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available.
*Problems*
- Last week's Tech News had delivery problems. Some did not get the
newsletter. Some got it more than one time. The problem where some pages
got it three times should now be fixed. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T232379>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.25> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 1 October. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 2 October. It will be on all
wikis from 3 October (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap>).
*Meetings*
- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the
technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers
can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 2 October at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20191002T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
*Future changes*
- The Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech> is working on a watchlist
expiry feature
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry>. This
means you can put things on your watchlist for a period of time instead of
forever. They are looking for feedback on the questions they have
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech/Watchlist_Expiry#Open_Questions>
.
- Special:Contributions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions> will get the
standard OOUI look <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization>.
This makes it easier to use on mobile and makes it look like other
Special: pages. There is a script
<https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/User:Jdlrobson/compactspecialcontributions.css>
you
can use to make the form smaller if you want to. [2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T117736>
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