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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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VisualEditor news
- There was a error when you put your cursor directly after a reference
list. It is now fixed. [1]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68588>
- You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can
do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages.[2]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150824/>
- If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use
VisualEditor. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50085>
[4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69503> [5]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153980/>
*Future software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf18>) is on test wikis
and
MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on
August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
- After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/global.js> and CSS page
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage/global.css>. They will
be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs>. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-August/000893.html>
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Guillaume Paumier
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