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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/2015/23> are
available.
*Problems*
- Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error.
Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150527-Cookie>
- Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [2]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20150527-GridEngine>
- Edit tags <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Tags> added by the
software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100248> [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100439>
*Changes this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/wmf8> of
MediaWiki has been on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be
on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June
3 (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap>).
- You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=17&min=00&sec=0&day=02&month=06&year=2015&ah=2>
on
Tuesday. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100711>
*Meetings*
- You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the
meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The
meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=18&min=00&sec=0&day=03&month=06&year=2015>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:VisualEditor/Portal>
.
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