Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-01-15/Technology report
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Technology report
Architecture Summit schedule published
The proposed schedule for the MediaWiki Archicture Summit (previous Signpost coverage) has been published. The two main plenary sessions will be about HTML templating, and Service-oriented architecture.
Not to be confused with wikitext templates, the HTML templating cluster discusses creating a framework for the generation of user interface elements:
- HTML templating library, submitted by Kaldari, proposes using a template system that can be both used in the PHP backend and via JavaScript for client-side usage.
- MVC framework, submitted by Owyn, discusses the MVC framework Wikia wrote for templating, called Nirvana.
- OutputPage refactor, also submitted by Owyn, discusses the changes Wikia has made in their fork of the OutputPage class, which controls the generation of the HTML needed for viewing a page.
In brief
Not all fixes may have gone live to WMF sites at the time of writing; some may not be scheduled to go live for several weeks. Content incorporated from Tech News.
- MP4 Video: RfC on whether to enable support for uploading/using/providing video in the MP4 format.
- The orange "You have new messages" bar will now be displayed for users who have JavaScript disabled (bugzilla:56974)
- Updates to special pages: Special:DoubleRedirects, Special:UncategorizedPages, Special:WantedCategories, and other cached special pages should have fresh results and will update once a month. (bugzilla:15434)
- Search issues: New pages and changes were not being reflected in search results from January 6th to the 14th. (bugzilla:59979)
- Wikidata support for Wikisource: Language links for Wikisource can now be added via Wikidata. (announcement)
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