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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…
are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.24wmf6<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf6>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to
non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29
(
calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>
).
-
MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:…
will
be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and
English (en) Wikipedias on June 3.
Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_View…
is
welcome.
*VisualEditor news*
- VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you
can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them.
[1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57699>
[
2]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133639/>
[3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57700>
[
4]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133637/>
- A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the
File: namespace
was fixed last week.
[
5]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65349>
[6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133897/>
- VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where
VisualEditor is disabled.
[
7]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64142>
[8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65292>
- It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor
bugs related to images have also been fixed.
[
9]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120808/>
- VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links
to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names.
[
10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62229>
*Future software changes*
- Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC
on May 30 due to a server upgrade.
[
11]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-May/002562.html>
- It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the
same name at the same time using the
UploadWizard<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard>
tool. [12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54750>
[
13]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133434/>
- Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax
[[File:Name.ext|thumb|page
15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text
after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear.
[
14]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133403/>
[15] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133401/>
[
16]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133400/>
- You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on
their contributions page on your local wiki.
[
17]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52673>
[18] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133986/>
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Guillaume Paumier
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