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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translationshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/47are available.

*New features*

- The Beta Features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Featuresannounced before are now available on all Wikimedia wikis. You can test new features easily by changing your Beta preferenceshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures. VisualEditor is one of those features on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. There is also a new media viewer and changes in the article text style. [1]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-November/000506.html - Tools developers can now create toolshttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:OAuththat use the OAuth https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/w:OAuth protocol to connect to accounts on Wikimedia sites. As a user, you can use those tools to make edits and other changes with your account without giving the tool your password. [2]https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/11/22/oauth-on-wikimedia-wikis/

*Problems*

- Wikis that are currently testing CirrusSearchhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatureshad problems with search resultshttps://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20131118-CirrusSearchon November 18 from 16:00 to 20:00 UTC.

*Future*

- There will be no major code changes on the week of November 25 because many developers will be on holiday for Thanksgivinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving . - The editing interface of Page: pages on Wikisource (working with the Proofread Page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Pageextension) will soon also work without JavaScript. [3]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikisource-l/2013-November/001616.html

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