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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 software changes
- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1]
- You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [2]
- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [3]
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+F
or Cmd+F
. [4] - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [5]
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [6]
Future changes
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Guillaume Paumier