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You can now choose whether to extend a link or not when editing one in VisualEditor. This means it is easier to choose how much of what you type before and after the link is part of it.
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More Wikipedias can now use information from any Wikidata item in any Knowledge (XXG) article. Previously they could only use the Wikidata item that matched the subject of the article.
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of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from September 22. It will be on non-Knowledge (XXG) wikis from September 23. It will be on all Wikipedias from September 24 (
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Last week the notification system was split into two parts. This was temporarily undone because of a bug and performance concerns. It will return to two parts this week.
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You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on
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Last week a few issues with UploadWizard were fixed. Before this was done, UploadWizard would stop you from uploading your files if something went wrong.
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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The VisualEditor welcome dialogue has been changed. The intention is to make it more helpful for new users.
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in San Francisco 4–6 January 2016. Gadget, template, bot, and tool developers are welcome as well.
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The page move tool has been switched over to the new standard look for forms.
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UploadWizard couldn't upload files larger than 5 MB when using
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You can join a meeting with the Wikidata team. It will be on
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The following content has been republished as-is from the
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