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The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/02 . Below is the English version.

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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. Translationshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/02are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf9https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 2. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on January 7 and on all Wikipedia wikis on January 9 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap). - The old note-taking site https://etherpad-old.wikimedia.org (Etherpadhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Etherpad) was removed on December 30, 2013. You can see most of the documents on the new site https://etherpad.wikimedia.org. [1]https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-December/073755.html

*Problems*

- On January 2, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage projects were broken for 2 hours due to language cache update issues. - On the same day, it was not possible to edit most wikis for about 30 minutes, due to a database replication problem.

*Future software changes*

- The new search tool (CirrusSearchhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search) will be added as the default search method for Italian Wikipedia, French Wikisource, Wikidata and all Wikivoyage sites, and as a second search method for the German Wikipedia and all Wikibooks sites on January 6. [2]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073846.html - Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features optionshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. [3]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073846.html - Plural form rules for some languages will be changedhttps://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Portal_talk:Ru/Plural_changes_in_many_languages. Many translations of the user interface for Belarusian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian and other languages will need to be changed. [4]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56931 [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/105148/ [6]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104795/ - You will see a warning when you try to delete a page linked to from other pages. [7] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35485 [8] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/65162/ - You will be able to hide redirect pages on the list of protected pageshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ProtectedPages. [9] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19233 [10]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104395/ - You will be able to use keyboard shortcuts in the Translatehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translatetool, by pressing Alt+1 and similar key groups. [11]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103072/ [12] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104934/ - E-mails sent by MediaWiki will include the name of the site in their From: line. You will be able to change this name on your wiki by editing the MediaWiki:Emailsender page. [13]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32770 [14] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/104707/ - Images viewed in the Beta Features media viewerhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewerwill load faster. [15] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56695 [16]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95282/