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*Weekly highlight*

- The Worklist feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents/Registration/Worklist for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents/Registration/Worklist#How_Event_Pathways_uses_the_worklist which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Worklist_Setup_Workshop:_Get_Your_Event_Ready will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.

*Updates for editors*

- Special:ShortPages https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word __EXPECTSHORTPAGE__. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433203 - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3436680 (w:bol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bol:) [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429921 - Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429518 which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths. - View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386640

*Updates for technical contributors*

- Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T434103 still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_VPS_instance_operating_system_migration is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/cloud-announce@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/RVIPQSYLKMSL5M46JP6NEJVGVE6I2RXQ/ . - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.16

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