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The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/29 . Below is the English version.

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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. Translations https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/29 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap). - It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Steward_requests/Username_changes if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14862 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92468/ - You can now read a summary https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/2014/June/summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014. - You can now read the latest issue https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Status_updates/2014_07_12 of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-Wikidata:Status+updates/2014+07+12&filter=!translated&action=translate into your language.

*VisualEditor news*

- The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66724 [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145055 - The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [5] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66863 [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/144637 [7] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/144638/ - References will now be shown in the default font size again. [8] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/144076/

*Future software changes*

- CirrusSearch https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [9] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077501.html - The Special:Version https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Special:Version#mw-version-ext ). [10] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50879 [11] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53972 - It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [12] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-July/077515.html - Pages that use {{DISPLAYTITLE:*title*}} more than once will soon show a warning. You can use {{DISPLAYTITLE:*title*|noerror}} to hide it. [13] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/50449 [14] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/144870/ - Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:TrackingCategories. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Cite_error_refs_without_references_category&action=edit&redlink=1 on their wikis. [15] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67700 [16] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/145474/ - Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Merge_history of two pages using Special:MergeHistory https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeHistory. [17] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66155 [18] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/144861/ - Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles. [19] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/144366/

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