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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/2020/20> are
available.

*Recent changes*

   - Everyone can now import photos from Flickr
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Flickr> to Commons with the
   UploadWizard <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard>.
   Before this only autopatrollers on Commons could import photos from Flickr.
   [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T90004>

*Problems*

   - Commons <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251502> will be on
   read-only for a few minutes on 12 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200512T05>.
   This is for database maintenance. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251502>
   - Several wikis including Wikidata
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984> will be on read-only for a
   few minutes on 19 May. This will happen around 05:00 UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200519T05>.
   English Wikipedia will be on read-only for a few minutes on 21 May 05:00
   UTC
   <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20200521T05>.
   This is for database maintenance. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251984>[4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251985>

*Changes later this week*

   - [image: Recurrent item] The new version
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/wmf.32> of MediaWiki will
   be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia
   wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 May. It will be on all wikis from 14 May (
   calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.35/Roadmap>).

*Future changes*

   - [image: Advanced item] JavaScript scripts and gadgets can no longer
   check multiple keys at once via mw.config.exists() or
   mw.user.tokens.exists(). You can use exists() or get() to check one at a
   time instead. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251855>

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