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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/2014/20 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf4https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendarhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap ).

*VisualEditor news*

- A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [1]https://mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Design/Reference_Dialog - Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [2]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52499

*Future software changes*

- It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [3]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5451 [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/111096/ - You will soon be able to clear your watchlisthttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist with one click or through the APIhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page . [5] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13250 [6]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132500/ [7] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65058 [8]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132378/ - You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with Special:Flow. [9] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63510 [10] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/121306/ - The jQuery https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [11]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076340.html - The Vector https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [12] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39035 [13]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131259/ [14] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131349/ - MediaViewerhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan . Feedbackhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer is welcome. - An IRC discussion https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversionhttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140514T20 ). [15]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076332.html - Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserverhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&search=toolserver&fulltext=Search&ns8=1&profile=advanced to point to Tool Labs instead. [16]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/toolserver-l/2014-May/006543.html

*Problems*

- There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [17]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64622 [18] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131670/

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