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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
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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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