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<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/19> are
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*Recent changes*
[image: Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Talk_pages_default_look_(April_2023).jpg>Example
of a talk page with the new design, in French.
- The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for
Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/18> have
already received this design change). You can read the detail of the
changes on *Diff*
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/>.
It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing>
("Show
discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the
coming weeks. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T352087>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146>
- Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article
components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More
information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the
extension's page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:WikimediaMessages#Site_admin_helper>
. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363932>
- Wikimedia Enterprise
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise>
has
added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description
field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also
available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [4]
<https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/article-sections-and-description/>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/wmf.4> of
MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis
from 9 May (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.43/Roadmap>). [5]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train>[6]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar>
- When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All
public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main
public logs". [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T237729>
*Future changes*
- A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph>.
Details can be found in the latest update
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph/Plans>
regarding
this extension.
- Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the
possibility to activate "Add a link
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link>".
This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304110>. These communities can activate
and configure the feature locally
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Community_configuration>
. [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308144>
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Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech)
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>