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Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2015/12> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The servers that resize images are using new software. You should
report new problems that you notice with images. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T84842>
- You can now see lists of bugs about Commons
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/commons/>, Wikisource
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikisource/> and Wiktionary
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wiktionary/>. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T802>
- It is now easier to add special characters in VisualEditor. You can edit
the list
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Special_characters>
of
characters for your wiki. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62770>
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78038>
*Problems*
- Wikis were broken for a few minutes on Thursday due to a code error.
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf21> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since March 11. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis from March 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from
March 18 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- A puzzle piece icon ([image: icon]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Template-big.svg>)
now shows hidden templates in VisualEditor. You can edit the template by
clicking the icon. For example, you can now edit anchor templates. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T51806> [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52633>
- You can now add examples, and details about old parameters, in
TemplateData. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53049> [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90734>
*Meetings*
- You can read the notes
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2015-03-11>
from
the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team.
During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most
important. The meeting will be on March 18 at 23:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20150318T16&p1=224&ah=1>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
*Future changes*
- The list of bad user names on your wiki
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P384> will no longer work. The global
list will replace it. You can ask to add rules
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Title_blacklist>for bad user names
on Meta. [9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T38939> [10]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/195623/>
- You can comment
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Watchlist_integration_improvement_input>
on
how you want to see Wikidata edits in your watchlist on other wikis. [11]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2015-March/001123.html>
- The final steps of single user login (SUL) will happen in April. You
can see the rules to rename accounts
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Single_User_Login_finalisation_announcement/Schema_announcement>
. [12]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2015-March/077164.html>
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