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*Recent changes*
- A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia
wikis that show them has been enabled for the following 10 wikis:
mediawiki.org, the Italian, Catalan, Hebrew and Vietnamese Wikipedias,
French Wikisource, and English Wikivoygage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary and
Wikinews. If you notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata
appear in recent changes or your watchlist on those wikis you can let
the developers know <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48643>.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.3> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 5 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 October. It will be on all
wikis from 7 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).
- [image: Advanced item] Some gadgets and bots that use the API to read
the AbuseFilter log might break. The hidden property will no longer say
an entry is implicit for unsuppressed log entries about suppressed
edits. If your bot needs to know this, do a separate revision query.
Additionally, the property will have the value false for visible
entries; previously, it wasn't included in the response. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291718>
- A more efficient way of sending changes from Wikidata to Wikimedia
wikis that show them will be enabled for *all production wikis*. If you
notice anything strange about how changes from Wikidata appear in recent
changes or your watchlist you can let the developers know
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T48643>.
*Future changes*
- You can soon get cross-wiki notifications in the iOS Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS>. You can also
get notifications as push notifications. More notification updates will
follow in later versions. [2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Notifications#September_2021_update>
- [image: Advanced item] The JavaScript variables
wgExtraSignatureNamespaces, wgLegalTitleChars, and wgIllegalFileChars will
soon be removed from mw.config
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/JavaScript#mw.config>.
These are not part of the "stable" variables available for use in wiki
JavaScript. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T292011>
- [image: Advanced item] The JavaScript variables wgCookiePrefix,
wgCookieDomain, wgCookiePath, and wgCookieExpiration will soon be
removed from mw.config. Scripts should instead use mw.cookie from the "
mediawiki.cookie
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader/Core_modules#mediawiki.cookie>"
module. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291760>
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