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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
- The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510. [1]
- A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
- Lua module authors can use
mw.loadJsonData()
to load data from JSON pages. [2] - Lua module authors can enable
require( "strict" )
to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces “Module:No globals” on most wikis. [3]
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The “reply” button will look different after this change. [4]
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