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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]
Are you going to the refresher on the 28th? I have created a page for it wmuk:Train the Trainers refresher 2014. Signing-up there isn't compulsory, but we can use the page to coordinate and discuss what we want to get out of the day.
Hi Yaris. Sadly not - I'll probably be busy with a conference which is starting on the Sunday & suspect I won't have the time to get down to London! Andrew Gray (talk) 18:09, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
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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 (1.24wmf8) 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]
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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.
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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]
An IRC 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]
