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*Recent changes*
- FileImporter and FileExporter https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Move_files_to_Commons became standard features on all Wikis during the first week of August. They help you transfer files from local wikis to Wikimedia Commons with the original file information and history intact. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140462
*Problems*
- The mobile skin displays a message at the bottom of the page about who edited last. This message showed raw wikitext. This has now been fixed. Some messages in Structured Discussions https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Structured_Discussions and content translation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Content_translation may still appear as raw wikitext. Developers are working on it. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259565
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.4 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 August. It will be on all wikis from 13 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 1. This is planned between 13:30 and 15:30 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T243314[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244808
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