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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/2020/20 are available.

*Recent changes*

- Everyone can now import photos from Flickr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Flickr to Commons with the UploadWizard https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard. Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90004

*Problems*

- Commons https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251502 will be on read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200512T05. This is for database maintenance. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251502 - Several wikis including Wikidata https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984 will be on read-only for a few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200519T05. English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200521T05. This is for database maintenance. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251985

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.32 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

*Future changes*

- [image: Advanced item] JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a time instead. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251855

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//Johan Jönsson