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*Recent changes*
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check#11_June_2024 for more details. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366751 - The new Community Configuration extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CommunityConfiguration is available on Test Wikipedia https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CommunityConfiguration. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_configuration#Use_cases in the future. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T323811[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360954 - The dark mode beta feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366370
*Problems*
- Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [5] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2024-06-11_WMCS_Ceph - Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367463. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367480
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap). [7] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[8] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar - Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_check#ref will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361843. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check#Reference_Check_A/B_Test, the number of citations added more than doubled https://diff.wikimedia.org/?p=127553 when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Configuration. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361843 - Mailing lists https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mailing_lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367521
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