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Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2021/06> are available. Recent changes - The Wikipedia app <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps> for Android now has watchlists and talk pages in the app. [1] <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.wikipedia> Changes later this week - You can see edits to chosen pages on Special:Watchlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist>. You can add pages to your watchlist on every wiki you like. The GlobalWatchlist <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist> extension will come to Meta on 11 February. There you can see entries on watched pages on different wikis on the same page. The new watchlist will be found on Special:GlobalWatchlist <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist> on Meta. You can choose which wikis to watch and other preferences on Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlistSettings> on Meta. You can watch up to five wikis. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T260862> - [image: Recurrent item] The new version <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/wmf.30> of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 February. It will be on all wikis from 11 February (calendar <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.36/Roadmap>). Future changes - When admins protect <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Protecting_and_unprotecting_pages> pages the form will use the OOUI look <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/UX_standardization>. Special:Import <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import> will also get the new look. This will make them easier to use on mobile phones. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235424>[4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T108792> - Some services will not work for a short period of time from 07:00 UTC on 17 February. There might be problems with new short links <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_URL_Shortener>, new translations, new notifications, adding new items to your reading lists <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Reading_Lists> or recording email bounces <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Email#Tracking_of_sent_mail>. This is because of database maintenance. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273758> - [image: Advanced item] Last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/News/2021/05> Tech News reported that the IP address Cloud VPS <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cloud_VPS> and Toolforge <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal:Toolforge> use to contact the wikis will change on 8 February. This is delayed. It will happen later instead. [6] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/CloudVPS_NAT_wikis> *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/2021/06> • 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>.* //Johan Jönsson
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