From Meta, a Wikimedia project coordination wiki
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Recent software changes
- The latest version of MediaWiki (
1.24wmf3
) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and all Wikipedias on May 8 (
calendar
).
- The
Compact Personal Bar
was added as a beta feature to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 1. It will be added as a beta feature to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 6, and to all Wikipedias on May 8. To test it, you can enable it now in your
preferences
on MediaWiki.org.
[1]
- It is now easier to disable the
CodeEditor
tool.
[2]
VisualEditor news
- External links in VisualEditor are now in the same light blue color as in MediaWiki.
[3]
- The template tool now tells you if a parameter is obsolete.
[4]
- You can now add "suggested" parameters in TemplateData; VisualEditor will add them like required ones.
[5]
- There is a new type for TemplateData parameters:
wiki-file-name
for file names.
[6]
[7]
- Editing formulae in VisualEditor will soon be enabled for all users.
[8]
[9]
- You will soon be able to try a new beta feature to edit text in another language.
[10]
[11]
Future software changes
- MediaViewer
will be enabled for all users on the Japanese (ja), Portuguese (pt), Spanish (es), Swedish (sv) and Telugu (te) Wikipedias on
May 8
.
Feedback
is welcome.
[12]
- You can help translate about
100 new language names
that have been added to our data source. They are used, for example, as hover text for interwiki links.
Send an e-mail to Nemo
if you want to help.
- If you click on a redirect page in your watchlist, you will soon access the redirect itself.
[13]
[14]
Problems
- For about 40 minutes around 00:20 UTC on April 29, there were problems with page loading due to high server load.
Tech news
prepared by
tech ambassadors
and posted by
MediaWiki message delivery
??
Contribute
??
Translate
??
Get help
??
Give feedback
??
Subscribe or unsubscribe
.