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*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.8>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 19 April. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 April. It will be on
all wikis from 21 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
of their main database. It will be performed on 19 April at 07:00
UTC (targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist>)
and on 21 April at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s8.dblist>).
- Administrators will now have the option to delete/undelete the
associated "Talk" page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page>
when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint with this option is
also available. This concludes the 11th wish of the 2021 Community
Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Admins_and_patrollers/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page>
.
- On selected wikis
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements#test-wikis>,
50% of logged-in users will see the new table of contents
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Features/Table_of_contents>.
When scrolling up and down the page, the table of contents will stay in the
same place on the screen. This is part of the Desktop Improvements
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements>
project. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304169>
- Message boxes produced by MediaWiki code will no longer have these CSS
classes: successbox, errorbox, warningbox. The styles for those classes
and messagebox will be removed from MediaWiki core. This only affects
wikis that use these classes in wikitext, or change their appearance within
site-wide CSS. Please review any local usage and definitions for these
classes you may have. This was previously announced in the 28 February
issue of Tech News
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/09>.
*Future changes*
- Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Kartographer>
will become compatible with FlaggedRevisions page stabilization
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:FlaggedRevs>.
Kartographer maps will also work on pages with pending changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Pending_changes>.
[2]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Project_descriptions>
The Kartographer documentation has been thoroughly updated. [3]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer/Getting_started>
[4]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/Maps>
[5]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
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