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Recent changes

• When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [1]

Problems

• Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [2] [3]

Changes this week

• New filters for Recent changes will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28 . Other wikis will get it progressively . The new filters include filtering , highlighting and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction .
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 ( calendar ).

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