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Changes this week
- You will be able to show references from
<references />
tags in more than one column on your wiki. This is the list of footnotes for the sources in the article. How many columns you see will depend on how big your screen is. On some wikis, some templates already do this. Templates that use
<references />
tags will need to be updated, and then later the change can happen for all reference lists.
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[2]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (
calendar
).
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
14 March at 19:00 (UTC)
. See
how to join
.
Future changes
- Some old
web browsers
will not be able to use
JavaScript
on Wikimedia wikis in the future. If you have an old web browser on your computer you can upgrade to a newer version.
[3]
CSS
in templates will be stored in a separate page in the future.
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