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*Problems*
- Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-02-22_wiki_outage[2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incidents/2023-02-22_read_only
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.25 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 March. It will be on all wikis from 2 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap). - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1677679222. [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch
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