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*Updates for editors*

- Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Allow_use_of_modern_CSS_in_templates_by_updating_the_TemplateStyles_CSS_sanitizer. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271958[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277755[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293633[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295088[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326906[6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340057[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360725[8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371809[9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375344[10] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394619 - On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [11] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399455 - Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [12] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393240 - Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [13] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396168[14] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Do_something_about_Google_%26_DuckDuckGo_search_not_indexing_media_files_and_categories_on_Commons - One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33014 (wikt:bew: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bew:) [15] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402130 - View all 39 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*

- Two fields of the recentchanges database table https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Recentchanges_table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [16] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400696 - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.16

*In depth*

- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Newsletter/2025/July is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

*Meetings and events*

- The next Language Community Meeting https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/Community_meetings#29_August_2025 is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1756479600. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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