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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Recent changes
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Problems
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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 December. It will be on all wikis from 19 December (calendar).
Meetings
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You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 18 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Now that there is a stable version of partial blocks, the feature will be deployed to most Wikimedia Project wikis on January 6, 2020. A project can make a request for a delay of deployment to Niharika Kohli (User:NKohli (WMF)).
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