Hi,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/36 .
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next.
More information on how to contribute is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
—————————————————————————————————
Other languages:
বাংলা <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/bn> • čeština
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/cs> • English • فارسی
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/fa> • suomi
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/fi> • français
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/fr> • עברית
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/he> • italiano
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/it> • 日本語
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/ja> • português
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/pt> • українська
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/uk> • 中文
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/36/zh>
Latest *tech news
<https://meta.m.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.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/36> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- You can now test a new Beta Feature
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Other_projects_sidebar> to
see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata.
[1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-August/000875.html>
[2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66226>
- You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the linksto: keyword
in your search. [3]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69295> [4]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153305/>
- A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your
browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see
"Animals#Dog"
instead of "Dog#Dog". [5]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35045> [6]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/143852/>
- If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your
Notifications. It is called "Messages". [7]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_(Notifications)/status#2014-08-monthly>
*VisualEditor news*
- You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [8]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60358>
- We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11,
you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming
next. [9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155182/> [10]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155797/> [11]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155810/>
- VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [12]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156723/>
- We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used
"cut" (Ctrl+X). [13]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58724>
- You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the
suggestions when you add a category. [14]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70025>
*Future software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf19>) is on test wikis
and
MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on
September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
- There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It
will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give
feedback <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data> on
this idea. You can also come to the IRC
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC> chat on September
3 at 18:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Structured+Data+IRC+discussion&iso=20140903T18&ah=1>
in #wikimedia-office at freenode. [15]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-August/000906.html>
- You can give feedback on Media Viewer
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Engagement_(Product)/Media_Viewer_consultation>
until
September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to
give feedback too. [16]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-August/000903.html>
- You can test a new version
<http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User:Physikerwelt> of the tool
to show math <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math>. It uses
MathML <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML>. Report bugs in bugzilla
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=Math&version=master&short_desc=Math-preview%20rendering%20problem>
.
- You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [17]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-August/007927.html>
*Tech news
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared
by tech ambassadors
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and
posted by bot
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
• Translate
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/36> • Get
help <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or
unsubscribe
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
--
Guillaume Paumier