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*Updates for editors* - Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary>" Beta Feature <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures> enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Feature_summary#Comment_actions>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400849> - An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395716> - An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Experimentation_Lab>. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399227> - Five new wikis have been created: - a Wikisource in Tagalog <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34057> ( s:tl: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/tl:>) [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388639> - a Wikisource in Madurese <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36213> ( s:mad: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/mad:>) [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391747> - a Wikipedia in Rakhine <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3450749> ( w:rki: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rki:>) [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392490> - a Wikibooks in Minangkabau <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13324> ( b:min: <https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/min:>) [7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395452> - a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7598268> (wikt:zgh: <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/zgh:>) [8] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399684> - View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks> . *Updates for technical contributors* - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.15> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/34> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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