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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
- From Thursday, Internet Explorer 11 users will get VisualEditor. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [1] [2] [3]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf20) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 4. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 9, and on all Wikipedias on September 11 (calendar).
- You will soon confirm a "Thanks" inline instead of in a dialog. [4]
- You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [5]
Problems
- There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error. [6]
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