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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/50 are available.
*Recent software changes*
- All users are now getting pages from servers that run the HHVM https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-December/079720.html - You can join a video chat about Phabricator on December 11 at 18:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Phab+Tech+Talk&iso=20141211T18&p1=1440&ah=1. Phabricator is the new tool to report issues. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-December/079712.html
*Problems*
- There was a problem with Phabricator on November 29. It was due to a network issue. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-November/079677.html
*Software changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf11 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf11) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 9. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 10 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap). [4] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-December/001040.html - You can now exit VisualEditor by pressing the "Esc" key. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T52868 - It is now easier to use VisualEditor with IMEs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input_method. Typing in Malayalam now works better. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T53511 [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56057 - The new version of OOjs UI https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOjs_UI fixed many issues with the size and layout of buttons in dialogs. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T72061 [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T75783 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76371 - (Lua) You can no longer use mw.text.unstrip https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.text.unstrip to get the HTML from special page transclusion. You can see alist of scripts https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jackmcbarn/unstrip to fix. [11] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-December/079694.html [12] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/171290
*Future changes*
- Starting next week JavaScript tools won't work if they use jQuery Migrate. [13] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-December/001036.html
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