Wikipedia:Dap-ayan/Teknikal/Damdamag 2013-Hunio

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Tech news: 2013-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf5) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 29. It will be enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 3, and on all other Wikipedias on June 5. [1]
The Tamil Wikipedia shared a Lua module they created to automate their Main Page. [2]
There is now a test wiki to test new features in right-to-left languages. [3]
The Thanks feature was added to the English Wikipedia; users can now thank others for individual edits. [4]
The new interface for account creation and log-in is now the default on 30 wikis, including the English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta, and Wikidata. The feature will be added to all wikis after June 5. Users can return to the old look by adding ?useNew=0 to the web address. [5]
Videos are now played in pop-up windows if their size on the page is smaller than 200 pixels (800 pixels on the English Wikipedia). [6]
Opening your talk page now marks notifications as read, for wikis using the Notifications feature. (bug 47912) [7].
All autoconfirmed users can now reset transcoding of video files; previously only administrators could do this. [8]
The Nearby feature allows people who use mobile devices to see Wikipedia articles about objects and places around them. [9]

Future software changes

The PostEdit feature is now part of MediaWiki, and will work on all wikis. (bug 48726) [10]
The Narayam and WebFonts extensions will be replaced by the Universal Language Selector extension. [11]
MediaWiki will now be updated every week, starting on June 6. Thanks to this, bugs will be fixed and features will be added faster than they are now. [12]

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Tech news: 2013-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes.

Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 6, and to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10. It will be enabled on all Wikipedias on June 13. [13]
An alpha version of the VisualEditor was enabled on all Wikipedias on June 6. Please test it and report problems. [14]
Several VisualEditor bugs have been fixed; users can now add, edit and remove categories using the editor's "Page settings" menu.
Wikimedia error messages will no longer link to the #wikipedia [[<tvar|meta-irc-chans>:m:IRC/Channels</>|IRC channel]] on Freenode. [15]
The logo of 16 Wikipedias was changed to version 2.0 in a fourth group of updates. [16]
A test instance of Wikidata is now available at test.wikidata.org. [17]
Users can now patrol the first version of a newly created page if they visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges. [18]
Translation pages will no longer include edit section links (bug #40713). [19]

Future software changes

A report on mobile upload errors was published, and software changes to reduce their number will come soon. [20]
A request for comments on updating MediaWiki to use RDFa version 1.1 was started on MediaWiki.org (Gerrit change #67608).

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20:08, 11 Hunio 2013 (UTC)

Tech News: 2013-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf7) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 13. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 17, and on all Wikipedias on June 20. [21]
The Narayam and WebFonts extensions were successfully replaced by Universal Language Selector on June 11. [22]
VisualEditor news:
- VisualEditor was temporarily disabled on Wikipedia sites on June 14 due to an issue that inserted a lot of HTML code. The issue is now fixed and VisualEditor works as before.
- Users can now use VisualEditor to add images and other media items from their local wikis and Wikimedia Commons. [23].
- VisualEditor also allows editing references. [24]
The new Disambiguator extension, which was previously part of MediaWiki itself, was enabled on test wikis. It adds the magic word __DISAMBIG__ to mark disambiguation pages. [25]
The newly enabled Campaigns extension allows Wikimedia Foundation data analysts to track account creations that result from a specific outreach campaign.

Future software changes

Universal Language Selector will be added to the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias on June 18. [26]
Starting on June 18, VisualEditor will be randomly enabled by default for half of newly created accounts on the English Wikipedia to test stability, performance and features. [27]
Two new webfonts (UnifrakturMaguntia and Linux Libertine) will be added to wikis that use Universal Language Selector. [28] [29]
It will now be possible to hide the sidebar while using the Translate extension to reduce distractions (bug #45836). [30]
A patrolling link will now be visible for un-patrolled pages, even if users don't visit it from Special:NewPages or Special:RecentChanges (bug #49123). [31]
A request for comments on enabling a new search engine for MediaWiki was started.

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EdwardsBot (tungtungan) 22:31, 16 Hunio 2013 (UTC)[sungbat]

Tech news: 2013-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Translations are available.

Recent software changes: (Not all changes will affect you.)

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.22wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 20. It will be enabled on non–Wikipedia sites on June 24, and on all Wikipedias on June 27. [32]
Universal Language Selector was successfully enabled on the Catalan (ca), Cebuano (ceb), Persian (fa), Finnish (fi), Norwegian Bokmål (no), Portuguese (pt), Ukrainian (uk), Vietnamese (vi), Waray-Waray (war) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias. [33]
The new interface for account creation and log–in is now the default on all Wikimedia wikis. The old look is no longer available (bug #46333). [34]
The TimedMediaHandler extension now supports native FLAC files. A discussion to allow this file type is taking place on Commons (bug #49505). [35]
After a test period, the Disambiguator extension was enabled on the English Wikipedia on June 18. [36]
VisualEditor news:
- A VisualEditor bug temporarily made all new accounts unusable. The issue is now fixed and account creation works as before (bug #49727).
- A high importance file insertion bug has been fixed, but the feature does not work perfectly yet. [37]
It is now possible to synchronise local CSS and JavaScript files with the beta cluster. This should make it easier to test software features before they are enabled on live wikis. [38]

Future software changes

The default link to a help page on editing, visible below the editing window, will change on almost 600 Wikimedia wikis and will now link to MediaWiki.org (bug #45977). [39]
Universal Language Selector will be enabled on wikis without language versions (such as Wikisource and Wikispecies) on June 25. [40]
The AbuseFilter extension will allow filtering links and HTML code for page creations. [41]
The related changes special page will now include upload log entries. [42]
It will soon be possible to choose the language of SVG files that contain translations. [43]
MediaWiki will now allow converting audio files from one format to another. [44]
The Wikidata technical team has started a discussion about how Wikidata can support Wiktionary. [45]
The search feature on Wikimedia sites is planned to be modified to use Solr on all wikis by the end of 2013. [46]

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18:11, 23 Hunio 2013 (UTC)