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Recent changes
- Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a
library
. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can
read more
.
[1]
[2]
Changes later this week
- If you merged two pages in a
namespace
where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed.
[3]
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (
calendar
).
Future changes
- The
Community Wishlist Survey
is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the
Community Tech team
will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.
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