…e special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans Azerbaijani Breton …

…e easily. This will be achieved by an interface, connected to the infobox, that users can access directly from their local wiki. The project is now at an early stage of development. A lot of user research has been done, and will continue to be done through the different phases of…

…to handle bad edits better. We also want to get better privacy for unregistered users so their IP addresses are no longer shown to everyone in the world. We would not hide IP addresses until we have better tools for patrolling. We have an idea of what tools could be working bette…

…eatures include writing comments in a new visual editing mode and pinging other users by typing . You can test the new features on the Beta Cluster now. Some other wikis will have a chance to try the Beta Feature in the coming months. New requirements for user signatures : Soon, …

…wa Latest Tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please inform other users about these changes. Recent software changes (Not all changes will affect you.) The latest version of MediaWiki (version 1.22/wmf4 ) was added to non-Wikipedia wikis on May 13, and to the Englis…

… surfacing new signals (beyond IP addresses) that identify bad actors, allowing users to be blocked in ways that minimize erroneous blocking of good-faith editors. To deliver encyclopedic content to a new generation, we will build features that help new kinds of readers understan…

…isual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". Th…

… Wikipedia now has the visual editor (ଭିଜୁଆଲ-ଏଡ଼ିଟର) enabled for all registered users . The rollout to logged-out users will likely happen in a week or so. For an explanation of how the editing system now works and how to choose/go back to your favorite setting, please see my pre…

…H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and …

…lows global bots. This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy , and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at …

…lows global bots. This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy , and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. Please read the text at …

…dgets that have only been designed for the older one (and vice versa ), so some users will miss gadgets they find important. We're happy to work with gadget authors to help them update their code to work with both editors. We're not planning to get rid of the current main wikitex…

…s with the now required HTML , even less a local EDP . However, this means that users here will experience a mostly broken and/or illegal uploading. I propose to have local upload restricted to the "Administrators" group (for emergency uploads) and the sidebar point to commons:Sp…

…lso addressing a concern about the mobile versions of Wikipedia, so that mobile users will be able to edit directly the descriptions shown under the title of the page and in the search results. We began by rolling out this feature several weeks ago to a pilot group of Wikipedias …

…will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS , if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with lo…