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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'''

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'''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> 20:47, 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 arbitration case ''Article titles and capitalisation 2 ↗'' has been closed.

An RfC ↗ is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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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 ↗

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:11, 9 September 2025 (UTC)

''This Month in GLAM'': August 2025

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Albania report ↗: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2025 in Albania and Kosovo

Brazil report ↗: Expanding Cultural Heritage in Brazil: School communities, Wikisource course, GLAM-Wiki Impact and Wiki Takes Alcântara

India report ↗: Digitization starts at two more libraries in West Bengal

Indonesia report ↗: Grant for GLAM Indonesia is open!

Italy report ↗: From food festivals to PhD courses: Wikimedia in Italian academia

New Zealand report ↗: NZ species edit-a-thons, a scholarly article, a course, and Auckland Museum editors at Wikimania

Nigeria report ↗: Highlights from Wiki Heritage Fellowship and Policy Advocacy in Nigeria

North Macedonia report ↗: Wiki Loves Film – Collaboration with MakeDox Film Festival

Poland report ↗: WikiChełmoński: When Wikipedia Becomes a Guide in the Museum

Switzerland report ↗: BAM Hackathon, 3D for Cultural Heritage, Wiki Cite

UK report ↗: Working towards more image sharing

USA report ↗: Wiknics

Biodiversity Heritage Library report ↗: News on BHL transition and updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members

AvoinGLAM report ↗: Steps towards a sustainable cultural commons

Memory of the World report ↗: A pivotal month

Wikisource report ↗: Wikisource Reader app released on Google Play Store

Calendar ↗: September's GLAM events

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Tech News: 2025-38

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

'''Updates for editors'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Meetings and events'''

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

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:03, 15 September 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 70

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New collections:

* ''Times of Malta''

* Africa Intelligence

* Intelligence Online

* ''La Lettre''

* ''Glitz''

Spotlight: Wikimania

<big>'''Read the full newsletter ↗'''</big> </div> </div> <small>Sent by MediaWiki message delivery ↗ on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 13:16, 18 September 2025 (UTC)</small>

Guild of Copy Editors – September 2025 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the September newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since June.

'''Election news:''' Project coordinators play an important role in our WikiProject. Following the mid-year Election of Coordinators ↗, we welcomed {{noping|GoldRomean}} to the coordinator team. {{noping|Dhtwiki}} remains as lead coordinator, and {{noping|Miniapolis|Mox Eden}} return as coordinators. If you'd like to help out behind the scenes, please consider taking part in our December election – watchlist our ombox ↗ for updates. Information about the role of coordinators can be found here ↗.

'''June 2025 blitz:''' 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz ↗ copy edited a total of 26,652 words comprising 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here ↗.

'''July 2025 drive:''' 30 of the 54 editors who signed up for the July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited a total of 379,557 words comprising 151 articles. Barnstars awarded are here ↗.

'''August 2025 Blitz:''' 11 of the 17 editors who signed up for the August 2025 Copy Editing Blitz ↗ copy edited a total of 65,601 words comprising 25 articles. Barnstars awarded are here ↗.

'''September 2025 Drive:''' '''Sign up here''' ↗ to earn barnstars in our month-long, in-progress September Backlog Elimination Drive.

'''Progress report:''' As of 06:43, 20 September 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 222 requests ↗ since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 2,010 articles.

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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.

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'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates ↗, quantities ↗ and time ↗ values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video ↗ and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter ↗ (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter ↗ (for geo-coordinates).

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<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 ↗

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Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the <code>mw.title.newBatch ↗</code> function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function ↗ count once.

A new Unsupported Tools Working Group ↗ has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council ↗ (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.

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''The Signpost'': 2 October 2025

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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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Administrators' newsletter – October 2025

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

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''This Month in GLAM'': September 2025

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Albania report ↗: Wikipedia edit-a-thon at the Skampa Theater in Elbasan, Albania

Aruba report ↗: Wikipedia on Aruba Initiative: Building Knowledge and Visibility

Australia report ↗: State Library Victoria WikiFest

Belgium report ↗: Make cultural heritage freely accessible, Hasselt's collections shine online & Let's give women a voice on Wikipedia!

Italy report ↗: Hidden heritage unveiled: science, history and nature on Wikimedia

Netherlands report ↗: Wikimedia Commons birthday content donation

New Zealand report ↗: Wikimedian in Residence at the Bioeconomy Science Institute & Wikiproject NZ Women in Architecture

North Macedonia report ↗: Expanding Access to Culture and Knowledge through Key Partnerships

Poland report ↗: WikiChełmoński: the Special Guided Tour at the National Museum in Krakow

Portugal report ↗: GLAM Wiki 2025: Join the Conference Online and Explore Lisbon’s Culture

Switzerland report ↗: LibreABC, Feminist Voices, Grade Conference

UK report ↗: Awards season

USA report ↗: September edit-a-thons & meetings

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

Memory of the World report ↗: The Memory of the World wiki challenge

Calendar ↗: October's GLAM events

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Tech News: 2025-42

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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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:56, 13 October 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-43

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

'''Updates for editors'''

To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406724 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:20}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:20|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406415 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the <code dir=ltr><nowiki>rest.php</nowiki></code> route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board ↗.

Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401290 ↗

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Administrators will now find that {{#special:MergeHistory}} ↗ is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382958 ↗

For users with "{{int:discussiontools-preference-autotopicsub}}" enabled in their preferences ↗, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "{{int:Skin-action-addsection}}" or "{{int:Discussiontools-replybutton}}" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290778 ↗

Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images ↗. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405861 ↗

Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395628 ↗

Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist ↗. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish ↗ has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T41510 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:31}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:31|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407318 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener ↗ at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means <code>/s/</code> URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML <code dir=ltr>class="title-shortlink"</code>. The <code>/s/</code> URLs will keep working. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T107188 ↗

On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces ↗ and SRE Service Operations ↗ teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team ↗ board.

MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SMWTEAES4SDLDUSK4HMWNBSKNCXZAWYN/ ↗

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In 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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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.

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The arbitration case ''Transgender healthcare and people ↗'' has been closed

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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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''This Month in GLAM'': October 2025

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Belgium report ↗: From a small language to Wikipedia's Biggest, Share Your Story with the Industry Museum and War Diaries

Croatia report ↗: Autumn activities

Indonesia report ↗: WikiCommon community meet-ups, Wikisource trainings, and the announcement of Grant for GLAM Indonesia

Italy report ↗: Open culture on stage

Mexico report ↗: How Wikimedia México is training cultural and government institutions as wikimedians.

Netherlands report ↗: Open Topstukken project concludes; Network Archives Design and Digital Culture

New Zealand report ↗: Granny's Wonderful Chair, Preparing for Auckland Museum Wiki Summer Students and an the ASBS Introductory Wiki Webinar

Nigeria report ↗: Report on Participation at the 12th International Youth Conference

Poland report ↗: Promoting Open Data and Digital Commons in Culture and Research

Portugal report ↗: GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 Wrap-Up

Serbia report ↗: October in Wikimedia Serbia

Switzerland report ↗: DaSCHcon, 3D, Wiki GLAM conference

UK report ↗: A look at Grokipedia

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Biodiversity Heritage Library report ↗: LivingData 2025, GLAMWiki and a "collector" Wikidata property proposal

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Sustainable CultureConnect Project report ↗: Sustainable CultureConnect: Empowering Youth and Preserving Heritage through Open Knowledge and Leadership

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

'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Experience team ↗ is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web ↗, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.

Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security ↗ initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more ↗.

One new wiki has been created: a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikisource}} in Minangkabau ↗ (<code>s:min:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408317 ↗

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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Books & Bytes – Issue 71

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Tech News: 2025-48

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

'''Updates for editors'''

Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team ↗ recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for ''<span lang="und" dir="ltr">cxfcnmt</span>'' on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for ''<span lang="ru" dir="ltr">счастье</span>'' ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408734 ↗

Later this week, users of the "{{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}}" beta feature ↗ will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools ↗. This requires that the "{{int:discussiontools-preference-sourcemodetoolbar}}" preference be set. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407918 ↗

Campaign events extension ↗ – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution ↗ to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session ↗ to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:24}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:24|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T410417 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey ↗. https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/IREJRRWTZTGCYWQHDMSNJFTQAEPOOAE3/ ↗

The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for <code dir=ltr>format=xml'''&xlst={stylesheet}'''</code> will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/5AX7UWAVVUNUSBOIRHMNOKWOZ5EZI3JX/ ↗

The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org ↗) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (<span dir=ltr><nowiki>https://query.wikidata.org/</nowiki></span> - Main graph or <span dir=ltr><nowiki>https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/</nowiki></span> - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access ↗ and Request a Query ↗ pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.

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''The Signpost'': 1 December 2025

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Tech News: 2025-49

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'''Updates for editors'''

The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page ↗.

The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator ↗.

Add a link ↗ will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF) ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:34}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:34|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399476 ↗

Two new wikis have been created:

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikipedia}} in Toki Pona ↗ (<code>w:tok:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404457 ↗

* a {{int:project-localized-name-group-wikiquote}} in Nigerian Pidgin ↗ (<code>q:pcm:</code> ↗) https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408318 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

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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Question from Timmy1691 (12:51, 2 December 2025)

Hello, I am just wondering how I would go about making an edit. I see the recommendation pages, but I don't know anything about them. I learn so many things from Wikipedia --Timmy1691 (talk) 12:51, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

:Hi Timmy1691, thank you very much for being interested in editing Wikipedia! To get started, feel free to go to the Special:Homepage ↗ and do some easy edits available on the articles, such as copyediting (e.g., fixing spelling, grammar, and tone) and adding links between articles. This introductory article ↗ on how to edit Wikipedia may be helpful; the visual editor works well for simple edits, while the source editor is more complicated to use. Good luck on your Wikipedia journey, and you're welcome to ask questions whenever necessary! The person who loves reading (talk) 03:01, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

Guild of Copy Editors – December 2025 Newsletter

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Hello, and welcome to the December newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since September. If you'd like to be notified of upcoming drives and blitzes, and other GOCE activities, the best method is to add our announcements box ↗ to your watchlist.

'''Election news:''' The Guild's coordinators play an important role in the WikiProject, making sure <s>nearly</s> everything runs smoothly and on time. Editors experienced in drives or blitzes and in good standing (unblocked and without sanctions) are invited to '''nominate themselves or another editor (with their permission, of course) to be a Guild coordinator''' ↗ until 23:59 on 15 December (UTC). The voting phase begins at 00:01 on 16 December and runs until 23:59 on 31 December. Questions may be asked of candidates at any stage in the process. Elected coordinators will serve a six-month term from 1 January through 30 June 2026.

'''September Drive:''' 43 of the 63 editors who signed up for the '''September Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 693,541 words in 265 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''October Blitz:''' 14 of the 15 editors who signed up for the '''October Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 75,108 words in 31 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''November Drive:''' 38 of the 65 editors who signed up for the '''November Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 590,816 words in 240 articles. Barnstars awarded are posted '''here''' ↗.

'''December Blitz:''' The December Blitz will begin at 00:00 on 14 December (UTC) and will end on 20 December at 23:59. '''Sign up here''' ↗. Barnstars awarded will be posted '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 01:49, 8 December 2025 (UTC), GOCE copy editors have completed 293 requests since 1 January, and the backlog of tagged articles stands at 1,730 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators, {{noping|Dhtwiki|GoldRomean|Miniapolis|Mox Eden}}.
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Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

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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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'''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)

''This Month in GLAM'': November 2025

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Belgium report ↗: Call for volunteers, Computer's Day and upcoming events

Czech Republic report ↗: Czech Radio and Wikimedia CZ launched cooperation

Indonesia report ↗: Our Activities in November

Italy report ↗: Wrap up of the 2025 GLAM call

New Zealand report ↗: ASBS 2025 Conference, a NZBSI Wikimedian in Residence update & Auckland Museum Summer Students

North Macedonia report ↗: Wikimedia MKD and Cultural Institutions: A Year of Growth, Content, and Collaboration

Poland report ↗: GLAM Wiki 2025 conference, WiR Meeting and the First National Institute of Museums Training on GLAM–Wiki

Switzerland report ↗: IT Wikicon, Faces and Masks, Matrimoine @ Genève

UK report ↗: Awards season- again!

USA report ↗: November edit-a-thons & meetings

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

Content Partnerships Hub report ↗: Here to Help: The Next Stage of the Content Partnerships Hub

Memory of the World report ↗: Enriching the data set

Calendar ↗: December's GLAM events

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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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''This Month in GLAM'': December 2025

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From the team ↗: Global GLAM Calls Continue in 2026

Albania report ↗: Wikimedian in Residence, 2025, in Elbasan Albania

Argentina report ↗: Resume of the year

Australia report ↗: AMaGA partnership, signing the Open Heritage Statement and South Australian Museum Partner Project

Belgium report ↗: Public Domain Day 2026, Circus Heritage and Fosdem

Colombia report ↗: Preparándonos para celebrar el día del dominio público - Getting ready for the Public Domain Day celebration

Italy report ↗: Exploring Italy and Unlocking Its Heritage: Touring Club Italiano and GLAM Call 2026–2028

New Zealand report ↗: ASBS 2025 Conference follow-up Wiki webinar & Auckland Museum student update

Poland report ↗: Public Domain, Conferences, and Conversations on Open Culture

Switzerland report ↗: GLAM on Tour Bellinzona, Xmas Event, GLAM Wiki Group

UK report ↗: 2025 in review

USA report ↗: December meetings

Public Domain Day report ↗: Public Domain Day 2026

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

Memory of the World report ↗: 2025 in review

Calendar ↗: January's GLAM events

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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 ↗

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

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 15 January 2026

<div lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr"><div style="column-count:2;"> {{Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2026-01-15}} </div> <div class="hlist" style="margin-top:10px; font-size:90%; padding-left:5px; font-family:Georgia, Palatino, Palatino Linotype, Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> * '''Read this Signpost in full ↗''' * Single-page ↗ * Unsubscribe ↗ * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:17, 15 January 2026 (UTC) </div></div>

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> 20:28, 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 ↗.

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

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

''The Signpost'': 29 January 2026

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Books & Bytes – Issue 72

<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 72, November–December 2025 </div> <div style = "margin-top: 1.5em; border: 3px solid #ae8c55; border-radius: .5em; padding: 1em 1.5em; font-size: 1.2em">

Renewed partnerships

Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science

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Tech News: 2026-06

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

'''Updates for editors'''

The "{{int:pageinfo-toolboxlink}}" feature, which gives validating information about a page ([{{fullurl:{{FULLPAGENAME}}|action=info}} example]), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local {{ns:8}}:Pageinfo-header ↗ page created by individual users, it can now be removed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363726 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:21}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:21|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409669 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414389 ↗

The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API ↗. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board ↗.

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta ↗ and ''Diff ↗''. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page ↗.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:42, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Happy First Edit Day!

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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 ↗

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'''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 ↗

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'''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 ↗ from the past month (January 2026).

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Due to the result of a recent motion ↗, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement ↗ noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict ↗ topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

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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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''This Month in GLAM'': January 2026

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From the team ↗: Wikipedia at 25

Aruba report ↗: Pap-Wikipedia Turns 20: A Milestone for Papiamento/u Knowledge

Colombia report ↗: Celebrando el día del dominio público 2026/Celebrating the public domain day 2026

France report ↗: Wikipedia's Birthday in France

Germany report ↗: Gifted by our friends: Loads of presents for Wikipedia25 by German and Austrian GLAMs

Indonesia report ↗: Activities in December-January

Italy report ↗: Knowledge in action: Barindelli collection and Wikipedia 25

Netherlands report ↗: Image donation Dutch Book History

New Zealand report ↗: Auckland Museum Student Edit-a-thon, the NZBSI Wikimedian in Residence project, and other residencies

North Macedonia report ↗: GLAM Program of Wikimedia MKD – 2026 Overview

Poland report ↗: Explore Historic Portraits from the Museum of Photography in Kraków

Serbia report ↗: January in Wikimedia Serbia

Switzerland report ↗: Museum in Chiasso, Alpine Museum, Women Monuments

UK report ↗: Sharing more of the Enamels of the World

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

Map the GLAM report ↗: Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality

Memory of the World report ↗: Manuscripts on Arabic Wikipedia

Wikidata report ↗: Two key Wikidata Requests for Comments, relevant for future GLAM-Wiki work

Calendar ↗: February's GLAM events

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Tech News: 2026-08

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

The SRE Team ↗ will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad ↗ instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T415237 ↗

'''Updates for editors'''

The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment ↗ that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more ↗ on Diff blog. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Readers/Information_Retrieval ↗

The Reader Growth team will run an experiment ↗ for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

Previously, site notices ({{ns:8}}:Sitenotice ↗ and {{ns:8}}:Anonnotice ↗) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add <code dir="ltr">#siteNotice { display: none; }</code> to {{ns:8}}:Minerva.css ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138572 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416644 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:19}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:19|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges ↗ has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406339 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411169 ↗

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

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''The Signpost'': 17 February 2026

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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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'''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.

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'''In depth'''

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''This Month in GLAM'': February 2026

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From the team ↗: GLAM in 2026 is calling to action!

Belgium report ↗: A photo safari through Wiki Loves Fashion & a rescue mission with Mission Gourmande!

Czech Republic report ↗: National Library overview of 2025

Italy report ↗: Cultural Heritage and Memory: 2026 GLAM Call and Executed Renaissance Edit-a-thon

New Zealand report ↗: Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students and an update on the NZBSI WiR

Poland report ↗: Wikipedia in Cultural Marketing at Crash Mondays Warsaw

Serbia report ↗: February in Wikimedia Serbia

Spain report ↗: Wikidata in the GLAM context II

Switzerland report ↗: Neocomensia, SAPA, Atelier Winterthur, GLAM-on-Tour Disentis

UK report ↗: New content in African and Asian languages

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

Memory of the World report ↗: Focus on Indigenous issues

Calendar ↗: March's GLAM events

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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 ↗

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'''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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Tech News: 2026-13

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'''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 ↗.

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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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Tech News: 2026-14

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'''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'''

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Guild of Copy Editors/Membership/News/2025 Annual Report

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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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'''Updates for editors'''

The CampaignEvents extension ↗ now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation ↗.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item ↗ The new watchlist labels ↗ feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07 ↗) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist ↗. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:23}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:23|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419171 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

The sub-referencing feature ↗, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis ↗ later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips ↗ gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js ↗ as shown here ↗) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416304 ↗

All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more ↗.

The Action API ↗ has had several formats for requested output. One of them, <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>format=php</nowiki></code></bdi>, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format ↗. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118538 ↗

The Special:NamespaceInfo ↗ page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381455 ↗

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''This Month in GLAM'': March 2026

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From the team ↗: GLAM in Equinox

Albania report ↗: Wikigap 2026 in Tirana, Albania

Aruba report ↗: Celebrating 20 Years of Papiamentu/o Wikipedia

Bolivia report ↗: The Family Treasures Project Returns, with New GLAM Partners

Brazil report ↗: Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil defines six categories to represent Brazilian culture on Commons

Colombia report ↗: Architecture in the public domain in libraries in Nariño/Arquitectura en dominio público en bibliotecas nariñenses

Czech Republic report ↗: Main Wikimedian in Residence report for 2025 is here

Germany report ↗: Art History Loves Wiki 2026 – digital/local. collection loves wiki

India report ↗: Collaboration resumes with the British Library for Bangla Wikisource

Italy report ↗: 2026 winners projects

New Zealand report ↗: New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedian in Residence update, a letter published in Nature & Architecture + Women NZ

North Macedonia report ↗: Wikimedia MKD's GLAM Highlights: Botany and Beyond

Portugal report ↗: March in Portugal

Serbia report ↗: March in Wikimedia Serbia

Sweden report ↗: Looking for similar images

Switzerland report ↗: GLAM Wiki Group, Donna, CoCreation PTT-Archive

UK report ↗: CILIP MDG 2026 Conference, Library meetups and the World's Enamels

Ukraine report ↗: Spring 2026 news from Ukraine – Wiki Loves Folklore & more #1Lib1Ref

USA report ↗: MoMA's International Traveling Exhibitions and Wikidata on the LD4 Arts Affinity Group April Community Call

Biodiversity Heritage Library report ↗: Updates on work by BHL-Wiki Working Group members

AvoinGLAM report ↗: Oulu Löyly

Memory of the World report ↗: Indigenous languages on the Main Page

Calendar ↗: April's GLAM events

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Guild of Copy Editors – April 2026 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the April 2026 newsletter, a quarterly digest of Guild activities since December ↗. We extend a warm welcome to all of our new members. We wish you all happy copy-editing.

'''Election results:''' In our December 2025 coordinator election ↗, incumbents Dhtwiki, GoldRomean, Miniapolis, and Mox Eden were reelected coordinators, and Wikieditor662 was newly elected coordinator, to serve through 30 June. Nominations for our mid-year Election of Coordinators ↗ will open on 1 June (UTC).

'''December 2025 Blitz:''' 16 of the 31 editors who signed up for the '''December 2025 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 116,064 words in 47 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''January Drive:''' 35 of the 55 editors who signed up for the '''January Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 498,397 words in 183 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''February Blitz:''' 19 of the 23 editors who signed up for the '''February Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ edited 83,969 words in 43 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''March Drive:''' 28 of the 48 editors who signed up for the '''March Backlog Elimination Drive''' ↗ edited 210,064 words in 87 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''April Blitz:''' Sign up for our '''April Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗, which runs from 12 to 18 April. Barnstars will be awarded '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 09:10, 10 April 2026 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have processed 81 copyediting requests ↗ since 1 January 2026. The backlog of articles needing copyediting ↗ stands at 1,794 articles.

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Tech News: 2026-16

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Experienced editors are invited to test ↗ the Article guidance ↗ feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available ↗. Also, after reviewing the outlines ↗, please provide feedback on the project talk page ↗. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video ↗ explaining the feature.

'''Updates for editors'''

On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel ↗ page to create new pages with custom content models ↗, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights ↗ for the status of your wiki. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T248294 ↗

The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment ↗ to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:30}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:30|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T382856 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

Starting later this week, {{int:group-abusefilter}} who have the {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror ↗ instead of CodeEditor ↗ as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter ↗. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399673 ↗https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 ↗

Tools and bots that access the Notifications API ↗ (<bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>action=query&meta=notifications</nowiki></code></bdi>) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421991 ↗

Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T422544 ↗

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

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 15:17, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-17

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

After two years of development, {{int:codemirror-beta-feature-title}} ↗, also known as CodeMirror 6 ↗, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits ↗ to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd ↗ who developed many of the new features, including code folding ↗, autocompletion ↗, and linting ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T259059 ↗

A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Updates for editors'''

Reading lists ↗ is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.

An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web ↗ will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others ↗.

On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses ↗ can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T421366 ↗

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:15}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:15|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T184857 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

As part of the promotion of CodeMirror ↗ from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror ↗ instead of CodeEditor ↗ for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419332 ↗

The <code>mirrors.wikimedia.org</code> service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more ↗. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T416707 ↗

The <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> table will be removed from wikireplicas ↗. If your tools or queries access <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>image</nowiki></code></bdi> or <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>oldimage</nowiki></code></bdi> directly, please update them to use the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>file</nowiki></code></bdi> and <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>filerevision</nowiki></code></bdi> table before 28 May. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T28741 ↗

Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure ↗ by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits ↗ and Frequently Asked Questions ↗.

The Attribution API ↗ is now available as a beta ↗. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia ↗). Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 14:59, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

''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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:05, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

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> 20:42, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

''This Month in GLAM'': April 2026

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

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

Argentina report ↗: WikiConf Argentina and GLAM projects

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

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

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

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

Italy report ↗: Ongoing and New GLAM-Wiki Projects

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

Nigeria report ↗: Wikimedia Commons Upload Campaign

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

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

Serbia report ↗: April in Wikimedia Serbia

Switzerland report ↗: Le Donne di Villa Massimo

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

USA report ↗: Wiki MIT launches and US meetups

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

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

Calendar ↗: May's GLAM events

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Tech News: 2026-20

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

'''Weekly highlight'''

Community Tech has published new guidance ↗ explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

'''Updates for editors'''

The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.

The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge ↗ into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.

12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item ↗ View all {{formatnum:17}} community-submitted {{PLURAL:17|task|tasks}} that were resolved last week ↗. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425286 ↗

'''Updates for technical contributors'''

12px|link=|alt=|Advanced item ↗ The ResourceLoader module <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code><nowiki>mediawiki.ui.input</nowiki></code></bdi>, deprecated since September 2023 ↗, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex ↗ for any tools that use it. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420125 ↗

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

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:19, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

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 ↗.

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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.

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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'''

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:07, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 74

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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)

Guild of Copy Editors – June 2026 Newsletter

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Hello and welcome to the June 2026 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April.

'''Election news:''' Nominations for the '''mid-year coordinator election''' ↗ ends at 23:59 on 15 June. Voting will last from 00:00 on 16 June to 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced on the election page.

'''April Blitz:''' 18 of the 21 editors who signed up for the '''April 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ copy edited 122,993 words in 56 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''May Drive:''' 34 of the 66 editors who signed up for the May 2026 Backlog Elimination Drive ↗ copy edited 543,972 words in 211 articles. Barnstars awarded are '''here''' ↗.

'''June Blitz:''' Our '''June 2026 Copy Editing Blitz''' ↗ will start on 14 June and finish on 30 June. Barnstars awarded will be posted '''here''' ↗.

'''Progress report:''' As of 22:40, 11 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 132 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 1,691 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators.

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''This Month in GLAM'': May 2026

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

Australia report ↗: Celebrating #1Lib1Ref Australasia

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

France report ↗: New Wikimedian in Residence

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

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

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

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

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

Poland report ↗: Partnerships, Participation, and Open Knowledge

Serbia report ↗: May in Wikimedia Serbia

Spain report ↗: El Prado en femenino III

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

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

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

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

Memory of the World report ↗: New articles in Urdu

Calendar ↗: June's GLAM events

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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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''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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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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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)