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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent software changes*
- You can test a new Beta Feature
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>
called
HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/> if you see them. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000948.html>
*Problems*
- There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was
due to edits on a template used on many pages.
- Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on
September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center.
- There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in
VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [2]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70856> [3]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70897>
*Software changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf22>) is on test wikis
and
MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on
September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
- If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be
removed.[4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Echo_(Notifications)/More_than_2,000_Notifications,_will_start_to_be_removed>
[5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159413/>
- In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral
gender. [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41484> [7]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157990/>
- The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is
missing. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50747>
- The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called
"Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose
your changes. [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69116>
- There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for
code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [10]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60257>[11]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52597>
- In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source
editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [12]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65012>
*Future site changes*
- You can see a plan
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline> for the
move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour
<https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/103470172168784626509/events/c8qe7l0vtf4v6u07k3o059du2lg>
will
be done via video on September 24. [13]
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