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Recent changes
- There is a new user right for users who can edit
CSS
and
JavaScript
for the entire wiki. Before this all admins could edit CSS and JavaScript. This was a security risk. This group is called
interface administrators
. Administrators can delete user CSS and JavaScript pages.
[1]
[2]
- There will be an
A/B test
on the Wikipedia mobile website. It starts this week. It tests how we show templates that show information about an article. The test will last two weeks.
[3]
[4]
- You can now use different CSS rules for different skins when you edit templates. This is because of
TemplateStyles
.
[5]
wp10
in
ORES
is now called
articlequality
.
[6]
- When you get a new message on your talk page you get a yellow message in the toolbar. The preference to show or not show this has been removed.
[7]
Problems
- UploadWizard
had problems with
campaigns
. Users could not upload files. This has now been fixed.
[8]
- You can get a
notification
when a link is made to a page you created. This has not worked since June. It was fixed last week.
[9]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 September. It will be on all wikis from 6 September (
calendar
).
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