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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translationshttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2014/22 are available.

*Recent software changes*

- The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf6https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/wmf6) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on May 22. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 27, and all Wikipedias on May 29 (calendarhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap ). - MediaViewerhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:MultimediaViewer will be enabled on all Wikisource wikis on May 29, and on the German (de) and English (en) Wikipedias on June 3. Feedbackhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Multimedia/About_Media_Viewer is welcome.

*VisualEditor news*

- VisualEditor's welcome message and wikitext warning now say that you can switch to source mode editing and keep your edits without saving them. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57699 [2]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133639/ [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57700 [4]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133637/ - A bug that caused files not to appear after saving edits in the File: namespace was fixed last week. [5]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65349 [6] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133897/ - VisualEditor tabs will no longer appear in namespaces where VisualEditor is disabled. [7]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64142 [8] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65292 - It is now possible to edit inline images with VisualEditor; many minor bugs related to images have also been fixed. [9]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/120808/ - VisualEditor will no longer convert spaces to underscores inside links to pages in namespaces that include spaces in their names. [10]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62229

*Future software changes*

- Wikimedia Labs will stop working for about 10 minutes around 18:00 UTC on May 30 due to a server upgrade. [11]http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/labs-l/2014-May/002562.html - It will soon no longer be possible to upload different files under the same name at the same time using the UploadWizardhttps://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UploadWizard tool. [12] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54750 [13]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133434/ - Links to TIFF, DjVu or PDF files created with the syntax [[File:Name.ext|thumb|page 15 is my favourite]] will now show an image caption if there is any text after page number; previously they caused the given page to appear. [14]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133403/ [15] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133401/ [16]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133400/ - You will soon see information about global blocks for IP addresses on their contributions page on your local wiki. [17]https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52673 [18] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133986/

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