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*Problems*
- On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages
increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180312-Cache-text>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.26> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all
wikis from 22 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] There is no Editing team meeting this week.
- [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 21 March at 16:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=21&month=03&year=2018>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible
in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-March/001812.html>
[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184485>
- In-Context Help and Onboarding
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding> is a new
project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to
give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their
activity. Collaboration team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration> is expecting feedback and
comments on the project talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:In-context_help_and_onboarding>,
especially from people working with newcomers.
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