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available.
*Recent changes*
- You can filter Special:Log
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_page#Logs> in more detail.
You can filter different imports and new users. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T109267>[2]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T16334>
- You can use Telnet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Telnet> to read
Wikimedia wikis. [3] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telnet_gateway>
- MediaWiki wikis can handle bigger file uploads. The new limit is 4 GB.
[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131895>
*Changes this week*
- Wikimedia has a new backup data center in Dallas. Because of planned
work on this, you will be able to read but not edit the wikis for a short
period of time on both 19 April and 21 April. This will start at 14:00 UTC
and last for 15 to 30 minutes. [5]
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch_2016>
- There is no new Mediawiki version this week. This is because of the
data center test.
*Meetings*
- [image: Octicons-sync.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
VisualEditor team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs
you think are the most important. The meeting will be on April 19 at
19:00 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=19&month=04&year=2016>.
See how to join
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Weekly_triage_meetings>.
- [image: Octicons-tools.svg] You can join the next meeting with the
Architecture committee. The topic this week is shadow namespaces
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91162>. The meeting will be on 20
April at 21:30 (UTC)
<http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=30&sec=0&day=20&month=04&year=2016>.
See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>.
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