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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/07> are
available.
*Problems*
- On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor
list
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Communities/How_to_configure_the_mentors%27_list>
by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be
fixed later this week. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328444>
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.23>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 14 February. It
will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 February. It
will be on all wikis from 16 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap>).
- The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools#Mobile>
will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read
more about this decision
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Mobile#Status_Updates>.
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298060>
*Future changes*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is
planned for 14:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1677679222>. More
information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on
individual wikis in the coming weeks. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328287>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327920>[5]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments>
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