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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/17> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Templates have parameters that can have specific values. It is
possible to suggest values for editors with TemplateData
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TemplateData>.
You can soon see them as a drop-down list in the visual editor. This is to
help template users find the right values faster. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273857>[2]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Suggested_values_for_template_parameters>
[3]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Suggested_values_for_template_parameters>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.3> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 27 April. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 April. It will be on all
wikis from 29 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>).
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