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Wikimedia Engineering was the group of staff employed by the Wikimedia Foundation who would build, improve and maintain the technical infrastructure of Wikimedia sites (software and hardware). In 2015, it was split up into Product and Technology.

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 You can now use more advanced editing tools on the mobile web. You can turn them on and off in your preferences in the mobile version. [1] Changes later this week The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 October. It will be on all wikis from 17 October (calendar). Meetings You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 16 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join. Future changes Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are no longer supported. This means the browsers might start looking a bit weird. They will not get security support. You can't read Wikimedia wikis in Internet Explorer on Windows XP or Windows versions that are older than Windows XP. This is because almost no one uses the browsers anymore. Supporting them made the wikis less secure for everyone else. [2] In the future section headings might have a share link. This is to make it easier to link to the section. You can read more and discuss. Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

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