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*Feature news* - Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing> . *Bugs status* - Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370304> were mainly due to the addition of new linter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Linter> rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing. - Editors can use the IP Information tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/IP_Info> to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks#2024-07-25> that were resolved last week. *Project updates* - There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/316/iterative_improvements/> . - There is an update on the Charts project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates>. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9056> (voy:cs: <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/cs:>) [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370905> *Learn more* - There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/26/the-journey-to-open-our-first-data-center-in-south-america/> in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times. - There is new user research <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/22/the-perplexing-process-of-uploading-images-to-wikipedia/> on problems with the process of uploading images. - Commons Impact Metrics are now available <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/07/19/commons-impact-metrics-now-available-via-data-dumps-and-api/> via data dumps and API. - The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2024/July> is now available. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/31> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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