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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 (1.24wmf13) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 10. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 15, and to all Wikipedias on July 17 (calendar).
- It is now possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. Please go to the username changes page on Meta if you want to rename your account on all wikis. [1] [2]
- You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for June 2014.
- You can now read the latest issue of the Wikidata newsletter and translate it into your language.
VisualEditor news
- The tool to add templates and citations will now work for templates that include HTML comments or templates in their titles. [3] [4]
- The button to make images full size should now work correctly. [5] [6] [7]
- References will now be shown in the default font size again. [8]
Future software changes
- CirrusSearch will be enabled as the primary search method on the Dutch (nl) and Japanese (ja) Wikipedias on July 14, and on the Polish (pl) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias on July 16. [9]
- The Special:Version page will soon show the exact version of MediaWiki and all extensions installed on your wiki (example). [10] [11]
- It will soon no longer be possible to order printed books of wiki articles via PediaPress. You will still be able to create PDF files. [12]
- Pages that use
{{DISPLAYTITLE:title}}more than once will soon show a warning. You can use{{DISPLAYTITLE:title|noerror}}to hide it. [13] [14] - Pages that have the list of references added automatically will soon be added to a tracking category. Administrators will be able to configure the name of the category on their wikis. [15] [16]
- Administrators will soon be able to easily merge histories of two pages using Special:MergeHistory. [17] [18]
- Administrators will soon see links to delete files on Special:ListFiles. [19]
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