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Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/26> are available. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf10 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf10>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 19. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 24, and to all Wikipedias on June 26 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>). *VisualEditor news* - You can now drag-and-drop selections of content, not just files and templates. [1] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49981> [2] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/140103/> - When dragging an item, you will now see a line that helps you to drop it. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51666> [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/139674/> - You can now only move an image to the start of a paragraph, not to the middle of it, so you don't accidentally split it. [5] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65883> [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/140037/> - You will now be warned if you add wikitext to file captions and references. [7] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56213> [8] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/138761/> *Future software changes* - You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PermaLink/8939141#Projects_which_don.27t> that do not have any copyright tags. [9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/136520> [10] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66960> - CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> will be enabled as the primary search method on additional 70 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/> and Wikimedia Incubator <https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/>, during the next week. [11] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/136338/> - CirrusSearch results will soon take into account categories, the first paragraph and the wikitext of a page. You will also be able to use regular expressions <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#insource:> to search the wikitext. It will take a few days for the changes to be enabled on all wikis. [12] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-June/000768.html> - You will soon be able to watch translations for e-mail notifications <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Enotif> without receiving an e-mail when they are reviewed by another translator. [13] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34153> [14] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132615/> - An IRC meeting to organize old high priority MediaWiki bug reports will take place on June 24 at 17:00 UTC on the channel #wikimedia-office on freenode (time conversion <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20140624T1700> ). [15] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-June/077166.html> *Problems* - On June 19, all wikis were broken for about 15 minutes due to a high server load. - Between June 13 and June 15 there were problems with the scaling of video files due to a configuration error. 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