Greetings,
The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2013/43 . Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter, and we welcome volunteers. More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly.
As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged.
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Latest *tech newshttps://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/2013/43are available.
*New features*
- The "Toolbox" section in the site sidebar is now called "Tools" in English. You can do the same in your language by editing the interface texthttps://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki:Toolboxon translatewiki.net. Someone else may have already done it. [1]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54910
*VisualEditorhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Portalnews *
- On wikis with VisualEditor, you can now use it on pages in the File, Help and Category spaces. [2]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55968
*Problems*
- On October 22 (UTC), an error in the site settings caused *. wikimedia.org sites (like Meta-Wiki and Commons) to redirect to wikimediafoundation.org for a few hours. [3]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56006
*Future*
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf1 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf1was added to test wikis on October 24. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia wikis on October 28 and all Wikipedia wikis on October 31 (calendarhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap ). - In the next days, servers in San Francisco will start providing (cached) content to users located in Oceania. If you are in that area and notice problems, please tell us. [4]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-October/000452.html - You will soon be able to test new features easily using the "Beta Features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Beta_Features" view. VisualEditor will be in the list on sites where it works and isn't automatically enabled. Another example is a set of changes in the article text style.
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