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the 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/2020/33> are
available, as always:
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<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/33/cs> • русский
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<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/33/uk> • עברית
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<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/33/ar> • മലയാളം
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/33/ml> • 日本語
<https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/33/ja> • 한국어
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Have a nice reading!
*Recent changes*
- FileImporter and FileExporter
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons>
became
standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help
you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original
file information and history intact. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140462>
*Problems*
- The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who
edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed.
Some messages in Structured Discussions
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions> and content
translation <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation> may
still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259565>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.4> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 11 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 August. It will be on all
wikis from 13 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is
planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. 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/T243314>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244808>
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Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>