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

• On the mobile site, you now see more information when you search for a page. It now shows the description from Wikidata. [1]

Problems

• The code of long pages is not colored any more. You may see this problem on the pages of long gadgets. [2]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from July 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 8. It will be on all Wikipedias from July 9 ( calendar ).
• The "Page information" tool shows how many users watch the page. You can now see how many are active. [3] [4]
• You can now translate articles into English with the new translation tool. [5]

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on July 7 at 19:00 (UTC) . See how to join .

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot ?? Contribute ?? Translate ?? Get help ?? Give feedback ?? Subscribe or unsubscribe .