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*New code release schedule for this week*
- There will be four MediaWiki releases this week, instead of just one.
This is an experiment which should lead to fewer problems and to faster
feature updates. The releases will be on all wikis, at different times, on
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. You can read more about this project
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/Trainsperiment_week>
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*Recent changes*
- You can now set how many search results to show by default in your
Preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-searchoptions>.
This was the 12th most popular wish in the Community Wishlist Survey 2022
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Results>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215716>
- The Jupyter notebooks tool PAWS
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/PAWS> has been updated to a new
interface. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295043>
*Future changes*
- Interactive maps via Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
will soon work on wikis using the FlaggedRevisions
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extension. Please tell us
<https://wikimedia.sslsurvey.de/Kartographer-Workflows-EN/> which
improvements you want to see in Kartographer. You can take this survey in
simple English. [3]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation>
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