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Latest *tech news
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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/2014/32> are
available.
*Tech News updates*
- Tech News will be presented
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Tech_news> at
the Wikimania
2014 <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/> conference in London!
If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at
14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf16>) was added to test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014
<https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/> conference, it will be added
to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>). [1]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-August/000870.html>
- You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [2]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-July/000868.html>
[3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150393/> [4]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150427/>
- You can now download an update to the archive
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive#Image_tarballs>
of
Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have
free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [5]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-August/077901.html>
- New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits
before they can upload a file. [6]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62598> [7]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150145/>
*VisualEditor news*
- You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null
edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purge#Null_edit> with
VisualEditor. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51243>
[9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150419/>
- VisualEditor will no longer change underscores
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/underscore> to spaces in category sort
keys <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization#Sort_keys>.
[10] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/149395/>
- Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode> and snowman
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols> symbols were fixed
last week. [11] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68151>
[12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67992> [13]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68147> [14]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68740>
- Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [15]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67342> [16]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68869> [17]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68079> [18]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68582>
*Future software changes*
- You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert
edits. [19] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4488> [20]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/146440>
- All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back
up your data, contact Toolserver administrators
<ts-admins(a)toolserver.org> before August 31. [21]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-July/002777.html>
- Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Help:Extension:Translate>
extension
will no longer be indexed by search engines. [22]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/134492>
*Problems*
- Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a
configuration problem. [23]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68815>
- Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org
between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [24]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69007>
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