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*Recent changes*
- Special:Nuke https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Nuke will now provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown) to use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Admins_and_patrollers/Mass-delete_to_offer_drop-down_of_standard_reasons,_or_templated_reasons. . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25020 - At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary by default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update their help resources https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Account_creation. Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301820 - You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example, [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301588 - There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions, Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes by date in the mobile skin https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Minerva_Neue. While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all the HTML changes https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298638 is on Phabricator.
*Events*
- Community Wishlist Survey results https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Results have been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/2022_results#leaderboard is also available.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.23 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be on all wikis from 24 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will become wider after this change. The new player https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VideoJS_Player has been a beta feature for over four years. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418 - Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Stretch_deprecation on Wikitech. [6] https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/EPJFISC52T7OOEFH5YYMZNL57O4VGSPR/ - Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page the associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option will also be available. This was a request from the 2021 Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Admins_and_patrollers/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page .
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