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I appreciated your comment on my Talk page a week ago. Good luck with editing, and I hope your views get respect. ] (]) 22:07, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
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Considering that my edit spoke of the fact that Tullian has publicly debated other with regards to his views, and the links I referenced go DIRECTLY to those debates, there should not be an issue. — Preceding unsigned comment added by BaptistBolt (talk • contribs) 18:51, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News updates
Tech News is one year old this week; thank you for being with us!
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf5) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Misplaced Pages wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar).
The jQuery JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work.
MediaViewer was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13. It will be enabled on the German (de), English (en), Italian (it) and Russian (ru) Wikipedias and on all Wikisource wikis on May 22. Feedback is welcome.
VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences.
You can read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014.
VisualEditor news
VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys.
VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}.
VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it.
VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit.
The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor.
Future software changes
User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences.
Problems
For several hours on May 16, there were problems with loading gadgets on some wikis due to a server problem.
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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
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Misplaced Pages wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendar).
MediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
VisualEditor news
VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them.
A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week.
VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled.
It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed.
VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names.
Future software changes
Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade.
It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizard tool.
Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax ] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear.
You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki.
Note: All columns in this table are sortable, allowing you to rearrange the table so the articles most interesting to you are shown at the top. All images have mouse-over popups with more information. For more information about the columns and categories, please consult the documentation, and please do get in touch on SuggestBot's talk page with any questions you might have.
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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
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Misplaced Pages wikis on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar).
CirrusSearch was enabled as the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on May 30.
VisualEditor news
Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of their target.
The toolbar of the PageTriage extension will no longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor.
VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid displaying broken icons.
There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates and times in the ISO 8601 format.
Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedback is welcome.
You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions page for a user that does not exist.
The search tab will soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search preferences on Special:Search.
You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the Actions menu in the Vector skin (screenshot).
Problems
For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a configuration error.
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
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Misplaced Pages wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
You can now use guided tours on the Arabic (ar), Bengali (bn) and Norwegian (no) Wikipedias. If you want this tool on your wiki, you need to translate it and ask in Bugzilla.
VisualEditor news
You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor.
The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content.
You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor.
Future software changes
MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome.
You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10.
On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system.
You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly.
Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching.
You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Reminder
You can subscribe to the wikitech-ambassadors mailing list to get news more quickly and to send feedback or report problems.
Recent software changes
The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf9) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 12. It will be added to non-Misplaced Pages wikis on June 17, and to all Wikipedias on June 19 (calendar).
You can now read a summary of the Wikimedia technical report for May 2014.
VisualEditor news
You can now easily see the target of a link or other information using the context menu.
When you edit a reference, you can now empty it and click the "use an existing reference" button to switch it to re-use another reference.
You can now add and edit {{DISPLAYTITLE}} and __DISAMBIG__ in the page settings menu.
The tool to insert special characters is now wider and simpler; the order of mathematical symbols is now correct.
Future software changes
Media Viewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 19. Feedback is welcome.
You will no longer see image thumbnails on search results pages on Wikibooks and Wikisource wikis.
It will soon be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users.
Tablet users will be redirected to the mobile view of Wikimedia wikis starting on June 17.
The special page that lists most linked-to templates will soon include pages from all namespaces; it will also be renamed to Special:MostTranscludedPages.
An IRC discussion about Phabricator will take place on June 17 at 17:30 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion). You can also read a blog post about the upcoming switch to Phabricator.
You can now comment on the draft 2014-15 goals of the Wikimedia Foundation engineering department.
