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- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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[2]
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandine Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapuk Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
.
[3]
[4]
[5]
- The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode.
Learn more
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- The
new version
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calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
[7]
[8]
- MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow
async
/
await
syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately.
[9]
- The deployment of "
Add a link
" announced
last week
was postponed. It will resume this week.
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- The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences.
[10]
- The "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords.
[11]
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Events
- Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the
Wikimedia Hackathon 2024
that will take place from 3?5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.
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- On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of
improving UploadWizard on Commons
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[15]
[16]
Problems
- There was a problem showing the
Newcomer homepage
feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed.
[17]
[18]
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- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (
calendar
).
[19]
[20]
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- The
2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey
is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated
privacy statement
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Tech News
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of
the holidays
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Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (
calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
[21]
[22]
- Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of
Structured Discussions' deprecation work
.
[23]
- There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from
Special:UnconnectedPages
). There will also be support for
manual redirects
.
[24]
Future changes
- The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using
version 1.41
. Feedback about
the new site
is welcome on the
project talk page
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- The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15?17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can
register for the event and read more
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Recent changes
- mediawiki2latex
is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can
install
on your local machine.
- The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.
[25]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (
calendar
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Recent changes
- Pages that use the JSON
contentmodel
will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.
[28]
- Gadgets
and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all
supported browsers
. Previously, Gadgets could use the
requiresES6
option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future.
[29]
- Bot passwords
and
owner-only OAuth consumers
can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
[30]
- You can now
thank
edits made by bots.
[31]
- An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024
has been published
. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (
calendar
).
[32]
[33]
- Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51?66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately.
[34]
- The
jquery.cookie
module was deprecated and replaced with the
mediawiki.cookie
module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.
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- Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change
on Diff
or
on Mediawiki.org
.
[39]
- There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on
the task
. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (
calendar
).
[40]
[41]
- On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a
QR code
that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new
Special:QrCode
page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish
from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey
.
[42]
- Gadgets
which only work in some skins have sometimes used the
targets
option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the
skins
option instead.
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- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to
the phabricator task
.
- On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity.
Learn more about "action blocks"
.
[44]
[45]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (
calendar
).
[46]
[47]
- Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.
[48]
Future changes
- 24 Wikipedias
with
Reference Tooltips
as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make
Reference Previews
the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For
46 Wikipedias
with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February,
unless there are concerns
. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings.
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Recent changes
- The
WDQS Graph Split experiment
is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels.
[51]
[52]
[53]
Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.
[54]
[55]
Problems
- There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black;
this issue
is fixed.
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (
calendar
).
[56]
[57]
- As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,
[58]
tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.
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Recent changes
- If you have the "Email me when a page or a file on my watchlist is changed" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
[60]
- There are changes to how user and site scripts load for
Vector 2022
on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with
Vector legacy
as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see
this ticket
. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
- Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the
task's description
.
- The maximum file size when using
Upload Wizard
is now 5 GiB.
[61]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (
calendar
).
[62]
[63]
- Selected tools on the grid engine have been
stopped
as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the
team
. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
- The CSS
filter
property can now be used in HTML
style
attributes in wikitext.
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- The
mobile visual editor
is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis.
Research
shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well.
[65]
- The
mw.config
value
wgGlobalGroups
now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is:
if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups")))
.
[66]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (
calendar
).
[67]
[68]
Future changes
- The right to change
edit tags
(
changetags
) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in
this ticket
to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.
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Recent changes
- The
Special:Book
page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension
has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension
.
[69]
- Wikitech
now uses the next-generation
Parsoid
wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the
Known Issues discussion page
. You can use the
ParserMigration
extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the
ParserMigration help documentation
for more details.
- Maintenance on
etherpad
is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in
this ticket
.
- Gadgets
allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The
Gadget
and
Gadget_definition
namespaces and
gadgets-definition-edit
user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
[70]
- A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
[71]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (
calendar
).
[72]
[73]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
[74]
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
Heading HTML changes
for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add
?useparsoid=1
to your URL (
more info
) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (
more info
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- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (
calendar
).
[75]
[76]
- After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the
Minerva skin
will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
[77]
- The active link color in
Minerva
will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
[78]
- Structured data on Commons
will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.
[79]
Future changes
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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Recent changes
- The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the
Vector 2022 skin
main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
[82]
- IP info feature
displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
[83]
- The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
[84]
[85]
[86]
- Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating
MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown
.
[87]
Problems
- RevisionSlider
is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in
right-to-left
languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.
[88]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (
calendar
).
[89]
[90]
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
.
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Recent changes
- Users of the
reading accessibility
beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.
[95]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (
calendar
).
[96]
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Future changes
- The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read
the draft key results
for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can
comment on the talk page
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Recent changes
- Web browsers can use tools called
extensions
. There is now a Chrome extension called
Citation Needed
which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
- A new
Edit Recovery
feature has been added to all wikis, available as a
user preference
. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the
project talk page
. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
- Initial results of
Edit check
experiments
have been published
. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at
the wikis that tested it
.
Let us know
if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check.
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[99]
- Readers using the
Minerva skin
on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
[100]
Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (
calendar
).
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- New accounts and logged-out users will get the
visual editor
as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.
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Problems
- Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the "Reverted" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
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Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (
calendar
).
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- Default category sort keys
will now affect categories added by templates placed in
footnotes
. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
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- A new variable
page_last_edit_age
will be added to
abuse filters
. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
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Future changes
- Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle
temporary accounts
.
Learn more
.
- Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including
Quarry
). This affects only the
abuse_filter
and
abuse_filter_history
tables. Some queries might need to be updated.
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Recent changes
- The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test
gave positive results
, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences
("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
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- Seven new wikis have been created:
- You can now
watch message groups/projects
on
Translatewiki.net
. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
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- Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the
advanced mode
. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to
check for accessibility issues on wikis
. See
more detailed guidelines
.
Problems
- Kartographer
maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm"
. This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (
calendar
).
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Recent changes
- The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (
a few
have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes
on
Diff
. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences
("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
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- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the
SiteAdminHelper
. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found
at the extension's page
.
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- Wikimedia Enterprise
has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.
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Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (
calendar
).
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- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".
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Future changes
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Recent changes
- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
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- If you use the
user-preference
"Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template" will now also work without reloading the page.
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- Kartographer
maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to the
alt=
attribute in the
image and gallery syntax
. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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- The old
Guided Tour
for the "
New Filters for Edit Review
" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.
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Changes later this week
- The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (
calendar
).
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- The
Special:Search
results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.
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Future changes
- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.
Learn more
.
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- Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (
pl_namespace
and
pl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new
linktarget
table instead (
lt_namespace
and
lt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:
- Replace
JOIN pagelinks
with
JOIN linktarget
and
pl_
with
lt_
in the
ON
statement
- Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
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