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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/2021/34 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The Score https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score extension (<score> notation) has been re-enabled on public wikis and upgraded to a newer version. Some musical score functionality may no longer work because the extension is only enabled in "safe mode". The security issue has been fixed and an advisory published https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Score/2021_security_advisory .

*Problems*

- You will be able to read but not edit some wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289130 for a few minutes on 25 August. This will happen around 06:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1629871217. This is for database maintenance. During this time, operations on the CentralAuth will also not be possible.

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.20 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 24 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 25 August. It will be on all wikis from 26 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap).

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