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Books & Bytes, Issue 6

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Issue 6, April-May 2014
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Tech News: 2014-24

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

• The latest version of MediaWiki (1.24wmf8) was added to test wikis and MediaWiki.org on June 5. It will be added to non-Wikipedia wikis on June 10, and to all Wikipedias on June 12 (calendar).
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VisualEditor news

• You should no longer be able to add empty references with VisualEditor. [3] [4]
• The "use an existing reference" button in the reference tool is now shown as disabled, rather than hidden, when the reference has content. [5] [6] [7]
• You will now see category contents again after saving an edit to a category page with VisualEditor. [8] [9]

Future software changes

• MediaViewer will be enabled by default on all wikis on June 12. Feedback is welcome. [10]
• You will be able to use information from Wikidata directly in Wikiquote pages starting on June 10. [11]
• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, translation administrators will soon be able to use the page migration tool to import existing translations to the new system. [12] [13]
• You will soon see metadata on file description pages for Ogg files (example video, example audio). Some metadata with non-English characters may need to be purged or transcoded to UTF-8 before they show correctly. [14] [15]
• Templates containing <ref> or <references> tags will no longer need dummy parameters to prevent caching. [16] [17] [18]
• You will no longer be able to use Special:Thanks directly. The page will soon show an error message when you visit it. [19] [20]
• Hovercards will no longer flicker. [21]

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