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Recent changes
- Syntax highlighting
is now a beta feature on Wikimedia wikis with text written from left to right. It will come to right-to-left wikis later. This beta feature is based on
CodeMirror
.
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- You will now
get a notification
when someone tries to log in to your account and fails. If they try from a device or IP address that have logged in to your account before you will be notified after five failed attempts. You can turn this off or choose to get an email notification in your preferences. You can also turn on to get an email when someone logs in to your account from a new device or IP address.
[3]
Problems
- Some pages show the error
Lua error in mw.wikibase.entity.lua at line 34: The entity data must be a table obtained via mw.wikibase.getEntityObject
. This problem happens on pages with a
Lua module
that use Wikidata. This has now been fixed and no new pages will get this problem. You still need to fix pages that were broken before and still show the error message. You can see how
on this page
.
[4]
Changes later this week
- You can block users from sending you notifications.
[5]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (
calendar
).
Meetings
Future changes
- In the future you will have
global preferences
. This means you could set something in your preferences to work in the same way on all wikis. You will not be forced to use global preferences. The developers are now asking if editors need exceptions. This is where you want to use global settings on almost all wikis, but have some wikis where you want it to work in a different way. If you want this you need to tell the developers now. You can do so on
the talk page
.
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- New filters for edit review
is a beta feature to improve recent changes pages. It will work on watchlists from 5 September.
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The jQuery library will be upgraded to version 3 in September 2017. Wikis can
ask on Phabricator
to get it early, so they can help find and solve problems now.
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