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*Recent changes*
- The move from Bugzilla to Phabricator is done. You can now report bugs
in Phabricator. [1]
<http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/24/welcome-to-phabricator-wikimedias-new-collaboration-platform/>
*Problems*
- There was a problem when editing tables in VisualEditor. VisualEditor
was trying to fix bad values for the colspanor rowspan option.
VisualEditor now leaves the bad values to avoid making things worse. This
was fixed on November 17. [2]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73430>
*Software changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf9
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf9>) has been on test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org since November 19. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis from November 25, and on all Wikipedias from November 26 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- You will be able to try VisualEditor on many new wikis for the first
time. After November 26, VisualEditor will become available on Wikidata,
Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikinews wikis. You can
find it in yourBeta options
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>
. [3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/174793/>
- VisualEditor now tells you if your edit needs to be approved
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs>
. [4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60718>
- You can now use VisualEditor's tools directly when you resume editing
after closing the save window. [5]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72911>
- VisualEditor's table editing tools now work better in right-to-left
languages. [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73378> [7]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73379>
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