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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.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.23wmf8<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf8>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on December 19. It will be
enabled on non-Wikipedia wikis on December 31 and on all Wikipedia wikis on
January 2, 2014
(
calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>
).
- You can now test the new search tool
("CirrusSearch<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search>")
on all Wikisource, Wiktionary and Wikimedia chapter wikis hosted on
Foundation servers. Enable "New search" in your Beta features
preferences<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefs…es>.
[
1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Decemb…
- There was a bug where
notifications<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Echo_%28Notifications%29>…
not sent when the signature of the user leaving the message linked to
a translated namespace. The problem was fixed in the software and will soon
be fixed on Wikimedia sites.
[
2]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53132>
[3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/87477/>
- You can now use the log-in system for external tools
(
OAuth<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuth>)
on all Wikimedia wikis that use the unified
login<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Unified_lo…in>.
[4] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55679>
- If your wiki adds stars or other icons to interwiki links for featured
articles in other languages, you may need to change the JavaScript
code<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js?diff=585965732>32>.
[
5]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Decemb…
- You can thank other users for their edits even if your browser does
not have JavaScript.
[
6]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49161>
[7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/91549/>
- All edits made through
Flow<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal>al>,
the new discussion system for MediaWiki, are now visible in user's
contributions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions>.
You can test it on the Flow talk
page<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Flow_Portal>on MediaWiki.org.
[8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57868>
[
9]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/99038/>
- You can test a visual
tool<http://cosmiclattes.github.io/wikireplay/player.html>that shows
edits
made to an
article<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Replay_Edits>over
time. It only works for English Wikipedia pages for now and is slow on
long articles.
[
10]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2013-December/001260.htm…
- You can test the first version of the new mobile Wikipedia app for
Android and iOS.
[
11]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2013-December/006381.h…
-
Translatewiki.net, the site where you can translate the MediaWiki
software, now has a new main page <https://translatewiki.net> for users
without an account. [12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/100967/>
*Future software changes*
- There will be no technical changes this week (December 23 to December
29) due to end-of-year holidays.
- When someone deletes, restores, uploads, or moves a file on Commons,
pages on all wikis that use that file will be refreshed.
[
13]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22390>
[14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101106/>
- New users will soon have their user and talk pages added to their
watchlist as soon as they create an account.
[
15]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49719>
[16] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/95742/>.
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) will not show the text of versions
of a page that have been hidden.
[
17]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58366>
[18] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/101447/>
- You will soon be able to see the raw HTML created by some wikitext by
using the
Special:ExpandTemplates<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTe…t;tool.
[19] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56694>
[
20]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/102121/>
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