Hi,

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Latest tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News from the 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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//Johan Jönsson