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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.
- Recent software changes
- (Not all changes will affect you.)
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf9) was added to test wikis on June 27. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on July 8, and on all Wikipedias on July 11.
- On Wikisource, the canonical names of the "Index" and "Page" namespaces in the Proofread Page extension are no longer localized (bug #47596). Please check scripts that depend on
$wgCanonicalNamespace. [1] - A JavaScript problem caused the "View history" and "Add topic" tabs in the Vector skin to be moved into the drop-down menu on right-to-left wikis. The issue is now fixed and links are visible as before (bug #50196). [2]
- There was a short site outage on June 28.
- The automated Category:Pages with broken file links now includes broken file links inserted inside the
<gallery />tag (bug #50119). [3] - The Nearby feature is now enabled on Commons and shows images in a user's area. [4]
- There is now a special page listing disambiguation pages for wikis that use the Disambiguator extension (bug #44040). [5]
- The old version of the Article feedback tool (version 4) was removed from wikis that still used it. [6]
- VisualEditor news:
- Many bugs that caused text to be removed or damaged have been fixed, including one related to copy-paste (bug #49816).
- VisualEditor now offers a visual interface to edit references.
- In preparation for enabling the VisualEditor on a wider scale, new documentation has been created, including a list of frequently-asked questions and a user guide with many images. Please help with translations.
- Several problems related to overlapping of elements with the VisualEditor toolbar have been fixed (bug #50096, #50159, #50324).
- TemplateData information is now displayed for templates that are added to a page (bug #49778).
- Section edit links now show links to both VisualEditor and the old (source) editor (bug #49666).
- Images are now loaded securely when using HTTPS (bug #43015). [7]
- Future software changes
- VisualEditor will be enabled for all logged-in English Wikipedia users on July 1, and for all users on July 8.
- From July 15 and July 8 respectively, it will be possible to upload WAV and native FLAC files to Commons, and use them directly on wiki pages (bug #49505). [8]
- The Universal Language Selector will be added to the English Wikipedia on July 2, and to remaining wikis on July 9. [9]
- Erratum
- Tech news #26 incorrectly reported that audio transcoding was added to TimedMediaHandler; it was actually statistics about audio transcoding that were added. [10]
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