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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/2014/32 are available.

*Tech News updates*

- Tech News will be presented https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Tech_news at the Wikimania 2014 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/ conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/ conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap). [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-August/000870.html - You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-July/000868.html [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150393/ [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150427/ - You can now download an update to the archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive#Image_tarballs of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [5] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-August/077901.html - New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [6] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62598 [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150145/

*VisualEditor news*

- You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purge#Null_edit with VisualEditor. [8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51243 [9] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150419/ - VisualEditor will no longer change underscores https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/underscore to spaces in category sort keys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization#Sort_keys. [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/149395/ - Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode and snowman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols symbols were fixed last week. [11] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68151 [12] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67992 [13] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68147 [14] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68740 - Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [15] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67342 [16] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68869 [17] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68079 [18] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68582

*Future software changes*

- You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [19] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4488 [20] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/146440 - All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators ts-admins@toolserver.org before August 31. [21] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-July/002777.html - Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Help:Extension:Translate extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [22] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/134492

*Problems*

- Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [23] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68815 - Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. [24] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69007

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