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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 (1.24wmf4) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 8. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and all Wikipedias on May 15 (calendar).
VisualEditor news
- A new citation system in VisualEditor was enabled on the English Wikipedia. It will soon be enabled on more wikis. [1]
- Templates that were previously broken in VisualEditor should now appear correctly. [2]
Future software changes
- It will soon be possible to move category description pages. Pages in changed categories will still have to be moved independently. [3] [4]
- You will soon be able to clear your watchlist with one click or through the API. [5] [6] [7] [8]
- You will soon be able to link to Flow posts and workflows with
Special:Flow. [9] [10] - The jQuery JavaScript library will soon be updated. Please check that your gadgets and scripts will still work. [11]
- The Vector skin will work faster, as the sidebar will no longer collapse partly after being loaded. [12] [13] [14]
- MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on Wikimedia Commons on May 15. Feedback is welcome.
- An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on May 14 at 18:00 UTC on the channel
#wikimedia-officeon freenode (time conversion). [15] - 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. [16]
Problems
- There were problems with generating file thumbnails for all wikis between May 3 and May 6 due to a configuration error. [17] [18]
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