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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/2015/07 are available.
*Recent software changes*
- You can now use {{#lsth: PageName | SectionName https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Labeled_Section_Transclusion#Transcluding_sections_by_headings }} to transclude a section with its title. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74302
*Problems*
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88528 - UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88576 - All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150205-SiteOutage
*Software changes this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf16 of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap). - You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [5] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/001092.html [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72576 - You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78161[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T74061 - It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78823 - You can read the latest news about VisualEditor https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Newsletter/2015/February. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150211T12&p1=224&ah=1 .
*Future changes*
- Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [11] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/181958 - In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [12] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gather
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