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Latest *tech news
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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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