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*Recent changes*
- The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book"
functionality) provided by the old Collection extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Collection> has
been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not
affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by
the Wikisource
extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Wikisource>
. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358437>
- Wikitech <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikitech> now uses the
next-generation Parsoid
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid> wikitext
parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any
problems on the Known Issues discussion page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Parsoid/Parser_Unification/Known_Issues>.
You can use the ParserMigration
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extension
to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserMigration>
for
more details.
- Maintenance on etherpad <https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/> is
completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316421>.
- Gadgets
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Gadgets> allow
interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The
Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user
right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These
were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused
namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no
changes need to be made. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T31272>
- A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow
has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354847>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.21> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all
wikis from 7 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap>). [4]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[5]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
*Future changes*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is
planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and
will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358233>
- The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed
later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Heading_HTML_changes> for
details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext
parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you
add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ParserMigration#Selecting_a_parser_using_a_URL_query_string>)
or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info
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