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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Recent software changes*
- You may see a new tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/WikiGrok> tested
on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to
make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
[1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-December/008407.html>
- You can watch a video <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yr5z9Ix2f8> to
learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-December/079829.html>
- You can test a new version
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/12/10/content-translation-announcing-version-3/>
of the Content Translation tool.
*Software changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf12>) has been on test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>). [3]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-December/001051.html>
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the
tool via the menu, Ctrl+F or Cmd+F. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T50368>
- VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that
you make bold. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53023>
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is
now disabled until you make a change. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76928>
*Future changes*
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56307> [8]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/178048>
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be
down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phabricator+unavailable&iso=20141218T00&p1=1440&ah=8>
. [9]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-December/079816.html>
[10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76773>
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