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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.
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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. [1]
- 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. [2] [3]
- You can now add and edit
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}and__DISAMBIG__in the page settings menu. [4] [5] [6] [7] - The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct. [8] [9] [10]
Future software changes
- Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome. [11]
- You will no longer be able to use navigation popups and Hovercards at the same time. [12]
- You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis. [13] [14]
- It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [15] [16]
- Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17. [17]
- The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to
Special:MostTranscludedPages. [18] - 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. [19]
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