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*Recent changes*
- The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in
Special:Search <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306883> will be
limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320510>. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Data_Across_Wikimedia/Search_Improvements>
- A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in
Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320406>.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.6>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will
be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData()
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#mw.loadJsonData>
to load data from JSON pages. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217500>
- Lua module authors can enable require( "strict" )
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_reference_manual#Strict_library>
to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No
globals <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16748603>" on most wikis. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209310>
*Future changes*
- The Beta Feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>
for DiscussionTools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools>
will be updated at most wikis. The "reply" button will look different after
this change. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320683>
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