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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*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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