User Talk: Osomite

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Thank you for your contributions on Dinosaurs

Hi Osomite, We’ve noticed that you edited articles related to Dinosaurs. Thank you for your great contributions. Keep it up! Bobo.03 (talk) 01:14, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Response on TheSoul Publishing Being Russian

@Osomite
Even before news articles came out, I myself had suspicions that they are potentially Russian affiliated (anyone who takes the time can see the strange connections). Obviously we cannot say that for sure. I have added a neutral description on the Bright Side Wikipedia page regarding several media organizations supposing they are Russian-affiliated with a statement from TheSoul itself. Perhaps TheSoul needs its own article and/or combine Bright Side and 5-Minute Crafts. I don't know- even if its not an offical tie, the strangeness and reach of their content combined with occasional political overtones has caused me to stay away. I doubt a legitimate propaganda operation wouldn't also operate with profit in mind or at the very least a for-profit company could ''experiment'' with propaganda (but not be dedicated to that as a mainstay)
See on the talk page ↗ <small class="autosigned">— Preceding unsigned ↗ comment added by Superdadsuper (talk • contribs ↗) 03:15, 10 September 2020 (UTC)</small>

Is "pyto free environment" hyphenated and could I get your advice?

a very good-point. I don't know. I think it will be necessary to convene an assemblage (or is it called a "gaggle") of at least 30 editors and 60 administrators to ponder this point at length. Whatever the outcome, pro-or-con, it needs to be included in the Manual-of-Style ↗ so that future hyphenate-type-errors do not occur. Thank you Mini4WD for the heads-up.

::<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 22:34, 16 September 2020 (UTC)

Thanks...

...for catching my goof at Mad (magazine) ↗. I was looking at the wrong Crumb reference to ''Mad'', incorrectly going to this passage:
{{quote|What else was weird about Weirdo? As Crumb himself wrote in the first issue, the new effort marked "another new magazine, another MAD imitation, another small time commercial feature with high hopes, obviously doomed to fail." This is a reference to the number of MAD knock-offs that appeared during the 1950s and 1960s....}}

And so I say: D'oh!--Tenebrae (talk) 00:07, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

D/S Alerts

decision here ↗.

WP:ACDS ↗ topic areas. 1 January 2021

Retraction, please

In this edit ↗ you called me an "apologist". From the context, I infer that you meant a "Nazi apologist", since you also referred to my "prodigious efforts to maintain Nazi victory in Poland/" Please retract these untrue and defamatory statements. You can do so by striking them out, using <nowiki><s> and </s></nowiki> at the beginning and end of each statement. Your failure to do so will result in your being reported to Wikipedia administrators for a gross violation of WP:No personal attacks ↗. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:22, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
:Should I assume that your putting an unwarranted edit-warring notification on my talk page is your way of saying that you refuse to retract your defamatory statements? If you can confirm that you have no intention of retracting, than I can proceed with reporting you to admins for personal attacks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:35, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

::{{reply|Beyond My Ken}} Previously I put this post on your talk page. I include it here for the record.

:::By definition, an apologist is "a person who offers an argument in defense of something controversial". By inference, you are the one putting the Nazi tag on it. The "context" is what you are making it to be. It seemed to me that Germany's successful invasion of Poland was a Nazi victory. Isn't that the position you have been maintaining?

:::I did not say you were a Nazi apologist. I am sorry that you inferred that. For the offense you feel, I apologize.

:::According to Godwin's law ↗, this is the point at which effectively the discussion ends.

:::<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 22:02, 26 February 2021 (UTC) PS Seriously, stop. If you believe that I am wrong, report me to the authorities.
::::And here is my response from my talk page:
::::No, this is not the end of the discussion, since yours is a classic "non-apology apology". You apologize for "the offense I feel" but do not apologize for your statements. In any case, I did not ask for, and do not want an apology, which is useless to me, what I asked for was a retraction of your statements by striking them out. Without such a retraction, I will be taking this to admins. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:59, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

You have been reported to the Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents

You will find the report here ↗. Beyond My Ken (talk) 22:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

You do really go to the ANI and explain yourself.Slatersteven (talk) 13:58, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

It has been suggested that your silence and unwillingness to strike the comments will lead to a block, you really do need to start taking this seriously.Slatersteven (talk) 18:26, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

:{{reply|Slatersteven}} I appreciate your concern. Thank you. I find this issue very distressing. Sadly it was the last thing I thought about while trying to fall asleep last night (actually at 3 AM) as this dilemma has been weighing on my mind. I do not call people Nazi apologists. I have not called people Nazi apologists. Beyond My Ken through inference (BMK's word) says I did.

:Slatersteven, after you made your proposal to me to remove my comments, I thought it was appropriate and was figuring out how to do what you suggested and best seek resolution. Yes, I was silent, the reason was that I wanted to give time to let things cool down. I was upset by the proceedings and want to be able to respond calmly. I was silent, but I was listening. I am distressed that my silence was construed as nefarious. Sometimes a silence is just a silence. I was just listening and thinking. What was the apparent need for urgency? You mentioned that I was "a POV pusher trying to force their version of nationalist history onto the article". Where did that come from? I have no alternate version of history to force. It is very interesting what some people consider the meaning of silence is.

:This issue initiated around my https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_Sea_Lion&type=revision&diff=1009095624&oldid=1005436445|"edit" ↗ (I apologize for the "scare quotes", but I can't get the dif rename done without them) of the following sentence in the Operation_Sea_Lion ↗ article in the section "Invasion of Poland":

:{{Quote
|text=In September 1939, the German invasion of Poland ↗ was a success, but this infringed on both a French ↗ and a British ↗ alliance with Poland and both countries declared war on Germany.}}

:My purpose was to edit a poorly constructed sentence and clarify. With the result of:

:{{Quote
|text=In September 1939, German invaded Poland ↗. This aggression infringed on a French alliance with Poland ↗ and a British alliance with Poland ↗. Subsequently, France and Britain declared war on Germany. }}

:(Oops, I see that I created a typo "German" instead of "Germany".) So I reconstructed a sentence that had a comma splice and unusual conjunction "but". I edited it to make it three sentences. Making the entry more informative and clear was my object. And then I was left with the first sentence where using the word "successful" felt awkward. I have never considered the invasion of Poland "unsuccessful" (as some here have somehow construed). An invasion is either an invasion or a "failed invasion". And I have never seen the use of "successful" relative to "invasion" anywhere. Seeing that accolade in an encyclopedia article did not seem to have a neutral point of view NPOV ↗. So I did not think that using the "successful" necessary. Removing the word "success" or "successful" does not change the meaning of the sentence. I had no hidden agenda with doing this. I had no agenda. I was trying to write the best encyclopedia article I could by removing a word that was unnecessary. After all, was an invasion and the invasion did what an invasion does. And in the edit summary, I indicated, "There is no support for the claim that the invasion of Poland was "successful". And from there BMK disagreed and reverted the entire edit. BMK ignored my edit of the second sentence which was a marked improvement over the original.

:Here is an observation. In the Invasion of Poland ↗ Wikipedia article, the word "success", relative to the overall invasion, was used once, stating "The success of the invasion marked the end of the Second Polish Republic, though Poland never formally surrendered." Here as with the Operation Sea Lion article, the word "success" is an unnecessary adjective. If the word "success" is removed, the meaning of the sentence is not altered.

:The encyclopedia Britannica, when discussing what caused WWII, it simply states, "World War II began in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland." Here is a creditable encyclopedia that does not feel the need for touting the invasion as "successful".

:Through all of this, I have pondered about "what was Hitler's goal in invading Poland?" What would have been Hitler's criteria to consider the invasion successful? Clearly, Hitler desired to expand eastward to gain “lebensraum” (living space) for Germans. Did the invasion accomplish this goal? Another thought was that Hitler needed to possess Poland in order to launch his offensive against Russia. Yes, the invasion was successful in Germany "possessing" Poland for this purpose. If it is this apparent, why couldn't BMK simply qualify the condition of success? Maybe BMK could have added another sentence or two?

:Recently, I read somewhere that with Germany's invasion of Poland and when the Allied Forces entered into WWII against Germany, at that point Germany had already realized that they had lost the war. With that view, it seems a stretch to say the invasion spawned a "success". I guess I need to find that again because there will undoubtedly be contention about this assertion. In any case, this line of inquiry is interesting and needs to be examined.

:For some reason, Beyond My Ken has called me "the editor" throughout this entire episode. This is a personal slight, I consider BMK to be rude. There is some psychology involved with not acknowledging a person with their name. To not acknowledge someone is a snub. It can mean to ignore or not take notice of.

:For some reason, from BMK's first revert of my initial edit, BMK made no effort to collaborate with me. He has only been brusk, offensive, and threatening. I made a single revert and BMK put the edit war Ambox warning on my talk page accusing "You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war according to the reverts you have made on Operation Sea Lion;" And then in an additional entry on my talk page threatened, "Your next revert to this article triggers a report to the edit warring notice board". OMG! I made a single revert at 10:35 and a second edit (retaining the word "successful" and BMK's response was to threaten me. Although in the edit war notice it counseled "Users are expected to collaborate with others", BMK never sought to collaborate with me. I highly doubt that BMK's behavior reflected an appropriate protocol.

:Throughout many edit exchanges with editors, BMK has been determined to retain the exact original badly constructed sentence with simply the addition of four references supporting specifically for the single word "successful" in the context of "In September 1939, the successful German invasion of Poland". The placement of the references is unusual; they are placed immediately after the word " ". BMK's https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Operation_Sea_Lion&type=revision&diff=1009162169&oldid=1009161796|"edit" ↗ (Again, apologies for the "scare quotes") establishes that the references are specifically for just the word "successful", remarking in the edit summary "This is the way it must be done."

:I appreciate that BMK has provided references specifically for the word "successful". I plan to track down the books to see whether there is actually a clear statement or analysis stating that the invasion was "successful". After I have been able to do find the books (they are at my libraries) and do the research, I was will report my results. If I am wrong, I will admit that I am wrong with appropriate apologies to BMK. I value truth and I value an honest presentation of history.

:I see from the discussions, things have not cooled off. Beyond My Ken has been quite busy prosecuting his case. Is that appropriate? Today, BMK has what he considers to be personal attacks" ↗ in my post on the Operation Sea Lion Talk page. Was that appropriate? It seems that BMK is doing his best to add heat and stir the pot. From this situation, am I going to received fair consideration?

:My posts concerned were in reply to post" ↗ (apologies for the "scare quotes") which was initiated immediately after I made first and only revert" ↗ (apologies for the "scare quotes").

:BMK considers the following phrases to be personal attacks. Just to provide a perspective they were not grouped but spread in my post to BMK

::*'''"to maintain Nazi victory in Poland"'''

:::::4 lines of text follows

::*'''"You are disingenuous."'''

:::::10 lines of text follows

::*'''"Your argument is largely that of an apologist."'''

:I am truly sorry that BMK inferred (BMK's word) that a word in the first phrase and a word in the third phrase was a personal attack of being called a "Nazi apologist". I am sorry he saw it that way. It was in no way intended to be a personal attack that I had "cleverly hidden". I did make an apology which was heartfelt ("I did not say you were a Nazi apologist. I am sorry that you inferred that. For the offense you feel, I apologize."). However, somehow I did not say whatever magical words BMK thought appropriate and called it a "nonapology apology". Some here have the view that I did not make a "not a genuine apology". Is there some guidance on how to make a genuine apology?

:About "apologist". Some who are judging here, consider that because I rebuffed BMK's "success" argument by saying it was "largely that of an apologist" is a personal attack. An apologist is "one who speaks or writes in defense of something". What is wrong with that? That is what BMK did. I did not find BMK's argument convincing.

:And about personal attacks. reply to me" ↗ (apologies for the "scare quotes") contains some significant personal attacks on me:

:{{Quote
|text="I won't take it seriously, because you're so far off the mark that you're entirely around the bend. Ignoring your ignorant personal jibes, the issue here is simple: reliable sources, and every historian worth their salt, says that the German invasion of Poland was a successful one."}}

:BMK tells me, "I am entirely around the bend", calls me "ignorant", and then just claims the authority of historians "worth their salt". That wasn't much of an argument, it was, to me, what you would expect from an apologist who has few facts at hand. It was an insult to me. BMK claims I made a personal attack, which is ironic when BMK freely makes personal attacks; they were personal attacks that were so clear there was no inference needed to understand what they were. I would appreciate BMK's apology for his personal attack on me.

:BMK's posts contain quite a bit of disparagement directed towards me; a lot of anger. The tone was arrogant and overbearing. BMK was presenting what BMK considered to be superior knowledge and was quite annoyed at being challenged. BMK took some particularly umbrage with my challenge requesting a reference for the adjective "successful". It seemed to me that BMK was looking for reasons to have controversy and conflict.

:About "disingenuous". Here is post" ↗ and here is the comment in context which was concerned his aspersion that I was edit warring although I only made a single revert:

:{{Quote
|text="You are disingenuous. You were in an edit war earlier this month from which you received a edit block of one month ↗. You contested the block and received mercy. You ended the episode by claiming, "I'll try my best to improve". You need to work on that claim, walk the talk."}}

:It is apparent, and BMK's editing history involving his past edit wars demonstrates it, that BMK is not candid or sincere and is in fact quite disingenuous. He claimed an edit war after I made a single revert, which is disingenuous. BMK would prefer to distract and misdirect and call it a personal attack; however, it is not, it is simply an observation of fact. This is not BMK's first rodeo.

:Many words have been written here with many analyses of my words. In a lot of ways, I see this as much in the way of John Godfrey Saxe's poem '''The Blind Men and the Elephant''' ↗ which ends:

:{{Quote
|text="So, oft in theologic wars, the disputants, I ween, tread on in utter ignorance, of what each other mean, and prate about the elephant, not one of them has seen!"}}

:I hope for an honest opinion of the elephant.

::Clearly the judges are self-selecting themselves. Can the judges act without bias and fairness?

::I feel that the judges have been looking at this episode cherry-picking words, touching only the parts of the elephant that are easily at hand, and making assumptions based upon, probably, a predetermined result. You assume you know all about me and have already passed judgment. You layer assumption upon assumption. You suppose. You guess. You infer.

::I feel that I will not find fair judgment here. I wonder that when making your judgments, has all of the record in the posts been reviewed and given equal weight? With BMK making on-going https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents&oldid=1009710094|"comments" ↗ (again apologies for the "scare quotes") and whipping up the prosecution I feel an unfair finger on the scale.

:I have a suspicion that what I have written here is just going to provide more "grist for the mill" with more criticism of what you think I really said and more condemnation.

:As you judge me, do you consider Beyond My Ken blameless? Shouldn't his involvement be considered?

:I have not challenged anyone's specific already stated determinations. Doing that would probably not change any opinion. I have not addressed every detail. If anyone has a specific question they would like me to address, please let me know.

:<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 04:37, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

I will post this to the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and see what transpires

:It might have been more helpful to have condensed this into one or two paragprahs.Slatersteven (talk) 10:54, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

:::{{reply|Slatersteven}} Yes less is more. Good thought. I have never been involved in a personal attack accusation and I had no guidance to follow so I did what I thought appropriate. Ironic, there was much ado about my prolonged silence, and now you want brevity. I was told to reply and that it was serious. I figured if it was serious, I would take it seriously and reply appropriately. I figured I had one opportunity to respond, so I made an effort to put it into perspective. What could I have explained in a paragraph or two? What is the critical issue? The critical defense?

:::You make a good point, so here is a try at brevity. A focused defence. (Hmm, and after writing the "brief", it is more than a paragraph or two. I did it with as few words as I could)

::::I have been accused by "inference" that I called Beyond My Ken (BMK) a Nazi Apologist. I did not. "Inference" is "a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning." What is the evidence?

::::In my first post to the conversation, having spent some time carefully crafting it, I discovered when I tried to post I got an edit conflict as Slatersteven and BMK had posted several times while I composed, and I was behind. So I revised the post I was working on to place my somewhat belated comments in context. I "prefaced" with the comment, "I am a little behind on your prodigious efforts to maintain Nazi victory in Poland." I used the words "Nazi" and "victory" as they were prominently used in the back and forth posts between Slaterstevenu and BMK. I picked up on the theme. The words "Nazi attack" in my post were simply an "echoing" of the ideas being discussed. An echo nothing more.

::::The words "Nazi attack" would not be the ones I would use concerning the issue of "successful invasion". "Nazi attack" was not my original thought about the situation. BMK created the discussion section on the Operation Sea Lion talk page and titled it, "Was the Nazi invasion of Poland a success?" The original use of the word "Nazi" in the discussion done BMK.

::::Further down in the post, the part that I had tried to post but could not due to an edit conflict situation, I rebutted BMK's argument as being that of an apologist. An apologist, and nothing more. (See my previous post about "apologist", it is just a word to characterize a type of argument).

::::BMK, who clearly by the talk page discussion, at this point was very annoyed because I challenge the word "successful" and wanted a reference for that conclusion. So BMK, while annoyed (perhaps to the point of anger), read my post and wanted to reply. BMK created out of hole-cloth an imagined insult, a personal attack, because I used the word "Nazi" and "apologist" in the same post. Post hoc ergo propter hocer ↗ inferring, BMK decided that I said BMK was a "Nazi apologist". That is not true. I did not infer that, BMK inferred that.

::::To say that I made a personal attack is not true, I had no intent. I did not call BMK a "Nazi apologist". When I saw BMK's post back to me, I thought, "Oh Dear, where did that come from?" I immediately replied with an apology. Sadly BMK did not think it was not sufficient calling it a "nonapology apology". I am sorry that my apology did not satisfy BMK. At this point, I indicated I was no longer willing to engage (considering BMK's emotional state and imaginings). So I "went silent", which many here thought was a very suspicious thing to do. Note in my post, I said that was what I was intended to do. I invoked Godwin's law ↗. And, I was condemned because I was not replying immediately. My speed of thought and action, unfortunately, does not match others in the Wikipedia world.

::::So BMK made a personal attack incident report. And here we are, with me defending myself from an "inferred" personal attack. I have been accused of doing something I did not do by "inference". Is inference adequate proof to make it fact? About this inference, I believe that I should be allowed the "benefit of the doubt".

I will post this to the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents and see what transpires.

::::<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 20:43, 2 March 2021 (UTC)

Good description

Hi! I noticed a recent comment you made on an internal forum about BMK and his long-term pattern of behavior. It's something I've encountered myself, but you described it perfectly. Such a frustrating issue, and I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it. I know commenting like this on the behavior of another editor is a dubious thing to do, but I strongly feel that this kind of thing is an exemplar of why Wikipedia's culture can discourage participation from newer editors. Ganesha811 (talk) 02:34, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

:It's interesting how often people comment that this factor or that factor "drives away new editors", especially when put up against the reality that the majority of new editors - I would think - stick around, get the hang of the place, and eventually become productive editors, and that those who do run off frequently come back with new identities. Sometimes these also become productive contributors, but others, mostly the ones who were "driven off" because their edits were problematic in the first place, become puppetmasters, coming and going with new identities all the time. Now that, to my mind, is the true arrogance, the idea that one can edit whenever and as whomever one pleases, simply because someone dropped a dime on one's bad behavior.{{pb}}Not everyone is cut out to edit in this kind of platform, which is simultaneously strict and free-form, and I, for one, don't feel that it helps the project much for us to bend over backwards to accommodate those square pegs who don't fit into the round holes we offer.{{pb}}That you and Osomite (and others) don't like me is something I really can't do much about, not and remain true to myself and my commitment to continuing to improve the encyclopedia, but at least your crowd might recognize that I '''''am''''' committed to it, and that I '''''do''''' improve it, and that (here comes that "arrogance" again) I am more often right than I am wrong. Beyond My Ken (talk) 03:03, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

::{{u|Beyond My Ken}}, hi! I do assume good faith on your part, as you describe in your last paragraph. We are all here to build an encyclopedia, and I know that dealing with repeated waves of vandals and trolls might engender a more blunt style than most people.
::
::However, if you're open to a specific suggestion, I have one to make. I've noticed you often revert edits with the summary 'better before'. This is just not helpful. It's unlikely to produce any sort of constructive discussion, since it implies that there was something wrong with the change while providing absolutely no detail (policy-based, grammar-based, or otherwise) about what was wrong with it.
::
::The result is that either you get into an edit war, or a discussion on the talk page that's already on the wrong foot, or, if they don't respond, you bite another editor by so bluntly reverting their contribution. You contribute a lot, but taking the time to give a specific reason for reverts rather than saying "better before", especially when the change is a matter of opinion and not clear vandalism, might help. Ganesha811 (talk) 03:38, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

:::Thanks, I will think about that. One of the problems is pure volume. I have a lot of pages on my watchlist, and I end up making a lot of edits in response to what's been done to them, so I fall back on "Better before" and "Not an improvement". I used to have a box on my talk page explaining what I mean by those canned replies (which are not so different from these commonly used abbreviations ↗), but I took it down a while ago in a general clean up of the page. Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:14, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

::::{{u|Ganesha811}}, I appreciate your commiserating about {{u|Beyond My Ken}}'s modus. Clearly, my talk page is on BMK's watchlist radar. Amazing how he jumped in and promptly replied to your note to me. It was enlightening to have BMK explain his method and motivation tending his watchlist.

::::I am not a prolific Wikipedia editor. I read Wikipedia articles and see things to fix. I read about things in newspapers, magazines, and books; I watch movies; I then look to Wikipedia to see what is said. Sometimes I find things to fix, sometimes I find things to add. My goal is to make Wikpedia content accurate and not confusing. A lot of Wikipedia writing is good, but some writing is pretty bad. I fix the bad when I find it.

::::About my observation on BMK's modus. A while back BMK and I tangled over an edit ↗ I made to Operation Sea Lion ↗. It was my first encounter with BMK I was simply trying to clarify a poorly written sentence and in the process removed the word "successfully". BMK reverted my edit and strongly disagreed (he did do an edit summary explaining) and goaded me into an edit war (I thought I had made an improvement, but BMK clearly disagreed) and escalated it to an Administrator's Notice board and added that I made a "personal assault" against him. I was very surprised and offended about how I had been treated. This encounter with BMK was a bad thing, I wondered how it could be fixed.

::::It seemed to me that BMK was seeking controversy, wanting an argument. He was brusk, bullying, demanding, and condescending. BMK was on the offensive, attacking, leaving no room to collaborate. I came away from this encounter a bit hurt by what I considered a hostile environment--it was not right, it was not necessary. I thought that BMK's behavior was not appropriate visa via the espoused Wikipedia philosophy and policy and guidance about cooperation in writing an encyclopedia.

::::Since then, I have been trying to figure out what is/was going on with the Wikipedia environment by observing. Recently BMK took umbrage with a newish editor. The editor fixed a run-on sentence, and BMK goaded an editing war about an argument about "proper grammar". The edit argument had no merit, after all, good grammar is good grammar. BMK was harsh to the editor and was wrong in his position. What BMK was doing did not seem logical (what was BMK's motivation?). I felt the editor need support so I stepped in and pointed out how BMK was behaving badly. But, BMK refused to see anything but his point of view. This encounter was a bad thing happening in Wikipedia.

::::With Beyond My Ken having joined the conversation with you, and you with having made the good suggestion to him about edit summaries, and BMK acknowledging, may be . . .

::::I need to reply to Beyond My Ken congenially to seek resolution. I would prefer to like him.

::::<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 05:20, 6 May 2021 (UTC)

:::::<personal attack by IP editor redacted>
::::::{{tl|rpa}}. It's OK to disagree with BMK's editing but name-calling is against our WP:NPA ↗ policy. – EdJohnston (talk) 03:38, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

:::::::{{u|EdJohnston}}, you removed a personal attack that was made by an anonymous IP editor (an attack against Beyond My Ken, perhaps, as no specific editor was named in the post that was removed). Inadvertently (I hope), you made your statement quite ambiguous--it appears damning to me due to a lack of information to the contrary. Your comment makes it appear that I made the personal attack and not an anonymous IP editor. I realize that few people read my talk page and would see your comment, but in the spirit of accuracy, could you clarify who did what to whom? I would appreciate it. <span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 20:52, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

::::::::I've fixed it. Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:56, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

June 2021 chide

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:{{reply|PackMecEng}} quit being a bully. You are have initiated this supposed edit war over your agitationist view that facts must have a NPOV. You are arguing against the facts and the truth. Or is your starting an edit war with me personal? Or as your recent Block from editing on the Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard shows, are you are just looking to create controversy and be generally disagreeable. Your apparent Trump revisionist agenda is not a good look. Why are you so set against having the truth told about Trump? Is the truth a threat to your weltanschauung?<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 00:12, 7 June 2021 (UTC)
::I was not the first one to revert you nor the last to disagree with your edit. You are welcome to take me to ANI or AN if you wish. You appear to be hear to WP:RGW ↗. PackMecEng (talk) 00:14, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

::::{{reply|PackMecEng}} My, my, my. You do carry on so. Trying to mount a defense to justify your behavior is so pathetic.

::::Please quit posting comments on my talk page (actually, please quit doing it anywhere in Wikipedia) about things you demonstrate little understanding.

::::"Righting Great Wrongs?" That's a pretty feeble effort at gaslighting. You are accusing me of the behavior you are engaging in yourself. Clearly with your false "not NPV" claims, you are in the WP:RWG ↗ mode trying to rewrite history to falsely burnish Trump's legacy which consists of tens of thousands of lies. You clearly have a very, very big job ahead of you defending the beloved Supreme Leader.

::::Go away. Go bully someone else.

::::<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> <sup style="font-family:Segoe print;color:#B22222">''hablemos''</sup> 20:09, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

:::::Just so you know, there is nothing particularly personal in PME's behavior, they do this sort of thing quite often - I keep having to warn them about following me around to comment on things I post. (An admin offered to block them for it, but I didn't feel like compiling the evidence that would have been required.) For laughs, you should read this ↗ (the part that's been collapsed) and their "discussion" of the block that resulted from it on their talk page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:PackMecEng#May_2021 ↗. It's almost surrealistic. Beyond My Ken (talk) 21:16, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

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Hey! I noticed you undid my change to Skeuomorph ↗ to add the Flag of the Haudenosaunee ↗. What is the reasoning behind this not being a skeuomorph? The stair-stepping on the tree in the middle of the flag was a necessary structure in the original belt because it was made from beads. The design of the flag is explicitly fashioned after the design of the belt, and although the stair-steps are no longer needed, they are still included. --Blacklemon67 (talk) 23:22, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

:{{ping|Blacklemon67}} This type of discussion should be on the Skeuomorph Talk Page. I am going to move your comment there and provide my reply.

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Sorry about the confusion - I was referring specifically to the use of the source as being not entirely random. Don't want to get back into that discussion; just want to apologize for the communication differences. I'm from the Ozarks and have a rural background so I learned a somewhat bastardized version of most common English idioms/pronunciations/spellings/grammatical constructions that can be at time confusing. Hog Farm <sub> ''Talk''</sub> 13:55, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

:{{ping|Hog Farm}}, I appreciate hearing from you. No worries, it's all good.

:I understand about rural idioms and such. Sometimes I encounter the same things-especially about pronunciation and I am particularly bad at spelling as I am slightly dyslexic. I have to work hard in getting writing right. I hail from a very rural part of Northern Eastern California. I had a neighbor from Missouri and I loved to listen to her talk. We lived high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains and whenever she talked about going west into the central valley, she would say about "going down below". And talking about something "over there", she would say "yonder". A wonderful lady. And since many of the older timers (way back then), like my grandmother, were one generation removed from the gold miners of the 1849 gold rush, they had their way with words also. Good memories.<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 20:31, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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Sorry, you're claiming that it's pronounced both por-TOH-lə and like "power-tall-ah", while claiming that they're the same. I suspect that you aren't familiar with the key, but if you are adding a second pronunciation, you need to provide a source. YouTube is good enough. Can you find someone on YouTube pronouncing it the way you think is correct? — kwami (talk) 02:24, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

:{{ping|Kwamikagami}} I think that your reclama and knowledge about this issue would be better placed on the Portola talk page rather than hiding it on my obscure talk page. Inquiring minds will want to know.

:I will put this discussion on the Portola talk page. Please make your responses there.

:I see from your user page that you have knowledge about how words are pronounced.

:Your last edit on the Portola article you deleted my pronunciation of "pour|toll|'|ɑh". It has been in the article for quite some time. Wikipedia guidance tells that long-time-standing edits should not be changed without some talk page discussion and agreement first. Why didn't you just leave it alone?

:I am puzzled, "power-tall-ah"? Where did that come from? Do you think that my "pour" comes out as "power"; "ur" sounds like "wer"? Seriously. Please explain how/where you came by that. Sounds made up for argument's sake to me.

:I guess that I don't understand the obscure rule about creating that dialectical pronunciation of a place name. Where in the wide wide world of Wikipedia guidance is that explained? You say that a "reference" to the local dialectic pronunciation is required. Where exactly in the literature of the world would one find that reference? Surely you jest. I laugh that you think youtube is a reliable source. What do you want me to do, create a youtube titled "This is how you pronounce the name of the small rural town of Portola, California" and say the word Portola correctly pronounced many many times, and maybe, for no particular reason, read the Wikipedia article. Do you see how silly that idea is? And, by the way, Wikipedia does not consider youtube to be a reliable source.

:I see that in your most recent edit you deleted the native area pronunciation (that I rendered to the best of my ability) of "pour|toll|'|ɑh"; or should I have presented it as "pourtollah"? I know this is the sound of how the folks in the area speak the town's name. I know because I live there. I hear it spoken that way almost every day. Why is it that you disagree about something you have never heard?

:I don't quite understand how you rendered the "respelled" pronunciation as "por|TOH|lə". Where did you hear that pronunciation? I am particularly curious about the last syllable "lə"? You think that "la" has an unexpected vowel sound so you represent it with the schwa symbol? So if it is an unexpected vowel sound, what is is the actual sound?

:In my local knowledge, the last syllable of "Portola" sounds distinctly like "ah". The last syllable consists of just the "a"; the "l" is spoken in the second syllable with the "to" and that sounds like "toll". Yes, I know, the hill folk of the eastern lost sierras speak funny. When you use "por" as the pronunciation of the first syllable, does it sound like "pour"?

:Please tell me how you have expert knowledge about the pronunciation of the name of the village hamlet Portola? (I remember on the Today show in June 1960, when David Garraway mentioned that "the village hamlet of Portola (and he actually pronounced it as a Portolian would expect) is being threatened by forest fire". That was all he said--I heard it and I was gobsmacked that the news of the day from New York was about such an isolated place. So, every now and then, I like to use Dave's description of my town--village hamlet; however, it isn't hamlet-like.)

:In one of your edit summaries, (or perhaps it was the edit you made on my talk page and then subsequently deleted--tsk, tsk. That was bad editor manners. If I want something on my talk page deleted, I will delete it) you wanted to "hear" the pronunciation. If you need to "hear" Portola spoken how do you know that the "funny" and unreadable, at least to me, International Phonetic Alphabet rendered pronunciation of (/pɔːrˈtoʊlə/) that has been in the article for quite some time, is correct? If you don't know how it sounds, how can you vouch for that pronunciation? Perhaps "(/pɔːrˈtoʊlə/)" should be deleted.

:As background concerning the pronunciation of Portola and the reason for my involvement, an editor arrogantly assumed that the word was actually pronounced according to the Spanish language like the name of the explorer Gaspar de Portolá y Rovira for whom the town is indirectly named--that is a story in itself that I will include in the article after I have the necessary references that I hope to find in the Bancroft Library at Cal. So to correct that incorrect attribution, I edited and provided the native dialectic sound for the name and explained on the Portola talk page about the how and why of the edit.

:I just realized that there is a district in San Francisco named "Portola". It is pronounced "close" to the lost sierra dialect, but not exactly. That pronunciation would be acceptable, but it would not be exact.

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::I stopped reading your response when it became clear that you weren't being serious. We just can't take your word about something. You need evidence. And yes, if you have, say, the local news station pronouncing "Portola", or an interview with the police chief, that would probably be acceptable evidence for most people. — kwami (talk) 05:39, 14 November 2022 (UTC)

::::{{ping|Kwamikagami}} You stopped reading my response? How rude. I read your responses without stopping. It is petty of you to be criticizing my writing style.

::::Please note that I pointed out to you that further comment on this issue should appropriately be done on the Portola talk page. But you are ignoring my reasonable and logical request. Why is that?

::::I am requesting, make that demanding, that you no longer post on my talk page. I am within my rights to bar from positing here--there's guidance about this somewhere in the Wikipedia monolith but I am not going to find it for you.

::::I would like to point out that you need to add edit summaries when you post. Empty edit summaries are not satisfactory

::::You are discounting my position because you don't consider it to be serious. That's pretty arrogant. Don't you have a sense of humor? Is the world of posting pronunciations always deadly serious? If so, that is so sad.

::::There is content in my post which is quite relevant and on point, but you are ignoring it. I guess that is the easy way out for you, just disregard any argument that challenges your position. It seems you quit because you have nothing to support your position--all you are doing is citing a rule you have made-up and demanding evidence. When you post a new or revised pronunciation, where do you find your reference (aka evidence)? You clearly have no expert knowledge of the correct pronunciation of the word Portola, yet you refuse to address my position by falsely claiming superior knowledge and intelligence concerning the pronunciation of words. OMG!

::::Addressing your demanded acceptable proofs, there is no local radio station in the county--it is really rural and damn near dirt poor. And about "an interview" with the Chief of Police", there is no Chief of Police. The law enforcement is the Sheriff of Plumas County located in the county seat. In any case, where would this interview have taken place where the word "Portola" would be correctly pronounced? Were you anticipating that a recording of a radio station there would be available? Your thinking is a bit ivory tower, what planet are you living on?

::::As a Wikipedia editor aren't you supposed to honor the Wikipedia's Five Pillars ↗? Consider the pillar that directs that "Wikipedia's editors should treat each other with respect and civility". This includes a basic tenant of seeking consensus and avoiding edit wars. And, notice the 5th pillar--Wikipedia has no firm rules.

::::I asked questions, and you are ignoring them. You demand evidence but you will not attempt any collegial effort or cooperation. What rule can you site that requires that I must render to you evidence about the pronunciation of the word "Portola"?

::::And once again, I will also add this post to the Portola talk page.

::::I hope you have read this far and not stopped earlier due to your opinion of my writing style. If you refuse to engage by posting on the Portola talk page, I will consider that you have surrendered the discussion.

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Speedy deletion criterion ↗ A5 ↗ (transwikied articles) has been repealed following an unopposed proposal ↗.

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Following the 2022 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Barkeep49}}, {{Noping|CaptainEek}}, {{Noping|GeneralNotability}}, {{Noping|Guerillero}}, {{Noping|L235}}, {{Noping|Moneytrees}}, {{Noping|Primefac}}, {{Noping|SilkTork}}.

The 2021-22 Discretionary Sanctions Review ↗ has concluded ↗ with many changes to the discretionary sanctions ↗ procedure including a change of the name to "contentious topics". The changes are being implemented over the coming month.

The arbitration case ''Stephen ↗'' has been closed.

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Voting for the Sound Logo ↗ has closed and the winner is expected to be announced February to April 2023.

'''Tech tip''': You can view information about IP addresses in a centralised location using bullseye ↗ which won the Newcomer award in the recent Coolest Tool Awards ↗.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 54

New collections:

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* University of Michigan Press

* ACLS

* Duke University Press

1Lib1Ref 2023

Spotlight: EDS Refine Results

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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (January 2023).

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Following an RfC ↗, the administrator policy ↗ now requires that prior written consent be gained from the Arbitration Committee ↗ to mark a block as only appealable to the committee.

Following a community discussion ↗, consensus has been found to impose the extended-confirmed restriction ↗ over the topic areas of Armenia and Azerbaijan ↗ and Kurds and Kurdistan ↗.

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The Vector 2022 skin has become the default for desktop users of the English Wikipedia.

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The arbitration case ''Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 ↗'' has been opened and the proposed decision is expected 24 February 2023.

In December, the contentious topics procedure ↗ was adopted which replaces the former discretionary sanctions system ↗. The contentious topics procedure is now in effect following an initial implementation period ↗. There is a detailed summary ↗ of the changes and administrator instructions ↗ for the new procedure. The arbitration clerk team are taking suggestions, concerns, and unresolved questions about this new system at their noticeboard ↗.

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Voting in the 2023 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 05 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC) and end on 26 February 2023, 21:00 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.

Voting in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey ↗ will begin on 10 February 2023 and end on 24 February 2023. You can submit, discuss and revise proposals until 6 February 2023.

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''The Signpost'': 4 February 2023

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''The Signpost'': 20 February 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2023

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2023).

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''

Following a request for comment ↗, F10 ↗ (useless non-media files) has been deprecated.

Following a request for comment ↗, the Portal CSD criteria (P1 ↗ (portal subject to CSD as an article) and P2 ↗ (underpopulated portal)) have been deprecated.

A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss making the closing instructions ↗ for the requested moves ↗ process a guideline.

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The results of the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey ↗ have been posted ↗.

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Remedy 11 ("Request for Comment") ↗ of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case ↗ has been rescinded ↗.

The proposed decision for the Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 ↗ case is expected 7 March 2023.

A case related to the Holocaust in Poland ↗ is expected to be opened soon.

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The 2023 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are AGK ↗, Ameisenigel ↗, Bennylin ↗, Daniuu ↗, Emufarmers ↗, Faendalimas ↗, JJMC89 ↗, MdsShakil ↗, Minorax ↗ and Renvoy ↗ as regular members and Zabe ↗ as advisory members.

Following the 2023 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Mykola7 ↗, Superpes15 ↗, and Xaosflux ↗.

The Terms of Use update cycle ↗ has started, which includes ↗ a {{tq|[p]roposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing}}. Feedback is being accepted until 24 April 2023.

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''The Signpost'': 9 March 2023

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Books & Bytes – Issue 55

New bundle partners:

* Newspapers.com

* Fold3

1Lib1Ref January report

Spotlight: EDS SmartText Searching

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''The Signpost'': 20 March 2023

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''The Signpost'': 03 April 2023

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News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2023).

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A community RfC ↗ is open to discuss whether reports primarily involving gender-related disputes or controversies ↗ should be referred to the Arbitration enforcement noticeboard ↗.

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Some older web browser ↗s will not be able to use JavaScript ↗ on Wikimedia wikis starting this week. This mainly affects users of Internet Explorer 11 ↗. ({{phab|T178356}})

The rollback of Vector 2022 RfC ↗ has found no consensus to rollback to Vector legacy, but has found rough consensus to disable "limited width" mode by default.

A link to the user's {{#special:CentralAuth}} ↗ page will now appear in the subtitle links shown on {{#special:Contributions}} ↗. This was voted #17 in the Community Wishlist Survey 2023 ↗.

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The ''Armenia-Azerbaijan 3 ↗'' case has been closed.

A case about World War II and the history of Jews in Poland ↗ has been opened, with the first evidence phase closing 6 April 2023.

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''The Signpost'': 26 April 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2023).

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A request for comment ↗ about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

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Progress has started on the Page Triage improvement project ↗. This is to address the concerns raised by the community in their 2022 WMF letter ↗ that requested improvements be made to the tool.

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The proposed decision in the World War II and the history of Jews in Poland ↗ case is expected 11 May 2023.

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The Wikimedia Foundation annual plan 2023-2024 draft is open for comment and input ↗ through May 19. The final plan will be published in July 2023.

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''The Signpost'': 8 May 2023

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''The Signpost'': 22 May 2023

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Books & Bytes – Issue 56

New partner:

* Perlego

Library access tips and tricks

Spotlight: EveryBookItsReader

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''The Signpost'': 5 June 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2023).

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Following an RfC ↗, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus ↗ will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.

As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking ↗ project, a new policy has been created ↗ that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ ↗ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

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Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking ↗. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until ''at least'' October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

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The arbitration case ''World War II and the history of Jews in Poland ↗'' has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

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Following a community referendum ↗, the arbitration policy ↗ has been modified to remove the ability for users to appeal remedies to {{noping|Jimbo Wales}}.

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''The Signpost'': 19 June 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2023).

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|Electionworld ↗
|MBisanz ↗
|Penwhale ↗
|Raul654 ↗
|Roadrunner ↗
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Contributions to the English Wikipedia are now released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License ↗ (CC BY-SA 4.0) license instead of CC BY-SA 3.0 ↗. Contributions are still also released under the GFDL license ↗.

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Discussion is open ↗ regarding a proposed global policy regarding third-party resources ↗. Third-party resources are computer resources that reside outside of Wikimedia production websites.

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Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong ↗ case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW ↗ case.

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''The Signpost'': 3 July 2023

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''The Signpost'': 17 July 2023

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Books & Bytes – Issue 57

Suggestion improvements

Favorite collections tips

Spotlight: Promoting Nigerian Books and Authors

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''The Signpost'': 1 August 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2023).

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|Amberrock ↗
|Closedmouth ↗
|Scottywong ↗
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:20px|alt=added|Added ↗ Novem Linguae ↗

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The tag filter on Special:NewPages ↗ and revision history pages can now be inverted. This allows hiding edits made by automated tools. ({{phab|T334338}})

Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ is a new tool that allows easier blocking of plain domains (and their subdomains). This is more easily searchable and is faster for the software to use than the existing MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist ↗. It does not support regex (for complex cases), URL path-matching, or the MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist ↗. ({{phab|T337431}})

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The arbitration cases named Scottywong ↗ and AlisonW ↗ closed 10 July and 16 July respectively.

The SmallCat dispute ↗ arbitration case is in the workshop phase.

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''The Signpost'': 15 August 2023

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''The Signpost'': 31 August 2023

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2023).

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Following an RfC ↗, TFAs ↗ will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.

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New partners - De Standaard and Duncker & Humblot

Tech tip: Filters

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{{noping|Xaosflux}}, {{noping|RoySmith}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2023 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|BusterD}} is the reserve commissioner.

Following a motion ↗, the contentious topic designation of ''Prem Rawat'' has been struck. Actions previously taken using this contentious topic designation are still in force.

Following several motions ↗, multiple topic areas are no longer designated as a contentious topic. These contentious topic designations were from the ''Editor conduct in e-cigs articles'', ''Liancourt Rocks'', ''Longevity'', ''Medicine'', ''September 11 conspiracy theories'', and ''Shakespeare authorship question'' cases.

Following a motion ↗, remedies 3.1 (All related articles under 1RR whenever the dispute over naming is concerned), 6 (Stalemate resolution) and 30 (Administrative supervision) of the ''Macedonia 2'' case have been rescinded.

Following a motion ↗, remedy 6 (One-revert rule) of the ''The Troubles'' case has been amended.

An arbitration case named ''Industrial agriculture ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case close 8 November.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 59

Spotlight: Introducing a repository of anti-disinformation projects

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Following the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed to the Arbitration Committee: {{Noping|Aoidh}}, {{Noping|Cabayi}}, {{Noping|Firefly}}, {{Noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{Noping|Maxim}}, {{Noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{Noping|ToBeFree}}, {{Noping|Z1720}}.

Following a motion ↗, the Arbitration Committee rescinded the restrictions on the page name move discussions for the two Ireland pages that were enacted in June 2009 ↗.

The arbitration case ''Industrial agriculture ↗'' has been closed.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 60

Three new partners

Google Scholar integration

How to track partner suggestions

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An RfC ↗ about increasing the inactivity requirement for Interface administrators is open for feedback.

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Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. ({{phab|T326065}})

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Following a motion ↗, the Arbitration Committee adopted a new enforcement restriction on January 4, 2024, wherein the Committee may apply the 'Reliable source consensus-required restriction' to specified topic areas.

Community feedback is requested ↗ for a draft to replace the "Information for administrators processing requests" section at WP:AE ↗.

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Voting in the 2024 Steward elections ↗ will begin on 06 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC) and end on 27 February 2024, 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ of current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.

A vote to '''ratify the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗''' is open till 2 February 2024, 23:59:59 (UTC) via Secure Poll ↗. All eligible voters within the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to either support or oppose the adoption of the U4C Charter and share their reasons. The details of the voting process and voter eligibility can be found here ↗.

Community Tech has made some preliminary decisions about the future of the Community Wishlist Survey ↗. In summary, they aim to develop a new, continuous intake system for community technical requests that improves prioritization, resource allocation, and communication regarding wishes. Read more ↗

The Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in February 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗

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Phase I ↗ of the 2024 RfA review ↗ is now open for participation. Editors are invited to review, comment on, and propose improvements to the requests for adminship process ↗.

Following an RfC ↗, the inactivity requirement for the removal of the interface administrator ↗ right increased from 6 months to 12 months.

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The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. ({{phab|T353388}})

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The 2024 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are だ＊ぜ ↗, AGK ↗, Ameisenigel ↗, Bennylin ↗, Daniuu ↗, Doǵu ↗, Emufarmers ↗, Faendalimas ↗, MdsShakil ↗, Minorax ↗, Nehaoua ↗, Renvoy ↗ and RoySmith ↗ as members, with Vermont ↗ serving as steward-observer.

Following the 2024 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: Ajraddatz ↗, Albertoleoncio ↗, EPIC ↗, JJMC89 ↗, Johannnes89 ↗, Melos ↗ and Yahya ↗.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 61

Bristol University Press and British Online Archives now available

1Lib1Ref results

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Administrators' newsletter – April 2024

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An RfC ↗ is open to convert all current and future community discretionary sanctions ↗ to (community designated) contentious topics procedure ↗.

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The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. ({{Phab|T313405}})

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An arbitration case has been opened ↗ to look into "the intersection of managing conflict of interest editing with the harassment (outing) policy".

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Editors are invited to '''sign up ↗''' for The Core Contest ↗, an initiative running from April 15 to May 31, which aims to improve vital ↗ and other core articles on Wikipedia.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 62

IEEE and Haaretz now available

Let's Connect Clinics about The Wikipedia Library

Spotlight and Wikipedia Library tips

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Just wondering why you added my editor data to one of your user pages

<span style="color:#070">Doug Weller</span> talk 07:54, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

:Doug
:Your name is on one of my talk pages serendipitously. Over the years, whenever I encounter something that is interesting and I do not have time to fully comprehend its content and such; I copy it to my talk page so I can read it later and keep track of it to see how things turned out. In one of those "save for later"' items, was from 2020 something about "left sidebars". So when I copied the post, you had commented in the conversation, your name was included. So that is why your name is on one of my talk pages. Nothing sinister. Out of curiosity, what prompted you to read my talk pages? I don't have any problem, it's ok that you did, I just want to know the back story. <span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 21:14, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

::Doug

::PS

:::I did a little more research. Your name is on my talk page purposely. When I encounter an editor who is interesting I include it an section "Editor Stuff". At some point I found you interesting and want to follow (not stalk) your postings. So you are interesting and occasionally I would look at your contributions because you are interesting. If you have a concern about with this, I will wiling remove your from my interesting "Editor Stuff". <span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 21:38, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
:::I would say that you should remove all names or better state why user names appear on your talk page. I have user names and user talk pages linked on mine too but it clearly states why they are there and generally it is because of a good encounter or something I learned from them. Had you been more concise, depending on your reasons, it may have been looked at and dismissed. As it stands right now it has become disruptive and concerning to some of the editors mentioned. Probably best to just remove. You can watchlist certain pages to keep up with subjects you are interested in. --<span style="color:#b76e79">'''A'''</span><span style="color:#be4f60">'''Rose'''</span><span style="color:#b87333">'''Wolf'''</span> 12:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
::::ARoseWolf
::::About my talk page section "Interesting Editors". There is nothing sinister or nefarious about it. I am puzzled how it is has “become disruptive and concerning to some of the editors mentioned.”
::::The content "Interesting Editors" is the result of several years of taking note of editors that I have encountered while editing an article, or have "come across" their posting in various talk pages and various "request for" pages. These editors catch my interest because of what they write, how they write, and in many cases because they are quite humorous. These editors I wanted to follow to see what they might "create". In some cases I would want to follow an editor because I might learn something from their massive efforts in creating and editing articles. I would look in on their talk pages to "see what might be going on".
::::In short, I follow editors because I enjoy observing Wikipedia's sociology, culture, and editor interaction "behind the scenes". It is quite interesting.
::::I realize how my "Interesting Editors" section "got into the spotlight". A couple of days ago I realized that my "Stuff" talk page was quite big and cumbersome. So I realized I could create a subpage to move some sections to so I could do some talk page housekeeping and cleanup and deletions. I created "More Stuff" which was a new page which apparently the new page patrol took notice.
::::You say if I documented each editor with why I "follow" them it would be OK. I have looked over "Interesting Editors" and I can not recall why I have added so many editors which I was interested in following. Thinking back, I would add editors who were involved in discussing a particular subject or "request for" issue or editing wars.. And after the discussion ended, I didn't delete those editors. And as the years went by I just "added new interesting editors" to the top of the section and basically ignored and forgot about the "bottom of the list".
::::So that is where I am at.
::::What is occurring makes me weary. I have to defend myself about something that you say has “become disruptive and concerning to some of the editors mentioned.” Somehow I don’t find this surprising considering the Wikipedia culture.
::::ARoseWolf, I appreciate your advice. But I wonder, what exactly have I done that is wrong? What rules have I violated?
::::The nature of this entire episode has reaffirmed my view of the Wikipedia environment. Rather than approaching me with concerns, it was an attack (ok, pretty strong word), a confrontation. It was done with little "collegiality" (one of the pillars of Wikipedia) and was quite abrupt. It was done almost ambiguously with an editor asking why that editor's name was on my list, And then an editor claimed that I made personal attacks on editors in that section. (There are no personal attacks in my “Interesting Editors” section.) All of this was very cynical and unfriendly. In my experience, the Wikipedia environment is just another type of “social media” culture where editors, being basically anonymous, take offense easily, are rude, offensive, and fail to have any sensitivity about how they behave. It is easier to be angry than to be friendly.
::::I am a bit distressed that I have been confronted about this situation. As I see often in Wikipedia, a mountain is made of a molehill and it becomes a can of worms.
::::Yes, I have written quite a bit about this mole hill. I thought that I needed to explain my “Interesting Editors” on the record so whoever could understand what is actually what.
::::I fail to see any rule that indicates that what I have accumulated is prohibited. What I have done is not a threat to anyone, I have had this accumulated list for several years, I have used it, and have never used it for any nefarious purpose. It is passive. I am sorry that editors imagine that it is considered a threat to them.
::::I will not just delete my “Interesting Editors” section. I need it for my process to engage in the Wikipedia. I will clean it up. If that is not satisfactory, make it an issue of a “request for” or whatever.
::::I am sorry if I have inadvertently offended. I apologize. <span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 19:55, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
::::::{{tq|I fail to see any rule that indicates that what I have accumulated is prohibited}}
:::::You were given links to '''three''' rules that do just that. Viriditas (talk) 19:59, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Oh my God..have I finally been accepted into....dun-dun-deeerrrrr, the Illuminati ↗?!?! Or at least the No Homers' Club.Halbared (talk) 09:57, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

:Halbared

:The Illuminati ↗? Say what? <span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 21:16, 19 June 2024 (UTC
::What does the ''Geneology'' tag mean in your other stuff?Halbared (talk) 22:09, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
:Not possible. I didn't send an invite. Chairman Doug and I have a matter of grave importance to discuss. Apparently they ran out of gummy bears as an ice cream topper in the cafeteria. --<span style="color:#b76e79">'''A'''</span><span style="color:#be4f60">'''Rose'''</span><span style="color:#b87333">'''Wolf'''</span> 20:02, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

::ARoseWolf
::Your post is most puzzling. I like a good puzzle. About running out of gummy bears, that's a shame. You can never have tooo many bears.. <span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 21:19, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

::Osomite: It's easy for all the editors you blue-linked to find out that you blue-linked to them. I've read that section, and it sounds very much like you are criticizing editors, not just innocently keeping track of interesting discussions. Please be aware of the WP:Attack page ↗ policy. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC)

:::{{reply|Tryptofish}} Evidently you did not read my "Interesting Editor Stuff" section very closely. I have carefully read it to see what "sounds very much like you are criticizing editors" comments I might have made in your opinion. Tryptofish, I don't see what you see. If there is a criticism, it is content that I did not originate, but copied from its source.somewhere on Wikipedia.

:::I would appreciate it if you would point out any criticism of editors that "I posted" in that section so I can remove them.

:::Out of curiosity, what prompted you chime in on this post?

:::<span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 22:02, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
:::D ;).Halbared (talk) 22:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
::::I've taken time to think about it, and I've carefully read your explanations here, and then I re-read the editor stuff with your explanations in mind. I ''guess'' I can see how you have, over time, found certain discussions or editors interesting or amusing, and wanted to keep track of what you encountered. But, without a whole lot of explanation, what it ''looks like'' is that you are assembling a sort of log of editors you want to follow, along with references to administrator actions taken, to various scandals, and to situations in which various editors were criticized. Regardless of what you might have intended, it comes across as a sort of "enemies list". If I try very hard to WP:AGF ↗, I can make a rationale for why you do not intend it that way. It's worth considering the policy at WP:Harassment#Hounding ↗, for what it says about tracking other editors' edits, and the need "to avoid raising the suspicion that an editor's contributions are being followed to cause them distress". WP:NOTWEBHOST ↗ also puts some limitations on what you can keep in user space, just because you find it interesting. I know you said that you don't want to delete the section, but I suggest that you think seriously about doing so. --Tryptofish (talk) 20:28, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
:::::Tryptofish
:::::"it comes across as a sort of "enemies list"." Seriously? Do you realize how paranoid that sounds. To say that I have created an "enemies list" is insulting to me. What in the "Interesting Editors" section supports your supposition? You are not adhering to the Wikipedia behavioral guideline of "Assume Good Faith" WP:GOODFAITH ↗ which in part says, "Unless there is clear evidence to the contrary, assume that people who work on the project are trying to help it, not hurt it. If criticism is needed, discuss editors' actions, but avoid accusing others of harmful motives." What "action" have I taken? I would appreciate an apology for that accusation.
:::::Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar". And I point out, "Sometimes a list is just a list", Don't extrapolate the purpose of my "Interesting Editors" list with little information and a lot of imagination.
:::::You have fabricated a current situation as well as a hypothetical future, that I am evil mastermind with some nefarious plan to do "something" that will upset the natural order of Wikipedia. The horror, the horror.
:::::I am getting very weary of this, My list has existing for many years. In all those years, I have not harassed or confronted any editors. I don't have any of those intentions. Please quit assuming things.
:::::If I am considered a threat in the opinion of any editor, if there are editors that remain upset after the explanations I have made, they can approach me directly and tell me what they believe and how I am an actual threat to them. Doing that will put some actual substantial evidence into this Salem Witch Trial environment (yes, that is quite a cliche and hoary trope, but it seems quit appropriate to me). I will apologize to those editors and remove their user name from my "interesting Editors" list.
:::::At this point I consider what is happening is harassment. Please stop.
:::::. <span style="font-family:Segoe print; color:#00008B; text-shadow:gray 0.2em 0.2em 0.4em;">Osomite</span> 🐻 <span style="color:##8B0000">''(hablemos)''</span> 04:14, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

I know better than to assume malice but I am still thoroughly confused about why I'm on that list. Aside from the initial drama when I was briefly known as SinglePorpoiseAccount (a play on words that some people didn't find too amusing) I don't recall doing anything particularly significant here. Maybe you could add a little context? MrPorpoise (talk) 23:47, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

:Now that...was a good name.Halbared (talk) 23:07, 25 June 2024 (UTC)

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Following a discussion ↗, the discussion-only period ↗ proposal that went for a trial to refine the requests for adminship ↗ (RfA) process has been discontinued.

Following a request for comment ↗, Administrator recall ↗ is adopted as a policy.

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Mass deletions done with the Nuke ↗ tool now have the 'Nuke' tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. {{phab|T366068}}

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{{noping|RoySmith}}, {{noping|Barkeep49}} and {{noping|Cyberpower678}} have been appointed to the Electoral Commission ↗ for the 2024 Arbitration Committee Elections ↗. {{noping|ThadeusOfNazereth}} and {{noping|Dr vulpes}} are reserve commissioners.

Eligible editors are invited to self-nominate from 3 November 2024 until 12 November 2024 to stand in the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections ↗.

The Arbitration Committee is seeking volunteers ↗ for roles such as clerks, access to the COI queue, checkuser, and oversight.

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An unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in November 2024 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗

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''The Signpost'': 6 November 2024

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Books & Bytes – Issue 65

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Frankfurt Book Fair 2024 report

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''The Signpost'': 18 November 2024

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Administrators' newsletter – December 2024

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''

Following an RFC ↗, the policy on restoration of adminship ↗ has been updated. All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard ↗ within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity.

Following a request for comment ↗, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5 ↗, has been enacted. This applies to template subpages that are no longer used.

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Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon ↗, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships ↗ is open from November 12 to December 10, 2024.

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The arbitration case ''Yasuke ↗'' (formerly titled ''Backlash to diversity and inclusion ↗'') has been closed.

An arbitration case titled ''Palestine-Israel articles 5 ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 14 December.

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''The Signpost'': 12 December 2024

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''The Signpost'': 24 December 2024

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:Graham, what can I say? What you have contributed is (what's a word for ultra amazing?), oh, it's ultra amazing. And how you have done it is also ultra amazing. Even if you weren't "one of the first", your starting is basically during the mists of the beginning--it was a long, long time ago.
:Being an "old timer", you definitely qualify as someone, to me, who is quite interesting.
:Part of my interest in Wikipedia is the interaction editors have with editors and the interactions that editors have with admins. I sort of study the sociology of the Wikipedia world.
:Your situation with blocking editors and having the Wikipedia "powers to be" chaste you, to me, was questionable. It seems to me it was the frequently occurring Wikipedian act of ganging up to punish. I see this happening a lot. Sadly, I think that there is a culture of disfunction within Wikipedia that is very toxic and dysfunctional. The fact that editors have to continually be reminded to "not bite newbies" demonstrates that "the blame game and hypercritical opinions" is ongoing. I think this bad behaviors is sort of similar to what occurred in the Stanford prison experiment. Sometimes, people exceed the authority of their role.
: I have been editing Wikipedia off and on since 2007 and I still find Wikipedia to be a monolith. I have difficulty finding information within Wikipedia. I am continually searching and searching to find references that should be obvious/easy to find. But the basic things I have to keep looking for are not obvious nor easy to find. I have to keep notes (on my stuff talk page) for things I have found in Wikipedia. Somehow I think a function should be added to Wikipedia to provide a universal search of all of the various rules and methods to allow a friendly interface into the monolith. And, since I have continuing problems with the Wikipedia environment, I was very impressed with your facility and capability in an environment I find difficult.
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2024).

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Following an RFC ↗, Wikipedia:Notability (species) ↗ was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline ↗.

A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.

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The Nuke feature also now provides links ↗ to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

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Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|CaptainEek}}, {{noping|Daniel}}, {{noping|Elli}}, {{noping|KrakatoaKatie}}, {{noping|Liz}}, {{noping|Primefac}}, {{noping|ScottishFinnishRadish}}, {{noping|Theleekycauldron}}, {{noping|Worm That Turned}}.

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A New Pages Patrol backlog drive ↗ is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗

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Books & Bytes – Issue 66

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Les Jours and East View Press join the library

Tech tip: Newspapers.com

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''The Signpost'': 15 January 2025

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''

Administrators can now nuke ↗ pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. {{phab|T380846}}

A '<code>Recreated</code>' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges ↗ and Special:NewPages ↗. {{phab|T56145}}

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The arbitration case ''Palestine-Israel articles 5 ↗'' has been closed.

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''The Signpost'': 7 February 2025

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''The Signpost'': 27 February 2025

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''

A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.

A series of 22 mini-RFCs ↗ that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process ↗ has been closed (see the summary of the changes ↗).

A request for comment ↗ is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections ↗ should be held.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''

A new filter has been added to the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool, which allows administrators 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. {{phab|T378488}}

Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the {{#special:Nuke}} ↗ tool. {{phab|T376378}}

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission ↗ are だ＊ぜ ↗, Arcticocean ↗, Ameisenigel ↗, Emufarmers ↗, Faendalimas ↗, Galahad ↗, Nehaoua ↗, Renvoy ↗, Revi C. ↗, RoySmith ↗, Teles ↗ and Zafer ↗ as members, with Vermont ↗ serving as steward-observer.

Following the 2025 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4 ↗, AramilFeraxa ↗, Daniuu ↗, KonstantinaG07 ↗, MdsShakil ↗ and XXBlackburnXx ↗.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 67

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East View Press and The Africa Report join the library

Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon

Tech tip: Suggest page

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''The Signpost'': 22 March 2025

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Tech News: 2025-13

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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'''

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 ↗

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'''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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Tech News: 2025-14

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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.

'''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.

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'''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)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (March 2025).

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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> 18:50, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 9 April 2025

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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.

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'''

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.

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> 00:21, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

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)

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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)

''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)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2025).

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Following an RfC ↗, administrator elections ↗ were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections ↗ for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process ↗ and does not replace the latter.

An RfC ↗ was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{t|sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO ↗.

An RfC ↗ has resulted in a broad prohibition ↗ on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.

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A '''New Pages Patrol backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗

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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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''The Signpost'': 14 May 2025

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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)

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.

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

'''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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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)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2025).

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20px|alt= ↗ '''Guideline and policy news'''

An RfC ↗ is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF ↗ and its affiliates.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Technical news'''

A new feature called '''Multiblocks ↗''' will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard ↗.

History merges ↗ performed using the mergehistory special page ↗ are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC ↗ and the resolution of T118132 ↗.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Arbitration'''

An arbitration case named ''Indian military history ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) ↗ election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki ↗ and '''cast your vote here! ↗'''

An '''Articles for Creation backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗

The Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in June 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗

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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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:14, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-25

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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.

'''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.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:33}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:33|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'''

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> 23:36, 16 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 ↗

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 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)

''The Signpost'': 24 June 2025

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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'''

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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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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025

Following a talk page discussion ↗, speedy deletion criterion G13 ↗ has been amended ↗ to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard ↗ placeholder text."

WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts ↗ was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion ↗.

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The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!

Administrator elections ↗ will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA ↗ that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

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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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''The Signpost'': 18 July 2025

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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> 23:39, 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)

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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 03:37, 5 August 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (July 2025).

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Following a request for comment ↗, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15 ↗, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model ↗ (LLM) without human review.

Following a request for comment ↗, there is a new policy ↗ outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts ↗. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ↗ ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

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Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" ↗ Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing ↗. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration ↗ page.

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The arbitration case ''Indian military history ↗'' has been closed.

* South Asia (WP:CT/SA ↗) is designated a contentious topic ↗. The topic area is specifically defined as {{tq|All pages related to the region of South Asia ↗ (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.}}

* The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka ↗ (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan ↗ (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.

* The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups ↗ (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.

The arbitration case ''Article titles and capitalisation 2 ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.

The arbitration case ''Transgender healthcare and people ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

20px|alt= ↗ '''Miscellaneous'''

Wikimania 2025 ↗ is happening in Nairobi ↗, Kenya ↗, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania ↗. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here ↗ now.

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''The Signpost'': 9 August 2025

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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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:26, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

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 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:46}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:46|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> 00:34, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

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)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (August 2025).

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An RfC ↗ is open on whether use of emojis ↗ with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15 ↗.

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Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains ↗ page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration ↗ list page. This makes it easier to find. {{phab|T393240}}

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''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> 01:11, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-38

<section begin="technews-2025-W38"/><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.

'''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> 17:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 70

New collections:

* ''Times of Malta''

* Africa Intelligence

* Intelligence Online

* ''La Lettre''

* ''Glitz''

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'''

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

'''In depth'''

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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:52, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

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.

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> 20:48, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

''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 ↗

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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 ↗.

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Tech News: 2025-43

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'''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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''The Signpost'': 20 October 2025

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Tech News: 2025-44

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'''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)

Tech News: 2025-45

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'''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/ ↗

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

'''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> 19:31, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – November 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (October 2025).

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The speedy deletion criteria U5 ↗ has been repealed, with U6 ↗ and U7 ↗ replacing it. See the FAQ ↗ for more clarifications.

Community-designated contentious topics ↗ may now be enforced and appealed at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard (AE) ↗ as a result of an RfC ↗.

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An unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is happening in November 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗

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Tech News: 2025-46

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'''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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Tech News: 2025-47

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'''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 ↗

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'''

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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'''Meetings and events'''

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.

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

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''The Signpost'': 1 December 2025

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Tech News: 2025-49

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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 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'''

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

'''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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (November 2025).

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Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account ↗ associated with their edits.

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). {{phab|T382958}}

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The December 2025 administrator elections ↗ are scheduled from Nov 25 – Dec 15.

An '''Articles for Creation backlog drive''' ↗ is happening in December 2025, with over 1,000 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings ↗. '''Sign up here to participate!''' ↗

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Tech News: 2025-50

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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'''

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)

Tech News: 2025-51

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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: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 ↗

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, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 17 December 2025

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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)

Administrators' newsletter – January 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (December 2025).

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All general sanctions ↗ imposed by the community may now be enforced at the Arbitration Enforcement noticeboard ↗ (WP:AE ↗) as a result of a recent RfC ↗.

Due to the result of a recent RFC ↗, the administrator recall ↗ process is amended to extend the deadline for a re-request for adminship to 30 days or the next administrator election ↗, whichever is later.

Changes ↗ to the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy ↗'s disclosure rules include broadening the consecutive-blocks exception to cover all admin actions and removing the requirement to revision-delete permissible disclosures once they become unnecessary (instead requiring only their removal). See WP:TAIVDISCLOSE ↗ for more information.

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Following the 2025 Arbitration Committee elections ↗, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: {{noping|Aoidh}}, {{noping|Asilvering}}, {{noping|Girth Summit}}, {{noping|Guerillero}}, {{noping|HJ Mitchell}}, {{noping|HouseBlaster}}, {{noping|Izno}}, {{noping|Sdrqaz}}, {{noping|SilverLocust}}.

The arbitration case ''Pbsouthwood ↗'' has been suspended.

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Tech News: 2026-03

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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 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 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:31, 12 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)

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 ↗.

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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 ↗.

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'''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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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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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗

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Voting in the 2026 Steward elections ↗ started on 06 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC) and will end on 27 February 2026 at 14:00 (UTC). The confirmation process ↗ for current stewards is being held in parallel. You can automatically check your eligibility ↗ to vote.

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Tech News: 2026-08

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'''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 ↗

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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 ↗

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Administrators' newsletter – March 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (February 2026).

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Following an RfC ↗, the web archival service archive.today ↗ has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed ↗.

A request for comment ↗ is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 ↗ in favour of handling such redirects through RfD ↗.

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Following a motion ↗, remedy 9.1 ↗ of the ''Conduct in deletion-related editing'' case has been amended to limit {{noping|TenPoundHammer}} to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.

Following a motion ↗, the ''Iskandar323 further POV pushing'' motion has been rescinded.

The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion ↗ rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

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Following the 2026 Steward Elections ↗, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09 ↗, AmandaNP ↗, Barras ↗, Count Count ↗, M7 ↗, SHB2000 ↗, Teles ↗ and VIGNERON ↗.

An Unreferenced articles backlog drive ↗ is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{tl|Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. '''Sign up to participate!''' ↗

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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.

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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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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)

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 ↗

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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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 16:49, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

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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''The Signpost'': 31 March 2026

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Following a motion ↗, the GSCASTE ↗ extended-confirmed restriction in the ''Indian military history'' case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy ↗ has been amended accordingly.

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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 ↗

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> 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)

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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''The Signpost'': 21 April 2026

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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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Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (April 2026).

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Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055 ↗).

The autoconfirmed ↗ user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484 ↗).

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The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.

Per a recent motion ↗, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue ↗ are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.

Per a recent motion ↗, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.

The arbitration case ''Maghreb ↗'' has been closed.

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The May 2026 administrator elections ↗ are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ↗ ends May 5.

The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions ↗ close on May 10.

A '''new noticeboard ↗''' for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions ↗.

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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)

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)

''The Signpost'': 22 May 2026

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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)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (May 2026).

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Following an RfC ↗, the "persistent usage of large language models ↗" has been included as a common reason for a block ↗.

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Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats ↗: Bureaucrats ↗ without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119 ↗, T423120 ↗)

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The arbitration case ''SchroCat ↗'' has been closed.

The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

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Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election ↗ closes on 1 June.

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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

New partnership: Swissdox

User survey results

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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 ↗.

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)

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)

''The Signpost'': 21 June 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)

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)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

News and updates for administrators ↗ from the past month (June 2026).

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A request for comment ↗ asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.

A request for comment ↗ proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy ↗.

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The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429 ↗)

The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block ↗ for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account ↗. (phab:T427125 ↗)

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Following a series of motions ↗, changes to the contentious topics procedure ↗ to restructure awareness ↗ have been implemented.

The arbitration case ''Michael Jackson ↗'' has been closed.

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The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest ↗ will run from 1{{nbsp}}July to 30{{nbsp}}September. '''Sign up now ↗'''!

10 candidates have been appointed ↗ to the U4C.

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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.

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> 13:55, 6 July 2026 (UTC)