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Recent changes
- Wikiversities now have better access to Wikidata. They can use data from any page on Wikidata on any page on Wikiversity. This happened on May 3.
[1]
- You can use
Wikipedia GapFinder
to find missing articles between languages.
[2]
- Users are invited to try
Cross-wiki Notifications
on all wikis. This is the last test session before the release by default, scheduled for May 12th at 23:00 UTC.
[3]
[4]
- You can use
keyboard shortcuts
to open the visual editor (
meta
+V) or the wikitext editor (
meta
+E) (on certain wikis, even if you have chosen a favorite editor).
[5]
- Uploading files bigger than 100 megabytes on Wikimedia Commons required to opt-in in your preferences. This is not necessary anymore.
[6]
- The
UploadsLink
extension is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
[7]
- Deleting a translation unit page didn't remove the corresponding content from the translation page. This is now solved.
[8]
- Translation suggestions based on Apertium are now available on Mediawiki.org.
[9]
Problems
- MediaWiki 1.27.0-wmf.23 has been rolled back from Wikimedia wikis, due to a performance issue.
[10]
Changes this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 11. It will be on all wikis from May 12 (
calendar
).
Meetings
Future changes
- Today, in categories, a page titled "11" comes before "2". We plan to reorder that: "2" will come before "11". Please
tell the developers
if the change will cause problems.
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