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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/2014/47> are
available.
*Software changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf8
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf8>) has been on test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org since November 12. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis from November 18, and on all Wikipedias from November 19 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- The new search tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:CirrusSearch>
("CirrusSearch")
will be on the English Wikipedia from November 19. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-November/001023.html>
*Move from Bugzilla to Phabricator*
- The tool to track bugs will change on November 21.
- You won't be able to add or edit bugs between November 21 and November
24.
- You can make the change easier for you by creating your account
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account>.
- Bugzilla <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/> will be frozen after the
change. You will see, edit and report bugs in Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/>.
- You can join two IRC chats
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC_office_hours> to
learn more about the change. The chats will be on Tuesday, November
18 at 16:00
(UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141118T16>
and 23:00 UTC
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20141118T23>.
[2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-November/001022.html>
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