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*Updates for editors*
- Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates#October_2024:_Working_towards_production_deployment and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Charts. - View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, Pediapress.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:PediaPress, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375761
*Updates for technical contributors*
- Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GuidedTour to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Dark_mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73927#10241528 - Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Nuke will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366068
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