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- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 October. It will be on all wikis from 13 October (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - On some wikis, Kartographer https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer maps in full size view will be able to display nearby articles. After a feedback period, more wikis will follow. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T316782[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation/Nearby_articles

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