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- Because of the holidays the next issue of Tech News will be published on 11 January 2021.
Recent changes
- The
{{citation needed}}template shows when a statement in a Wikipedia article needs a source and if you click on it when you edit with the visual editor there is a popup that explains this. It can now also show the reason and when the template was added. [1]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Future changes
- You can propose and discuss what technical improvements should be done for geographic information like coordinates, maps or related things.
- Some wikis use LanguageConverter to switch between writing systems or variants of a language, but this can only be done for the entire page. There will be a
<langconvert>tag that can convert a piece of text on a page. [2] - Oversighters and stewards can hide entries in Special:AbuseLog. Starting early January, they will be able to hide multiple entries at once using checkboxes, similar to how hiding normal edits works. [3]
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