Latesttech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools"Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history.Learn more about this feature.[1]
- An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.[2]
- An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August usingExperimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.[3]
- Five new wikis have been created:
View all 46 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki
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