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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/2022/30 are available.

*Recent changes*

- The www.wikibooks.org and www.wikiquote.org portal pages now use an automated update system. Other project portals https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals will be updated over the next few months. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273179

*Problems*

- Last week, some wikis were in read-only mode for a few minutes because of an emergency switch of their main database (targeted wikis https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist). [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T313383

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.22 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 July. It will be on all wikis from 28 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap). - The external link icon will change slightly in the skins Vector legacy and Vector 2022. The new icon uses simpler shapes to be more recognizable on low-fidelity screens. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T261391 - Administrators will now see buttons on user pages for "Change block" and "Unblock user" instead of just "Block user" if the user is already blocked. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T308570

*Future meetings*

- The next open meeting with the Web team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/Talk_to_Web about Vector (2022) will take place tomorrow (26 July).

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