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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/46> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- Four new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Moroccan Amazigh
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7598268> (w:zgh:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/zgh:>) [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350216>
- a Wikipedia in Dagaare <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35159> (
w:dga: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dga:>) [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350218>
- a Wikipedia in Toba Batak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33017> (
w:bbc: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bbc:>) [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350320>
- a Wikiquote in Banjar <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33151> (q:bjn:
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/bjn:>) [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350217>
*Problems*
- Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons
and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The
problem is now resolved. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350695>
- Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong
font size. The problem is now resolved. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T350544>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.5>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 14 November. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 November. It
will be on all wikis from 16 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They
are popups for references, similar to the PagePreviews feature
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Page_Previews>. You
can opt out
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Opt-out_feature>
of seeing them. If you are using the gadgets
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-gadgets>
Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews.
Deployment <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T282999> is planned for
November 22, 2023.
- Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into Wikimedia
event streams <https://stream.wikimedia.org/?doc#/streams> from December
11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all
events where meta.domain == "canary". Updates to Pywikibot
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Pywikibot> or
wikimedia-streams <https://github.com/ChlodAlejandro/wikimedia-streams>
will discard these events by default. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T266798>
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