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Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these
changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.23wmf13<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf13>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on February 6. It will be added
to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on February
13 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>).
- The Vector search box was changed to fix old display and accessibility
issues; for example, you can now use full-text search even if you have
disabled JavaScript. Please report any problems you see. The option to
disable the "simplified search bar" on Vector will also be removed.
[
1]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/50660>
[2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/25127>
[
3]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/24248>
[4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/82100/>
[
5]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99422/>
- You are now
notified<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Notifications>when
someone adds a link to your user page on wikis where it didn't work
before (wikis with dates in the year-month-day order, including Hungarian,
Japanese, Korean and some variants of Chinese).
[
6]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/108329/>
*VisualEditor news*
- You can now set media items' alt text and position, and directly set
their size, in the media tool. [7] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/38129>
[8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/51293>
- The gallery tool was improved and several issues were fixed.
[
9]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60307>
[10] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60502>
[
11]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60779>
*Problems*
- On February 3, all wikis were broken for about an hour due to a
traffic balancing issue.
[
12]<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20140203-…
- On February 6, some wikis were broken for about half an hour in total
due to a problem with the
Math<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math>extensionension.
*Future software changes*
- Some methods from Scribunto's mw.message
library<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference…
be removed after February 18. If you use them in your templates or
modules, please check to make sure that things will not break.
[
13]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60758>
[14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110983/>
- You will soon be able to use
GettingStarted<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted&g…
23 new Wikipedias. It helps new users by listing
possible
tasks<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Onboarding_new_Wikipedians>and
giving help. The new version was also added to the English Wikipedia
on
February 7th. [15] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111460/>
- You will soon see results from other wikis when you use the new search
tool (CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>).
[
16]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/44420>
[17] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105986/>
- The WikiLove <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikilove> tool
was redesigned and should also load faster.
[
18]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-February/001462.htm…
- Edits made with WikiLove or after a
GettingStarted<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStarted&g…
will be
tagged <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags>.
[
19]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/60911>
[20] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110315/>
- It will soon no longer be possible to hide section editing links in
your preferences. [21] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/52811>
- You will soon be able to use the revision
deletion<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RevisionDelete>feature
via the API.
[22] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/23005>
- You will soon be able to choose mobile view on non-mobile devices
using a Beta Feature option. [23] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/36636>
[24] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102866/>
- If you have questions about Universal Language
Selector<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Lan…or>,
you can join an IRC meeting <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC> on
February 12 at 17:00 UTC, in the #wikimedia-office channel on Freenode.
[
25]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-February/074308…
- Developers are preparing for Google Summer of Code
2014<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code_2014>14>.
You can propose
ideas<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projec…as>.
[
26]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-Febru…
-
bugzilla.wikimedia.org will be updated this week. You won't be able to
access it from 22:00 UTC on February 12 until 01:00 UTC on February 13 at
the latest.
[
27]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-February/074347…
- The <poem> tag will be renamed to <lines>. The old tag will still
work.
[
28]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-February/074337…
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