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*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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