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Latest *tech news https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/41 are available.

*Recent changes*

- You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T454 [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000962.html - Some wikis have a template https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4481730#sitelinks-wikipedia to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Tracked to see how. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177 [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000962.html - You can look at Special:MediaStatistics https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150131/ - A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel#Megapixel. These thumbnails are also sharpened https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking. You can comment on Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VP#Experimenting_with_using_VIPS_to_render_large_tiff_files . [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164476 - The Media Viewer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=1203037#2014-09-monthly

*Changes this week*

- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf2) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap). - If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [8] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-September/078806.html [9] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160367/ - We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/163223/ - On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [11] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData [12] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157477/ - You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bug+day%3A+Book+tool%2FCollection%2FPDF&iso=20141008T14&ah=8 . [13] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000961.html - 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [14] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000965.html

*Future changes*

- You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [15] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-October/008112.html - More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image.[16] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Improvements [17] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=1203037#2014-09-monthly

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