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*Recent changes*

- The WDQS Graph Split experiment https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_split is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_graph_split [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356773[3] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sannita_(WMF) Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [4] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/WDQS_backend_update/October_2023_scaling_update [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/User_Manual#Federation

*Problems*

- There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T356928 is fixed.

*Changes later this week*

- The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/wmf.18 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.42/Roadmap). [6] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Train[7] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar - As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[8] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Grid_Engine_deprecation tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [9] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge/About_Toolforge#Communication_and_support

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