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*Recent changes*
- Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now
benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the
conditions and the request process
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Communities/How_to_get_the_Growth_experiments_on_your_wiki>
.
- The Coolest Tool Award 2019
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award> is looking for
nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be
presented at Wikimania. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-July/092301.html>
*Problems*
- The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been
blocked for groups 1 and 2. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2019-July/002184.html>
*Changes later this week*
- Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will
be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will
remain unaffected. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228243>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.15> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all
wikis from 25 July (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).
*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 24 July at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190723T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- Some items in the visual editor
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor_on_mobile/Edit_cards> will
change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations,
and templates on both desktop and mobile. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225834>[5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221247>
- With advanced search
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:AdvancedSearch>
turned
on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when
you do a search. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225479>[7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197525>
- Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for
temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap>
will
bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not
happen for some reason, please let us know
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227487>.
- [image: Advanced item] The variable user_wpzero will be removed from
AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227843#5344413>.
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