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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/2014/21> 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<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf5>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 15. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 20, and all Wikipedias on May 22 (calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap> ). - The jQuery <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:jQuery> JavaScript library was updated on May 16. Please check that your gadgets and scripts still work. [1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076340.html> [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44740> [3]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133477/> - MediaViewer<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer> was enabled for all users on the Kannada (kn) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on May 13 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Release_Plan>. 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<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is welcome. [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132967/> [5]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/129828/> - VisualEditor was added as a beta feature to Wikimedia Commons on May 15. You can enable it in your preferences<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures> . [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65067> [7]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132409/> - You can read a summary<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_engineering_report/2014/April/summary> of the Wikimedia technical report for April 2014. *VisualEditor news* - VisualEditor's buttons and icons can now be accessed using keyboard keys. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62337> [9]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/132979> - VisualEditor's new citation tool now matches templates like {{cite_web}} and not just {{Cite web}}. [10]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63129> [11] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132725/> - VisualEditor's welcome message will no longer be shown to users who have already seen it. [12]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55551> [13] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/125914> - VisualEditor now shows a clearer message when you cancel an edit. [14]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50955> - The toolbar of the PageTriage<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage> extension will no longer be visible inside VisualEditor. [15]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56731> [16] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/133379> *Future software changes* - User ID number will no longer be visible in preferences<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences> . [17] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58626> [18]<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132916/> *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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