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*Recent changes*
- Administrators using the mobile web interface can now access
Special:Block directly from user pages. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307341>
- The
www.wiktionary.org portal page now uses an automated update
system. Other project portals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals> will be updated over
the next few months. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304629>
*Problems*
- The Growth team maintains a mentorship program for newcomers.
Previously, newcomers weren't able to opt out from the program. Starting
May 19, 2022, newcomers are able to fully opt out from Growth mentorship,
in case they do not wish to have any mentor at all. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287915>
- Some editors cannot access the content translation tool if they load
it by clicking from the contributions menu. This problem is being worked
on. It should still work properly if accessed directly via
Special:ContentTranslation. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308802>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.13>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 24 May. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 May. It will be on
all wikis from 26 May (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Gadget and user scripts developers are invited to give feedback
on a proposed
technical policy
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/Extension:Gadget/Policy>
aiming to improve support from MediaWiki developers. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308686>
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