Hi, The latest tech newsletter is now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05 . Below is the English version.
You can help write the next newsletter: whenever you see information about Wikimedia technology that you think should be distributed more broadly, you can add it to the next newsletter at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next . More information on how to contribute is available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute . You can also contact me directly. As always, feedback (on- or off-list) is appreciated and encouraged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05>are available. *Recent software changes* - Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ori_Livneh,_Site_performance_update,_January_2014.webm>. [1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-January/074140.html> - The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=MediaWiki%20extensions&component=TimedMediaHandler>or tell User:Bawolff <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_talk:Bawolff>. [2]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/55550> - The Special:ActiveUsers page will be removed because it's too slow. [3]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/107988> - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf11>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>). *Problems* - On January 21, Universal Language Selector<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector>was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Selector/Announcement_Jan2014>. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-personal>. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [4]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56433> - For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:Cascading_Style_Sheets>and JavaScript <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:JavaScript> due to high server load. *Future software changes* - You can give comments <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Winter>about the new version of " Winter <http://unicorn.wmflabs.org/winter/>", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. [5]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/design/2014-January/001411.html> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by MediaWiki message delivery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/05> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.* -- Guillaume Paumier Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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