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*Problems*

- On March 12 early morning UTC, the number of 503 error messages increased due to an issue on esams datacenter. It has been fixed. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incident_documentation/20180312-Cache-text

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/wmf.26 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 March. It will be on all wikis from 22 March (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.31/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] There is no Editing team meeting this week. - [image: Advanced item] You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 21 March at 16:00 (UTC) http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=16&min=00&sec=0&day=21&month=03&year=2018. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

*Future changes*

- From April 4, the autopatrol status of edits will only be accessible in the Recent Changes database table, so only for 30 days. [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-ambassadors/2018-March/001812.html [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184485 - In-Context Help and Onboarding https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/In-context_help_and_onboarding is a new project, aiming to improve retention of new wiki editors. The goal is to give them short tutorials and other training experiences based on their activity. Collaboration team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Collaboration is expecting feedback and comments on the project talk page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:In-context_help_and_onboarding, especially from people working with newcomers.

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