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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from 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/2019/45 are available.
*Recent changes*
- At Special:Contributions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234450
*Changes later this week*
- MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry can set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to use MediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ip to set a different default block length for IP editors. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219126 - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.5 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).
*Meetings*
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191106T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.
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