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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
(
1.24wmf2<https://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
(
calendar<https://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.
-
MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:…
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>.
Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_View…
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
Winter<http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/>r/>,
a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.
Comments<https://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.htm…
[
10]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/multimedia/2014-April/000276.ht…
- On April 22, it was not possible to use the
Collection<https://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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