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Latest *tech newshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News * from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. *Translationshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/29are available. *

*Recent software changes* *(Not all changes will affect you.)*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabledhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmapon non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18. [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/73201/ - The Disambiguatorhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Disambiguatorextension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see examplehttps://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=120414784&oldid=76564202). [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72646/ - The Universal Language Selectorhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelectorwas added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacinghttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector/Deployment/Planningthe Narayam https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam and WebFontshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WebFontsextensions. [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71971/ - The CommonsDelinkerhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CommonsDelinkerbot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51016). - VisualEditorhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portalnews: - According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15. - Users should add TemplateDatahttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Portal/TemplateDatato templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorialhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateDatais available. - Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50747 ). - Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit noticeshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Edit_notice(bug #50415 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50415). - Many other bugshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/status#2013-07-11_.28MW_1.22wmf10.29have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks. - The Wikimedia technical reporthttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/Junefor June has been published, with a summaryhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2013/June/summarythat can be translated.

*Future software changes*

- A new version of the Single User Loginhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Single_User_Loginsystem for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos. [4]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000291.html - The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed. [5]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000306.html - Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilterhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tagshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tagsbefore the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them. [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72317/ [7]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/72984/ - Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later. [8]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070253.html - Wikivoyage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/voy: wikis will start to use Wikidata https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/d: for interwiki links on July 22. [9]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-July/000297.html - A new image gallery designhttps://tools.wmflabs.org/bawolff/gallery/index.php?title=Featured_pictures/Non-photographic_mediahas been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome. - An IRC discussion https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hoursabout Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversionhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2013&month=7&day=15&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=224&p2=179&p3=195&p4=176&p5=240). [10]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070248.html

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