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*Recent changes*
- The Action API modules and Special:LinkSearch will now add a trailing /
to all prop=extlinks responses for bare domains. This is part of the
work to remove duplication in the externallinks database table. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337994>
*Problems*
- Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339810>[3]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-06-18_search_broken_on_wikidata_and_commons>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.15>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 27 June. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 June. It will be on
all wikis from 29 June (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
- The Minerva skin now applies more predefined styles to the .mbox-text
CSS class. This enables support for mbox templates that use divs instead of
tables. Please make sure that the new styles won't affect other templates
in your wiki. [4]
<https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/skins/MinervaNeue/+/930901/>
[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T339040>
- Gadgets will now load on both desktop and mobile by default.
Previously, gadgets loaded only on desktop by default. Changing this
default using the |targets= parameter is also deprecated and should not
be used. You should make gadgets work on mobile or disable them based on
the skin (with the |skins= parameter in MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition)
rather than whether the user uses the mobile or the desktop website.
Popular gadgets that create errors on mobile will be disabled by developers
on the Minerva skin as a temporary solution. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127268>
- All namespace tabs now have the same browser access key
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Keyboard_shortcuts>
by default. Previously, custom and extension-defined namespaces would have
to have their access keys set manually on-wiki, but that is no longer
necessary. [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T22126>
- The review form of the Flagged Revisions extension now uses the
standardized user interface components
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Codex>. [8]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191156>
*Future changes*
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change in the
coming weeks at group2 wikis
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Thursday>. This
change improves the accessibility of content. You may need to update your
site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on what code to
check, how to update the code, and where to report any related problems
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Media_structure/FAQ>.
[9] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314318>
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