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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are 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). [1] [2]
- With the new version of the Wikibase DataModel extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis. [3]
VisualEditor news
- Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as HTML5
<figure /> elements. Comments are welcome. [4]
- You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see this article as an example.
Problems
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.
- AbuseFilter log entries will be visible in CheckUser tool reports. [6] [7]
- It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account. [8] [9]
- It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits. [10] [11]
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation