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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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