Hi all,
This is a heads up that I asked, and other developers agreed with the decision, to *temporarily* disable wikidata-originated recentchanges appearing on commonswiki and ruwiki (Commons and Wikipedia in Russian): [0]. I cannot disclose right now all reasons (we will do when things are fixed), but please understand that server admins only do this in case of emergencies such as things being down or in a very broken state. For your tranquillity, this will not affect any wikidata functionality and has no edit or other data loss- it will only make wikidata edits not be *shown* (but they will take effect) on recentchanges and watchlist on other projects (but updates and wikilinks happen as usual) during the time it is disabled.
Part of the story can be read at [1], even with only that information, the rollback I think is not much worse than the issues created. We do not discard extending this action to other wikis, too. We apologize for the impact this could have on vandalism patrolling- we will try to make things better soon, so that both errors are minimized but also new features can be active again soon.
Regards,
[0] url:https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki-config/browse/master/wmf-config/Wikibase-production.php;d48276756839dc9922ac00aebc87b20d31ad2474$209 [1] url:https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T171027
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