Hi,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/37 .
Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about
Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you
can add it to the next newsletter at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next.
More information on how to contribute is available athttps://
meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me
directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
—————————————————————————————
Other languages:
čeština <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/cs> • English •
español <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/es> • suomi
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/fi> • français
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/fr> • עברית
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/he> • 日本語
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/ja> • русский
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/ru> • українська
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/uk> • 中文
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/37/zh>
Latest *tech news
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/37> are
available.
*VisualEditor news*
- From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor.
Support for earlier versions is coming next. [1]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155182/> [2]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155797/> [3]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/155810/>
*Future software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf20>) is on test wikis
and
MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on
September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
- You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [4]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/152077/>
- You can read more <http://fab.wmflabs.org/T282> about the plan to move
to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software
and report bugs. [5]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000912.html>
*Problems*
- There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5
because of a code error.
*Tech news
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared
by tech ambassadors
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and
posted by bot
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
• Translate
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/37> • Get
help <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or
unsubscribe
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
--
Guillaume Paumier