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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
- The style and colors for warning boxes, error messages, and success messages in all skins of MediaWiki has been changed. [1]
VisualEditor news
- You will soon be able to switch from editing in VisualEditor to
editing wikitext directly without having to save the page. You can't yet
switch from wikitext to VisualEditor but developers hope to make it
possible in the future. [2]
Problems
- There was a problem on October 31 during the activation of MediaWiki 1.22wmf2 on test wikis. mediawiki.org was also broken, and if you had problems logging in, it was probably because of this as well.
Future
- Because of the problem with MediaWiki 1.22wmf2,
the calendar has changed. It will be added to mediawiki.org and
non-Wikipedia sites on November 4, and all Wikipedia sites on November
7.
JavaScript / Gadget developers
- Due to a recent change, gadgets and user scripts that use jQuery UI
should explicitly load the appropriate modules, as they may not be
loaded by default. [3]
- Developers have started to remove long-deprecated methods. You should check the JavaScript console (in
debug=true mode) and look for deprecation warnings and their stack trace. [4]
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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