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Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
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*Recent changes*
- The Wikimedia movement has been using IRC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC> on a network
called Freenode <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Freenode>. There have
been changes around who is in control of the network. The Wikimedia IRC
Group Contacts
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/IRC/Group_Contacts>
have decided <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/21476411> to
move to the new Libera Chat
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Libera_Chat> network instead. This is
not a formal decision for the movement to move all channels but most
Wikimedia IRC channels will probably leave Freenode. There is a migration
guide <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Migrating_to_Libera_Chat> and
ongoing Wikimedia discussions about this
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Freenode_(IRC)>.
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.7> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 25 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 May. It will be on all wikis from 27 May (
calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>).
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