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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.
New features
- You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language Selector
(ULS) to display the name of languages (for example in navigation
templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class
"autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text. [1]
Problems
- There was a problem with Parsoid
(the program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated
HTML) on November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues
caused non-ASCII characters (including those with diacritics, like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page. [2]
Future
- The Beta Features
tool is now available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test
new features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this
tool to all wikis on November 21. [3]
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf3
was added to test wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia
wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14 (calendar). [4]
- The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [5]
- The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and bigger (see the difference). [6]
- You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for
{{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}. [7]
- In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites. [8]
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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