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Hi Night Lantern. Thank you for your work on Siung ↗. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol ↗ and left the following comment:

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<span style="color:orange; background-color:black;">&maltese; '''SunDawn''' &maltese;</span> <span style="color:white; background-color:#2a3f7a;">Contact me!</span> 12:42, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

''This Month in GLAM'': March 2026

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 16, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/16/1}}'''</span>

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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)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas ↗

You are invited to participate in the '''Destubathon of the Americas ↗''', a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ <span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e">''Dr. Blofeld''</span> 17:21, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 17, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/17/1}}'''</span>

Please be bold and help improve it!
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Tech News: 2026-17

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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> 14:59, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 18, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/18/1}}'''</span>

Please be bold and help improve it!
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This Month in Education: April 2026

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<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#00A7E2; font-size:1.4em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> Volume 15 • Issue 4 • April 2026</span>

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Empowering Knowledge: Wikimedia MKD Education Update ↗

WikiScholar: A School-Level Initiative to Promote Free Knowledge in Bangladesh ↗

Wikipedia for School 2025–2026: A Competition That Continued Despite Frost, Power Outages, and War ↗

Wikimedia UK and Thoughtful delivery new media literacy teacher training course ↗

Wikimedia CR supporting SDG's in Czech schools ↗

University Students’ Mandatory Internships at Wikimedia Armenia ↗

Third year of collaboration with Aleksandër Xhuvani University in Elbasan, Albania ↗

Students Discover Open Source and Learn Wikipedia and Wikidata Skills for the First Time in Zarqa, Jordan ↗

Leveraging on Wikipedia as a tool for curbing Health Misinformation and Disinformation in Akwa Ibom and Rivers State, Nigeria ↗

Governance and Public Knowledge: Wikipedia as a Learning Tool in Sustainability Education through UNESCO Designated Sites ↗

A month full of encounters with students in Brazil ↗

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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)

Women in Red – May 2026

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''New'': Countries starting with G and H ↗ <big>|</big> Women's scientific works ↗ <big>|</big> Religion and Spirituality ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

'''Announcements from other communities:'''

''Contest'': Destubathon of the Americas ↗

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Struggling to find scientific works to write about? Start with review articles or textbooks,{{br}} which may highlight influential studies, theories or methods by women.

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Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 19, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/19/1}}'''</span>

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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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:41, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 20, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/20/1}}'''</span>

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''This Month in GLAM'': April 2026

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From the team ↗: How the GLAM Community Can Shine in the 2026–27 Annual Plan

Albania report ↗: International Roma Day 2026 in Tirana, Albania

Argentina report ↗: WikiConf Argentina and GLAM projects

Asia report ↗: Documenting and citing oral knowledge in audio and video

Australia report ↗: WikiCon Australia, ICIP, Orphan works and Trans-Tasman partnerships

Brazil report ↗: Wikimedia Brasil publishes book on the power and challenges of free knowledge

Colombia report ↗: We celebrate Public Domain Day with an expert panel / Celebramos el día del dominio público con un Panel de expertas

Italy report ↗: Ongoing and New GLAM-Wiki Projects

New Zealand report ↗: Women in Wartime event at Auckland Museum & an update for WiR NZBSI

Nigeria report ↗: Wikimedia Commons Upload Campaign

North Macedonia report ↗: Wikimedia MKD in Action: Digitization, Wikisource and Educational Workshops

Poland report ↗: GLAM-Wiki Developments: Residencies, Partnerships and Audiovisual Heritage

Serbia report ↗: April in Wikimedia Serbia

Switzerland report ↗: Le Donne di Villa Massimo

UK report ↗: A tenth-century Quran and Islamic Art in Urdu

USA report ↗: Wiki MIT launches and US meetups

Biodiversity Heritage Library report ↗: Update on the BHL Annual Meeting 27 April - 1 May & BHL Day

Memory of the World report ↗: Eight new articles on MoW inscriptions

Calendar ↗: May's GLAM events

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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)

Introduction to contentious topics

{{ivmbox | image = Commons-emblem-notice.svg |imagesize=50px | bg = #E5F8FF | text = You have recently edited a page related to ''' living or recently deceased subjects of biographical content on Wikipedia articles''', a topic designated as '''''contentious ↗'''''. This is a brief introduction to contentious topics and <em>does <strong>not</strong> imply that there are any issues with your editing</em>.

A special set of rules applies to certain topic areas, which are referred to as ''contentious topics''. These are specially designated topics that tend to attract more persistent disruptive editing than the rest of the project and have been designated as contentious topics by the Arbitration Committee ↗. When editing a contentious topic, Wikipedia's norms and policies are more strictly enforced, and Wikipedia administrators ↗ have an expanded level of powers and discretion in order to reduce disruption to the project.

Within contentious topics, editors should edit <strong>carefully and constructively</strong>, refrain from disrupting the encyclopedia, and:

adhere to the purposes of Wikipedia ↗;

comply with all applicable policies and guidelines ↗;

follow editorial and behavioural best practices;

comply with any page restrictions in force within the area of conflict; and

refrain from gaming the system ↗.

<p>Editors are advised to err on the side of caution if unsure whether making a particular edit is consistent with these expectations. If you have any questions about contentious topics <em>procedures</em>, you may ask them at the arbitration clerks' noticeboard ↗ or you may learn more about this contentious topic ↗. You may also choose to note which contentious topics you know about by using the {{tl|Ctopics/aware}} template. Hipal (talk) 18:30, 15 May 2026 (UTC)</p>}}
:Hi {{ping|Hipal}}. Thanks for the early reminder, and apologies for this. Perhaps in the future the Wikipedia community consensus ↗ could compile a list of those unreliable websites ↗, like how they make one on the predatory journal listing ↗ as well as on this ↗. So when any editor starts to cite those links while editing and previewing the version, there will be an early automatic note/reminder to editors refraining from saving the edit, thus preventing them from being given further warnings for using such sources. <span style="color:#C71585"> '''Ṉight Ḻantern''' </span><sup>🏮</sup> 21:55, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 21, 2026)

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! <div style="margin:0; background-color:#E2E7FF; border:1px solid blue; text-align:center; color:#082840; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.4em; padding-bottom: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; font-weight:normal">{{AFI/Picture box|week=2026/21}} Hello, Night Lantern. The article for improvement ↗ of the week is:

<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/21/1}}'''</span>

Please be bold and help improve it!
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Tech News: 2026-21

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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 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)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 22, 2026)

{| style="width:100%; padding:2px;" class="TAFI-weekly"
! <div style="margin:0; background-color:#E2E7FF; border:1px solid blue; text-align:center; color:#082840; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.4em; padding-bottom: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; font-weight:normal">{{AFI/Picture box|week=2026/22}} Hello, Night Lantern. The article for improvement ↗ of the week is:

<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/22/1}}'''</span>

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Tech News: 2026-22

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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'''

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)

Women in Red - June 2026

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''New'': LGBTQ+ women ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with I, J, K and L ↗

''Article improvement campaign'': Orphaned women ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

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Eiffel women ↗

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Consider contributing to two of our monthly events at once, and improve coverage <br/>of LGBTQ+ women by de-orphaning their articles.

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Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

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May 2026

25px|alt=Information icon ↗ Hello, I'm Zackmann08. Thank you for your recent contributions to :Dusun people ↗. When you were adding content to the page, you added duplicate arguments ↗ to a template which can cause issues with how the template is rendered. In the future, please use the preview ↗ button before you save your edit; this helps you find these errors as they will display in yellow at the top of the page. Thanks. '''<span style="color:#00d5ff !important">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94 !important">mann</span>''' (<sup>Talk to me ↗</sup>/<sub><span style="color:orange !important">What I been doing</span> ↗</sub>) 02:07, 26 May 2026 (UTC)
:{{ping|Zackmann08}} Thanks for the notification. Fixed ↗. <span style="color:#C71585"> '''Ṉight Ḻantern''' </span><sup>🏮</sup> 02:13, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 23, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/23/1}}'''</span>

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This Month in Education: May 2026

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<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#00A7E2; font-size:1.4em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026</span>

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Teaching innovation with Wikimedia. Shared experiences in Spanish Universities ↗

Editing Wikipedia with Viktor Hygo High School in Albania ↗

Debating free license in Brazil ↗

Microclimatic Explainers: A short-form media approach to build micro-level environmental awareness in India ↗

Ukraine publishes the first academic collection of papers on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects ↗

Wiki Digital Youth Club Launches in Tanzania: Youth Build Digital Skills Through Competitive Quest Challenges ↗

Wiki Youth Participation in Building Rwanda’s Open Knowledge Ecosystem ↗

Wikimedia Digi-Youth Club in Nigeria ↗

Wikimedia MKD's Education News & Activities ↗

Wikipedia Serbia's interns and Wiki Ambassadors provide crucial support towards end of the school year ↗

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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

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 24, 2026)

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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 ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

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''This Month in GLAM'': May 2026

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From the team ↗: May Global GLAM Call Recording and June Call Announcement

Australia report ↗: Celebrating #1Lib1Ref Australasia

Brazil report ↗: GLAM Connection: Fashion, History, and Biodiversity in May

France report ↗: New Wikimedian in Residence

Italy report ↗: Connecting the Arctic and Sicily through Wikimedia Projects

Mexico report ↗: How the cultural, governmental, educational, and museum sectors contributed in unison to Wikimedia projects

Netherlands report ↗: Setting up your own platform (part 1): from wish to the creation of a wiki

New Zealand report ↗: ESEAP Conference 2026 and the NZBSI WiR update

North Macedonia report ↗: Wikimedia MKD Shares GLAM Experience at International Conferences

Poland report ↗: Partnerships, Participation, and Open Knowledge

Serbia report ↗: May in Wikimedia Serbia

Spain report ↗: El Prado en femenino III

Switzerland report ↗: Museum for Communication, Panel IMD, Wikipedia Day

UK report ↗: Early Qurans on the front page of Wikipedia

Biodiversity Heritage Library report ↗: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members

Special story ↗: New tools for multilingual audio, video and metadata

Memory of the World report ↗: New articles in Urdu

Calendar ↗: June's GLAM events

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 25, 2026)

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<span style="font-size:140%;">'''{{Wikipedia:Articles for improvement/2026/25/1}}'''</span>

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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> 16:47, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 26, 2026)

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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)

This Month in Education: June 2026

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<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#00A7E2; font-size:2.9em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">This Month in Education</span>

<span style="font-weight:bold; color:#00A7E2; font-size:1.4em; font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026</span>

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Wikipedia Editathon at Dinajpur Govt. College: Empowering Graduate Students in the Open Knowledge Movement ↗

Wikimedia Serbia prepares for Edu Wiki camp 2026 ↗

Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs pilot explores challenge-based learning across three countries ↗

Why the EduWiki Hub Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education ↗

Portuguese Universities adopt free knowledge tools: Wikipedia is the favorite ↗

Translating on Wikipedia used as extra – credit assignment in University of Prishtina, Kosovo ↗

Strengthening Wikimedia Education Through Community Learning and Digital Literacy Initiatives ↗

Small Group, Big Impact: Building Skills Through the Wikimedia Volunteer Focus Group in Botswana ↗

"25x25 Project – Celebrating Wikipedia" in Córdoba, Argentina ↗

Mapping and gathering educational activities on Wiki in Brazilian universities ↗

Growing Wiki Education in the Philippines: Highlights from Bikol WikiConference 2026 ↗

From Mentee to Builder: Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program ↗

EduWiki Hub publishes its first Community Newsletter ↗

Click, Capture, and Contribute: Scaling Open Knowledge Through Mobile Photography ↗

Education in Action: Limkokwing School Adoption Program 2026 and Wikimedia Learning Outcomes ↗

Impact of Wiki Digi youth Clubs initiative in education of Rwanda ↗

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July 2026

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''New'': Crime & law ↗ <big>|</big> Alphabet run: Countries starting with M ↗

''Continuing (year-long initiatives)'': #1day1woman ↗ <big>|</big> Sports ↗

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Women in Red celebrates its 11 Year Anniversary on July 18!

Eiffel women ↗

Developing Countries WikiContest ↗

'''Tip of the month:'''

Working on a group of linked articles? Have you thought about creating a navigation box ↗ for the footer of those pages?

'''Other ways to participate:'''

Become a member ↗. You can always opt-out of notifications ↗.

Join the conversations on our talkpage ↗.

Help us plan future events ↗ and add any general ideas on developing the project.

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This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 27, 2026)

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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 ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 11:46, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement ↗ (week 28, 2026)

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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.

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'''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> 13:55, 6 July 2026 (UTC)