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*Recent changes*
- Communities interested by easing newcomers' first steps can now benefit from the Growth team experiments on their wikis. Check the conditions and the request process https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Communities/How_to_get_the_Growth_experiments_on_your_wiki . - The Coolest Tool Award 2019 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award is looking for nominations. You can recommend tools by July 29. The awarded tools will be presented at Wikimania. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2019-July/092301.html
*Problems*
- The release of the last version of MediaWiki (1.34.0-wmf.14) has been blocked for groups 1 and 2. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2019-July/002184.html
*Changes later this week*
- Phabricator database will be moved to a different server. Writes will be blocked on Thursday 25 July, between 05:30 and 06:00 AM UTC. Reads will remain unaffected. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228243 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.15 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 July. It will be on all wikis from 25 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 24 July at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190723T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
*Future changes*
- Some items in the visual editor https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor_on_mobile/Edit_cards will change later this week. This will make it easier to edit links, citations, and templates on both desktop and mobile. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225834[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T221247 - With advanced search https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:AdvancedSearch turned on you will be able to choose the sorting order of the search results when you do a search. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225479[7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T197525 - Users who edit from IP addresses whitelisted on a request for temporary lift of the IP cap for mass account creation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap will bypass CAPTCHAs. This will happen in August. If you think this should not happen for some reason, please let us know https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227487. - [image: Advanced item] The variable user_wpzero will be removed from AbuseFilter. A list of filters needing a fix is provided https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227843#5344413.
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