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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/News/2014/26 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap).

*VisualEditor news*

- You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49981 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/140103/ - When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51666 [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/139674/ - You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [5] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65883 [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/140037/ - You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [7] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56213 [8] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/138761/

*Future software changes*

- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermaLink/8939141#Projects_which_don.27t that do not have any copyright tags. [9] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/136520 [10] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66960 - CirrusSearch https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ and Wikimedia Incubator https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/, during the next week. [11] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136338/ - CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#insource: to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [12] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000768.html - You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Enotif without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [13] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34153 [14] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132615/ - An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140624T1700 ). [15] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-June/077166.html

*Problems*

- On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load. - Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [16] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20140613-Videoscalers

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