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*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
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changed in 2014. The old way will no longer work from 1 September. Scripts,
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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
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wikis from 2 September (calendar
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.37/Roadmap>).
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September. This will happen around 05:00 UTC
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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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