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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/43>.
*Recent changes*
- You can test a new system to see math using MathML
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML>. Go to your display options
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering>
and
choose "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (experimental)".
- You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured
lists. [1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70332> [2]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70268>
*File information cleanup*
- You can join a wiki project
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_drive>
to
help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
- See how to fix metadata
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/File_metadata_cleanup_drive/How_to_fix_metadata>.
You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
- You can see a list of files
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/mrmetadata/> missing
machine-readable information on your wiki.
- The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no
license
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_license&action=edit&redlink=1>
, no description
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_description&action=edit&redlink=1>
, no author
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_author&action=edit&redlink=1>
or no source
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Files_with_no_machine-readable_source&action=edit&redlink=1>
. [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000968.html>
*Problems*
- Developers fixed a security problem
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POODLE>. If you use Internet Explorer 6,
you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [4]
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/10/17/protecting-users-against-poodle-by-removing-ssl-3-0-support/>
*Changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf4>) has been on test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis
from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the
HHVM <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About> tool.
HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta
Feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>
. [5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000965.html>
- If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the
page in a tracking category. [6]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69964> [7]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136123/>
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