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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
(
1.24wmf5<https://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
(
calendar<https://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/>
-
MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:…
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.
Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_View…
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
preferences<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-pr…
. [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65067>
[
7]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132409/>
- You can read a
summary<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engi…
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
PageTriage<https://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
preferences<https://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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