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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/2023/08 are available.
*Problems*
- Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329535
*Changes later this week*
- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/wmf.23 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 February. It will be on all wikis from 23 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.40/Roadmap). - The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1677261621. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.
*Future changes*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1677679222. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328287[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327920[4] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
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