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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these
changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/23> are
available.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf7>) was added to test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis
on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
- CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> was enabled as
the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on
May 30. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136132/>
*VisualEditor news*
- Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of
their target. [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50964>
- The toolbar of the PageTriage
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage> extension will no
longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [3]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65702> [4]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/135587/>
- VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid
displaying broken icons. [5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/134758/>
- There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates
and times in the ISO 8601 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:ISO_8601>
format. [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132449/>
*Future software changes*
- MediaViewer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer>
will
be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3.
Feedback
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is
welcome.
- You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> page for a user
that does not exist. [7]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60524> [8]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117854/>
- The search tab
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions>
will
soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search
preferences onSpecial:Search
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced>
. [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52817> [10]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131727/>
- You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the
*Actions* menu in the Vector
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector> skin
(screenshot
<https://bug-attachment.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=15540>). [11]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44591>[12]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112236/>
*Problems*
- For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a
configuration error. [13]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076736.html>
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