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*Recent changes*
- The content attribution tools Who Wrote That? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Who_Wrote_That%3F, XTools Authorship https://xtools.wmcloud.org/authorship, and XTools Blame https://xtools.wmcloud.org/blame now support the Dutch, German, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish and Portuguese Wikipedias. This was the #7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Reading/Extend_%22Who_Wrote_That%3F%22_tool_to_more_wikis . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334891 - The Search Preview panel https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Data_Across_Wikimedia/Search_Improvements#Search_Preview_panel has been deployed on four Wikipedias (Catalan, Dutch, Hungarian and Norwegian). The panel will show an image related to the article (if existing), the top sections of the article, related images (coming from MediaSearch on Commons), and eventually the sister projects associated with the article. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306341 - The RealMe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:RealMe#Verifying_a_link_on_non-user_pages extension now allows administrators to verify URLs for any page, for Mastodon and similar software. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324937 - The default project license has been officially upgraded https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimediaannounce-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/7G6XPWZPQFLZ2JANN3ZX6RT4DVUI3HZQ/ to CC BY-SA 4.0. The software interface messages have been updated. Communities should feel free to start updating any mentions of the old CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing within policies and related documentation pages. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319064
*Problems*
- For three days last month, some Wikipedia pages edited with VisualEditor or DiscussionTools had an unintended __TOC__ (or its localized form) added during an edit. There is a listing of affected pages sorted by wiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Deployments/T336101_followup, that may still need to be fixed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336101 - Currently, the "Sort this page by default as" feature in VisualEditor is broken. Existing {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords incorrectly appear as missing templates in VisualEditor. Developers are exploring how to fix this. In the meantime, those wishing to edit the default sortkey of a page are advised to switch to source editing. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337398 - Last week, an update to the delete form may have broken some gadgets or user scripts. If you need to manipulate (empty) the reason field, replace #wpReason with #wpReason > input. See an example fix https://cs.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3AGadget-CleanDeleteReasons.js&diff=22859956&oldid=12794189 . [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337809
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 June. It will be on all wikis from 15 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap). - VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on English Wikipedia on Monday, and all other large https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/dblists/large.dblist wikis on Thursday. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320529
*Future changes*
- From 5 June to 17 July, the Foundation's Security team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Security_Team is holding a consultation with contributors regarding a draft policy to govern the use of third-party resources in volunteer-developed gadgets and scripts. Feedback and suggestions are warmly welcome at Third-party resources policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Third-party_resources_policy on meta-wiki.
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