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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Recent changes*
- When searching for edits by change tags
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tags>, e.g. in
page history or user contributions, there is now a dropdown list of
possible tags. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Miscellaneous/Improve_plain-text_change_tag_selector>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T27909>
- Mentors using the Growth Mentor dashboard
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Mentor_dashboard>
will now see newcomers assigned to them who have made at least one edit, up
to 200 edits. Previously, all newcomers assigned to the mentor were visible
on the dashboard, even ones without any edit or ones who made hundred of
edits. Mentors can still change these values using the filters on their
dashboard. Also, the last choice of filters will now be saved. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301268>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T294460>
- The user group oversight was renamed suppress. This is for technical
reasons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109327>. You may need to
update any local references to the old name, e.g. gadgets, links to
Special:Listusers, or uses of NUMBERINGROUP
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words>.
*Problems*
- The recent change to the HTML of tracking changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Tracking_changes>
pages caused some problems for screenreaders. This is being fixed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298638>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.24>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 1 March. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 March. It will be on
all wikis from 3 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Working with templates will become easier. Several improvements
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Templates> are
planned for March 9 on most wikis and on March 16 on English Wikipedia. The
improvements include: Bracket matching, syntax highlighting colors, finding
and inserting templates, and related visual editor features.
- If you are a template developer or an interface administrator, and you
are intentionally overriding or using the default CSS styles of user
feedback boxes (the classes: successbox, messagebox, errorbox, warningbox),
please note that these classes and associated CSS will soon be removed from
MediaWiki core. This is to prevent problems when the same class-names are
also used on a wiki. Please let us know by commenting at phab:T300314
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300314> if you think you might be
affected.
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