The Tech News weekly summaries help you monitor recent software changes likely to impact you and your fellow Wikimedians. Subscribe, contribute and give feedback.
| nakaagi | 2018, week 45 (Lunes 05 Nobyembre 2018) | Sunod |
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 now use TemplateWizard to edit templates. This works only with the 2010 wikitext editor and not in the visual editor or the 2017 wikitext editor. If you click on
you can enter the information in a pop-up. You can turn on TemplateWizard in your beta feature preferences. [1]
Changes later this week
- You can choose to see edit conflicts in a two-column view. This is a beta feature. You can find it in your preferences. The interface for the two-column edit conflict will change. You can read more.
- Pag minaliwat ka gamit an visual editor makakagamit ka kan automatikong citation tab. Nakakatabang ini na makagibo nin mga pagtao nin toltolan. Makakasurat ka na nin pasil na text citations o nin titulo kan sarong artikulo sa sarong dyornal o sarong libro sa tab na ini. Hahanapon kaini an mga database na Crossref asin WorldCat sagkod an panginot na resulta. [2]
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 Nobyembre. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 Nobyembre. It will be on all wikis from 8 Nobyembre (calendar).
Meetings
-
You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 7 Nobyembre at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.