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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/2015/09> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- All new accounts are now global
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Unified_login>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T70069>
- Your Meta user page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyPage> is
now shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can report
problems
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/create/?projects=PHID-PROJ-j536clyie42uptgjkft7>
if
you see any. You can ask a bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Synchbot> to
delete your old user pages. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/001100.html>
[3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/001102.html>
[4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:GlobalUserPage>
*Software changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf18> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since February 18. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 25. It will be on all
Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields
are bigger. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89015>
- It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88483>
- Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was
replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T86401>
- Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24. [8]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080900.html>
*Meetings*
- You can read the notes
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-February/080874.html>
from
the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team.
During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most
important. The meeting will be on February 26 at 00:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150225T16&p1=224&ah=1>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
*Future changes*
- At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile
devices. You can say
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Proposal:_restore_normal_editing_permissions_on_all_mobile_sites>
if
anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends
on March 15.
- Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12. [9]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-February/001097.html>
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