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available.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.21> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 25 February. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 February. It will be
on all wikis from 27 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- There will be a reply button
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/replying>
after
each post on a talk page if you want one. This will soon be a beta feature
on the Arabic, French, Dutch and Hungarian Wikipedias. You will have to
turn it on if you want to use it. It will come to more wikis later.
You can test
the reply button <https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Cats>.
It was briefly shown earlier than planned by mistake on the four first
wikis last week.
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