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Welcome to the community bulletin board, which is a page used for announcements from WikiProjects and other groups. Included here are coordinated efforts, events, projects, and other general announcements.
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| Exeter | June 8, 2024 (2024-06-08) |
| Los Angeles Wiknic | June 8, 2024 (2024-06-08) |
| London 205 | June 9, 2024 (2024-06-09) |
| Cascadia Wikimedians general meeting |
June 9, 2024 (2024-06-09) |
| Bay Area Wikipedians | June 13, 2024 (2024-06-13) |
| Oxford 101 | June 16, 2024 (2024-06-16) |
| BLT Office Hours | June 23, 2024 (2024-06-23) |
| Perth 81 | June 23, 2024 (2024-06-23) |
| Edinburgh 16 | June 29, 2024 (2024-06-29) |
| London 206 | July 14, 2024 (2024-07-14) |
| BLT Office Hours | July 28, 2024 (2024-07-28) |
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that. The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the 
mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [2]Problems
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5] The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [6]<translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [7]Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.
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You can help improve the articles listed below! This list updates frequently, so check back here for more tasks to try. (See Wikipedia:Maintenance or the Task Center for further information.)
Help counter systemic bias by creating new articles on important women.
Help improve popular pages, especially those of low quality.
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This week's article for improvement is: Previous selections: State of emergency · Sun Management Center · News program | This week's backlog of the week is: Category:Articles with bare URLs for citations from August 2022 |
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