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Issues and maintenance
- You will be able to read but not edit the wikis for up to an hour (probably less) on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). [1]
- Diffs on mobile (Special:MobileDiff) were displaying page revisions instead of diffs last week. This has now been fixed. [2]
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Future changes
- Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they once again can. [3]
- There was a problem with Change Tags: the software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page action such as a page protection change if it came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [4]
- The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. This does not include English Wikipedia. There will be another announcement once the date has been finalized. [5]
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