Major news in February include:

• The Wikipedia Zero project got a Knight News Challenge grant.
• Additional input methods were made available for jQuery.IME.
• The Translate extension introduced a new iteration of the Translation Editor.
• The Wikimedia mobile web team launched the ability to view or add pages to watchlist — all from mobile devices.
• Echo is A new notification system for Wikipedia.
• The Technical Operations team found ways to stop problems in their tracks.
• Wikipedia Mobile hit 3 billion monthly page views.

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Major news in January include:

• the successful migration of our main services to our data center in Ashburn, Virginia;
• new features available in our mobile beta;
• progress on input methods and our upcoming translation interface;
• the announcement of GeoData, a feature to attach geo-coordinates to Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles;
• a testing event to assess how VisualEditor handles non-Latin characters.

Note: We’re also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.
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Major news in December include:

• The launch of an alpha, opt-in version of the VisualEditor to the English Wikipedia, a project more complex than it appears;
• A research study on the use of the Article Feedback feature;
• New metrics for the MediaWiki community;
• The start of the Outreach Program for Women;
• Continued work to improve the workflow and interface for translators.

Note: We’re also proposing a shorter, simpler and translatable version of this report that does not assume specialized technical knowledge.

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Major news in November include:

• the soft-launch of Wikivoyage.org;
• the launch of a new HTML5 video player, with support for WebM video, subtitles and multiple resolution derivatives;
• the first version of the Analytics Hadoop cluster put into service;
• the opening up of the product management process to volunteers.

Note: Like last month, we’re proposing a shorter and simpler version of this report for less technically savvy readers.

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Major news in October include:

• a redesign of the mobile site emphasizing readability and navigation;
• the launch of a Wikipedia app for Windows RT and Windows 8 tablets;
• the test of a redesigned account creation page.

Note: As of last month, we’re proposing a shorter and simpler version of this report for less technically savvy readers.

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Major news in September include:

• The introduction of translation memory by the Language engineering team;
• A breakage of our gerrit tool, and its subsequent recovery;
• A new version of the Wiki Loves Monuments App, that allows users to use it in combination with a separate camera.
• A new EPUB export feature enabled on the English Wikipedia;
• A call to nonprofits, schools, libraries, etc. who may be interested in getting decommissioned Wikimedia servers;
• The launch of the Page curation feature on the English Wikipedia;
• The completion of Google Summer of Code 2012. (more…)

Major news in August include:

• A site outage caused by a fiber cut between our two data centers;
• Progress by the Internationalization team on the Universal language selector & Milkshake, and WebFonts;
• Changes in our analytics system to improve the accuracy of the active editors metric;
• Major work on the Wiki Loves Monuments app.

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Major news in July include:

• Engineering presence at Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C., and the pre-Wikimania hackathon;
• the launch of Limn, an open source dataviz toolkit developed by the Wikimedia analytics team;
• the deployment of Article Feedback Version 5 (which supports free-text feedback and moderation thereof) to 10% of English Wikipedia articles

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