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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/2014/27> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf11>) was added to test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis
on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
*VisualEditor news*
- Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear
when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [1]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66855> [2]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141940/>
- A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last
week. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67040> [4]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141949/>
- VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you
try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no
longer scroll to the top of the page. [5]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66674> [6]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141977/> [7]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66813> [8]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/141985/>
- Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now
work correctly. [9]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50279> [10]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142136/>
*Future software changes*
- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/robin/?tool=uploadconfig> that do not have
any copyright tags. [11] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/136520> [12]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66960>
- Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to
change gadgets that link to the Toolserver
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&search=toolserver&fulltext=Search&ns8=1&profile=advanced>
to
point to Tool Labs instead.
- CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> will be enabled
on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the
Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [13]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/142590/>
- All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect
forward secrecy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Forward_secrecy#Perfect_forward_secrecy>
starting
on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [14]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53259> [15]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132393/>
- Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL)
users. [16]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000791.html>
- You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions
page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is
affected by an IP range block
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing#CIDR_notation>
. [17] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/20790> [18]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133988/>
- You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words> to
produce the pipe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Vertical_bar>
character,
for instance for use in tables
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Tables>. [19]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136234/>
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation