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Recent changes
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Problems
- There is a Wikidata item link in the sidebar on many pages. This disappeared a couple of days for users who have the Monobook skin. This was because of a bug. It has now been fixed. [1]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 June. It will be on all wikis from 18 June (calendar).
Future changes
The Toolforge service is changing the ___domain from tools.wmflabs.org to toolforge.org, also the routing scheme from tools.wmflabs.org/toolname to toolname.toolforge.org. Please read all the details of this change in Wikitech:News/Toolforge.org. Tools using OAuth will require changes to keep working. You can reach out to the Wikimedia Cloud Services team for help.- Pywikibot is a Python library to automate work on wikis. After the July release, it will not support Python 2. Python 3.4 and MediaWiki below 1.19 will also be dropped. The Pywikibot team strongly recommends to migrate to Python 3. You can get help to do so. [2]
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