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Problems
- Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (
calendar).
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for
14:00 UTC.
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Recent changes
- The Community Wishlist Survey 2023 edition has been concluded. Community Tech has
published the results of the survey and will provide an update on what is next in April 2023.
- On wikis which use
LanguageConverter to handle multiple writing systems, articles which used custom conversion rules in the wikitext (primarily on Chinese Wikipedia) would have these rules applied inconsistently in the table of contents, especially in the Vector 2022 skin. 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 7 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 March. It will be on all wikis from 9 March (
calendar).
- A search system has been added to the
Preferences screen. This will let you find different options more easily. Making it work on mobile devices will happen soon.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 March. It will be on all wikis from 16 March (
calendar).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link" (Chavacano de Zamboanga Wikipedia, Min Dong Chinese Wikipedia, Chechen Wikipedia, Cebuano Wikipedia, Chamorro Wikipedia, Cherokee Wikipedia, Cheyenne Wikipedia, Central Kurdish Wikipedia, Corsican Wikipedia, Kashubian Wikipedia, Church Slavic Wikipedia, Chuvash Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Italian 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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Recent changes
- The
AbuseFilter condition limit was increased from 1000 to 2000.
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Some Global AbuseFilter actions will no longer apply to local projects.
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- Desktop users are now able to subscribe to talk pages by clicking on the Subscribe link in the Tools menu. If you subscribe to a talk page, you receive
notifications when new topics are started on that talk page. This is separate from putting the page on your watchlist or subscribing to a single discussion.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 March. It will be on all wikis from 30 March (
calendar).
Future changes
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