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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
- There was a 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]
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09:21, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 36, 2014)
 A Nunivak Cup'ig man with raven maskette – in the Raven Tales the raven is the Creator god
The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Solar activity • History of West Africa Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT (talk) 00:02, 1 September 2014 (UTC) • |
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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
- You can now test a new Beta Feature to see links to other wikis in the sidebar. The links come from Wikidata. [7] [8]
- You can now search pages that link to a page. Use the
linksto:keyword in your search. [9] [10] - A redirect to a section now changes the URL in the address bar of your browser. If "Dog" redirects to "Animals#Dog", you now see "Animals#Dog" instead of "Dog#Dog". [11] [12]
- If you are testing Flow, you now have a Flow tab in your Notifications. It is called "Messages". [13]
VisualEditor news
- You can no longer delete required fields in templates. [14]
- We fixed many Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 11, you will get VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [15] [16] [17]
- VisualEditor now looks better in Monobook. [18]
- We fixed a bug where some of your typing could be undone when you used "cut" (Ctrl+X). [19]
- You will no longer see empty or deleted categories among the suggestions when you add a category. [20]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf19) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since August 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 2, and on all Wikipedias on September 4 (calendar).
- There is a proposal to build a database on Commons for file data. It will make it easier to see the author, license and topics. You can give feedback on this idea. You can also come to the IRC chat on September 3 at 18:00 (UTC) in
#wikimedia-officeat freenode. [21] - You can give feedback on Media Viewer until September 7. You can say what needs to be improved and ask other people to give feedback too. [22]
- You can test a new version of the tool to show math. It uses MathML. Report bugs in bugzilla.
- You will no longer be able to upload images from the mobile site. [23]
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07:49, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
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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. [24] [25] [26]
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. [27]
- You can read more about the plan to move to Phabricator, a tool that will help people develop the MediaWiki software and report bugs. [28]
Problems
- There were problems with JavaScript and CSS on Friday, September 5 because of a code error.
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09:33, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 38, 2014)
 Arches were used in Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the Aqueduct of Segovia
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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.
Recent software changes
- You can now change the style of links to disambiguation pages. This is done with the
mw-disambigCSS class. [29] [30] - There was a problem on right-to-left wikis with Wikidata log entries. The text was messy in watchlists and recent changes. The problem is now fixed. The same problem will be fixed soon for user names. [31] [32] [33]
- New users are randomly chosen for a test on 12 Wikipedias. They get messages with ideas of articles to edit. The ideas come from what they have already edited. [34]
Problems
- There was a problem with loading images on September 10. [35]
VisualEditor news
- If you don't select text when you add a link, the link now shows a number. [36]
- The citation tool no longer offers to reuse a citation if there are none on the page yet. [37] [38]
- You can now use help buttons in the "Page settings" menu to see what the options are for. [39]
Future software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf21) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 11. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 16, and on all Wikipedias on September 18 (calendar).
- These changes are coming with the new version:
- If you use Internet Explorer 7, JavaScript will no longer work. JavaScript tools and scripts will no longer work in that browser. You should update to a newer browser. [40] [41] [42]
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08:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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This week's article for improvement (week 39, 2014)
Arches were used in Ancient Roman architecture to build aqueducts, such as the Aqueduct of Segovia
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