The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/47 .
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter.
More information on how to contribute is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact
me directly.
Please note that due to the US holiday later this week, there may not be an
edition of the technical newsletter next week; in this case, we'll jump to
the next one directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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…
available.
*New features*
- The Beta Features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features>announced before are now
available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new
features easily by changing your Beta
preferences<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefs…es>.
VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't
automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the
article text style.
[
1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Novemb…
- Tools developers can now create
tools<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth>that use the
OAuth <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:OAuth> protocol to connect to
accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make
edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your
password. [
2]<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/22/oauth-on-wikimedia-wikis/>
*Problems*
- Wikis that are currently testing
CirrusSearch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatures&…
problems
with search
results<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20131…
November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.
*Future*
- There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because
many developers will be on holiday for
Thanksgiving<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving>
.
- The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with
the Proofread
Page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page>extension)
will soon also work without JavaScript.
[
3]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikisource-l/2013-November/00161…
*Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>
prepared by tech ambassadors
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and
posted by Global message delivery
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery> • Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> •
Translate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/47> •
Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
--
Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation