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Latest *tech news
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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/2016/15> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The visual editor can generate wikicode with image options in your
language. Examples of image options are "thumb" or "left". You can
ask to
change to options in your language in Phabricator. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53852>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116020>
- Wiktionaries and Wikisources can now use the visual editor. It is an
opt-in beta feature. It still needs development to work better with these
projects. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48580>[4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:VisualEditor/The_visual_editor_at_Wikisources_and_Wiktionaries>
- ORES
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objective_Revision_Evaluation_Service> is
using new models. Tools that use ORES' predictions can behave strangely.
ORES also has a new API
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Application_programming_interface>. [5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085258.html>
- The visual editor now supports classical Greek characters. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130535>
*Problems*
- There was a bug when you used keyboard arrows in templates in the
visual editor. This has now been fixed. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128861>
*Changes this week*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.21> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 12 April. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 April. It will be on all
wikis from 14 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
- The
wikipedia.org portal will get many small bug fixes and
improvements. Most will be for the search box and suggested results that
were added in March. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130755>
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 12 April at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=12&month=04&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with
the Architecture
committee <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_committee>. The
topics this week are improving transclusion of templates for Parsoid
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T130567> and balanced templates
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114445>. The meeting will be on 13
April at 21:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=13&month=04&year=2016>.
Seehow to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned
work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short
period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC
and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [9]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2016>
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