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Recent changes
- VisualEditor will now automatically create a link when you type in or paste an
ISBN
,
PMID
, or
RFC
.
[1]
[2]
- The link editor in VisualEditor is now a bit wider. It's now the same width as the automatic citation tool.
[3]
- VisualEditor gadget authors can no longer use the backwards-compatibility module
ext.visualEditor.viewPageTarget.init
. Use
ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init
instead.
[4]
- Gadget writers can now use
mediawiki.ForeignApi
to communicate between different Wikimedia wikis.
[5]
Changes this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 1. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from September 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 3 (
calendar
).
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on
September 1 at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- The Wikidata API will be updated with
breaking changes
. This will probably happen on September 9.
[6]
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