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*Recent changes*

- The Nuke https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T43351 - New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Upload_Wizard_Improvements#Changes_to_%22Describe%22_workflow [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T361049

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.6 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap). [4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[5] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar - The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Heading_HTML_changes. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T13555 so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337286 if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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