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*Recent changes*
- You can now write all special letters in all African Wikipedia
languages. This works in the desktop version. [1]
<https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2019/05/25/happy-africa-day-keyboards-for-all-african-wikipedia-languages/>
- There is now a field called depicts
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Depicts> on Commons. This is
a way to show what is in a picture with the help of Wikidata. It is still
in development. [2]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Adding_qualifiers_to_Depicts>
- Some tools on Toolforge may break on or after 3 June because of
database changes. Maintainers should update their tools to use the new
schema. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223406>[4]
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/cloud-announce/2019-May/000172.html>
*Problems*
- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for 30
minutes on 19 June at 05:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190619T05>.
This is to fix a hardware problem. [5]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T224516>
*Changes later this week*
- Some wikis have one tab for the visual editor and one tab for a
wikitext editor. Others wikis just have one tab. If your wiki has two tabs,
clicking a link to create a new page has always opened a wikitext editor.
It will now open the editor you used the last time you edited. [6]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223793>
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.8> of MediaWiki will
be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia
wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (
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 5 June at 15:00 (UTC)
<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190605T15>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting>.
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