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Dear Wikimedian,

We're happy to share that scholarship applications for WikiConference India 2026 are currently open and the deadline is just around the corner.

WikiConference India 2026 is the fourth edition of the national-level conference that brings together Wikimedians and stakeholders engaged in Indic-language Wikimedia projects and the broader open knowledge movement across India and South Asia. The conference will take place in Kochi, Kerala, from 4–6 September 2026.

  • Scholarship deadline: 15 April 2026, 11:59 PM IST

With only a few days left, we warmly encourage you to apply if you haven’t already and kindly request you to share this with your community and encourage others to apply.

For more information and regular updates, we encourage you to visit the conference Meta page.

Warm regards,
on behalf of the WikiConference India 2026 Organising Team

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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.
  • 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.
  • Recurrent item View all ৩০ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting later this week, অপব্যবহার ফিল্টার সম্পাদক who have the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
  • Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
  • Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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, ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, also known as CodeMirror 6, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd who developed many of the new features, including code folding, autocompletion, and linting.
  • A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.

Updates for editors

  • Reading lists is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
  • An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others.
  • On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more.
  • Recurrent item View all ১৫ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • As part of the promotion of CodeMirror from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
  • The mirrors.wikimedia.org service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more.
  • The image and oldimage table will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries access image or oldimage directly, please update them to use the file and filerevision table before 28 May.
  • Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
  • The Attribution API is now available as a beta. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia). Share your feedback on the project talk page.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Hello @Yahya

Thank you for your invaluable contributions to the Article guidance project. Your expertise as a collaborator has been essential in bringing the feature to the testing stage.

The Article guidance team is preparing to transfer the feature to Bangla Wikipedia. We invite you to translate and adapt as many outlines as you can. This step will help ensure the outlines are available in the feature once it is enabled in Bangla Wikipedia.

How to adapt an outline

  1. Pick an outline from this page (for example: Project:ArticleGuidance/Musician)
  2. Create a page in the "উইকিপিডিয়া" namespace using a name that suits the outline (for example, for the Musician outline, use the name: উইকিপিডিয়া:নিবন্ধ নির্দেশিকা/সঙ্গীতশিল্পী).
  3. Copy the outline content into the page you created. Make sure to include all tags exactly as they appear in the original page. Do not remove or alter them, as they are required for the feature to work correctly.
  4. Translate and adapt the content to fit Bangla Wikipedia's practices, and policies.
  5. Add a translated version of this notice at the top of the page:

    Please do not delete this page. This page provides an outline for articles about [insert name of the outline] as part of our ongoing effort to implement the Article Guidance feature on Bangla Wikipedia. If you have any questions or concerns, please share them on the Article guidance project talk page.

  6. Publish the page when you are finished.
  7. Once you have published it, you can share the page with me on this thread.

Our goal is to enable the Article Guidance feature on your Wikipedia in May. If you and other contributors can adapt several outlines by May 5, we will be on track for a successful launch.

Please let me know if you can help, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. Once again, thank you for your dedication to this project.

Best regards, UOzurumba (WMF) (আলাপ) ০১:৫০, ২৪ এপ্রিল ২০২৬ (ইউটিসি)উত্তর দিন