Hi,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/08 .
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:
čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/cs> • English •
español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/es> • suomi
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/fi> • français
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/fr> • עברית
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/he> • italiano
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/it> • 日本語
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/ja> • polski
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/pl> • português
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/pt> • русский
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/ru> • українська
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/uk> • Tiếng Việt
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/vi> • 中文
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2015/08/zh>
Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
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/2015/08> are
available.
*Software changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf17> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since February 11. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all
Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- On Wednesday your Meta user page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage> will be shown if you
don't have a user page on a wiki. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/001092.html>
[2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72576>
- You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using
drag-and-drop. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52809>
- In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply
Changes" to citations and templates. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T57976>
- The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now
handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In
right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than
'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first.
[6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/177946/>
*Meetings*
- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on
February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>. [7]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080803.html>
- You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team.
During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most
important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T08&p1=224&ah=1>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
. [8]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-February/076781.html>
- You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation
tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150218T1300>
. [9]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-i18n/2015-February/000973.html>
*Future changes*
- You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Abandoned_Labs_tools>
.
*Tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared
by tech ambassadors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and
posted by bot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
• Translate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/08> • Get
help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> •Subscribe or unsubscribe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
--
Guillaume Paumier