Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [1] [2]
• Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [3] [4]
• You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [5]
• A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [6]
• The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [7]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar).
• If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [8] [9]
• We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [10]
• On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [11] [12]
• You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8. [13]
• 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [14]

Future changes

• You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [15]
• More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image.[16] [17]

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