Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-03-19/Technology report

Technology report

Wikimedia engineering report

The Wikimedia engineering report for February 2014 has been published. A summarized version is also available. Major news include:

  • a call for volunteers to test the upcoming multimedia viewer;
  • improvements to VisualEditor's media and template editors;
  • the launch of the Flow discussion system on two pilot talk pages on the English Wikipedia;
  • the launch of guided tours to 31 more language versions of Wikipedia, including all of the top 10 projects by number of page views;
  • improvements to the tools and process used to deploy code to Wikimedia production sites;
  • the release of the first archive of the entire English Wikipedia with thumbnails, for offline use.