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Translations <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/41> are available. *Recent changes* - You can use the phab: and phabricator: interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T454> [2] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000962.html> - Some wikis have a template <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4481730#sitelinks-wikipedia> to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Tracked> to see how. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177> [4] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000962.html> - You can look at Special:MediaStatistics <https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MediaStatistics> to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [5] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150131/> - A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF> images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel#Megapixel>. These thumbnails are also sharpened <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp_masking>. You can comment on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:VP#Experimenting_with_using_VIPS_to_render_large_tiff_files> . [6] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164476> - The Media Viewer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer> tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [7] <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=1203037#2014-09-monthly> *Changes this week* - The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf2 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf2>) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since 2 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from 7 October, and on all Wikipedias from 9 October (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>). - If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit. [8] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-September/078806.html> [9] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160367/> - We fixed some more Internet Explorer bugs. If you use Internet Explorer 10, you will be able to use VisualEditor next week. Support for earlier versions is coming next. [10] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/163223/> - On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to 30 more wikis. [11] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData> [12] <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/157477/> - You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on October 8 <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bug+day%3A+Book+tool%2FCollection%2FPDF&iso=20141008T14&ah=8> . [13] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000961.html> - 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the HHVM <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About> tool. HHVM should make pages load faster. [14] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000965.html> *Future changes* - You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work. [15] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-October/008112.html> - More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image.[16] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Multimedia/Media_Viewer/Improvements> [17] <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?oldid=1203037#2014-09-monthly> *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/2014/41> • 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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