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Tech News: 2025-12
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. This is done twice a year, around the equinoxes, by the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team: by redirecting all traffic from one primary server to another—essentially a backup- we can rely on the other datacenter in case of a crisis.
Updates for editors
- Global reminder bot now supports using the "human-readable" name of the right (for example, Administrators instead of
sysop) in the title if preferred, using the $2 parameter. See this page for more details. 
View all NNN community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
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- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
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Meetings and events
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