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Latest *tech news
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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/2016/10> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Files on Wikimedia Commons can now be 2 GB big. The old limit was 1
GB. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T76614>
- Welcome notifications now have a different symbol. English Wikipedia
already had this one. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49662>
- The Wikimedia memory cache servers in the Eqiad cluster
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Eqiad_cluster> have now been
upgraded to Debian 8 (Jessie). Some users might have had to log in again
because of this. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123711>
- It is now easier to categorize images uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in
the Commons Android app. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T126848>
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] Bare attributes in tags now parse
according to the HTML5 specifications. <pages from= to= section=1> will
parse as <pages from="to=" section="1"> instead of <pages
from="" to=""
section="1"> as it used to. Please use <pages from=""
to="" section=1>
or <pages section=1> instead. This is mostly likely to affect pages on
Wikisource projects. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108134>
*Problems*
- Phabricator
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Phabricator> has been
a bit unstable lately. This should be fixed now. [6]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/engineering/2016-March/000098.html>
- The PageView API shows wrong data between 23 February and 29 February
for pages with special characters in their title. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128295>
- The parsing change mentioned above caused a large number of pages to
break, especially on Wikisource. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108134>
- You may see falsely formatted edit links on both mobile and desktop
devices. Mobile devices can also show incorrect formatted table of
contents. This should be fixed soon. [9]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124356>
- Templates using TemplateData that were edited with the visual editor
might have some problems in wikitext mode. This can be fixed by editing and
saving the page by using the visual editor without making any changes.
[10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128337>
*Changes this week*
- Cross-wiki notifications
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Cross-wiki>
will
be enabled as a beta feature on all wikis on 10 March. You will be able to
get notifications when something happens on another Wikimedia wiki. [11]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124234>
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.16> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 8 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 March. It will be on all
wikis from 10 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
- Wikivoyages will get the Kartographer extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Kartographer>. Kartographer
will allow <mapframe> and <maplink> tags in an article to insert an
interactive map and overlay it with different markers. You can add ideas
and suggestions to the Maps talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Maps>. If you find any bugs, you
can report them in Phabricator
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=kartographer,maps&subscribers=yurik,maxsem>
. [12] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127136>
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 8 March at
20:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=20&min=00&sec=0&day=08&month=03&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
*Future changes*
- The buttons in interfaces will be simplified. Instead of white, red,
green and blue buttons, in future there will only be white, red and blue
ones. [13] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110555>
- The Wikimedia technical operations team plans to do some server work
on 22 March. This could cause some problems, for example make it possible
to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a short period of time. The
date for this might change. [14]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124671>
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