Dear Wikibase Cloud Community,

We are happy to report that all Wikis have been updated to MediaWiki 1.43 since mid-December.


This update saw us investing in improving the process for updating. Letting us update one Wiki at a time without having to mark many Wikis read-only all at the same time. Hopefully you all experienced minimal disruption through this process.


We hope that this allows us to update more rapidly in the future, enabling us to deliver you new features from MediaWiki and Wikibase faster.


This update includes a few improvements you might be interested in:

  • You can now enable the Vector 2020 skin when logged in to your Wiki, to have a consistent experience to Wikidata

  • Wikibase REST API

  • Mul Language Codes

    • although we still need to update the Elasticsearch indexes so that CirrusSearch works with MUL (T415266)

  • New magic word {{USERLANGUAGE}} which returns the language code of the interface set by the user


Let us know if you have any questions!


Valerie Wollinger on behalf of Wikibase Cloud 

Valerie Wollinger (She/Her)
Community Communications Manager Wikibase
Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30-577 11 62-0
https://wikimedia.de

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