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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/2018/41> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- The Education Program extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Education_Program>
was
removed from all Wikimedia projects. You can use the Programs and Events
Dashboard <https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/> or the Fountain
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/> instead. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T125618>
*Problems*
- There was a problem when you copied and pasted from a table with the
visual editor. It could add href where it shouldn't be. This has now
been fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108506>
*Changes later this week*
- Because of a data centre test you will be able to read but not edit
the wikis for up to an hour on 10 October. This will start at 14:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=14&min=00&sec=0&day=10&month=10&year=2018>.
You might lose edits if you try to save during this time. The time when you
can't edit might be shorter than an hour. You can read more about this
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2018>
.
- Because of the data centre test
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2018>
there
will be no new version of MediaWiki this week. Changes for this week will
come next week instead.
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 October at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20181010T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
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//Johan Jönsson