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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/2014/23> are
available.

*Recent software changes*

   - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf7
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf7>) was added to test
   wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 29. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis
   on June 3, and to all Wikipedias on June 5 (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>).
   - CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> was enabled as
   the primary search method on all Wikipedias with less than 100,000 pages on
   May 30. [1] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136132/>

*VisualEditor news*

   - Templates that redirect to other templates now get the TemplateData of
   their target. [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50964>
   - The toolbar of the PageTriage
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PageTriage> extension will no
   longer be visible after you save an edit with VisualEditor. [3]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65702> [4]
   <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/135587/>
   - VisualEditor now checks if your browser supports SVG files to avoid
   displaying broken icons. [5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/134758/>
   - There is now a new type for TemplateData parameters: date for dates
   and times in the ISO 8601 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/en:ISO_8601>
    format. [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132449/>

*Future software changes*

   - MediaViewer
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer>
will
   be enabled on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3.
   Feedback
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer> is
   welcome.
   - You will soon see a warning if you visit a contributions
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> page for a user
   that does not exist. [7]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60524> [8]
   <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/117854/>
   - The search tab
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions>
will
   soon be removed from user preferences. You will be able to set your search
   preferences onSpecial:Search
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=advanced>
   . [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52817> [10]
   <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131727/>
   - You will soon see a label next to the little triangle arrow for the
   *Actions* menu in the Vector
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Skin:Vector> skin
   (screenshot
   <https://bug-attachment.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=15540>). [11]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44591>[12]
   <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/112236/>

*Problems*

   - For about 20 minutes on May 29, all wikis were broken due to a
   configuration error. [13]
   <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-May/076736.html>

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