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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/2019/28 are available.

*Recent changes*

- For event organizers, if you request a temporary lift of the IP cap https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Mass_account_creation#Requesting_temporary_lift_of_IP_cap for mass account creation, this will now also raise the edit rate limit for those new accounts at the event, which will prevent another bottleneck. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T204583 - Administrators at all Wiktionary, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource wikis are now able to use the new partial blocks https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_health_initiative/Partial_blocks feature. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T218626

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.13 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 July. It will be on all wikis from 11 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap). - The design of MediaWiki's software windows will change for desktop users. Layout will be simpler, buttons will be bolder and clearer, and close buttons will be just icons. This is like the mobile design. This will affect ContentTranslation, VisualEditor, TemplateWizard, and other tools. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226045

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 10 July at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190710T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227063 - [image: Advanced item] There will be a change in the name format of new Wikidata RDF dumps starting on 15 July. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T226153

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