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*Recent changes*
- Most large file uploads
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Maximum_file_size#MAXTHUMB>
errors that had messages like "stashfailed" or "DBQueryError" have
now
been fixed. An incident report
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-11-04_large_file_upload_timeouts>
is available.
*Problems*
- Sometimes, edits made on iOS using the visual editor save groups of
numbers as telephone number links, because of a feature in the operating
system. This problem is under investigation. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T116525>
- There was a problem with search last week. Many search requests did
not work for 2 hours because of a configuration error. [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/2021-11-10_cirrussearch_commonsfile_outage>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/wmf.9> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 November. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 November. It will be on all
wikis from 18 November (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.38/Roadmap>).
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