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Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 January. It will be on all wikis from 21 January (calendar).
Future changes
- The Growth team plans to add features to more Wikipedias that should encourage more visitors to actively contribute. You can help by translating the interface.
- Wikimedia Commons cannot be edited or uploaded to for a brief period on 26 January at 07:00 (UTC) due to maintenance. [1]
- MassMessage posts could be automatically timestamped in the future because MassMessage senders can now send pages using MassMessage. Pages are more difficult to sign. If there are cases where a MassMessage post should not be timestamped you can let the developers know.
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