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available.
*New features*
- The previous version of MediaWiki
(
1.22/wmf13<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf13>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was
enabled<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap>on
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/wmf14<https://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
galleries<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Images#mode_parameter>er>.
Please give feedback to
User:Bawolff<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bawolff>ff>.
[3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/67885/>
- You can now visit a random page in a category, for example
Special:RandomInCategory/Science<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Sp…ce>.
(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-element>HTML5
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.
(
52200<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52200>
)
- Rapports de
maintenance<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages#mw-spec…
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
details<https://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.
(
52077<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52077>)
[7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/76082/>
*VisualEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portal>news
*
- 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
bugzilla<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia&…
.
- 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_-…
for the
<s> tag), lower text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Subscript.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_…
<sub>), upper text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Superscript.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Ico…
<sup>), underlined text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Underline-a.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Ico…
<u>), computer code ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Code.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-_Cod…
<code> and <tt>), math text ([image: VisualEditor - Icon -
Equation.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-…
<math>), Egyptian
hieroglyphs<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Egyptian_hieroglyphs>…[image:
VisualEditor - Icon -
Hieroglyphics.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_I…
<hiero>), and to say that text is in another language ([image:
VisualEditor - Icon -
Language.svg]<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VisualEditor_-_Icon_-…
lang="ar"
dir="rtl"). (51609
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51609>,
51612 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51612>,
51611<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51611>11>,
51590 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51590>,
51610<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51610>10>,
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…
- 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-Augus…
- Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using
HTTPS<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:HTTPS>to 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-Augus…
- 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-Augus…
- The plan to use Solr <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:Solr> for
search in MediaWiki was changed; instead,
Elasticsearch<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:elasticsearch>is
now planned.
[
13]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-July/070496.htm…
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