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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 (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
- MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
VisualEditor news
- VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [1] [2] [3] [4]
- A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the
File:namespace was fixed last week. [5] [6] - VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [7] [8]
- It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [9]
- VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [10]
Future software changes
- Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [11]
- It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool. [12] [13]
- Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax
[[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]]will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [14] [15] [16] - You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [17] [18]
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