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<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.
Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/New…
available.
*New features*
- You can now use the "Autonym" font of the Universal Language
Selector<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mw:Universal_Language_Selector>…
to display the name of languages (for example in navigation
templates) in their correct script. To do this, add the CSS class
"autonym" to the elements that include language names. Note that this
font only works for the name of languages, not for any other text.
[
1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Novemb…
*Problems*
- There was a problem with
Parsoid<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20131…
program used by VisualEditor to convert wikitext to annotated HTML) on
November 4, between 19:40 and 20:40 (UTC). Encoding issues caused non-ASCII
characters (including those with
diacritics<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:en:diacritic>ic>,
like "é") to be broken when converted to wikitext and saved to the page.
[2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56583>
*Future*
- The Beta Features
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/About_Beta_Features>tool is now
available on Commons and Meta-Wiki. With it, you can test new
features before they're added for everyone. The plan is to add this tool to
all wikis on November 21.
[
3]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-November/072865.…
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf3
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf3>was added to test
wikis on November 7. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia
wikis on November 12 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 14
(
calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>)p>).
[
4]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Novemb…
- The MassMessage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MassMessage> tool
will be added to all wikis on November 14. It will make it simpler to send
messages across wikis.
[
5]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Novemb…
- The button of the Search page will soon be changed to be blue and
bigger (see the
difference<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Search-UI-minor-tweak.png…)g>).
[
6]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Novemb…
- You will soon be able to add a page name as parameter for
{{REVISIONID}}, {{REVISIONUSER}} and {{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} and similar
functions, by writing for example {{REVISIONID:Apple}}.
[
7]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6092>
- In the future, when you hide a CentralNotice banner on a wiki, it will
also be hidden on other Wikimedia sites.
[
8]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16821>
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