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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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