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Latest *tech news https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News* from the 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/2020/07 are available.

*Recent changes*

- There is a new version of the Wikimedia Commons app https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Mobile_app for Android. It should fix the failed uploads problem. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-February/093042.html

*Problems*

- There was a problem with the new MediaWiki version last week. It deleted some messages by accident. The new version was late because it was stopped to fix things. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T233866

*Changes later this week*

- The MediaWiki action API https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:Main_page is used by various tools like bots and gadgets. Some error codes will change. Some parameter values that do not follow the standard will no longer work. [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-February/093048.html - The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.19 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 February. It will be on all wikis from 13 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson