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*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.
[19]<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65424>

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