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[96]Deprecated. Use ... instead
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[97]page_age
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Look ma! I'm logged in! (Filed Ticket) VernoWhitney ( talk) 23:29, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
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ORES is now called articlequality
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[112]{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected.
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read more on mediawiki.org.Meetings
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16:18, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
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16:28, 7 May 2018 (UTC)
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using AWB
in the edit summary. Instead it will add a
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.
[96]Deprecated. Use ... instead
. An example is article_text
which is now page_title
.
[97]page_age
.
[98]Meetings
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16:16, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
Look ma! I'm logged in! (Filed Ticket) VernoWhitney ( talk) 23:29, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2018).
Interface administrator changes
Deprecated. Use ... instead
. An example is article_text
which is now page_title
.page_age
.Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
wp10
in
ORES is now called articlequality
.
[104]Problems
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16:47, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
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<maplink>
did not work for a few days. This was because of a bug. This has now been fixed.
[112]{{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
is used by some templates. For a period edits saved with {{subst:REVISIONUSER}}
would save the previous user's name and not your username. This is now fixed. Edits made before the bug was fixed will still be wrong and need to be corrected.
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