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Recent changes
- There is a Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS> for KaiOS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:KaiOS> phones. It was released in
India in September. It can now be downloaded in other countries too. [1]
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/10/growing-wikipedias-reach-with-an-app-for-kaios-feature-phones/>
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.22> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 15 December. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 December. It will be on all
wikis from 17 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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