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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.23wmf21) was scheduled to be deployed to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 3, however it was temporarily put on hold due to localization issues. (
calendar).
Typography Refresh was enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on April 1, and on all Wikipedias on April 3. You'll only see it if you use the
Vector skin.
CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on over 400 non-Wikipedia wikis on April 2.
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Future software changes
A new special page (Special:TrackingCategories) will soon list all the
tracking categories on a wiki.
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All Wikiquote projects will start using language links from Wikidata on April 8.
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The
Hovercards feature will soon work with right-to-left languages.
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You will soon be able to download files directly from
MediaViewer, the new multimedia tool.
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MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10.
Comments are welcome.
You can help check that users can read
CAPTCHAs in your language.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
We are looking for
contributors to help write new issues every week. If you would like to help, please
contact us.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.23wmf22) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17 (
calendar).
MediaViewer was enabled for all users on MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko) Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17.
Comments are welcome.
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You will now see only three options when you try to add a template parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a click.
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The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were simplified further.
The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the
Vector skin if there is not enough space on your screen.
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Future software changes
The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your system default
sans-serif font. This temporary change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17.
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Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying "View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local description" (
see screenshot).
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An
IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (
time conversion).
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Problems
Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called
Heartbleed was discovered last week. You should
change your password as an extra precaution.
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations are available.
We are looking for
contributors to help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please
contact us.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.24wmf1) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24 (
calendar).
CirrusSearch was enabled as a beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18.
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Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light, Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly.
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The page view statistics site developed by
Henrik (
stats.grok.se) should now work faster.
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You can read a
summary of the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014.
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VisualEditor news
If you try to add a category which redirects to another category, VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly.
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VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages.
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You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by enabling it in your
preferences.
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Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on
April 24.
Feedback is welcome.
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Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a different color, font or background.
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The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all wikis. The
edit review preferences will be moved to the
recent changes tab, and the preference for the
WikiLove tool will be moved to the
editing tab.
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You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates.
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You will soon be able to use
CodeEditor in read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit.
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An
IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (
time conversion).
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Problems
For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with
MathJax. If you enabled MathJax in your
preferences, you might need to turn it off and on again.
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