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*Recent changes*
- [image: Advanced item] There is a new API
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page> module
for changing the content model of existing pages. Use
action=changecontentmodel to specify the new model. You can read
the documentation
on
mediawiki.org
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:ChangeContentModel>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107174>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.24> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 17 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 March. It will be on all
wikis from 19 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- If you edit a page at the same time as someone else you can get an
edit conflict. There is a new two-column interface
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Edit_Conflicts#Solution:_Two_Column_Edit_Conflict_View>
to make it easier to solve this. It will soon be active by default on the
German, Arabic, and Farsi Wikipedias. It will be on by default on more
wikis within the next months. You will be able to opt out of the new
interface. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T139601>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244863>
- You can see a proposed design
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk_pages_project/Updates#12_March_2020>
for replying to comments in an easier way.
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