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Recent changes
Wikimedia no longer uses visitor statistics from
comScore.
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Internet Explorer 8 will no longer have
JavaScript support. You will
still be able to browse and edit Wikipedia if you use Internet Explorer 8, but will not be able to use some features. This can be solved by upgrading to a newer version or switching to a different browser.
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Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on
12 January at 20:00 (UTC). See
how to join.
Future changes
URLs in the recent changes IRC feed will no longer be rewritten to unencrypted HTTP. This could be a breaking change for bots dependent on the IRC feed.
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The edit tabs for the wikitext editor and the visual editor will be combined to one single edit tab. You will be able to choose which one you prefer. If you are not logged in, your choice will be saved as a cookie in your browser. You
can test the single edit tab.
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There is a beta feature that
adds links to the subject on other Wikimedia projects. This works much like the links to for example Wikipedia articles in other languages. It will go out of beta testing and be enabled for everyone in January. Wikis that don't want this can decide to have it disabled.
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The difference between "alerts" and "messages" notifications is unclear to some. The developers want feedback at
the Phabricator task or
on MediaWiki.org so they can make this better. You can give feedback in your language if you can't write in English.
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Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (
phabricator:T67397)
Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (
phabricator:T123234)
Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (
phabricator:T123233)
Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (
phabricator:T119493)
Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (
phabricator:T120196)
Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (
phabricator:T94989)