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*Recent changes*
- The Realtime Preview
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:WikiEditor/Realtime_Preview>
is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup2.dblist>.
This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist
Survey proposals
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext>.
Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts
with some wiki-specific Gadgets.
*Problems*
- In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various
Special:Statistics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics>
at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315693>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.27>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will
be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch
of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00
UTC (targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist>)
and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist>).
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- The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities
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