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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*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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