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*Recent changes*

- You can use the new termbox https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Development/Termbox interface if you edit Wikidata on a mobile device. This is to edit labels, descriptions and aliases easier on the mobile pages. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikidata/2019-August/013355.html - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.20 of MediaWiki has been deployed during the last week. - The previously announced change of positions of the "Wikidata item" link on all wikis has been rollbacked due to unexpected cache issues. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T66315#5431632 - The limit for rollbacks has been increased from 10 to 100 rollbacks per minute. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T228708 - The advanced version of the edit review pages (Recent Changes, Watchlist, and Related Changes) now include two new filters. These filters are for "All contents" and "All discussions". They will filter the view to just those namespaces. However the "All discussions" filter does not include pseudo talk pages, like discussions that are in the *Project:* or *Wikipedia:* namespaces. But it will include changes happening on *Project talk:* or the *Wikipedia talk:*. [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T201520

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 September. It will be on all wikis from 5 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap). - When you log in, the software checks your password to see if it follows the Password policy https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Password_policy. From this week, it will also complain if your password is one of the most common passwords in the world. If your password is not strong enough, please consider to change your password https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:PasswordReset for a stronger password https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Password_strength. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151425

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 September at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190904T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikidata for up to 30 minutes on September 10 at 05:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190910T05. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788 - You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 17 at 05:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190917T05. You can see which wikis https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s2.dblist . [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788 - You will be able to read but not to edit some mid-sized wikis for up to 30 minutes September 24 at 05:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190924T05. You can see which wikis https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wikimedia/operations-mediawiki-config/master/dblists/s3.dblist . [8] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788 - You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for up to 30 minutes on September 26 at 05:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190926T05. [9] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T230788

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