Tech newsletter (2013, week 34) - Wikitech-ambassadors

26 Aug 2013


      Greetings,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/34 .
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter, and we welcome volunteers. More
information on how to contribute is available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact
me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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Latest *tech newshttps://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/2013/34are
available.
*New features*
- The previous version of MediaWiki
(1.22/wmf13https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13)
   was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was
enabledhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmapon
non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22.
   [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79212/
   - The latest version of MediaWiki
(1.22/wmf14https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf14)
   was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be
   enabled https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap on
   non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August
29. [2]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/80418/
   - You can now use new styles of
gallerieshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#mode_parameter.
   Please give feedback to
User:Bawolffhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bawolff.
   [3] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/67885/
   - You can now visit a random page in a category, for example
   Special:RandomInCategory/Sciencehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Special:RandomInCategory/Science.
   (25931 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25931)
[4]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/71997/
   - You can now use the
<wbr>http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/text-level-semantics.html#the-wbr-elementHTML5
tag to say where a word can be cut. (
   52468 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52468)
[5]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63408/
   - Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that
   your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the
document-readyevent (for example using Ajax). (
   30713 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30713)
[6]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/74313/
*Problems fixed*
- There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was
   renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it
   should be fixed soon.
(52200https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52200
   )
   - Rapports de
maintenancehttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages#mw-specialpagesgroup-maintenanceprovided
by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six
   months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized
   pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see
detailshttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15434#c70
   ).
   - There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit
   filters; it is now fixed.
(52077https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52077)
   [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76082/
*VisualEditorhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portalnews
*
- The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be
   changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for
   wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the
   same change in
bugzillahttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia&component=Site%20requests
   .
   - You can now edit references that are added inside a <references>block. (
   51741 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51741)
   - You can now test on mediawiki.org
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/new basic tools to add and edit
struck text (with the [image:
   VisualEditor - Icon -
Strikethrough-a.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Strikethrough-a.svgbutton
for the
   <s> tag), lower text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Subscript.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Subscript.svgfor
   <sub>), upper text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Superscript.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Superscript.svgfor
   <sup>), underlined text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Underline-a.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Underline-a.svgfor
   <u>), computer code ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Code.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Code.svgfor
   <code> and <tt>), math text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Equation.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Equation.svgfor
   <math>), Egyptian
hieroglyphshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Egyptian_hieroglyphs([image:
   VisualEditor - Icon -
Hieroglyphics.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Hieroglyphics.svgfor
   <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ([image:
   VisualEditor - Icon -
Language.svg]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Language.svgfor
lang="ar"
   dir="rtl"). (51609 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51609,
   51612 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51612,
51611https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51611,
   51590 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51590,
51610https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51610,
   52352 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52352)
   - You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser.
[8]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36000
*Future*
- Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on
   Wikivoyage sites.
[9]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/000339.html
   - Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile
   site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications.
[10]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/000357.html
   - Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using
HTTPShttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:HTTPSto access Wikimedia
sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your
   privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes
   problems for you, tell us on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTTPS.
   [11]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/000345.html
   - Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit
   JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis.
[12]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-August/000357.html
   - The plan to use Solr https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Solr for
   search in MediaWiki was changed; instead,
Elasticsearchhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:elasticsearchis
now planned.
   [13]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070496.html
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