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Latest *tech news
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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/44> are
available.

*Problems*

   - There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could
   only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting
   Commons itself. [1]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72389>
   - There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It
   was fixed quickly. [2]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72164>
   - There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed
   quickly. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71829>

*Software changes this week*

   - The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every
   Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [4]
   
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000998.html>
   - The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf5>) has been on test
   wikis and MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis
   from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
   - VisualEditor now uses autovalues
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData> for
   templates if they are in TemplateData. [5]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51428> [6]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52029> [7]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71157>
   - VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [8]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71855>
   - VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [9]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65453>
   - The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages.
   Interface translations are currently not being updated from
   translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [10]
   <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62861>

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