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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/2014/21 are available.

*Tech News updates*

- Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendarhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap ). - The jQuery https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [1]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076340.html [2] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44740 [3]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133477/ - MediaViewerhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedbackhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer is welcome. [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132967/ [5]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129828/ - VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferenceshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures . [6] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65067 [7]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132409/ - You can read a summaryhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/April/summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.

*VisualEditor news*

- VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62337 [9]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/132979 - VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [10]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63129 [11] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132725/ - VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [12]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55551 [13] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/125914 - VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [14]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50955 - The toolbar of the PageTriagehttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [15]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56731 [16] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/133379

*Future software changes*

- User ID number will no longer be visible in preferenceshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences . [17] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58626 [18]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132916/

*Problems*

- For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [19]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65424

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