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*Recent changes*
- You can filter Special:Log https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_page#Logs in more detail. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T20954 - Wikimedia wikis have a new way of counting visitors. [2] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/03/30/unique-devices-dataset/
*Changes this week*
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