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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these
changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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available.
*New features*
- The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success
messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed.
[
1]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/82828/>
*VisualEditor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>
news*
- You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to
editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet
switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it
possible in the future.
[
2]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50687>
*Problems*
- There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki
1.22wmf2 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf2> on test
wikis.
mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging
in, it was probably because of this as well.
*Future*
- Because of the problem with MediaWiki
1.22wmf2<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf2>f2>,
the calendar has changed. It will be added to
mediawiki.org and
non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November 7.
*JavaScript / Gadget developers*
- Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI
should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be loaded
by default.
[
3]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Octobe…
- Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should
check the JavaScript console (in debug=true mode) and look for
deprecation warnings and their stack trace.
[
4]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Octobe…
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