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*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.23wmf14<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf14>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on February 13. It will be added
to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 18, and all Wikipedia wikis on February
20 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>).
- You can now use the list of active
users<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ActiveUsers>again;again.
[1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41078>
[
2]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111258/>
- The new search tool (
CirrusSearch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>)
now gives more importance to content namespaces if you search in several
namespaces. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61053>
- You can now directly link to files viewed with
MultimediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaView…er>,
the new tool for viewing media files.
[
4]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56469>
- You can read the
summary<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engi…
the Wikimedia technical report for January 2014.
[
5]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-Februa…
*Problems*
- On February 9, Wikimedia
Labs<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs>was broken for
about 2 hours due to an
XFS <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:XFS> file system problem.
[
6]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-February/074354.…
- On February 11, there were problems with VisualEditor for about 20
minutes due to a server logging issue.
[
7]<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20140211-P…
- On the same day, for about 20 minutes there were issues with page
loading due to database problems.
- There were issues with page loading between 21:00 UTC on February 13
and 11:00 UTC on February 14 for users in Europe. It was due to a cache
server problem.
- On February 14, all sites were broken for about 15 minutes for users
in Southeast Asia, Oceania and the western part of North America. It was
due to problems with cache servers.
*VisualEditor news*
- The link tool now tells you when you're linking to a disambiguation or
redirect page. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50240>
- You can now change image display (like thumbnail, frame and frameless)
with VisualEditor. [
9]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38129>
- Wikitext warnings will now hide when you remove wikitext from
paragraphs you are editing.
[
10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51701>
- You will soon be able to create and edit redirect pages with
VisualEditor. [11] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50878>
[12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47328>
[
13]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57173>
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