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Recent software changes
- You can now see the text of DjVu and PDF files in search results on wikis testing the new search tool (
CirrusSearch
).
[1]
[2]
- With the new version of the
Wikibase DataModel
extension, you can install it outside Wikimedia wikis.
[3]
VisualEditor
news
- Images are now shown inside VisualEditor as
HTML5
<figure />
elements.
Comments
are welcome.
[4]
- You can now test a basic version of VisualEditor on mobile devices; see
this article
as an example.
Problems
Future software changes
- CirrusSearch will be added as the second search method for Spanish (es), French (fr), Portuguese (pt) and Russian (ru) wikis on December 30. Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies and Wikinews users will also be able to enable it in their
Beta Features options
.
- AbuseFilter
log entries will be visible in
CheckUser
tool reports.
[6]
[7]
- It will soon be possible to search for log entries done by users without an account.
[8]
[9]
- It will no longer be possible to globally hide users with more than 1,000 edits.
[10]
[11]
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