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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2016/38> are available. *Problems* - Last week's MediaWiki update was rolled back because of bugs. Creating new accounts did not work between 15 September 19:10 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=12&min=50&sec=0&day=16&month=09&year=2016> and 16 September 12:50 UTC <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=12&min=50&sec=0&day=16&month=09&year=2016> . [1] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-September/086536.html> [2] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20160915-MediaWiki> *Changes this week* - [image: Octicons-sync.svg] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/wmf.19> of MediaWiki will hopefully be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 September. It will be on all wikis from 22 September (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap>). This is the version that was meant to go out last week. *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 20 September at 19:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=19&min=00&sec=0&day=20&month=09&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 multi-content revisions <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107595>. The meeting will be on 21 September at 21:00 (UTC) <http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=21&min=00&sec=0&day=21&month=09&year=2016>. See how to join <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings>. *Future changes* - Wikidata will start working on adding support for Wiktionary. The Wikidata development team is now taking one last look at the development plan <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Wiktionary/Development/Proposals/2015-05> . 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