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Recent changes

• The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [1]
• From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
  • Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
    • a Wiktionary in Pa'O ( wikt:blk: ) [2]
    • a Wikisource in Sundanese ( s:su: ) [3]
  • To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
    • Wikifunctions ( f: ) [4]
    • a Wiktionary in Mandailing ( wikt:btm: ) [5]
    • a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin ( w:gpe: ) [6]
    • a Wikinews in Gungbe ( n:guw: ) [7]
    • a Wiktionary in Kabardian ( wikt:kbd: ) [8]
    • a Wikipedia in Fante ( w:fat: ) [9]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August ( calendar ).

Future changes

• There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code . This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [10]

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