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Recent changes
- You can post proposals for the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can
read more
about the format for this year.
- Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist.
[1]
[2]
- You can share feedback and ideas on the
Desktop Improvements
project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI
now allows using
px
(pixels) instead of
em
(
em
) for some specific cases.
[3]
[4]
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (
calendar
).
Meetings
Future changes
- There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January.
[5]
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named
wg*
to
mw.config
. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can
know more about it and tell the developers
if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
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