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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/2021/07> are
available.
Problems
- There were problems with recent versions of MediaWiki. Because the
updates caused problems the developers rolled back to an earlier version.
Some updates and new functions will come later than planned. [1]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-February/094255.html>
[2]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2021-February/094271.html>
- Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC
on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>,
new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading
lists <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_Lists> or
recording email bounces
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Email#Tracking_of_sent_mail>. This is
because of database maintenance. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273758>
Changes later this week
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.31> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 16 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 February. It will be on all
wikis from 18 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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