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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Problems*
- There was an issue with files from Commons on October 21. You could
only see those with names between 140 and 159 characters by visiting
Commons itself. [1]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72389>
- There was a problem with cut and paste in VisualEditor in Firefox. It
was fixed quickly. [2]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72164>
- There was a problem with editing math in VisualEditor. It was fixed
quickly. [3] <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71829>
*Software changes this week*
- The new version of MediaWiki will now come to Wikipedia sites every
Wednesday, instead of every Thursday. [4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000998.html>
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf5
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/wmf5>) has been on test
wikis and
MediaWiki.org since October 23. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis
from October 28, and on all Wikipedias from October 29 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.25/Roadmap>).
- VisualEditor now uses autovalues
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateData> for
templates if they are in TemplateData. [5]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51428> [6]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52029> [7]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71157>
- VisualEditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them. [8]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71855>
- VisualEditor now opens faster when you click "edit". [9]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65453>
- The rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages.
Interface translations are currently not being updated from
translatewiki.net; this process will start again on November 6. [10]
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62861>
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