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Latest *tech news
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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/2015/40> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- In UploadWizard, the dialog to see an image preview has been removed.
You already see the images in the thumbnails when you upload them. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112907>
- UploadWizard dialogs look a bit different now. They have been updated
to the new OOUI <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI> look. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112117>
- You can now edit music scores in VisualEditor. You can add new sheet
music scores and get live updates when you edit one. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112925>
- When you send an e-mail to another editor using Special:EmailUser
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EmailUsers>, that user will
now get a notification on the wiki as well. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56130>
- You can now see 500 images when you upload images from Flickr with
UploadWizard. Before this change the limit was 50. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T44979>
- The Wikimedia mailing lists have been upgraded. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110140>
- MediaWiki developers spent a day looking at proposed code changes in
Gerrit <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit>. The goal was to clean up
the backlog and give feedback to volunteer developers. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T88531>
*Problems*
- Some visitors had problems reaching the Wikimedia sites for an hour on
September 24. [8]
<http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/156486/Static-assets-(CSS/JS)>[9]
<http://status.wikimedia.org/8777/163388/Wiki-platform-%5B%5Bw%3Afi%3AMain-Page%5D%5D-(s2)>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf1> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from September 29. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 30. It will be on all
Wikipedias from October 1 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- There will be a new beta feature that allows editors to use Flow on
their user talkpage if they want to. Each wiki can decide
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow/Request_Flow_on_a_page> if they
want to enable it. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T98270>
- The Content Translation tool can give translation suggestions. This
feature will now be available in more languages: English, French, Spanish,
Russian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Italian, and Catalan. [11]
<https://cxupdate.wordpress.com/2015/09/25/september-24-cx-update-suggestions-in-new-languages-fixes-in-statistics-and-link-adaptation-and-more/>
*Meetings*
- You can join the strategy process
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Strategy/Strategy_Process> of
the Reading department <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading> of
Wikimedia Engineering. [12]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-September/083316.html>
- 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 29 September at 19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=29&month=09&year=2015>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- The Wikimedia Foundation developers want the community to decide who
can use OAuth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuth> in the future.
You can discuss it
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/OAuth_handover> on
Meta.
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