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*Feature news*

- [image: Advanced item] Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#dir }} and {{#bcp47 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#bcp47 }}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T343131 from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359761[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366623 - Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance *Wikipedia:* or *Wikisource:* namespaces) if they understand the known limitations https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:VisualEditor/FAQ#WPNS. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools in these namespaces. - The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki https://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Translations?message=MediaWiki%3ATimeline-tracking-category&namespace=8. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

*Project updates*

- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Campaigns/WikiProjects or share your thoughts on the talkpage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Campaigns/WikiProjects. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis. - [image: Advanced item] The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365367 to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid/Parser_Unification.

*Learn more*

- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/05/interested-in-product-and-tech-here-are-some-wikimania-sessions-you-dont-want-to-miss/ . - The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Bulletin/2024/07-02 is available. - The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter/2024/July is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more. - The latest quarterly Growth newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Newsletters/31 is available. - The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_Product_Insights/Reports/July_2024 is available.

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