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- The notification badge is coloured if you have notifications. When you check the notification the badge will now turn grey on all wikis instead of just the local one.
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- Colours used in the Wikimedia wikis' main interface changed slightly. This is to make them
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Changes this week
- Hidden HTML comments will be more visible when you edit with the visual editor.
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- The
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Future changes
- Language converter syntax will soon no longer work inside external links. Wikitext like
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must be replaced. You will have to write
-{zh-cn: http://foo.com?; zh-hk: http://bar.com?; zh-tw:http://baz.com }-
instead. This only affects languages with Language Converter enabled. Examples of such languages are Chinese and Serbian.
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