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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2017/02> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now use datasets on Commons
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tabular_Data>.
You can see an example
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Template:Graph:Weather_monthly_history>
that
is using this source
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Ncei.noaa.gov/weather/New_York_City.tab>
. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-December/087313.html>
- There is a new opt-in beta feature of a wikitext mode for the visual
editor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2017_wikitext_editor>.
You can try it out
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>
.
- When you update a page with translations on wikis with the Translate
extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Translate> the
existing translations will be marked as outdated instead of removed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60429>
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.7> of
MediaWiki was released to all wikis last week (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
- MoodBar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MoodBar> has been removed from
the Wikimedia wikis. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131340>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] The live option for the Tipsy notice tool
has been removed. Gadgets and user scripts which use it need to be updated.
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85048>
*Problems*
- Editors who use Firefox 50 might get logged out or fail to save their
edits. This is because of a browser bug. Until this is fixed you can enter
about:config in the address bar and set network.cookie.maxPerHost to
5000. Firefox 50 is the current version of the Firefox. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151770>
*Changes this week*
- There is no new version of MediaWiki this week because of the Wikimedia
Developer Summit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Developer_Summit>.
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