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Tech News: 2014-09[edit]
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 (1.23wmf15) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 20. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on February 25, and all Wikipedia wikis on February 27 (calendar).
- The new search tool (CirrusSearch) was added to the Italian Wikiquote and all Wikiversity projects. Users can now enable it in their Beta options. [1] [2]
- The Universal Language Selector was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis again. You can enable web fonts in your ULS options (see how).
VisualEditor news
- You will soon be able to add and edit
__STATICREDIRECT__,__[NO]INDEX__and__[NO]NEWEDITSECTION__in the page settings menu. [3] [4] [5] - You will soon be able to use the Ctrl+Alt+S or ⌘+Opt+S shortcuts to open the save window in VisualEditor. [6] [7]
- You will soon be able to preview your edit summary when checking your changes in the save window. [8] [9]
Future software changes
- You will soon be able to use the
<categorytree>tag again. [10] - You will soon be able to post messages with the MassMessage tool in all talk namespaces. [11] [12]
- Notifications will soon work in all namespaces. [13][14][15]
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10:18, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
Tech News: 2014-10[edit]
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 (1.23wmf16) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on February 27. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 4, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 6 (calendar).
- When users enable web fonts by default, Universal Language Selector will now log if they don't have fonts to display pages correctly. This information will be used by developers to improve font support in the future. Read more about missing fonts. [16]
- You can now use Guided tours on the Czech and Japanese Wikipedia. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla. [17] [18]
- You can now use information from Wikidata in all Wikisource wikis. [19]
- The multimedia team is now posting weekly updates on their mailing list. [20]
VisualEditor news
- You can now change image size to default for your wiki. If you add new images to pages, they will also be default size. [21] [22] [23]
- If you switch from VisualEditor to wikitext editing, your edit will now be tagged. [24]
- Template parameters now have a bigger, auto-sizing input box for easier editing. [25]
- VisualEditor now has Arabic, Finnish and Kölsch icons for text styling. If you want icons for your language, ask in Bugzilla. [26] [27] [28]
Future software changes
- The new tool for viewing media files will soon show a progress bar and a thumbnail while loading full images. [29] [30]
- You will soon be able to make user contributions show only page creations. [31] [32]
- Article Feedback Tool will be removed from the English and French Wikipedias on March 3. It will also no longer be possible to add this tool to any Wikimedia wiki. [33] [34]
- Wikis using the new search tool will come back to the old tool for a few hours starting at 00:00 UTC on March 6. [35]
Problems
- For about an hour on February 23, there were problems with page loading due to a MediaWiki bug. [36]
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09:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)
Tech News: 2014-11[edit]
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 (1.23wmf17) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar).
- You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch) on all Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options. [37] [38]
VisualEditor news
- It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the "advanced" mode. [39] [40]
- It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they are explained better. [41]
- VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there. They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank lines. [42]
- We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are now larger. More changes are coming. [43]
- You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action, clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window. [44] [45] [46]
Future software changes
- You will soon be able to use a Beta option to show a shorter list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector will only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to search for other languages. [47]
- CirrusSearch will soon automatically index newly imported pages. [48] [49]
- It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons in templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript. [50]
- An IRC discussion with the Wikimedia Foundation Language Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion). [51]
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09:10, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
