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[8]action=growthsetmentorstatus
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mediawiki.ui
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. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time.
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#page-actions
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addPortletLink
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meta.domain == "canary"
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wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default.
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async
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jquery.cookie
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targets
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changetags
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Special:Book
page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension.
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user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
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page_last_edit_age
will be added to
abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
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tables. Some queries might need to be updated.
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image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
and pl_title
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linktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
and lt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:
JOIN pagelinks
with JOIN linktarget
and pl_
with lt_
in the ON
statementJOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
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.
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" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category
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mw-reference-text
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<span class="mw-cite-backlink">
wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup.
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system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community
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global_account_groups
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. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time.
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#page-actions
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addPortletLink
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meta.domain == "canary"
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Pywikibot or
wikimedia-streams will discard these events by default.
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async
/await
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requiresES6
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jquery.cookie
module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie
module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.
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targets
option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins
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filter
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changetags
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Special:Book
page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension.
[141]Gadget
and Gadget_definition
namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit
user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
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page_last_edit_age
will be added to
abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
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abuse_filter
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tables. Some queries might need to be updated.
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__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
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[207]alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt=
attribute in the
image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
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pagelinks
database table (pl_namespace
and pl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new
linktarget
table instead (lt_namespace
and lt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:
JOIN pagelinks
with JOIN linktarget
and pl_
with lt_
in the ON
statementJOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
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.collapsible
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.
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MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category
" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category
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<span class="mw-cite-backlink">
wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup.
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[235]<translate>
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