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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. Translationshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/51are available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf8https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 2, 2014 (calendarhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap ). - You can now test the new search tool ("CirrusSearchhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search") on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features preferenceshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. [1]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-December/000528.html - There was a bug where notificationshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29were not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon be fixed on Wikimedia sites. [2]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53132 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/87477/ - You can now use the log-in system for external tools (OAuthhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuth) on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified loginhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Unified_login. [4] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55679 - If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript codehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=585965732. [5]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-December/000527.html - You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does not have JavaScript. [6]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49161 [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/91549/ - All edits made through Flowhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal, the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's contributions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions. You can test it on the Flow talk pagehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow_Portalon MediaWiki.org. [8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57868 [9]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99038/ - You can test a visual toolhttp://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikireplay/player.htmlthat shows edits made to an articlehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Editsover time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on long articles. [10]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-December/001260.html - You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for Android and iOS. [11]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2013-December/006381.html - Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki software, now has a new main page https://translatewiki.net for users without an account. [12] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/100967/
*Future software changes*
- There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December 29) due to end-of-year holidays. - When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons, pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed. [13]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22390 [14] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101106/ - New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their watchlist as soon as they create an account. [15]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49719 [16] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95742/. - The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions of a page that have been hidden. [17]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58366 [18] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101447/ - You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by using the Special:ExpandTemplateshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplatestool. [19] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56694 [20]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102121/
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