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*Recent changes*
- The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T353388. - On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks" https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_health_initiative/Partial_blocks#action-blocks . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T242541[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280531
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.17 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap). [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar - Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356199
*Future changes*
- 24 Wikipedias https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#24WPs with Reference Tooltips https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reference_Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reference_Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#46WPs with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Reference_Previews_to_become_the_default_for_previewing_references_on_more_wikis.. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/ReferencePreviews#Reference_Previews_to_become_the_default_for_previewing_references_on_more_wikis [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355312
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