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*Recent changes*
- Some musical score syntax no longer works and may needed to be updated, you can check Category:Pages with score rendering errors https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pages_with_score_rendering_errors on your wiki for a list of pages with errors.
*Problems*
- Musical scores were unable to render lyrics in some languages because of missing fonts. This has been fixed now. If your language would prefer a different font, please file a request in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289554
*Changes later this week*
- [image: Advanced item] The parameters for how you obtain tokens https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Tokens in the MediaWiki API were changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts, bots and tools that use the parameters from before the 2014 change need to be updated. You can read more https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T280806#7215377 about this. - [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/wmf.21 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 31 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 September. It will be on all wikis from 2 September (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap).
*Future changes*
- You will be able to read but not edit Commons https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T289660 for a few minutes on 6 September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1630818058. This is for database maintenance. - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes in the week of 13 September. More information will be published in Tech News later. It will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287539
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