تكنولوجيا/اخبار/2014/18

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قبل كده

2014, week 18 (الاتنين 28 ابريل 2014)

بعد كده

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

التغييرات الحديثه فى برنامج ميدياويكى

The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf2) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on April 24. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on April 29, and all Wikipedias on May 1 (calendar).
You can now use interwiki prefix c: to link to pages on Wikimedia Commons. [1]

اخبار المحرر المرئى

You will soon be able to set content language and direction with VisualEditor. [2]
VisualEditor now works on all Wikipedias after broken MediaWiki:Common.js pages (and similar) were fixed last week. [3]
VisualEditor dialogs now use an animation of moving lines rather than animated GIF images.

تغييرات مستقبليه فى البرامج

CirrusSearch will be enabled as a beta feature on 41 new wikis, including Meta-Wiki and the Swedish (sv), Russian (ru), Polish (pl), Japanese (ja) and Chinese (zh) Wikipedias next week. This change means that CirrusSearch will now be enabled on all Wikimedia wikis.
MediaViewer will be enabled for all users on the French (fr) and Dutch (nl) Wikipedias on May 1. Feedback is welcome. [4]
The mobile version of Wikimedia wikis will soon include filters to limit the number of uploaded files that are copyright violations. [5]
CodeEditor will soon have a status bar about errors and warnings. [6] [7]
You can test a new version of Winter, a proposal to have a fixed toolbar at the top of wiki pages. Comments are welcome. [8]

مشاكل

For about 30 minutes on April 21, there were problems with image scaling due to a high server load. [9] [10]
On April 22, it was not possible to use the Collection extension for about 90 minutes due to a server move. [11] [12]

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