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Changes later this week
- You can soon use Wikidata to link to pages on the multilingual Wikisource.
[2]
- Often editors use a "non-breaking space" to make a gap between two items when reading but still show them together. This can be used to avoid a line break. You will soon be able to add new ones via the special character tool in the 2010, 2017, and visual editors. The character will be shown in the visual editor as a space with a grey background.
[3]
[4]
Wikis use
abuse filters
to stop bad edits being made. Filter maintainers can now use syntax like
1.2.3.4 - 1.2.3.55
as well as the
1.2.3.4/27
syntax for IP ranges.
[5]
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 February. It will be on all wikis from 4 February (
calendar
).
Future changes
- Minerva
is the skin Wikimedia wikis use for mobile traffic. When a page is protected and you can't edit it you can normally read the source wikicode. This doesn't work on Minerva on mobile devices. This is being fixed. Some text might overlap. This is because your community needs to update
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext
to work on mobile. You can
read more
.
[6]
[7]
Cloud VPS
and
Toolforge
will change the IP address they use to contact the wikis. The new IP address will be
185.15.56.1
. This will happen on February 8. You can
read more
.
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