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Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/19> are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf3<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf3>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap> ). - The Compact Personal Bar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Compact_Personal_Bar> was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your preferences<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures> on MediaWiki.org. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130266/> - It is now easier to disable the CodeEditor<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CodeEditor> tool. [2] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130068/> *VisualEditor news* - External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38726> - The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete. [4]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53612> - You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones. [5]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129594/> - There is a new type for TemplateData parameters: wiki-file-name for file names. [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129594/>[7]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52652> - Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users. [8] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130479/> [9]<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Formulae> - You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language. [10] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130717/> [11]<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Beta_Features/Language> *Future software changes* - MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer> will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 8<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan> . Feedback<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is welcome. [12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125035/> - You can help translate about 100 new language names<https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Thread:Support/Language_names_not_in_Unicode_CLDR> that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links. Send an e-mail to Nemo<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Nemo_bis> if you want to help. - If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself. [13]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129871/> [14] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890> *Problems* - For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load. *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/2014/19> • 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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