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available.
*Recent changes*
- A new preference, “Enable limited width mode”, has been added to
the Vector
2022 skin
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering>.
The preference is also available as a toggle on every page if your monitor
is 1600 pixels or wider. It allows for increasing the width of the page for
logged-out and logged-in users. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319449>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.12>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 29 November. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 November. It
will be on all wikis from 1 December (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap>).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
of their main database. It will be performed on 29 November at
07:00 UTC (targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s3.dblist>)
and on 1 December at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s1.dblist>).
- Mathematical formulas shown in SVG image format will no longer have
PNG fall-backs for browsers that don't support them. This is part of work
to modernise the generation system. Showing only PNG versions was the
default option until in February 2018. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/3BGOKWJIZGL4TC4HJ22ICRU2SEPWGCR4/>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311620>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186327>
- On some wikis <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P40224> that use
flagged revisions, a new checkbox will be added
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs#Special:Contributions>
to Special:Contributions that enables you to see only the pending changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Pending_changes>
by a user. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T321445>
*Future changes*
- How media is structured in the parser's HTML output will change early
next week at group1 wikis
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Wednesday> (but
not Wikimedia Commons or Meta-Wiki). This change improves the accessibility
of content, and makes it easier to write related CSS. You may need to
update your site-CSS, or userscripts and gadgets. There are details on
what code to check, how to update the code, and where to report any related
problems
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Media_structure/FAQ>.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314318>
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