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*Recent changes*
- When you edit with the visual editor, you can see a visual diff as
well as a wikitext diff when you review your changes. [1]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Diffs>
*Problems*
- Special:AllPages was disabled for two days due to some performance
issues. It is back, but the filter for redirects is gone as the cause of
the performance problem. It still needs to be fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160916>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160983>
*Changes this week*
- New filters for Recent changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements/New_filters_for_edit_review>
will
be released on Portuguese and Polish Wikipedias and MediaWikiwiki on
March 28 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T158336>. Other wikis will
get it progressively <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146972>. The
new filters include filtering
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Filtering>
, highlighting
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Highlighting_function>
and,
on certain wikis, user intent prediction
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review/Quality_and_Intent_Filters>
.
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/wmf.18> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from March 28. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from March 29. It will be on all
wikis from March 30 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap>).
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