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Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these
changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.23wmf22<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf22>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be added to
non-Wikipedia wikis on April 15, and all Wikipedias on April 17
(
calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>
).
-
MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:…
enabled for all users on
MediaWiki.org on April 10. It will be enabled
for all users on the Catalan (ca), Hungarian (hu) and Korean (ko)
Wikipedias and English Wikivoyage on April 17.
Comments<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_View…
welcome.
[
1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-April/…
[2] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125031/>
[
3]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125032/>
- Font issues caused by Typography
refresh<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Typography_ref…
Windows users were fixed on April 7.
[4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124387/>
[
5]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63512>
*VisualEditor news*
- You will now see only three options when you try to add a template
parameter in VisualEditor; you will see other options after a
click. [
6]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124662/>
- The size changing controls in VisualEditor media editing dialog were
simplified further.
- The wikitext editor tab will now fold into a drop-down menu in the
Vector <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Vector> skin if there is not
enough space on your screen.
[
7]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50255>
[8] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123503/>
*Future software changes*
- The font used for body text on Wikimedia wikis will change to your
system default sans-serif
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:sans-serif>font. This temporary
change will be enabled on all non-Wikipedia wikis on
April 15, and on all Wikipedias on April 17.
[
9]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124475/>
[10] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125447/>
- Files from Commons seen on another wiki will soon have a tab saying
"View on Wikimedia Commons". The create tab will change to "Add local
description" (see
screenshot<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_foreign_repo_file_ta…)g>).
[11] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/104182>
- You will soon be able to hide
Notification<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29>…
Hovercards <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features/Hovercards>pop-ups
by pressing the
Esc key. [12]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53588>
[
13]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62948>
[14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/123638/>
[
15]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120343/>
- Shorter lists of language
links<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Design/…
soon work in right-to-left languages. Languages that you have used
before will be shown in the list.
[
16]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62981>
- You will soon be able to send messages with the
MassMessage<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessage>tool
to all pages in a given category.
[17] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57473>
[
18]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120334/>
- The date
format<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsectio…
preference will soon be moved to the
appearance<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefse…gt;tab.
[19] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63582>
[
20]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125370/>
- An IRC discussion
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours>with the Wikimedia
Foundation Multimedia team will take place on April 16
at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time
conversion<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2014…)0>).
[
21]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-April…
*Problems*
- Wikimedia Foundation servers were updated after a security bug called
*Heartbleed* <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:Heartbleed> was
discovered last week. You should change your
password<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ChangePassword>as an
extra precaution.
[
22]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Blog/Dr…
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