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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.
Letzte Änderungen
- On wikis with translatable pages you could create a mess when you moved a page that had translatable subpages. A subpage is when you use
/
to create a new page:/wiki/Page/Subpage
. The subpages would be moved but not the translations. The subpages are no longer automatically be moved. This is to make it safer to move pages. [1]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
- The advanced search interface will be available by default on all Wikimedia wikis. It makes it easier to use some of the special search functions that most editors don't know exist. It's already active on German, Farsi, Arabic and Hungarian Wikipedia. [2]
- Special:UnusedCategories show empty categories with no files or other categories. You can soon choose to not show soft redirect categories or some maintenance categories there. You can do this with the magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDCATEGORY__
. [3] - The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 November. It will be on all wikis from 29 November (calendar).
Treffen
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 28 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Zukünftige Änderungen
- Die Nutzung der Funktion
mw.util.jsMessage()
wurde im Jahr 2012 missbilligt. Sie wird nächste Woche entfernt. Schau nach der WarnungUse of "mw.util.jsMessage" is deprecated
in der JavaScript-Konsole, um zu erfahren ob du davon betroffene Skripte oder Helferlein nutzt. Wenn du Programmierer bist, solltest du prüfen, ob JavaScript-Codemw.util.jsMessage
enthält. Es gibt einen Migrations-Leitfaden, der erklärt, wie man stattdessenmw.notify
nutzen kann. [4]
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