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*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.4> of MediaWiki
will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 12 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 October. It will
be on all
wikis from 14 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).
- The "auto-number headings" preference
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Table_of_contents#Auto-numbering>
is
being removed. You can read phab:T284921
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T284921> for the reasons and
discussion. This change was previously
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/26> announced. A
JavaScript snippet
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Snippets/Auto-number_headings> is
available which can be used to create a Gadget on wikis that
still want to
support auto-numbering.
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<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Sticky_Header>
will
be shown. The event will take place on Tuesday, 12 October at
16:00 UTC. See
how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/Talk_to_Web/12-10-2021>
.
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Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>