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Latest tech news from de Wikimedia technical community. Please make you flow oda users about dese changes. No be all changes go affect you. Translations be available.

Recent changes

Example of talk page plus de fresh design, for French insyd.

• Dem change de appearance of talk pages give de wikis wey dey follow: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. Dese wikis participate to test, wer 50% of users get de fresh design, for one year. As dis test give positive results, dem deploy de fresh design for dese wikis top as de default design. E be possible make you opt-out dese changes insyd user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). De deployment go happen for all wikis for de weeks wey dey cam insyd. [1]
• Dem create seven fresh wikis:
  • Wikipedia insyd Betawi (w:bew:) [2]
  • Wikipedia insyd Kusaal (w:kus:) [3]
  • Wikipedia insyd Igala (w:igl:) [4]
  • Wiktionary insyd Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [5]
  • Wikisource insyd Burmese (s:my:) [6]
  • Wikisource insyd Malay (s:ms:) [7]
  • Wikisource insyd Georgian (s:ka:) [8]
• You fi now watch message groups/projects for Translatewiki.net top. Initially, dis feature go notify you of messages dem add anaa dem delete for dese groups insyd. [9]
• Dark mode dey available now for all wikis top, for mobile web top for logged-in users wey opt into de advanced mode. Dis be de early release of de feature. Dem dey invite technical editors make dem check for accessibility issues for wikis top. Spy more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps fi use alternative visual style widout labels, by make dem dey use mapstyle="osm". Na dis no dey job for previews insyd, dey create de wrong impression say na e no dey support. Dem fix dis now. [10]

Changes later dis week

• De fresh version of MediaWiki go be for test wikis den MediaWiki.org top from 30 April. E go be for non-Wikipedia wikis den sam Wikipedias top from 1 May. E go be for all wikis top from 2 May (calendar). [11][12]

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