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*Changes this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from October 27. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis from October 28. It will be on all Wikipedias from
October 29 (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.27/Roadmap>).
- The first time you use the visual editor, pop-ups will explain why and
when you should use the citation and link tools. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108620>
- You will be able to upload images to Wikimedia Commons from inside the
wikitext editor by clicking "Upload" in the "Insert file" dialog.
You will
also be able to drag and drop them into an article when using the visual
editor.[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115748>[3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T40031>
- When you edit a code block in visual editor, you will have the syntax
highlighted. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T49742>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T112617>
- [image: VisualEditor - Icon - Advanced.svg] Index and Page namespaces
on Wikisource will be defined as content namespaces in
$wgContentNamespaces. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54709>
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