=== Deployment timing
**Wednesday, June 11, 2025**
=== Phase 4 Wikis
Usability improvements should be deployed to all remaining Wikipedias **EXCEPT**:
- Basque Wikipedia
- Catalan Wikipedia
- Danish Wikipedia
- English Wikipedia
- Finnish Wikipedia
- Greek Wikipedia
- Latvian Wikipedia
- Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia
- Polish Wikipedia
- Russian Wikipedia
- Simple English Wikipedia
- Swedish Wikipedia
=====Communication material
Tech News draft:
>The appearance of talk pages changed for all Wikipedias (most have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining Wikipedias in the coming weeks. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392121]
The post will have an image, [[ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2024/19 | like the last time we announced it ]].
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[[File:Talk_pages_default_look_(April_2023).jpg|thumb|alt=<translate>Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages</translate>|<translate>Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.</translate>]]
* <translate>The appearance of talk pages changed for all Wikipedias ([[<tvar name="1">m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/19</tvar>|most]] have already received this design change, [[<tvar name="2">phab:T379264</tvar>|a few]] will get these changes later). You can read the detail of the changes [[<tvar name="3">diffblog:2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/</tvar>|on ''Diff'']]. It is possible to opt out of these changes [[<tvar name="4">Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing</tvar>|in user preferences]] ("<tvar name="5">{{int:discussiontools-preference-visualenhancements}}</tvar>"). The deployment will happen at [[<tvar name="6">phab:T379264</tvar>|remaining Wikipedias]] in the coming weeks.</translate> [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146][https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392121]
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https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/