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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
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Recent changes
- There is a new tag for reverted edits. For example you can see it in
the recent changes feed or in the article history. It is added to edits
when they have been undone, rollbacked or manually reverted to an older
version of the page. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T254074>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T164307>
Changes later this week
- The number of times you can do something in a period of time on wiki
is limited. This could be the number of edits per minute or the number of
users you email in a day. Some users are not affected by all limits because
of their user rights. They could soon see the limit even if it does not
affect them. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258888>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.10> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 22 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 September. It will be on
all wikis from 24 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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