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gallery widths="150px"
. You could use em
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instead of px
but it would make no difference. You can now only use 150px
or nothing (150
). If you write something else, instead of treating it like px
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[6]Yes
or No
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The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Heat-not-burn tobacco product. Legobot ( talk) 04:26, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
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{{reflist}}
, would not get updated as you edited. Now they will update as you edit, but you will no longer be able to visually edit them as templates.
[15]contains_all
that you may use to check if one or more strings are all contained in another given string.
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Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
<references />
block can
automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. This has already been enabled at the English Wikipedia. If you want columns for a long list of footnotes on this wiki, you can use either <references />
or the plain (no parameters) {{reflist}}
template. If you edit a different wiki, you can
request multi-column support for your wiki.
[37]— User:Whatamidoing (WMF) ( talk) 23:14, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:Racism in the United States. Legobot ( talk) 04:27, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Global Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
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Notifications [ More information • Help pages]
Recent changes
Yes
or No
it says Thank
and Cancel
. It is also now easier to understand that all thanks are public.
[46]Problems
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Latest news from the Wikimedia Collaboration team, about Map improvements 2018, Notifications, Structured discussions and Edit Review Improvements. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
What's new?
The Collaboration team has announced the start of a new project: In-Context Help and Onboarding. The idea is to improve retention of new wiki editors by giving them short tutorials and other training experiences related to, and triggered by, their current activities on the wikis (that’s the “in context” part). The project follows from the conclusions of the New Editor Experiences research. The work is in its very early stages, but we’d like to hear from people with ideas on the subject—particularly if you have experience supporting or training new contributors.
Map improvements 2018 [ More information]
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.json
will now be protected from other people editing them, like .js
and .css
pages already are. If you have a tool that stores static configuration, you can now use a subpage like User:Example/mygadget.json
to do this without concerns.
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rollback
and the undo
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