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Recent software changes
- You may see a new tool tested on the mobile site of the English Wikipedia. It asks simple questions to make the article better. In the future, your answers will go to Wikidata.
- You can watch a video to learn how to use Phabricator to manage projects.
- You can test a new version of the Content Translation tool.
Software changes this week
- The new version of MediaWiki (1.25wmf12) has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since December 10. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from December 16. It will be on all Wikipedias from December 17 (calendar).
- You can now find and replace text in VisualEditor. You can open the tool via the menu,
Ctrl+ForCmd+F. - VisualEditor now doesn't change the space at the end of a text that you make bold.
- The "Apply changes" button in the reference window of VisualEditor is now disabled until you make a change.
Future changes
- The star image of the watchlist may change soon.
- You won't be able to use Phabricator on December 18, 2014. It will be down between 00:00 and 08:00 (UTC).
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16h43min de 15 de dezembro de 2014 (UTC)