• You can again comment on how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [15]

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