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*Recent changes*

   - Special:Nuke <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Nuke> will now
   provide the standard deletion reasons (editable at
   MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Deletereason-dropdown>) to
   use when mass-deleting pages. This was a request in the 2022 Community
   Wishlist Survey
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Admins_and_patrollers/Mass-delete_to_offer_drop-down_of_standard_reasons,_or_templated_reasons.>
   . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T25020>
   - At Wikipedias, all new accounts now get the Growth features
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Feature_summary>
by
   default when creating an account. Communities are encouraged to update
   their help resources
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Account_creation>.
   Previously, only 80% of new accounts would get the Growth features. A few
   Wikipedias remain unaffected by this change. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301820>
   - You can now prevent specific images that are used in a page from
   appearing in other locations, such as within PagePreviews or Search
   results. This is done with the markup class=notpageimage. For example,
   [[File:Example.png|class=notpageimage]]. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301588>
   -  There has been a change to the HTML of Special:Contributions,
   Special:MergeHistory, and History pages, to support the grouping of changes
   by date in the mobile skin
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Minerva_Neue>.
   While unlikely, this may affect gadgets and user scripts. A list of all
   the HTML changes <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298638> is on
   Phabricator.

*Events*

   - Community Wishlist Survey results
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Results>
have
   been published. The ranking of prioritized proposals
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey/Updates/2022_results#leaderboard>
is
   also available.

*Changes later this week*

   -  The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.23> of
   MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 February. It will
   be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 February. It will be
   on all wikis from 24 February (calendar
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - The software to play videos and audio files on pages will change soon
   on all wikis. The old player will be removed. Some audio players will
   become wider after this change. The new player
   
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VideoJS_Player>
has
   been a beta feature for over four years. [4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100106>[5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418>
   -  Toolforge's underlying operating system is being updated. If you
   maintain any tools there, there are two options for migrating your tools
   into the new system. There are details, deadlines, and instructions
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Stretch_deprecation> on
   Wikitech. [6]
   
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/EPJFISC52T7OOEFH5YYMZNL57O4VGSPR/>
   - Administrators will soon have the option to delete/undelete
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page>
the
   associated "talk" page when they are deleting a given page. An API endpoint
   with this option will also be available. This was a request from the
   2021 Wishlist Survey
   
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Admins_and_patrollers/(Un)delete_associated_talk_page>
   .

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