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The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/11 [1].

Below is the English version.

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Latest tech news [4] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations [1] are available.

RECENT SOFTWARE CHANGES

* The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17 [5]) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar [6]). * You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch [7]) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options [8].

VISUALEDITOR NEWS

* It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. * It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. * VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. * We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. * You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window.

FUTURE SOFTWARE CHANGES

* You will soon be able to use a Beta option [8] to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector [9] will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. * CirrusSearch [7] will soon automatically index newly imported pages. * It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons [10] in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript [11]. * An IRC discussion [12] with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion [13]).

_TECH NEWS [4] prepared by tech ambassadors [14] and posted by MediaWiki message delivery [15] * Contribute [16] * Translate [1] * Get help [17] * Give feedback [18] * Subscribe or unsubscribe [19]._

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