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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 (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30. [1]
VisualEditor news
Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target. [2]
The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [3][4]
VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons. [5]
There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format. [6]
Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist. [7][8]
The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search. [9][10]
You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot). [11][12]
Problems
For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error. [13]
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. [14][15]
VisualEditor news
You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [16][17]
The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [18][19][20]
You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [21][22]
You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [24]
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. [25][26]
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. [27][28]
Templates containing <ref>or<references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [29][30][31]
You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [32][33]
More cleanup for the coming switch to WikibaseDataModel 1.0.
Icinga Dispatch Lag monitoring scripts, including IRC notifier bot, have been tested and are ready for Ops implementation. This should give us quicker notifications in case the notifications to Wikipedia and co about changes on Wikidata are slow again.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.
VisualEditor news
You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu. [35]
When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference. [36][37]
You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu. [38][39][40][41]
The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [42][43][44]
You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [47][48]
It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [49][50]
Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [51]
The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages. [52]
AnIRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department. [53]
GenderCounter uses Wikidata to provide an accurate service with distinguishing male and female names
ca.wikipedia found a nice way to use Wikidata. They're comparing their living people to Wikidata to see if any of them have a date of death there. They're then put into a category for review: ca:Categoria:Persones vives a revisar
Continued working on full redirect support for items. It touches a surprising big chunk of the code base.
Continued working on the QueryEngine code base and it’s data type support.
Fixed and updated the most recent implementation of the property and item selector widget, e.g. a MonoBook specific bug.
Pushed along reviews and deployment of the entity suggester code that will make suggestions for new properties to be added to items. Our hope is to have it through performance review for the next deployment.
Hey everyone, it's rare these small sections come along but there is a bit of interesting news to get across which one line under 'noteworthy stuff' won't be the best for. For the next 6 summaries, they will be translatable at Wikidata. This is an interesting idea which was first proposed on the delivery page and on Wikidata-l by Base. This is purely a trial and if you all want the summaries to remain translatable, please participate! You can view the first translated summary (hopefully) here! Also sorry for this one being late :)
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. [54][55]
When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [56][57]
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. [58][59]
You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [60][61]
Future software changes
You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [62][63]
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. [65]
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). [68]
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. [69]
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. [70][71]
A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [72][73]
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. [74][75][76][77]
Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [78][79]
Future software changes
You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [80][81]
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. [82]
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. [83][84]
Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [85]
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. [86][87]
You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [88]
