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*Problems*

- Some wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251153 will be on read-only for a few minutes on 5 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200505T05. This is for database maintenance. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251153 - Some wikis https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251157 will be on read-only for a few minutes on 7 May. This will also affect CentralAuth https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CentralAuth. This can for example affect global renames, password changes, changing or confirming your email address and logging in to new wikis. This will happen around 05:00 UTC https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200507T05. This is for database maintenance. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251157

*Changes later this week*

- You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can soon turn these notifications off for individual pages. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46787 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.31 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 May. It will be on all wikis from 7 May ( calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson