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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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