The Tech News weekly summaries help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians. Subscribe, contribute and give feedback.
| previous | 2014, week 35 (Monday 25 August 2014) | next |
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
VisualEditor news
- There was an error when you put your cursor directly after a reference list. It is now fixed. [1]
- You can now add colors to links in the editor using gadgets. You can do this to see links to redirects or disambiguation pages. [2]
- If you use Internet Explorer, you will soon be able to use VisualEditor. [3] [4] [5]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf18) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 21. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 28 (calendar).
- After August 26, you will have a central JavaScript and CSS page. They will be on Meta-Wiki and will work on all wikis. Read more on the help page. [6]
Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.