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*Recent changes*
- As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph
splits
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Better_diff_handling_of_paragraph_splits>,
improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks,
we deployed this support to group0
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Groups> and
group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341754>
- All Special:Contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> pages now show
the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324166>
- Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote
Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268932>
- Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual
editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing>
at
all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some
wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor,
instead of a different wikitext editor." is now also shown on the
"Editing"
tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335056>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344158>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.24> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on
all wikis from 31 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
- New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed
towards
idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further
information about the new system is available
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/IDM>.
- All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian,
Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that
provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>.
This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267921>
*Future changes*
- The removal of the DoubleWiki extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:DoubleWiki> is
being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view
articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol
next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are
welcomed at the phabricator task
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344544>.
- A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list
(which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of
categories (which is further down the page). More information is
available on Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340606>;
feedback is welcome!
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