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| Thanks for Gerrit/git-review! I just made my first commit, and it was surprisingly painless to get set up by following those directions. Sage Ross (WMF) (talk) 15:39, 22 April 2013 (UTC) |
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| Tech News: 2015-08 | 0 | 17:57, 16 February 2015 |
| Tech News: 2015-07 | 0 | 16:26, 9 February 2015 |
| Tech News: 2015-05 | 0 | 16:08, 26 January 2015 |
| Events/FOSDEM/2015 | 1 | 03:19, 24 January 2015 |
| Tech News: 2015-04 | 0 | 18:12, 19 January 2015 |
| Tech News: 2015-03 | 0 | 16:47, 12 January 2015 |
| Tech News: 2014-51 | 0 | 16:43, 15 December 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-46 | 0 | 15:00, 10 November 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-45 | 0 | 17:28, 3 November 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-44 | 0 | 05:20, 27 October 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-43 | 0 | 13:48, 20 October 2014 |
| Adding Gerrit project owners | 1 | 08:02, 29 August 2014 |
| Phabricator migration | 2 | 04:53, 26 August 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-31 | 0 | 08:09, 28 July 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-30 | 0 | 07:41, 21 July 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-29 | 0 | 07:48, 14 July 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-27 | 0 | 06:53, 30 June 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-26 | 0 | 07:20, 23 June 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-24 | 0 | 07:39, 9 June 2014 |
| Tech News: 2014-21 | 0 | 07:18, 19 May 2014 |
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 17. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 18 (calendar).
- On Wednesday your Meta user page will be shown if you don't have a user page on a wiki. [1] [2] [3]
- You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop. [4]
- In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates. [5]
- The way the cursor moves in VisualEditor is changing. Your browser now handles the cursor directly. Most of you will see no change. In right-to-left text, the cursor now moves in a 'visible' rather than 'logical' way. This is like other sites but you may be surprised at first. [6]
Meetings
- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page. [7]
- You can join the second weekly meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on February 18 at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join. [8]
- You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC). [9]
Future changes
- You can comment on a proposal about abandoned Labs tools.
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17:57, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You can now use
{{#lsth: PageName | SectionName }}to transclude a section with its title. [1]
Problems
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later. [2]
- UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki. [3]
- All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem. [4]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from February 10. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 11 (calendar).
- You can have one user page for all wikis. Your Meta user page will show if you don't have a user page on a wiki. You can test this tool on test wikis. [5] [6] [7]
- You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license. [8] [9]
- It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider. [10]
- You can read the latest news about VisualEditor. You can now join weekly meetings with developers. During the meetings you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The first meeting is on February 11 at 20:00 (UTC).
Future changes
- Administrators will soon be able to delete change tags used fewer than 5,000 times. [11]
- In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site. [12]
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16:26, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You can now translate articles with the new ContentTranslation tool on several wikis. [1]
This week
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings. [2]
Future changes
- You can join a project to improve WikiProjects. [3]
- The Compact Personal Bar will be removed for now. It has a bug that breaks the tool to choose your language. It will come back when the bug is fixed. [4]
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
Events/FOSDEM/2015 is on the road and in our topic for the first General assembly of Wikimedia Belgium this Saturday. Let's start to manage the wikimedia stand. Cheers, Lionel Scheepmans (talk) 18:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Hi Lionel_Scheepmans! Thank you for driving this. See also phab:T84971.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can download the new version of the Wikipedia app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.[1] [2]
- Programs and bots still can't read information about images on many wikis. You can see the list of wikis with the most files to fix. Wikipedia in Italian, Indonesian and Japanese language have the most files to fix. On the biggest wikis you should use bots. Bots can add information templates to groups of files. You can ask other tech users to help you.
Problems
- All JavaScript on Commons was broken for a few minutes on Tuesday. It was because of old code in the HotCat tool. The same problem happened on some Wikipedias on Wednesday. It is now fixed. [3]
Software changes this week
- There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings. [4]
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18:12, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files. [1]
- You can now use the
{{!}}magic word instead of Template:!. Many wikis used the template to create a pipe (|) in tables and templates. You can delete the template. [2]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf14) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 7. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from January 13. It will be on all Wikipedias from January 14 (calendar).
- A bug in VisualEditor sometimes added a
☀(Sun) character. This is now fixed. [3] - The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages. [4]
- The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor. [5] [6] [7]
- The
thumboption is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar. [8]
Future changes
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16:47, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1]
- You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects. [2]
- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar). [3]
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+ForCmd+F. [4] - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold. [5]
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change. [6]
Future changes
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon. [7] [8]
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC). [9] [10]
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16:43, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- You may see a new tool on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata. [1] [2]
- The MediaWiki API now shows information in a nice format. You can translate it in translatewiki.net. [3]
- Reminder: You can help fix file information on your wiki. It will help robots understand the information. After that, it will be easier for you to search files and re-use them.
- You can join two IRC chats this week to learn more about the file cleanup project. One will be on Wednesday at 18:00 (UTC) and the other on Thursday at 04:00 (UTC). You can ask questions during the chat if you need help to fix files on your wiki.
- You can see a list of files to fix on the Labs tool. You can report bugs and ask questions on the talk page.
Problems
- Wikimedia Labs was broken for a few hours on Thursday. It was due to a hardware problem. [4]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf7) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since November 5. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 11, and on all Wikipedias from November 12 (calendar).
- You can now use more editing tools for tables in VisualEditor. You can add rows and columns, merge cells, and edit table captions. [5] [6]
- The style and insert menus in the toolbar of VisualEditor now show fewer tools. This helps you see the most common tasks. You can see all items by clicking "More". [7]
- The way windows inside VisualEditor work has changed. VisualEditor should be faster and have fewer bugs. [8]
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15:00, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The "Special:Cite" page is now called "Special:CiteThisPage". That way, you know it's to cite the page, not to add a reference. [1]
- You can no longer use the
insource:keyword for text searches. It caused issues with the new search tool. It will come back later. [2] [3]
Problems
- There was a bug in VisualEditor with Internet Explorer. It hid tools like the link editor when you opened them. The bug was fixed on Monday. [4]
- Issues with the new search tool caused geo data code to show up on pages on Monday and Friday. The mobile "nearby" tool was also broken. The problem is now fixed. [5] [6] [7]
- HHVM caused server issues on Thursday. They are now fixed.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 29. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from November 4, and on all Wikipedias from November 5 (calendar).
- Some wikis have icons at the top of a page to show if it is protected or featured. Icons show up using CSS. You can now use the
<indicator>tag in these templates instead to add the icons. [8] [9] - VisualEditor now tells you if you're editing a re-used reference. This helps you avoid changing it if you just want to add a new one. [10]
- The icons in VisualEditor's template editor tool for adding more fields are back, along with other fixes. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
- After November 6, all wikis will have the tool to edit TemplateData. [16] [17] [18]
Future changes
- The new search tool will come to the last wikis in the coming weeks. This includes Wikipedia in French, Chinese, German and English. [19]
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17:28, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting Commons itself. [1]
- There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It was fixed quickly. [2]
- There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed quickly. [3]
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [4]
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar).
- VisualEditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in TemplateData. [5] [6] [7]
- VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [8]
- VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [9]
- The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages. Interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [10]
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05:20, 27 October 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. You can read translations.
Recent changes
- You can test a new system to see math using MathML. Go to your display options and choose "MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools)".
- You can add badges in Wikidata for quality articles and featured lists. [1] [2]
File information cleanup
- You can join a wiki project to help tools read file information. It will help people reuse files.
- See how to fix metadata. You can fix it by adding markers to templates and adding templates to files.
- You can see a list of files missing machine-readable information on your wiki.
- The files missing readable data are also in these categories: no license, no description, no author or no source. [3]
Problems
- Developers fixed a security problem. If you use Internet Explorer 6, you won't be able to log in any more. You should use a newer browser. [4]
Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf4) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 16. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from October 21, and on all Wikipedias from October 23 (calendar).
- 10% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. You can also test it as a Beta Feature. [5]
- If you add the same parameter twice in a template, it now puts the page in a tracking category. [6] [7]
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13:47, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
Hello again!
I've authored Extension:UserGroups and I would like to be able to add additional project owners to the extension using https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/groups/769,members but the "Add" button is greyed out. I thought Gerrit/Project ownership permitted owners to give ownership status to others as well? This is mainly because I'd like to have another person +2 and double-check my code rather than me +2ing changes myself. Do you think you could somehow configure it to allow me to set ownership solely for this extension?
Hi. How long is the Phabricator migration going to take? It'd be very nice as I'm losing track of some bugs some Teams (core features team, multimedia team) are working on. (They refuse to file bugs in Bugzilla or use it as primary means of collaboration.)
By the end of September -- see Wikimedia_Engineering/2014-15_Goals#Engineering_Community
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 29, and to all Wikipedias on July 31 (calendar).
- You can now download the latest version of the anti-vandalism tool Huggle.
VisualEditor news
- You can now create, edit, and view HTML comments in VisualEditor. [1] [2]
- The cancel button in VisualEditor toolbar has been removed. You can still use the Read tab and the Back button in your browser to cancel your edit. [3]
- If you try to use a template which has no suggested or required parameters in TemplateData, you will now be asked to add the parameters. [4] [5]
- You will no longer be able to edit a page if you can't create it, for example on pages protected against recreation. [6] [7]
Future software changes
- You will soon be able to filter Meta-Wiki's user rights log by wiki and user. [8] [9]
- Wikidata will soon be able to store data about article status, for example "good article" or "featured article". If your wiki has highlighted content, please make sure it is on Wikidata's list. [10]
- It will soon be possible to directly create empty pages, for example in the user namespace. [11] [12]
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08:09, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 17. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 22, and to all Wikipedias on July 24 (calendar).
- CirrusSearch was removed as the primary search method from Wikimedia Commons and the Spanish (es) Wikipedia due to a high server load. The plan to enable it on the Dutch (nl), Japanese (ja), Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias was also postponed to a later date. [1] [2] [3]
- The tool that stores information about languages (CLDR) was updated to its latest version. You can still help translate language names into your own language so they can be used in the sidebar and other places. [4]
- Translation memory for newly translatable pages should now offer more suggestions. [5] [6]
- A tool to convert MediaWiki pages to LaTeX is now available on Tool Labs. [7]
VisualEditor news
- Tablet users visiting the mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will be able to use a special version of VisualEditor starting on July 31. You can test the new tool by choosing the beta version of the mobile view in the Settings menu. Feedback is welcome. [8]
- All windows in VisualEditor have now a new design. Main action buttons will always be located in the top bar and will use simple words rather than icons. [9]
- You can now easily open links inside the link editor, for example to see their target. [10]
- Several bugs related to the positioning of the cursor around some items (like images and references) were fixed last week. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]
Future software changes
- It will soon be possible to watch individual discussions in the Topic namespace rather than whole pages for talk pages using Flow. [17]
- You can give comments about the new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [18]
- An IRC meeting to organize Pywikibot bugs will take place from July 24 to July 27 on the channel #pywikibot on freenode. [19]
- A request for comments on how to improve MediaWiki API was re-started on MediaWiki.org. Your feedback is welcome.
Problems
- Mailing lists were broken for about 16 hours between July 14 and July 15 due to a server problem. [20]
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07:41, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf13) 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).
- It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [1] [2]
- You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
- You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it 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] [4]
- The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [5] [6] [7]
- References will now be shown in the default font size again. [8]
Future software changes
- CirrusSearch 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]
- The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [10] [11]
- It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [12]
- Pages that use
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''}}more than once will soon show a warning. You can use{{DISPLAYTITLE:''title''|noerror}}to hide it. [13] [14] - Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [15] [16]
- Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [17] [18]
- Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [19]
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07:48, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [1] [2]
- A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [3] [4]
- VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [5] [6] [7] [8]
- Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [9] [10]
Future software changes
- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [11] [12]
- Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
- CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [13]
- All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [14] [15]
- Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [16]
- You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [17] [18]
- You will soon be able to use
{{!}}as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [19]
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06:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [1] [2]
- When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [3] [4]
- You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [5] [6]
- You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [7] [8]
Future software changes
- You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [9] [10]
- CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and Wikimedia Incubator, during the next week. [11]
- CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [12]
- You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [13] [14]
- An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). [15]
Problems
- On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load.
- Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. [16]
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07:20, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
- You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [1] [2]
VisualEditor news
- You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [3] [4]
- The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [5] [6] [7]
- You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [8] [9]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [10]
- You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [11]
- On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [12] [13]
- You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [14] [15]
- Templates containing
<ref>or<references>tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [16] [17] [18] - You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [19] [20]
- Hovercards will no longer flicker. [21]
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07:39, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
- The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [1] [2] [3]
- MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome. [4] [5]
- VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences. [6] [7]
- You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.
VisualEditor news
- VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [8] [9]
- VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like
{{cite_web}}and not just{{Cite web}}. [10] [11] - VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [12] [13]
- VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [14]
- The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [15] [16]
Future software changes
- User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences. [17] [18]
Problems
- For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem. [19]
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07:18, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
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