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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/2014/30> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf14>) was added to test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis
on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
- CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> was removed as
the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es)
Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch
(nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also
postponed to a later date. [1]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-July/000830.html>
[2] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/146455> [3]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/146755>
- The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR>) was updated to its latest
version <http://cldr.unicode.org/index/downloads/cldr-25>. You can
still help
translate
<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/CLDR#Contribute_to_an_existing_locale>
language
names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other
places. [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145455/>
- Translation memory
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Translate/Translation_memories>
for
newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [5]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/67921> [6]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145770/>
- A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX> is now available
<http://mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org/> on Tool Labs
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/>. [7]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077666.html>
*VisualEditor news*
- Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be
able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can
test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the
Settings menu. Feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Feedback> is welcome. [8]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-July/007549.html>
- All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons
will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than
icons. [9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/139550/>
- You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to
see their target. [10]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54759>
- Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some
items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [11]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67551> [12]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/144136/> [13]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67432> [14]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145346/> [15]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67755> [16]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/146472/>
*Future software changes*
- It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic
namespace
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_default_namespaces#Flow> rather
than whole pages for talk pages using Flow
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow>. [17]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/143186/>
- You can give comments <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Winter> about
the new version of Winter <http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/>, a
proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [18]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077578.html>
- An IRC meeting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Triage/20140724> to
organize Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> bugs
will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on
freenode. [19]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-July/000802.html>
- A request for comments
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap> on how
to improve MediaWiki API
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page> was
re-started on
MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.
*Problems*
- Mailing lists <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists> were
broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server
problem. [20]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2014-07-14-Lists>
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