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Changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (
1.25wmf2
) 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
).
- If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit.
[8]
[9]
- 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]
- On Thursday, the tool to edit TemplateData will come to?30 more wikis.
[11]
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- You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on
October 8
.
[13]
- 1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the
HHVM
tool. HHVM should make pages load faster.
[14]
Future changes
- You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work.
[15]
- More changes to Media Viewer are coming. It will be easier to disable it, and you will see the caption below the image.
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