Hi,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/03 .
Below is the English version.
In case you haven't seen it, I notably wanted to point to the blog post
that was published last week about how Tech News is written, translated,
assembled and delivered. Tech ambassadors are mentioned throughout the post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/07/tech-news-fighting-technical-informat…
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next .
More information on how to contribute is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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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…
available.
You can read a recent blog
post<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/07/tech-news-fighting-technical-…
how Tech News is put together, translated and sent to you across
wikis each week.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.23wmf10<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf10>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on January 9. It will be added to
non-Wikipedia wikis on January 14, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 16 (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>).
- Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons may be slow due
to a search engine issue. [
1]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106537/>
*VisualEditor news*
- VisualEditor will be added for all users on several Wikipedias on
January 13. [2] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102208/>
- You can now add and remove __NOTOC__, __FORCETOC__ and
__NOEDITSECTION__ in the page metadata menu.
[
3]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56866>
[4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56867>
[
5]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57166>
*Problems*
- For a few hours on January 6, it was not possible to edit pages using
the Translate tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate>on Wikimedia
Commons and the Wikimania 2013 wiki, due to a settings error.
[6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59740>
[
7]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59739>
- For about 20 minutes on January 9, there were problems with
CSS<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets>and
JavaScript <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> due to high
server load.
*Future software changes*
- Wikidata will be added to all Wikisource wikis on January 14.
[
8]<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments#Week_of_January_13>
- The new search tool (
CirrusSearch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>)
will be added as the second search method for the English Wikipedia on
January 13. On Wikibooks and the German Wikipedia, you will also be able to
test it by adding it in your Beta Features
options<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsecti…
.
- You will soon be able to export page
collections<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection>into
other formats than
PDF <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Portable_Document_Format>.
[
9]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58151>
- It will soon be possible to upload groups of photos from
Flickr<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Flickr>using
UploadWizard <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard>.
[10] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43320>
[
11]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/105393>
- The Wikimedia Foundation has shared a multimedia vision for
2016<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/01/09/multimedia-vision-2016/>6/>.
You are
invited<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/commons:Commons_talk:Multimedia_…
comment.
[
12]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073904.…
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation