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Latest *tech news
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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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*Recent changes*
- When using keyboard navigation on a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
map, the focus will become more visible. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315997>
- In Special:RecentChanges, you can now hide the log entries for new
user creations with the filter for "New users". [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321155>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.8>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 1 November. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 November. It will
be on all wikis from 3 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap>).
- The maps dialog
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
in VisualEditor now has some help texts. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318818>
- It is now possible to select the language of a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
map in VisualEditor via a dropdown menu. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318817>
- It is now possible to add a caption to a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
map in VisualEditor. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318815>
- It is now possible to hide the frame of a Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
map in VisualEditor. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318813>
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