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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
- You can now see nearby articles on a Kartographer map with the button for the new feature “Show nearby articles”. Six wikis have been testing this feature since October. [1][2]
The Special:GlobalWatchlist page now has links for “mark page as read” for each entry. This feature request was voted #161 in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [3]
Problems
- At Wikimedia Commons, some thumbnails have not been getting replaced correctly after a new version of the image is uploaded. This should be fixed later this week. [4][5]
For the last few weeks, some external tools had inconsistent problems with logging-in with OAuth. This has now been fixed. [6]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 April. It will be on all wikis from 20 April (calendar).
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