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Tech News: 2026-09
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Weekly highlight
Reference Check
has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
[1]
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.
[2]
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.
[3]
[4]
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 task that were
resolved last week
. For example, a bug that prevented
DiscussionTools
from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.
[5]
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.
[6]
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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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Weekly highlight
Wikipedia 25
Birthday mode
is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on
~2,500 articles
, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via
community configuration
on the local wiki.
Updates for editors
Sub-referencing
, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and
a couple of other wikis
. You can
try the feature
on these projects or on testwiki and
betawiki
. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been
published in a report
. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are
interested in becoming a pilot wiki
Paste Check
will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check
tags
all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via
Posebno: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.
[7]
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.
[8]
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.
[9]
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.
[10]
[11]
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.
[12]
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.
[13]
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.
[14]
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
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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
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.
[15]
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.
[16]
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.
[17]
Updates for technical contributors
API rate limiting update: To help ensure
fair use of infrastructure
, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see
Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits
The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and
give feedback
. You can also
sign up for usability tests
The
PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group
continued improvements to
Video2Commons
in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read
this update
to learn more.
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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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: 10 March 2026
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
Interview:
Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
News and notes:
Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Special report:
What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
In the media:
Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
Recent research:
To wiki, perchance to groki
Obituary:
Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Opinion:
Interface administrators and trusting trust
Technology report:
English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
Op-ed:
Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
Essay:
The pursuit of a button click
In focus:
Short descriptions: One year later
WikiProject report:
Unreferenced articles backlog drive
Community view:
Speaking of planning ...
Traffic report:
Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Crossword:
"It will never happen"
Comix:
BRIEn't
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This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue II, February 2026
Headlines
From the team
: GLAM in 2026 is calling to action!
Belgium report
: A photo safari through Wiki Loves Fashion & a rescue mission with Mission Gourmande!
Czech Republic report
: National Library overview of 2025
Italy report
: Cultural Heritage and Memory: 2026 GLAM Call and Executed Renaissance Edit-a-thon
New Zealand report
: Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students and an update on the NZBSI WiR
Poland report
: Wikipedia in Cultural Marketing at Crash Mondays Warsaw
Serbia report
: February in Wikimedia Serbia
Spain report
: Wikidata in the GLAM context II
Switzerland report
: Neocomensia, SAPA, Atelier Winterthur, GLAM-on-Tour Disentis
UK report
: New content in African and Asian languages
Biodiversity Heritage Library report
: Updates on work by BHLWiki Working Group members
Memory of the World report
: Focus on Indigenous issues
Calendar
: March's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2026-12
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Latest
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Updates for editors
The
Poboljšano isticanje sintakse
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
[18]
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.
[19]
On wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the number of pending changes shown on
Posebno:StarePregledaneStranice
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.
[20]
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'.
[21]
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.
[22]
Updates for technical contributors
A new special page,
Posebno: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:
Posebno:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color
[23]
Users of the
Poboljšano isticanje sintakse
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
[24]
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.
[25]
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.,
Posebno: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.
[26]
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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Weekly highlight
Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional
"Log in with passkey" button
will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The
screen recording
demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
All wikis will be read-only
for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at
15:00 UTC
. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests,
which happen twice a year
. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
Updates for editors
Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a
new Toolforge tool
. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
[27]
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.
[28]
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
[29]
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.
[30]
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.
[31]
[32]
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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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.
[33]
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The Signpost
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
News and notes:
Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
In the media:
AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
Community view:
Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
Disinformation report:
Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
WikiConference report:
WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
Obituary:
Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
Traffic report:
Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
Gallery:
Canadian Rangers participate in Operation
Enduring Encyclopedia
Comix:
n00bsitting
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Updates for editors
The
CampaignEvents extension
now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in
the documentation
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.
[34]
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.
[35]
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.
[36]
The
Special:NamespaceInfo
page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
[37]
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This Month in GLAM
: March 2026
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This Month in GLAM – Volume XVI, Issue III, March 2026
Headlines
From the team
: GLAM in Equinox
Albania report
: Wikigap 2026 in Tirana, Albania
Aruba report
: Celebrating 20 Years of Papiamentu/o Wikipedia
Bolivia report
: The Family Treasures Project Returns, with New GLAM Partners
Brazil report
: Wiki Loves Folklore Brazil defines six categories to represent Brazilian culture on Commons
Colombia report
: Architecture in the public domain in libraries in Nariño/Arquitectura en dominio público en bibliotecas nariñenses
Czech Republic report
: Main Wikimedian in Residence report for 2025 is here
Germany report
: Art History Loves Wiki 2026 – digital/local. collection loves wiki
India report
: Collaboration resumes with the British Library for Bangla Wikisource
Italy report
: 2026 winners projects
New Zealand report
: New Zealand Bioeconomy Science Institute Wikimedian in Residence update, a letter published in Nature & Architecture + Women NZ
North Macedonia report
: Wikimedia MKD's GLAM Highlights: Botany and Beyond
Portugal report
: March in Portugal
Serbia report
: March in Wikimedia Serbia
Sweden report
: Looking for similar images
Switzerland report
: GLAM Wiki Group, Donna, CoCreation PTT-Archive
UK report
: CILIP MDG 2026 Conference, Library meetups and the World's Enamels
Ukraine report
: Spring 2026 news from Ukraine – Wiki Loves Folklore & more #1Lib1Ref
USA report
: MoMA's International Traveling Exhibitions and Wikidata on the LD4 Arts Affinity Group April Community Call
Biodiversity Heritage Library report
: Updates on work by BHL-Wiki Working Group members
AvoinGLAM report
: Oulu Löyly
Memory of the World report
: Indigenous languages on the Main Page
Calendar
: April's GLAM events
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Tech News: 2026-16
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
Experienced editors are invited to
test
the
Article guidance
feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are
available
. Also, after reviewing
the outlines
, please provide feedback on the
project talk page
. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out
the video
explaining the feature.
Updates for editors
On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use
Special:ChangeContentModel
page to
create new pages with custom content models
, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check
Special:ListGroupRights
for the status of your wiki.
[38]
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.
[39]
Updates for technical contributors
Starting later this week, Abuse filter editors who have the
Poboljšano isticanje sintakse
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.
[40]
[41]
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.
[42]
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).
[43]
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2026-17
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Latest
tech news
from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
are available.
Weekly highlight
After two years of development,
Poboljšano isticanje sintakse
, 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
[44]
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.
[45]
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.
[46]
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.
[47]
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
[48]
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.
[49]
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
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: 21 April 2026
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News, reports and features from the English Wikipedia's newspaper
News and notes:
Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
In the media:
Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
Gallery:
March equinox
Traffic report:
Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
Comix:
Of skirts and articles
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