Hi!
The latest tech newsletter is now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/11
[1].
Below is the English version.
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next [2].
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Latest tech news [4] from the Wikimedia technical community. Please
inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations [1] are available.
RECENT SOFTWARE CHANGES
* The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf17 [5]) was added to test
wikis and MediaWiki.org on March 6. It will be added to non-Wikipedia
wikis on March 11, and all Wikipedia wikis on March 13 (calendar [6]).
* You can now use the new search tool (CirrusSearch [7]) on all
Wikiquote projects. You can now enable it in your Beta options [8].
VISUALEDITOR NEWS
* It is now easier to edit templates. Complex tools are now in the
"advanced" mode.
* It is also easier to edit images. You now have more options and they
are explained better.
* VisualEditor adds fake blank lines so you can put your cursor there.
They are now smaller and animated to be different from actual blank
lines.
* We have improved the tool to add special characters. The buttons are
now larger. More changes are coming.
* You can now use new keyboard shortcuts to undo the last action,
clear formatting, and show the shortcut help window.
FUTURE SOFTWARE CHANGES
* You will soon be able to use a Beta option [8] to show a shorter
list of language links. That way, Universal Language Selector [9] will
only show languages that are relevant to you. You will still be able to
search for other languages.
* CirrusSearch [7] will soon automatically index newly imported pages.
* It will soon be possible to use CSS to style buttons [10] in
templates on all Wikimedia wikis, without needing JavaScript [11].
* An IRC discussion [12] with the Wikimedia Foundation Language
Engineering team will take place on March 12 at 17:00 UTC on the channel
#wikimedia-office on Freenode (time conversion [13]).
_TECH NEWS [4] prepared by tech ambassadors [14] and posted by MediaWiki
message delivery [15] * Contribute [16] * Translate [1] * Get help [17]
* Give feedback [18] * Subscribe or unsubscribe [19]._
Links:
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[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/11
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/Next
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News#contribute
[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News
[5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf17
[6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap
[7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search
[8]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures
[9]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Universal_Language_Selector
[10]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Default_modules#Buttons
[11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript
[12] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
[13]
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140312T1700
[14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors
[15]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery
[16]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute
[17] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech
[18] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News
[19]
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