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| 前号 | 2014年第25週 (2014年6月16日(月曜日)) | 次号 |
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
- 6月19日、メディアビューアが全ウィキにデフォルトで導入されます。ご意見をぜひお寄せください。 [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]
- 6月17日から、タブレットの利用者はウィキメディアウィキ上で携帯機器版に転送されるようになります。 [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.
- ウィキメディア財団技術部門の2014-2015年の目標への意見が受け付けられています。 [19]
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