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Latest tech news from de Wikimedia technical community. Please make you flow oda users about dese changes. No be all changes go affect you. Translations be available.

Recent changes

• For Wikisource top der be special page wey dey list pages of works widout corresponding scan images. Now you fi use de fresh magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ make e exclude certain pages (list of editions anaa translations of works) from dat list. [1]
• If you use de user-preference "Show preview without reloading the page", then de template-page feature "Preview page with this template" fi sanso now work widout reloading de page. [2]
• Kartographer maps now fi specify alternative text via de alt= attribute. Dis be identical for usage insyd make de alt= attribute insyd de image den gallery syntax. Exception give dis feature be wikis lyk Wikivoyage wer de miniature maps be interactive. [3]
• Dem remove de old Guided Tour give de "Fresh Filters for Edit Review" feature. Na dem create am insyd 2017 make e show people plus older accounts how dem change de interface, wey now chaw of de intended people see am. [4]

Changes later dis week

• De fresh version of MediaWiki go be for test wikis den MediaWiki.org top from 14 May. E go be for non-Wikipedia wikis den sam Wikipedias top from 15 May. E go be for all wikis top from 16 May (calendar). [5][6]
• De Special:Search results page now fi use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of table. If you get gadget anaa script wey dey adjust search results, you go fi update your script go de fresh HTML structure. [7]

Future changes

• For de Vector 2022 skin insyd, dem go fi display main pages for full width (lyk special pages). De goal be make e keep de number of characters per line large enough. Dis be related to de changes wey dey come to typography for Vector 2022 insyd. Learn more. [8]
• Dem go drop two columns of de pagelinks database table (pl_namespace den pl_title) soon. Users for use two columns of de linktarget table instead (lt_namespace den lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks plus JOIN linktarget den pl_ plus lt_ insyd de ON statement
  2. Below dat add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • Spy phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [9][10]

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