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Updates for editors
- Administrators can now customize how theBabel feature creates categories usingSpecial:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.[1]
- Thewikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such aswikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.[2][3][4]
- One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary inSantali (
wikt:sat:)[5]
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations.[6]
Meetings and events
- The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simplysign up on the wiki page.
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