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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5.
• The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page.
• There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages.
• The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits.
• The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikisafter June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address.
• Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia).
• Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) .
• All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this.
• The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them.

Future software changes

• The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726)
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions will be replaced by the Universal Language Selector extension.
• MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now.

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Recent software changes

(Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13.
• An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems.
• Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
• Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia [[<tvar|meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel]] onFreenode.
• The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates.
• A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org.
• Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges.
• Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713).

Future software changes

• A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon.
• A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to useRDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. Itwill be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20.
• The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11.
• VisualEditor news:
  • VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
  • Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons..
  • VisualEditor also allows editing references.
• The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages.
• The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

• Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18.
• Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features.
• Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector.
• It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836).
• A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages orSpecial:RecentChanges (bug #49123).
• A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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Recent software changes

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• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. Itwill be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27.
• Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias.
• The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333).
• The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files.A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505).
• After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18.
• VisualEditor news:
  • A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
  • A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet.
• It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis.

Future software changes

• The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977).
• Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource andWikispecies) on June 25.
• The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations.
• The related changes special page will now include upload log entries.
• It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations.
• MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another.
• The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary.
• The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013.

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Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf10) was added to test wikis on July 11. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 15, and on all Wikipedias on July 18.
• The Disambiguator extension was enabled on all Wikimedia wikis on July 9 (bug #50174). To use it, add the __DISAMBIG__ code to disambiguation templates (see example).
• The Universal Language Selector was added to all remaining wikis on July 9, finishing the process of replacing the Narayam and WebFonts extensions.
• The CommonsDelinker bot is now on-line and operating again, after a password problem was fixed (bug #51016).
• VisualEditor news:
  • According to the schedule, VisualEditor will be available to all users on the English Wikipedia on July 15.
  • Users should add TemplateData to templates to prepare for VisualEditor. A tutorial is available.
  • Parameters marked as "required" in TemplateData are now auto-added when you add a template (bug #50747).
  • Warnings are now displayed in VisualEditor when users edit pages that are protected or have edit notices (bug #50415).
  • Many other bugs have been fixed in VisualEditor during the past two weeks.
• The Wikimedia technical report for June has been published, with a summary that can be translated.

Future software changes

• A new version of the Single User Login system for global accounts will be enabled on July 17. Users will now automatically go back to the previous page instead of seeing the "Login success" page with logos.
• The software that resizes images on all wikis will change on July 18. Resizing of big images will be faster and more reliable, and the resolution limit for GIF, PNG and TIFF files (currently set at 50 megapixels) will be removed.
• Edit tags (mostly used by AbuseFilter) will now also be on diff pages. They include a link to Special:Tags before the edit summary. Wikis that use links in tag messages should remove them.
• Global edit filters are currently in testing and will be added to wikis later.
• Wikivoyage wikis will start to use Wikidata for interwiki links on July 22.
• A new image gallery design has been proposed by Brian Wolff; comments and feedback are welcome.
• An IRC discussion about Bugzilla is planned for July 16, at 16:00 (UTC) on the IRC channel #wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion).

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Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.)

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 18. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 22, and on all Wikipedias on July 25.
• A new version of the Flow Prototype can be tested on Wikimedia Labs.
• VisualEditor news:
  • The schedule to add VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias has been changed: the new editor will be available for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Dutch (nl), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias on July 24, and for all users on those wikis on July 29.
  • A warning is now displayed if an edit made with VisualEditor matches an edit filter (bug #50472).
  • SpamBlacklist messages are also supported (bug #50826).
  • Users can now edit <nowiki>...</nowiki> blocks (bug #47678).
  • When a user types text at the end of a link, the link now expands to that text.
• Freely-licensed fonts for the Cree, Inuktitut and Urdu languages were added to Universal Language Selector, fixing bug #42421 and bug #46693.
• A Wikidata search plugin for the Firefox web browser was released by Jeroen De Dauw and can be downloaded from the Mozilla add-ons website.

Future software changes

• The change of the Wikimedia image scaling system from ImageMagick to VipsScaler (announced in the previous issue) has been postponed until bug #51370 is fixed.
• Administrators will no longer see an unblock link for autoblocked IP addresses on the contributions page (bug #46457).
• A request for comments on site-wide CSS was started on MediaWiki.org.

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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.

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf12) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 25. Itwill be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1.
• Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24.
• Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need toupdate their tools.
• The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon.
• It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon.
• The software that resizes large PNG images on all wikis was changed on July 25. Resizing of PNG files bigger than 35 megapixels should be faster and more reliable now.
• Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector., ,
• Special:MIMESearch, which gives a list of files by type, will be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis with MediaWiki version 1.22/wmf12 (bug #13438).
• A mailing list to discuss multimedia features was started; users are encouraged to sign up.
• VisualEditor news:
  • On July 24, VisualEditor was added for logged-in users on the German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Hebrew (he), Italian (it), Polish (pl), Russian (ru) and Swedish (sv) Wikipedias; it will be added for all users on those wikis on July 29.
  • A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24.
  • Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages.
  • It is possible again to scroll down in the template editing window (bug #51739).
  • VisualEditor now works with the FlaggedRevisions extension. (bug #49699)
  • If the user opens VisualEditor using a section edit link, the title of the section is added to the edit summary (bug #50872).
  • Invisible templates now can't be deleted by accident or on purpose (bug #51322).

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New features

• The previous version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It was enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22.
• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf14) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It will be enabled on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29.
• You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff.
• You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931)
• You can now use the <wbr> HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468)
• Gadget authors: you can now use the wikipage.content hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the document-ready event (for example using Ajax). (30713)