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Semantic MediaWiki 3.2
Professional.wiki summarized the most important new features of Semantic MediaWiki 3.2. In addition, the developers announced a new Release Policy: More major releases are planned in the future; minor and patch releases will in the future only bring compatible feature improvements and bug fixes.
You can read the whole blog article here.
New release: Unit testing with MWUnit
Yesterday Marijn van Wezel (Wikibase Solutions) released version 1.0.0 of MWUnit. This extension for MediaWiki provides a unit testing framework for templates, parser functions and other wikitext. It allows people who write technical templates to automatically test those templates and changes to those templates. It ensures that a template, or section of a template, meets its design requirements and behaves exactly as intended.
Read more on the official extension page at mediawiki.org with tons of documentation.
New MediaWiki logo: Second round of voting started
The decision for a new MediaWiki logo is now entering the decisive round. There are different variants of the winner of the first round to choose from: Should it appear in a completely new colour, continue in the Wikimedia colours or the existing yellow of the sunflower? In addition, it is also about a new spelling of MediaWiki. The choice is between keeping the traditional CamelCase spelling or a more modern lowercase spelling.
Votes can be cast until 24 October 2020. Click here to go to the project page and vote.
Chameleon skin version 3.1.0 released
Professional.wiki announced the release of Chameleon skin 3.1.0! This release brings improved support for MediaWiki 1.35 and fixes a styling issue with definition lists. Download and read me at GitHub.
New extension: Page Exchange
Yaron Koren has released a new extension that allows the distribution of wiki page content! With “Page Exchange” you can install and update “packages” which are groups of one or more wiki pages. Read more.
New extension: ID Generator
Professional.Wiki has published a new MediaWiki extension for generating unique sequential numeric IDs. Minimalist, does not require running update.php and installable via Composer. See page on mediawiki.org
New MediaWiki stable interface policy announced
Daniel Kinzler (Wikimedia Foundation) announced a new MediaWiki Stable Interface Policy at EMWCon. (See the talk on YouTube).
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