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*Recent changes*

- On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344214 - If you use the user-preference https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing "Show preview without reloading the page", then the template-page feature "Preview page with this template" will now also work without reloading the page. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136907 - Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Extension:Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images#Syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328137 - The old Guided Tour https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour for the "New Filters for Edit Review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T217451

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 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 - The Special:Search https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T320295

*Future changes*

- In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Accessibility_for_reading/Updates. [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357706 - Two columns of the pagelinks https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:pagelinks_table database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/special:MyLanguage/Manual:linktarget_table table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries: 1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement 2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id - See phab:T222224 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224 for technical reasoning. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T222224 [10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299947

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