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*Recent changes*

- The "recent edits" time period for page watchers is now 30 days. It used to be 180 days. This was a Community Wishlist Survey proposal https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Notifications,_Watchlists_and_Talk_Pages/Change_information_about_the_number_of_watchers_on_a_page . [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336250

*Changes later this week*

- An improved impact module https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Growth/Positive_reinforcement#Impact will be available at Wikipedias. The impact module is a feature available to newcomers at their personal homepage https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary#Newcomer_homepage. It will show their number of edits, how many readers their edited pages have, how many thanks they have received and similar things. It is also accessible by accessing Special:Impact. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T336203 - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.10 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 May. It will be on all wikis from 25 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap).

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