Tech/News/2014/27

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Recent software changes

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 26. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on July 1, and to all Wikipedias on July 3 (calendar).

VisualEditor news

Context menus in VisualEditor will no longer flicker and disappear when you insert a new reference, formula, image, etc. [1] [2]
A bug that prevented relocating items due to cache was fixed last week. [3] [4]
VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the bottom of the page when you try to edit section 0. When you try to add a formula, VisualEditor will no longer scroll to the top of the page. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Links to category pages or file pages added with VisualEditor will now work correctly. [9] [10]

Future software changes

You will no longer be able to upload files on wikis that do not have any copyright tags. [11] [12]
Toolserver tools will be stopped on June 30. Please make sure to change gadgets that link to the Toolserver to point to Tool Labs instead.
CirrusSearch will be enabled on June 30 as the primary search method on 34 new wikis, including the Czech (cs), Danish (da), Finnish (fi) and Hebrew (he) Wikipedias. [13]
All Wikimedia wikis will be using a security method called perfect forward secrecy starting on July 1. If you see a problem, please report it. [14] [15]
Starting on July 1, it will be possible to globally rename global (SUL) users. [16]
You will soon see block information when you visit the contributions page or try to edit the user page or user talk page of a user who is affected by an IP range block. [17] [18]
You will soon be able to use {{!}} as a magic word to produce the pipe character, for instance for use in tables. [19]

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