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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/2020/23 are available.

*Recent changes*

- There is a new beta version of the Wikimedia Commons app https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Mobile_app for Android. It has a new zoom function when you look at images. It can also suggest places when you upload geotagged photos. [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-May/093431.html

*Problems*

- There was a problem with the Commons database on 27 May. Commons could not be edited for eight minutes. Because of this problem the database was moved. This caused another short read-only time on 29 May. [2] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20200528-s4_(commonswiki)_on_read-only_for_8_minutes [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253808[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253825 - The Vector skin https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Skin:Vector had a problem where you couldn't add links to the article in other languages. You couldn't see the section if there were no links to other languages already. It also removed content translation https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Content_translation links and links to language settings. This has now been fixed. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252800

*Changes later this week*

- You can get a notification when someone links to a page you created. You can turn these notifications off for individual pages. You can soon turn them off also in the notifications you get. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T46787 - [image: image] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.35 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 June. It will be on all wikis from 4 June (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap).

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//Johan Jönsson