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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/New…
are
available.
*Tech News updates*
- You can now subscribe to an
Atom<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=t…
or
RSS<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=featuredfeed&feed=te…
feed
to read Tech News in your news
aggregator<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:news_aggregator>or>.
The newsletter will now also show on the English Planet
Wikimedia<https://en.planet.wikimedia.org/> every
Monday.
[
1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-April/…
- We are looking for
contributors<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute> to
help write a new issue every week. If you would like to help, please contact
us <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News>.
*Recent software changes*
- The latest version of MediaWiki
(
1.24wmf1<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf1>)
was added to test wikis and
MediaWiki.org on April 17. It will be added to
non-Wikipedia wikis on April 22, and all Wikipedias on April 24
(
calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>
).
- CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> was enabled as a
beta feature on 27 new wikis on April 18.
[
2]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126671/>
[3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126806/>
- Problems with various fonts in SVG files were fixed last week. Files
that use DejaVu Sans Condensed, DejaVu Serif Condensed, DejaVu Sans Light,
Kochi Gothic and Kochi Mincho fonts now show correctly.
[
4]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63206>
[5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126834/>
[
6]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64002>
[7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/126729/>
- The page view statistics site developed by
Henrik<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Henrik>
(stats.grok.se) should now work faster.
[
8]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2014-April/001800.html…
- You can read a
summary<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engi…
of
the Wikimedia technical report for March 2014.
[
9]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-April/…
*VisualEditor news*
- If you try to add a category which redirects to another category,
VisualEditor will now suggest adding the target category directly.
[
10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52414>
[11] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/118218/>
- VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear on Education Program pages.
[12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53477>
[
13]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125233/>
- You can now use VisualEditor on Meta-Wiki and the French Wikinews by
enabling it in your
preferences<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-input…
. [14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125774/>
[
15]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63841>
[16] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125538/>
*Future software changes*
-
MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:…
will
be enabled for all users on the Czech (cs), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi),
Hebrew (he), Polish (pl), Romanian (ro), Slovak (sk), Thai (th) and
Vietnamese (vi) Wikipedias on April
24<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan&g…
.
Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_View…
is
welcome. [17] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125033/>
- Edits by anonymous users will now be marked with a new CSS class (
mw-anonuserlink). This way, you can easily make those edits use a
different color, font or background.
[
18]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43179>
[19] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/115095/>
- The user preference to remember login will soon be removed from all
wikis. The edit
review<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsectio…
preferences
will be moved to the recent
changes<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsecti…
tab,
and the preference for the
WikiLove<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:WikiLove> tool
will be moved to the
editing<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsecti…
tab.
[
20]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-April…
[21] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52342>
[
22]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63576>
[23] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52757>
- You will soon be able to give parameters to preloaded templates.
[
24]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12853>
[25] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/116482/>
- You will soon be able to use
CodeEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor> in
read-only mode on pages that you cannot edit.
[
26]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45258>
[27] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120397/>
- It is now
proposed<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator…
to
replace Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/>,
Gerrit<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/> and
other tools by a single tool called Phabricator. You can test
Phabricator<http://fab.wmflabs.org/>
and add your
opinion<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Phabricator&…
on
MediaWiki.org.
[
28]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-April…
- An IRC discussion <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours> about
Phabricator will take place on April 22 at 03:30 AM UTC on the channel
#wikimedia-office on freenode (time
conversion<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=2014…
). [
29]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-April/076061.ht…
*Problems*
- For about 40 minutes on April 17, there were problems with page
loading due to high server load.
- There is a problem with the rendering of formulas with
MathJax<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Math#MathJax>ax>.
If you enabled MathJax in your
preferences<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefs…ng>,
you might need to turn it off and on again.
[
30]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63915>
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