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Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/35> are available. *Recent changes* - The Realtime Preview <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:WikiEditor/Realtime_Preview> is available as a Beta Feature on wikis in Group 2 <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists%2Fgroup2.dblist>. This feature was built in order to fulfill one of the Community Wishlist Survey proposals <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2021/Real_Time_Preview_for_Wikitext>. Please note that when this Beta feature is enabled, it may cause conflicts with some wiki-specific Gadgets. *Problems* - In recent months, there have been inaccurate numbers shown for various Special:Statistics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics> at Commons, Wikidata, and English Wikipedia. This has now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T315693> *Changes later this week* - The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/wmf.27> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 August. It will be on all wikis from 1 September (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.39/Roadmap>). - Some wikis will be in read-only for a few minutes because of a switch of their main database. It will be performed on 30 August at 07:00 UTC (targeted wikis <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s6.dblist>) and on 1 September at 7:00 UTC (targeted wikis <https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=dblists/s7.dblist>). *Future changes* - The Wikimedia Foundation wants to improve how Wikimedia communities report harmful incidents by building the Private Incident Reporting System (PIRS) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Private_Incident_Reporting_System> to make it easy and safe for users to make reports. You can leave comments on the talk page, by answering the questions provided <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Private_Incident_Reporting_System#Phase_1>. If you have ever faced a harmful situation that you wanted to report/reported, join a PIRS interview to share your experience. To sign up please email <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/MAna_(WMF)> Madalina Ana <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MAna_(WMF)>. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2022/35> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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