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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/News/2014/25 are available.

*Reminder*

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*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap). - You can now read a summary https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/May/summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.

*VisualEditor news*

- You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137191/ - When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [2] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65689 [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136599/ - You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [4] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56868 [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129065/ [6] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61073 [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133037/ - The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [8] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/138111/ [9] http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60626 [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/138304/

*Future software changes*

- Media Viewer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer is welcome. [11] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000740.html - You will no longer be able to use navigation popups https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups and Hovercards https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Popups at the same time. [12] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000742.html - You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [13] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66455 [14] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/139048/1 - It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [15] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14862 [16] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92468/ - Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [17] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/138517/ - The special page that lists most linked-to templates https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MostLinkedTemplates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [18] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/137967/ - An IRC discussion https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140617T1530). You can also read a blog post https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/06/10/on-our-way-to-phabricator/about the upcoming switch to Phabricator. - You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [19] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000739.html

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