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available.
*Recent changes*
- In the visual editor, it is now possible to edit captions of images in
galleries without opening the gallery dialog. This feature request was voted
#61 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Editing/Editable_gallery_captions_in_Visual_Editor>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190224>
- You can now receive notifications when another user edits your user
page. See the "Edits to my user page" option in your Preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-echo>.
This feature request was voted #3 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Anti-harassment/Notifications_for_user_page_edits>.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3876>
*Problems*
- There was a problem with all types of CentralNotice banners still
being shown to logged-in users even if they had turned off
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-centralnotice-banners>
specific banner types. This has now been fixed. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331671>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.4>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 11 April. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 April. It will be on
all wikis from 13 April (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>"
(Moroccan Arabic Wikipedia, Danish Wikipedia, Dinka Wikipedia, Lower
Sorbian Wikipedia, Ewe Wikipedia, Greek Wikipedia, Emiliano-Romagnolo
Wikipedia, Esperanto Wikipedia, Estonian Wikipedia, Basque Wikipedia,
Extremaduran Wikipedia, Tumbuka Wikipedia, Fulah Wikipedia, Finnish
Wikipedia, Võro Wikipedia, Fijian Wikipedia, Faroese Wikipedia, Arpitan
Wikipedia, Northern Frisian Wikipedia, Friulian Wikipedia, Irish Wikipedia,
Guianan Creole Wikipedia, Scottish Gaelic Wikipedia, Galician Wikipedia,
Gilaki Wikipedia, Guarani Wikipedia, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Gothic
Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia, Manx 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>.
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304551>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308133>
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