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The latest technical newsletter is now available at < https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2020/30%3E. Below is the English version.

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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/2020/31 are available: British English https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/en-gb • ‎Deutsch https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/de • ‎Deutsch (Sie-Form)‎ https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/de-formal • ‎Nederlands https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/nl • ‎ español https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/es • ‎français https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/fr • ‎italiano https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/it • ‎polski https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/pl • ‎suomi https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/fi • ‎čeština https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/cs• ‎русский https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/ru• ‎српски / srpski https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/sr • ‎українська https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/uk • ‎עברית https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/he • ‎العربية https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/ar • ‎മലയാളം https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/ml • ‎中文 https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/zh • ‎日本語 https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/ja • ‎한국어 https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2020/31/ko

*Recent changes*

- The Starter kit https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit is now available for wiki communities. This page lists technical resources, tools, and recommendations. These are essential to operate a wiki project. This is mostly useful for smaller wikis where the community has limited experience with this. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093633.html - The first features of the Desktop Improvements https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements project are available for logged-in users on all wikis. In order to use them, uncheck *Use Legacy Vector* in your local https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering or global https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-rendering preferences in section *Skin preferences*. More improvements are planned. Feedback is welcome https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements. - [image: Advanced item] On multiple wikis, a UTCLiveClock gadget is available. For wikis that import the gadget directly from mediawiki.org https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js, end users can now choose a different timezone to show instead of UTC https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-UTCLiveClock.js#Time_zones .

*Problems*

- [image: Advanced item] The deployment train for MediaWiki has been blocked this week. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-July/093640.html [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257969 - Translation Notification Bot was sending the same message multiple times to every translator. This has been fixed. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T144780 - Some users were receiving the same notification multiple times. This has been fixed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257766

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.2 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 July. It will be on all wikis from 30 July (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

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