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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these
changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/New…
available.
*Recent software changes*
- You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on
wikis testing the new search tool
(
CirrusSearch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>)h>).
[1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6421>
[
2]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101252/>
- With the new version of the Wikibase
DataModel<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Wikibase_DataModel>…ension,
you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis.
[
3]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073721.…
*VisualEditor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>
news*
- Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as
HTML5<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:HTML5> <figure
/> elements.
Comments<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Feedback>are
welcome.
[4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53436>
- You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices;
see this
article<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar?mobileaction=alpha>as
an example.
*Problems*
- On December 23, Wikimedia
Labs<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs>was broken for 4
hours due to an
NFS <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:Network_File_System>
problem. [
5]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58888>
*Future software changes*
- CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish
(es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30.
Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to
enable it in their Beta Features
options<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsecti…
.
- AbuseFilter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilter> log
entries will be visible in
CheckUser<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser>tool
reports.
[6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29583>
[
7]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92053/>
- It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users
without an account.
[
8]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54404>
[9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/85436/>
- It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than
1,000 edits. [10] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23653>
[11] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103216/>
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation