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Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/32> are available. *Tech News updates* - Tech News will be presented <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Tech_news> at the Wikimania 2014 <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/> conference in London! If you will be attending the conference, please join us in Auditorium 2 at 14:30 local time on Sunday, August 10. *Recent software changes* - The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf16 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf16>) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on July 31. Due to the Wikimania 2014 <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/> conference, it will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on August 12, and to all Wikipedias on August 14 ( calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>). [1] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-August/000870.html> - You can now test a new tool to render wiki pages as PDF files. [2] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-July/000868.html> [3] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150393/> [4] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150427/> - You can now download an update to the archive <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive#Image_tarballs> of Wikimedia Commons files (uploaded up to December 31, 2013). If you have free space on your computer, please help preserve the files. [5] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-August/077901.html> - New users using the mobile Commons site now need to make 75 edits before they can upload a file. [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62598> [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150145/> *VisualEditor news* - You will no longer see an edit confirmation message after making a null edit <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Purge#Null_edit> with VisualEditor. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51243> [9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150419/> - VisualEditor will no longer change underscores <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/underscore> to spaces in category sort keys <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization#Sort_keys>. [10] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/149395/> - Many bugs that resulted in inserting the pawn <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode> and snowman <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols> symbols were fixed last week. [11] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68151> [12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67992> [13] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68147> [14] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68740> - Several bugs related to the use of references were also fixed. [15] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67342> [16] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68869> [17] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68079> [18] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68582> *Future software changes* - You will soon have a user option to watch pages where you revert edits. [19] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4488> [20] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/146440> - All Toolserver data will be deleted in September. If you want to back up your data, contact Toolserver administrators <[email protected]> before August 31. [21] <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-July/002777.html> - Pages in the Translations: namespace on wikis using the Translate <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Help:Extension:Translate> extension will no longer be indexed by search engines. [22] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/134492> *Problems* - Wikivoyage wikis were broken for about 45 minutes on July 29 due to a configuration problem. [23] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68815> - Some users were not able to log in on test wikis and MediaWiki.org between July 31 and August 1. The problem is now fixed. 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