Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration, about *Map improvements 2018 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Map_improvements_2018*, *Notifications https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Notifications*, *Structured discussions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_discussions* and *Edit Review Improvements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements*. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.

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*What's new?*

The Collaboration team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration has announced the start of a new project: *In-Context Help and Onboarding https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding*. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:In-context_help_and_onboarding—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.

*Map improvements 2018* [More information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Map_improvements_2018]

- Maps using Maplink https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maplink and Mapframe https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mapframe functions now include an extra zoom level (level 19). This is part of the Kartographer Improvements https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_improvements, the number one request of the 2017 Community Wishlist survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186779

*Edit Review Improvements* [More information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements • Help pages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_Review_Improvements ]

- Number of edit to show in recent changes information text was incorrect in Special:Preferences. It has been rephrased. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183030

*Notifications* [More information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications • Help pages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications ]

*Recent changes*

- You can notify users in edit summaries https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Ping_users_from_the_edit_summary. They will get a ping just as if they had been mentioned on a wiki page. That new feature has been documented https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications/Notifications_types#EditSummary . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T32750 - Preferences panel on Special:Notifications was overlapping other elements. This has been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T189428

*Future changes*

- An important work is under progress to allow thanks of log entry. This is done by the Community Tech team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Community_Tech_team. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T60485

*Structured discussions* [More information https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_discussions • Help pages https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_discussions ]

*Recent changes*

- Structured Discussions extension has been uninstalled from wikis not using it. However, it is still possible for a community to request a trial of Structured discussions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions/Request_Structured_Discussions_on_a_page . [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T188812

*Problems*

- It was not possible to opt-in and opt-out Structured discussions on wikis using it as a Beta feature. It is now fixed. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184670

*Future changes*

- The visual editor and 2017 wikitext editor interface is going to change for consistency. The toolbar, dialogs and menus will appear slightly bigger; some icons will look different. Content or functionality will not change. That change will apply to Structured Discussions as well. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97631

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