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- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.19 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 July. It will be on all wikis from 7 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 5 July at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist) and on 7 July at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s4.dblist). - The Beta Feature for DiscussionTools https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools will be updated throughout July. Discussions will look different. You can see some of the proposed changes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk_pages_project/Usability/Prototype . - This change only affects pages in the main namespace in Wikisource. The Javascript config variable proofreadpage_source_href will be removed from mw.config https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Interface/JavaScript#mw.config and be replaced with the variable prpSourceIndexPage. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309490

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