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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on November 14. [1]
Future
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf4
was added to test wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia
wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21 (calendar).
- The new Search tool (CirrusSearch) will be added to
*.wikimedia.org,
Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on
November 21 (except where it's already available). Once it is added, you
can test it by adding &srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21. [2]
- The MassMessage tool will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will make it simpler to send messages across wikis. [3]
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Guillaume Paumier
Technical Communications Manager — Wikimedia Foundation
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