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Wikidata weekly summary #559
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * CJMbot (CJMbot lets users upload a CSV file in a certain format. The data inside this file is then validated and processed. New items wil be created based on the data in the CSV file and existing items wil updated by adding statements and references).
 * RPI2026F1Bot 5 Task/s: Import dependency and version data from PyPi


 *  Events 
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikibase Working Hour February 13, 2023. The February Working Hour will feature a presentation by Steve Baskauf on using VanderBot with Wikibase: The Wikibase API provides a mechanism for programmatic control of uploads, and its behavior is consistent across instances (Wikidata, Structured Data in Commons, and those that are established privately). In this session, Steve will discuss basic interactions with the API and demonstrate using the VanderBot Python application to rapidly upload tabular data to a wikibase.cloud instance. After performing a mass deletion, Steve will conclude by describing how he's used the Wikibase API to facilitate addition of structured data to Commons. Registration link
 * Strategically Using Production Photos to Increase Your Online Discoverability, February 22 and 24, 2023. This two-part workshop presented by CAPACOA will explain how to upload performing arts production photos to Wikimedia Commons and how to document credits in Wikidata.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #80, Work


 *  Press, articles, blog posts, videos 
 * Blogs
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata: Observable notebook which explores social reproduction by occupation in France.
 * Data analytics for your list of created articles in The Signpost, February 4, 2023
 * DigAMus goes Wikidata
 * Papers
 * Transformer Based Geocoding
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #105 - YouTube
 * Demo of the Wikibase Export extension - YouTube
 * FOSDEM 2023
 * Tools for linking Wikidata and OpenStreetMap (Software for adding links between open data projects)
 * Public Transport Data in KDE Itinerary (Querying realtime journey data and dissecting ticket barcodes)
 * observablehq
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: evidence from Wikidata
 * other
 * Wikipedias in the languages of Russia/Wikidata


 *  Tool of the week 
 * User:So9q/openalex-search-link-on-lexemes.js is a userscript that adds a link to Ordia in the Tools section on items.


 *  Other Noteworthy Stuff 
 * Wikidata Graph Builder released a major update, introducing new layouts and visualization ideas. You can read the full changelog here.
 * The new Service Level Objective for the Wikidata Query Service has been implemented: the current aim is to maintain a 95% uptime based on a 90 day rolling window. You can read the full announcement here.
 * Observablehq.com recently introduced a system of tags. Anyone authoring a notebook using data from Wikidata can add the #Wikidata tag: https://observablehq.com/tag/wikidata?filter=recent.
 * a.gup.pe provides group features for Mastodon. @wikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata in general. @querywikidata@a.gup.pe is a group about Wikidata queries. Anyone can join those groups simply by following them in Mastodon. Anyone can share a message with all members of those groups by mentioning them in a publication in Mastodon or any other application of the Fediverse.
 * The hashtag #Wikidata can be used to tag all publications related to Wikidata in Mastodon. Anyone can find recent publications using this tag using the search feature: https://wikis.world/tags/Wikidata.
 * @wikidata@wikis.world is the official Mastodon account of the Wikidata project.
 * You can now vote for your favorite proposals on the Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Wikidata. The voting phase is open until February 24th.


 *  Did you know? 


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes: said to be the same as (lexeme) (some source considers this lexeme to be the same lexeme or a spelling variant of another lexeme)
 * External identifiers: Base de Dados de Livros de Fotografia profile ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), federal identifier of street, DOSBox Compatibility ID, Internet Game Database franchise ID, Professional shogi player number, Bosworth-Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online ID, Norwegian war prisoner detention camp ID, Qobuz artist numeric ID, Sindhi English Dictionary ID, Dicio ID, Dicionário Aulete ID, GLANSIS ID, Léxico ID, ESPN.com tennis player ID, Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: Zoning symbol (planing zone of the municipality/region/state that applies to the subject), INEP ID, CulturaEduca ID (identifier for each Brazilian educational institution), Manantiales y Fuentes de Andalucia (id for Springs and Fountains of Andalucía)
 * External identifiers: Hultschiner Soldaten ID, STS program ID, SACEM ID, IATE entry ID, Epigraphik-Datenbank Clauss / Slaby ID, IRIS UNIPD author ID


 * Query examples:
 * Number of literary works (Q7725634) by language (P407) in descending order (source)
 * Humans that have a 'relationship' with University of Leeds (source)
 * Railway stations named after literary works (source)
 * Week 6, 2023: Top album languages found on Wikidata right now (source)
 * Free software grouped by programming language and instance of (source)


 *  Development 
 * [Significant change] Heads-up: Upcoming fixes for date parsing - Thank you Matej for moving this forward!
 * REST API:
 * Went over the feedback on the first release and deciding on the next routes to add
 * Added a new endpoint for getting descriptions (T327881)
 * Worked on throwing exceptions when something goes wrong (validation failed, Item not found, etc.) instead of returning an error response object (T327527)
 * Entity Schemas: Finished the technical exploration that will unblock the next steps for actual development
 * Query Service: Changed URLs with URL-encoded characters to be shown un-encoded for better line-breaks and readability (T327514)
 * Query Builder:
 * Adding support for a few additional datatypes (T328528)
 * Adding a basic language selector to make it easier to switch the language of the page (T328764)
 * Constraint checks: Working on showing constraint clarification messages to make it easier to understand how to fix a violation on a statement (T219037)
 * Search: Exploring design options for how to make it easier to search for entities other than Items (T327507)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2023-07
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * On wikis where patrolled edits are enabled, changes made to the mentor list by autopatrolled mentors are not correctly marked as patrolled. It will be fixed later this week.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The Reply tool and other parts of DiscussionTools will be deployed for all editors using the mobile site. You can read more about this decision.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:46, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #560
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
 * Gabrabot (Bulk upload Maltese lexeme data to wikidata from Gabra.)
 * MsynBot 12 (import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group call February 21, 2023: Jim Hahn and John Mark Ockerbloom will be presenting on Penn Libraries' Linked Data Vision. They will discuss their framework for activities and goals around linked data, which includes both existing standards and new functionality. Additionally, they will share successes and areas where progress has not yet been made. The presentation will cover projects with Wikidata tie-ins, such as the Digital Scriptorium Wikibase project and the Deep Backfile copyright information project. The presenters also plan to have ample time for conversation with those interested in using linked data to bring new functionality to their libraries. Agenda
 * Wikidata and Wikibase - SEMIC workshop 2 physical hands-on workshop in Brussels on the 23rd of February (Register here)
 * If you are interested in organizing or joining the Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 satellite events, you can apply for funds by March 20 via the Rapid Grants maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation.
 * Call for papers for the 10th Wiki Workshop in 2023 is out. Submit your 2-page abstracts by March 23.
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #81, Eye


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Blog posts
 * New extension: Wikibase Export
 * BHL is Round Tripping Persistent Identifiers with the Wikidata Query Service
 * Videos
 * Wikibase Export demo - YouTube
 * Editing Wikidata using your smart phone (Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana) - YouTube
 * Notebooks
 * Social reproduction in the French cinema: Occupations of the parents


 * Tool of the week
 * User:Nikki/DisplayColourSwatches.js is a userscript that adds color swatches under color statements.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Blog Series on Wikibase Community via Tech-News
 * Freelance technologists are needed to import personal profiles for politically exposed people (PEPs) into Wikidata
 * The voting phase of the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on February 24. Don't forget to vote for Wikidata proposals!


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * stamp perforation ( type of perforation for a series of stamps )
 * Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index ( Inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI) value of a country )
 * transcribed by ( person who has made a copy of a manuscript text )
 * External identifiers: Encyclopedia of Italian ID, Iowa legislator ID, Rate Your Music film genre ID, Fallout Wiki ID, Museu Paulista iconography ID, Museu Paulista objects ID, Spreaker show ID, TVer series ID, TVer tarento ID, Padua Research Archive author ID, Rate Your Music film ID, Fonts in Use ID, Rate Your Music venue ID, beniculturali.it place ID, Jeju Dialect Dictionary ID, Soprintendenza di Salerno place ID, Online Aboriginal Language Dictionary ID, Mosfilm movie ID, Mosfilm person ID, Adventure Game Studio game ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes: none
 * External identifiers: Syoboi Calendar series ID, Digital Daijisen ID (goo dictionary), La grammatica italiana ID, Akademi Kernewek ID, Sky News topic ID, Faber Music music ID, Faber Music composer ID


 * Query examples:
 * Historical timeline of WorldPride events: (2000 in Rome to 2023 in Sydney) (source)
 * Which glaciers have been named after Moby Dick characters?
 * Free software grouped by licenses (source)
 * German nouns with unparseable combines statements
 * Grammatical features used on English nouns and proper nouns


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * Finished work on endpoints for getting labels and descriptions (T325647, T327881)
 * Started work on makign it possible to get statements from an Item based on the Property ID instead of just the statement ID (T309021)
 * Entity Schemas: finalized technical investigation and making plan for the next steps
 * Working on more validation for valid URIs for units, globes and calendar models (T102840)
 * Query Builder:
 * Adding support for additional data types (T328528)
 * Adding a language selector to make it possible to switch the UI language (T329487)
 * Constraint: Putting finishing touches on showing the constraint clarification messages in the constraint violation popup (T219037)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:18, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2023
 * Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:01, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

The Signpost: 20 February 2023
 News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
 * News and notes: Terms of Use update, Steward elections, and Wikipedia back in Pakistan


 * In the media: Arbitrators open case after article alleges Wikipedia "intentionally distorts" Holocaust coverage


 * Disinformation report: The "largest con in corporate history"?


 * Essay: Machine-written articles: a new challenge for Wikipedia


 * Tips and tricks: All about writing at DYK


 * Featured content: Eden, lost.


 * Gallery: Love is in the air


 * Traffic report: Superbowl? Pfft. Give me some Bollywood! Yours sincerely, the world


 * From the archives: 5, 10, and 15 years ago: Let's (not) delete the Main Page!


 * Cobwebs: Editorial: The loss of the moral high ground


 * Humour: The RfA Candidate's Song

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Tech News: 2023-08
 Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, during planned maintenance of Cloud Services, unforeseen complications forced the team to turn off all tools for 2–3 hours to prevent data corruption. Work is ongoing to prevent similar problems in the future.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * The voting phase for the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ends on 24 February at 18:00 UTC. The results of the survey will be announced on 28 February.

Future changes
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. 

MediaWiki message delivery 01:55, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Editing news 2023 #1
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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:


 * 1) The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
 * 2) They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences. Please tell them what you think.



An A/B test for on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 18:19, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #561
Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week. 


 * Discussions
 * New requests for permissions/Bot:
 * DoggoBot (Task/s: Fix constraint violations of arXiv classification (P820))
 * ScikingBot (Task/s: The bot is going to fix interwiki links for the Lombard Wikipedia)
 * fromCrossrefBot (Task/s: Importing licenses for 1.45 million CC licensed papers from the Crossref April 2022 dump.)
 * Closed requests for permissions/Bot:
 * Cmtqwikibot 2 (Task/s: Add credits (cast and crew) for audiovisual work produced in Quebec based on the Cinémathèque québécoise's catalogue data. Adds reference. Deletes redundant, more general existing statements in certain circumstances.)
 * MsynBot 12 (Task/s: import missing GND ID (P227) identifier based on linked VIAF cluster)


 * Events
 * Upcoming
 * Bug Triage Hour on dates input, March 13th: Following up on an issue on date parsing in the Czech language (T221097), fixed earlier in February, we would like to look at the changes induced by this fix together, check how the date input parsing works in your language, and identify some possibly remaining issues.
 * Talk to the Search Platform / Query Service Team—March 1st, 2023. Time: 16:00-17:00 UTC / 08:00 PST / 11:00 EST / 17:00 CET
 * Eager to discover the potential of Wikidata and Wikibase for semantics? SEMIC is organising a series of workshops that are very much hands-on. Join the first workshop online on 24 January 2023 from 14:00 to 16:00 (CET) via Webex. Register for the first event via this link!
 * Open Data Day Taiwan 2023 March 3rd - 4th
 * Ongoing
 * Weekly Lexemes Challenge #82, Restaurant
 * Past
 * Wikibase Live Session: February 2023 log


 * Press, articles, blog posts, videos
 * Videos
 * LIVE Wikidata editing #106 - YouTube
 * CALA Speaker Series "Describing Chinese Rare Books and Cultural Heritage Collections" Session 1 - YouTube
 * TWed Talk (21 Feb 2023): Sola Shirai on "Working with Wikidata" - YouTube


 * Tool of the week
 * AutosuggestSitelink is a gadget that suggests Wikidata items for possible linking with a Wikimedia site page, using interwiki linking.


 * Other Noteworthy Stuff
 * Inconsistencies on WDQS data - data reload on WDQS
 * Survey Results: Wikibase.Cloud user research. The goal of the research was to uncover usergroups and usecases.
 * Wikibase Suite Survey is now open! The goal is to understand what role Wikibase plays in your organization and identify what you need from Wikibase based on how you currently make use of it.
 * Wikibase.Cloud logo is now available on Wikimedia Commons.
 * Wikimedia Deutschland job openings
 * Senior Product Manager Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
 * Product Manager Wikibase Product Platform


 * Did you know?


 * Newest properties:
 * General datatypes:
 * Norwegian media rating ( age rating system for motion pictures, video and tv content used in Norway )
 * External identifiers: National Grid Balancing Mechanism unit ID, SACEM Museum artist ID, WSJ article ID, InfluenceWatch influencer, World Sailing sailor ID, WiKirby ID, SFMTA ID, Full Fact ID, Hungarian National Namespace place ID (new), Hungarian National Namespace person ID (new), Rate Your Music concert ID


 * New property proposals to review:
 * General datatypes:
 * rebuilt ( year or date when the structure was reconstructed, rebuilt, repurposed or replaced by similar one (if the new and old structures have separate items, use P167/P1398 links instead) )
 * External identifiers: Faber Music composer ID, Wise Music Classical composer ID, Wise Music Classical catalogue ID, Boosey & Hawkes music ID, A Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles entry ID, L’Équipe team ID, encyclopedia.com.ua ID, L’Équipe coach ID


 * Query examples:
 * [https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Flighthouse%20%3FlighthouseName%20%3FcountryLabel%20%28concat%28str%28%3Flatitude%29%2C%20%22%2C%20%22%2C%20str%28%3Flongitude%29%29%20AS%20%3Fcoordinates%29%20%3Fheight%20%3FbuiltDateLabel%20%3FfunctionalLabel%20%3FwikipediaUrl%0AWHERE%20%0A%7B%0A%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ39715.%20%20%20%23%20find%20all%20instances%20of%20lighthouse%0A%20%20%0A%20%20%3Fcountry%20wdt%3AP30%20wd%3AQ18.%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20all%20instances%20of%20country%20in%20South%20America%0A%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%20%20%20%20%23%20find%20lighthouses%20in%20South%20American%20countries%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP17%20%3Fcountry.%0A%20%20%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP625%20%3Fcoordinates.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Afloat%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fcoordinates%29%2C%20%22Point%28%22%29%29%20AS%20%3Flongitude%29%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28xsd%3Afloat%28STRAFTER%28STR%28%3Fcoordinates%29%2C%20%22%20%22%20%29%29%20AS%20%3Flatitude%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP2048%20%3Fheight.%20%7D%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%20%3Flighthouse%20wdt%3AP571%20%3FbuiltDate.%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20p%3AP1433%2Fps%3AP1433%20%3FwikipediaUrl.%20%20%23%20get%20the%20English%20Wikipedia%20page%20URL%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FwikipediaUrl%29%20%3D%20%27%27%20%7C%7C%20LANG%28%3FwikipediaUrl%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20p%3AP1317%20%3FfunctionalClaim.%0A%20%20%20%20%3FfunctionalClaim%20ps%3AP1317%20%3Ffunctional.%0A%20%20%20%20BIND%28IF%28%3Ffunctional%2C%20%22Operational%22%2C%20%22Not%20operational%22%29%20AS%20%3FfunctionalLabel%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FlighthouseName.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FlighthouseName%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%20%20%0A%20%20OPTIONAL%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%3Flighthouse%20schema%3Adescription%20%3FlighthouseName.%0A%20%20%20%20FILTER%20%28LANG%28%3FlighthouseName%29%20%3D%20%27en%27%29%0A%20%20%7D%0A%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FlighthouseName%0A Map of lighthouses in South America] (source)
 * List of countries sorted by life expectancy (source)


 * Development
 * REST API:
 * We added a way to get all statements on an Item for a given Property ID via a filter (T309021)
 * We made it possible to configure the server for the "Try it out" button on the OpenAPI spec (T329606)
 * Query Builder:
 * We added support for additional datatypes. Lexeme (T329204), Sense (T329206) and URL (T329824) are already available now. Form (T329205) and Property (T329207) are in progress.
 * We continued the work on making it possible to switch the UI language (T329487)
 * Constraints: We added support for showing constraint clarifications in constraint violation pop-up (T219037)
 * We finished restricting unit/calendar/globe URIs to sensible values (T102840)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.


 * Monthly Tasks
 * Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
 * Comment on property proposals: all open proposals
 * Contribute to a Showcase item.
 * Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
 * Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
 * Help write the next summary!

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Mohammed Sadat (WMDE) 16:53, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-09
<section begin="technews-2023-W09"/> Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems
 * Last week, in some areas of the world, there were problems with loading pages for 20 minutes and saving edits for 55 minutes. These issues were caused by a problem with our caching servers due to unforseen events during a routine maintenance task.

Changes later this week
 * Octicons-sync.svg The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from . It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from . It will be on all wikis from (calendar).
 * All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 1. This is planned for 14:00 UTC.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. <section end="technews-2023-W09"/>

MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 27 February 2023 (UTC)