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Software changes
- There are no technical changes this week.
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16:52, 29 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
- Rotated PDF files in landscape format used to show too small. They will now display correctly. You may need to purge older files.
- 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.
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-Misplaced Pages 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.
- The search and replace tool in VisualEditor is now much faster in long pages.
- The TemplateData editor now uses the same design as VisualEditor.
- The
thumb option is now shown in your language in the help of the classic editor toolbar.
Future changes
- You can sign up to answer questions from designers. It will help them make editing easier.
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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 changes
- You can download the new version of the Misplaced Pages app for Android. The new version shows lead images, better galleries and content from Wikidata. It also has many other new features.
- 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. Misplaced Pages 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.
Software changes this week
- There are no software changes this week and next week due to annual meetings.
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18:13, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
Thanks...
Thanks for your welcome. I'd appreciate any advice you have to offer in respect to edits.
Have a great weekend, what's left of it...
Bill. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wbrook (talk • contribs) 19:17, 25 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
This week
- There are no software changes this week due to annual meetings.
Future changes
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16:08, 26 January 2015 (UTC)
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Thanks for leading me from your userpage down an interesting path of Russian proverbs. I didn't realize "Trust but verify" was even one of them (and I can read just a little Russian). - Brianhe (talk) 06:00, 2 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.
Problems
- There was a security issue on Wikimedia Labs. Many Labs tools were down after the issue was fixed.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since January 14. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from February 3. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 4 (calendar).
- The "Save page" button in the VisualEditor toolbar is now blue rather than green. This is the same as on the mobile site.
- You can now edit pages on the draft namespace with VisualEditor on the Russian Misplaced Pages and Hebrew Misplaced Pages. You can ask to get VisualEditor for a namespace on your wiki. When your community agrees, ask in Phabricator.
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16:31, 2 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
Problems
- MediaWiki was reverted to the previous version on February 4. It was because of a performance issue. It was restored later.
- UploadWizard was broken on February 4 because of the revert of MediaWiki.
- All sites were broken for 30 minutes on February 5. It was due to a network problem.
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-Misplaced Pages 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.
- You can search for media files in VisualEditor more easily. Images are bigger and you see the size and license.
- It is easier to review your changes when you save the page in VisualEditor. The window is wider.
- 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.
- In the future you will be able to have personal lists of articles on the mobile site.
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16:27, 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.
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-Misplaced Pages 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.
- You can now change the order of categories in VisualEditor using drag-and-drop.
- In VisualEditor, you now need to make a change before you can "Apply Changes" to citations and templates.
- 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.
Meetings
- The VisualEditor Team had their first public bug triage meeting on February 11. They will post the results on the meeting page.
- 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.
- You can join a meeting with the developers of the Content Translation tool. It will be on February 18 at 13:00 (UTC).
Future changes
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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
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since February 18. It will be on non-Misplaced Pages wikis from February 25. It will be on all Wikipedias from February 26 (calendar).
- It is now easier to see template fields in VisualEditor. The fields are bigger.
- It is now easier to see when a button is disabled in VisualEditor.
- Sometimes when you copy-pasted a template in VisualEditor, it was replaced by HTML. This problem is now fixed.
- Tools in Labs will stop working for a few hours on February 24.
Meetings
- You can read the notes from the last meeting with the VisualEditor team.
- You can join the next 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 26 at 00:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- At the moment you need to log in to edit Wikimedia wikis on mobile devices. You can say if anyone should be allowed to edit on the mobile sites. The discussion ends on March 15.
- Images in the interface will soon work better in Opera 12.
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16:29, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
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