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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/2014/18 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendarhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap ). - You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4676

*VisualEditor news*

- You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [2]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Language - VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [3]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60842 - VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

*Future software changes*

- CirrusSearch https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis. - MediaViewerhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan. Feedbackhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer is welcome. [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125034/ - The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [5]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127179/ - CodeEditor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [6]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63294 [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/122601/ - You can test a new version of Winterhttp://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Commentshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Winter are welcome. [8]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-April/001813.html

*Problems*

- For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [9]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-April/000271.html [10]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-April/000276.html - On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collectionhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [11]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127658/ [12] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/127659/

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