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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/2015/31> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- You can now use redirects to link to JavaScript pages. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73200>
- You cannot use the compact user bar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compact_Personal_Bar> any more. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104659>
- You can change your options
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering-files>
to
see bigger images. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T65440>
- You can watch short videos about how to use VisualEditor. [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/GIFs>
- You can now edit pages linked in "what links here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere>" more easily. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97269>
*Problems*
- There was a problem with some Lua modules on July 22 and 23. Some
pages using them did not list them in "what links here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere>". You can fix
those pages with a null edit: edit and save the page without making any
change.
- There was a problem with the abuse filter page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter> on big wikis on
July 23. It was due to a code error. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106798>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf16> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from July 28. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from July 29. It will be on all Wikipedias from July
30 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- JavaScript authors: You cannot use wgNoticeUserData to get edit counts
anymore. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T85984>
*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 July 28 at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=28&month=07&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
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