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Wikimedia Engineering staff employed by the Wikimedia Foundation build, improve and maintain the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia sites (software and hardware), by supporting and complementing volunteer efforts. It's composed of the Engineering and Product and Technology groups.

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• Community Tech
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• Infrastructure
  • Analytics
  • Release Engineering
  • Services
  • Technical Operations

Technology:

• Architecture
• Performance
• Research
• Security

Latest news 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 VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an ISBN, PMID, or RFC. [1][2] The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool. [3] VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init. Use ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init instead. [4] Gadget writers can now use mediawiki.ForeignApi to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis. [5] Changes this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (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 1 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes The Wikidata API will be updated with breaking changes. This will probably happen on September 9. [6] Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

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