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*Problems*
- The Wikipedia apps <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps> briefly
showed pages without CSS <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:CSS> last
week. This meant they looked wrong. It was quickly fixed but cached pages
without CSS were shown for a few hours. [1]
<https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200909-mobileapps_config_change>
[2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262437>
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Recurrent item] The new version
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be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 15 September. It will be on
non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 September. It will be on
all wikis from 17 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>).
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