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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
New features
- Special:Listfiles can now display old versions of files a user has uploaded. A new link was also added (Special:AllMyFiles) that gives a list of all files the current user has ever uploaded (that haven't been deleted).
- There is now an Android application to contribute to translatewiki.net from mobile devices. [١]
VisualEditor news
- VisualEditor now has a new toolbar with drop-down menus for advanced tools. [٢]
- Many bugs were fixed, some related to copy-and-paste. [٣]
- You can now move references, list of references, templates and other elements with the mouse ("drag-and-drop"). [٤]
- You are invited to comment on designs for the interface to add references in VisualEditor.
Future
- Developers are looking for ideas of small technical projects that new developers could work on. Please add your ideas. [٥]
- Developers are looking for wikis who would accept to try using secure links (HTTPS) for all users. [٦]
- You can join an IRC discussion about "Beta features", a tool to try new features, on October 3. [٧]
- You can join an IRC discussion about Flow, the new wiki discussion tool, on October 17.
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