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*Recent changes*
- When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Diffs
*Problems*
- Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160916[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160983
*Changes this week*
- New filters for Recent changes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review will be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on March 28 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158336. Other wikis will get it progressively https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146972. The new filters include filtering https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering , highlighting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Highlighting_function and, on certain wikis, user intent prediction https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters . - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.18 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all wikis from March 30 (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap).
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