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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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available.
*Recent changes*
- Improved LaTeX capabilities for math rendering
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Displaying_a_formula#Phantom>
are now available in the wikis thanks to supporting Phantom tags. This
completes part of the #59 wish
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Editing/Missing_LaTeX_capabilities_for_math_rendering>
of the 2022 Community Wishlist Survey.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.23>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 2 August. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 August. It will be on
all wikis from 4 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- The Realtime Preview
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:WikiEditor/Realtime_Preview>
will be available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 0
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup0.dblist>.
This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist
Survey proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext>
.
*Future changes*
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools>
will be updated throughout August. Discussions will look different. You can
see some of the proposed changes
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Prototype>
.
*Future meetings*
- This week, three meetings about Vector (2022)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements>
with live interpretation will take place. On Tuesday, interpretation in
Russian will be provided. On Thursday, meetings for Arabic and Spanish
speakers will take place. See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/Talk_to_Web>
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