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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/39> are available. *Recent software changes* - You can test a new Beta Feature <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures> called HHVM. It should make editing faster. Please report bugs <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/> if you see them. [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000948.html> *Problems* - There was a problem on the English Wikipedia on September 19. It was due to edits on a template used on many pages. - Sites were down for users in the Pacific area around 7:00 UTC on September 20. It was due to a problem in the San Francisco data center. - There were two bad bugs messing up articles in some browsers in VisualEditor. We fixed the bugs and updated the sites. [2] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70856> [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70897> *Software changes this week* - The new version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf22 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf22>) is on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since September 18. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis on September 23, and on all Wikipedias on September 25 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>). - If you have more than 2000 notifications, the oldest ones will be removed.[4] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Talk:Echo_(Notifications)/More_than_2,000_Notifications,_will_start_to_be_removed> [5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/159413/> - In the "Vector" skin, the icon used for users will show a neutral gender. [6] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41484> [7] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157990/> - The VisualEditor template tool now tells you if a required field is missing. [8] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50747> - The "Cancel" button of the VisualEditor save window is now called "Resume editing". This shows that you can still edit and you won't lose your changes. [9] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69116> - There are new keyboard shortcuts in VisualEditor. Use Ctrl+Shift+6 for code and Ctrl+Shift+5 for strikethrough. [10] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60257>[11] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52597> - In VisualEditor, you can now see that you are switching to the source editing mode. Before, it was not clear it was happening. [12] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65012> *Future site changes* - You can see a plan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator#Migration_timeline> for the move to Phabricator. It's the new tool to track bugs. A guided tour <https://plus.google.com/u/1/b/103470172168784626509/events/c8qe7l0vtf4v6u07k3o059du2lg> will be done via video on September 24. [13] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000946.html> *Tech news <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by tech ambassadors <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Ambassadors> and posted by bot <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/39> • Get help <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> •Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.* -- Guillaume Paumier
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