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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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