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*Recent changes*
- There is a simple new Wikimedia Commons upload tool available for
macOS users, Sunflower
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Sunflower>.
*Changes later this week*
- The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.5>
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and
MediaWiki.org from 29 March. It will
be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 March. It will be on
all wikis from 31 March (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>).
- Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of regular
database maintenance. It will be performed on 29 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted
wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s3.dblist>)
and on 31 March at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis
<https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s5.dblist>).
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