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*Problems*
- There was a problem caused by too many requests to the database on
November 14.
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1]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2013-November/073112.…
*Future*
- MediaWiki 1.23wmf4
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/wmf4>was added to test
wikis on November 14. It will arrive to non-Wikipedia
wikis on November 19 and all Wikipedia wikis on November 21
(
calendar<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap>
).
- The new Search <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search> tool (
CirrusSearch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Search/CirrusSearchFeatures>)
will be added to *.wikimedia.org, Wikimania and Wikisource wikis on
November 19, and Wiktionary wikis on November 21 (except where it's already
available). Once it is added, you can test it by adding
&srbackend=CirrusSearch to the address of the search results page. It
will become the main search engine on Wikivoyage wikis on November 21.
[
2]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Novemb…
- The MassMessage <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MassMessage> tool
will be added to all wikis on November 19 instead of November 14. It will
make it simpler to send messages across wikis.
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3]<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2013-Novemb…
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