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*Problems*
- All queries to the Wikidata Query Service
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service> failed between
17:50 and 17:59 UTC on Thursday 23 July. Some queries failed during a
longer period. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200723-wdqs-outage>
- Interlanguage links were ordered incorrectly for the past few weeks.
This problem was also mentioned in Tech News two weeks ago
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/30>.
The problem is now fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257625>
- There is a problem with the global preferences
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-rendering>
for
the "Use Legacy Vector" option. Developers are working on fixing it. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258493>
- A bug in the Wikibase extension had disabled the "move" and
"create"
types of protection in the main (Gallery) namespace on Wikimedia Commons.
New protections could not be added, and existing protections were not
enforced, allowing some page moves and page creations that should not have
been possible. This has now been fixed. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258323>
*Changes later this week*
- The video player
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VideoJS_Player>
will
change to be simpler and more modern. This week, the current beta feature
will become the video player for everyone on most non-Wikipedia wikis. The
old player will be removed. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248418>
- Users' global.js and global.css pages will now also be loaded on the
mobile site. You can read documentation
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:GlobalCssJs#Per-skin_customization>
for
how to avoid applying styles to the mobile skin. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138727>
- [image: Advanced item] In the MonoBook
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:MonoBook> skin,
the searchGoButton identifier is now searchButton. This may affect CSS
and JS gadgets. Migration instructions can be found in T255953
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255953>. This was previously
mentioned in issue 27
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/27>.
- [image: Advanced item] Bot operators can use Pywikibot to regularly
archive discussions. The behavior when the bot uses counter to prevent
large archives was changed. [7]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T215247>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.3> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 4 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 August. It will be on all
wikis from 6 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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