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| vorherige Ausgabe | 2018, Woche 51 (Montag 17. Dezember 2018) | nächste Ausgabe |
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News
- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 7 January 2019.
Letzte Änderungen
- Some templates that show notices about the content of the page will now be shown on the mobile website. In many cases they were hidden before. [1][2]
- Admins can no longer unblock themselves, except for self-blocks. A blocked admin can block the user who blocked them but no one else. This is so no one can block all admins on a wiki without being stopped. [3]
The ParserMigration extension has been removed. It compared the result of two versions of the MediaWiki wikitext parsing pipeline. It was used when we moved to the Remex parsing library instead of Tidy.
Probleme
<ref>tags can use parameters such as "name" or "group". For example<ref name="adams" group="books">. If a<ref>tag has more than two parameters all parameters are ignored. You don't get a warning that they don't work. This will soon be fixed. [4]
Anstehende Änderungen im Verlauf der Woche
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 Dezember. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 Dezember. It will be on all wikis from 20 Dezember (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 19 Dezember at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Zukünftige Änderungen
- The Wikimedia Foundation Android app team are working on making it easier to edit on mobile phones. You can read more about these plans. If you have an Android phone and speak at least two languages you can help testing in English. Tell Dchen (WMF) you want to be part of the testing by writing on her talk page or email her.
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tiles.wmflabs.organdwma.wmflabs.orgwill stop working. They have no maintainers and run an old operating system. Tools which use it could stop working. This includes the mapnik gadget, hill shading, and hike and bike layers. New maintainers could help out and keep it going. [5]
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