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Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/06> are
available.
Recent changes
- The Wikipedia app
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for
Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [1]
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia>
Changes later this week
- You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist>. You can add pages
to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist>
extension
will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched
pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found
on Special:GlobalWatchlist
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist> on Meta. You
can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on
Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings> on
Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260862>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.30> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all
wikis from 11 February (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
Future changes
- When admins protect
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Protecting_and_unprotecting_pages>
pages
the form will use the OOUI look
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization>. Special:Import
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import> will also get the new
look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [3]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235424>[4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108792>
- 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. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273758>
- [image: Advanced item] Last week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/05> Tech News reported
that the IP address Cloud VPS
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS> and Toolforge
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge> use to contact
the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later
instead. [6]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/CloudVPS_NAT_wikis>
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