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Recent changes

• Some image thumbnails now load faster on mobile. They also take up less bandwidth. [1]

Problems

• Last week's MediaWiki version was late on some wikis. [2]

Changes this week

• Special:Notifications will have "mark as read" buttons for each day. The non-JavaScript version will get it this week. A JavaScript version will come later. [3]
• Wikis can now locally decide what wikitext they want the signature button to produce. [4]
• A one-time welcome message for users will now be shown in the wikitext editor. This will include existing users. [5]
•  The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from May 17. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from May 18. It will be on all wikis from May 19 (calendar).

Meetings

•  You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topics this week are "Requirements for change propagation". The meeting will be on May 18 at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.

Future changes

• Using self-closing tags like <div/> and <span/> to mean <div></div> and <span></span> will not work in the future. Templates and pages that use these tags should be fixed. When Phabricator ticket T134423 is fixed these tags will parse as <div> and <span> instead. This is normal in HTML5. [6]

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//Johan Jönsson