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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/2014/06are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf12https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 30. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 6 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap). - Global AbuseFilterhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:AbuseFilterrules are now active on all small wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/small.dblist. [1]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60408 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/109435/ - The buttons used in pages like log-in, account creation and search are now using the same colors and styleshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization. [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58297 [4]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/103494/ - You can now link to diffs using [[Special:Diff/12345]] and similar links. [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63395/ - There is no longer an option to hide tables of contents on all pages. [6] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52813 - Searching in the File: namespace on Wikimedia Commons is now faster, after a bug was fixed on January 29. [7]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/110191/ - All Wikimedia wikis now have high-resolution faviconshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Favicon. [8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45036

*VisualEditor news*

- You can now see a list of keyboard shortcuts by pressing Ctrl+/ inside VisualEditor. [9] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107153/

*Future software changes*

- Edits and files hidden with the Oversighthttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Oversighttool will be moved to the RevisionDelete https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RevisionDeletesystem. The Oversight tool will then be removed from Wikimedia wikis. [10] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60373 [11]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18598 [12] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/18229/ - For languages where not all sister projects exist, you will be able to link to other language projects using double interwikis (:ko:v, :v:ko, etc.). [13] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94716/ - It will soon be possible to use the GettingStartedhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GettingStartedtool on other wikis than the English Wikipedia. You can translate it on Translatewiki.nethttps://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats&x=D&group=ext-gettingstarted&suppressempty=1&language=. [14]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-January/000561.html - You will soon be able to include the Special:Contributionshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributionspage into other pages. [15] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/106320/ - You will be able to see where a file is used inside MultimediaViewerhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MultimediaViewer, the new tool for viewing media files. [16]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60087 [17] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/107993/ - It will soon be possible to send MassMessagehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MassMessagemessages using the API. [18] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/87311/ - You will soon see audio statistics on the Special:TimedMediaHandlerhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TimedMediaHandlerpage. [19] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/97998/

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