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You can look at [[Special:MediaStatistics]] to see what kind of files are on your wiki.</translate> [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/150131/] |
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A new tool can now create thumbnails of large [[m:w:TIFF|TIFF]] images. This concerns files larger than 50 [[m:w:Pixel#Megapixel|megapixels]]. These thumbnails are also [[m:w:Unsharp masking|sharpened]]. You can comment [[<tvar|link>m: |
A new tool can now create thumbnails of large [[m:w:TIFF|TIFF]] images. This concerns files larger than 50 [[m:w:Pixel#Megapixel|megapixels]]. These thumbnails are also [[m:w:Unsharp masking|sharpened]]. You can comment [[<tvar|link>m:c:Commons:VP#Experimenting with using VIPS to render large tiff files</>|on Commons]].</translate> [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/164476] |
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If you make a code mistake when editing a Lua script, you won't be able to save your edit.</translate> [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-September/078806.html] [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160367/] |
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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.</translate> [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/163223/] |
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You can help sort bugs in the Book and PDF export tool on [<tvar|datetime>http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Bug+day%3A+Book+tool%2FCollection%2FPDF&iso=20141008T14&ah=8</> October 8].</translate> [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-September/000961.html] |
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1% of logged-out readers are getting pages from servers that run the [[m:mw:Special:MyLanguage/HHVM/About|HHVM]] tool. HHVM should make pages load faster.</translate> [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2014-October/000965.html] |
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You can look at the plan of the Mobile team for their future work.</translate> [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2014-October/008112.html] |
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can use the
phab:
andphabricator:
interwikis to link to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org. [1] [2] - Some wikis have a template to track bugs in Bugzilla. You should update it to work with Phabricator. You can look at the one on mediawiki.org to see how. [3] [4]
- You can look at Special:MediaStatistics to see what kind of files are on your wiki. [5]
- A new tool can now create thumbnails of large TIFF images. This concerns files larger than 50 megapixels. These thumbnails are also sharpened. You can comment on Commons. [6]
- The Media Viewer tool has a clearer link to the file page. It also has buttons to download, share and embed the file. You can enlarge images by clicking on them. [7]
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] [12]
- 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. [16] [17]
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