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The
Synchronizer tool is now available to keep Lua modules synced across Wikimedia wikis, along with
updated documentation to develop global Lua modules and templates.
- The tag filter on
Special:NewPages and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool.
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- The Wikipedia
ChatGPT plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a
video call if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work.
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Problems
- It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. 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 1 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 August. It will be on all wikis from 3 August (
calendar).
- Starting on Tuesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link" (Georgian Wikipedia, Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Kabardian Wikipedia, Kabiyè Wikipedia, Kikuyu Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Khmer Wikipedia, Kannada Wikipedia, Kashmiri Wikipedia, Colognian Wikipedia, Kurdish Wikipedia, Cornish Wikipedia). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally.
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- The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's
machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (
calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the
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As part of the changes for the
better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to
group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis.
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All
Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
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- Wikisource users can now use the
prpbengalicurrency
label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist>
tag.
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- Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the
"Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (
calendar).
New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards
idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech.
Further information about the new system is available.
- All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the
Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks.
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Future changes
- The removal of the
DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the
<=>
symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at
the phabricator task.
- A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page).
More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!
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