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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/2021/04 are available.

Problems

- You will be able to read but not to edit Wikimedia Commons for a short time on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210126T07. You will not be able to read or edit Wikitech https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page for a short time on 28 January at 09:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210128T09. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271791[2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T272388

Changes later this week

- Bracket matching https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Bracket_Matching will be added to the CodeMirror https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeMirror syntax highlighter on the first wikis. The first wikis are German and Catalan Wikipedia and maybe other Wikimedia wikis. This will happen on 27 January. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270238 - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.28 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 January. It will be on all wikis from 28 January (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson