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New features
- The previous version of MediaWiki (
1.22/wmf13
) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 15. It
was enabled
on non-Wikipedia sites on August 19, and on all Wikipedias on August 22.
[1]
- The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.22/wmf14
) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on August 22. It
will be enabled
on non-Wikipedia sites on August 26, and on all Wikipedias on August 29.
[2]
- You can now use new
styles of galleries
. Please give feedback to
User:Bawolff
.
[3]
- You can now visit a random page in a category, for example
Special:RandomInCategory/Science
. (
25931
)
[4]
- You can now use the
<wbr>
HTML5?tag to say where a word can be cut. (
52468
)
[5]
- Gadget authors: you can now use the
wikipage.content
hook, so that your scripts are re-run when a page is changed after the
document-ready
event (for example using Ajax). (
30713
)
[6]
Problems fixed
- There was a bug where file redirects didn't work when a file was renamed; it is now fixed. There is still an issue with purging, but it should be fixed soon. (
52200
)
- Maintenance reports
provided by special pages will now all be updated on each wiki every six months. This will for example give you recent information on uncategorized pages, unused templates and most wanted pages (
see details
).
- There was a bug that caused false positives for anti-blanking edit filters; it is now fixed. (
52077
)
[7]
VisualEditor
news
- The "edit" and "edit source" tabs and section edit links can now be changed more easily; for example, some wikis are using "edit source" for wikitext editing, and "edit
beta
" for VisualEditor. You can ask for the same change in
bugzilla
.
- You can now edit references that are added inside a
<references>
block. (
51741
)
- You can now test on
mediawiki.org
new basic tools to add and edit struck text (with the
button for the
<s>
tag), lower text (
for
<sub>
), upper text (
for
<sup>
), underlined text (
for
<u>
), computer code (
for
<code>
and
<tt>
), math text (
for
<math>
),
Egyptian hieroglyphs
(
for
<hiero>
), and to say that text is in another language (
for
lang="ar" dir="rtl"
). (
51609
,
51612
,
51611
,
51590
,
51610
,
52352
)
- You can now use VisualEditor with the Opera browser.
[8]
Future
- Starting on August 26, you will be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikivoyage sites.
[9]
- Starting on August 27, you will also get notifications on the mobile site if you're logged in to a wiki using notifications.
[10]
- Starting on August 28, all users with an account will be using
HTTPS
to access Wikimedia sites. HTTPS brings better security and improves your privacy. Some countries (like China) will not use HTTPS. If HTTPS causes problems for you,
tell us on meta
.
[11]
- Starting on August 29, you will get the code editor interface to edit JavaScript and CSS?pages on all wikis.
[12]
- The plan to use
Solr
for search in MediaWiki was changed; instead,
Elasticsearch
is now planned.
[13]
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