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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. Translationshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/19 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf3) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendarhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap ). - The Compact Personal Barhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compact_Personal_Bar was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferenceshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures on MediaWiki.org. [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130266/ - It is now easier to disable the CodeEditorhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor tool. [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130068/

*VisualEditor news*

- External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38726 - The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [4]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53612 - You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [5]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129594/ - There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129594/[7]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52652 - Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [8] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130479/ [9]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae - You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130717/ [11]https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Language

*Future software changes*

- MediaViewerhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan . Feedbackhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer is welcome. [12] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125035/ - You can help translate about 100 new language nameshttps://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Language_names_not_in_Unicode_CLDR that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemohttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Nemo_bis if you want to help. - If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [13]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129871/ [14] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890

*Problems*

- For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.

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