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*Recent changes*
- [image: Advanced item] In the AbuseFilter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter>
extension,
an ip_in_ranges() function has been introduced to check if an IP is in
any of the ranges. Wikis are advised to combine multiple
ip_in_range() expressions
joined by | into a single expression for better performance. You can use
the search function on Special:AbuseFilter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter> to locate its
usage. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305017>
- The IP Info feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature>
which
helps abuse fighters access information about IPs, has been deployed
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation/IP_Info_feature#May_24,_2022>
to
all wikis as a beta feature. This comes after weeks of beta testing on
test.wikipedia.org.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.14> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 31 May. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 June. It will be on all
wikis from 2 June (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
of their main database. It will be performed on 31 May at 07:00 UTC
(targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist>).
- The New Topic Tool
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#New_topic_tool>
will
be deployed for all editors at most wikis soon. You will be able to opt out
from within the tool and in Preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion>
. [2]
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/New_discussion>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287804>
- [image: Advanced item] The list=usercontribs API
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/query%2Busercontribs> will
support fetching contributions from an IP range
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Range_blocks#Non-technical_explanation>
soon.
API users can set the uciprange parameter to get contributions from any
IP range within the limit
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRangeContributionsCIDRLimit>.
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177150>
- A new parser function will be introduced: {{=}}. It will replace
existing templates named "=". It will insert an equal sign
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Equals_sign>. This can be used to
escape the equal sign in the parameter values of templates. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91154>
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