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- Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary" Beta Feature https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary#Comment_actions. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400849 - An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395716 - An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Experimentation_Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399227 - Five new wikis have been created: - a Wikisource in Tagalog https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34057 ( s:tl: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/tl:) [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388639 - a Wikisource in Madurese https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36213 ( s:mad: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/mad:) [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391747 - a Wikipedia in Rakhine https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3450749 ( w:rki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rki:) [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392490 - a Wikibooks in Minangkabau https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13324 ( b:min: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/min:) [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395452 - a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7598268 (wikt:zgh: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zgh:) [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399684 - View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks .

*Updates for technical contributors*

- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.15

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