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*Recent changes*
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33291> (w:fon:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fon:>) [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347935>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.30> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be
on all wikis from 12 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link>"
(Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia,
Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia,
Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia,
Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool
to more Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. The
communities can configure how this feature works locally
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration>
. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308139>
- At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to
articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis
will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific
wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team
deployment table
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Deployment_table>.
You can learn more about this feature.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_an_image>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345940>
- In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be
replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other
skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin.
A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links
in the task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T348267>.
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