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Recent changes
- Interactive maps have been enabled for Meta wiki and the Catalan, Hebrew, and Macedonian Wikipedias. Learn how to add interactive maps to wiki pages.
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Last week's rollback is now documented.
Problems
Changes this week
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The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar). - It is now possible to mark all Notifications as read on Special:Notifications, by clicking on the cog icon.
- Wikipedia search will now detect the language of your search if 2 or fewer results are found. It will then show results from the matching language Wikipedia, if any relevant article exists. It will start to roll out in 5 languages.
Meetings
- You can join the next meeting with the VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs you think are the most important. The meeting will be on 26 July at 19:00 (UTC). See how to join.
- You can join the next meeting with the Architecture committee. The topic this week is "an extension that implements an authenticated key-value store". The meeting will be on 27 July at 21:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- The current icon for Notifications "Notificações" (in English "Notices") will be changed from a bubble-speech icon to a tray icon for consistency.
- Special:Notifications page code will be changed to be more Mobile friendly.
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19h54min de 25 de julho de 2016 (UTC)