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*Recent changes*
- You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer#Show_nearby_articles>
with the button for the new feature "Show nearby articles". Six wikis have
been testing this feature since October. [1]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Nearby_articles#Implementation>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334079>
- The Special:GlobalWatchlist
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist> page now has
links for "mark page as read" for each entry. This feature request was voted
#161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Notifications,_Watchlists_and_Talk_Pages/Button_to_mark_a_single_change_as_read_in_the_global_watch_list>.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334246>
*Problems*
- At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced
correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be
fixed later this week. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T331138>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333042>
- For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems
with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332650>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.5>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on
all wikis from 20 April (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
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