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*Recent changes*
- You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android>
. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73966>
*Problems*
- Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete.
This has now been fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307586>
- Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for
logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a
database change. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307647>
*Changes later this week*
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [4]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305217#7894966>
- Incompatibility issues
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Current_issues>
with Kartographer
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer>
and
the FlaggedRevs extension
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs>
will
be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will
then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the
extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307348> on May 24.
- The Vector (2022)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements>
skin
will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and
Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old
Vector (2010). See the latest update
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/2022-04_for_the_largest_wikis>
about
Vector (2022).
*Future meetings*
- The next open meeting with the Web team
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/Talk_to_Web>
about
Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are
currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July.
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