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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.
View all 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.
[1]
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
Specialaĵo:RestSandbox
page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the
project launch
page.
[2]
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.
[3]
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Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.
Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email cst
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Administrators will now find that
Specialaĵo:Unuigi kronologion
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).
[4]
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 "Aldoni temon" or "Reply" 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.
[5]
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.
[6]
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.
[7]
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!
[8]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.
[9]
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.
[10]
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.
[11]
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In depth
In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in
a Diff blog post
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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".
[12]
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
[13]
Using the "Antaŭrigardo" or "Montri la ŝanĝojn" 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.
[14]
[15]
[16]
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.
[17]
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.
[18]
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.
[19]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.
[20]
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.
[21]
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.
[22]
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
[23]
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.
[24]
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.
[25]
[26]
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Mi invitas vin al la 8-a Kunsido de Ĝenerala asembleo de organizo
Vikimedio EO
, kiu okazos rete la 16-an de Novembro 2025. Ni traktos precipe la Jarajn planon kaj buĝeton 2026, revizion de la
Strategia plano 2025-2026
kaj eventuale ankaŭ aliajn aferojn. La kunsido estas celata al membroj de la organizo, kaj ankaŭ malfermita al Vikimediaj redaktistoj kiel vi. Bv. vidi pliajn informojn kaj aliĝu ĉe la
oficiala anonco
KuboF Hromoslav
diskuto
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Jam ĉi-dimanĉe, la
16-an de Novembro 2025
, ni havos
Kunsidon de Ĝenerala asembleo de Vikimedio EO
(se vi volas partopreni, bv aliĝi anticipe). Kaj mi havas al vi 2 petojn.
Ni serĉas 2 novajn Estraranojn
Ni bezonas plivigligi nian Estraron por pli juste distribui internan laboron, esti pli daŭropova kaj pli bone subteni Vikimediajn redaktantojn. Aldone ni bezonas ankaŭ Kasiston kaj Ĝeneralan sekretarion (kiuj povas, sed ne devas esti Estraranoj) kaj ni aprezus ankaŭ plian / rezervan membron de Revizia komisiono. Se vi spertas pri gvidado de neprofitcela, plejparte volontula organizo, kandidatiĝu nun, aŭ plej malfrue dum la kunsido mem.
Vidu pliajn detalojn en la artikolo
Dokumentoj jam duonpretaj - trastudu ilin antaŭ la kunsido
Mi finas verkon de la gravaj dokumentoj, kiujn ni traktos dum la kunsido:
Jara plano 2026
- la enhavo preskaŭ pretas per lista formo, ankoraŭ mi plibeligos ĝian prezenton
se vi mem volas (kun)gvidi iun aldonan laboron, aldonu ĝin rekte en la viki-paĝon kaj mi ĝin ankoraŭ konsideros
Jara buĝeto 2026
- mi atendis stabiligon de la Jara plano, kaj aldonos numerojn probable en sabato
vi povas komenti rekte en la dokumento (elektu komentatan tekston kaj premu Ctrl+Alt+M)
Revizio de la Strategia plano 2025-2026
- jam estas provizita detala klarigo pri la bezono de revizio, kaj la resuma prezento, al kiu mi aldonos enhavon probable sabate
vi povas komenti rekte en la dokumento (elektu komentatan tekston kaj premu Ctrl+Alt+M)
Bv. trastudi la dokumentojn antaŭ la kunsido. Ili devus preti sabate antaŭ noktomezo, plej malfrue dimanĉe kelkajn horojn antaŭ la kunsido. Tiel ni dum la kunsido povos fokusiĝi al eventualaj demandoj kaj pli facile trakti aprobon.
Mi antaŭĝojas vidi vin dimanĉe. --
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Plej lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Updates for editors
La
teamo de Leganto-Sperto
estas eksperimentanta kun
leglistoj en poŝtelefona retpaĝo
, permesante al ensalutitaj legantoj sen redaktoj konservi privatajn listojn de artikoloj por poste. La eksperimento funkcias en la arabia, ĉina, franca, indonezia kaj vjetnama Vikipedioj ekde la semajno de la 10-a de Novembro, kaj komenciĝos en la angla Vikipedio la semajno de la 17-a de Novembro.
Uzantoj, kiuj ne povas ricevi siajn retpoŝtajn konfirmkodojn dum ensaluto, nun povas ricevi helpon per sendado de formularo en nova speciala paĝo. Ĉi tiu ĝisdatigo estas parto de la iniciato
Konta Sekureco
. Se via konto havas retpoŝtadreson, bonvolu certiĝi, ke vi ankoraŭ havas aliron al ĝi. Kiam vi ensalutas de nova aparato aŭ loko sen 2FA, vi eble estos petita enigi 6-ciferan kodon senditan per retpoŝto por fini la ensaluton.
Lernu pli
Unu nova vikio estis kreita: Wikisource en
Minangkabau
s:min:
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Kiel parto de la projekto
Unuigo de Analizilo
, la Teamo pri Enhavo-Transformo lanĉis Parsoid kiel la defaŭltan analizilon por multaj Vikipedioj kun malalta trafiko kaj preparas la sekvan paŝon al Vikipedioj kun alta trafiko. Ĉi tiu mesaĝo estas invito por via aliĝo al Parsoid, kiel priskribite en la dokumentaro
Extension:ParserMigration
, kaj identigi iujn ajn problemojn, kiujn vi eble renkontos kun via propra laborfluo uzante robotojn, noviletojn aŭ uzanto-skriptojn. Bonvolu sciigi nin per la ligilo
"Raporti Vidan Cimon"
en la flanka kolumno Iloj aŭ kreu Phab-bileton kaj etikedu la
Teamon pri Enhavo-Transformo en Phabricator
Nesubtenataj Iloj: Pluraj problemoj kun
Video2Commons
estis riparitaj, inkluzive de alŝutaj malsukcesoj rilataj al dosiernomo, importado de nigraj filmetoj kaj reprovado. Subteno por AV1 ankaŭ estis aldonita. Daŭra laboro fokusiĝas al stabileco de la servilo, eraroj de ffmpeg, importado de subtekstoj, metadatena traktado kaj alŝutoj de kantlistoj. Por spuri specifajn taskojn, kontrolu la
tabulon Phabricator
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Meetings and events
Rezervu la daton por la sekva Wikimedia Hackathon okazonta en Milano, Italio, de la 1a ĝis la 3a de Majo 2026. Registriĝo malfermiĝos en januaro 2026.
Petoj por stipendioj nuntempe estas malfermitaj
, kaj fermiĝos la 28an de novembro 2025. Se vi havas demandojn, bonvolu sendi retpoŝton al
hackathon@wikimedia.org
Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
Esti helpata
Prikomenti
Aboni aŭ malaboni
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Saluton. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:
Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki
. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
Dankon!
--
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Plej lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Updates for editors
Pasintsemajne, la
Wikimedia Serĉa Teamo
recreis la funkciecon de la ilaro "FKMI" (Faru Kion Mi Intencas) sur la servilflanko, por la rusa kaj hebrea Vikipedioj. Ĉi tiu funkcio aldonas sugestojn de trans-klavujara tipo al la normaj sugestoj de serĉujo. Ekzemple, serĉi
cxfcnmt
en la rusa Vikipedio nun aldonos sugestojn por
счастье
("feliĉo"), kiujn la uzanto probable intencis. Ili planas ebligi ĉi tiun funkcion por aliaj rusaj kaj hebreaj vikioj ĉi-semajne.
[28]
Pli poste ĉi-semajne, uzantoj de la "Improved Syntax Highlighting"
beta-funkcio
havos disponeblan sintaksan aldonan kolorigon en
Diskutiloj
. Ĉi tio postulas, ke la prefero "Enable editing tools in source mode" estu agordita.
[29]
Kampanjaj eventaj etendoj
– la aro de iloj por kunordigi eventojn kaj aliajn kunlaboraĵojn en Vikio nun estis deplojita al ĉiuj Vikimediaj vikioj. Nova funkcio konata kiel
Kunlabora kontribuo
por helpi organizantojn kaj partoprenantojn vidi la efikon de agadoj ankaŭ estis aldonita. Aliĝu al la venonta
lernoklaso
por vidi la novan funkcion en ago kaj dividi vian reagojn.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Ekzemple, la eraro kiu ĉesis la funkciadon de CodeReviewBot, nun estis riparita.
[30]
Updates for technical contributors
Uzantoj de la Wikimedia API povas aliĝi al studo pri uzeblo por helpi validigi la novan dezajnon de la Vikimedia REST API sablonoj. Interesitaj partoprenantoj devus plenigi la
rekrutigan enketon
[31]
La MediaWiki-Interfacoj teamo malakceptas XSLT-stilfoliojn ene de la Ago API. Subteno por
format=xml
&xlst={stylesheet}
estos forigita de Vikimedia-projektoj antaŭ la fino de Novembro 2025. Krome, ĝi baldaŭ estos malebligita per defaŭlto en MediaWiki-liberigversioj: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44 kaj v1.45. Subteno por XSLT-stilfolioj estos tute forigita el MediaWiki v1.46 (atendita esti liberigita inter Aprilo kaj Majo 2026).
[32]
La WDQS-heredita fino-punkto (
query-legacy-full.wikidata.org
) estos malaktivigita fine de decembro 2025 kaj finfine fermita la 7-an de januaro 2026. Post ĉi tiu dato, uzantoj devus atendi, ke petoj al query.wikidata.org, kiuj bezonas la plenan grafikon, malsukcesos aŭ redonos malvalidajn rezultojn se ili ne estos re-skribitaj por uzi SPARQL-federacion. La teamo instigas uzantojn certigi, ke iloj kaj laborfluoj uzas la subtenatajn WDQS-fino-punktojn (
- Ĉefa grafeo aŭ
- Akademia grafeo). Por subteno pri migriĝo de uzkazoj, bonvolu revizii la
Aliro al la datumo
kaj
Petu demandon
paĝojn por detaloj kaj helpo pri alternativaj aliro-metodoj.
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preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
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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 34 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.
[33]
Two new wikis have been created:
Updates for technical contributors
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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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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.
[36]
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.
[37]
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.
[38]
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.
[39]
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.
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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
Specialaĵo:Serĉi ligilon
, 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.
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From January, edit filters
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. 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.
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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.
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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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Plej lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Weekly highlight
La Fondaĵo Wikimedia dividis kelkajn gvidajn demandojn por la Jara Plano de julio 2026–junio 2027 pri
Meta
kaj
Diff
. Ĉi tiuj fokusiĝas al tutmondaj tendencoj, pli rapida kaj pli sana eksperimentado, pli bona subteno por novuloj, plifortigo de redaktantoj kaj progresintaj uzantoj, plibonigo de kunlaboro inter projektoj, kaj kreskigo kaj retenado de legantaro. Reagoj kaj ideoj estas bonvenaj sur la
diskutpaĝo
Updates for editors
Kiel parto de la nuna laboro de la Komunuma Teknika teamo pri la projekto
Pluraj observataj listoj
, la vidado de
RedaktiAtentolisto
estos ĝisdatigita kiel unua paŝo al pluraj observataj listoj. Krome, la paĝnombrigo ĉe
Serĉi
ankaŭ estos ĝisdatigita, kiel parto de la laboro pri la deziro
Renovigi paĝnombrigon / paĝnavigadon
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La Tutmonda Observolisto
estas
etendaĵo
de MediaWiki, kiu ebligas al vi vidi viajn observolistojn el malsamaj vikioj sur la sama paĝo. Ĝi estis ĵus ĝisdatigita por aspekti pli kiel la kutima
Observolisto
, kiel ekzemple prepari ĝin por provizoraj kontoj en IP-maskado (inkluzive de redirektado de uzantligiloj al kontribuaj paĝoj), grasigi paĝtitolojn, kaj malfermi ligilojn en redaktaj resumoj kaj etikedoj en novaj retumilaj langetoj.
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Ekzemple, la problemo, kie tutmondaj blokoj ne havis la eblon malebligi sendadon de retpoŝtoj, nun estas riparita kaj estos uzebla en la semajno de la 13-a de januaro.
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Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
roboto
Kontribui
Traduki
Esti helpata
Prikomenti
Aboni aŭ malaboni
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Last year, we captured light. This year, we’ll capture legacy.
In 2025, communities around the world shared the glow of Ramadan nights and the warmth of collective iftars. In 2026,
Wiki Loves Ramadan
is expanding, bringing more stories, more cultures, and deeper global connections across Wikimedia projects.
We invite you to explore the
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
Meta page
to learn how you can participate and
your community.
Photo campaign on
Wikimedia Commons
If you have questions about the project, please refer to the FAQs:
Early registration for updates is now open via the
Event page
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We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.
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The tray shown on
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[53]
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.
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. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.
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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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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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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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. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of.
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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.
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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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The "Informoj pri la paĝo" feature, which gives validating information about a page (
example
), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local
MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header
page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
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resolved last week
. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.
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Updates for technical contributors
There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
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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
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Two new wikis have been created:
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
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Updates for technical contributors
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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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.
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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.
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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 (
MediaWiki:Sitenotice
and
MediaWiki: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
MediaWiki:Minerva.css
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View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, an issue on
Special:RecentChanges
has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug that prevented
DiscussionTools
from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.
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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.
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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
Specialaĵo: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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in
Wikibase.cloud
has now been fixed.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools.
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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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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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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
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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.
[98]
On wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the number of pending changes shown on
Specialaĵo:Malfreŝe kontrolitaj paĝoj
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.
[99]
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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View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.
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Updates for technical contributors
A new special page,
Specialaĵo: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:
Specialaĵo:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color
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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
[103]
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.
[104]
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.,
Specialaĵo: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.
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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.
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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.
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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
[108]
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.
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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.
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The
API Portal
documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to
mediawiki.org
. Learn more on the
project page
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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.
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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!
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Plej lastaj
teknikaj novaĵoj
de la Vikimedia teknika komunumo. Bonvolu diri aliajn uzantojn pri ĉi tiuj ŝanĝoj. Ne ĉiuj ŝanĝoj afektos vin.
Tradukoj
disponeblas.
Updates for editors
La
etendaĵo de KampanjoEventoj
nun inkluzivas novan funkcion por starigi grupcelojn, ebligante organizantojn starigi kaj sekvi eventajn celojn kiel la nombro de kreitaj artikoloj kaj partoprenantaj kontribuantoj en reala tempo. Same, partoprenantoj povas labori por komunumaj celoj kaj vidi ilian kolektivan efikon dum la evento disvolviĝas. La funkcio nun disponeblas en ĉiuj vikimediaj vikioj. Lernu pli en
la dokumentaro
La nova
etikedoj por observlisto
funkcio (anoncita en
Teknikaj Novaĵoj 2026-07
) nun haveblas per VisualEditor, la fonta redaktilo, kaj la 'observstelo' (aŭ observligo, por haŭtoj kiuj ne havas stelsimbolon). Antaŭe eblis asigni etikedojn nur per
EditWatchlist
. En ĉiuj tri lokoj ĝi estas nova kampo post la eksvalidiĝa kampo.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were
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Ekzemple, la problemo kie la paĝoj de diskutado sur movebla aparato kun Parsoid estas neuzeblaj post malplena sekcia kaplinio, nun estas solvita.
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Updates for technical contributors
La
sub-referenca funkcio
, kiu permesas al redaktistoj aldoni detalojn al ekzistanta referenco sen duobligi ĝin, estos graduale enkondukita al
pli da vikioj
poste ĉi-jare. Vikioj uzantaj la
Reference Tooltips
ilon estas instigitaj ĝisdatigi sian version (kutime ĉe
MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js
kiel montrite
ĉi tie
) por certigi kongruecon. Aliaj iloj rilataj al referencoj ankaŭ povas esti influitaj.
[114]
Ĉiuj eldonaĵoj de Wikinews estos fermitaj kaj ŝanĝitaj al nur-lerta reĝimo je la 4-a de majo 2026. La enhavo restos alirebla, sed neniuj novaj redaktaĵoj aŭ artikoloj povas esti aldonitaj. Ĉi tiu fermo estis aprobita de la Estraro de Fiduciuloj de la Vikimedia Fondaĵo post longaj diskutoj.
Legu pli
La
Agado-API
havis plurajn formatojn por petata eligo. Unu el ili,
format=php
, estos baldau forigita. Bonvolu certigi, ke viaj skriptoj aŭ robotoj uzas la
JSON-formaton
. Ĉi tiu forigo devus influi tre malmultajn skriptojn kaj robotojn.
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La paĝo
Special:NamespaceInfo
nun inkluzivas nomspacajn kromnomojn. Ekzemple "WP" por la "Projekto" ("Vikipedio") nomspaco en la germana Vikipedio.
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Teknikaj novaĵoj
preparitaj de
verkantoj de Teknikaj Novaĵoj
kaj afiŝitaj de
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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.
[117]
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.
[118]
Updates for technical contributors
Starting later this week, Redaktantoj de misuzadaj filtriloj 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.
[119]
[120]
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.
[121]
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).
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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
[123]
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.
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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.
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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.
[126]
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
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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.
[128]
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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