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*Recent changes* [image: Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Talk_pages_default_look_(April_2023).jpgExample of a talk page with the new design, in French.

- The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/18 have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on *Diff* https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352087[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146 - Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikimediaMessages#Site_admin_helper . [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363932 - Wikimedia Enterprise https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [4] https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/article-sections-and-description/

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.4 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap). [5] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[6] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar - When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237729

*Future changes*

- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph/Plans regarding this extension. - Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration . [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308144

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