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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/2020/34> are
available.
*Recent changes*
- If you revert an edit using the undo link your edit is marked with an
undo tag. This will now only happen if you don't change anything in the
edit window before publishing the undo. This is to keep users from marking
edits as undos when they actually do something else. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259014>
- The new OOUI version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/OOUI> will not work
with Internet Explorer 8
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Internet_Explorer_8>. This means the
wikis will look strange and not work well in Internet Explorer 8. This was
reported in Tech/News/2020/17
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/17>.
This is because keeping the wikis working with very old browsers creates
other problems. [2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-August/093718.html>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.5> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 18 August. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 August. It will be on all
wikis from 20 August (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
*Future changes*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is
planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in
Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis next week. This is a
reminder. You can help by translating the announcement message
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch_2020>. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243314>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244808>
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