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The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See
the SUL3 project page
for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
On wikis with
PageAssessments
installed, you can now
filter search results
to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject:
keyword. (These wikis:
Arabic Wikipedia
English Wikipedia
English Wikivoyage
French Wikipedia
Hungarian Wikipedia
Nepali Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
Chinese Wikipedia
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
in
Tigre
w:tig:
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting
some page content endpoints
from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the
MediaWiki Interfaces Team
in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs.
Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for
OAuth 1
and
OAuth 2
returned a JSON object with an integer in its
sub
field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
Many wikis currently use
Cite CSS
to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to
not
clean up your
MediaWiki:Common.css
until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.
Meetings and events
The next meeting in the series of
Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community
will take place on
January 15 at 8:00 UTC
and
at 16:00 UTC
. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.
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Tech News: 2025-04
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Updates for editors
Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using
Extension:Nuke
. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
On
wikis that use
the
Patrolled edits
feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use
filters
on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
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tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been
fixed
Updates for technical contributors
The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by
DiscussionTools
, which is used on any regular talk page.
The last group of wikis
Catalan Wikiquote
Wikimedia Finland
Goan Konkani Wikipedia
Kabyle Wikipedia
Portuguese Wikibooks
Wikimedia Sweden
) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping
Trizek (WMF)
at your wiki.
The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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Tech News: 2025-05
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Weekly highlight
Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and
13 other questions
to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a
personalized Year in Review
feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in
പ്രത്യേകം:സമീപകാലമാറ്റങ്ങൾ
and
പ്രത്യേകം:പുതിയ താളുകൾ
Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a
double redirect
). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement.
Wikimedia wikis allow
WebAuthn
-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is
fragile
and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of
SUL3
(single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected.
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tasks
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resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
For developers that use the
MediaWiki History dumps
: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the
Temporary Accounts
initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_history
dump, the
anonymous
field will be renamed to
is_anonymous
. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.
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22:14, 27 ജനുവരി 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-06
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Updates for editors
Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.
You can now also insert
tags using a new toolbar button.
Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
Help is needed to ensure the
citation generator
works properly on each wiki.
(1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
to include entries for
preprint
standard
, and
dataset
; Here are example diffs to replicate
for 'preprint'
and
for 'standard' and 'dataset'
(2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing,
one will need to be added
. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates
for 'preprint'
and
for 'standard' and 'dataset'
. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID
identifier
repository
organization
repositoryLocation
committee
, and
versionNumber
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
in
Central Kanuri
w:knc:
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community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the
OCR (optical character recognition) tool
used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic.
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Tech News: 2025-07
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Weekly highlight
The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published
a draft of their recommendations
for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on
mobile experiences
, particularly contributions. They request community
feedback at the talk page
by 21 February.
Updates for editors
The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at
T385346
As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out
the project page
for more information.
Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion
prefers-reduced-transparency
prefers-contrast
, and
forced-colors
). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements.
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22
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the
പ്രത്യേകം:കേന്ദ്രീകൃത അംഗീകാരം
page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards.
Updates for technical contributors
Wikidata
now supports a special language as a "default for all languages"
for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed.
The function
getDescription
was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers.
As part of the RESTBase deprecation
effort
, the
/page/related
endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "
morelike
" action API in MediaWiki, and
a migration example
is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team
can be contacted
for any questions.
In depth
The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization newsletter
is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
The latest
Chart Project newsletter
is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.
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Tech News: 2025-08
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Weekly highlight
Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the
പ്രത്യേകം:ഹോംപേജ്
for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at
പ്രത്യേകം:CommunityConfiguration
. To learn more about this feature, please read
the Diff post
, have a look
at the documentation
, or contact
the Growth team
Updates for editors
Highlighted talk pages improvements
Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis –
Spanish Wikipedia
French Wikipedia
Italian Wikipedia
Japanese Wikipedia
– will get
a new design
. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of
talk pages improvements
You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement.
When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used,
an error message
was displayed. As part of the work to
modernize Cite customization
, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can
help to update the localized versions
. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
A new filter has been added to the
പ്രത്യേകം:സർവ്വനാശം
tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the
പ്രത്യേകം:സർവ്വനാശം
tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements.
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again.
Updates for technical contributors
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the
Parsoid/Parser Unification
project page.
Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that
mw.Uri
is deprecated. Tools requiring
mw.Uri
must explicitly declare
mediawiki.Uri
as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native
URL
API soon.
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21:16, 17 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-09
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Updates for editors
Administrators can now customize how the
Babel feature
creates categories using
പ്രത്യേകം:CommunityConfiguration/Babel
. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.
The
wikimedia.org
portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as
wikibooks.org
, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wiktionary
in
Santali
wikt:sat:
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations.
Meetings and events
The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at
14:00 UTC
. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply
sign up on the wiki page
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Tech News: 2025-10
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Updates for editors
All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "
Edit full page
" link is accessible from the "
കൂടുതൽ
" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the
Advanced mobile contributions
setting.
Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "
mw-ref
" from their local
MediaWiki:Common.css
. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove,
can be found with this global search
and in
this example
, and you can learn more about how to help on the
CSS migration project page
. The Cite footnote markers ("
[1]
") are now rendered by
Parsoid
, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("
mw:referencedBy
") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
When editors embed a file (e.g.
[[File:MediaWiki.png]]
) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.
In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g.
{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}
) will now restrict edits to the page.
When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,
and respects cascading protection.
When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.
The
previously noted
update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on
Group0
wikis this week. See
the SUL3 project page
for more details and an updated timeline.
Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
in
Sylheti
w:syl:
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resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile.
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-11
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the
SUL3 project
which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use.
The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in
Afrika Baraza
and the last
ESEAP call
, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts?
Join the discussion
or email
aramadan@wikimedia.org
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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Detailed code updates later this week:
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The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can
read more details about this change
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23:09, 10 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-12
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs
a datacenter server switchover
, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter.
Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia
tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can
read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog
. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on
March 19 at 14:00 UTC
Updates for editors
The
improved Content Translation tool dashboard
is now available in
10 Wikipedias
and will be available for all Wikipedias
soon
. With
the unified dashboard
, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based
article suggestion filters
(initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the
Community-defined lists
filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
On Wikimedia Commons, a
new system to select the appropriate file categories
has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the
Multiblocks
feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the
project talk page
Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at
12 Wikipedias
Multi-Check
. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all
Reference Checks
during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented
on Phabricator
The
Global reminder bot
, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the
listing of existing translations and documentation
to check if their language needs updating or creation.
The
GlobalPreferences
gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults.
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. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages.
Updates for technical contributors
Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues
please report them
. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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23:47, 17 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-13
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the
drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities
for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.
Updates for editors
The
CampaignEvents extension
will be released to multiple wikis (see
deployment plan
for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation Lists
. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the
extension talk page
or in Phabricator (with
#campaigns-product-team
tag).
Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in
Event Registration
, as part of the
CampaignEvents
extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by
requesting a configuration change
in Phabricator (and adding the
#campaigns-product-team
tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
Administrators at wikis that have a customized
MediaWiki:Sidebar
should check that it contains an entry for the
പ്രത്യേക താളുകൾ
listing. If it does not, they should add it using
* specialpages-url|specialpages
. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April.
The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (
). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts.
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VisualEditor has introduced a
new client-side hook
for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be
shared in the task
Developers who use the
mw.Api
JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the
userAgent
parameter:
var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );
. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic.
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22:41, 24 മാർച്ച് 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-14
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
The Editing team is working on a new
Edit check
Peacock check
. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input:
in this Phabricator task
, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging
Trizek (WMF)
Single User Login
has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
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Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for
MediaWiki REST APIs
. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the
on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page
for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to
share feedback about your experience
. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
In depth
Sometimes a small,
one line code change
can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving
maps.wikimedia.org
- a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a
datacenter switchover
. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of
extensive work
by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to
kubernetes
, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025
is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.
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00:04, 1 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ലുവ പിഴവ്
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
2 അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ
2 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
വിവർത്തനം ചെയ്യുമ്പോൾ താഴെ കാണുന്ന ലുവ എറർ നിരന്തരമായി വരുന്നു.
ലുവ പിഴവ് ഘടകം:Footnotes/anchor_id_list-ൽ 841 വരിയിൽ
: Template list not yet created.
അക്ബറലി
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06:23, 4 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
എൻ്റെ അറിവിൽ വിവർത്തന താളുകൾ ഡ്രാഫ്റ്റിലെങ്കിലും എത്തിയ ശേഷം നോക്കുന്നതാവും നല്ലതെന്ന് തോനുന്നു.
Adithyak1997
സംവാദം
13:24, 4 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-15
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Updates for editors
From now on,
interface admins
and
centralnotice admins
are technically required to enable
two-factor authentication
before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights.
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The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the
2.0 overview documentation
, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as
font-size
line-height
, and
size-icon
The results of the
Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)
are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
The
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a
visa
or
e-visa
to enter the country.
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Tech News: 2025-16
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations.
File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called
Edge Uniques
which will enable
A/B testing
, help protect against
Distributed denial-of-service attacks
(DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password
emailed to their account
. It is recommended that you
check
that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose.
"Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be
asked at 7 wikis starting next week
, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The
Moderator Tools team
wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on
query.wikidata.org
. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through
query-scholarly.wikidata.org
, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the
query.wikidata.org
endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was
announced in September 2024
. More information is
available on Wikidata
The latest quarterly
Wikimedia Apps Newsletter
is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
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The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2025-17
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
1 വർഷം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
Wikifunctions
is now integrated with
Dagbani Wikipedia
since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of
a stable and global function
, rather than via a local template.
A new type of lint error has been created:
Empty headings
documentation
). The
Linter extension
's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them.
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Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is
now also available on Kaggle
. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall
Structured Contents project
, and about the
first release that's freely usable
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings and events
The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss
Peacock check
, which is the latest
Edit check
that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The
meeting will be on April 28, 2025
at
18:00–19:00 UTC
and hosted on Zoom.
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Sub-referencing: User testing
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
11 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Apologies for writing in English, please help us by providing a translation below
Hi I’m Johannes from
Wikimedia Deutschland
's
Technical Wishes team
. We are making great strides with the new
sub-referencing feature
and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:
Try it out and share your feedback
Please try
the updated
wikitext
feature
on the beta wiki
and let us know what you think, either
on our talk page
or by
booking a call
with our UX researcher.
Get a sneak peak and help shape the
Visual Editor
user designs
Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions –
sign up here to receive an invite
. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start
May 14th
We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.
Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!
Johannes Richter (WMDE)
talk
15:03, 28 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
ഘടകങ്ങളിൽ തർജ്ജമ നഷ്ട്ടപെടുന്നതിനെ കുറിച്ച്
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
11 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
ഇക്കഴിഞ്ഞ വിക്കിമീഡിയൻസ് ഓഫ് കേരള പ്രതിമാസ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഒരു പ്രശ്നം ഉന്നയിക്കുകയുണ്ടായി. ഘടകങ്ങൾ മറ്റു ഭാഷകളിൽ നിന്ന് ഇമ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുമ്പോൾ തർജ്ജമകൾ നഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നു എന്നത്. ഇതിനൊരു ചെറിയ പരിഹാരം ഉദിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആദ്യമായി താഴെ പറയുന്ന താളുകൾ ഒന്ന് സന്ദർശിക്കുക:
ഘടകം:Age
(നിലവിലുള്ള ഘടകം)
ഘടകം:Sandbox/Adithyak1997/Age
(പരീക്ഷണ ഘടകം)
ഘടകം:Sandbox/Adithyak1997/CommonData
(പരീക്ഷണ ഘടകം)
ഫലകം:Birth date and age
(നിലവിലുള്ള ഘടകം)
ഫലകം:Adithyak1997/Birth date and age
(പരീക്ഷണ ഘടകം)
ഉപയോക്താവ്:Adithyak1997/InfoboxExample
(പരീക്ഷണ ഘടകം)
ചെയ്യാൻ ഉദ്ദേശിച്ചത്:
Age എന്ന ഘടകത്തിന്റെ തുടക്ക ഭാഗങ്ങളിലെല്ലാം തർജ്ജമ ചെയ്തതോ ചെയ്യേണ്ടതോ ആയിട്ടുള്ള സന്ദേശങ്ങളാണ്. ഞാൻ ഇപ്പൊ ഇത് നേരിട്ട് അവിടെ തന്നെ തർജ്ജമ ചെയ്താൽ മറ്റാരെങ്കിലും മറ്റ് ഭാഷയിൽ നിന്ന് ഈ ഘടകം ഇമ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്താൽ തർജ്ജമ നഷ്ടമാവും. ഇതിനുള്ള പരിഹാരം - മറ്റൊരു ഘടകത്തിൽ ഈ സന്ദേശങ്ങൾ നൽകിയ ശേഷം പ്രധാന ഘടകത്തിൽ ആ സന്ദേശങ്ങൾ വിളിക്കുക എന്നതാണ്. ഇവിടെ Sandbox/Adithyak1997/CommonData എന്ന ഘടകത്തിൽ നൽകിയിരിക്കുന്നത് ചരങ്ങളും അവയുടെ തർജ്ജമയും മാത്രമാണ്. പ്രോഗ്രാമിങ് ഭാഷയിൽ പറഞ്ഞാൽ ഒരു ഡാറ്റാബേസ് ആയി ഇതിനെ (Sandbox/Adithyak1997/CommonData) കാണുക. ഈ ഡാറ്റാബേസിനെ വിളിക്കുകയാണ് പിന്നീട് ഘടകം:Sandbox/Adithyak1997/Age ഇൽ ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നത്. ഈ ഘടകം (ഘടകം:Sandbox/Adithyak1997/Age) ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ഫലകം ആണ് ഫലകം:Adithyak1997/Birth date and age എന്നത്. ഒടുവിൽ ഉപയോക്താവ്:Adithyak1997/InfoboxExample എന്ന ഇൻഫോബോക്സിൽ തെറ്റായി ജനനതീയതി കൊടുത്തപ്പോൾ commondata യിൽ കൊടുത്ത വാല്യൂ കാണിക്കുന്നുണ്ട്.
ഇതിന്റെ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾ എന്റെ മനസ്സിൽ വന്നത്:
വിക്കിഡേറ്റ ഇൻബോക്സ് എന്ന സങ്കല്പം വരുമ്പോൾ ഇത് override ആവുമോ എന്നൊരു സംശയമുണ്ട്.
മലയാളം വിക്കിയിൽ ഇത് പ്രാവർത്തികമാക്കിയാലും ഉടനെ ഇതിന് പ്രയോജനമുണ്ടാവില്ല.പ്രയോജനമുണ്ടാവണമെങ്കിൽ ഏത് വിക്കിയിൽ നിന്നാണോ ഇമ്പോർട്ട് ചെയ്യുന്നത് അവിടെ ഇത് പ്രാവർത്തികമാക്കണം.
വിഷയത്തെ കുറിച്ചുള്ള നിങ്ങളുടെ അഭിപ്രായങ്ങൾ ക്ഷണിക്കുന്നു.
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Updates for editors
Event organizers who host collaborative activities on
multiple wikis
, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the
CampaignEvents extension
this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as
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The release of the next major version of
Codex
, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of
breaking changes
and minor
visual changes
. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on
this page
. Pre-release testing is reported in
T386298
, with post-release issues tracked in
T392379
and
T392390
Users of
Wiki Replicas
will notice that the database views of
ipblocks
ipblocks_ipindex
, and
ipblocks_compat
are
now deprecated
. Users can query the
block
and
block_target
new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
In depth
The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved
Content Translation Dashboard Tool
support for new languages
highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign
results from the Language Onboarding Experiment
, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.
Meetings and events
The
Let's Connect Learning Clinic
will take place on
April 29 at 14:30 UTC
. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can
register now
to attend.
The
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.
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19:30, 28 ഏപ്രിൽ 2025 (UTC)
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Weekly highlight
The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their
annual plan
for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an
executive summary
(also on
Diff
), details about the three main
goals
Infrastructure
Volunteer Support
, and
Effectiveness
),
global trends
, and the
budget
and
financial model
. Feedback and questions are welcome on the
talk page
until the end of May.
Updates for editors
For wikis that have the
CampaignEvents extension enabled
, two new feature improvements have been released:
Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for
Event Registration
via
Community Configuration
documentation
). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
Editors can now
transclude
the Collaboration List on a wiki page (
documentation
). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via
പ്രത്യേകം:AllEvents
example
). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
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Developers who use the
moment
library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the
Intl
library or the new
mediawiki.DateFormatter
library. The
moment
library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and
ask related questions in this Phabricator task
Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (
wbt_*
) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead.
Documentation and related links are available
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
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The latest
Chart Project newsletter
is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.
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We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
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(Apologies for posting in English)
Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the
old Graph extension
was disabled in 2023
due to security reasons
. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the
Charts extension
, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the
EasyTimeline extension
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from
May 6
. Please, consult
our page on MediaWiki.org
to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also
consult the documentation
about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the
project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org
, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the
talk page
or at
Phabricator
Thank you in advance! --
User:Sannita (WMF)
talk
15:07, 6 മേയ് 2025 (UTC)
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The
"Get shortened URL"
link on the sidebar now includes a
QR code
. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called
Edge Uniques
, which will enable
A/B testing
, help protect against
distributed denial-of-service attacks
(DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has
previously written about this
. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the
talk page
Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the
CampaignEvents extension
enabled can use
Event Registration
in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at
Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents
The Wikipedia project now has a
Wikipedia
in
Nupe
w:nup:
). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to
new Wikipedia
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Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the
Structured Contents snapshots (beta)
. The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
The
/page/data-parsoid
REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is
scheduled to be turned off
on June 7, 2025.
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
In depth
The
IPv6 support
is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out
this blog post
for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.
Meetings and events
The 2nd edition of 2025 of
Afrika Baraza
, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on
May 15 at 17:00 UTC
. This edition will focus on discussions regarding
Wikimedia Annual planning and progress
The
MENA Connect Community Call
, a virtual meeting for
MENA
Wikimedians to connect, will take place on
May 17 at 17:00 UTC
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22:36, 12 മേയ് 2025 (UTC)
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Join the 6th Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign – 2025 Edition
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Dear Wikipedia community,
Please help translate to your language
We invite your community to participate in the 6th edition of the
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
, a global campaign taking place from July 1 to August 31, 2025.
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable photo from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (
Wiki Loves Africa
Wiki Loves Earth
Wiki Loves Folklore
Wiki Loves Monuments
, etc.) over the years.
More than 80 Wikimedia affiliates have participated since the campaign was launched in 2020 and have added images to more than 400,000 Wikipedia articles in over 245 Wikipedia languages. Thanks to the volunteer contributors!
We now invite your community to organize and lead the campaign within your community. As a local organizer, you may:
Encourage individual members to take part by adding images to Wikipedia articles.
Host edit-a-thons focused on improving visual content.
Organize training workshops to teach contributors how to correctly integrate images into Wikipedia.
These activities will help build local capacity and increase visual content across Wikipedia.
Please note that for participants to be eligible to participate in the campaign, they need to have registered an account for at least a year before the official start date of the contest. That is, for the 2025 edition, they must have registered an account on or before July 1, 2025. The account can be from any Wikimedia project wikis.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language Wikipedia.
We would be glad for you to
sign up directly
at
WPWP Participating Communities
With kind regards,
User:Reading Beans
On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2025.
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21:53, 18 മേയ് 2025 (UTC)
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The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:
Peacock check
. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are
invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org
. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.
Updates for editors
From May 20, 2025,
oversighters
and
checkusers
will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights.
Multiblocks
will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please
contact the team
if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to
പ്രത്യേകം:തടയുക
?usecodex=1
, and can test the full multiblocks functionality
on testwiki
. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the
help page
for more information.
Later this week, the
പ്രത്യേകം:പ്രത്യേകതാളുകൾ
listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been
redesigned
to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be
previewed
at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.
The
Chart extension
is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the
deployment timeline
Wikifunctions
will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries:
Hausa
Igbo
Bengali
Malayalam
, and
Dhivehi/Maldivian
. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of
a stable and global function
, rather than via a local template.
Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for
experiments
. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement
understand new users
, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are
generated video
, the
Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game
and
the Discord bot
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Updates for technical contributors
Gadgets and user scripts that interact with
പ്രത്യേകം:തടയുക
may need to be updated to work with the new
manage blocks interface
. Please review the
developer guide
for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the
talk page
The
mw.title
object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the
Lua
programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named
isDisambiguationPage
. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.
User script developers can use a
new reverse proxy tool
to load javascript and css from
gitlab.wikimedia.org
with
mw.loader.load
. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on
gitlab.wikimedia.org
without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See
Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech
for more information.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
The 12th edition of
Wiki Workshop 2025
, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can
register now
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23:11, 19 മേയ് 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-22
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
10 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Weekly highlight
A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
Updates for editors
Since last week, on all wikis except
the largest 20
, people using the mobile visual editor will have
additional tools in the menu bar
, accessed using the new
toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is
scheduled
to happen in June.
The
#ifexist
parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of
പ്രത്യേകം:ആവശ്യമുള്ള താളുകൾ
, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated.
This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch
a new filter to Recent Changes
, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more.
Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers,
WikiGames
, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
The
Newsletter extension
that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of
various newsletters
for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue.
View all
32
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
The previously deprecated
ipblocks
views in
Wiki Replicas
will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new
block
and
block_target
views instead.
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
Meetings and events
Wikidata and Sister Projects
is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can
read the Program schedule
and
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20:03, 26 മേയ് 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-23
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
10 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
The
Chart extension
is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy
Graph extension
Updates for editors
It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's
citation generator
. Administrators can now set a default template by using the
_default
key in the local
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
page (
example diff
). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when
new item types
are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template.
View all
20
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using
action=login
or
action=clientlogin
will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using
bot passwords
or using a loginless authentication method such as
OAuth
are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using
action=login
without a bot password was deprecated
in 2016
. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.
From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is
async
await
syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015.
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
Meetings and events
Scholarship applications to participate in the
GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can
apply here
. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.
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23:53, 2 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-24
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
10 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
The
Trust and Safety Product team
is finalizing work needed to roll out
temporary accounts
on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project,
see this update
. If you have any comments or questions, write on the
talk page
, and
join a CEE Catch Up
this Tuesday.
Updates for editors
The
watchlist expiry
feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The
preferences
also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (
some
have already received this design change,
a few
will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes
on
Diff
. It is possible to opt out of these changes
in user preferences
("
Show discussion activity
").
Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts
revealed automatically
during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.
This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of
a new filter to Recent Changes
, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias:
Afrikaans Wikipedia
Belarusian Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia
Welsh Wikipedia
Hawaiian Wikipedia
Icelandic Wikipedia
Kazakh Wikipedia
Simple English Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include
the rest of the Wikipedias in this project
View all
27
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are
available on Phabricator
Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on
some wikis
to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on
mw.title objects
, named
pageImage
and
pageAssessments
Detailed code updates later this week:
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01:15, 10 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-25
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
10 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
You can
nominate your favorite tools
for the sixth edition of the
Coolest Tool Award
. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
View all
33
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
In depth
Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can
read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post
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23:37, 16 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-26
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
10 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of
a new filter to Recent Changes
, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias:
Azerbaijani Wikipedia
Latin Wikipedia
Macedonian Wikipedia
Malayalam Wikipedia
Marathi Wikipedia
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia
Punjabi Wikipedia
Swahili Wikipedia
Telugu Wikipedia
Tagalog Wikipedia
. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include
the rest of the Wikipedias in this project
Updates for editors
Last week,
temporary accounts
were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow.
Share your thoughts
about the project.
Later this week, the Editing team will release
Multi Check
to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple
Reference checks
within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test.
The test shows
that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%).
A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in
the task
. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
View all
24
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected.
Updates for technical contributors
Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with
Extension:Chart
. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations.
Information on how to use transforms is available
The
all_links
variable in
AbuseFilter
is now renamed to
new_links
for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
In depth
The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.
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23:19, 23 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-27
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
9 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
The
CampaignEvents extension
has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation List
. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the
Deployment information page
Updates for editors
AbuseFilter maintainers can now
match against IP reputation data
in
AbuseFilters
. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.
Hidden content that is within
collapsible parts of wikipages
will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.
A new feature, called
Favourite Templates
, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a
community wishlist focus area
View all
31
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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23:39, 30 ജൂൺ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-28
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
9 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
Temporary accounts
have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages:
Access to IP
, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and
Repository
with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.
Updates for editors
Anyone can play an experimental new game,
WikiRun
, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers.
Try playing the game
and let the team know what you think
on the talk page
Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new
trivia game
Which came first?
is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers.
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the
Tabbed Browsing project page
Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use
പ്രത്യേകം:VerifyOATHForUser
to check if users have enabled
two-factor authentication
A new feature related to
Template Recall and Discovery
will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a
template category browser
will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community
through the Community Wishlist
It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed.
View all
27
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
As part of
MediaWiki 1.44
there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at
Manual:Notifications
, information about migration in
T388663
and details on deprecated hooks in
T389624
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
WikidataCon 2025
, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for
session proposals
and for
registration
. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".
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00:04, 8 ജൂലൈ 2025 (UTC)
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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
9 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
(Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)
Hello everyone, the
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your
Watchlists
and
Recent Changes
lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the
Wikidata:Glossary
for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for
17.07.2025
, between
1300 - 1500 UTC
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this
project task page
. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated
Talk page
Thank you, -
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team.
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12:45, 14 ജൂലൈ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-29
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
9 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
Featured templates
, a new feature related to
Template Recall and Discovery
will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community
through the Community Wishlist
View all
31
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the
Wikisource Book Export Tool
was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate.
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
In depth
Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to
submit a project idea
for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read
this Diff blog post
for more details.
Meetings and events
WikiIndaba 2025
scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit
your scholarship application
and
program proposal
now!
WikiCon Brasil 2025
will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!
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20:07, 14 ജൂലൈ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-30
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
9 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
The Translation Suggestions feature in the
Content Translation tool
now has another level of article filters added to the "
... More
" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "
Regions
" filter.
Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The
"Add a Link"
Structured Task
helps new account holders start editing
, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the
Community Configuration
feature.
View all
29
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
For AbuseFilter editors on
some wikis
, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the
ORES/AbuseFilter variables
documentation.
The
Beta Cluster
wikis have
been moved
from
beta.wmflabs.org
to
beta.wmcloud.org
. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be
reported in the task
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
Meetings and events
WikiCite 2025
will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon.
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The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please
read the latest update
, and if you have ideas, please
submit a wish
on the topic.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block
cross-wiki uploads
to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of
widespread problems
related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the
message
or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.
On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named
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Wikimania 2025
will run from August 6–9. The
program is available
for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please
for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors
Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
A dozen visions for wikitext!
Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council
The
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025
will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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your global preferences
, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.
Everybody is invited to share comments on
Collaborative Contributions
, a project recently launched by the
Connection team
. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the
project talk page
Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named
MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account
and use a value defined in
MediaWiki:Ipboptions
. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList.
More documentation
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Gadgets can now include
.vue
files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using
Vue.js
, in particular using
Codex
, the official design system of Wikimedia.
Codex icons
can be loaded through the gadget definition.
The documentation
has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an
API module
now exists to load Codex icons.
Module developers can now use a
Lua interface
to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to
watch the demo video
, read more about
translatable modules
to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's
Module:User Wikimedia project
for example usage, and
share their feedback
on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet.
Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with
the user-agent policy
. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are
overusing
Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent.
More technical details are available
, and related questions are welcome in that task.
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the
Parsoid/Parser Unification
project page.
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Meetings and events
Wikimania 2025
will run from August 6–9. The
program is available
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Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse
Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!
Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience
Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next
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The WikiEditor toolbar now includes
its keyboard shortcuts
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The
Product and Technology Advisory Council
published a set of
proposed experiments
the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on
this talk page
The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.
Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is
an A/B experiment
that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.
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The multiwiki datasets of
Unicode data
have been moved to
Category:Unicode Module Datasets
on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at
the talkpage
Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the
mw.addWarning()
function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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വിളയന്നൂർ എസ്. രാമചന്ദ്രൻ
Looks like both existed separately following a 2013 renaming.
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Discussion tools
Beta Feature
enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history.
Learn more about this feature
An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.
An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using
Experimentation Lab
. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.
Five new wikis have been created:
Wikisource
in
Tagalog
s:tl:
Wikisource
in
Madurese
s:mad:
Wikipedia
in
Rakhine
w:rki:
Wikibooks
in
Minangkabau
b:min:
Wiktionary
in
Standard Moroccan Amazigh
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Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by
TemplateStyles
was updated. For example:
width: fit-content
ruby-align
; relative units such as
lh
; and custom strings in
list-style-type
. These improvements are a
Community Wishlist wish
On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.
Administrators can now access the
പ്രത്യേകം:BlockedExternalDomains
page from the
പ്രത്യേകം:CommunityConfiguration
list page. This makes it easier to find.
Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wiktionary
in
Betawi
wikt:bew:
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Two fields of the
recentchanges database table
are being removed.
rc_new
and
rc_type
are being removed in favor of
rc_source
. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use
rc_source
instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table.
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The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.
Meetings and events
The next
Language Community Meeting
is happening soon, August 29th at
15:00 UTC
. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.
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ഒരു പകർപ്പവകാശ ലംഘനം നീക്കം ചെയ്യുമ്പോൾ എഡിറ്റ് സംഗ്രഹങ്ങളിൽ ഉപയോഗിക്കുന്ന ടെംപ്ലേറ്റുകൾ, സാങ്കേതിക പദങ്ങൾ, നയങ്ങൾ എന്നിവയുടെ പട്ടിക തയ്യാറാക്കാൻ എഡിറ്റിംഗ് ടീം ആഗ്രഹിക്കുന്നു. ഇതിലൂടെ പകർപ്പവകാശ പ്രശ്നങ്ങളാൽ തിരികെ കൊണ്ടുവന്ന എഡിറ്റുകളുടെ എണ്ണം തിരിച്ചറിയാൻ സഹായിക്കും. താഴെപ്പറയുന്ന വിക്കികളിലെ കമ്മ്യൂണിറ്റി അംഗങ്ങളെ
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Czech Wikipedia
German Wikipedia
English Wikipedia
Spanish Wikipedia
Persian Wikipedia
French Wikipedia
Hebrew Wikipedia
Indonesian Wikipedia
Italian Wikipedia
Japanese Wikipedia
Korean Wikipedia
Dutch Wikipedia
Polish Wikipedia
Portuguese Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
Ukrainian Wikipedia
Vietnamese Wikipedia
Chinese Wikipedia
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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.
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.
On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our
group by toggle experiment
of the
Special:RecentChanges
Special:Watchlist
, and
Special:RelatedChanges
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.
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.
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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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The Editing team is working on a new check:
Paste check
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tell us in this task
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contact the team
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Later this week, users of the "
Improved Syntax Highlighting
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
When browsing a wiki (like
en.wikipedia.org
), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like
en.m.wikipedia.org
). 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.
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.
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.
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.
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References lists that are made using the
tag
will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width.
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.
Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
for the
intitle:
keyword:
metacharacters
for start-of-line (
) and end-of-line (
) anchors
for both
intitle:
and
insource:
keywords: shorthand
character classes
for digits (
\d
), whitespace (
\s
), and word characters (
\w
); and
escape codes
for line feed (
\r
), newline (
\n
), tab (
\t
), and unicode (e.g.
\uHHHH
).
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.
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
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community-submitted
tasks
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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.
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
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.
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.
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).
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Meetings and events
Scholarship applications
for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.
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17:05, 15 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-39
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
7 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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:
{{#contentmodel}}
. 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.
Adding or editing a
DISPLAYTITLE
for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
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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tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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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22:54, 22 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2025 (UTC)
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തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
6 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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.
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
പ്രത്യേകം: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.
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
പ്രത്യേകം:സംഭാവനകൾ
and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix,
messages prefixed with
sp-contributions-blocked-notice
will be removed and replaced with
those prefixed with
blocked-notice-logextract
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
[ ] |
after the fragment identifier (
). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikiquote
in
Malay
q:ms:
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community-submitted
tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the
User Info Card
now displays currently active global lock/blocks.
Updates for technical contributors
Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the
mw.title.newBatch
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.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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20:50, 29 സെപ്റ്റംബർ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-41
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
6 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Weekly highlight
Paste Check
is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October,
22 wikis will test Paste Check
. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like
en.wikipedia.org
), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like
en.m.wikipedia.org
). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available.
New
date filters
creationdate:
and
lasteditdate:
, 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.
>2024
) and relative dates (e.g.
today-1d
), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges.
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
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.
View all
34
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
The field
rev_sha1
in the revision database table is being removed in favor of
content_sha1
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.
Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the
rest.php
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
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17:21, 6 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-42
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
6 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for
Special:AccountSecurity
, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the
Account Security
project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at
Special:AccountSecurity
. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.
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
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.
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21
community-submitted
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.
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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18:58, 13 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-43
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
6 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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.
View all
20
community-submitted
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.
Updates for technical contributors
The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the
rest.php
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.
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19:34, 20 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-44
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
5 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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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.
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31
community-submitted
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.
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
പ്രത്യേകം:RestSandbox
page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the
project launch
page.
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.
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19:30, 27 ഒക്ടോബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-45
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
5 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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
പ്രത്യേകം:നാൾവഴിലയിപ്പിക്കുക
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).
For users with "
Automatically subscribe to topics
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 "
വിഷയം ചേർക്കുക
" or "
മറുപടി
" 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.
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.
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.
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!
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.
Updates for technical contributors
Since 2019 the
Wikimedia URL Shortener
at
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
/s/
URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML
class="title-shortlink"
. The
/s/
URLs will keep working.
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.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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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Tech News: 2025-46
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
5 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Updates for editors
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
Starting November 12, users will see a change in the
appearance of talk pages
on
some Wikipedias
. Almost
all wikis
have received this design change;
English Wikipedia
will get these changes later. You can read more
on
Diff
. Users can opt out of these changes
in their user preferences
in "
Show discussion activity
".
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
Using the "
എങ്ങനെയുണ്ടെന്നു കാണുക
" or "
മാറ്റങ്ങൾ കാണിക്കുക
" 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.
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.
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.
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.
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community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.
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
. Old access tokens will still work.
The
JWT subject field
in
OAuth 2 access tokens
will soon change from
to
mw:
, where
is typically
CentralAuth:
(for
SUL wikis
) or
local:
(for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the
sessionJwt
cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work.
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
$9
or emailing other users
10
REL1_45
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.
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.
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Tech News: 2025-47
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
5 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikisource
in
Minangkabau
s:min:
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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
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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
hackathon@wikimedia.org
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17:25, 17 നവംബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-48
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
5 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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
cxfcnmt
on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for
счастье
("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week.
Later this week, users of the "
Improved Syntax Highlighting
beta feature
will have syntax highlighting available in
DiscussionTools
. This requires that the "
Enable editing tools in source mode
" preference be set.
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.
View all
24
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.
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
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for
format=xml
&xlst={stylesheet}
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).
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 (
- Main graph or
- 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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Tech News: 2025-49
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
4 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's
project page
The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See
Phabricator
Add a link
will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact
Trizek (WMF)
View all
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community-submitted
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.
Two new wikis have been created:
Wikipedia
in
Toki Pona
w:tok:
Wikiquote
in
Nigerian Pidgin
q:pcm:
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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In depth
The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to
Article guidance
. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to
about the project, and share their thoughts on
the talk page
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18:57, 1 ഡിസംബർ 2025 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2025-50
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
4 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use
two-factor authentication
(2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the
Account Security
initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
Following last week's deployments, the
Add a link
feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional
33 Wikipedias
starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact
Trizek (WMF)
Last week, the
Search Platform team
added
transliterated
as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script
are now rewritten into Georgian script
to look for more matches. For example, searching for either
bedniereba
or
бедниереба
will now suggest the existing article about
ბედნიერება
("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.
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.
View all
23
community-submitted
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.
Updates for technical contributors
Starting this week, users of the "
Improved Syntax Highlighting
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.
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.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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17:44, 8 ഡിസംബർ 2025 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2025-51
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
4 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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
View all
18
community-submitted
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.
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
പ്രത്യേകം:കണ്ണികൾ തിരയുക
, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinks
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.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2025-52
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
4 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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.
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.
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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.
Updates for technical contributors
Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"
to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with
data-mw-interface=""
, to avoid potential conflicts with other
data-mw
attributes, which are generated by Parsoid.
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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Migration to Parsoid
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
3 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the
Parser Unification
project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your wiki. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the
Extension:ParserMigration
documentation.
There is
more information about our roll-out strategy
available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.
To report bugs and issues, please look at our
known issues
documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the
Content Transform Team in Phabricator
Content Transform Team
00:35, 6 ജനുവരി 2026 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2026-03
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
3 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Latest
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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Weekly highlight
The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on
Meta
and
Diff
. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the
talk page
Updates for editors
As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the
Multiple watchlists
project, the display of
EditWatchlist
will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on
will be updated too, as a part of the work on the
Revamp pagination / page navigation
wish.
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.
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community-submitted
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.
Updates for technical contributors
The
VisualEditor citation tool
and
Reference Previews
now support "map" as a reference type.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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മറുപടി
Tech News: 2026-04
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
3 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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.
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.
View all
32
community-submitted
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.
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.:
) 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
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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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20:29, 19 ജനുവരി 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-05
തിരുത്തുക
ഏറ്റവും പുതിയ അഭിപ്രായം:
2 മാസം മുമ്പ്
1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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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.
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Updates for technical contributors
A new AbuseFilter variable,
account_type
, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the
createaccount
and
autocreateaccount
actions. As part of this change, the variable
accountname
has been renamed to
account_name
, and
accountname
is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable.
Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to
upload.wikimedia.org/…
will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes.
Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task
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21:17, 26 ജനുവരി 2026 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2026-06
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The "
താളിന്റെ വിവരങ്ങൾ
" feature, which gives validating information about a page (
example
), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local
മീഡിയവിക്കി:Pageinfo-header
page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
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. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the
MediaWiki REST API
. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the
#MW-Interfaces-Team board
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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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മറുപടി
Tech News: 2026-07
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Updates for editors
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.
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.
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.
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
{{#isbn}}
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.
Two new wikis have been created:
Wikipedia
in
Jju
w:kaj:
Wikipedia
in
Nawat
w:ppl:
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A new global user group has been created:
Local bots
. 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.
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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.
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23:30, 9 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2026 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2026-08
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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.
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.
on Diff blog.
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 (
മീഡിയവിക്കി:Sitenotice
and
മീഡിയവിക്കി: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
#siteNotice { display: none; }
to
മീഡിയവിക്കി:Minerva.css
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. 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.
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.
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19:16, 16 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2026 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2026-09
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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.
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.
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.
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
MediaWiki:skin-theme-description
and
MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag
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.
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, a bug that prevented
DiscussionTools
from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.
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
ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild
, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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19:03, 23 ഫെബ്രുവരി 2026 (UTC)
മറുപടി
Tech News: 2026-10
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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
പ്രത്യേകം: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.
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.
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.
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
uselang=
URL parameter is provided.
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.
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in
Wikibase.cloud
has now been fixed.
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.
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
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17:51, 2 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-11
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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.
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.
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. 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.
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.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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In depth
The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected
pilot wikis
and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in
Arabic
Bengali
Japanese
Portuguese
Persian
, and
Turkish
. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more
on the project page
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18:52, 9 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-12
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1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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Updates for editors
The
Improved Syntax Highlighting
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
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.
On wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the number of pending changes shown on
പ്രത്യേകം:മുമ്പ് സംശോധനം ചെയ്ത താളുകൾ
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.
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'.
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
A new special page,
പ്രത്യേകം: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:
പ്രത്യേകം:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color
Users of the
Improved Syntax Highlighting
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
The
CodeMirror
JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the
ext.CodeMirror
or
ext.CodeMirror.lib
modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the
ext.CodeMirror.switch
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.
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.,
പ്രത്യേകം: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.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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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19:35, 16 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Request for Comment: VisualEditor automatic reference names
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1 അഭിപ്രായം
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Hi, I’m Johannes from
Wikimedia Deutschland
’s
Technical Wishes team
. Apologies for writing in English.
Please help translate to your language
! We are considering to work on
Community Wishlist/W17: Improve VE references' automatic names and reuse
. This has been a long-term issue for wikitext editors (see e.g.
en:WP:VisualEditor/Named references
) which has been among the top-voted wishes in several
Community Wishlist Surveys
, e.g.
2017
2019
2022
or
2023
We would like your input on the
solutions
proposed on our project page:
m:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/VisualEditor automatic reference names
. We are considering several options, which can be combined if desired by the community.
Changing the default pattern for automatically generated reference names (currently
":n"
, e.g.
":0"
":1"
...) to use the
reference type
instead (e.g.
"book_reference-1"
).
Providing a simple mechanism for communities to configure a different default name.
Generating automatic reference names based on the
domain name
(if it’s a web citation).
Generating automatic reference names based on template parameters (e.g. "title" or "last"+"first") – defined by the community.
Feedback
തിരുത്തുക
Visit our project page
to read about our proposal in detail and share your thoughts
on metawiki
Please note
: We will only implement a solution if there’s clear consensus among the global community. Our intention is not to build the perfect solution, but to find a simple and lean one that alleviates the pain caused by auto generated names. We are aware that some experienced VisualEditor users might prefer an option to manually change reference names in VisualEditor, but such a UX intervention is difficult to achieve across reference types and thus out of scope for our team, we can only improve the auto-naming mechanism.
We are happy about suggestions for improving certain details of the proposed solutions. Any other feedback and alternative proposals are also welcome – even though it’s out of scope for us, it might still be relevant for future work on this topic.
Please support us interpreting consensus by clearly indicating your opinion (e.g. by using support/neutral/oppose templates). We are aware of
en:WP:NOTVOTE
, but given that we are facilitating this discussion with users from different wikis, potentially commenting in their native language, clearly indicating your position helps us avoid misunderstandings.
Thank you for participating!
Johannes Richter (WMDE)
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11:15, 19 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-13
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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.
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.
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
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.
View all
36
community-submitted
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.
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
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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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16:50, 23 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-14
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
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are available.
Weekly highlight
The Beta version of
Abstract Wikipedia
a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata.
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.
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.
View all
45
community-submitted
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.
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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19:25, 30 മാർച്ച് 2026 (UTC)
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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)
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1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
Hello everyone,
This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as
Module:Itemgroup/list
).
The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property
P1846
, combined with the qualifier
P180
Q19571328
We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property:
P14226
What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from
P14226
instead of the old
P1846
P180
structure. A
list of pages
was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.
Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on
P1846
to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old
P1846
statements will be removed after
May 1, 2026
. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.
Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help!
ZI Jony
using
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17:09, 3 ഏപ്രിൽ 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-15
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Updates for editors
The
CampaignEvents extension
now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in
the documentation
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.
View all
23
community-submitted
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.
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.
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.
The
Action API
has had several formats for requested output. One of them,
format=php
, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the
JSON format
. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots.
The
Special:NamespaceInfo
page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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16:18, 6 ഏപ്രിൽ 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-16
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1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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.
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.
View all
30
community-submitted
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.
Updates for technical contributors
Starting later this week,
ദുരുപയോഗ അരിപ്പ തിരുത്തുന്നവർ
who have the
Improved Syntax Highlighting
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.
Tools and bots that access the
Notifications API
action=query&meta=notifications
) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
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).
Detailed code updates later this week:
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15:18, 13 ഏപ്രിൽ 2026 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2026-17
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1 അഭിപ്രായം
1 വ്യക്തിവ്യക്തികൾ ചർച്ചയിൽ ഉണ്ട്.
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,
Improved Syntax Highlighting
, 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
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.
View all
15
community-submitted
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.
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.
The
mirrors.wikimedia.org
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
The
image
and
oldimage
table will be removed from
wikireplicas
. If your tools or queries access
image
or
oldimage
directly, please update them to use the
file
and
filerevision
table before 28 May.
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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