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Tech News: 2014-05
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent software changes


 * Pages from Wikimedia sites now load faster in your browser thanks to "module storage", a way for your browser to save data like JavaScript and CSS on your computer to avoid downloading them again. See video.
 * The code used to show videos has changed. You should be able to play the video on the page, with the play button on top of the video. If you see the play button on the right of the video, or if clicking on the video leads you to the original file, please file a bug or tell User:Bawolff. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/55550]
 * The  page will be removed because it's too slow. [//gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/107988]
 * The latest version of MediaWiki (1.23wmf11) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on January 16. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on January 28, and all Wikipedia wikis on January 30 (calendar).

Problems
 * On January 21, Universal Language Selector was turned off on all Wikimedia sites because it makes pages load slowly. If you want to use web fonts, or write in scripts that aren't on your keyboard, you need to add it as an option in your preferences. It will be turned back on when the issues are resolved. [//bugzilla.wikimedia.org/56433]
 * For about 20 minutes on the same day, there were problems with CSS and JavaScript due to high server load.

Future software changes
 * You can give comments about the new version of "Winter", a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages.

Tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by MediaWiki message delivery • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  09:46, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #95
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. Read the full report &middot; Unsubscribe &middot; John F. Lewis 23:37, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Discussions
 * Discussion over P31 as a qualifier
 * Open RfA: Sjoerddebruin
 * Events/Blogs/Press
 * Wikidata is at FOSDEM in Brussels, Februrary 1st-2nd
 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Quantities released on Wikidata!
 * Wikisource phase 2 coming Februrary 25th.
 * Did you know?
 * Newest properties: attendance, refractive index, electronegativity, proportion, sandbox-quantity, number of pages, number of platforms, flattening, floors above ground, number of cylinders, masts, number of speakers, g-factor, orbital eccentricity, gross tonnage, total produced, redshift, Mohs' hardness, ELO rating, atomic number, LibraryThing work identifier, EUL control number, capacity, population, Human Development Index, from narrative, launch contractor, valvetrain configuration, KOATUU identifier
 * Development
 * Deployed quantities to Wikidata! :)
 * Made patch to make wbmergeitems more reliable Bugzilla::55960
 * Wikidata edit permissions now included in wikimedia OAuth edit groups
 * Moved Diff repo to Github
 * Work put into make the frontend use backend formatters through the api
 * Refactoring of the ValueView extension
 * MergeItems special page merged as an experimental feature
 * Our easy RDF fork is now included using composer
 * Fixed wbmergeitems issues
 * Monthly Tasks
 * Fix a format or content violation for the belongs to jurisdiction (P1001) property
 * Hack on one of these.
 * Help develop the next summary here!
 * Contribute to a Showcase item