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WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding is currently being revived from inactive status and is looking for interested participants to join. Many articles under the project scope are in need of improvement/updates, and assessment needs to be worked on. The project is also currently being restructured, so any input is welcome!
VarietyEditor (
talk) 01:30, 16 January 2023 (UTC)Replyreply
Requesting new members for the
Stubsensor WikiProject. It seems as nobody but me is currently on this. The list is almost done, yet more people would be very helpful. There is about 8.5 pages left, we can do this. If you are interested, then
why not join?SikiWtideI (
Speak to the backwards police) 02:45, 5 November 2022 (UTC)SikiWtideIReplyreply
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Recent changes
Citations can once again be added automatically from ISBNs, thanks to Zotero's ISBN searches. The current data sources are the Library of Congress (United States), the Bibliothèque nationale de France (French National Library), and K10plus ISBN (German repository). Additional data source searches can be
proposed to Zotero. The ISBN labels in the
VisualEditor Automatic tab will reappear later this week.
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For a few days earlier this month, the "Add interlanguage link" item in the Tools menu did not work properly. This has now been fixed.
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Changes later this week
The
new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 May. It will be on all wikis from 1 June (
calendar).
VisualEditor will be switched to a new backend on
small and
medium wikis this week. Large wikis will follow in the coming weeks. This is part of the effort to move Parsoid into MediaWiki core. The change should have no noticeable effect on users, but if you experience any slow loading or other strangeness when using VisualEditor, please report it on the phabricator ticket linked here.
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