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*Recent changes* - You can now see categories in the Wikipedia app for Android <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android> . [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T73966> *Problems* - Last week, there was a problem with Wikidata's search autocomplete. This has now been fixed. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307586> - Last week, all wikis had slow access or no access for 20 minutes, for logged-in users and non-cached pages. This was caused by a problem with a database change. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307647> *Changes later this week* - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T305217#7894966> - Incompatibility issues <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Geoinformation#Current_issues> with Kartographer <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:Kartographer> and the FlaggedRevs extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:FlaggedRevs> will be fixed: Deployment is planned for May 10 on all wikis. Kartographer will then be enabled on the five wikis which have not yet enabled the extension <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T307348> on May 24. - The Vector (2022) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements> skin will be set as the default on several more wikis, including Arabic and Catalan Wikipedias. Logged-in users will be able to switch back to the old Vector (2010). See the latest update <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/2022-04_for_the_largest_wikis> about Vector (2022). *Future meetings* - The next open meeting with the Web team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements/Updates/Talk_to_Web> about Vector (2022) will take place on 17 May. The following meetings are currently planned for: 7 June, 21 June, 5 July, 19 July. *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/2022/19> • 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> on wiki.* -- Benoît Evellin - Trizek (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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