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*Changes later this week*
- 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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