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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*Recent changes*
- The Coolest Tool Award 2021
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Coolest_Tool_Award>
is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools until 27 October.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.6> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 26 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 October. It will be on all
wikis from 28 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Diff pages
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Diff> will have
an improved copy and pasting experience. The changes
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Copy_paste_diffs>
will allow the text in the diff for before and after to be treated as
separate columns and will remove any unwanted syntax. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T192526>
- The version of the Liberation fonts
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Liberation_fonts> used in SVG files
will be upgraded. Only new thumbnails will be affected. Liberation Sans
Narrow will not change. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253600>
*Meetings*
- You can join a meeting about the Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey>.
News about the disambiguation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Warn_when_linking_to_disambiguation_pages>
and the real-time preview
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext>
wishes will be shown. The event will take place on Wednesday, 27 October at
14:30 UTC. See how to join
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/Talk_to_Us>
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