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has been enabled on Wikimedia sites. It is now possible for images to be easily used to link to pages, including with different areas linking to different pages. Users should remember to keep in mind the needs of browsers not capable of handling graphics well, such as screen readers and perhaps
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for further details), a new protection mode was added: cascading protection. If a page is protected this way, any pages included in it will also be protected for as long as they remain included in it. This protection should take effect instantly and automatically even if templates are included
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The "undo" link on diffs now shows a diff demonstrating what changes will be made to the current page rather than simply showing an edit form. This is equivalent to clicking the "Show changes" button. Also, the message explaining what happened was clarified.
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When viewing the difference between two revisions, users can choose via a user preference not to have the full text of the latter revision output below the differences. This should noticeably improve the time it takes to display diffs of large pages. Adding
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will conveniently add a link to any of the "portlets" in Monobook, including the content actions, personal tools, navigation sidebar, and toolbox. The syntax of the function can be found in
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All interface messages now show the correct tooltip prefix for the user's browser, provided JavaScript is enabled. For instance, the tooltip for "Save page" will now read "" for users of
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JavaScript authors should be aware that recently, a minor change to the document structure was made for consistency, related specifically to handheld rendering: a div with class of
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A minimum protection level for all pages in a given namespace can now be set in the site configuration. By default, the only namespace thus protected is the
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A bug that prevented non-sysops from viewing the source of system messages left at their default values, such as (at the time of this writing)
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to use. Consequently, the way in which sysops should edit tooltips and accesskeys has changed. While it is possible to continue using the
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tags, when rendered as plain HTML text rather than as an image, will now always be rendered left-to-right, even on right-to-left wikis. (
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A link back to the list of deleted revisions for a page is now provided on the undelete revision preview page. (
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to the end of a diff URL will display or hide the revision text regardless of user preferences, respectively. (
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When printing, the user's browser font size preference will be used, rather than the text being forced to 11
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on the English Knowledge (XXG), was fixed. The bug was presumably a side effect of the recent
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On user pages, the "user contributions" link will show up red if the user has no edits. (
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for how complete the translations of languages you know are, and post any updates to
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Users with appropriate permissions will now see a deletion link for each entry on
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Also, a new utility function was added for the benefit of JavaScript authors.
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class now works consistently in Monobook and non-Monobook skins. (
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document.getElementById("p-cactions").getElementsByTagName("ul");
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Some updates were made to non-English messages, specifically:
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now contains links to the unblock page and the block list. (
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element containing the content actions can be obtained with
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Internationalization help is always appreciated! See
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In response to the rise of indirect vandalism on the
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dynamically by a mechanism such as that used by the
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