tech news latest tech news from the wikimedia technical community please tell other users about these changes not all changes will affect you translations are available problems there was an issue with files from commons on october you could only see those with names between and characters by visiting commons itself there was a problem with cut and paste in visualeditor in firefox it was fixed quickly there was a problem with editing math in visualeditor it was fixed quickly software changes this week the new version of mediawiki will now come to wikipedia sites every wednesday instead of every thursday the new version of mediawiki wmf has been on test wikis and mediawiki org since october it will be on non wikipedia wikis from october and on all wikipedias from october calendar visualeditor now uses autovalues for templates if they are in templatedata visualeditor's menu items now show their shortcuts beside them visualeditor now opens faster when you click edit the rules for plurals in translations changed in some languages interface translations are currently not being updated from translatewiki net this process will start again on november tech news prepared by tech ambassadors and posted by bot contribute translate get help give feedback subscribe or unsubscribe