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232: 304: 111: 131: 691: 91: 121: 614: 37: 141: 101: 337:. In most cases migration involves fairly simple changes, such as using a different method name, or adding quotes in selectors. The vast majority of the added requirements and removed methods will be restored through the jQuery Migrate plugin with a deprecation warning in the console – as such, it is unlikely that code will require any immediate changes. 180: 318:("big blue buttons") have been deployed to Meta-wiki and several large Wikipedias, and will soon be deployed elsewhere, including English Knowledge (XXG). They are intended to be more accessible, and be consistent with the majority of the rest of the user interfaces provided in MediaWiki. Instructions for testing and fixing affected scripts are 151: 293:, under the "Recent changes" tab, as the "Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist" option. This way you can see the changes that happened to data on Wikidata that is used in the Knowledge (XXG) pages. You might need to uncheck the "hide Wikidata" checkbox on the recent changes or watchlist page to see them. 630:
There are sometimes links to pages about the same thing on other Wikimedia projects. A Knowledge (XXG) article about Berlin can link to the Wikivoyage guide or Wiktionary entry about Berlin. You can now see when that page has a badge. A badge could be the star that shows that an article is a featured
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when you clicked on the link to another map service. Open Street Map or Google Maps are examples of other map services. If you had marked a place on the map the marker would not be in the same place on the other map service. It was in the middle of the map. This has now been fixed.
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New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts: Syntax highlighting, changes to Recent Changes, Wikidata on the enhance watchlist, accessible editing buttons and jQuery upgrade may break
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Mobile users will be able to edit Knowledge (XXG) without JavaScript. This will make it possible to edit the wikis from older mobile phones. This will probably happen on 18 July for most wikis.
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database were removed on July 6. This is because of technical maintenance. Translations that were started or have been worked on after 1 January 2016 will not be affected.
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for wikitext is a much-sought feature to assist with editing. While userscripts can and have made syntax highlighting possible, a solution integrated into MediaWiki
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Users are also now able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in the enhanced recent changes and watchlist. The enhanced mode is available in
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on Wikimedia wikis in the future. It will be replaced by June 2018. It could be earlier. Editors will need to fix pages that could break. You can read the
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Users will be able to choose whether they want to see Wikidata changes in enhanced watchlist/recent changes. Previously, this was disabled for everyone.
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It looks like it was about Wikidata edits now appearing in enhanced RC, and that the first sentence was dropped when copying that bullet point from
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is a new way to show activity on Wikimedia wikis. It works with the recent changes feed. It will do more things later. It will replace
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to production wikis was August 2017. An overview of the important changes, and advice on how to migrate code, is
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In "Recent changes", bullet-point #2 is "Previously, this was disabled for everyone." What is the
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for "this"? Is it bullet-point #1? If so, these two items should probably be merged.
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is a suggested test article. Comments and questions should be directed to the
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listing the top new page reviewers of mainspace pages (by number of reviews)
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attempt to raise awareness of and reduce confusion around their products.
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library in MediaWiki from 1.x to 3.x (the current stable version). The
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Category:Non-free files with orphaned versions more than 7 days old
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There was a problem with maps on Wikimedia wikis that used <
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New features in development; more breaking changes for scripts
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Another potentially breaking change is the upgrade of the
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Very old and inactive unpublished translations in the
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796:If your comment has not appeared here, you can try 413:) – Assist with necessary cleanup as described at 426:) – History-merge categories which were moved by 310:The big blue buttons which may break some scripts 187:Syntax highlighting is now available for testing 583:. It will add that to the user's search query. 205:team has a version available for testing, as a 8: 276:links currently shown at the top of the page 238:Recent changes filters can now be bookmarked 907:Knowledge (XXG) Signpost archives 2017-07 545:from the Wikimedia technical community: 18:Knowledge (XXG):Knowledge (XXG) Signpost 799: 775: 71: 473: 454:) – Notifies the original poster of a 387:) – Article importance assessment for 611: 362:" will change to "Cloud VPS", as the 29: 7: 284:given on the MediaWiki.org talk page 282:, and feedback on the change can be 657:simplified instructions for editors 579:parameter. You can add values like 246:were recently added as an optional 506:and fix chronology parameters for 57: 28: 781:These comments are automatically 430:between April 2006 and March 2015 612: 149: 139: 129: 119: 109: 99: 89: 792:add the page to your watchlist 199:2016 Community Wishlist Survey 1: 364:Wikimedia Cloud Services team 458:thread that was archived by 256:Special:RecentChangesLinked 244:New filters for edit review 923: 320:available on MediaWiki.org 316:Accessible editing buttons 268:quality and intent filters 840:21:02, 17 July 2017 (UTC) 821:13:57, 17 July 2017 (UTC) 581:searchfilter=insource:foo 278:. Mockup screenshots are 225:Changes to Recent Changes 219:project talk page on Meta 456:Knowledge (XXG):Teahouse 280:available on Phabricator 250:. 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