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Recent changes
Problems
- You will be able to read but not edit the Wikimedia wikis for a few minutes on 29 June. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
.
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 June. It will be on all wikis from 1 July (
calendar
).
Future changes
Threshold for stub link formatting
,
thumbnail size
and
auto-number headings
can be set in preferences. They are expensive to maintain and few editors use them. The developers are planning to remove them. Removing them will make pages load faster. You can
read more and give feedback
.
- A toolbar will be added to the
Reply tool
's wikitext source mode. This will make it easier to link to pages and to ping other users.
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