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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these
changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Reminder*
- You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors> mailing
list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.
*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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