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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. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/24> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf8>) was added to test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis
on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
- You can now use guided tours
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Guided_tours> on the
Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this
tool on your wiki, you need to translate it
<https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:Translate&group=ext-guidedtour&filter=&action=translate>
and
ask in Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>. [1]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137533/> [2]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000723.html>
*VisualEditor news*
- You should no longer be able to add empty references with
VisualEditor. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64715>
[4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136436/>
- The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now
shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content.
[5] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65689> [6]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136443/> [7]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136599/>
- You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a
category page with VisualEditor. [8]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64239> [9]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136311/>
*Future software changes*
- MediaViewer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer>
will
be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is
welcome. [10]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000728.html>
- You will be able to use information from Wikidata
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/d:> directly in Wikiquote pages
starting on June 10. [11]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000728.html>
- On wikis with the Translate
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Translate>
extension
enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page
migration
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate/Mass_migration_tools>
tool
to import existing translations to the new system. [12]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137571/> [13]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2014-June/002598.html>
- You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg
files (example
video
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/testwiki:File:Traffic-Experiment-Reveals-the-Nature-of-Car-Following-pone.0094351.s001.ogv#metadata>
, example audio
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/testwiki:File:Ar-%D8%A3%D9%87%D8%AF%D9%89.ogg#metadata>).
Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or
transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [14]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/108203> [15]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/137535>
- Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need
dummy parameters to prevent caching. [16]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31834> [17]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99792/> [18]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99793/>
- You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Thanks> directly. The page will
soon show an error message when you visit it. [19]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63509> [20]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125941/>
- Hovercards <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards> will
no longer flicker. [21]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65433>
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation