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*Recent changes*
- The RealMe
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:RealMe>
extension allows you to mark URLs on your user page as verified for
Mastodon and similar software.
- Citation and footnote editing can now be started from the reference
list when using the visual editor. This feature request was voted #2 in
the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023/Citations/Allow_citations_to_be_edited_in_the_references_section_with_VisualEditor>.
[1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54750>
- Previously, clicking on someone else's link to Recent Changes with
filters applied within the URL could unintentionally change your preference
for "Group results by page". This has now been fixed. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T202916#8874081>
*Problems*
- For a few days last week, some tools and bots returned outdated
information due to database replication problems, and may have been down
entirely while it was being fixed. These issues have now been fixed. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337446>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.12>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 6 June. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 June. It will be on
all wikis from 8 June (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>).
- Bots will no longer be prevented from making edits because of URLs
that match the spam blacklist
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:SpamBlacklist>.
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313107>
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