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available.
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
- Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link>"
(Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia,
Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda
Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia,
Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia,
Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala
Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali
Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia,
Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia,
Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia,
Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen
Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin
Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi
Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur
Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps
Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part
of the progressive
deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. The communities can configure
how this feature works locally
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration>.
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308141>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308142>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308143>
- The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down
menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias
last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis
this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for
readability and dark mode. Learn more
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates#November_2023:_Visual_changes,_more_deployments,_and_shifting_focus>.
[6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347711>
*Future changes*
- There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:Graph/Plans#Update:_15_November>.
To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some
protocols <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335325> will be available
at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.
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