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available.
*Recent changes*
- You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T454> [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000962.html>
- Some wikis have a template
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4481730#sitelinks-wikipedia> to track
bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can
look at the one on
mediawiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Tracked> to see how. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177> [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000962.html>
- You can look at Special:MediaStatistics
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics> to see what
kind of files are on your wiki. [5]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150131/>
- A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF> images. This concerns files larger
than 50 megapixels <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel#Megapixel>.
These thumbnails are also sharpened
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking>. You can comment on
Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VP#Experimenting_with_using_VIPS_to_render_large_tiff_files>
. [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164476>
- The Media Viewer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer> tool has a
clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and
embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [7]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=1203037#2014-09-monthly>
*Changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf2>) has been on test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis
from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be
able to save your edit. [8]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-September/078806.html>
[9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160367/>
- We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet
Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for
earlier versions is coming next. [10]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/163223/>
- On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis.
[11]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData>
[12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157477/>
- You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bug+day%3A+Book+tool%2FCollection%2FPDF&iso=20141008T14&ah=8>
. [13]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000961.html>
- 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the
HHVM <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About> tool.
HHVM should make pages load faster. [14]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000965.html>
*Future changes*
- You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [15]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-October/008112.html>
- More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable
it, and you will see the caption below the image.[16]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Improvements>
[17]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=1203037#2014-09-monthly>
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