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*Problems*
- The Wikipedia apps https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps briefly showed pages without CSS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS last week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages without CSS were shown for a few hours. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200909-mobileapps_config_change [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262437
*Changes later this week*
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//Johan Jönsson