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Recent changes
- The recently implemented feature of article thumbnails in Special:Search will be limited to Wikipedia projects only. Further details are in T320510.
- A bug that caused problems in loading article thumbnails in Special:Search has been fixed. Further details are in T320406.
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 October. It will be on all wikis from 20 October (calendar).
Lua module authors can use mw.loadJsonData()to load data from JSON pages.- Lua module authors can enable
require( "strict" )to add errors for some possible code problems. This replaces "Module:No globals" on most wikis.
Future changes
- The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools will be updated at most wikis. The "जबाब" button will look different after this change.
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