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Latest *tech news
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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/2020/19> are
available.
*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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