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*Updates for editors*

- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110722 - Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380438 You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383010 Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki works properly on each wiki. - (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACitoid-template-type-map.json&diff=1189164774&oldid=1165783565 and for 'standard' and 'dataset' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki%3ACitoid-template-type-map.json&diff=1270832208&oldid=1270828390 . - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on_your_wiki#Step_2.a:_Create_a_'citoid'_maps_value_for_each_citation_template. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ACitation%2Fdoc&diff=1270829051&oldid=1262470053 and for 'standard' and 'dataset' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3ACitation%2Fdoc&diff=1270831369&oldid=1270829480. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383666 - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15637215 (w:knc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/knc:) [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385181 - [image: Recurrent item] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Wikisource/Wikimedia_OCR used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384782

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