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*Recent changes* - As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022/Better_diff_handling_of_paragraph_splits>, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train#Groups> and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341754> - All Special:Contributions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T324166> - Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268932> - Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing> at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor." is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T335056>[5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344158> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/wmf.24> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.41/Roadmap>). - New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/IDM>. - All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T267921> *Future changes* - The removal of the DoubleWiki extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:DoubleWiki> is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344544>. - A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340606>; feedback is welcome! *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/35> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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