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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/2019/31 are available.

*Problems*

- Wikidata will be in read-only mode on 30 July from 05:00 to 05:30 UTC because of a server switch. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T227063

*Changes later this week*

- [image: Recurrent item] The new version https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/wmf.16 of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 July. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 July. It will be on all wikis from 1 August (calendar https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap).

*Meetings*

- [image: Recurrent item] [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 31 July at 15:00 (UTC) https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20190731T15. See how to join https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Advice_IRC_Meeting.

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