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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/2014/38 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the mw-disambig CSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets class. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8339 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157836/ - There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159185/ [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159070/ [5] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159060/ - New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Task_recommendations. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/156282/

*Problems*

- There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [7] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20140910-swift-syslog

*VisualEditor news*

- If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51309 - The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [9] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70611 [10] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70640 - You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [11] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51798

*Future software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap). - These changes are coming with the new version: - If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [12] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000926.html [13] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Compatibility#Grade_C [14] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157774/

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