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Weekly highlight
- Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs March 19 at 14:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- The the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based Community-defined lists filter, also known as “Collections”, from wiki-projects and campaigns.
- On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
- The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the project talk page.
- Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at on Phabricator. [1]
- The listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
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Updates for technical contributors
- Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
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