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7 days
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Guillaume Paumier
If you’ve ever wanted to be kept informed of technical changes likely to impact your Wikimedia experience, you’ll want to subscribe to Tech News, a weekly newsletter than can be delivered directly to your talk page. The amount of technical
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9 days
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Guillaume Paumier
Major news in May include: An invitation from the Language engineering team to collaborate on language-related projects; A new Notifications system enabled on the English Wikipedia; Recent developments in language engineering, and the upcoming
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13 days
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Runa Bhattacharjee
The Universal Language Selector (ULS) provides a flexible way to configure and deliver language settings like interface language, fonts, and input methods (keyboard mappings). It combines the features of two earlier Mediawiki extensions Narayam and
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13 days
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Philippe Beaudette
After several years of development and testing, VisualEditor, the new visual interface to edit Wikipedia pages, will soon be available in “beta” form for all users. This lets Wikipedia editors create and modify articles visually, using a new system where the articles they edit will look the same as they show for reading, and their [...]
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15 days
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Sumana Harihareswara
149 participants from 31 countries came to Amsterdam in late May to teach each other and improve Wikimedia technology. Technologists taught and attended sessions on how to write and run a bot, use the new Lua templating language, how to move from Toolserver to the new Wikimedia Labs, design, Wikidata, security, and the basics of [...]
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16 days
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Runa Bhattacharjee
In the recently concluded development sprint, the Wikimedia Language Engineering team fixed critical bugs for the Universal Language Selector, participated in several events around the world and also announced the release of the latest version of the
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20 days
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Silke Meyer
Last week-end, the Wikimedia Hackathon took place in Amsterdam, and we notably worked on the migration from the Wikimedia Toolserver to Tool Labs. According to the Roadmap, Tool Labs will have all the necessary features by the end of June 2013. As of then, tool maintainers will have one year to migrate their software. By [...]
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20 days
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Amir Sarabadani
Wikimedia sites are facing many technical changes, like VisualEditor, Wikidata, Flow and Echo, just to name a few. As an ordinary Wikipedian, I like it very much and I’m pretty excited, but sometimes change is scary, especially for people who are
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21 days
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Jon Robson
This post is available in 2 languages: Español • English English The Nearby feature in Vatican City We are quick to use mobile applications to find places that fulfil our needs, whether it’s a place to grab a coffee that your friend recommends, where the nearest bus stop is, or where to go for a perfect [...]
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21 days
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Arthur Richards
The mobile web engineering team at the Wikimedia Foundation confronts a significant question every day: How does a team stay synchronized and productive when teammates are scattered around the globe? Our team is highly distributed and effective
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