Hi, I'm so sorry, I was traveling on Monday and I forgot to send issue 23 of Tech News to this list. If you aren't subscribed to the global delivery, or if you haven't read it elsewhere (on wiki, RSS/Atom, etc.), you can find the full text below.
The next issue of the newsletter will be sent on Monday, as planned. Other languages: العربية <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/ar> [image: 100%] • čeština <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/cs> [image: 95%] • English [image: 100%] • British English <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/en-gb> [image: 0%] • français <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/fr> [image: 100%] • ગુજરાતી <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/gu> [image: 95%] • עברית <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/he> [image: 100%] • 日本語 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/ja> [image: 21%] • 한국어 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/ko> [image: 89%] • polski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/pl> [image: 95%] • српски / srpski <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/sr> [image: 0%] • українська <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/uk> [image: 100%] • 中文 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2014/23/zh> [image: 100%] 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> *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/2014/23> • 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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