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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/2020/07> 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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