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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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