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Tech News: 2025-03

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'''Weekly highlight'''

The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page ↗ for more details and a timeline.

'''Updates for editors'''

On wikis with PageAssessments ↗ installed, you can now filter search results ↗ to pages in a given WikiProject by using the <code dir=ltr>inproject:</code> keyword. (These wikis: {{int:project-localized-name-arwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-enwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-enwikivoyage/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-frwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-huwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-newiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-trwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-zhwiki/en}}) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378868 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Tigre ↗ (<code>w:tig:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381377 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:35}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:35|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382592 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints ↗ from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team ↗ in Phabricator if they arise.

Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 ↗ and OAuth 2 ↗ returned a JSON object with an integer in its <code>sub</code> field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382139 ↗

Many wikis currently use Cite CSS ↗ to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to ''not'' clean up your <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Common.css ↗</bdi> until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370027 ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community ↗ will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC ↗ and at 16:00 UTC ↗. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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Tech News: 2025-04

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke ↗. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380846 ↗

On wikis that use ↗ the Patrolled edits ↗ feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters ↗ on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T302140 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools ↗, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis ↗ ({{int:project-localized-name-cawikiquote/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-fiwikimedia/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-gomwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-kabwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ptwikibooks/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-sewikimedia/en}}) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) ↗ at your wiki. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380912 ↗

The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 1

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>
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'''Conversation with the trustees:''' Speak directly with the Wikimedia Foundation trustees about their work at the next Conversation with the Trustees ↗ on January 30 at 14:30 UTC.

'''Community Resilience and Sustainability:''' Join the conversation hour ↗ which will discuss Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights on January 30 at 20:00 UTC.

'''Annual Planning:''' Shaping Wikimedia Foundation’s 2025–2026 annual goals: Key questions for the Wikimedia movement ↗.

'''Central Asia Wikicon:''' Submission for sessions ↗ is open until March 22.

'''Wikipedia is turning 25:''' We just celebrated Wikipedia's 24th birthday, and are already planning for next year's big milestone! Share your thoughts ↗ on what you have in mind to mark the silver jubilee of Wikipedia.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Wikipedia App:''' iOS App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review ↗ feature, providing insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia.

'''Design System:''' Codex – Year 2024 in Review ↗: Key Milestones and Innovations.

'''Tech News:''' The CampaignEvents extension ↗ offers organizers features like event registration management directly on-wiki; The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months; Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke ↗. More updates from tech news Dec 16 ↗, Jan 13 ↗, and Jan 21 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions:''' Wikifunctions shares their Quarterly planning ↗ for January-March 2025.

'''Admin Research Report:''' The Research Team published their final report on administrator recruitment, retention, and attrition ↗ patterns among long-tenure community members in moderation and administration roles.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Equity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Distribution of Funds:''' Next steps toward the creation of the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee ↗.

'''Wikipedia Library:''' What’s new in The Wikipedia Library? ↗ (Oct-Dec 2024).

'''Conferences:''' Your Sneak Peak into the 9 approved Wikimedia Conference Proposals for 2025 ↗.

'''Wikimania:''' Road to Nairobi: ↗ Travel Essentials & Tips.

'''Wikisource Loves Manuscripts:''' Meet-up in Bali: Strengthening the manuscript preservation ecosystem ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase:''' Watch the latest showcase ↗ which looked at Reader Attention and Curiosity. ↗

'''Resource Support Pilot:''' Join the discussion about shaping a pilot project ↗ on the English Wikipedia that would fund small resource requests (like books) to support editors in improving content.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Global Advocacy:''' Wikimedians will promote cultural preservation and knowledge diversity at RightsCon 2025. Tune in ↗!

'''Mis- and disinformation''': Training on misinformation and disinformation prevention for communities in Indonesia: A recap ↗.

'''December's Global Advocacy Newsletter:''' For quarterly insights into the internet governance and policy work the Foundation is doing, subscribe to our Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗. You can see our latest December edition here ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board of Trustees''': The Wikimedia Foundation welcomes community-and-affiliate selected trustees ↗ and the Board appoints Lorenzo Losa its Chair-Elect ↗.

<small>'''Topics''': Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗</small>

<small>'''Wikimedia Projects''': Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗</small>

<small>'''Regions''': Central and Eastern Europe ↗</small>

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Tech News: 2025-05

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Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions ↗ to shape the technical direction for next year.

'''Updates for editors'''

iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review ↗ feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in {{#special:RecentChanges}} ↗ and {{#special:NewPages}} ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T56145 ↗

Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect ↗). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326056 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn ↗-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile ↗ and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 ↗ (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378402 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps ↗: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts ↗ initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mediawiki_user_history</code></bdi> dump, the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>anonymous</code></bdi> field will be renamed to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>is_anonymous</code></bdi>. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/LKMFDS62TXGDN6L56F4ABXYLN7CSCQDI/ ↗

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Tech News: 2025-06

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T110722 ↗

Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380438 ↗ You can now also insert <code><nowiki><code></nowiki></code> tags using a new toolbar button.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383010 ↗ Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.

Help is needed to ensure the citation generator ↗ works properly on each wiki.

* (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json</code> to include entries for <code dir=ltr>preprint</code>, <code dir=ltr>standard</code>, and <code dir=ltr>dataset</code>; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' ↗ and for 'standard' and 'dataset' ↗.

* (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added ↗. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' ↗ and for 'standard' and 'dataset' ↗. The new fields that may need to be supported are <code dir=ltr>archiveID</code>, <code dir=ltr>identifier</code>, <code dir=ltr>repository</code>, <code dir=ltr>organization</code>, <code dir=ltr>repositoryLocation</code>, <code dir=ltr>committee</code>, and <code dir=ltr>versionNumber</code>. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383666 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Central Kanuri ↗ (<code>w:knc:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385181 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool ↗ used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384782 ↗

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''The Signpost'': 7 February 2025

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 2

'''2025 reflections''': Reflections on 2025 ↗ from the Wikimedia Foundation's Executive team.

'''Annual Planning''': How can we help more contributors connect and collaborate? ↗

'''Let's Connect''': The next Learning Clinic will be about WikiLearn Essentials for Course Creators: Building Community Skills Online Part 2 ↗ on February 13 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''WikiCredCon 2025''' will take place on February 14–16 ↗ in San Francisco, USA.

'''Wikisource Conference''' will take place on February 14–16 ↗ in Bali, Indonesia.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Future Audiences''': Watch the recording ↗ for lessons from the short video experiments. A new Discord bot experiment as a way to interact with Wikipedia, the Future Audiences Discord server and future plans for experiments around how to use gamification.

'''WikiProjects''': Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Rethinking Collaboration through WikiProjects and Campaigns ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': The newest sister project now has 2000 functions ↗.

'''Tech News:''' Editors who use the “Special characters” editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki; The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to MediaWiki History dumps ↗ to support the Temporary Accounts ↗ initiative. More updates from tech news week 05 ↗ and 06 ↗.

'''Product & Tech Advisory Council:''' The council looked at data, needs and trends to make a recommendation for the Foundation's annual plan. They recommended that improving mobile contribution experiences ↗ has the greatest potential to bring in new and unheard voices onto Wikipedia and sister projects, and improve the experience of readers and contributors most widely. They are requesting feedback and discussion. ↗

'''Structured Tasks:''' The "Add an Image ↗" structured task is being tested on a representative sample of Wikipedias which allows users to add an image and an appropriate caption to a Wikipedia article.

'''Talk page improvements:''' Usability improvements ↗ are being deployed on remaining wikis.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Language Preservation''': Empowering the Next Generation to Preserve Indigenous Languages through WikiKata ↗.

'''Resource Distribution''': Call for candidates for the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) is opened. Apply until Feb 25.

'''WikiLearn''': A new edition of WikiLearn News ↗ highlights how Wikimedia affiliates are leveraging this online learning platform to support the movement.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy Medium blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Diff policy articles ↗''</small>

'''Global Advocacy''': The Wikimedia Foundation has officially joined the TAROCH (Towards an Open Cultural Heritage Recommendation) Coalition ↗, a campaign run by Creative Commons that aims for UNESCO to release an official recommendation to improve open access to cultural heritage. The team also discussed how media freedom, Wikipedia, and AI connect at the United Nations (UN) Forum on Business and Human Rights; read more monthly updates from the Global Advocacy team ↗.

'''Banner & Logo Policies''': Help us collect examples of community discussions ↗ to run banners or make temporary logo changes.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Welcoming new affiliates''': Recognition of Inari Saami Wikimedians User Group ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br /><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Tech News: 2025-07

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'''Weekly highlight'''

The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations ↗ for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences ↗, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page ↗ by 21 February.

'''Updates for editors'''

The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346 ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T333211 ↗

As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page ↗ for more information.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (<code dir=ltr>prefers-reduced-motion ↗</code>, <code dir=ltr>prefers-reduced-transparency ↗</code>, <code dir=ltr>prefers-contrast ↗</code>, and <code dir=ltr>forced-colors ↗</code>). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384175 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:22}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:22|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the {{#special:CentralAuth}} page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377024 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" ↗ for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T312511 ↗

The function <code dir="ltr">getDescription</code> was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383660 ↗

As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort ↗, the <code dir="ltr">/page/related</code> endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "<code dir="ltr">morelike</code>" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example ↗ is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted ↗ for any questions. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/GFC2IJO7L4BWO3YTM7C5HF4MCCBE2RJ2/ ↗

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The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.

The latest Chart Project newsletter ↗ is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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Tech News: 2025-08

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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'''

Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the <code>{{#special:Homepage}}</code> for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at <code>{{#special:CommunityConfiguration}}</code>. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post ↗, have a look at the documentation ↗, or contact the Growth team ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''
thumb|Highlighted talk pages improvements ↗

Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – {{int:project-localized-name-eswiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-frwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-itwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-jawiki/en}} – will get a new design ↗. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379102 ↗

You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T5324 ↗

When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message ↗ was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization ↗, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.

The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions ↗. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.

A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378488 ↗

Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376378 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:25}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:25|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382193 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification ↗ project page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385923 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371640 ↗

Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that <code dir=ltr>mw.Uri</code> is deprecated. Tools requiring <code dir=ltr>mw.Uri</code> must explicitly declare <code dir=ltr>mediawiki.Uri</code> as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native <code dir=ltr>URL</code> API soon. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384515 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:19, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 3

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>
alt=Digital public good logo|thumb|Wikipedia recognised as a digital public good. ↗

'''Wikipedia as a digital public good''': Wikipedia has been recognized ↗ as a digital public good by the UN-endorsed Digital Public Goods Alliance ↗.

'''Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) Connect''': The first edition of this regional community call for 2025 will be held on February 22 ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase:''' The next showcase will be about "Wikipedia Administrator Recruitment, Retention, and Attrition" and will take place on February 26 at 17:30 UTC ↗.

'''Celebrate Women 2025''': The Gender Organizing community in the Wikimedia Movement hosts an annual campaign every March called Celebrate Women ↗. Conversation hours to learn about some exciting tools that can support your efforts at closing the gender gap will be held on February 25 at 14:00–16:00 UTC ↗.

'''Outreachy''': Wikimedia Foundation is participating in Round 30 of the Outreachy program ↗ that runs from June – August 2025. The deadline to submit projects is March 4 at 16:00 UTC .

'''Growth features''': The new Community Updates module ↗ is a new feature to facilitate the connection between wiki editing initiatives and newcomers.

'''Simple article summaries''': The Web team at the Wikimedia Foundation has introduced Simple Article Summaries project ↗ on select Wikipedias ↗. It aims to display article summaries that would be easy to digest for readers.

'''Language and internationalization''': Five new languages added to Wikipedia as part of the future of language incubation initiative. Read more on the latest edition ↗ of the Language and internationalization newsletter.

'''Tech News''': Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. More updates from tech news week 07 ↗ and 08 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Community Insights:''' The Community Insights 2024 report ↗ captures new insights on newcomers (who are more likely to be younger), their motivations (97% liked that their contributions help others), and how for the first time, more than half of respondents (51%) agreed that the Wikimedia Foundation communicates well ↗ about its projects and initiatives.

'''Let’s Connect Learning Clinic''': Watch the recording ↗ of WikiLearn Essentials for Course Creators: Building Community Skills Online session 1.

'''Global Resource Distribution Committee''' '''(GRDC)''': Are you interested in improving how funds are distributed across the Wikimedia Movement? Apply to be part of the interim GRDC by February 25 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Public Policy''': How Wikimedia projects advance a positive vision for the internet's future through the public domain, the digital commons, and digital public goods ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise:''' Wikimedia Enterprise has partnered ↗ with Ecosia, a Berlin-based search engine.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Brasil''': Wikimedia Brasil becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter ↗!

'''Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedia Community User Group South Sudan ↗.

'''Affiliations Committee''': Insights about the future of the movement organization ecosystem ↗ from Affiliations Committee Strategy Retreat 2024.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:13, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-09

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature ↗ creates categories using {{#special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel}} ↗. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374348 ↗

The <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">wikimedia.org ↗</bdi> portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">wikibooks.org ↗</bdi>, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373204 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368221 ↗https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_portals ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary/en}} in Santali ↗ (<code>wikt:sat:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386619 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381289 ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC ↗. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:38, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-10

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "{{int:Minerva-page-actions-editfull}}" link is accessible from the "{{int:minerva-page-actions-overflow}}" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions ↗ setting. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387180 ↗

Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "<code dir="ltr">mw-ref</code>" from their local <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Common.css ↗</bdi>. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search ↗ and in this example ↗, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page ↗. The Cite footnote markers ("<code dir="ltr">[1]</code>") are now rendered by Parsoid ↗, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("<code dir="ltr">mw:referencedBy</code>") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.

When editors embed a file (e.g. <code><nowiki>File:MediaWiki.png ↗</nowiki></code>) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24521 ↗ In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. <code><nowiki>{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}</nowiki></code>) will now restrict edits to the page.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62109 ↗

When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T304474 ↗ and respects cascading protection.https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T140010 ↗

When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T95797 ↗

The previously noted ↗ update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 ↗ wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page ↗ for more details and an updated timeline.

Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387351 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Sylheti ↗ (<code>w:syl:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386441 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386400 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 02:28, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #33

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''A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.''

Constructive Activation Experiments ↗

This year, the Growth team is exploring ways to help more new account holders start editing—and do so constructively, meaning their edits are not reverted. Our latest experiments include:

'''Gradual rollout of "Add a Link" at English Wikipedia''' – We are gradually introducing the "Add a Link" structured task to newcomers at English Wikipedia (T386029 ↗). This serves as a natural A/B test to measure its impact on activation, retention, and revert rates (T382603 ↗). Previous experiments on pilot wikis showed that "Add a Link" increases newcomer participation, particularly by helping them make constructive (non-reverted) edits.

'''Testing in-article suggestions for first-time editors''' – Many new account holders want to contribute but don’t know where to start. To help, we’re piloting a feature that surfaces structured task suggestions directly in an article’s read view for brand-new editors (T385343 ↗). These suggestions will appear for logged-in users with no edits, providing a clear, simple way to begin contributing that is surfaced while they read.

Community Updates ↗

Newcomers often struggle to find their place in Wikipedia’s collaborative environment. While experienced editors easily discover events like edit-a-thons and writing campaigns, newcomers often miss out.

To bridge this gap, we launched the '''Community Updates''' module for the Newcomer Homepage. This module is disabled by default, allowing Community Admins to decide how (or if) to use it.

If your community hosts events, consider setting up a Community Update to engage and welcome newcomers! Learn more on Diff ↗. To configure, visit Special:CommunityConfiguration.

Community Configuration ↗

Community Configuration is now available across all wikis, including non-Wikipedia projects (T383910 ↗). Community Configuration allows admins to customize various features like Growth features and Automoderator for their communities, and more recently the Babel extension now allows admins to modify configuration:

'''Babel customization''' – Admins can now configure Babel settings (T374348 ↗), including category naming, automatic category creation, and more. See an example on Wikimedia Commons ↗.

'''Upcoming configurable features''' – Projects exploring community configuration options include: '''Incident Reporting System ↗''' (T374113 ↗) and '''Cite backlinks ↗''' (T378807 ↗).

Mentorship ↗

Mentors play a key role in guiding new editors. If you’re interested in mentoring, or turning mentorship on at your wiki, check out the Mentorship FAQ ↗

Starting February 17, 100% of new accounts at English Wikipedia will be assigned a mentor (T384505 ↗).

At Spanish Wikipedia, on 50% of newcomers get a mentor. Experienced contributors are encouraged to join mentorship ↗ so that Spanish Wikipedia can provide a mentor to all new users.

Looking Ahead

In the coming months, we will continue balancing maintenance work—such as deprecating EditGrowth Config (T367574 ↗) and migrating Statslib (T359352 ↗) — with user-facing improvements that support new editors and foster the next generation of contributors.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 4

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alt=Wikimania 2025 Theme|thumb|Wikimania 2025 programming proposals are now open. ↗

'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Annual Planning''': Help shape our early-stage thinking ↗ around our Product & Tech work and provide feedback ↗ before budgets and measurable targets are committed.

'''Global Trends 2025''': As part of annual planning, we identify a list of global trends ↗ that will impact the Wikimedia movement, such as changes in how and where people search for and contribute information online, the rise of misinformation and disinformation in online spaces, and evolving regulation of online information providers.

'''Wikimania 2025''': Apply now ↗ to speak at Wikimania 2025 whether to lead a workshop, host a panel, present a poster, or showcase a tool demonstration. Submit your session by March 31 ↗ anywhere on earth. If you're interested reviewing proposals for Wikimania 2025 and helping shape the program, you can fill out a short form to apply to be a program reviewer ↗ by 17 March.

'''WikiConference North America 2025''': Scholarship applications are now open until April 4 ↗. This conference will take place in New York City from October 16–19, 2025, under the theme “Wiki’s World Fair".

'''Wikimedia Enterprise and Global Advocacy at SXSW 2025''': Wikimedia Enterprise is coming together with Creative Commons on March 9 ↗ for a day of conversations and panel discussions at SXSW 2025 that tackles the challenges of AI and the preservation and ethical development of open data. Global Advocacy is participating on a panel on March 8 ↗, diving into conversations about the future of the internet.

'''WikiCauserie''': The online bi-monthly meeting aimed at bringing together the French-speaking member communities of WikiFranca will be held next on March 21 at 18:00 UTC ↗.

'''Datacenter Switchover''': All wikis will be in read-only mode for a few minutes for a datacenter server switchover ↗ on March 19 starting at 14:00 UTC ↗ for up to 30 minutes.

'''Tech News''': The wikimedia.org ↗ portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. More updates from tech news week 09 ↗ and 10 ↗.

'''Wikimedia Recommendation API''': We will be removing the recommendation API from the current offerings after March 31 ↗. This API is no longer used by newer versions of the Wikipedia Android Mobile application, which was its sole user.

'''Wikifunctions''': We deployed and tested one of our main milestones for this quarter ↗: the ability to get the right Lexeme given a Wikidata Item, or, put simpler, to get the right word from a thing.

'''Wikimedia Apps''': We are inviting users to help improve Wikipedia mobile app's reading and editing experiences in offline or limited internet use ↗. We will organize focus groups to discuss these experiences in more detail. Share your thoughts and help improve the app by joining the discussion ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Women’s History Month''': Wikimedia Foundation is running a campaign to spotlight some of the Wikimedians working to close the gender gap on Wikimedia projects. The campaign, ''Knowledge is human. Knowledge is her.'' ↗, is aimed at reaching external audiences in Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': "Gender Gaps" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on March 19 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC)''': The call for candidates is being extended until March 31 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Privacy and Transparency''': Finding the balance between privacy and openness to stay safe in an open movement ↗.

'''Legal Victory''': The Wikimedia Foundation has won a legal victory in Germany’s courts ↗ that sets a legal precedent defending the Wikimedia projects and volunteers against "forum shopping", choosing a court in a jurisdiction whose laws might be more favorable to them.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise and French AI startup Pleias have joined forces ↗ to show that structured, machine-readable knowledge can drive AI innovation while upholding openness, verifiability, and ethical development.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Ombuds Commission''': Announcing the 2025 Ombuds Commission ↗.

'''Universal Code of Conduct''': Wikimedia Foundation has chosen to appoint Jacob Rogers, Associate General Counsel ↗, to the Foundation advisory seat on the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C).

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees''': The Board met virtually on 11 December to hold its quarterly business. See the most recent corporate actions taken on the Board Noticeboard ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 15:55, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-11

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project ↗ which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T385520 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384844 ↗

The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza ↗ and the last ESEAP call ↗, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion ↗ or email <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">aramadan@wikimedia.org</bdi>!

All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC ↗. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.

An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:06, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-12

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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'''

Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover ↗, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia ↗ tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog ↗. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

The improved Content Translation tool dashboard ↗ is now available in 10 Wikipedias ↗ and will be available for all Wikipedias soon ↗. With the unified dashboard ↗, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters ↗ (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists ↗ filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.

On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories ↗ has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.

The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks ↗ feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page ↗.

Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias ↗: Multi-Check ↗. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks ↗ during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379131 ↗

The Global reminder bot ↗, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation ↗ to check if their language needs updating or creation.

The GlobalPreferences ↗ gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386584 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:26}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:26|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379777 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them ↗. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 5

'''Wikimania 2025''': Program submission is still open until March 31. Apply now ↗ to speak at Wikimania 2025.

'''Research Fund''': The 2025 Wikimedia Research Fund ↗ is launching, inviting proposals from researchers aiming to advance free knowledge through Wikimedia projects. Submit your proposal before April 16 ↗.

'''Central Notice Training''': Learn more about updates to the Central Notice Guidelines ↗ by joining a Central Notice Requester training on March 26 at 14:00 UTC ↗.

'''Design System''': Learn more about Wikimedia’s Codex design system ↗ and how to use it while designing for Wikimedia projects.

'''Tech News''': The improved Content Translation tool dashboard ↗ is now available in 10 Wikipedias ↗ and will be available for all Wikipedias soon ↗; on Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories ↗ has been introduced. More updates from tech news week 11 ↗ and 12 ↗.

'''P&T Annual Planning''': The Product & Technology department publishes its plans ↗ early in the annual planning process, which is on Meta-Wiki and open for feedback ↗. These objectives and key results ↗ are not a list of projects, but instead, a set of directions for problems to solve and impacts to achieve over the course of the year. We look forward to engaging with the community on this plan.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Resource Support Pilot''': The pilot project ↗ on English Wikipedia to fund small resource requests (like books) to support editors in improving content has moved to the next phases of the discussion ↗.

'''Wikisource Conference''': Some highlights ↗ from the Wikisource Conference 2025 in Bali.

'''ESEAP Hub''': Future plans for the ESEAP Hub ↗ one-year pilot project.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Litigation review''': Read key points of the Wikimedia Foundation's legal work last year ↗ to protect free and open knowledge broadly, and the Wikimedia volunteers and projects in particular.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliations Committee''': Announcement of the 2025 Affiliations Committee Appointments ↗.

'''Wikimedia MKD''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedia MKD User Group ↗.

'''Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedia Community User Group Burundi ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:37, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-13

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'''Weekly highlight'''

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities ↗ for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

'''Updates for editors'''

The CampaignEvents extension ↗ will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan ↗ for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration ↗, Collaboration List ↗, and Invitation Lists ↗. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page ↗ or in Phabricator (with <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space: nowrap;">#campaigns-product-team</bdi> tag).

Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration ↗, as part of the CampaignEvents ↗ extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change ↗ in Phabricator (and adding the <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space: nowrap;">#campaigns-product-team</bdi> tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.

Administrators at wikis that have a customized <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Sidebar ↗</bdi> should check that it contains an entry for the {{int:specialpages}} listing. If it does not, they should add it using <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">* specialpages-url|specialpages</code>. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388927 ↗

The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (16px|link=|class=skin-invert ↗). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T344029 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook ↗ for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task ↗.

Developers who use the <code dir=ltr>mw.Api</code> JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the <code dir=ltr>userAgent</code> parameter: <code dir=ltr>var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );</code>. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373874 ↗https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Wikimedia_Foundation_User-Agent_Policy ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:39, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-14

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'''Updates for editors'''

The Editing team is working on a new Edit check ↗: Peacock check ↗. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task ↗, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF) ↗.

Single User Login ↗ has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:35}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:35|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs ↗. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page ↗ for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience ↗. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

Sometimes a small, one line code change ↗ can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">maps.wikimedia.org ↗</bdi> - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover ↗. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work ↗ by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes ↗, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

'''Meetings and events'''

MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 ↗ is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:02, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 6

'''Progress on the Annual Plan''': Six-Month Snapshot ↗.

'''Global Trends''': A message from Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees ↗ on global trends and strengthening Wikipedia’s neutral point of view ↗.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': The registration ↗ to attend the Wikimedia Hackathon is still open until midnight April 13.

'''Central Asia Wikicon''': The Central Asian WikiCon 2025 ↗ will take place on April 19–20 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

'''Infrastructure''': How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects ↗.

'''Tech News''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan ↗ for details) in April 2025; The Editing team is working on a new Edit check ↗: Peacock check ↗. This check’s goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage. More updates from tech news week 13 ↗ and 14 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Read the latest status updates ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗''</small>

'''Wikipedia Library''': What’s new ↗ from January to March 2025.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': Missed the last Learning Clinic on "Safe Spaces, Strong Voices: Advancing Inclusion through the UCoC"? Recording is now available ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Transparency report''': The Wikimedia Foundation’s publishes its latest Transparency Report ↗ covering the period from July to December 2024. View highlights from the report ↗.

'''Global Advocacy''': Read the latest developments on public policy advocacy ↗ from Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise Partners with ProRata.ai to Champion Sustainable Search Engine Practices ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Elections Committee''': Wikimedia Foundation Governance Committee has appointed a new Elections Committee ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 15:53, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-15

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

From now on, interface admins ↗ and centralnotice admins ↗ are technically required to enable two-factor authentication ↗ before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T150898 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation ↗, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">font-size</code>, <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">line-height</code>, and <code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">size-icon</code>.

The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025) ↗ are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa ↗ or e-visa ↗ to enter the country.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:49, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-16

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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'''

Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355914 ↗

File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Images#Thumbnail_sizes ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T355914 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques ↗ which will enable A/B testing ↗, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks ↗ (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.

To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account ↗. It is recommended that you check ↗ that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390662 ↗

"Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week ↗, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team ↗ wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.

On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">query.wikidata.org ↗</bdi>. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr" style="white-space:nowrap;">query-scholarly.wikidata.org ↗</bdi>, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">query.wikidata.org ↗</bdi> endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024 ↗. More information is available on Wikidata ↗.

The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter ↗ is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:21, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 7

'''Annual Planning and global trends''': Join one of the many conversations ↗ happening over April and May about how Wikimedians around the world are responding to global trends ↗ and help shape the Foundation's annual plan ↗.

'''CEE Catchup''': Join the upcoming global trends workshop for the CEE communities ↗ organized together with the CEE Hub ↗ on April 23 at 16:00 UTC, to discuss AI, NPOV, Wikimedia communities and more.

'''Neutral point of view''': More information and an update ↗ about the work to strengthen Wikipedia's neutral point of view.

'''Wiki Workshop 2025''': Register for the 12th annual Wiki Workshop ↗ taking place on May 21–22. It brings together researchers and scholars from around the globe who are interested in or actively engaged in research and development on Wikimedia projects.

'''Learning Clinic''': The upcoming Let’s Connect Learning Clinic ↗ is focusing on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects (Part 1)" and will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC.

'''Community Resilience and Sustainability''': Quarterly Conversation hour ↗ taking place on April 24 at 18:00 UTC to discuss Trust and Safety, the Universal Code of Conduct, Committee Support, and Human Rights.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': The Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 ↗ will take place on May 2–4.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions ↗ is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia ↗. It is the first Wikimedia project that will be able to call and integrate functions directly into Wikipedia articles. Read more weekly updates on Wikifunctions ↗.

'''Edge Uniques''': Introducing Edge Uniques ↗, a technical approach which consists of privacy-preserving first-party cookies that will enable usability testing of features through A/B testing, more accurate counting of site visits, and a way to stop distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) with better precision.

'''Tech News''': The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29; Last week, the default thumbnail size was increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn’t previously possible due to technical limitations. More updates from Tech News week 15 ↗ and 16 ↗.

'''Outreachy''': Celebrating the excellent contributions from both interns and mentors in Round 29 of the Outreachy internship program ↗.

'''Developer Satisfaction Survey''': The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025) ↗ are available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br /><small>''See also a list of all movement events: on Meta-Wiki ↗ · WikiLearn ↗''</small>

'''Wiki Loves Monuments''': Celebrating the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024 ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Watch the latest research showcase featuring the theme of "Motivation of Wikipedia Editors ↗".

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Digital Rights''': Wikimedians leading conversations at the Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum 2025 (DRIF25) ↗.

'''Community Resilience''': To better support community members when they are facing challenges while contributing to Wikimedia projects, the Trust and Safety team worked with the Arbitration Committees to create Project Maps of communities ↗.

'''RightsCon 2025''': Key takeaways on advocacy and inclusion ↗.

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Tech News: 2025-17

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Wikifunctions ↗ is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia ↗ since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions ↗ and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function ↗, rather than via a local template. https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2025-04-16 ↗

A new type of lint error has been created: {{int:linter-category-empty-heading}} ↗ (documentation ↗). The Linter extension ↗'s purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T368722 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:37}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:37|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle ↗. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project ↗, and about the first release that's freely usable ↗.

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

'''Meetings and events'''

The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check ↗, which is the latest Edit check ↗ that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 ↗ at 18:00–19:00 UTC ↗ and hosted on Zoom.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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Tech News: 2025-18

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis ↗, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension ↗ this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The release of the next major version of Codex ↗, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes ↗ and minor visual changes ↗. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page ↗. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298 ↗, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 ↗ and T392390 ↗.

Users of Wiki Replicas ↗ will notice that the database views of <code dir="ltr">ipblocks</code>, <code dir="ltr">ipblocks_ipindex</code>, and <code dir="ltr">ipblocks_compat</code> are now deprecated ↗. Users can query the <code dir="ltr">block ↗</code> and <code dir="ltr">block_target ↗</code> new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool ↗, support for new languages ↗, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign ↗, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment ↗, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.

'''Meetings and events'''

The Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC ↗. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now ↗ to attend.

The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.

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''The Signpost'': 1 May 2025

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Tech News: 2025-19

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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'''

The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan ↗ for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary ↗ (also on Diff ↗), details about the three main goals ↗ (Infrastructure ↗, Volunteer Support ↗, and Effectiveness ↗), global trends ↗, and the budget ↗ and financial model ↗. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page ↗ until the end of May.

'''Updates for editors'''

For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled ↗, two new feature improvements have been released:

* Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration ↗ via Community Configuration ↗ (documentation ↗). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.

* Editors can now transclude ↗ the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation ↗). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via {{#special:AllEvents}} (example ↗). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Developers who use the <code dir=ltr>moment</code> library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the <code dir=ltr>Intl</code> library or the new <code dir=ltr>mediawiki.DateFormatter</code> library. The <code dir=ltr>moment</code> library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task ↗.

Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (<code dir=ltr style="white-space: nowrap;">wbt_*</code>) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390954 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The latest Chart Project newsletter ↗ is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:12, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 8

'''Marking a transition at the Wikimedia Foundation''': update from CEO Maryana Iskander ↗.

'''Annual Planning''': We published the draft Annual Plan ↗ for the coming fiscal year (2025-2026) which prioritizes work to respond to global trends. ↗ Feedback welcome on the talk page ↗ and many other places ↗.

'''WikiForHumanRights''': Join the information session for the 2025 WikiForHumanRights Campaign ↗ on May 9 at 16:00 UTC.

'''Youth Conference''': Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 ↗ will take place on May 16-18 in Prague.

'''AI Strategy''': Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first ↗.

'''Tech News''': Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis ↗, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, now have access to the CampaignEvents extension ↗. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. More updates from Tech News week 17 ↗ and 18 ↗.

'''Abstract Wikipedia selected as a grant finalist''': Abstract Wikipedia has been selected by the MacArthur Foundation as one of five finalists for their 100&Change competition ↗. The winner will be announced in late 2025.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read some key highlights from the April 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania 2025 will be held in the Nairobi neighborhood of Gigiri ↗ and will host a special one-off preconference day for users with extended rights ↗.

'''Learning Clinic''': The recent Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ was about "Exploring Diff Blog: Sharing your story, & understanding Technical Implementation" and took place on May 6 at 12:00 UTC.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Data privacy''': Arguing for data privacy and safety of internet users worldwide: Our amicus brief in the Snap v. Pina lawsuit ↗.

'''World Press Freedom Day''': We will be advocating for Wikimedia's model and speaking about "Information as a Public Good in the Age of AI" for UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day ↗ event in Brussels.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: quarterly Metrics Reports ↗''</small>

'''Risk preparedness:''' We shared the Foundation's approach to risk preparedness as part of the annual plan ↗.

'''Financial Report''': Takeaways from the Wikimedia Foundation's Form 990 for fiscal year 2023-2024 ↗.

'''Annual Report''': The Foundation published the Annual Reports for both the Wikimedia Foundation ↗ and the Wikimedia Endowment ↗. These reports highlight the impact of work done by our global community of volunteers, staff, and donors over the past year.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board and Board committee updates''': The Board met in in March to hold its quarterly business meeting and joined other meetings as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's annual strategic planning. See the most recent actions and updates on the Board Noticeboard ↗.

'''Wikimedians of Chicago User Group''': Recognition ↗ of Wikimedians of Chicago User Group ↗.

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2025) ↗, the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Elections Committee update:''' Review and comment on the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules ↗ for the upcoming 2025 selection process. The deadline is May 15 at 23:59 AoE.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:00, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-20

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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'''

The "Get shortened URL" ↗ link on the sidebar now includes a QR code ↗. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques ↗, which will enable A/B testing ↗, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks ↗ (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this ↗. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page ↗.

Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension ↗ enabled can use Event Registration ↗ in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents ↗.

The Wikipedia project now has a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Nupe ↗ (<code>w:nup:</code> ↗). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta) ↗. The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.

The <code dir="ltr">/page/data-parsoid</code> REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off ↗ on June 7, 2025.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The IPv6 support ↗ is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post ↗ for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

'''Meetings and events'''

The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza ↗, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC ↗. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress ↗.

The MENA Connect Community Call ↗, a virtual meeting for MENA ↗ Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC ↗. You can register now ↗ to attend.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:35, 12 May 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 68

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> <div style = "font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0 100px"> right|175px ↗</div> <div style = "line-height: 1.2"> <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''The Wikipedia Library''': ''Books & Bytes''</span><br /> Issue 68, March–April 2025 </div> <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
In this issue we highlight two resource renewals, #EveryBookItsReader, a note about Phabricator, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.
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Tech News: 2025-21

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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'''

The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check ↗. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org ↗. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

'''Updates for editors'''

From May 20, 2025, oversighters ↗ and checkusers ↗ will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ Multiblocks ↗ will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team ↗ if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to [{{fullurl:Special:Block|usecodex=1}} {{#special:Block}}?usecodex=1], and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki ↗. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page ↗ for more information. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377121 ↗

Later this week, the {{#special:SpecialPages}} ↗ listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned ↗ to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed ↗ at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219543 ↗

The Chart extension ↗ is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline ↗.

Wikifunctions ↗ will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa ↗, Igbo ↗, Bengali ↗, Malayalam ↗, and Dhivehi/Maldivian ↗. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions ↗ and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function ↗, rather than via a local template.

Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments ↗. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users ↗, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video ↗, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game ↗ and the Discord bot ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:29}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:29|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390751 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Gadgets and user scripts that interact with {{#special:Block}} ↗ may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface ↗. Please review the developer guide ↗ for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T377121 ↗

The <code dir=ltr>mw.title</code> object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua ↗ programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named <code dir=ltr>isDisambiguationPage</code>. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T71441 ↗

15px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool ↗ to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org ↗ with <code dir=ltr>mw.loader.load</code>. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">gitlab.wikimedia.org</bdi> without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech ↗ for more information.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025 ↗, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:10, 19 May 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 9

'''Global Trends Community Workshop''': Join Foundation staff and trustees on May 28th from 16:00 UTC ↗ for an online community workshop about global trends impacting Wikimedia ↗. This workshop is part of continuous conversations ↗ aimed at connecting the movement and collaborating on the Foundation's annual plan.

'''Wiki Causerie''': Wiki Causerie ↗ call with a focus on discussing the global trends to help shape the Foundation's annual plan will be held on May 23 ↗.

'''ESEAP Summit''': The ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025 ↗ will take place in Manila, Philippines on May 23–25.

'''EduWiki Conference 2025''': The EduWiki Conference 2025 ↗ will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on May 30–June 1.

'''Wiki Workshop 2025''': The 12th annual Wiki Workshop ↗ will take place online on May 21–22.

'''U4C Call for Candidates''': The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 elections ↗ are accepting candidates until May 28.

'''Content Translation''': A decade of consistent improvements to the Content Translation tool ↗ yields over two million Wikipedia articles.

'''Charts Extension''': After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment. Please consult our page ↗ to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': Where Abstract Wikipedia fits into the new Wikimedia AI strategy ↗.

'''Tech News''': The “Get shortened URL” ↗ link on the sidebar now includes a QR code ↗. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently. More updates from Tech News week 19 ↗ and 20 ↗.

'''Topical Lists''': Read about the important role of topical lists ↗ in supporting campaigns and editing, as well as strategies for the future development, implementation, and sustainment of list-building support.

'''Two-factor Authentication''': From May 20, 2025, oversighters ↗ and checkusers ↗ will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Read the announcement ↗.

'''Mobile Apps''': The iOS app team is experimenting with an "Activity Tab ↗" on Turkish, Spanish, French, and Chinese Wikipedias to see if inviting new editors to add images through Suggested Edits increases engagement. This insight will guide future improvements to the app experience.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''Learning Clinic''': The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ will be about "Communication and Cultural Sensitivity in Conflict Resolution - Best practices (Part 2)" and will take place on May 27 at 13:00 UTC.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': An important milestone for The Wikipedia Library (TWL) has been reached ↗. More than a million links have been added to Wikimedia projects by Library users.

'''Wikisource''': Watch the video celebrating the global Wikisource community ↗ in safeguarding our cultural heritage for future generations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''India Legal Update''': Good news from our legal team ↗, the Supreme Court of India set aside the Delhi High Court’s order directing the takedown of the ''Asian News International v. Wikimedia Foundation'' English Wikipedia article ↗. The Supreme Court’s verdict ↗ upholds the right to report and share information on matters of public interest, including legal proceedings in open courts.

'''UK Legal Challenge''': Wikimedia Foundation brings legal challenge to new UK Online Safety Act requirements ↗.

'''UCoC Updates''': The Universal Code of Conduct 2025 annual review ↗ concluded, with community voting approving the proposed changes to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:45, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-22

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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'''

A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia ↗ is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content ↗, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

'''Updates for editors'''

Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20 ↗, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar ↗, accessed using the new <code>+</code> toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled ↗ to happen in June.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ The <code dir=ltr>#ifexist ↗</code> parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of {{#special:WantedPages}} ↗, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T14019 ↗

This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes ↗, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.

Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more ↗.

Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames ↗, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.

The Newsletter extension ↗ that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters ↗ for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393844 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The previously deprecated <code dir=ltr>ipblocks ↗</code> views in Wiki Replicas ↗ will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new <code dir=ltr>block ↗</code> and <code dir=ltr>block_target ↗</code> views instead.

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'''Meetings and events'''

Wikidata and Sister Projects ↗ is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule ↗ and register ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:02, 26 May 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-23

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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'''

The Chart extension ↗ is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator ↗. Administrators can now set a default template by using the <code dir=ltr>_default</code> key in the local <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json ↗</bdi> page (example diff ↗). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types ↗ are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384709 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using <code dir=ltr>action=login</code> or <code dir=ltr>action=clientlogin</code> will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords ↗ or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth ↗ are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using <code dir=ltr>action=login</code> without a bot password was deprecated in 2016 ↗. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395205 ↗

From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>async</code>/<code>await</code></bdi> syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381537 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 ↗ are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here ↗. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:52, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 10

'''Wikimania''': Register now to attend Wikimania Nairobi ↗! Registration for the in-person event will be open until July 13 or while places remain. For joining virtually, you will be able to register at any time.

'''Let's Connect''': The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will focus on "1Lib1Ref: Tools, Tactics and Innovation". The session will take place on June 5 at 15:00 UTC ↗.

'''U4C Call for Candidates''': The voting period for Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 ↗ is open from June 3 to June 17 at 12:00 UTC.

'''Tech News''': The Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments ↗ to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments; The Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes ↗, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. More updates from Tech News week 21 ↗ and 22 ↗.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': A community-wide discussion for the development of Abstract Wikipedia ↗ is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content ↗, and every opinion is welcomed.

'''Temporary accounts''': Admins, bureaucrats, or stewards will be manually granting access to temporary account IP addresses ↗ to users without certain extended rights. Previously, these users were gaining this right automatically. The decision to change this was made by the Trust and Safety Product team after discussing with almost 20 large Wikipedia communities and Meta-Wiki. See the full message about the change ↗. In addition, the team is finishing work which unblocks rollouts on large wikis. A series of deployments will be happening in June. See the latest project update ↗ to learn about the satisfaction survey, related changes to features and tools, and more.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions ↗ is deployed on five Wiktionaries: Hausa ↗, Igbo ↗, Bengali ↗, Malayalam ↗, and Dhivehi/Maldivian ↗. Users of the five projects are now allowed to call on Wikifunctions' functions freely from their user interface.

'''WikiGames''': A daily trivia game called ''WikiGames ↗'' is coming to the Wikipedia Android app. It invites users to test their knowledge by guessing which historical event happened first based on real events from Wikipedia's "On this day" content. The game's goal is to help new audiences discover a preferred destination for discovering, engaging, and building encyclopedic content. It has been gradually rolled out as an A/B test to 50% of users in English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.

'''Wikimedia Cloud VPS''': We have introduced IPv6 to the cloud virtual network ↗, enhancing the platform's scalability, security, and future-readiness.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Two new features Invitation Lists and Collaboration List ↗ that allow organizers to promote events and WikiProjects on the wikis are now available.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''WikiLearn''': Discover how online learning is helping develop Wikidata skills and the new courses coming up this quarter on WikiLearn News May 2025 edition ↗.

'''Youth Conference''': Young Wikimedians gathered in Prague for the first-ever Youth Conference ↗, created ''for'' young people and ''by'' young people.

'''Gender Gap''': Wikimedia Foundation Reflections ↗ on the Celebrate Women* Campaign 2025.

'''Accessibility''': In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025, we would like to look back together and highlight recent improvements and progress ↗ to ensure that the Wikimedia projects are more accessible for everyone.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''India Legal Update''': A victory for free speech, for Wikipedia and Beyond! The Supreme Court of India overturned a Delhi High Court order ↗ that had required the removal of an English Wikipedia article about an ongoing lawsuit.

'''Mandatory 2FA''': Checkusers and oversighters will need to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled, otherwise they won't be able to use their tools. In the future, this requirement may apply to more user right groups. This is to increase the security of user accounts. See the full message ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Election''': Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions ↗.

'''Assamese Wikimedia Community User Group''': Recognition ↗ of Assamese Wikimedia Community User Group ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:56, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-24

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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'''

The Trust and Safety Product team ↗ is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts ↗ on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update ↗. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page ↗, and join a CEE Catch Up ↗ this Tuesday.

'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ The watchlist expiry ↗ feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences ↗ also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265716 ↗

thumb|alt=Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages|Example of a talk page with the new design, in French. ↗

The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some ↗ have already received this design change, a few ↗ will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on ''Diff'' ↗. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ↗ ("{{int:discussiontools-preference-visualenhancements}}"). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392121 ↗

Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically ↗ during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386492 ↗

This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes ↗, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: {{int:project-localized-name-afwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-bewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-bnwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-cywiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-hawwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-iswiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-kkwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-simplewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-trwiki/en}}. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator ↗.

Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis ↗ to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects ↗, named <code dir=ltr>pageImage</code> and <code dir=ltr>pageAssessments</code>. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131911 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380122 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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Tech News: 2025-25

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'''Updates for editors'''

You can nominate your favorite tools ↗ for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award ↗. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:35, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Growth News #34

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''A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.''

Mentoring new editors

In February, Mentorship ↗ was successfully rolled out to 100% of newcomers on English Wikipedia. Following this milestone, we collaborated with Spanish Wikipedia to expand Mentorship coverage to 70% of new accounts, with plans to reach 85% soon unless concerns are raised by mentors. (T394867 ↗)

“Add a Link” Task – Iteration and Experimentation

Our efforts to improve and scale the “Add a Link” structured task ↗ continued across multiple fronts:

'''Community Feedback & Model Improvements''': We’ve responded to community concerns with targeted changes:

* Restricting access to newer accounts (T393688 ↗)

* Some links types were removed to align with recommendations written in the English Wikipedia Manual of Style (T390683 ↗)

* Allowing communities to limit “Add a Link” to newcomers (T393771 ↗)

* The model used to suggest the links was improved to ease its training (T388258 ↗)

'''English Wikipedia rollout and A/B test''': We increased the rollout to 20% of newcomers, with analysis underway. Preliminary data suggests this feature makes new account holders more likely to complete an unreverted edit. (T386029 ↗, T382603 ↗)

'''Surfacing Structured Tasks''': An experiment where we show “add a link” suggestions to newly registered users while they are reading an article is running on pilot wikis (French, Persian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Egyptian Arabic). Initial results are under analysis. (T386029 ↗)

Newcomer Engagement Features

'''“Get Started” notification''': Engineering is in progress for a new notification (Echo/email) to encourage editing among newcomers with zero edits. Early research shows this type of nudge is effective. (T392256 ↗)

'''Confirmation email:''' We are exploring ways to simplify and improve the initial account confirmation email newly registered users receive. (T215665 ↗)

Community Configuration Enhancements

Communities can now manage which namespaces are eligible for Event Registration via Community Configuration ↗. (T385341 ↗)

Annual Planning

The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2025–2026 Annual Plan is taking shape. The Growth and Editing teams will focus on the '''Contributor Experiences (WE1)''' objective ↗, with a focus on increasing '''constructive edits''' by editors with fewer than 100 cumulative contributions.

Get Involved

We value your insights and ideas! If you would like to participate in a discussion, share feedback, or pilot new features, please reach out on the relevant Phabricator tasks or at our talk page ↗, in any language.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 11

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'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Tech News''': The Chart extension ↗ is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. The Trust and Safety Product team ↗ is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts ↗ on large Wikipedias. More updates from Tech News week 23 ↗ and 24 ↗.

'''New Engagement Experiments''': We're testing out WikiRun ↗, a fun game that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible! It's an experiment to explore new ways of engaging readers. Give it a try ↗ and let us know what you think on the talk page ↗!

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''WikiCelebrate''': How one librarian brought Wikipedia into the classroom and beyond: this month we celebrate Loretta ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The next showcase will center around the theme of "Ensuring Content Integrity on Wikipedia" and will take place on June 18 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Resource Support''': Resource Support pilot project is now open to requests ↗. This is a pilot project which aims to support Wikipedia content editors in obtaining resources that they need to improve content on Wikipedia.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Global Advocacy''': Read important highlights on public policy advocacy ↗ from Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team.

'''Global Advocacy''': The Global Advocacy team will be representing the Wikimedia Foundation at several events in June and July ↗ – including hosting an edit-a-thon during UN Open Source week and running a booth at the Internet Governance Forum ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board Election''': The call for candidates for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection ↗ will be opened on June 17.

'''Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand''': Welcoming Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand as the Latest Wikimedia Chapter ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:39, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-26

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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'''

This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes ↗, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: {{int:project-localized-name-azwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-lawiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-mkwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-mlwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-mrwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-nnwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-pawiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-swwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-tewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-tlwiki/en}}. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

Last week, temporary accounts ↗ were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts ↗ about the project. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340001 ↗

Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check ↗ to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks ↗ within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows ↗ that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395519 ↗

A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task ↗. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:24}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:24|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364023 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart ↗. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available ↗. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/Updates ↗

The <code dir=ltr>all_links</code> variable in AbuseFilter ↗ is now renamed to <code dir=ltr>new_links</code> for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391811 ↗

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'''In depth'''

The latest quarterly Growth newsletter ↗ is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:18, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-27

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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'''

The CampaignEvents extension ↗ has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration ↗, Collaboration List ↗, and Invitation List ↗. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data ↗ in AbuseFilters ↗. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T354599 ↗

Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages ↗ will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T327893 ↗https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global_attributes/hidden#browser_compatibility ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ A new feature, called Favourite Templates ↗, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397103 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:38, 30 June 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 69

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"> <div style = "font-size: 1.5em; margin: 0 100px"> right|175px ↗</div> <div style = "line-height: 1.2"> <span style="font-size: 2em; font-family: Copperplate, 'Copperplate Gothic Light', serif">'''The Wikipedia Library''': ''Books & Bytes''</span><br /> Issue 69, May–June 2025 </div> <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">
In this issue we highlight a new partnership, Citation Watchlist and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 12

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees''': Call for candidates is now open ↗ until July 2 at 11:59 UTC.

'''Sister projects task force''': The sister projects task force ↗ has started a community consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews ↗.

'''Wikimania 2025''': Register now ↗ to join Wikimania 2025 virtually from 6–9 August.

'''Neutral Point of View''': This year's annual planning saw many conversations ↗ about the global trends ↗ that affect our movement including neutrality and the NPOV policies ↗.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon 2025''': Highlights from Wikimedia Hackathon ↗, a place where everything is 'technically possible'.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon''': Reflections and insights ↗ from participants and mentors.

'''Wikimedia API''': The MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs ↗ to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse.

'''Tech News''': The Editing team will release Multi Check ↗ to most Wikipedias. This feature shows multiple Reference checks ↗ within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. More updates from Tech News week 25 ↗ and 26 ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts''': Temporary accounts ↗ were rolled out on ten large and medium-size Wikipedias, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Polish, Indonesian and more. Deployments on more Wikipedias will follow this week. Share your thoughts ↗ about the project.

'''Mobile Apps''': Mobile Apps team launched A/B test of Tabbed Browsing ↗ on the iOS Wikipedia App. Users in Arabic, English, and Japanese in select regions will see the test.

'''WikiGames''': The Android team launched ''Which Came First?'' — a fun, multilingual trivia game ↗ now available to all Android users in nine languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). It's a new step in making Wikipedia more interactive and engaging for mobile users.

'''Community Wishlist''': Read results ↗ of the recently closed "Wishathon ↗", our internal hackathon organized by Community Tech ↗ to help fulfil more wishes from Community Wishlist.

'''Wikifunctions''': Read Wikifunctions' July–September 2025 plans ↗.

'''CampaignEvents Extension''': CampaignEvents extension ↗ has now been deployed to all Wikipedia, meaning that organizers on any language Wikipedia can now gain access to the extension features directly on that Wikipedia through the Wikipedia local admins.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: list of movement events ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗''</small>

'''Let's Connect Peer Learning''': A look into 3 years of Let's Connect and peek into what's next ↗.

'''Knowledge Equity Fund''': How a Knowledge Equity Fund grantee and a Wikimedia affiliate ↗ collaborate on Human Rights.

'''A Wiki Minute Videos''': We published three new 'A Wiki Minute' videos ↗ about what it takes to run Wikipedia and more topics. All videos ↗ are recorded and captioned in Arabic, German, English, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Legal''': Administrative update to the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use ↗.

'''Global Advocacy''': Expanding tech policy knowledge at the first big UN Wikipedia edit-a-thon ↗.

'''Legal''': We announced that a Wikipedia admin has joined our UK Online Safety Act lawsuit ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:08, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-28

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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'''

Temporary accounts ↗ have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP ↗, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository ↗ with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.

'''Updates for editors'''

Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun ↗, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game ↗ and let the team know what you think on the talk page ↗.

Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game ↗. ''Which came first?'' is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/22 ↗

Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page ↗.

Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use {{#special:VerifyOATHForUser}} ↗ to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265726 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery ↗ will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser ↗ will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist ↗.

It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Moderator_Tools/Watchlist ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As part of MediaWiki 1.44 ↗ there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications ↗, information about migration in T388663 ↗ and details on deprecated hooks in T389624 ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

WikidataCon 2025 ↗, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals ↗ and for registration ↗. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:02, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-29

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Featured templates ↗, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery ↗ will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T367428 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392896 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool ↗ was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374457 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea ↗ for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post ↗ for more details.

'''Meetings and events'''

WikiIndaba 2025 ↗ scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application ↗ and program proposal ↗ now!

WikiCon Brasil 2025 ↗ will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:06, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 13

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimania Hackathon 2025''': The Wikimania Hackathon 2025 is inviting you to submit your project idea ↗.

'''WikiWomen* Summit 2025''': The WikiWomen* Summit 2025 ↗ will take place in a hybrid format on 5th August, the pre-conference day of Wikimania 2025. Register now ↗.

'''WikiIndaba 2025''': The scholarship applications and program submissions ↗ are open until 23:59 GMT on July 20.

'''WikiCon Brasil 2025''': WikiCon Brasil 2025 ↗ will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

'''WikiConvention francophone 2025''': The WikiConvention 2025 ↗ will take place in Cotonou, Benin, October 2-5. The call for submissions is open until July 15 ↗.

'''Tech News''': Temporary accounts ↗ have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese; The CampaignEvents extension ↗ has been enabled on all Wikipedias. More updates from Tech News week 27 ↗ and 28 ↗.

'''AbuseFilter''': AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data ↗ in AbuseFilters ↗. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user’s IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.

'''Favorite Templates''': A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery ↗ will be deployed to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser ↗ will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist ↗.

'''Wikipedia App''': We have launched an A/B test of tabbed browsing in the Wikipedia iOS app ↗. This feature allows users to open multiple articles in separate tabs, making it easier to switch between topics, explore, and return to previous reading spots. The test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. We’re collecting feedback and plan to make the feature more widely available soon.

'''MediaWiki''': The MediaWiki Platform team has introduced a unified Built-in Notifications ↗ system, as part of MediaWiki 1.44 ↗, that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications across the platform.

'''Hubs''': Personal, consistent and deeply human: How CEE Hub support the region organizations ↗.

'''Legal''': Good intentions make for bad law in Utah, we argue in our amicus brief in the Netchoice v. Brown case ↗.

'''Wikimedia Organizations''': The Wikimedia Foundation and a group of experienced co-authors with affiliate background have drafted the paper Towards a Healthy Ecosystem of Wikimedia Organizations ↗. This paper aims to be presented as a proposal for the movement at Wikimania in August 2025 in Nairobi. Share your feedback before July 29 ↗.

'''Advocacy''': We have created The Wikipedia Test ↗: a public policy tool and a call to action to help ensure regulators consider how new laws can negatively affect online communities and platforms that provide services and information in the public interest.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The next showcase will center around the theme of "Examining the Impact of LLMs on Knowledge Production Communities" and will take place on July 16 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Administrative Update to Our Privacy Policies''': Following personnel changes, we are removing the name of our former point of contact serving the European Economic Area and the UK for questions and requests related to personal data in the privacy policy ↗ and donor privacy policy ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliations Committee''': New resolution from AffComm on User Group recognition interval period ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:54, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-30

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool ↗ now has another level of article filters added to the "... More ↗" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "{{int:Cx-sx-suggestions-filters-tab-regions}}" filter. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113257 ↗

Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" ↗ Structured Task helps new account holders start editing ↗, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration ↗ feature.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:29}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:29|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis ↗, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables ↗ documentation.

The Beta Cluster ↗ wikis have been moved ↗ from <code dir=ltr>beta.wmflabs.org</code> to <code dir=ltr>beta.wmcloud.org</code>. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

WikiCite 2025 ↗ will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org/message/KQZUG3ETKLBWPBYSB2YAWZIRPWHS24TG/ ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:38, 21 July 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-31

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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'''

The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update ↗, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish ↗ on the topic.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads ↗ to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems ↗ related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message ↗ or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370598 ↗

On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp</code>. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398347 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

Wikimania 2025 ↗ will run from August 6–9. The program is available ↗ for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register ↗ for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:

* Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors ↗

* Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors ↗

* A dozen visions for wikitext! ↗

* Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗

The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 ↗ will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:23, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 14

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimania 2025''': Register to join virtually ↗ the 20th Wikimania taking place from August 6-9 ↗. The programme ↗ has highlights from across Wikimedia projects and communities including the reveal of who will be this year's Wikimedians of the year. ↗

'''Strengthening a neutral point of view''': An overview of NPOV policies across Wikipedia projects, shows that 153 Wikipedias out of 342 (45%) don’t have easily accessible guidance on neutrality. The research was conducted to help understand how neutrality is ensured in our projects. and to provide an opportunity for peer learning across project communities. Read the full research and join the conversation ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Research ↗ · Web ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Tech News''': See all the 60 community-submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks ↗ in Tech News week 29 ↗ and 30 ↗. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool ↗ was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts''': After the rollout of temporary accounts ↗ on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, we are monitoring the impact of this change, and preparing for the next deployments. See the full project update ↗.

'''Add a link''': Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" ↗ to newcomers, as opposed to keeping it open to more experienced editors as well. "Add a link" helps newcomers to start editing ↗, so restricting the feature to them enables Administrators to cater the feature to that specific group, which they can do via the Community Configuration ↗ feature.

'''Digital Safety''': PEN America shares 5 tips for bolstering your safety and privacy online ↗.

'''Amicus brief''': Our amicus brief in Patterson v. Meta ↗: Defending free speech and the open internet in another Section 230 legal case.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': Court hearings for the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK Online Safety Act "Categorisation Regulations" ↗ happened on July 22 and 23. A verdict is not expected until August.

'''Advocacy sessions''': Collaborate for change at these policy advocacy sessions at Wikimania 2025 ↗.

'''Public-Interest content''': Expanding Indonesian Wikipedia with Public-Interest Content through Project Gayatri ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Test''': Learn how to use the Wikipedia Test ↗, a tool to protect the public interest internet.

'''Equity Fund''': As it closes, the Equity Fund has announced its final round of grants ↗ to six past grantees. It will also be providing four "Connected Grants" to movement organizations who will pair closely with one of the grantees to collaborate together.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Content Translation''': Translators who use the Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool ↗ can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions now has a new kind of Types ↗: Wikidata-based enumerations, also known as light-weight enumerations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Endowment''': Sharing the Wikimedia Endowment’s Form 990 ↗ for fiscal year 2023 – 2024. Learn more from the frequently asked questions ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Annual plan''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees approved the Foundation's annual plan ↗ for next year virtually in their quarterly meeting ↗. You can read more about the goals for next year ↗ and a summary of the continuous conversations ↗ that shaped the plan.

'''Board selection''': The Elections Committee shared a list of the all eligible candidates ↗. As there are more than 10 eligible candidates, a shortlisting process ↗ is currently taking place. Representatives of Wikimedia movement affiliates that are currently compliant ↗ with their reporting obligations can participate in the shortlisting process. Learn more about this process and next steps on Meta ↗.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''WIPO permanent observer''': For fifth time, China blocks Wikimedia Foundation as permanent observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:02, 29 July 2025 (UTC)

Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 27

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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter ↗, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. <small>Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily.</small> <span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span> (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

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20px ↗ Featured script

: '''WikiTextExpander''' by '''Polygnotus ↗''', is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? ↗ problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext ↗" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.

20px ↗ Updated scripts

CanonNi: AlertAssistant has been fixed and rewritten using OOUI instead of Twinkle's Morebits. Such modern, very tool. (Do note that the maintainer has since become inactive.)

NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader has been updated to use modern JS APIs that replace the browser's URL bar with the link you clicked on to load in place. The "back" (and "forward") buttons also work now. Cool, innit?

My prayers have been... answered? DreamRimmer/Search sort is a fork of PrimeHunter/Search sort that makes the 11 portlet links much smaller and nicer to look at.

andrybak: Unsigned helper no longer shows an error when the message to sign was added in the earliest 50 revisions of a page's history. This is especially relevant to pages with short histories.

20px ↗ Newly maintained scripts

Cyberdog958/Superlinks finally fixes the famous Bradv/Superlinks to work with Vector 2022!

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20px ↗ Improve a script

20px ↗ Requested scripts

We need scripts that...

allow sorting lists of citations {{tq|such as by URI or other identifier}}

automatically convert the capitalization of citations' titles

collect a list of discussion participants and generate a ping list

automate starting merge discussions

...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests ↗

20px ↗ Miscellaneous

In breaking m:Tech/News ↗, {{tq|Gadgets can now include <code>.vue</code> files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js ↗, in particular using Codex ↗, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons ↗ are now also available. The documentation ↗ has examples.}}

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20px ↗ New scripts

Appo/Globstory integrates OpenHistoryMap ↗, updating the map whenever hovering/clicking on a location or year, the latter of which changes the map to be (hopefully) accurate to the year selected. It's pretty interesting.

frameless|right|upright=0.5|linkinfo ↗ Somewhat similar to WP:NavPops ↗, Awesome Aasim/linkinfo ''(pictured)'' provides a collection of links to replace the right-click context menu, presented beautifully.

Chaotic Enby/Recent Unblock Highlighter is the #1 WP:ROPE ↗ dispensary of the year. Admins exclusive, naturally.

Chew/HighlightQuotes: Makes all text between double quotes have a yellow background. Shiny.

Daniel Quinlan/RangeHelper allows you to treat IP ranges as users and calculate the smallest range that contains specific addresses IP.

Dbeef/C+ allows CheckUsers to generate a {{tl|sock list}} from the Special:CheckUser ↗ page. Its checkboxes make this task hassle-free.

DreamRimmer ↗ has been working at it with the state-of-the-art Vue.js mw:Codex ↗ UI lately!

* /CHUHelper and /EFFPRH reply to username-change and edit-filter requests, respectively.

* /DraftNoCat deactivates the categories on a draft article. Dogs are better, really.

* frameless|right|EasySubpage ↗ /EasySubpage ''(pictured)'' creates subpages... easily!

* TBanHelper warns you when your current page's title contains certain namespaces or keywords, sternly.

DVRTed/multiContribs provides an aggregate view of the contributions of multiple users and a link at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations ↗ to automatically activate it with all users in a sockpuppet category.

Edit7hesadparts/linkColorRandomizer turns your links rainbowy.

Macaw*/noRefListAlert alerts you when the list of references is missing.

Polygnotus ↗

* /DetectPromo is an interesting alternative to the classic Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable, though of course the word list is somewhat different, you'll see.

* /DiscussionToolsDrafts gives you a centralized page to see automatically-saved DiscussionTools reply drafts, just like EditRecovery ↗.

* PreviousDiscussions provides a link to search for your username on subpages of another user's userpage and talkpage conveniently.

Twineeea/noRedLinks brings you to the "read" instead of the "create" tab when you visit a red link. Contemplate life's mysteries as you stare into the blank! Deeply.

No, this is not going to be the enduring tradition of S++ for the future. This was meant to be a joke for the special occasion on the first day of the fourth month but was delayed by four months because I'm lazy.
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Tech News: 2025-32

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Editors can now enable the User Info card ↗. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences ↗, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386439 ↗

Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions ↗, a project recently launched by the Connection team ↗. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378035 ↗

Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account</code> and use a value defined in <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Ipboptions</code>. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation ↗ is available. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398626 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Gadgets can now include <code dir=ltr>.vue</code> files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js ↗, in particular using Codex ↗, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons ↗ can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation ↗ has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module ↗ now exists to load Codex icons. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340460 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T311099 ↗

Module developers can now use a Lua interface ↗ to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video ↗, read more about translatable modules ↗ to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project ↗ for example usage, and share their feedback ↗ on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T359918 ↗

Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy ↗. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing ↗ Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available ↗, and related questions are welcome in that task.

Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification ↗ project page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/7694/ ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

Wikimania 2025 ↗ will run from August 6–9. The program is available ↗ for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register ↗ for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:

* Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse ↗

* Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you! ↗

* Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience ↗

* Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next ↗

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Tech News: 2025-33

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts ↗ in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400583 ↗

The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ published a set of proposed experiments ↗ the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page ↗.

The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393944 ↗

Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment ↗ that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396789 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data ↗ have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets ↗ on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage ↗. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Module_talk:Unicode_data#Data_from_commons ↗

Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the <code dir=ltr>mw.addWarning()</code> function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398390 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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Tech News: 2025-34

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools ↗" Beta Feature ↗ enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400849 ↗

An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395716 ↗

An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab ↗. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399227 ↗

Five new wikis have been created:

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikisource/en}} in Tagalog ↗ (<code>s:tl:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T388639 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikisource/en}} in Madurese ↗ (<code>s:mad:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391747 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia/en}} in Rakhine ↗ (<code>w:rki:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392490 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikibooks/en}} in Minangkabau ↗ (<code>b:min:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395452 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary/en}} in Standard Moroccan Amazigh ↗ (<code>wikt:zgh:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399684 ↗

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:34, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 15

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'''Special Wikimania issue''' <small>''This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue''</small>

'''Wikimania Nairobi''': Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania 2025 by checking session pages in the program ↗. These links will be replaced by Commons links when the uploads are finished.

'''Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2025''': The Wikimedian of the Year awards ↗ give us an opportunity to pause, taking a moment to recognize people who make our mission possible. Learn about all of this year's winners ↗.

'''Highlights:''' Daily highlights from Wikimania:

* Day 1 - Celebrating 20 years of Wikimania ↗,

* Day 2 - Technology in a changing world ↗,

* Day 3 - Connecting with communities in Africa ↗,

* Day 4 - Bringing generations together ↗.

'''Product and Tech''': Wikimania 2025 sessions about Product and Tech ↗ you can watch, with links to the recordings.

'''Affiliate Strategy''': Wikimania 2025 Brings Affiliate Strategy Recommendations into Focus ↗.

'''Twentieth edition of Wikimania''': Celebrating humans who make Wikipedia possible. ↗

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest update from Tech News week 31 ↗, 32 ↗, and 33: ↗ The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads ↗ to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16; The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts ↗ in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.

'''Collaborative Contributions''': Share your comments ↗ on Collaborative Contributions ↗. This project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis.

'''PTAC''': The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ published a set of proposed experiments ↗ the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals ↗ are welcomed until August 22.

'''Watchlists and Recent Changes''': The Foundation will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages over the next few months. Please read the latest update ↗, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish ↗ on the topic.

'''Wikifunctions''': The Foundation is working on demonstrating functions that generate sentences and fragments in several languages ↗. This is a considerable step towards creating text for Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗ is a process and convening co-designed by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland that will help us all learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses. You can apply now to join ↗ the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read about language support for new languages and other highlights from the July 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Language Community:''' The next language community meeting will be held on August 29 at 15:00 UTC ↗.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': The High Court of Justice has dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations ↗. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling ↗ emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA is implemented.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (April-June 2025) ↗, the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

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Tech News: 2025-35

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles ↗ was updated. For example: <code>width: fit-content</code>; <code>ruby-align</code>; relative units such as <code>lh</code>; and custom strings in <code>list-style-type</code>. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T271958 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T277755 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T293633 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T295088 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T326906 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340057 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T360725 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T371809 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375344 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T394619 ↗

On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399455 ↗

Administrators can now access the {{#special:BlockedExternalDomains}} ↗ page from the {{#special:CommunityConfiguration}} ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393240 ↗

Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396168 ↗https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Do_something_about_Google_%26_DuckDuckGo_search_not_indexing_media_files_and_categories_on_Commons ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wiktionary/en}} in Betawi ↗ (<code>wikt:bew:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402130 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:39}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:39|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Two fields of the recentchanges database table ↗ are being removed. <code>rc_new</code> and <code>rc_type</code> are being removed in favor of <code>rc_source</code>. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use <code>rc_source</code> instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400696 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

'''Meetings and events'''

The next Language Community Meeting ↗ is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC ↗. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:08, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-36

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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'''

The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601 ↗, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): {{int:project-localized-name-arwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-cswiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-dewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-enwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-eswiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-fawiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-frwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-hewiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-idwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-itwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-jawiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-kowiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-nlwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-plwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ptwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-trwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-ukwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-viwiki/en}}{{int:comma-separator/en}}{{int:project-localized-name-zhwiki/en}}. This project is open until September 9th 2025.

'''Updates for editors'''

The CampaignEvents extension ↗ has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration ↗, Collaboration List ↗, and Invitation List ↗. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CampaignEvents/Deployment_status#How_to_Request_the_CampaignEvents_Extension_for_your_wiki ↗

The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401066 ↗

On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment ↗ of the <code>Special:RecentChanges</code>, <code>Special:Watchlist</code>, and <code>Special:RelatedChanges</code> pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402958 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396789 ↗

Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:37}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:37|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter ↗ to learn more.

The latest Readers Newsletter ↗ is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.

'''Meetings and events'''

Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:

* Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these ↗.

* La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs ↗: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:46, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Apply ↗ before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.

'''Wikimania 2026''': The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 ↗ have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 ↗ and 35 ↗: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find.

'''Spread Wikilove, thank comments''': A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools ↗" Beta feature ↗; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment ↗. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.

'''Community Wishlist''': Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles ↗ was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish ↗.

'''Wikipedia Mobile Apps:''' The Android app team has launched a new experiment ↗ in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

'''Wikipedia 25''': To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday ↗, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': Collections from Dow Jones & Company ↗, including the The Wall Street Journal ↗, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliate recognition''': The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused ↗ until March 31, 2026.

'''Board of Trustees selection''': The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process ↗ will now open on October 8 and close October 23.

'''New Board member''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:13, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16

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thumb|250px|link=m:Wikipedia 25/Celebration toolkit|Wikipedia’s 25th birthday logo.|alt=Wikipedia 25 logo ↗
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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Apply ↗ before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.

'''Wikimania 2026''': The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 ↗ have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 ↗ and 35 ↗: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find.

'''Spread Wikilove, thank comments''': A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools ↗" Beta feature ↗; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment ↗. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.

'''Community Wishlist''': Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles ↗ was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish ↗.

'''Wikipedia Mobile Apps:''' The Android app team has launched a new experiment ↗ in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

'''Wikipedia 25''': To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday ↗, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': Collections from Dow Jones & Company ↗, including the The Wall Street Journal ↗, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliate recognition''': The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused ↗ until March 31, 2026.

'''Board of Trustees selection''': The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process ↗ will now open on October 8 and close October 23.

'''New Board member''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:14, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Please archive your talk page

Hi—your talk page is about to exceed the literal maximum size allowed by the Wikipedia software. Please set up archiving (adding {{tlsx|Setup auto archiving}} to the top of the page works) so that editors can contact you in the future. Best, <span style="display:inline-block;">House '''Blaster''' ↗ (talk • he/they)</span> 17:00, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 9 September 2025

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Tech News: 2025-37

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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'''

The Editing team is working on a new check: Paste check ↗. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please tell us in this task ↗, or contact the team ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ Later this week, users of the "{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}" beta feature ↗ will be able to use a linting tool ↗ to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381577 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item ↗ When browsing a wiki (like <code dir=ltr>en.wikipedia.org</code>), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like <code dir=ltr>en.m.wikipedia.org</code>). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998 ↗

When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T365303 ↗

Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401286 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400698 ↗

Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T318269 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:10, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-38

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

References lists that are made using the <code dir=ltr><nowiki><references/></nowiki></code> tag ↗ will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334941 ↗

Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis ↗ and medium wikis ↗ that have the CampaignEvents extension ↗ enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration ↗ as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis ↗ unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right. Learn more ↗.

Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:

* for the <code dir=ltr>intitle:</code> keyword: metacharacters ↗ for start-of-line (<code dir=ltr>^</code>) and end-of-line (<code dir=ltr>$</code>) anchors https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T317599 ↗

* for both <code dir=ltr>intitle:</code> and <code dir=ltr>insource:</code> keywords: shorthand character classes ↗ for digits (<code dir=ltr>\d</code>), whitespace (<code dir=ltr>\s</code>), and word characters (<code dir=ltr>\w</code>); and escape codes ↗ for line feed (<code dir=ltr>\r</code>), newline (<code dir=ltr>\n</code>), tab (<code dir=ltr>\t</code>), and unicode (e.g. <code dir=ltr>\uHHHH</code>). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403212 ↗

When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306325 ↗

All wikis will be read-only ↗ for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC ↗. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:24}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:24|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401043 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to join an upcoming discovery interview ↗, or leave feedback onwiki ↗. Learn more ↗.

Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401288 ↗

The new Unicode 17.0 ↗ version has been released. The datasets on Commons ↗ for the Module:Unicode data ↗ have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.

Users of the Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables ↗. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative ↗. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API ↗, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.

A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information ↗ from Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

Scholarship applications ↗ for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:02, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 17

'''Wikimania 2026''': The scholarship application for Wikimania 2026 is open. Apply now ↗ by October 31.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Help us find inspiring stories ↗ to share during birthday celebrations by September 23.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': "Readers and Readership Research" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on September 24 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Update to banner and logo policies''': Feedback is requested on proposed policy and documentation updates ↗ regarding the use of banners and logos for advocacy purposes.

'''GLAM Wiki 2025''': The registration for GLAM Wiki Conference ↗ is open until September 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

thumb|A better way to protect Wikimedia from malicious bots|alt=Cybersecurity ↗

'''Better bot detection''': How we are improving bot detection and replacing our CAPTCHA ↗.

'''Temporary Accounts''': Temporary accounts ↗ are now deployed to almost all wikis except the last 11.

'''User Info''': This new feature ↗ displays data related to a user account when you tap or click on the "user avatar" icon button next to a username. It's meant to be useful for different users with extended rights as well as newcomers.

'''Newsletter highlights''': The latest Readers Newsletter ↗ is now available. It includes considerations about Wikipedia's declining pageviews in the recent years, how the Foundation and communities may work on addressing this together, and the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience.

'''Activity Tab Experiment''': The Foundation launched an experiment testing a new Activity tab ↗ in the Wikipedia Android app to our beta testers. Instead of only showing editing activity, this tab also surfaces insights about reading and donation behavior.

'''Search Suggestions''': To make it easier for users to find articles, logged-out users on both desktop and mobile will see suggestions of articles ↗ for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. All non-English wikis received this update in June and July.

'''Paste Check''': The Foundation is working on a new check: Paste check ↗. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted to ensure it is aligned with the Movement's values. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the information page ↗.

'''Structured Task''': The Add a Link ↗ Structured Task has been fully released at English Wikipedia. This release is an important step in making editing more accessible for new contributors, especially on mobile.

'''Tech News''': Read more updates from Tech News week 36 ↗ and 37 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now available on 65 Wiktionaries ↗ and has a new capability to copy function calls from one Wikipedia to another ↗.

'''Multilingual Contributors''': The Language and Product Localisation team ↗ is launching a CentralNotice campaign ↗ to attract multilingual contributors to specific Wikipedias. The campaign will feature regionally targeted banners to reach potential native speakers.

'''Global Resources''': Introducing the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC) ↗.

'''Funding the Movement''': Key Takeaways, Trends, and Lessons ↗ from FY 2024-2025 Community Fund Grants.

'''Open Indonesia''': Reflections on Open Indonesia ↗, an event in Bandung gathering communities dedicated to advancing open knowledge to build the country's Open Knowledge Roadmap.

'''WikiWomen*''': Reflections from the WikiWomen* Summit 2025 ↗.

'''Gender & AI''': Is Gendering AI Possible? Reflections from the 2025 Gendering AI Conference ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': What one centenarian can teach us about 25 years of Wikipedia ↗.

'''Knowledge Equity Fund''': Wikimedia Ghana User Group receives Knowledge Equity Fund Connected Grant ↗.

'''Wikimania 2025''': ESEAP First Timers at Wikimania Nairobi ↗.

'''César do Paço Lawsuit''': Update about a lawsuit in Portugal ↗ and the Foundation's appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

'''UK Online Safety Act''': The Wikimedia Foundation will not appeal ↗ the UK High Court’s decision to dismiss our challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''August board meeting''': Updates on ↗ board appointments and selection, CEO search, work to strengthen Wikipedia's approach to neutral point of view and updates on three pilots around more shared decision-making and shared accountability across the movement.

'''New Endowment board members''': Welcoming New Wikimedia Endowment Board Members, Kevin Bonebrake and Ike Kier ↗.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 70

New collections:

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Spotlight: Wikimania

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Tech News: 2025-39

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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'''

On September 24th at 15:00 UTC ↗, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover ↗. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" ↗ tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries ↗ will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions ↗ and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions ↗, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.

A new parser function ↗ has been added: <code><nowiki>{{#contentmodel}}</nowiki></code>. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model ↗ of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as ''MediaWiki:editinginterface'', even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328254 ↗

Adding or editing a <code>DISPLAYTITLE</code> for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the <code><nowiki>{{DISPLAYTITLE}}</nowiki></code> would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket ↗.

Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab ↗, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:12}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:12|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates ↗, quantities ↗ and time ↗ values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video ↗ and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter ↗ (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter ↗ (for geo-coordinates).

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Tech News: 2025-40

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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'''

A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator ↗. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/321/iterative_improvements_september_2025/ ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update ↗ or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki ↗.

As announced on Diff blog ↗, the production trial of the hCaptcha ↗ service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA ↗ (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.

The CampaignEvents ↗ extension has been deployed ↗ to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right ↗.

Sub-referencing ↗, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature ↗ on testwiki or on betawiki ↗ as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references ↗ or volunteer to become a pilot wiki ↗.

On wikis using the Mentorship ↗ system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through {{#special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship}} ↗. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403563 ↗

The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check ↗. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org ↗. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.

The rollout of multiblocks ↗ had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on {{#special:Contributions}} and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, [{{fullurl:Special:Allmessages|prefix=sp-contributions-blocked-notice}} messages prefixed with <code>sp-contributions-blocked-notice</code>] will be removed and replaced with [{{fullurl:Special:Allmessages|prefix=blocked-notice-logextract}} those prefixed with <code>blocked-notice-logextract</code>] in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.

There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as <code dir=ltr><nowiki>[ ] |</nowiki></code> after the fragment identifier (<code><nowiki>#</nowiki></code>). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404823 ↗

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikiquote/en}} in Malay ↗ (<code>q:ms:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404698 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the User Info Card ↗ now displays currently active global lock/blocks. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401128 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the <code>mw.title.newBatch ↗</code> function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function ↗ count once.

A new Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council ↗ (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:48, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 18

'''CEE Meeting''': Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 ↗ will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 26-28.

'''Learning Clinic''': The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic ↗ will talk about "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool" and will take place on September 30 at 13:00 UTC.

'''Big Fat Brussels Meeting''': The tenth in-person gathering of Wikimedians enthusiastic in free knowledge advocacy, Big Fat Brussels Meeting ↗, will take place on October 3-4.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase ↗ taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 38 ↗ and 39 ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now available on 123 Wiktionary languages ↗ and have more than 3,000 functions ↗ available.

'''Collaborative Contributions''': A new feature, called Collaborative Contributions ↗, allows editors to see the impact of their collaborative editing activities. It was live demoed earlier ↗ and you can follow instructions to test it out ↗.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': The CampaignEvents extension was deployed to Wikimedia Commons ↗ and all Wikisources -80+ wikis.

'''Event registration''': Starting the week of October 6, on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ that have the CampaignEvents extension ↗ enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration ↗ as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis ↗ unless requested in Phabricator. More information on Meta ↗.

'''Search Suggestions:''' Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users now see suggestions of articles for further reading ↗ on all Wikipedias, in order to make it easier for users to find articles.

'''Datacenter server switchover''': A successful datacenter server switchover backup test ↗ took place on September 24.

'''Activity Tab now on Android:''' Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab ↗, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

'''Banners & Logos policies''': The Wikimedia Foundation has published draft proposals for policies related to the use of banners and logo changes for advocacy purposes ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikimedia Foundation is creating playful, celebratory interventions ↗ on the Wikipedia portal page ↗, the Wikipedia app, and potentially any interested Wikipedias to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday. Please share your inputs ↗ and add your username on the Talk page ↗ if you think your community would be interested in participating.

'''Regional Funds''': Welcoming new ESEAP Regional Funds Committee Members ↗.

'''Peer Learning''': Reflections from Let’s Connect at Wikimania Nairobi 2025 ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': Structured Contents now supports Wikipedia tables as structured JSON ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Georgia''': Wikimedia Georgia becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter. ↗

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Knowledge integrity''': The Wikimedia Foundation launches a new series that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times ↗.

'''Highlights from other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

'''National award''': Wikipedian and current chair of Wikimedia Deutschland, Alice Wiegand, receives the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ↗ for her voluntary commitment to Wikipedia and the global Wikimedia movement.

'''Supporting admins and patrollers''': Motivating, training and networking – Wikimedia Ukraine’s plan to support Wikipedia admins and patrollers ↗.

'''Wikimania roundup''': A roundup of Wikimania and this year's Wikimedians of the year ↗ by the French-speaking community's newsletter, ''Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia'' (Views on Wikimedia movement's events, or RAW).

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''The Signpost'': 2 October 2025

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Tech News: 2025-41

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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'''

Paste Check ↗ is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check ↗. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.

'''Updates for editors'''

Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like <code>en.wikipedia.org</code>), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like <code>en.m.wikipedia.org</code>). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214998 ↗

New date filters ↗, <code dir=ltr>creationdate:</code> and <code dir=ltr>lasteditdate:</code>, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. <code dir=ltr>>2024</code>) and relative dates (e.g. <code dir=ltr>today-1d</code>), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403593 ↗

Wikifunctions ↗ now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table ↗ that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output ↗. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T397402 ↗

An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T291691 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:34}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:34|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405957 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The field <code dir=ltr>rev_sha1</code> in the revision database table is being removed in favor of <code dir=ltr>content_sha1</code> in the content database table. See the announcement ↗ for more information.

The Reader Experience team ↗ will roll out Dark Mode ↗ user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode ↗ and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page ↗ before the enablement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395628 ↗

Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the <code>rest.php</code> path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400130 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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Tech News: 2025-42

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'''Weekly highlight'''

Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity ↗, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security ↗ project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.

'''Updates for editors'''

Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity ↗. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T400579 ↗

This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements ↗ are already available by default (everywhere ''except'' the 12 wikis listed in T379264 ↗) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366095 ↗

Users who have not verified their email address ↗ will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Email_confirmation ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T58074 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T376531 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons ↗ as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:56, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection''': Announcement of the final ballot ↗ for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election and more answers about the decision ↗. Eligible voters can vote between October 8 – October 23 ↗.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Are you planning to organize events to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday ↗? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone. Applications are open until November 1 ↗.

'''WikiConference North America 2025''': WikiConference North America ↗ will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>
thumb|Dark Mode will soon be available on all Wikimedia sites. ↗

'''Mobile Editing''': Insights on mobile web editing ↗ on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.

'''Dark Mode''': Dark Mode ↗ user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.

'''Community wishlist extension:''' The new Community Wishlist extension has been released ↗. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.

'''Paste Check''': 22 Wikis are now testing ↗ a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check ↗, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.

'''Tone Check''': The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check ↗. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.

'''Search Suggestions''': Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia ↗. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.

'''Unsupported Tools Working Group''': A new Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons ↗ as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 40 ↗ and 41 ↗ including about Sub-referencing ↗ – a new feature to re-use references with different details.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC ↗.

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania Nairobi has been featured in more than 100 stories across community platforms and international media outlets ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': Rich text is now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls ↗ across the 150 wikis where it’s enabled.

'''WikiLearn''': New Wikipedia online courses ↗ you can join to strengthen your Wikimedia editing skills.

'''Human Rights''': Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Human Rights Impact Assessment ↗ on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Digital Safety & Privacy''': Frequently Asked Questions ↗ about Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Work.

'''Transparency Report''': Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Latest Transparency Report ↗.

'''Privacy Policy''': The Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy ↗ is getting a minor update ↗ in preparation for Temporary Accounts.

'''Learning Clinic''': Join the next Let's Connect Learning Clinic on the topic of "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool (Part 2)" taking place on October 20 at 17:00 UTC ↗.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Knowledge integrity''': Lessons from Wikipedia on the 3 building blocks of trustworthy information ↗. This is part of the new series from the Wikimedia Foundation that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 14:50, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-43

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406724 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406415 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the <code dir=ltr><nowiki>rest.php</nowiki></code> route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board ↗.

Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401290 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

Growth News #35

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''A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.''

New releases

= English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task =

We released ↗ the "Add a Link" Structured Task ↗ to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).

= Growth features for Wikidata =

After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata ↗ to allow for testing and discussion (T400937 ↗).
Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.

Work in progress

= Revise Tone Structured Task =

The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing ↗.
We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.

= Add a link to more wikis =

The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release ↗ the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.

Add a link ↗, which can be configured by the community locally ↗, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.

Research

The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:

Progression System ↗ – We have published ↗ initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers.
The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.

Mobile Web Editing Research ↗ – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.

Newcomers Survey ↗ – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.

Community events

The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.

'''Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement ↗'''

This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.

'''Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks ↗'''

This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.

'''Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors ↗'''

With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy ↗ aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.

'''CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors ↗'''

Many communities face a decline in volunteer engagement. Newcomers often leave soon after joining, while experienced editors struggle to manage increasingly complex workflows and overwhelming backlogs. We presented the Contributors Strategy ↗ and the different features and workflows that can help communities to address these challenges. We listened to the specific needs of the CEE communities to help guide the Contributors teams' work.

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Tech News: 2025-44

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page ↗.

Autoconfirmed users on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration ↗ without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402285 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more ↗.

The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the {{#special:RestSandbox}} ↗ page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch ↗ page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/6931/ ↗

Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox ↗. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation ↗ page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.

A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API ↗. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion ↗.

Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582 ↗. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378352 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:28, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 20

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection''': Additional perspectives on current and future board selection processes ↗.

'''Global trends''': We are seeing 8% declines in human page views on Wikipedia as some users don't directly visit Wikipedia to get information. Learn about this new user trend ↗, how the Wikimedia Foundation anticipate these changes, and how you can help.

'''WECUDI 2025''': The second conference of Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures ↗ will be held from October 29–31 in Mexico City, Mexico.

'''GLAM Conference:''' Wiki GLAM Culture and Heritage Conference (WGCHC) ↗ will take place on 30 October – 1 November in Lisbon, Portugal.

'''WikidataCon 2025''': WikidataCon 2025 ↗ will take place online from October 31 – November 2.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

thumbtime=0:10|thumb|The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. ↗

'''Making it easier to say thanks''': Users on most wikis will now have the ability to thank a comment directly ↗ from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.

'''Account security''': Improvements to account security ↗ and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity ↗.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': The naming contest ↗ for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. Voting is now open until November 3 ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 42 ↗ and 43 ↗ including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Wikimedia apps''': The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to the Tabbed browsing feature ↗ into Beta for select regions & languages. Called ''“More dynamic tabs”'', the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.

'''CampaignEvents extension:''' Campaignevents extension ↗ will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: ''Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List''. For this rollout, Invitation List ↗ will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.

'''Event registration tool:''' Autoconfirmed users on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ with the extension can now use Event Registration ↗ without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

'''Digital safety''': Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course, Safety for Young Wikimedians ↗.

'''Wikimedia Core Curriculum''': The Wikimedia Foundation has developed seven online video learning modules ↗ covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.

'''Advocacy''': The Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto a statement ↗ that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as the Global Digital Compact campaign ↗ and WSIS+20 ↗ deliberations.

'''GLAM:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto the Open Heritage Statement ↗, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''How Wikipedia works''': Wikimedia Foundation responds to questions about how Wikipedia works ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 16:08, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-45

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Administrators will now find that {{#special:MergeHistory}} ↗ is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382958 ↗

For users with "{{int:discussiontools-preference-autotopicsub}}" enabled in their preferences ↗, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "{{int:Skin-action-addsection}}" or "{{int:Discussiontools-replybutton}}" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290778 ↗

Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images ↗. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405861 ↗

Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395628 ↗

Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist ↗. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish ↗ has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41510 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407318 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener ↗ at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means <code>/s/</code> URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML <code dir=ltr>class="title-shortlink"</code>. The <code>/s/</code> URLs will keep working. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107188 ↗

On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces ↗ and SRE Service Operations ↗ teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team ↗ board.

MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SMWTEAES4SDLDUSK4HMWNBSKNCXZAWYN/ ↗

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'''In depth'''

In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:30, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-46

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''
thumb|alt=Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages|Example of a talk page with the new design, in French. ↗

Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages ↗ on some Wikipedias ↗. Almost all wikis ↗ have received this design change; English Wikipedia ↗ will get these changes later. You can read more on ''Diff'' ↗. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences ↗ in "{{int:discussiontools-preference-visualenhancements}}". https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379264 ↗

MediaWiki can now display a page indicator ↗ automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T12347 ↗

Using the "{{int:showpreview}}" or "{{int:showdiff}}" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin ↗', 'uselang ↗' and 'section ↗'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T62744 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T24029 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T155097 ↗

Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text ↗. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369454 ↗

The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Activity_Tab_Experiment ↗

The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Readers/Reader_Growth/WE3.1.3_Image_Browsing ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256185 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Nominations are open on Wikitech ↗ for new Toolforge standards committee ↗ members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy ↗ and Abandoned tool policy ↗ among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.

The JWT issuer field ↗ in OAuth 2 access tokens ↗ for SUL wikis ↗ has been changed to <code><nowiki>https://meta.wikimedia.org</nowiki></code>. Old access tokens will still work. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399199 ↗

The JWT subject field ↗ in OAuth 2 access tokens ↗ will soon change from <code><user id></code> to <code dir=ltr style="white-space:nowrap">mw:<identity type>:<user id></code>, where <code><identity type></code> is typically <code dir=ltr>CentralAuth:</code> (for SUL wikis ↗) or <code dir=ltr style="white-space:nowrap">local:<wiki id></code> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the <code>sessionJwt</code> cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399199 ↗

MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext ↗, blockedtext-partial ↗, autoblockedtext ↗, systemblockedtext ↗, blockedtext-tempuser ↗, autoblockedtext-tempuser ↗) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page <code><nowiki>$9</nowiki></code> or emailing other users <code><nowiki>$</nowiki><nowiki>10</nowiki></code>. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T285612 ↗

A <code>REL1_45</code> branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/ZUY7TY3Z6XPZWZVAZV63OPO5OW52Q6GE/ ↗

The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T366248 ↗https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/3KQPOR6ACVN6OVLMLZPIBXQSWQKW4E3K/ ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:36, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 21

'''Wikimania 2027''': Santiago, Chile is announced as the location for Wikimania 2027 ↗. The annual conference returns to Latin America after more than 10 years, following previous editions in Buenos Aires (2009) and Mexico City (2015).

'''Wikidata recognized as a Digital Public Good''': Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance ↗.

'''Tech News''': Read updates from Tech News week 44 ↗ and 45 ↗ including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Activity Tab''': The Wikipedia Android app expands the new Activity tab ↗ to all users. It offers a complete view of your Wikipedia activity: reading time, saved articles, edits, and donation history (for known donors). This change aims to make Wikipedia a more engaging experience for readers and contributors alike, while keeping all personal data private and stored locally on your device.

'''Tabbed browsing''': Tabbed browsing ↗ is now available on the Wikipedia App for iOS. Tabs will let you keep more than one article open at a time, making it easier to explore complex topics, follow links without losing your place, and pick up where you left off.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Autoconfirmed users on small ↗ and medium wikis ↗ with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration ↗ without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

'''Image browsing''': The Wikimedia Foundation launched image browsing ↗, an experiment that puts images on top of your Wikipedia article reading journey, on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

'''Temporary accounts''': Temporary Accounts ↗ are now enabled on 1,000+ projects including English Wikipedia.

'''Abstract Wikipedia naming contest''': The first round of “abstract content wiki” naming vote has ended ↗ and the first legal review had begun to determine the 6 names that will make it to the second round on November 17.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions is now deployed across 12 Wiktionaries and 4 Wikipedias ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

thumb|150px| m:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Foundation/Legal/Community Resilience and Sustainability/Human Rights/Digital Security Resources|Digital Safety Resource Center ↗ provides tips and tools to protect yourself online. ↗

'''Privacy in Wikipedia research''': The Wikimedia Foundation published Privacy in Public: Navigating Research, Personal Data, and Safety on Wikipedia ↗, a whitepaper which guides researchers in navigating privacy of Wikipedia editors in their research. Read the highlights and key takeaways for researchers and Wikipedians ↗.

'''Digital Safety''': The Wikimedia Foundation is launching Digital Safety Office Hours ↗ to explore how to stay safe digitally, what does digital safety mean, what extra precautions can Wikimedians take. The first session will take place on November 28 at 9 AM and 7 PM UTC. Check out also our Digital Safety Resources Center ↗ to learn practical tips and tools you can use immediately.

'''Volunteer roles for movement governance''': The Movement governance committees are seeking new volunteers to support essential and high-impact work across the Wikimedia ecosystem. The current appointment cycle is open for the AffCom ↗, Ombuds Commission ↗, and Case Review Committee ↗. Applications for these committees will remain open until December 11. The team will host a community conversation on November 26 ↗, at 3 AM UTC.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wikimedia Core Curriculum''': Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? – A new '''free''' self-paced course, all in video with subtitles ↗, is available from the Wikimedia Foundation!

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Transparency builds trust''': The latest edition from the series "Lessons from Wikipedia" ↗ explores how deep transparency has helped make Wikipedia one of the most trusted sources on the internet.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:05, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-47

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Experience team ↗ is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web ↗, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.

Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security ↗ initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more ↗.

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikisource}} in Minangkabau ↗ (<code>s:min:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408317 ↗

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As part of the Parser Unification ↗ project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration ↗ documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the ''"Report Visual Bug"'' link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator ↗.

Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons ↗ have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board ↗.

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Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open ↗, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">hackathon@wikimedia.org</bdi>.

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Tech News: 2025-48

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team ↗ recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for ''<span lang="und" dir="ltr">cxfcnmt</span>'' on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for ''<span lang="ru" dir="ltr">счастье</span>'' ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408734 ↗

Later this week, users of the "{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}" beta feature ↗ will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools ↗. This requires that the "{{int:discussiontools-preference-sourcemodetoolbar}}" preference be set. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407918 ↗

Campaign events extension ↗ – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution ↗ to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session ↗ to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:24}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:24|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T410417 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey ↗. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IREJRRWTZTGCYWQHDMSNJFTQAEPOOAE3/ ↗

The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for <code dir=ltr>format=xml'''&xlst={stylesheet}'''</code> will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/5AX7UWAVVUNUSBOIRHMNOKWOZ5EZI3JX/ ↗

The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org ↗) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (<span dir=ltr><nowiki>https://query.wikidata.org/</nowiki></span> - Main graph or <span dir=ltr><nowiki>https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/</nowiki></span> - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access ↗ and Request a Query ↗ pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 22

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>
thumb|link=diffblog:2025/11/10/wikipedia-is-turning-25-older-wiser-and-now-fully-referenced-citation-needed/|Join the celebration for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday party. ↗

'''Board election:''' The 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees vote ↗ has elected two new trustees, Bobby Shabangu ↗ (Bobbyshabangu ↗) and Michał Buczyński ↗ (Aegis Maelstrom ↗), who will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2025.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia is turning 25 and it’s time to party! Register now for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday bash ↗ on 15 January at 16:00 UTC.

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': The 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ will be taking place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy. Scholarship applications are open ↗ until November 28.

'''Language Community:''' The next language community meeting ↗ will be held on November 28 at 16:00 UTC.

'''Tech News''': Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 46 ↗ and 47: ↗ Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating with reading lists on mobile web ↗, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau ↗.

'''Wikifunctions''': The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off with six name proposals to vote for ↗.

'''Reference check''': The A/B test for reference check ↗ has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.

'''Image browsing''': Wikimedia Foundation is launching an experiment called "Image browsing ↗" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.

'''CampaignEvents extension''': Campaign events extension ↗ is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features include ''Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List'', plus a new feature, Collaborative contribution ↗, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join the upcoming learning session ↗ to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.

'''Dark Mode:''' Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. Learn how to activate this feature ↗.

'''Wikimedia Apps''': The Activity tab ↗ in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

'''Usability Improvements:''' Improvements for talk pages ↗ is being rolled out ↗. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences ↗ in “Show discussion activity.”

'''Wikipedia 25 Press toolkit''': Wikimedia Foundation is providing press toolkit ↗ as guidance and resources to Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates to spread the word about Wikipedia’s 25th birthday to local and regional media.

'''Language and Internationalization''': Read some key highlights from the October 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗.

'''Information integrity''': Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund ↗.

'''The Wikipedia Library''': The Wikipedia Library team attended the CEE Meeting 2025 celebrated a new partnership with Times of Malta ↗.

'''Understanding movement organizers''': Wikimedia Foundation concluded a literature review ↗ on organizers in the Wikimedia movement focused on capturing their personas, motivations, and impact in order to highlight best practices and opportunities for further support.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Reef Media uses Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API to Fact Check and Verify Sources ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Affiliations Committee''': Draft recommendations ↗ on three strategic areas that need continuous consideration to best support Wikimedia affiliates.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Lessons from Wikipedia''': The latest edition from the series explores the art of disagreement and how Wikipedia navigates disputes ↗.

'''Artificial Intelligence''': In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable ↗. This explainer shows how human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Tech News: 2025-49

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'''Updates for editors'''

The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page ↗.

The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator ↗.

Add a link ↗ will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF) ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:34}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:34|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399476 ↗

Two new wikis have been created:

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Toki Pona ↗ (<code>w:tok:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404457 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikiquote}} in Nigerian Pidgin ↗ (<code>q:pcm:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408318 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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'''In depth'''

The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to '''Article guidance'''. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more ↗ about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page ↗.

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Tech News: 2025-50

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'''Weekly highlight'''

Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security ↗ initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

'''Updates for editors'''

Following last week's deployments, the Add a link ↗ feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias ↗ starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF) ↗.

Last week, the Search Platform team ↗ added transliterated ↗ as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script ↗ to look for more matches. For example, searching for either <bdi lang="ka-Latn" dir="ltr">''bedniereba''</bdi> or <bdi lang="ka-Cyrl" dir="ltr">''бедниереба''</bdi> will now suggest the existing article about <bdi lang="ka" dir="ltr">ბედნიერება</bdi> ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator ↗ for future development.

Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details ↗ about the project.

Later this week, the Reader Growth team ↗ will launch a mobile web experiment ↗ to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409485 ↗

The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 ↗, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.

A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411238 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341281 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting this week, users of the "{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}" beta feature ↗ will have CodeMirror ↗ as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor ↗. With this, the linters ↗ will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373711 ↗

Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey ↗, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/W4WBKO6Q55UWWCCSFWQATKEXBEHP3QNR/ ↗

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23

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'''Upcoming and current events and conversations'''<br/><small>''Let's Talk ↗ continues''</small>

'''CEO appointment''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan ↗ as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will be meeting communities around the puzzle globe when she officially joins on January 20, 2026.

'''Wikipedia's 25th birthday party:''' Join the virtual celebration for games, prizes, musical performances, volunteer spotlights, data visualization, surprise guests and more. January 15 at 16:00 UTC. Register on Meta ↗.

'''Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees''': Join the next Conversation with the Trustees on December 11 at 17:30 UTC ↗.

'''Wishathon:''' 15 patches were written and 5 merged ↗, as part of a Wishathon ↗ for the Community Wishlist. One wish from the community was completed ("Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template ↗), and three more now have a clearer path forward.

'''Activity Tab on Mobile App''': The Wikipedia iOS app is running an experiment that replaces the History tab with a redesigned Activity tab ↗. This new tab surfaces personalized insights about reading, editing, and donations — all stored locally on your device for privacy. The goal is to see whether the new experience increases engagement and retention among logged-in readers.

'''Wikipedia Year in Review in Apps''': The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 ↗ is now available for the iOS and Android apps. This year introduces new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs.

'''Add a Link''': A feature that suggests links to be added to articles based on a prediction model, Add a link ↗, has been deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time.

'''Abstract Wikipedia''': The second round of voting ↗ on the name of Abstract Wikipedia concluded with ''Abstract Wikipedia'' as the top-voted name with 100 votes, followed by Wikigenerator with 91 votes. The name for the wiki project will now remain Abstract Wikipedia ↗.

'''Anti-vandalism tool:''' Automoderator ↗, now has the option to choose between two machine learning models to power the software on wikis using the tool.

'''Tools to support newcomers:''' Newcomers failing to add a citation to support added content has been one of the most common mistakes on Wikipedia. Reference Check ↗, a tool that prompts them to add a citation before publishing an edit, has gone live for an A/B test on English Wikipedia.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 48 ↗ and week 49 ↗ include the Foundation working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email ↗ sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful, and informative; and two new wikis being created: a Wikipedia in Toki Pona ↗ and a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin ↗.

'''Infrastructure''': Unifying our mobile and desktop domains ↗ achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.

'''Legal win in France''': Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France ↗ against legal attacks on freedom of speech.

'''CEE Hub''': Overview ↗ of three years of growth, learning, and regional impact of CEE Hub.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Digital Violence''': How the Wikimedia movement is responding to digital gender based violence ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The next research showcase will feature a special panel on "Experimentation on Wikipedia" and will take place on December 10 at 17:30 UTC ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Audit Report''': Key takeaways from the Foundation’s audit report ↗ for fiscal year 2024-2025.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise Financial Report ↗ for fiscal year 2024-2025.

'''Annual Plan Progress''': A look back at progress made against the plan during the second half of our fiscal year. ↗ Up to date regular updates are included in the Foundation Bulletin.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Sister Projects Task Force''': Results of the consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews ↗: No immediate changes should be made to Wikispore's current technical setup and archive all editions of Wikinews, preserving their content.

'''Foundation statements'''

'''Wikipedia's unique revenue model''': How is Wikipedia funded ↗ and how does the Wikimedia Foundation use donations to Wikipedia ↗?

'''Most read articles:''' Wikipedia’s most-read articles of 2025 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Tech News: 2025-51

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'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:18}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:18|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411927 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in {{#special:LinkSearch}} ↗, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the <code dir=ltr>externallinks</code> table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405005 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:00, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Editor experience invitation

Hi John. Thanks for writing a comment on my Signpost article. I've been working on this project called editor reflections ↗ for awhile, where I've interviewed experienced editors. You've been around for quite awhile so I'd appreciate it if you happened to be interested in contributing. Feel free to pass if it's not your cup of tea. <span style="color:mediumpurple">Clovermoss</span><span style="color:green">🍀</span> (talk) 02:15, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

:{{replyto|Clovermoss}} Thanks for the invitation. I was impressed that more than 200 other editors had contributed, though the number makes it difficult (at least, for example, if not sorted by the date they started editing) to extract ''meaning''.

:I'll take a rain check, at least for the moment, rather than add a few grains of sand to the pile. I have a tendency to want to expound at length on things I find interesting and know a reasonable amount about. Given the other demands on my time, doing that on the topic of Wikipedia would not be the best use of it. -- <span style="font-family:Brush Script MT; font-size:15px;">John Broughton </span> (♫♫) 02:41, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
::Well if you ever change your mind, it'll be there. I like it when people go on and on about their thoughts regarding Wikipedia but I totally understand if you have better uses for your time. As for meaning, I have plans to do a subpage where I analyze broader trends. I can ping you when I'm finished it if you'd like. I'm thinking I'll probably do a session at Wikimania about it as well. <span style="color:mediumpurple">Clovermoss</span><span style="color:green">🍀</span> (talk) 02:59, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
::: {{replyto|Clovermoss}} I'm hoping that my life will be less complicated when tax season starts around February 1 (long story). At that point, I'd be happy to offer feedback on your analysis of patterns or trends in the answers, whenever it's done or available. -- <span style="font-family:Brush Script MT; font-size:15px;">John Broughton </span> (♫♫) 03:38, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-52

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

From January, edit filters can be set ↗ to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290324 ↗

The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:16}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:16|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411546 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute <code dir=ltr>data-mw="interface"</code> to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with <code dir=ltr>data-mw-interface=""</code>, to avoid potential conflicts with other <code dir=ltr>data-mw</code> attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409187 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

'''Meetings and events'''

The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 ↗ will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:43, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

New pages patrol January–February 2026 Backlog drive

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New Pages Patrol is hosting a one-time, two-month experimental backlog drive aimed at reducing the backlog. This will be a combo drive: both articles and redirects will earn points.

The drive will run from 1 January to 28 February 2026.

The drive is divided into two phases. Participants may take part in either phase or across both phases, depending on availability.

Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled during the drive.

Two-month drive-exclusive barnstars will be awarded to eligible participants.

Each article review earns 1 point, while each redirect review earns 0.2 points.

Streak awards ↗ will be granted based on consistently meeting weekly point thresholds.

Barnstars will also be awarded for re-reviewing articles ↗ previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.

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Tech News: 2026-03

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'''Weekly highlight'''

The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta ↗ and ''Diff ↗''. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists ↗ project, the display of EditWatchlist ↗ will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search ↗ will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation ↗ wish. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411596 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗ is a MediaWiki extension ↗ that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist ↗, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398361 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298919 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273526 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286309 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:28}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:28|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401293 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The VisualEditor citation tool ↗ and Reference Previews ↗ now support "map" as a reference type. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411083 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗/MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 1

'''Wikipedia turns 25:''' Time to start the party! Join the virtual celebration ↗ featuring musical performances, games, and more on January 15 at 16:00 UTC. and The party will be live interpreted into Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

<span class="mw-ui-button" role="button" aria-disabled="false">Join the celebration ↗</span>

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Annual planning''': Key questions for the Wikimedia movement ↗ to shape the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026-2027 annual goals. Join the discussion on-wiki ↗.

'''Hackathon''':

*Apply to join the Northwestern Europe 2026 Hackathon ↗ from March 13-14 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Application will close mid-January 2026 or earlier based on event capacity.

*General Registration for the 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon is now open ↗! The hackathon will take place in Milan, Italy from May 1 - 3, 2026. Event details can be found here ↗ and registration will remain open until March 30th or until event capacity is reached.

'''Semantic search''': Wikimedia Foundation is working on making it easier to find the information readers want ↗.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 50 ↗, week 51 ↗, and week 52 ↗ include that now edit filters can be set ↗ to automatically suppress their details which will help oversighters to prevent doxxing.

'''Wikifunctions''': The first Wikifunctions Volunteers' Corner of the next year ↗ will take place on February 9.

'''Blazegraph Migration:''' To support the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), we are hosting regular calls starting on January 27 ↗. Wikidata users and tool maintainers are are invited to join ↗, ask questions, and share migration-related concerns.

'''Upcoming Conferences''': Announcing the six Wikimedia conferences funded for 2026 ↗ in the first round.

'''Wikimania 2026''': A glimpse on what the team is currently working on ↗ to prepare for Wikimania 2026 in Paris.

'''Public Policy''': Explore the resources available for public policy advocacy work ↗, including explainers that describe key policy positions, guides on how to build a campaign or write a policy brief, and examples of open letters submitted to governments.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Public-Interest content''': The Project Gayatri content expansion program brought 7,656 new articles on Indonesian Wikipedia ↗.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': The research showcase will return on January 22 at 17:30 UTC ↗ with the theme "Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia and the Research Behind It".

'''Wikimedia Research Report''': The Wikimedia Foundation has published its 13th bi-annual Research Report ↗, highlighting the work completed during the first six months of this fiscal year.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Past issues of the bulletin for progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Read the full annual wrap-up of 2025 of Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ and how the year marked a fundamental shift in open knowledge.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board of Trustees''': Wikimedia Foundation welcomes two new Board Trustees ↗ Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński.

'''Affcom News''': Read the year-end issue of AffCom News (July-December 2025) ↗, the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br /><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗ ·Milestones ↗ ·</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:30, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 15 January 2026

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Tech News: 2026-04

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The tray shown on Special:Diff ↗ in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402297 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗ lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension ↗ continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T412505 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T287929 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262768 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414135 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406114 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement ↗, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox ↗. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board ↗.

Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API ↗ has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase ↗ (e.g.: <code dir=ltr>https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/</code>) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox ↗.

The WMF Wikidata Platform team ↗ (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter ↗. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter ↗!

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 ↗ will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:27, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

":Wikipedia:ADR ↗" listed at Redirects for discussion ↗

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The redirect <span class="plainlinks">[//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ADR&redirect=no Wikipedia:ADR]</span> has been listed at redirects for discussion ↗ to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines ↗. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at '''{{section link|1=Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 January 26#Wikipedia:ADR}}''' until a consensus is reached.  <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:#6040bf;font-weight:bold">thetechie@enwiki</span>:~$ <span style="color:#4055bf">she/they</span> | <span style="color:#bf40bf">talk</span></span> 02:33, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-05

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future ↗ of the Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ until 28 February.

All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security ↗ project.

Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398673 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T332385 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

A new AbuseFilter variable, <code>account_type</code>, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the <code>createaccount</code> and <code>autocreateaccount</code> actions. As part of this change, the variable <code>accountname</code> has been renamed to <code>account_name</code>, and <code>accountname</code> is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414049 ↗

Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to <code dir=ltr><nowiki>upload.wikimedia.org/…</nowiki></code> will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 29 January 2026

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Books & Bytes – Issue 72

Renewed partnerships

Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

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Tech News: 2026-06

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The "{{int:pageinfo-toolboxlink}}" feature, which gives validating information about a page ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=info}} example]), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local {{ns:8}}:Pageinfo-header ↗ page created by individual users, it can now be removed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363726 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409669 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414389 ↗

The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API ↗. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Weekly highlight'''

Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta ↗ and ''Diff ↗''. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:41, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2

'''Annual planning''': The Annual Plan ↗ is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. This is a time of urgency and focus for the Wikimedia projects and we invite you to shape this plan together with us. ↗

'''Year 2 of PTAC''': As it reached its first year, Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) shared a retrospective and proposed future improvements ↗.

'''Account security''': All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA), providing a simple and secure way ↗ to log in.

'''Wikifunctions''': An overview of the quarterly plan (January–March) ↗ and how it connects to the broader goals for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 03 ↗, 04 ↗ and 05 ↗ include unregistered contributors on blocked IPs can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block ↗ by creating a temporary account.

'''Collaborative contributions''': Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a learning session ↗ to share new releases around collaborative contributions ↗ and discuss future project ideas.

'''Structured task''': The Revise Tone Structured Task ↗ is now live in A/B testing on pilot wikis: English, Arabic, Portuguese, and French Wikipedia. It helps new editors improve promotional language in existing articles through a quiz style onboarding experience and a guided in article suggestion.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>
thumb|"The Birthday Cake Song" is an original song created for Wikipedia's 25th Birthday, performed by the WikiChoir, featuring Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons content. ↗

'''Wikimania 2026''': Call for sessions ↗ is open until March 1.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best with docuseries, time capsule, and more ↗.

'''Virtual celebration''': In case you missed it, over 10,000 people have watched the virtual celebration ↗ that brought together generations of Wikimedians ↗, featured an ode to the talk page ↗, a dramatic reading of a real talk page ↗, a Magnetikpunk song dedicated to Wikipedia ↗, a passing of the cake baton from Maryana to Bernadette ↗, "The Birthday Cake Song" ↗ and more. All of it written and performed by humans of Wikimedia.

'''Birthday mascot''': Meet the Wikimedian ↗ whose casual sketch inspired Wikipedia’s 25th birthday mascot.

'''Legal''': Learn about two recent submissions advocating the need for proportionality in Brazil’s new online child safety law ↗.

'''Policy:''' The Global Advocacy team shared a report from digital policy organization InternetLab about the intersection between the open knowledge movement and public interest journalism ↗.

'''Global Resource Distribution Committee''': Refreshed Funding Principles ↗ are ready for review.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Solving puzzles together''': A final reflection from Maryana Iskander ↗.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Mistral AI and Wikimedia Enterprise announced a new strategic partnership ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Tech News: 2026-07

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels ↗ feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.

A new feature available on Special:Contributions ↗ shows temporary accounts ↗ that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415674 ↗

When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414742 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗ lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension ↗ continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata ↗ and testwikidata ↗. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415440 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415458 ↗

The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 ↗ due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function ↗ <code dir=ltr><nowiki>{{#isbn}}</nowiki></code> available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T145604 ↗

Two new wikis have been created:

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Jju ↗ (<code>w:kaj:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413283 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Nawat ↗ (<code>w:ppl:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413273 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

A new global user group has been created: {{int:group-local-bot}} ↗. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers ↗. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415588 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 ↗ will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/AZBWVI46SDEB65PGR5J6E4TYOQQEZXM7/ ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:28, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-08

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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'''

The SRE Team ↗ will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad ↗ instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415237 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment ↗ that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more ↗ on Diff blog. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Readers/Information_Retrieval ↗

The Reader Growth team will run an experiment ↗ for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

Previously, site notices ({{ns:8}}:Sitenotice ↗ and {{ns:8}}:Anonnotice ↗) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add <code dir="ltr">#siteNotice { display: none; }</code> to {{ns:8}}:Minerva.css ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138572 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416644 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges ↗ has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406339 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411169 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:15, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3

'''Wikipedia Library''': Wikipedia Library gained new content partnerships ↗, restored access to the British Newspaper Archive, and added an Arabic language academic resource with more than 7 million records.

'''Gender gap''': The Celebrate Women 2026 ↗ campaign will run from March 1–31 to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally.

'''Annual Planning''': The Annual Plan ↗ is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. We invite you to shape this plan ↗ together with us. Between now and the end of June 2026, we will have continuous conversations ↗ about how global trends may shape our future, how we can experiment, adapt and respond together.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Patrolling improvements''': A new feature available on Special:Contributions ↗ shows temporary accounts ↗ that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming.

'''Wikifunctions''': How Abstract Wikipedia articles can be integrated ↗ into Wikipedia language editions to enable Wikipedians to write an abstract article once and have it available in many languages.

'''Suggestion Mode''': A new Beta Feature for the VisualEditor, Suggestion Mode, ↗ is now available on English Wikipedia ↗ for experienced editors. This features proactively suggests actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, such as "add citation", "improve tone", or "fix an ambiguous link".

'''WDQS Blazegraph Migration''': As part of the migration away from Blazegraph (the current backend of the Wikidata Query Service), an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates has been completed ↗. Using the published evaluation methodology ↗, performance, stability, and compatibility was assessed.

'''Tech News:''' Latest updates from Tech News week 06 ↗ and 07 ↗ include the new Watchlist labels ↗ feature that allows logged-in contributors to organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows. They also link to the 44 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Funding Principles''': The interim Global Resource Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) has published a first version of the Funding Principles ↗ which guides the broader grantmaking ecosystem across the Wikimedia Movement. Share your feedback in the Discussion ↗ page.

'''Wikipedia 25''': Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia in Warsaw ↗.

'''Responsible AI''': Why the Global Index on Responsible AI ↗ matters for Wikimedians.

'''Open Knowledge''': Why the Open Knowledge Movement and Public Interest Journalism must unite forces ↗. Shared principles and interdependence, points of convergence and the path forward.

'''Journalism Awards:''' Applications for the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards ↗ are now open until March 1. Presented by the International Center for Journalists in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the awards seek to recognize African journalists whose reporting helps close knowledge gaps about Africa on Wikipedia.

'''UN General Assembly''': Wikimedia Foundation was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) hall about Wikipedia’s role in global digital governance ↗.

'''Advocacy''': Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies ↗ regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes. Specifically, the new "Use of Wikimedia sites for advocacy purposes" ↗ policy, and updates to the guidelines for CentralNotice usage ↗ and requesting wiki configuration changes ↗. The policies establish clearer processes for advocacy activities, and require notification of Foundation staff for some proposed uses of the Wikimedia sites.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Futures Lab''': Reflections from a Wikimedian ↗ who attended the Wikimedia Futures Lab ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:26, 17 February 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-09

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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'''

Reference Check ↗ has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/reports/editing/reference_check_ab_test_report_final_2025.html ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The InterwikiSorting extension ↗, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links ↗, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253764 ↗

Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T387175 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409112 ↗

The Reader Experience team ↗ is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:skin-theme-description</code> and <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag</code> to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.

The improved Activity tab ↗ which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools ↗ from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415303 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The Global Watchlist ↗ lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension ↗ that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook ↗, <code dir=ltr>ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild</code>, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T275159 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:01, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-10

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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'''

Wikipedia 25 Birthday mode ↗ is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles ↗, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via community configuration ↗ on the local wiki.

'''Updates for editors'''

Sub-referencing ↗, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and a couple of other wikis ↗. You can try the feature ↗ on these projects or on testwiki and betawiki ↗. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been published in a report ↗. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are interested in becoming a pilot wiki ↗.

Paste Check ↗ will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check tags ↗ all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via {{#special:EditChecks}} ↗. Research ↗ across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can help to localize ↗ this and related features.

The Reader Experience team ↗ will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413912 ↗

Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T410807 ↗

Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383948 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗ which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The extension ↗ now allows activating the language fallback system ↗ for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no <code dir=ltr>uselang=</code> URL parameter is provided. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373686 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416111 ↗

The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of hybrid search ↗ on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.

For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March ↗. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418580 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in Wikibase.cloud ↗ has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416807 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

To help ensure fair use of infrastructure ↗, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits ↗.

The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415696 ↗

The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis ↗, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.

The process and criteria for requesting exceptional access ↗ to the high volume feed of the ''Wikimedia Enterprise'' APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), have now been published ↗. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.

Tech Blog ↗, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community will be migrating ↗ to Diff ↗, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:49, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4

'''Birthday mode''': This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias ↗ have joined in the fun.

'''Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons''': Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day ↗.

'''Etherpad cleanup''': For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad ↗ instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April ↗. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.

'''Activity tab''': Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab ↗ to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.

'''Reference Check''': The feature Reference Check ↗ has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.

'''Semantic search''': The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment ↗ that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic ↗ and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta ↗ is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.

'''Navigation experience''': The Foundation will run an experiment ↗ for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

thumb|right|Screenshot of the current prototype of Abstract Wikipedia, showing a two sentence article about Kolkata. ↗

'''Site notices''': Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice ↗ and MediaWiki:Anonnotice ↗) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 08 ↗ and 09 ↗ include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikifunctions''': Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview ↗.

'''Gender gap''': The Celebrate Women 2026 ↗ is coming! The Wikimedia Foundation will host a kick-off celebration that will work as a welcome session for both organizers and participants on March 5 at 13:00 UTC ↗.

'''Language''': New edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter ↗ highlights new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects ↗.

'''Let’s Connect Learning Clinic''': Watch the recordings of past learning clinics ↗ about Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Tool and Strengthening Local-Language Admin Communities.

'''Wikimedia Research Showcase''': You can watch the recording ↗ of this month research showcase whose theme is about "AI and Communities ↗".

'''Hubs''': Lessons from hub pilots ↗.

'''Banners & logo policies''': Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts ↗ on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes.

'''Digital Safety''': The next edition of Digital Safety Office Hours ↗ will be on Mar 27 at 9:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The session will explore practical threat modelling: a structured way to think about risks, assess your exposure, and make informed choices.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Ecosia Enriches Search Results and AI Answers with Wikimedia Enterprise ↗.

'''Human centered AI''': Members of the Wikimedia Enterprise team presented on "Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots ↗" at the seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

'''Inclusive AI''': Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 12:36, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-11

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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, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC ↗. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year ↗. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the post on the Stewards' noticeboard ↗ (translations ↗).

'''Updates for editors'''

Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as iCloud Private Relay ↗) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357118 ↗

Later this week, Suggestion Mode ↗ will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at Special:EditChecks ↗ and there are instructions for how administrators can customize ↗ the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to Edit check ↗ which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404600 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418793 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

API rate limiting update: To help ensure fair use of infrastructure ↗, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits ↗.

The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and give feedback ↗. You can also sign up for usability tests ↗.

The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ continued improvements to Video2Commons ↗ in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read this update ↗ to learn more.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected pilot wikis ↗ and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in English ↗, Arabic ↗, Bengali ↗, Japanese ↗, Portuguese ↗, Persian ↗, and Turkish ↗. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more on the project page ↗.

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''The Signpost'': 10 March 2026

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Tech News: 2026-12

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗ beta feature, also known as CodeMirror 6 ↗, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new features ↗ to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta, please share ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059 ↗

Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6055 ↗

On wikis using Flagged Revisions ↗, the number of pending changes shown on {{#Special:PendingChanges}} ↗ previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T413016 ↗

Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about the changes ↗.

Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403775 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:28}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:28|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419263 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

A new special page, {{#special:LintTemplateErrors}} ↗, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: {{#special:LintTemplateErrors}}/night-mode-unaware-background-color ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170874 ↗

Users of the {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗ beta feature have been using CodeMirror ↗ instead of CodeEditor ↗ for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026. Feedback or concerns are welcome ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 ↗

The CodeMirror ↗ JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the <code dir=ltr>ext.CodeMirror</code> or <code dir=ltr>ext.CodeMirror.lib</code> modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the <code dir=ltr>ext.CodeMirror.switch</code> hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the migration guide ↗ for more information. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373720 ↗

The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include extension APIs ↗. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for GrowthExperiments ↗ and Wikifunctions ↗ APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the REST Sandbox ↗ (i.e., {{#Special:RestSandbox}} ↗, available on all wiki projects).

The Scribunto ↗ extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the mw.site ↗ library. Starting last week, the library also provides a way ↗ of accessing the wiki ID ↗ that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T146616 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The 2026 Coolest Tool Award ↗ celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey ↗ form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5

'''Supporting readers''': For most of its history, Wikipedia did not have to worry about attracting readers. But with the way people search for information changing, there is a drop in the number of readers which is impacting the number of accounts created and contributions to our sites. Have a look at some of the ongoing and planned work to support reader experience. ↗

'''Server switch''': All wikis will be read-only ↗ for a few minutes on March 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests ↗, which happen twice a year ↗.

'''Tools improvement''': The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ continued improvements to Video2Commons ↗ in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas ↗, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads.

'''Wikipedia 25 Grants''': The celebration continues! The Wikimedia Foundation offers Wikipedia 25 Birthday Funds ↗ to communities planning Wikipedia’s 25th birthday events with funding between USD 1,000–2,000. Apply before March 31.

'''Experiments''': The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology ↗, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline ↗, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.

'''Article guidance''': Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page ↗ (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis ↗. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article ↗.

'''Wikifunctions:''' You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output. ↗

'''Editing feature''': Suggestion Mode ↗ is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.

'''Paste Check''': Paste Check ↗ is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.

'''Mobile experience''': The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized ↗ so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.

'''Two-factor authentication''': For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March ↗.

'''Tech News''': Latest updates from Tech News week 10 ↗ and 11 ↗ include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

thumb|right|200px|WikiCelebrates Mervat. ↗ ↗

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''WikiCelebrate''': Celebrating Mervat ↗, one of the most experienced and dedicated contributors to Arabic Wikipedia.

'''Wikimedia ecosystem''': The pilot on the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations ↗ has published a draft proposal for a Future Affiliate Landscape ↗. It welcomes your review and feedback ↗.

'''Fundraising''': The Fundraising Report 2024–2025 has now been published ↗ on meta.

'''International Women's Day 2026:''' Women, visibility, and the future of trusted knowledge on Wikimedia ↗.

'''Don't Blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wiki Loves Earth 2025''': See the winners ↗ from the 13th annual edition of the globe-trotting photo contest.

'''Wikimania 2026''': While most Wikimania program submissions are closed, the research track is open until March 31 ↗. It accepts proposals from both professional researchers and Wikimedians.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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Tech News: 2026-13

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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'''

Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional "Log in with passkey" button ↗ will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The screen recording ↗ demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.

All wikis will be read-only ↗ for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC ↗. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year ↗. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

'''Updates for editors'''

Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool ↗. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T383948 ↗

Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an early version of an experience ↗ that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402647 ↗

The Special:Block ↗ now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401823 ↗

Mobile editors at several wikis ↗ can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance account creation experience on mobile ↗ and then increase participation. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408484 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:36}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:36|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent cloud-announce email ↗ and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible. https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Toolforge/Building_container_images&oldid=2392097#Buildpack_environment_upgrade_process ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380127 ↗

The API Portal ↗ documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to mediawiki.org ↗. Learn more on the project page ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

WMDE Technical Wishes ↗ is considering improvements to automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor ↗. Please check out the proposed solutions ↗ and participate in the request for comment ↗.

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Tech News: 2026-14

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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'''

The Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia ↗ a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more ↗.

The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps ↗. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:45}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:45|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com ↗ was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid ↗ requests, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419903 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:23, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 31 March 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6

'''Supporting the mobile experience''': The Foundation is starting conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps ↗. The goal is to understand how to better support both new and experienced editors, and how the app can guide users to the right editing tools. Your input is welcome. Join the discussion ↗!

'''Wikimania 2026''': Registration for Wikimania 2026 ↗ is opening soon from the end of March to May 1. Like other Wikimedia events this year, we are introducing a "request for invitation" process, with trust and safety checks conducted prior to confirming in-person attendance. Our priority is to create a safe environment for connection, collaboration, and shared learning.

'''Around the Puzzle Globe in the CEE region''': On March 23 almost 60 Wikimedians took part in the CEE-Catch up ↗- a meeting for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As a part of continuous conversations ↗ we have with the communities around the Foundation's annual plan, participants discussed the global trends related to Readers and Contributors in their regional context. The meeting was also an opportunity to connect with the new Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan, who is meeting communities around the puzzle globe ↗ to listen, learn and engage with the communities.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Crawlers:''' The Foundation is now detecting and blocking billions of bot requests ↗ that don’t follow our robot policy, such as aggressive scrapers, to make sure our resources go towards serving human readers. In the coming months we’ll be working on better detection of rapidly changing bot behavior and better API infrastructure.

'''Moderator tools for newer editors''': Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to an early version of Special:PersonalDashboard ↗. It introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.

'''Account creation on mobile''': Mobile editors at several wikis ↗ are now presented with a simplified logged-out warning message, which encourages them to create an account or log in. This test is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the account creation experience on mobile ↗ and increase participation.

'''Verification email redesign:''' The verification email sent to new accounts ↗ that add an email address during signup has been redesigned. When tested on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the same-week email verification rate increased from 41.6% to 45.9%.

'''Retaining notification history''': Wikimedia site users can export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool ↗. This will ensure that users retain important notifications and avoid losing them based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced ↗.

'''Tech News''': Latest highlights from Tech News weeks 12 ↗ and 13 ↗ include the update that Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys as a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. See also the 64 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Experiments''': Check out the list of experiments in Product and Technology ↗ to see all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments. One new experiment that just went live is the "Improve the logged-out warning message on mobile web," which aims to reduce the sense of friction or alarm when users encounter the logged-out warning upon editing.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Screenshot of the Microtask generator tool. ↗

'''Digital rights and free knowledge''': Wikimedia Foundation staff and Wikimedians from across the movement will contribute to important conversations on AI governance, information integrity, and equitable access to knowledge at RightsCon 2026 ↗ from May 5–8. Join the conversation virtually ↗.

'''Microtask Generator''': Learn more about the Microtask Generator ↗, a tool which identifies content quality gaps in Wikipedia articles and suggests tasks for editors to address within a dashboard. Users can input lists of articles for analysis, or get recommendations based on article categories. Ideal for edit-a-thons and other article improvement drives.

'''WikiLearn''': Discover the latest edition of WikiLearn News ↗ where you can find the latest online learning opportunities to take your editing skills to new heights.

'''Diff Event calendar''': The event calendar on Diff is now redirected ↗ to the list of events on Meta-wiki ↗. This list pulls in all events that are open to all wikis.

'''Grantmaking Strategy''': The GRDC has identified the key challenges that will inform the design of the new Grantmaking Strategy ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Audit report''': Highlights from the Wikimedia Endowment’s fiscal year 2024-2025 audit report ↗.

'''Enterprise partnerships''': Wikimedia Enterprise announced new partnerships. Together with Firecrawl to reform how AI agents access the world’s largest online repository of human knowledge ↗ and with Aligned AI to develop Ethical AI products for families by providing Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Endowment Board''': Welcoming Nataliia Tymkiv to the Wikimedia Endowment Board of Directors ↗.

'''Affiliate recognition''': Affiliations Committee extended the pause on new affiliate recognition to September 1, 2026 ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:04, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-15

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The CampaignEvents extension ↗ now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ The new watchlist labels ↗ feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07 ↗) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist ↗. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419171 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The sub-referencing feature ↗, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis ↗ later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips ↗ gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js ↗ as shown here ↗) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416304 ↗

All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more ↗.

The Action API ↗ has had several formats for requested output. One of them, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>format=php</nowiki></code></bdi>, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format ↗. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118538 ↗

The Special:NamespaceInfo ↗ page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381455 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 16:17, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-16

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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'''

Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available ↗. Also, after reviewing the outlines ↗, please provide feedback on the project talk page ↗. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video ↗ explaining the feature.

'''Updates for editors'''

On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel ↗ page to create new pages with custom content models ↗, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights ↗ for the status of your wiki. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248294 ↗

The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment ↗ to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382856 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting later this week, {{int:group-abusefilter}} who have the {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror ↗ instead of CodeEditor ↗ as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter ↗. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399673 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 ↗

Tools and bots that access the Notifications API ↗ (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>action=query&meta=notifications</nowiki></code></bdi>) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421991 ↗

Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T422544 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 15:17, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7

'''Community Wishlist update''': This monthly update covers ↗ how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels ↗, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature ↗; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search ↗; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas ↗ in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes ↗ here.

'''Goal setting for edit-a-thons''': The CampaignEvents extension ↗ now includes a new group goal-setting feature ↗, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session ↗ on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.

'''Collaboration with the United Nations''': Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations ↗ to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗''' <br /><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|150px|Design mock for mobile page previews. ↗

'''Navigating articles on mobile''': The Foundation is launching an experiment ↗ to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. ↗ This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.

'''Editing tools for new editors''': Tone Check ↗ was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia ↗ as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.

'''Managing watchlist labels''': The new watchlist labels ↗ feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate ↗ for logged-in readers.

'''Latest Wikifunctions''': Check out the partial list ↗ of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 ↗ and 15 ↗ include an ongoing A/B test ↗ running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Community discussions on Semantic Search''': The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search ↗ for members of the CEE Youth Group.

'''Don't Blink!''': This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team ↗ include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.

'''Digital rights and inclusion''': Take a look at the sessions ↗ that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) ↗ 2026.

'''Manuscript preservation''': The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops ↗ to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (''lontar'') from the Leiden University Library collection.

'''Youth content creators''': Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia ↗ for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.

'''Legal and Safety Contacts''': The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page ↗, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.

'''Building shared principals for the internet as a public good:''' The Global Advocacy team published a blog ↗ with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE ↗) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF ↗) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''
<br /><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Wikidata API''': Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available ↗ through Wikimedia Enterprise.

'''Annual Planning and global trends''': Join the America APP call ↗ on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting ↗ between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki ↗ and in community spaces ↗ around different regions and projects.

'''Futures Lab:''' The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab. ↗

'''Fundraising Hub:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub ↗ on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''
<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Ombuds Commission''': Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission ↗, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews editions will be closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:09, 14 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-17

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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'''

After two years of development, {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗, also known as CodeMirror 6 ↗, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits ↗ to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd ↗ who developed many of the new features, including code folding ↗, autocompletion ↗, and linting ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059 ↗

A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Updates for editors'''

Reading lists ↗ is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.

An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web ↗ will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others ↗.

On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses ↗ can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421366 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:15}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:15|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184857 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As part of the promotion of CodeMirror ↗ from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror ↗ instead of CodeEditor ↗ for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 ↗

The <code>mirrors.wikimedia.org</code> service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416707 ↗

The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> table will be removed from wikireplicas ↗. If your tools or queries access <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> directly, please update them to use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>file</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>filerevision</nowiki></code></bdi> table before 28 May. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741 ↗

Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure ↗ by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits ↗ and Frequently Asked Questions ↗.

The Attribution API ↗ is now available as a beta ↗. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia ↗). Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 14:58, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-18

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the {{int:group-autoconfirmed}} ↗ group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418484 ↗

All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists ↗ beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423676 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure ↗. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits ↗ and Frequently Asked Questions ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:04, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 8

'''Annual Planning''': The Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan ↗ for the coming fiscal year (2026–2027) which will focus on four main goals that directly respond to the external trends. The goals include increasing our reach, deepening engagement, protecting our projects and building speed and resilience to enable the change needed to respond to the internet being at an inflection point. Feedback welcome on the talk page ↗ and many other places ↗.

'''Global conversation''': A global conversation about the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan ↗ will take place on May 7 at 5:00 PM UTC.

'''Sustainable reuse of Wikimedia content''': The Attribution API ↗ is now in beta ↗. It makes it easier to credit Wikimedia content fairly wherever it is used. It provides all information required by the Wikimedia Attribution Framework ↗ in a single, well-structured and easy-to-use endpoint, simplifying attribution for off-wiki reuse. Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

'''Feedback on Article guidance''': Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature. This tool helps less-experienced editors create structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Review the outlines ↗ and share your feedback on the project talk page ↗. Check out the step-by-step ↗ and video ↗ instructions.

'''Games Hub available on Android''': The Games Hub is live in the Wikipedia app for Android. This new feature offers a space for users to find all available games ↗ in one place, explore archives, and get updates on new games. It currently includes ''Which Came First? ↗'', with more games coming soon.

'''Update to Wikipedia app for iOS''': A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS has rolled out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple’s latest “Liquid Glass” visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Confirming email addresses''': On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven’t confirmed their email addresses ↗ now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Confirming the email address ↗ helps users restore account access if they lose it and receive messages about their accounts. It also provides an easy option to communicate with other users off-wiki if they choose. As of early 2026, about 62.9% of all registered Wikimedia user accounts ↗ that have an email set had not confirmed it.

'''Testing mobile web page previews''': Mobile page previews ↗ experiment was launched on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page previews are pop-ups that show a thumbnail, a lead paragraph, and a link to the full article to improve content discovery. It is already available on desktop and in the apps.

'''Account creation experiment''': Account creation experiment ↗ is live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia targeting 10% of logged-out mobile web users. It looks at whether adding a button to create accounts in the mobile web header boosts new registrations and increases mobile users contributing to the wikis.

'''Experimenting with Hybrid Search on mobile apps''': The Hybrid Search Phase 1 experiment ↗ on the Wikipedia Android app has concluded. It tested a combined keyword and meaning-based search methods to meet various information needs. The team is analyzing data and feedback, and will share insights and next steps soon.

right|thumb|150px|Top read element on the current Explore Feed on Android ↗

'''Latest experiments''': See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗. One upcoming experiment ↗ is testing a refreshed Explore Feed to make it easier for readers to discover interesting content and visit Wikipedia app more often.

'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions crossed 4,000 functions, with subtracting two complex numbers ↗ as the 4,000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles. The article about the famous Indian Brahmin Chanakya ↗ marked this milestone.

'''Reading lists now a beta feature''': New accounts are now opted into Reading lists ↗ by default on all Wikipedia wikis. This brings the "Save pages" feature to the web, which has been popular in mobile apps. For users in the beta, a "Save page" (bookmark) button appears in the toolbar on every page. The watch/unwatch (star) option moves to the tools menu. The "Watchlist" button in the top navigation shifts to the user menu. A new "Saved pages" button takes its place. In June, the feature will be available to all users and a user preference will be added to choose between two sets of buttons: Watch + Watchlist or Save + Saved list. The other set will be in the tool and user menus.

'''Structured Contents''': Article Images and Lists now in Structured Contents payloads ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 16 ↗ and 17 ↗ include CodeMirror 6 being promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. See also the 45 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Wikimedia Research Fund submissions in review:''' The submission period for this year's Wikimedia Research Fund ↗ is now closed. The technical and internal reviews of the proposals ↗ have begun.

'''Events and conferences''': Take a look at the different community events happening later this year: ESEAP Conference ↗ (May 15-17), WikiConference India ↗ (Sep 4-6), WikiConference North America ↗ (Sep 24-27), Language Diversity Conference ↗ (Oct 2 to 4), Queering Wiki ↗ (Oct 23-25), WikiArabia ↗ (Nov 6-8).

'''Around the puzzle globe in the America region''': More than 60 people joined America call ↗ to discuss the annual plan and the global trends impacting the movement. Participants came from across the region, and the audience included a mix of affiliates from LATAM, online contributors, and users with extended rights.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation published a transparency report ↗ covering July to December 2025.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 04:21, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

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Tech News: 2026-19

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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'''

The Article guidance ↗ team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias ↗—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines ↗. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature ↗ once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions ↗ on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ has published draft recommendations ↗ on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page ↗.

The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424909 ↗

From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot ↗ in that the latter reminds users a week ''before'' the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate ↗ would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358864 ↗

The Global Watchlist ↗, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata ↗ now support EntitySchema ↗ elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits ↗ for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415450 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424422 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418091 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The second phase of global API rate limits ↗ has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers ↗ and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits ↗ have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:41, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-20

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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'''

Community Tech has published new guidance ↗ explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.

The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge ↗ into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:17}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:17|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425286 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The ResourceLoader module <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mediawiki.ui.input</nowiki></code></bdi>, deprecated since September 2023 ↗, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex ↗ for any tools that use it. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420125 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:19, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9

'''Community Protection''': Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment ↗ to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.

'''Stronger protections against bots''': Wikimedia Foundation is replacing our CAPTCHA with a new approach ↗ to detect bad-faith activities without making things harder for users.

'''Transparency Report:''' The Wikimedia Foundation has published its latest Transparency Report ↗. This provides an overview of the work to protect Wikimedia projects and support the volunteer communities who handle the majority of content requests. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously, granting only 1 of 30 requests for disclosure we received from July to December 2025.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|150px|Mock-up of the Wikipedia app reading challenge. ↗

'''Reading Challenge''': As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, Wikipedia Mobile Apps launched a limited-time feature, the 25-day reading challenge with Baby Globe ↗. This challenge encourages a daily habit of reading one Wikipedia article. The goal is to motivate users to come back to the app regularly.

'''Latest experiments''': One upcoming experiment ↗ is introducing the Incident Reporting System (IRS) to help contributors easily find the right place to seek help when facing harassment or other issues. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Change in how new users are autoconfirmed''': The account age for autoconfirmed users ↗ will now start ↗ from their first edit, not the registration date. This is to avoid exploitation by vandals. This change will only apply to wikis that require at least one edit for autoconfirmation.

'''Organized Reading lists''': All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the “automatically enable most beta features” option can now use the reading lists ↗ beta feature. This lets you save articles for later reading and keep it organized in one place for easy access.

'''Thumbnail size preferences''': Default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes ↗: Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). This change aims to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. Current preferences will shift to the nearest new size.

'''Wikifunctions''': To make the development of Abstract Wikipedia visible, the Foundation is requesting your input ↗: which metrics about Abstract Wikipedia pages do you deem important?

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 ↗ and 19 ↗ include improvements on Global Watchlist ↗. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Planning''': We welcome your feedback ↗ on the main talk page ↗ for the 2026–2027 draft Annual Plan and many other places ↗ for the coming fiscal year.

'''Wikimania''': Wikimania is a joyful event. It is a chance to celebrate our community and projects, share ideas and information, build connections among Wikimedians, and inspire and develop future projects. If you and your community are interested in hosting Wikimania in 2028 and 2029 submit an expressions of interest ↗.

'''Community Conferences''': The Foundation is supporting 15 strategic, diverse, and critical convenings ↗ taking place in 2026 and 2027, bringing together approximately 1800 Wikimedians across various regions, themes, and language communities.

'''Don't blink''': The latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

'''Wiki Loves Monuments''': The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest are announced ↗.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': How CivicLens Uses Wikidata APIs to Make Civic Data More Accessible ↗.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br /><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Wikinews closure''': All Wikinews have been closed ↗ and switched to read-only mode. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

'''Affcom News''': Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2026) ↗ to learn more about the latest news about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee ↗.

'''Model for affiliates to support contributors through tools''': The Product and Technology Advisory Council ↗ has published draft recommendations ↗ on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space.

'''Grantmaking''': The Global Resource Distribution Committee closed their request for feedback on three initial questions about grantmaking ↗, and published their monthly update for April ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:58, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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Hello {{BASEPAGENAME}},

thumb|400px|New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026 ↗

'''Backlog update'''

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

74px|left ↗{{no ping|JTtheOG}} was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.
{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

{{no ping|BoyTheKingCanDance}}, {{no ping|Rosiestep}}, {{no ping|SunDawn}}, and {{no ping|Vanderwaalforces}} were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame ↗ for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

'''January–February backlog drive'''

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to {{no ping|JTtheOG}}, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

'''May backlog drive'''

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026 ↗.

'''PageTriage'''

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed ↗ to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket ↗ if you're interested in following along.

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Tech News: 2026-21

<section begin="technews-2026-W21"/><div class="plainlinks">
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'''

The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Updates for editors'''

An experiment to show Reading Lists ↗ to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.

To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426008 ↗

Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:27}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:27|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T418231 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The Wikidata Platform team ↗ has published its backend replacement recommendation ↗ and accompanying technical architecture ↗ for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page ↗. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page ↗ or during the next office hour ↗. See the WDP team newsletter ↗ for more details.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha ↗, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more ↗.

The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:20, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 22 May 2026

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Tech News: 2026-22

<section begin="technews-2026-W22"/><div class="plainlinks">
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'''

Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424595 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication ↗ (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423119 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T423120 ↗

WMDE Technical Wishes ↗ will run an A/B test ↗ on 10 wikis ↗, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews ↗. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.

After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing ↗ beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416723 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The legacy CSS classes <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>tleft</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>tright</nowiki></code></bdi> have been replaced with <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatleft</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatright</nowiki></code></bdi> as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatleft</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>floatright</nowiki></code></bdi> may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:50, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-23

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Experience team ↗ is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.

The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 ↗ of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:18}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:18|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage ↗, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424048 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:07, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 74

New partnership: Swissdox

User survey results

<big>'''Read the full newsletter ↗'''</big> </div> </div> <small>Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ↗ on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 10:34, 2 June 2026 (UTC)</small>

(This message was sent to :User:John Broughton ↗ and is being posted here due to a redirect.)

Tech News: 2026-24

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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'''

Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content. https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/enhanced-free-api ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The refreshed Explore Feed ↗, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: ''Community'' and ''For You''. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the ''For You'' tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.

The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements ↗.

Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages ↗ in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips ↗, which may require updates ↗ to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews ↗ do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the ''cite-tracking-category-ref-details'' tracking category ↗ as a hidden category using <code><nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki></code> (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848 ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425662 ↗

The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.

The user interface icon library ↗ will be updated later this week or next week ↗. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.

The Universal Language Selector ↗ (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features ↗ in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427171 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The function signature for <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');</nowiki></code></bdi> use <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });</nowiki></code></bdi>. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>addPortletLink()</nowiki></code></bdi> and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427945 ↗

'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

'''Digital Public Goods''': The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member ↗ of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).

'''Better bot detection''': A trial of hCaptcha ↗ on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards ↗ signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page ↗ for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

right|thumb|200px|Example of the Attribution Framework recommendations. ↗

'''A better way to give credit''': The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API ↗ makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.

'''Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge''': The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge ↗, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.

'''Account security''': The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions ↗ can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.

'''Incident reporting form''': The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia ↗ of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.

'''Encouraging account creation''': Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change ↗ will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.

'''Wikimedia Android App''': The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 ↗ of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: ''Community,'' featuring refreshed Explore content, and ''For You,'' with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The ''For You'' feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.

'''Better discovery of images''': The Image Browsing ↗ beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

'''Reading Lists feature''': The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

right|thumb|200px|A design mockup of what the share card looks like. ↗

'''Testing Suggestion Mode''': Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

'''Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references''': References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions ↗, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations ↗. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia:''' The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20 ↗, 21 ↗, 22 ↗, 23 ↗ include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Tech blog moved to Diff''': The migration of the Techblog to Diff ↗ is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.

'''What’s new in the Wikipedia Library''': Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''New course on WikiLearn''': A free self-paced online course ↗, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers ↗” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa:''' The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit ↗ brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': If you missed it, you can now watch the recording ↗ of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.

'''Community Conferences''': Registration for WikiConference North America ↗ and Queering Wiki Conference ↗ is now opened. Call for Speakers ↗ for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Sharing the Form 990s:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights ↗ on Form 990 for the Foundation ↗ and Form 990 for the Endowment ↗ on Meta-Wiki.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade ↗ across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.

'''Structured Contents''': How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia ↗ to Markdown with Python.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

'''Board selection process''': The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members ↗. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC ↗, and share your ideas on the talk page ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-25

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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'''

The Reader Growth team ↗ has launched an Image Browsing ↗ beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use <code>class=notpageimage</code> excluding it from thumbnail previews, or <code>class=noviewer</code> excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word <code><nowiki>__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__</nowiki></code>. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page ↗.

Wikitables ↗ can now be sorted in descending order ↗ on the first click by adding <code dir=ltr>data-sort-order="desc"</code> to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398416 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The Article guidance ↗ feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature ↗ gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗ with the block duration they want. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427125 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:41}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:41|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

The roll out of global API rate limits ↗ is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.

The API Portal wiki ↗ will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. Learn more on the project page ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey ↗ that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server ↗.

The Latin American Wikimedia Conference ↗ will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship ↗ to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).

Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page ↗ and register there ↗. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 16:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-26

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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'''

Growth features ↗ are now available at Wikidata ↗. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

'''Updates for editors'''

The special page {{#special:RangeCalculator}} ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T268429 ↗

Sub-referencing ↗ is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ ↗ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan ↗ for the next deployment steps. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428902 ↗

Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100974 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:32}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:32|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗.

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The <code>skipcaptcha</code> right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402595 ↗

Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API ↗ has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox ↗.

The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org ↗. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427537 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''Meetings and events'''

Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code ↗ and Outreachy ↗. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 13:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

'''Community Wishlist''': Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future. ↗

'''Simplifying account creation:''' The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process ↗ to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.

'''New U4C members elected:''' The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members ↗ and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimania conference program''': The Wikimania 2026 program is now live ↗! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket ↗ here, if you haven't signed up yet.

'''Neutral Point of View''': A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard ↗ for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion ↗ open until July 15, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Readers ↗ · Research ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

thumb|250px|Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point) ↗

'''App Explore feed''': The redesigned App Explore feed ↗, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.

'''Wikipedia games''': The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.

'''Article guidance''': The Article guidance ↗ feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

'''Mobile Page Previews''': The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.

'''Wikifunctions''': You can now add images ↗ to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.

'''Wikidata''': The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service ↗ (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline ↗.

'''Growth features:''' Growth features are now available at Wikidata ↗!''' ''' Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

'''Mentors' management''': The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors ↗. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.

'''Collaborative''' '''Contributions''': If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides ↗. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 ↗ and 25 ↗ include how the user interface icon library ↗ is being updated. ↗ Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Digital Safety''': Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. ↗ It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.

'''Don't Blink''': Read the latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.

'''Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model''': Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) ↗ met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

'''Other Movement curated newsletters & news'''<br/><small>''See also:'' Diff blog ↗ · Goings-on ↗ · Planet Wikimedia ↗ · Signpost (en) ↗ · Kurier (de) ↗ · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) ↗ · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) ↗ · Wikimag (fr) ↗ · Education ↗ · GLAM ↗ · Milestones ↗ · Wikidata ↗ · Central and Eastern Europe ↗ · other newsletters ↗</small>

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:38, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-27

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

As part of the Account Creation Experiments ↗, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428220 ↗

After a successful experiment ↗, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address ↗ when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security ↗ project. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T428292 ↗

An update to Search ↗ is refining how the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>-prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>prefix:</nowiki></code></bdi> without negation however remains unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T427443 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:33}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:33|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T329346 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy ↗. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 11:46, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-28

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Latest '''tech news ↗''' from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations ↗ are available.

'''Updates for editors'''

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:34}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:34|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429769 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign ↗ planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team ↗ has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions ↗ are also available on-wiki for review in advance.

The Score extension ↗ now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request ↗ and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>src</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute and SVG in the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>srcset</nowiki></code></bdi> attribute.

The new Parsoid ↗ parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis ↗, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki ↗

'''In depth'''

The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post ↗ is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 13:54, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report ↗.

'''Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure''': A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

'''Increasing account creation''': The experiment ↗ providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis ↗ on mobile web.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Engage ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗''</small>
thumb|250px|With Sub-referencing editors can reuse and add details to a main reference. ↗

'''Add A Link''': The Foundation deployed Add A Link ↗ as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode ↗. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.

'''Wikifunctions''': Check out the 71 new functions ↗ with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.

'''Range calculator''': The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.

'''Captcha verification''': Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users ↗ with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Account security on private wikis''': Two-factor authentication ↗ will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 ↗ and 27 ↗ include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Team Challenges''': The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges ↗, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Enable ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Research newsletter ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.

'''Wikimedia Hubs''': The Hub Fund ↗ will pause funding for new pilots ↗ in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Protect ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Open Knowledge And Digital Rights''': Wikimedians shared their reflections ↗ on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Reach ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Readers ↗''</small>

'''Journalism Award''': Wikimedia Foundation announced ↗ three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, ↗ run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists ↗ (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

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