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*Recent changes*
- You can now use the articletopic
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:CirrusSearch#Articletopic> search
word on all Wikipedias. It searches articles by topic. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240559>
- You can see wiki tools in the new Tools Gallery
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/tools-gallery/>. [2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Community_Newsletter/2020/April>
- You can see edits from the Wikimedia Cloud Services
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction> in
a new dashboard <https://wmcs-edits.wmflabs.org/#wmcs-edits>.
- When you use filters on a history page you sometimes don't see any
edits. There is a text explaining this now. Before it was just empty. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227578>
- There is a new Wikimedia Technical Blog
<https://techblog.wikimedia.org/>. [4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines>
*Problems*
- There was a problem with the Wikidata database last week. Some wikis
went down for twenty minutes. Wikidata and other projects showed error
messages. Interwiki links were not shown, some tools did not work and other
problems. Some of this was fixed quickly. The developers are working on
fixing the rest. [5]
<https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&oldid=1153486952#Update_about_the_database_breakage>
[6]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200407-Wikidata%27s_wb_items_per_site_table_dropped>
[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249565>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.28> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 14 April. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 April. It will be on all
wikis from 16 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- Some graphs have not worked on mobile. This will soon be fixed. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T133085>
- The article tab on talk pages of redirects links to the target of the
redirect. It could link to the redirect page itself instead. You can leave
feedback on this <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5324>.
- For pages using syntax highlighting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SyntaxHighlight>,
the use of the deprecated <source> tag, as well as the use of the
deprecated enclose parameter, will add tracking categories.
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