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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.
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (
calendar).
You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons.
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VisualEditor news
You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor.
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VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week.
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VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.
Future software changes
CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on
May 1.
Feedback is welcome.
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The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations.
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CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings.
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You can test a new version of
Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.
Comments are welcome.
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Problems
For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load.
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On April 22, it was not possible to use the
Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move.
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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 (
1.24wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (
calendar).
The
Compact Personal Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your
preferences on MediaWiki.org.
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External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.
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The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete.
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You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones.
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There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names.
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Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users.
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You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language.
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Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on
May 8.
Feedback is welcome.
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You can help translate about
100 new language names that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links.
Send an e-mail to Nemo if you want to help.
If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself.
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Problems
For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (
calendar).
VisualEditor news
A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis.
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Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly.
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Future software changes
It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently.
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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.
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Tech News updates
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (
calendar).
The
jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work.
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MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on
May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22.
Feedback is welcome.
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VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your
preferences.
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You can read a
summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.
VisualEditor news
VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys.
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VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}.
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VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it.
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VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit.
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The toolbar of the
PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor.
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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 (
1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (
calendar).
MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3.
Feedback is welcome.
VisualEditor news
VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them.
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A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week.
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VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled.
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It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed.
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VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names.
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Future software changes
Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade.
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It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the
UploadWizard tool.
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Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear.
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You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki.
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