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*What's new?*

   - The Global Collaboration report for December is now available
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Global_Collaboration/Reports/2017-December>
(in
   English).
   - Filters are better integrated on Related Changes (see below).
   - Structured discussions now use the 2017 wikitext editor (see below).

*Edit Review Improvements* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_Review_Improvements>
 • Help pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_Review_Improvements>
]

*Bug fixes*

   - When searching, a click on a filter capsule moved the list of filters.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178540>
   - On Related Changes page, the page name entry box didn't show the
   entirety of long page names. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T183484>
   - Transcludeing Special:RelatedChanges on a page added unexpected
   parameters to the URL. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181032>
   - Filter menu was opening upwards. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182711>
   - ORES preferences on Recent Changes and Watchlist preferences pages
   have been rationalized. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T180866>
   - Users are now prevented from clicking on a link when they click
   outside of the dropdown menu to close it. [6]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177626>

*Work in progress*

   - [image: Octicons-star.svg] Filters on Related Changes page are better
   integrated and get new features, for instance: [7]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172161>
      - The standard auto-completion mechanism is available when you search
      for a page to look at.
      - It is more clear if you are looking to pages linked from the target
      page or to the target page.
      - You no longer need to click the "Show" button; the page updates
      automatically when a page is positively identified via autocompletion.

*Content translation* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation> • Help
pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Content_translation>
]

*Recent changes*

   - Further enhancement are made for list
   (Suggestions/In-progress/Published) items on mobile screens. Long titles no
   longer overflow or overlap with other interface elements. [8]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T179148>
   - Various changes to the "New translation" dialog and the selected page
   for translation have been made: [9]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181701>
      - Longer titles of selected pages are displayed in smaller. Some
      space has been added around to increase readability.
      - Language codes are not truncated by ellipsis anymore. Only full,
      autonym language names are subject to truncation.
      - Minimal screen sizes and selected suggestion dialog have been
      revisited. They are more consistent in responding to screen size changes.
      - Discard button is no longer shown on small screen sizes.
   - Language filters no longer render wrong or non-existent language
   codes. [10] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182947>
   - The "New translation" dialog now shows a loading indicator and doesn't
   display an error when you change the source language after an unsuccessful
   research. [11] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181457>

*Structured discussions* [More information
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 • Help pages
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_discussions>
]

*Recent changes*

   - [image: Octicons-star.svg] Structured discussions
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Structured_Discussions>
now
   uses the 2017 wikitext editor instead of its old custom one. This works
   with your preference for wikitext or visual editor. [12]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155861>[13]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T178719>
      - [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation has been
      updated
      
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Structured_Discussions/Quick_tour#basics>
and
      needs translations updates.
   - Prométhée <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Prom%C3%A9th%C3%A9e>,
   from French Wikipedia, has created some gadgets
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Structured_Discussions/FlowDeluxe>
to
   customise Structured discussions interface.
      - [image: Translation icon cropped.svg] The documentation is ready to
      be translated.

*Future changes*

   - Structured discussions does not always follow wiki's configurations
   concerning talk pages indexation. This will be fixed. [14]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T122119>
   - Hidden topics will not be indexed by search engines anymore. [15]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184185>

*Notifications* [More information
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Notifications> • Help
pages <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Notifications>
]

*Bug fixes*

   - User rights change notifications were displaying a broken link. This
   is now fixed. [16] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T172636>
   - "Mark as read" buttons had a bad appearance for users who don't have
   JavaScript activated. [17] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T182167>

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