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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/New…
are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.24wmf3<https://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
(
calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>
).
- The Compact Personal
Bar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compact_Personal_B…
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
preferences<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefse…
on
MediaWiki.org. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130266/>
- It is now easier to disable the
CodeEditor<https://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- The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete.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&g…
*Future software changes*
-
MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:…
will
be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish
(es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May
8<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan>
.
Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_View…
is
welcome. [12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125035/>
- You can help translate about 100 new language
names<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Language_names_not_i…
that
have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover
text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to
Nemo<https://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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