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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.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.23wmf9<https://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>
(
Etherpad<https://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…
*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 (
CirrusSearch<https://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.h…
- Spanish, French, Portuguese and Russian Wikipedia users will also be
able to enable CirrusSearch in their Beta Features
options<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsecti…es>.
[
3]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/073846.h…
- Plural form rules for some languages will be
changed<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Portal_talk:Ru/Plural_chan…es>.
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
pages<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ProtectedPages>es>.
[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
Translate<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Translate>toolt;tool, 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
viewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer>will
load faster.
[15] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56695>
[
16]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95282/>
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation