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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. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 29, and on all Wikipedias on August 1. [1]
- Wikivoyage was offline for around 40 minutes on July 24. [2]
- Pywikipediabot moved their code from SVN to git; bot owners need to update their tools. [3]
- The Notifications and Thanks extensions were added to Meta-Wiki on July 26; other wikis will get them soon. [4]
- It is now possible to add edit summaries on Wikidata using the API; the feature will be added to user interface soon. [5]
- 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. [6]
- Three new webfonts (Gentium, Old Persian and Shapour) will be added to Universal Language Selector. [7], [8], [9]
- 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). [10]
- 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. [11]
- A preference to completely disable VisualEditor while it is in beta phase was added on July 24. [12]
- Many bugs were fixed in right-to-left languages. [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]
- 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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28 julhet de 2013 a 20.55 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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. [19]
- 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. [20]
- You can now use new styles of galleries. Please give feedback to User:Bawolff. [21]
- You can now visit a random page in a category, for example Special:RandomInCategory/Science. (25931) [22]
- You can now use the
<wbr>HTML5 tag to say where a word can be cut. (52468) [23] - Gadget authors: you can now use the
wikipage.contenthook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after thedocument-readyevent (for example using Ajax). (30713) [24]
Problems fixed
- There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (52200)
- Rapòrts de mantenença provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (see details).
- There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (52077) [25]
VisualEditor news
- The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit beta" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in bugzilla.
- You can now edit references that are added inside a
<references> block. (51741)
- You can now test on mediawiki.org new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the
button for the <s> tag), lower text (
for <sub>), upper text (
for <sup>), underlined text (
for <u>), computer code (
for <code> and <tt>), math text (
for <math>), Egyptian hieroglyphs (
for <hiero>), and to say that text is in another language (
for lang="ar" dir="rtl"). (51609, 51612, 51611, 51590, 51610, 52352)
- You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser. [26]
Future
- Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites. [27]
- Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications. [28]
- Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using HTTPS to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you, tell us on meta. [29]
- Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS pages on all wikis. [30]
- The plan to use Solr for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead, Elasticsearch is now planned. [31]
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25 agost de 2013 a 20.09 (UTC)