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*Recent changes*
- English Wikipedia recently set up a gadget for dark mode. You can
enable it there, or request help from an interface administrator
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Interface_administrators>
to set it up on your wiki (instructions and screenshot
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Wikipedia:Dark_mode_(gadget)>).
- Category counts are sometimes wrong. They will now be completely
recounted at the beginning of every month. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299823>
*Problems*
- A code-change last week to fix a bug with Live Preview
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Live_preview>
may have caused problems with some local gadgets and user-scripts. Any code
with skin-specific behaviour for vector should be updated to also check
for vector-2022. A code-snippet, global search, and example are available
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T300987>.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.21>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 8 February. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 9 February. It will
be on all wikis from 10 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).
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