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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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