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

• The ContentTranslation extension has been updated:
  • You can now type in list paragraphs on wikis with right-to-left scripts. [1]
  • Some user interface updates changed how details in the ContentTranslation extension look. [2] [3] [4] [5]
• The error page you see when the sites are not working is now simpler and easier to read. It also shows the Wikimedia logo. [6]
• MediaWiki now supports redirects for CSS pages. [7]
• Bots can't guess captchas unlimited times anymore. [8]

Problems

• There was a problem with thumbnails on wikis with local images on July 24 and 25. It was due to a code error. [9]
• We can't search by file type on Wikimedia wikis now. [10]

Changes this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from August 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from August 5. It will be on all Wikipedias from August 6 (calendar).

Meetings

• You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on August 4 at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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//Johan Jönsson