விக்சனரி:ஆலமரத்தடி - தமிழ் விக்சனரி

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! இந்த ஆலமரத்தடியில் விக்சனரி குறித்த செய்திகள், அறிவிப்புகள், கொள்கை விளக்கங்கள், புது யோசனைகள், உதவிக் குறிப்புகள், தொழில் நுட்ப விவாதங்கள் இடம் பெறும். இந்தப் பக்கத்தில் உள்ள பழைய, முடிவடைந்த கலந்துரையாடல்களை,
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யே, ஆலமரத்தடி ஆகும்.எனவே, அடிக்கடி தவறாமல் காண வாரீர்!
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இரண்டு, மூன்று சொற்களை இணைத்து உருவாக்கப்படும் கூட்டுச் சொற்களுக்கு பொதுவாக எந்த அகராதியிலும் பொருளைத் தனியாகத் தருவதில்லை. ஆங்கில விக்சனியிலும் இதே கொள்கைதான். ஆனால், நாம் ஏன் தமிழ் விக்சனரியில்
competency based medical education
mild mental retardation
small group discussion
முதலிய பக்கங்களை உருவாக்குகிறோம்? சொற்குவை, த. இ. க. அகராதி ஆகியன நவீன பயன்பாட்டிற்கு ஏற்றவையா? இப்படியே போனால், I walked, she sang beautifully என சொற்றொடர்களுக்கு அகராதிப் பக்கங்களை உருவாக்குவோமா? நான் மேலே காட்டாகக் கொடுத்துள்ள பக்கங்களுக்கும், இதேபோன்ற இன்னும் பல பக்கங்களுக்கும் ஆங்கில விக்சனரியில்கூட பக்கங்கள் இல்லை என்பதை கவனிக்கவும். நன்றி -
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இப்பொழுது தான் கவனித்தேன். உங்களின் எண்ணத்தினை வெளிப்படுத்தியமைக்கு நன்றி.
பகுப்பு:ஆங்கிலம்-கூட்டுச்சொல் தலைப்புகள்
என்பனவற்றில் பல தேவையற்ற சொற்கள் உள்ளன. தமிழ்நாடு அரசு அளித்த நன்கொடையாகச் சொற்களை அளித்த போது, அரசிடம் நல்லிணக்கம் வேண்டி, 2010 ஆம் ஆண்டில் அப்படியே பதிவேற்றினோம். காண்க:
விக்சனரி பேச்சு:த. இ. ப. சொற்கள் பதிவேற்றத் திட்டம்
அந்த நல்லிணக்க 2015 ஆம் ஆண்டில் நல்ல பலன் அளித்தது. காண்க
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எனது பிரஞ்சு மொழி பயிற்றுநர் காப்புரிமை குறித்த பயிற்சி அளித்த போது, மிகவும் புகழ்ந்தார். ஏனெனில், எந்த ஒரு மேற்கத்திய நாட்டிலும், அரசு காப்புரிமையான நூல்களை விலைக்கு வாங்கி, காப்புரிமையற்ற நூல்களாக வெளியிடுவதில்லை. எனவே, முழுமையாக நீக்காமல், எவற்றை நீக்குதல் நல்லது என ஒரு திட்டப்பக்கத்தில் முதலில் எழுதுக. பின், வழமை போல பிறருக்கு அறிவித்து, பின்னூட்டம் பெற்று நீக்கவிடலாம். விக்சனரிக்கு வெளியே நடக்கும் நிகழ்வுகளை இங்கு ஆங்கிலத்தில் வரும் அறிவிப்புகளைப் பாருங்கள். தேவையானதோ, தேவையற்றதோ இந்த விக்கிநடைமுறையை நாம் பின்பற்றுதல் நன்று.
விக்சனரி:ஆங்கில கூட்டுச்சொல் தலைப்புகளைப் பேணுதல்
என்ற தலைப்பில் திட்டப்பக்கம் ஒன்று தொடங்கி, உங்களின் முன்மொழிவுகளைத் தாருங்கள். வேறு திட்டப்பெயரினை வைத்தாலும் சரி. அதனை அனைவருக்கும் தெரியும் செய்ய, நான் உங்களுடன் இணைந்து செயற்படுவேன். பத்து நொடிக்கு ஒரு சமூகம் ஏற்ற தேவையற்ற சொல்லை நீக்க என்னால் இயலும்.
உழவன்
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02:53, 4 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Selection of the U4C Building Committee
தொகு
The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected.
Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki
--
UCoC Project Team
, 04:21, 27 மே 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-22
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#7 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey
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Flame graphs are now available in WikimediaDebug.
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There is now a toolbar search popup in the visual editor. You can trigger it by typing
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externallinks
database table.
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Last week, search was broken on Commons and Wikidata for 23 hours.
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Hello there,
We are glad to announce
the new members and advisors of the Elections Committee
. The
Elections Committee
assists with the design and implementation of the process to select Community- and Affiliate-Selected trustees for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. After an open nomination process, the strongest candidates spoke with the Board and four candidates were asked to join the Elections Committee. Four other candidates were asked to participate as advisors.
பரிசீலனைக்காக பெயர்களை சமர்ப்பித்த சமூக உறுப்பினர்களுக்கு நன்றி. தேர்தல் குழுக்களுடன் இணைந்து பணியாற்ற ஆவலுடன் காத்திருக்கிறோம்
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees,
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இருவழக்குகள் கொண்ட சொற்கள்
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பல நூறு ஆங்கிலக் கலைச்சொற்களுக்கு இந்தியாவிலும் இலங்கையிலும் தமிழில் இரு வழக்குகள் இருப்பதை அறிய முடிகிறது. அத்தகைய சொற்களை ஆங்கிலத்தை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டு
பகுப்பு:இருவழக்குகள் கொண்ட சொற்கள்
என்ற வகையில் கொண்டுவரலாமெனப் பரிந்துரைக்கிறேன். இத்தலைப்பு சரியாக இருக்குமா? -
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Tech News: 2023-28
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Global abuse filters
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global request for comments
சிறப்பு:BlockedExternalDomains
is a new tool for administrators to help fight spam. It provides a clearer interface for blocking plain domains (and their subdomains), is more easily searchable, and is faster for the software to process for each edit on the wiki. It does not support regex (for complex cases), nor URL path-matching, nor the
MediaWiki:Spam-whitelist
, but otherwise it replaces most of the functionalities of the existing
MediaWiki:Spam-blacklist
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The WikiEditor extension was updated. It includes some of the most frequently used features of wikitext editing. In the past, many of its messages could only be translated by administrators, but now all regular translators on translatewiki can translate them. Please check
the state of WikiEditor localization into your language
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சிறப்பு:LinkSearch
and its API counterparts will now search for all of the URL provided in the query. It used to be only the first 60 characters. This feature was requested fifteen years ago.
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There is an experiment with a
ChatGPT
plugin. This is to show users where the information is coming from when they read information from Wikipedia. It has been tested by Wikimedia Foundation staff and other Wikimedians. Soon all ChatGPT plugin users can use the Wikipedia plugin. This is the same plugin which was mentioned in
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proposed Third-party resources policy
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19:54, 10 சூலை 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-29
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We are now serving 1% of all global user traffic from
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read more technical details
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follow the progress of this work
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18 July
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19 July
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MediaWiki
system messages
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fallback chain
separately. For example, English Wikipedia doesn't have to create
en-ca
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en-gb
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action=growthsetmentorstatus
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23:08, 17 சூலை 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-30
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On July 18, the Wikimedia Foundation launched a survey about the
technical decision making process
for people who do technical work that relies on software that is maintained by the Foundation or affiliates. If this applies to you,
please take part in the survey
. The survey will be open for three weeks, until August 7. You can find more information in
the announcement e-mail on wikitech-l
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25 July
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Deploying the Phonos in-line audio player to your Wiki
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Hello
Apologies if this message is not in your language,
⧼Please help translate⧽
to your language.
This wiki will soon be able to use the
inline audio player
implemented by the
Phonos
extension. This is part of fulfilling a wishlist proposal of providing
audio links that play on click
With the inline audio player, you can add text-to-speech audio snippets to wiki pages by simply using a tag:

The above tag will show the text next to a speaker icon, and clicking on it will play the audio instantly without taking you to another page. A common example where you can use this feature is in adding pronunciation to words as illustrated on the
English Wiktionary
below.
{{
audio
en
En-uk-English.oga
Audio (UK)
}}
Could become:

The inline audio player will be available in your wiki in 2 weeks time; in the meantime, we would like you to
read about the features
and give us feedback or ask questions about it in this
talk page
Thank you!
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02:26, 27 சூலை 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-31
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updated documentation
to develop global Lua modules and templates.
The tag filter on
சிறப்பு:NewPages
and revision history pages can now be inverted. For example, you can hide edits that were made using an automated tool.
The Wikipedia
ChatGPT
plugin experiment can now be used by ChatGPT users who can use plugins. You can participate in a
video call
if you want to talk about this experiment or similar work.
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It was not possible to generate a PDF for pages with non-Latin characters in the title, for the last two weeks. This has now been fixed.
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Georgian Wikipedia
Kara-Kalpak Wikipedia
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Khmer Wikipedia
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Tech News: 2023-32
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⧼Mobile-frontend-mobile-option-amc⧽
" in your settings and use the "
Edit full page
" button in the "
மேலும்
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21:21, 7 ஆகத்து 2023 (UTC)
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தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா இருபதாண்டுகள் நிறைவுக் கூடல்
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தமிழ் விக்சனரி பயனர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் வணக்கம்!
தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியாவின் 20 ஆண்டுகள் நிறைவினைக் கொண்டாடுவதற்காக தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியர்கள் சந்திக்கும் நிகழ்வு திட்டமிடப்பட்டுள்ளது. இந்த நிகழ்வானது செப்டம்பர் 24, 2023 (ஞாயிறு) அன்று தஞ்சாவூர் நகரில் நடக்கவிருக்கிறது. இந்த நிகழ்வு குறித்த விவரங்களுக்கும், கலந்துகொள்வதற்கான விண்ணப்பப் படிவத்திற்கும்
இங்கு
காணுங்கள்.
தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா, விக்சனரி, விக்கிமூலம் உள்ளிட்ட தமிழ் விக்கித்திட்டங்களில் பங்களிக்கும் பயனர்கள் அனைவரும் விண்ணப்பிக்கலாம்; நன்றி! -
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Tech News: 2023-33
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The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's
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15 August
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16 August
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Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
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Latin Wikipedia
Ladino Wikipedia
Luxembourgish Wikipedia
Lak Wikipedia
Lezghian Wikipedia
Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia
Ganda Wikipedia
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Ligurian Wikipedia
Lombard Wikipedia
Lingala Wikipedia
Latgalian Wikipedia
Latvian Wikipedia
Maithili Wikipedia
Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia
Moksha Wikipedia
Malagasy Wikipedia
Armenian Wikipedia
Kyrgyz Wikipedia
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A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a
search for all existing instances and how to update them
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05:59, 15 ஆகத்து 2023 (UTC)
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விக்கி மாரத்தான் நிகழ்வு
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தமிழ் விக்சனரி பயனர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் வணக்கம்!
தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா தளத்தில், வாய்ப்பு கிடைக்கும் ஆண்டுகளில் விக்கி மாரத்தான் எனும் பெயரில் 24 மணிநேர தொகுப்பு நிகழ்வை (இணையவழி) நடத்துகின்றோம். இந்தாண்டில் தமிழ் விக்சனரியிலும் இந்த நிகழ்வை நடத்தலாமா என்பது குறித்து கருத்துகளை தெரிவிக்குமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறேன்; நன்றி! -
Selvasivagurunathan m
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10:32, 16 ஆகத்து 2023 (UTC)
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Selvasivagurunathan m
விக்சனரி நடத்தினால் நான் கண்டிப்பாக கலந்து கொள்வேன் ஆதலால் முழு
விருப்பம்
மற்றும்
ஆதரவு
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11:34, 16 ஆகத்து 2023 (UTC)
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எத்தகையத் தரவுகளைக் கொண்டு இந்நிகழ்வு நடக்க உள்ளது? 2007 முதல் பல விக்சனரி திட்டத்தில் பலர் ஈடுபட்டு உள்ளதை கவனித்து கற்று வருகிறேன். எனவே, இந்த நிகழ்வில் தரவேற்றம் நடைபெறும். அவை தரமாக இருக்க எந்த பயனர் எந்த தரவுகளை இந்நிகழ்வில் ஏற்றுகிறார் என்பதே மிக மிக முக்கியம். அறியத் தருக. பெரும்பாலான இதுபோன்ற நிகழ்வுகளில் புதியவர் அதிகம் கலந்து கொள்வர். அதனால் துப்புரவு பணிகள் கூடுதலாக வாய்ப்புண்டு.
எனவே தரவுகளை அணியப்படுத்திக்கொண்டு செயற்படுவதே விக்சனரி வளர்ச்சிக்கு நல்லது. எனவே வேண்டாம்.
--
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02:13, 9 செப்டம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
தகவலுழவன்
வேண்டாம் என்பதைவிட அனைத்திலும் அணியமாகிக் கொண்டு நடத்தலாம் என்பது சரியாக இருக்கும். ஏனெனில் தரவேற்றம் என்பது எவ்வளவு முக்கியமோ அதைவிடத் தூய்மை செய்த தரவுகளைத் தரவேற்றம் செய்வது மிக முக்கியம். தரவேற்றிய பின்பு தூய்மைப்படுத்தலுக்கு நேரத்தை வீண் செய்வதைத் தவிர்க்கலாம். அந்த நேரம் மிச்சமாகும் பொழுது ஆய்வு சார்ந்த செயல்பாடுகளை நோக்கிச் செயல்படலாமல்லவா? ஆகையால் இவற்றைக் கருத்தில் கொண்டு திட்டம் உருவாக்குவது சாலச் சிறந்தது. முயற்சிக்குப் பாராட்டுக்கள்.--
த.சத்தியராஜ்
பேச்சு
) 02:55, 11 செப்டம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
காப்புரிமை அற்ற தரவுகள் பதிவேற்றம் செய்வதை உறுதிசெய்த பின் நடத்தலாம்.--
TVA ARUN
பேச்சு
) 06:23, 14 செப்டம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
த.சத்தியராஜ்
விக்கி மாரத்தான் நிகழ்வு குறித்த சரியான புரிதலுக்கு
இங்கு
காணுங்கள். -
Selvasivagurunathan m
பேச்சு
) 10:23, 11 செப்டம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
TVA ARUN
தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் நடத்தப்படும் மாரத்தான் குறித்து முழுமையாக புரிந்துகொள்ள
இந்தத் திட்டப் பக்கத்தைக்
காணுங்கள். குறிப்பாக இந்த இணைப்பில், திட்டப் பக்கத்தின் கீழ்ப்பகுதியில் இருக்கும் "பெற்ற பலன்கள்" எனும் தலைப்பிலமைந்த புள்ளிவிவரங்களை காணுங்கள். விக்கி மாரத்தான் என்பது ஒரு பொதுவானத் திட்டம். இணையம் வழியாக கூடி, ஒரு உற்சாக மனநிலையுடன் அவரவர்க்கு இயன்ற பங்களிப்புகளை அந்நாளில் தருவது இந்த நிகழ்வாகும். இதுவரை நடந்த மாரத்தான்கள் அனைத்தும் நல்ல முறையில் நடந்துள்ளன. தேவையற்ற விசயங்களை விக்கி மாரத்தான் நிகழ்வின்போது எந்தவொருப் பயனரும் செய்வதில்லை. தொகுப்புகளை ஒருவரோ, அல்லது இருவரோ அந்நாளில் monitor செய்தாலே போதுமானது! நல்ல விசயங்களை இன்று நடத்த இயலாவிட்டாலும், பின்னொரு நாளில் அது இன்னொருவரால் நடத்தப்படும்; இதுவே நியதி!!-
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முதற் பக்கத்தில் அகரவரிசையில் பொருள் தேடல் பகுதியில் பன்மொழி எழுத்துக்களை இணைக்க வேண்டுகோள்
தொகு
சமீபத்திய கருத்து:
2 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்
1 கருத்து
விவாதத்தில் 1 நபர்
முதற் பக்கத்தில் உள்ள அகரவரிசையில் பொருள் தேட கீழுள்ள எழுத்துக்களைச் சொடுக்குக பகுதியில் தற்போது தமிழ், தமிழ்-கிரந்தம், இலத்தீன் எழுத்துக்கள் உள்ளன. விக்சனரி என்பது ஒரு பன்மொழி கற்றற்ற அகரமுதலி என்பதால் அப்பகுதியில் பன்மொழி எழுத்துக்களை இணைத்தால் சிறப்பாக இருக்கும் என எண்ணுகிறேன். பன்மொழி எழுத்துக்கள்
மலையாள விக்சனரியிலும்
உள்ளது தங்கள் கருத்துக்களை
இங்கே
தெரிவிக்கவும் உங்கள் கருத்துக்கள் வரவேற்கப்படுகின்றன. நன்றி
Sriveenkat
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09:43, 17 ஆகத்து 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-34
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a Wiktionary in
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Tech News: 2023-35
தொகு
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As part of the changes for the
better diff handling of paragraph splits
, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to
group0
and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis.
All
சிறப்பு:Contributions
pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date.
Wikisource users can now use the
prpbengalicurrency
label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the

tag.
Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "
Enable the visual editor
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பீட்டா பண்புகள்
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Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor
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The
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30 August
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New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards
idm.wikimedia.org
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Further information about the new system is available
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Wikimedia URL Shortener
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The removal of the
DoubleWiki extension
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<=>
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the phabricator task
A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page).
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Review the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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மேலதிக மொழிகள்
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Hello all,
I am pleased to share the next step in the
Universal Code of Conduct
work. The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) draft charter
is now ready for your review.
The
Enforcement Guidelines
require a
Building Committee
form to draft a charter that outlines procedures and details for a global committee to be called the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
. Over the past few months, the U4C Building Committee worked together as a group to discuss and draft the U4C charter. The U4C Building Committee welcomes feedback about the draft charter now through 22 September 2023. After that date, the U4C Building Committee will revise the charter as needed and a community vote will open shortly afterward.
Join the conversation during the
conversation hours
or on
Meta-wiki
Best,
RamzyM (WMF)
, on behalf of the U4C Building Committee,
15:36, 28 ஆகத்து 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-37
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Contribution quality predictions
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User intent predictions
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12 September
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13 September
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The
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one of their listening sessions
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As part of the changes for the
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Your wiki will be in read-only soon
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இச்செய்தியை பிறிதொரு மொழியில் படிக்கவும்
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விக்கிமீடியா நிறுவனம்
, தனது முதல் மற்றும் இரண்டாம் நிலை தரவு மையத்திற்கிடையேயான மாற்றத்தை சோதனை செய்ய உள்ளது.
ஒரு பேரிடருக்கு பின்னும் விக்கிப்பீடியா மற்றும் இதர விக்கிமீடியா விக்கிகள் இணைப்பில் இருப்பதை இது உறுதிப்படுத்தும். எல்லாம் வேலை செய்கிறது என்பதை உறுதி செய்ய, விக்கிமீடியா தொழில்நுட்ப துறை ஒரு திட்டமிடப்பட்ட சோதனையை செய்ய வேண்டும். இந்த சோதனை, அவர்களால் ஒரு தரவு மையத்திலிருந்து மற்றொன்றிக்கு நம்பகமாக மாற இயலுமா என்பதை காட்டும். இந்த சோதனைக்காக பல அணிகள் தயாராக வேண்டும் மற்றும் ஏதேனும் எதிர்பாராத சிக்கல்களை சரி செய்ய ஆயத்தமாக இருக்க வேண்டும்.
எல்லா போக்குவரத்தும்
20 செப்டெம்பர்
அன்று மாற்றப்படும். சோதனை தொடங்கும் நேரம்:
14:00 UTC
நல்வாய்பற்ற விதத்தில்,
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உள்ள சில குறைபாடுகள் காரணமாக, மாற்றம் செய்யப்படும் போது எல்லா தொகுப்பு செயல்களும் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டும். இந்த இடையூறுக்கு நாங்கள் வருந்துகிறோம். மேலும் இவற்றை வருங்காலத்தில் குறைப்பதற்கு முயல்கிறோம்.
நீங்கள் ஒரு குறுகிய காலத்திற்கு அனைத்து விக்கிகளையும் படிக்க முடியும், ஆனால் தொகுக்க முடியாது.
செவ்வாய்,
புதன் 20 செப்டெம்பர் 2023
நீங்கள் அதிக பட்சமாக ஒரு மணி நேரத்திற்கு தொகுக்க முடியாது.
இந்த நேரங்களில் நீங்கள் தொகுக்கவோ அல்லது சேமிக்கவோ முயன்றால், நீங்கள் ஒரு பிழை செய்தியை காண்பீர். இந்த நிமிடங்களில் எந்த தொகுப்பும் தொலையாது என நம்புகிறோம், ஆனால் எங்களால் அதை உறுதி செய்ய இயலாது. நீங்கள் அந்த பிழை செய்தியை கண்டால், தயவு செய்து எல்லாம் இயல்பு நிலைக்கு திரும்பும் வரை காத்திருக்கவும். அதன் பின் நீங்கள் உங்கள் தொகுப்பை சேமிக்க முடியும். இருப்பினும், முன்னெச்சரிக்கையாக உங்கள் மாற்றங்களை ஓர் பிரதி எடுத்து கொள்வதை நாங்கள் பரிந்துரைக்கிரோம்.
பிற விளைவுகள்
பின்புல வேலைகள் மந்தமாக இருக்கும். மேலும் அவற்றில் சில கைவிடப்படலாம். சிகப்பு இணைப்புகள் வழக்கமான வேகத்தில் புதுப்பிக்கப்படாமல் போகலாம். நீங்கள் வேறு எங்கேனும் இணைக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு கட்டுரையை உருவாக்கினால், அந்த இணைப்பு வழக்கத்தை விட அதிக நேரம் சிகப்பாகவே இருக்கும். சில நீண்ட நேரம் ஓடும் துணுக்குகள் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டி இருக்கும்.
மற்ற வாரங்களைப் போலவே மூல பயன்கொள் நடக்கும் என்று நாங்கள் எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம். இருப்பினும், சில சூழ்நிலைகளில் செயல்பாட்டிற்கு பிறகு தேவைப்பட்டால் மூல முடக்கம் சரியான நேரத்தில் நடக்கலாம்.
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தேவைப்பட்டால் இந்த திட்டம் ஒத்திவைக்கப்படலாம். நீங்கள்
அட்டவணையை wikitech.wikimedia.org இல் படிக்கலாம்
. எந்த மாற்றங்களும் அட்டவணையில் அறிவிக்கப்படும். இது குறித்து மேலும் அறிவிப்புகள் இருக்கும். இந்த செயல்பாடு நடப்பதற்கு 30 நிமிடங்களுக்கு முன்பு அனைத்து விக்கிகளிலும் ஒரு பேனர் காண்பிக்கப்படும்.
தயவு செய்து இந்த தகவலை உங்கள் சமூகத்துடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளுங்கள்.
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Tech News: 2023-38
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MediaWiki now has a
stable interface policy for frontend code
that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
19 September
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
20 September
. It will be on all wikis from
21 September
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).
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 20.
This is planned at 14:00 UTC.
All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the
Wikimedia URL Shortener
Future changes
The team investigating the Graph Extension posted
a proposal for reenabling it
and they need your input.
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19:19, 18 செப்டம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-39
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The Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users.
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The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
26 September
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
27 September
. It will be on all wikis from
28 September
calendar
).
The ResourceLoader
mediawiki.ui
modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a
guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex
for any tools that use it. More
details are available in the task
and your questions are welcome there.
Gadget definitions will have a
new "namespaces" option
. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.
Future changes
New variables will be added to
AbuseFilter
global_account_groups
and
global_account_editcount
. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time.
Meetings
You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on
27 October at 17:00 (UTC)
. See
details and how to join
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16:51, 26 செப்டம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-40
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user preference
for "
எப்போதும்
பாதுகாப்பான பயன் முறையை
இயக்கு
". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets.
Gadget definitions now have a
new "
contentModels
" option
. The option takes a list of page content models, like
wikitext
or
css
. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
3 October
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
4 October
. It will be on all wikis from
5 October
calendar
).
Future changes
The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See
how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki
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Tech News: 2023-41
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One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
in
Fon
w:fon:
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
10 October
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
11 October
. It will be on all wikis from
12 October
calendar
).
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (
Swahili Wikipedia
Walloon Wikipedia
Waray Wikipedia
Wolof Wikipedia
Kalmyk Wikipedia
Xhosa Wikipedia
Mingrelian Wikipedia
Yiddish Wikipedia
Yoruba Wikipedia
Zhuang Wikipedia
Zeelandic Wikipedia
Min Nan Wikipedia
Zulu Wikipedia
). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations"
at the Growth team deployment table
. You can
learn more about this feature.
In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID
#page-actions
will be replaced with
#p-views
. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are
details and search-links in the task
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== Opportunities open for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission, and the Case Review Committee ==
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Hi everyone! The
Affiliations Committee
(AffCom),
Ombuds commission
(OC), and the
Case Review Committee
(CRC) are looking for new members. These volunteer groups provide important structural and oversight support for the community and movement. People are encouraged to nominate themselves or encourage others they feel would contribute to these groups to apply. There is more information about the roles of the groups, the skills needed, and the opportunity to apply on the
Meta-wiki page
On behalf of the Committee Support team,
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Tech News: 2023-42
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The
Unified login
system's edge login should now be fixed for some browsers (Chrome, Edge, Opera). This means that if you visit a new sister project wiki, you should be logged in automatically without the need to click "Log in" or reload the page. Feedback on whether it's working for you is welcome.
Edit notices
are now available within the MobileFrontend/Minerva skin. This feature was inspired by
the gadget on English Wikipedia
. See more details in
T316178
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
17 October
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
18 October
. It will be on all wikis from
19 October
calendar
).
Future changes
In 3 weeks, in the Vector 2022 skin, code related to
addPortletLink
and
#p-namespaces
that was deprecated one year ago will be removed. If you notice tools that should appear next to the "Discussion" tab are then missing, please tell the gadget's maintainers to see
instructions in the Phabricator task
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Review and comment on the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package
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Dear all,
Please review and comment on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules package from now until 29 October 2023. The selection rules package was based on older versions by the Elections Committee and will be used in the 2024 Board of Trustees selection. Providing your comments now will help them provide a smoother, better Board selection process.
More on the Meta-wiki page
Best,
Katie Chan
Chair of the Elections Committee
01:13, 17 அக்டோபர் 2023 (UTC)
Tech News: 2023-43
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Recent changes
There is a new
Language and internationalization newsletter
, written quarterly. It contains updates on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects, and related support work.
Source map support has been enabled on all wikis. When you open the debugger in your browser's developer tools, you should be able to see the unminified JavaScript source code.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
24 October
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
25 October
. It will be on all wikis from
26 October
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23:16, 23 அக்டோபர் 2023 (UTC)
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The Vector 2022 skin as the default in three weeks?
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• Please tell other users about these changes
Hello. I'm writing on behalf of the
Wikimedia Foundation Web team
In two weeks, we would like to make the Vector 2022 skin the default on this wiki.
பொதுவான விருப்பங்கள்
If you prefer keeping the current skin
select "Vector legacy (2010)" on
the appearance tab of the global preferences
and save the change. We encourage you to give the new skin a try, though.
Since I last came to you with this question, many things have changed. The skin is now the default on most Wikipedias, and all logos are done! We have also made some tweaks in the skin itself. Below is the text I've sent to you once, but I'm sending it again, just slightly edited, for those who haven't seen it.
If you know what this is about, jump straight to the section "Our plan":
It would become the default for all logged-out users, and also all logged-in users who currently use Vector legacy as a
local
(but not global) preference. Logged-in users can at any time switch to any other skin. No changes are expected for these skins.
Top of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
A section of an article
Vector legacy (current default)
Vector 2022
About the skin
தொகு
Slides to our Wikimania 2022 presentation.
You may also listen to the recording on YouTube (in English)
[Why is a change necessary]
When the current default skin was created, it reflected the needs of the readers and editors as these were 14 years ago. Since then, new users have begun using the Internet and Wikimedia projects in different ways.
The old Vector does not meet their needs
[Objective]
The objective for the Vector 2022 skin is to make the interface more welcoming and comfortable for readers and useful for advanced users. It introduces a series of changes that aim to improve problems new and existing readers and editors were having with the old skin. It draws inspiration from previous user requests, the
Community Wishlist Surveys
, and gadgets and scripts. The work helped our code follow the standards and improve all other skins.
The PHP code in the other available skins has been reduced by 75%
. The project has also focused on making it easier to support gadgets and use APIs.
[Changes in a nutshell]
The skin introduces changes that improve readability and usability. The new skin does not remove any functionality currently available on the Vector skin.
The limited width and pin-able menus allow to adjust the interface to the screen size, and focus on editing or reading. Logged-in and logged-out users may use a toggle button to keep the full width, though.
The sticky header makes it easier to find tools that editors use often. It decreases scrolling to the top of the page by 16%.
The new table of contents makes it easier to navigate to different sections. Readers and editors jump to different sections of the page 50% more than with the old table of contents. It also looks a bit different on talk pages.
The new search bar is easier to find and makes it easier to find the correct search result from the list. This increased the amount of searches started by 30% on the tested wikis.
The skin does not negatively affect pageviews, edit rates, or account creation. There is evidence of increases in pageviews and account creation across partner communities.
[Customize this skin]
It's possible to configure and personalize our changes. We support volunteers who create new gadgets and user scripts. Check out
the repository
for a list of currently available customizations and changes, or add your own.
Our plan
தொகு
If no large concerns are raised, we plan on deploying on 14 November
. If you'd like to ask our team anything, if you have questions, concerns, or additional thoughts, please comment in any language. If this is the first comment to my message, make sure to ping me. We will gladly answer! Also, check out
our FAQ
. Thank you!
SGrabarczuk (WMF)
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01:09, 26 அக்டோபர் 2023 (UTC)
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Hello
, the change will be done later today. Please ping me or write on my talk page if you have any comments!
நன்றி!
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16:58, 29 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-44
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Recent changes
The Structured Content team, as part of its project of
improving UploadWizard on Commons
, made some UX improvements to the upload step of choosing own vs not own work (
T347590
), as well as to the licensing step for own work (
T347756
).
The Design Systems team has released version 1.0.0 of
Codex
, the new design system for Wikimedia. See the
full announcement about the release of Codex 1.0.0
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
31 October
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
1 November
. It will be on all wikis from
2 November
calendar
).
Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a
library
. For a brief period on 2 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for many languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can
Starting November 1, the impact module (Special:Impact) will be upgraded by the Growth team. The new impact module shows newcomers more data regarding their impact on the wiki. It was tested by a few wikis during the last few months.
Future changes
There is
a proposed plan
for re-enabling the Graph Extension. You can help by reviewing this proposal and
sharing what you think about it
The WMF is working on making it possible for administrators to
edit MediaWiki configuration directly
. This is similar to previous work on Special:EditGrowthConfig.
A technical RfC is running until November 08, where you can provide feedback.
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23:21, 30 அக்டோபர் 2023 (UTC)
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மாநாடுகளில் விக்கி அரங்கம்
தொகு
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ஐந்தாண்டுகளுக்கு முன் சில புத்தகத் திருவிழாக்களில் விக்கிமீடிய அரங்கங்கள் அமைத்திருந்தோம். அதன் பின்னர் அரங்கங்கள் அமைக்க நாம் ஏதும் முயலவில்லை. தற்போது சில வாய்ப்புகள் வந்துள்ளன. அடுத்த ஆண்டு பிப்ரவரி மாதம் சென்னையில் பன்னாட்டுக்
கணினித்தமிழ்
மாநாடு மற்றும் இம்மாதம் மதுரையில்
தமிழ் இணைய மாநாடு
ம் நடைபெறுகின்றன. இரண்டு மாநாடுகளிலும் விக்கிமீடியத் திட்டங்களைப் பரப்புரை செய்ய வாய்ப்புள்ளது. ஆர்வமுள்ளவர்கள் ஆய்வுக் கட்டுரைகளை விக்கித் திட்டங்கள் குறித்து எழுதலாம். சென்னை மாநாட்டிற்கு அரங்கம் அமைக்கவும் இணை அமர்வுகள் நடத்தவும் யாரேனும் ஆர்வம் கொண்டால், இக்கருத்தை ஏற்பாட்டுக்குழுவில் முன்வைக்கிறேன். ஆனால் அதற்கு நாட்களுள்ளன. குறுகிய காலத்தில் நடக்கவுள்ள மதுரை மாநாட்டில் விக்கிமீடிய அல்லது விக்கிப்பீடிய அரங்கம் அமைக்க யாரேனும் (குறிப்பாக உள்ளூர் பயனர்கள்) ஆர்வம் கொண்டால் இரு நாட்களில் தெரிவிக்க வேண்டுகிறேன். ஒரு நாள் பயிலரங்கினை மட்டும் மதுரை மாநாட்டில் நடத்த திட்டமிட்டு வருகிறோம். சென்னை மாநாடு குறித்துக் கூடுதல் விவரங்களை வரும் நாட்களில் தெரிவிக்கிறேன். -
Neechalkaran
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Neechalkaran
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05:16, 3 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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மதுரை மாநாட்டில் ஒரு நாள்
பயிலரங்காக
நடத்தினோம். விக்சனரி குறித்த சிறிய அறிமுகமே கொடுக்கமுடிந்தது. கணித்தமிழ்24 பற்றித் திட்டமிட மேல்விக்கியில்
திட்டப்பக்கத்தைத்
தொடங்கியுள்ளேன். வேறு என்ன செய்யலாம் எப்படிச் செய்யலாம் என்பது குறித்த உரையாடல்களை அங்கே நிகழ்த்துவோம். -
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05:50, 23 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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மகிழ்ச்சி. தொடர் முன்னெடுப்புகளுக்கு அகமகிழ்கிறேன். பிறரோடு நானும் இணைந்து செயற்பட விருப்பம்.
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12:23, 23 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-45
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In the Vector 2022 skin, the default font-size of a number of navigational elements (tagline, tools menu, navigational links, and more) has been increased slightly to match the font size used in page content.
Problems
Last week, there was a problem displaying some recent edits on
a few wikis
, for 1-6 hours. The edits were saved but not immediately shown. This was due to a database problem.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
7 November
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
8 November
. It will be on all wikis from
9 November
calendar
).
The Growth team will reassign newcomers from former mentors to
the currently active mentors
. They have also changed the notification language to be more user-friendly.
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21:05, 6 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-46
தொகு
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2 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்
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விவாதத்தில் 1 நபர்
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Recent changes
Four new wikis have been created:
a Wikipedia in
Moroccan Amazigh
w:zgh:
a Wikipedia in
Dagaare
w:dga:
a Wikipedia in
Toba Batak
w:bbc:
a Wikiquote in
Banjar
q:bjn:
Problems
Last week, users who previously visited Meta-Wiki or Wikimedia Commons and then became logged out on those wikis could not log in again. The problem is now resolved.
Last week, some pop-up dialogs and menus were shown with the wrong font size. The problem is now resolved.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
14 November
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
15 November
. It will be on all wikis from
16 November
calendar
).
Future changes
Reference Previews are coming to many wikis as a default feature. They are popups for references, similar to the
PagePreviews feature
You can opt out
of seeing them. If you are
using the gadgets
Reference Tooltips or Navigation Popups, you won’t see Reference Previews.
Deployment
is planned for November 22, 2023.
Canary (also known as heartbeat) events will be produced into
Wikimedia event streams
from December 11. Streams users are advised to filter out these events, by discarding all events where
meta.domain == "canary"
. Updates to
Pywikibot
or
wikimedia-streams
will discard these events by default.
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23:52, 13 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-47
தொகு
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2 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்
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விவாதத்தில் 1 நபர்
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There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "
Add a link
" (
Quechua Wikipedia
Romansh Wikipedia
Romani Wikipedia
Rundi Wikipedia
Aromanian Wikipedia
Tarandíne Wikipedia
Rusyn Wikipedia
Kinyarwanda Wikipedia
Sanskrit Wikipedia
Sakha Wikipedia
Santali Wikipedia
Sardinian Wikipedia
Sicilian Wikipedia
Scots Wikipedia
Sindhi Wikipedia
Northern Sami Wikipedia
Sango Wikipedia
Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia
Sinhala Wikipedia
Slovak Wikipedia
Slovenian Wikipedia
Samoan Wikipedia
Somali Wikipedia
Albanian Wikipedia
Serbian Wikipedia
Sranan Tongo Wikipedia
Swati Wikipedia
Southern Sotho Wikipedia
Saterland Frisian Wikipedia
Sundanese Wikipedia
Silesian Wikipedia
Tamil Wikipedia
Tulu Wikipedia
Telugu Wikipedia
Tetum Wikipedia
Tajik Wikipedia
Thai Wikipedia
Turkmen Wikipedia
Tagalog Wikipedia
Tswana Wikipedia
Tongan Wikipedia
Tok Pisin Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
Tsonga Wikipedia
Tatar Wikipedia
Twi Wikipedia
Tahitian Wikipedia
Tuvinian Wikipedia
Udmurt Wikipedia
Uyghur Wikipedia
Uzbek Wikipedia
Venda Wikipedia
Venetian Wikipedia
Veps Wikipedia
West Flemish Wikipedia
Volapük Wikipedia
). This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias
. The communities can
configure how this feature works locally
The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode.
Future changes
There is
an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension
. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only
some protocols
will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.
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00:55, 21 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-48
தொகு
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2 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்
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விவாதத்தில் 1 நபர்
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Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
28 November
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
29 November
. It will be on all wikis from
30 November
calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow
async
await
syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately.
The deployment of "
Add a link
" announced
last week
was postponed. It will resume this week.
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23:08, 27 நவம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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{{character info}}
தொகு
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{{character info}}
வார்ப்புருவை நாம் தமிழ் எழுத்துக்கள் பக்கங்களில் பயன்படுத்தலாமா?
பயன்கள்:
பக்கத்தின் எழுத்து படம் லுவா மூலம் தானாகவே தோன்றும்.
இந்த வார்ப்புருவில் எழுத்து யூனிகோடு தரவுகள் உள்ளது, இது ஒரு மேற்கோளாக பயன்படும்.
இது யூனிகோட் தரவுகளை பயன்படுத்தி அடுத்த எழுத்துப் பக்கம் முந்தைய எழுத்து பக்க இணைப்பிற்கான இணைப்புகளை கொண்டுள்ளது.
காண்க:
உங்கள் கருத்தை தெரிவிக்கவும்.
Sriveenkat
15:17, 3 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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மற்றவருக்கு எளிதாகப் புரிய முதல் உயிர் எழுத்தில் பயன்படுத்திக் காட்டுக. ஏற்கனவே பொதுவகத்தில் இதற்கான படங்கள் இருப்பின் அதற்கு முன்னுரிமை தருக. அந்த எடுத்துக்காட்டினை, விக்கி நடைமுறையைப் பின்பற்றி, பிறருக்கு அறிவித்து மற்ற எழுத்துக்களிலும் இணைப்போம்.
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02:28, 4 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Info-farmer
Sriveenkat
02:30, 4 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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பெட்டியின் அளவினை இன்னும் சிறிதாக்க வேண்டும்.
{{
character info
}}
பயன்பாட்டிற்கு திட்டப்பக்கம் தொடங்கி, இது தொடர்புடையவற்றினை, அறிமுகம் செய்து, அதனை பலருக்கும் காட்ட வழிவகை செய்யவும். அதில் பலரும் நானும் பின்னூட்டம் தருகிறோம். அது பின்னாளில், மேல்விக்கியினர் அறிய உதவும். காண்க:
பகுப்பு:திட்டப் பக்கங்கள்
. பொதுவாக விக்கிமீடியா என்பதில் சமூக எண்ணங்களைப் பெற்றே செயற்பட வேண்டும். ஓரிருவர் மட்டும் முடிவெடுத்து செயற்படுதல் நன்றன்று.
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02:57, 4 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-49
தொகு
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2 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்
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Recent changes
The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences.
The "
Sort this page by default as
" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit
{{DEFAULTSORT:...}}
keywords.
Changes later this week
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "
Show discussion activity
" will notice the
talk page usability improvements
appear on pages that include the
__NEWSECTIONLINK__
magic word. If you notice any issues, please
share them with the team on Phabricator
Future changes
The Toolforge
Grid Engine shutdown process
will start on December 14. Maintainers of
tools that still use this old system
should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date.
Communities using
Structured Discussions
are being contacted regarding
the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions
. You can read more about this project, and share your comments,
on the project's page
Events
Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the
Wikimedia Hackathon 2024
that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.
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Tech News: 2023-50
தொகு
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On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of
improving UploadWizard on Commons
Problems
There was a problem showing the
Newcomer homepage
feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
12 December
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
13 December
. It will be on all wikis from
14 December
calendar
).
Future changes
The
2023 Developer Satisfaction Survey
is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 5 January 2024, and has an associated
privacy statement
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02:12, 12 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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(New) Feature on
Kartographer
: Adding geopoints via QID
தொகு
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Since September 2022, it is possible to create geopoints using a QID. Many wiki contributors have asked for this feature, but it is not being used much. Therefore, we would like to remind you about it. More information can be found on the
project page
. If you have any comments, please let us know on the
talk page
. – Best regards, the team of Technical Wishes at Wikimedia Deutschland
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
12:31, 13 திசம்பர் 2023 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2023-51
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Tech News
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of
the holidays
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
19 December
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
20 December
. It will be on all wikis from
21 December
calendar
). There is no new MediaWiki version next week.
Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of
Structured Discussions' deprecation work
There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from
சிறப்பு:UnconnectedPages
). There will also be support for
manual redirects
Future changes
The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using
version 1.41
. Feedback about
the new site
is welcome on the
project talk page
The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the
Community Wishlist Survey
. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can
register for the event and read more
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Do you use Wikidata in Wikimedia sibling projects? Tell us about your experiences
தொகு
Note: Apologies for cross-posting and sending in English.
Hello, the
Wikidata for Wikimedia Projects
team at Wikimedia Deutschland would like to hear about your experiences using Wikidata in the sibling projects. If you are interested in sharing your opinion and insights, please consider signing up for an interview with us in this
Registration form
Currently, we are only able to conduct interviews in English.
The front page of the form has more details about what the conversation will be like, including how we would
compensate
you for your time.
For more information, visit our
project issue page
where you can also share your experiences in written form, without an interview.
We look forward to speaking with you,
Danny Benjafield (WMDE)
talk
) 08:53, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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தொகு
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2 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்
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சென்னையில் அடுத்த மாதம் நடைபெறவுள்ள
கணித்தமிழ்24
மாநாட்டில் விக்கி பரப்புரை தொடர்பாகத் திட்டமிடல் நடைபெற்றுவருகிறது. தமிழ் விக்கிக்கென்று அரங்கு அமையவுள்ளதால் ஆர்வமுள்ளவர்கள் பங்கெடுத்து, நிகழ்வு சிறக்க உதவ வேண்டுகிறேன். -
Neechalkaran
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Tech News: 2024-02
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mediawiki2latex
is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can
install
on your local machine.
The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
9 January
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
10 January
. It will be on all wikis from
11 January
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Reusing references: Can we look over your shoulder?
தொகு
Apologies for writing in English.
The Technical Wishes team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning to
make reusing references easier
. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.
The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen.
More information here
Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
Compensation is available
Sessions will be held in January and February.
Sign up here if you are interested.
Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.
We’re looking forward to seeing you,
Thereza Mengs (WMDE)
Tech News: 2024-03
தொகு
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Recent changes
Pages that use the JSON
contentmodel
will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size.
Gadgets
and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all
supported browsers
. Previously, Gadgets could use the
requiresES6
option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future.
Bot passwords
and
owner-only OAuth consumers
can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages.
You can now
thank
edits made by bots.
An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024
has been published
. Please read and give your feedback.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
16 January
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
17 January
. It will be on all wikis from
18 January
calendar
).
Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately.
The
jquery.cookie
module was deprecated and replaced with the
mediawiki.cookie
module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed.
Future changes
Wikimedia Deutschland is working to
make reusing references easier
. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in
individual video calls for user research in January and February
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Vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
தொகு
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You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.
Please help translate to your language
Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to announce that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) Charter is now open. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
now through
2 February 2024
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C Charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
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Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change
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QR code
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சிறப்பு:QrCode
page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the
#19 most-voted wish
from the
2023 Community Wishlist Survey
Gadgets
which only work in some skins have sometimes used the
targets
option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the
skins
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Last days to vote on the Charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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Hello all,
I am reaching out to you today to remind you that the voting period for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) charter will close on
2 February 2024
. Community members may
cast their vote and provide comments about the charter via SecurePoll
. Those of you who voiced your opinions during the development of the
UCoC Enforcement Guidelines
will find this process familiar.
The
current version of the U4C charter
is on Meta-wiki with translations available.
Read the charter, go vote and share this note with others in your community. I can confidently say the U4C Building Committee looks forward to your participation.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
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The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to
the phabricator task
On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity.
Learn more about "action blocks"
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6 February
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7 February
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8 February
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Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed.
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24 Wikipedias
with
Reference Tooltips
as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make
Reference Previews
the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For
46 Wikipedias
with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February,
unless there are concerns
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19:22, 5 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)
Announcing the results of the UCoC Coordinating Committee Charter ratification vote
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Dear all,
Thank you everyone for following the progress of the Universal Code of Conduct. I am writing to you today to announce the outcome of the
ratification vote
on the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee Charter
. 1746 contributors voted in this ratification vote with 1249 voters supporting the Charter and 420 voters not. The ratification vote process allowed for voters to provide comments about the Charter.
A report of voting statistics and a summary of voter comments will be published on Meta-wiki in the coming weeks.
Please look forward to hearing about the next steps soon.
On behalf of the UCoC Project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
18:24, 12 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-07
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The
WDQS Graph Split experiment
is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels.
Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service.
Problems
There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black;
this issue
is fixed.
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new version
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13 February
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14 February
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15 February
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As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,
tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped.
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நான் கவனிக்கும் பக்கம் அல்லது கோப்பு மாற்றப்பட்டால் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சல் செய்யுவும்
" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails.
There are changes to how user and site scripts load for
Vector 2022
on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with
Vector legacy
as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see
this ticket
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Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the
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The maximum file size when using
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20 February
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21 February
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22 February
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Selected tools on the grid engine have been
stopped
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team
. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
The CSS
filter
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style
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Tech News: 2024-09
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The
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Research
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The
mw.config
value
wgGlobalGroups
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if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups")))
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27 February
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28 February
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29 February
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edit tags
changetags
) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in
this ticket
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19:23, 26 பெப்பிரவரி 2024 (UTC)
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The
Special:Book
page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old
Collection extension
has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the
Wikisource extension
Wikitech
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Parsoid
wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the
Known Issues discussion page
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ParserMigration
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ParserMigration help documentation
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Maintenance on
etherpad
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this ticket
Gadgets
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Gadget
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Gadget_definition
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gadgets-definition-edit
user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made.
A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header.
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5 March
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7 March
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The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See
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19:47, 4 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)
Report of the U4C Charter ratification and U4C Call for Candidates now available
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Hello all,
I am writing to you today with two important pieces of information. First, the
report of the comments from the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter ratification
is now available. Secondly, the call for candidates for the U4C is open now through April 1, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members are invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Per the charter, there are 16 seats on the U4C: eight community-at-large seats and eight regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
Read more and submit your application on
Meta-wiki
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
16:26, 5 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-11
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13 March
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14 March
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After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the
Minerva skin
will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed.
The active link color in
Minerva
will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices.
Structured data on Commons
will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost.
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2024 Selection
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 4 (four) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The
Elections Committee
will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Board Governance Committee created a Board Selection Working Group from Trustees who cannot be candidates in the 2024 community- and affiliate-selected trustee selection process composed of Dariusz Jemielniak, Nataliia Tymkiv, Esra'a Al Shafei, Kathy Collins, and Shani Evenstein Sigalov [3]. The group is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2024 trustee selection process, and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 2024: Call for candidates and call for questions
June 2024: Affiliates vote to shortlist 12 candidates (no shortlisting if 15 or less candidates apply) [5]
June-August 2024: Campaign period
End of August / beginning of September 2024: Two-week community voting period
October–November 2024: Background check of selected candidates
Board's Meeting in December 2024: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2024 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on
this Meta-wiki page
, and make your plan.
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2024 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this
Meta-wiki page
Best regards,
Dariusz Jemielniak
(Governance Committee Chair, Board Selection Working Group)
[1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5] Even though the ideal number is 12 candidates for 4 open seats, the shortlisting process will be triggered if there are more than 15 candidates because the 1-3 candidates that are removed might feel ostracized and it would be a lot of work for affiliates to carry out the shortlisting process to only eliminate 1-3 candidates from the candidate list.
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19:58, 12 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)
உங்கள் விக்கி விரைவில் வாசிக்க மட்டும் முடியும் நிலைக்கு செல்லும்.
தொகு
இச்செய்தியை பிறிதொரு மொழியில் படிக்கவும்
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விக்கிமீடியா நிறுவனம்
, தனது தரவு மையங்களுக்கிடையே போக்குவரத்தை மாற்றம் செய்கிறது. ஒரு பேரிடருக்கு பின்னும் விக்கிப்பீடியா மற்றும் இதர விக்கிமீடியா விக்கிகள் இணைப்பில் இருப்பதை இது உறுதிப்படுத்தும்.
எல்லா போக்குவரத்தும்
20 மார்ச்சு
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நல்வாய்பற்ற விதத்தில்,
மீடியாவிக்கியில்
உள்ள சில குறைபாடுகள் காரணமாக, மாற்றம் செய்யப்படும் போது எல்லா தொகுப்பு செயல்களும் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டும். இந்த இடையூறுக்கு நாங்கள் வருந்துகிறோம். மேலும் இவற்றை வருங்காலத்தில் குறைப்பதற்கு முயல்கிறோம்.
நீங்கள் ஒரு குறுகிய காலத்திற்கு அனைத்து விக்கிகளையும் படிக்க முடியும், ஆனால் தொகுக்க முடியாது.
செவ்வாய்,
புதன் 20 மார்ச்சு 2024
நீங்கள் அதிக பட்சமாக ஒரு மணி நேரத்திற்கு தொகுக்க முடியாது.
இந்த நேரங்களில் நீங்கள் தொகுக்கவோ அல்லது சேமிக்கவோ முயன்றால், நீங்கள் ஒரு பிழை செய்தியை காண்பீர். இந்த நிமிடங்களில் எந்த தொகுப்பும் தொலையாது என நம்புகிறோம், ஆனால் எங்களால் அதை உறுதி செய்ய இயலாது. நீங்கள் அந்த பிழை செய்தியை கண்டால், தயவு செய்து எல்லாம் இயல்பு நிலைக்கு திரும்பும் வரை காத்திருக்கவும். அதன் பின் நீங்கள் உங்கள் தொகுப்பை சேமிக்க முடியும். இருப்பினும், முன்னெச்சரிக்கையாக உங்கள் மாற்றங்களை ஓர் பிரதி எடுத்து கொள்வதை நாங்கள் பரிந்துரைக்கிரோம்.
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பின்புல வேலைகள் மந்தமாக இருக்கும். மேலும் அவற்றில் சில கைவிடப்படலாம். சிகப்பு இணைப்புகள் வழக்கமான வேகத்தில் புதுப்பிக்கப்படாமல் போகலாம். நீங்கள் வேறு எங்கேனும் இணைக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு கட்டுரையை உருவாக்கினால், அந்த இணைப்பு வழக்கத்தை விட அதிக நேரம் சிகப்பாகவே இருக்கும். சில நீண்ட நேரம் ஓடும் துணுக்குகள் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டி இருக்கும்.
மற்ற வாரங்களைப் போலவே மூல பயன்கொள் நடக்கும் என்று நாங்கள் எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம். இருப்பினும், சில சூழ்நிலைகளில் செயல்பாட்டிற்கு பிறகு தேவைப்பட்டால் மூல முடக்கம் சரியான நேரத்தில் நடக்கலாம்.
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தேவைப்பட்டால் இந்த திட்டம் ஒத்திவைக்கப்படலாம். நீங்கள்
அட்டவணையை wikitech.wikimedia.org இல் படிக்கலாம்
. எந்த மாற்றங்களும் அட்டவணையில் அறிவிக்கப்படும். இது குறித்து மேலும் அறிவிப்புகள் இருக்கும். இந்த செயல்பாடு நடப்பதற்கு 30 நிமிடங்களுக்கு முன்பு அனைத்து விக்கிகளிலும் ஒரு பேனர் காண்பிக்கப்படும்.
தயவு செய்து இந்த தகவலை உங்கள் சமூகத்துடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளுங்கள்.
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, 00:01, 15 மார்ச்சு 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-12
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Recent changes
The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the
Vector 2022 skin
main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher.
IP info feature
displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers.
The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes.
Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating
MediaWiki:Undelete-comment-dropdown
Problems
RevisionSlider
is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in
right-to-left
languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
19 March
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
20 March
. It will be on all wikis from
21 March
calendar
).
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
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Tech News: 2024-13
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Recent changes
An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in
Vector 2022 skin
. A
checklist
is provided for site admins to follow.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
26 March
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
27 March
. It will be on all wikis from
28 March
calendar
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Tech News: 2024-14
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Recent changes
Users of the
reading accessibility
beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
2 April
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
3 April
. It will be on all wikis from
4 April
calendar
).
Future changes
The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read
the draft key results
for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can
comment on the talk page
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Recent changes
Web browsers can use tools called
extensions
. There is now a Chrome extension called
Citation Needed
which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
A new
Edit Recovery
feature has been added to all wikis, available as a
user preference
. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the
project talk page
. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
Initial results of
Edit check
experiments
have been published
. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at
the wikis that tested it
Let us know
if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check.
Readers using the
Minerva skin
on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
9 April
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
10 April
. It will be on all wikis from
11 April
calendar
).
New accounts and logged-out users will get the
visual editor
as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia.
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Problems
Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the "
Reverted
" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
16 April
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
17 April
. It will be on all wikis from
18 April
calendar
).
Default category sort keys
will now affect categories added by templates placed in
footnotes
. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked).
A new variable
page_last_edit_age
will be added to
abuse filters
. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made.
Future changes
Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle
temporary accounts
Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including
Quarry
). This affects only the
abuse_filter
and
abuse_filter_history
tables. Some queries might need to be updated.
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Recent changes
Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia
will be encouraged
to try structured tasks.
Structured tasks
have been shown to
improve newcomer activation and retention
You can
nominate your favorite tools
for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
23 April
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
24 April
. It will be on all wikis from
25 April
calendar
).
Future changes
This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of
சிறப்பு:MyPage/vector.js
to
சிறப்பு:MyPage/vector-2022.js
. There are
more technical details
available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia.
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20:28, 22 ஏப்பிரல் 2024 (UTC)
Vote now to select members of the first U4C
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Dear all,
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through May 9, 2024. Read the information on the
voting page on Meta-wiki
to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please
review the U4C Charter
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
On behalf of the UCoC project team,
RamzyM (WMF)
20:21, 25 ஏப்பிரல் 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-18
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Recent changes
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis:
Azerbaijani Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia
German Wikipedia
Persian Wikipedia
Hebrew Wikipedia
Hindi Wikipedia
Indonesian Wikipedia
Korean Wikipedia
Dutch Wikipedia
Portuguese Wikipedia
Romanian Wikipedia
Thai Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
Ukrainian Wikipedia
Vietnamese Wikipedia
. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test
gave positive results
, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences
("
Show discussion activity
"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks.
Seven new wikis have been created:
Wikipedia
in
Betawi
w:bew:
Wikipedia
in
Kusaal
w:kus:
Wikipedia
in
Igala
w:igl:
Wiktionary
in
Karakalpak
wikt:kaa:
Wikisource
in
Burmese
s:my:
Wikisource
in
Malay
s:ms:
Wikisource
in
Georgian
s:ka:
You can now
watch message groups/projects
on
Translatewiki.net
. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups.
Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the
advanced mode
. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to
check for accessibility issues on wikis
. See
more detailed guidelines
Problems
Kartographer
maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using
mapstyle="osm"
. This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
30 April
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
1 May
. It will be on all wikis from
2 May
calendar
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Tech News: 2024-19
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Recent changes
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (
a few
have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes
on
Diff
. It is possible to opt-out these changes
in user preferences
("
Show discussion activity
"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks.
Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the
SiteAdminHelper
. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found
at the extension's page
Wikimedia Enterprise
has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
7 May
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
8 May
. It will be on all wikis from
9 May
calendar
).
When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs".
Future changes
A new service will be built to replace
Extension:Graph
. Details can be found in
the latest update
regarding this extension.
Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "
Add a link
". This is part of the
progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias
. These communities can
activate and configure the feature locally
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Recent changes
On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word
__EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__
to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list.
If you use the
user-preference
பக்க மீள் ஏற்றமின்றி முன் தோற்றத்தைக் காட்டு
", then the template-page feature "
இந்த வார்ப்புருவுடன் பக்கத்தின் முன்தோற்றம் காட்டு
" will now also work without reloading the page.
Kartographer
maps can now specify an alternative text via the
alt=
attribute. This is identical in usage to the
alt=
attribute in the
image and gallery syntax
. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive.
The old
Guided Tour
for the "
New Filters for Edit Review
" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
14 May
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
15 May
. It will be on all wikis from
16 May
calendar
).
The
சிறப்பு:Search
results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure.
Future changes
In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022.
Two columns of the
pagelinks
database table (
pl_namespace
and
pl_title
) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new
linktarget
table instead (
lt_namespace
and
lt_title
). In your existing SQL queries:
Replace
JOIN pagelinks
with
JOIN linktarget
and
pl_
with
lt_
in the
ON
statement
Below that add
JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
See
phab:T222224
for technical reasoning.
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23:58, 13 மே 2024 (UTC)
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Sign up for the language community meeting on May 31st, 16:00 UTC
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Hello all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks - May 31st at 16:00 UTC. If you're interested, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This is a participant-driven meeting, where we share language-specific updates related to various projects, collectively discuss technical issues related to language wikis, and work together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, the topics included the machine translation service (MinT) and the languages and models it currently supports, localization efforts from the Kiwix team, and technical challenges with numerical sorting in files used on Bengali Wikisource.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates related to your project? Any problems that you would like to bring for discussion during the meeting? Do you need interpretation support from English to another language? Please reach out to me at ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org and
add agenda items to the document here
We look forward to your participation!
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தமிழ்ச்சொற்களைப் மேற்கோளாகப் பயன்படுத்துவோம். தமிழ்ப்பரிதி மாரி
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Tech News: 2024-21
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Recent changes
The
Nuke
feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title.
New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description.
Changes later this week
The
new version
of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from
21 May
. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from
22 May
. It will be on all wikis from
23 May
calendar
).
The HTML used to render all headings
is being changed to improve accessibility
. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and
report any related problems
so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a
Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles
if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
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23:04, 20 மே 2024 (UTC)
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Feedback invited on Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
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Dear community members,
The
Community Affairs Committee
(CAC) of the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
invites you to give feedback on a
draft Procedure for Sibling Project Lifecycle
. This draft Procedure outlines proposed steps and requirements for opening and closing Wikimedia Sibling Projects, and aims to ensure any newly approved projects are set up for success. This is separate from the procedures for opening or closing language versions of projects, which is handled by the
Language Committee
or
closing projects policy
You can find the details on
this page
, as well as the ways to give your feedback from today until the end of the day on
June 23, 2024
, anywhere on Earth.
You can also share information about this with the interested project communities you work with or support, and you can also help us translate the procedure into more languages, so people can join the discussions in their own language.
On behalf of the CAC,
RamzyM (WMF)
02:26, 22 மே 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-22
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Recent changes
Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see
T365107
and
T365119
In March 2024 a new
addPortlet
API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and
give feedback
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Announcing the first Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote results. We are following up with the results of the first
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election
We are pleased to announce the following individuals as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a two-year term:
North America (USA and Canada)
Northern and Western Europe
Ghilt
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
Middle East and North Africa
Ibrahim.ID
East, South East Asia and Pacific (ESEAP)
0xDeadbeef
South Asia
The following individuals are elected to be community-at-large members of the U4C, fulfilling a one-year term:
Barkeep49
Superpes15
Civvì
Luke081515
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. Follow their work on
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Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles
if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by
Parsoid
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mw-reference-text
class, Parsoid now also adds the
reference-text
class for better compatibility with the legacy parser.
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Problems
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On multilingual wikis that use the

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The final text of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now on Meta
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Hi everyone,
The final text of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now up on Meta in more than 20 languages for your reading.
What is the Wikimedia Movement Charter?
The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a proposed document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
Join the Wikimedia Movement Charter “Launch Party”
Join the
“Launch Party”
on
June 20, 2024
at
14.00-15.00 UTC
your local time
). During this call, we will celebrate the release of the final Charter and present the content of the Charter. Join and learn about the Charter before casting your vote.
Movement Charter ratification vote
Voting will commence on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC.
You can read more about the
voting process, eligibility criteria, and other details
on Meta.
If you have any questions, please leave a comment on the
Meta talk page
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People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see
Edit check
for more details.
The new
Community Configuration extension
is available
on Test Wikipedia
. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other
Community Configuration use cases
in the future.
The dark mode
beta feature
is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the
project talk page
Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center.
Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any,
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20 June
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Starting June 18, the
Reference Edit Check
will be deployed to
a new set of Wikipedias
. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During
a test at 11 wikis
, the number of citations added
more than doubled
when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is
community configurable
Mailing lists
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Problems
You can
copy permanent links to talk page comments
by clicking on a comment's timestamp.
This feature
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Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature
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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is now open – cast your vote
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The voting to ratify the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
is now open. The Wikimedia Movement Charter is a document to define roles and responsibilities for all the members and entities of the Wikimedia movement, including the creation of a new body – the Global Council – for movement governance.
The final version of the Wikimedia Movement Charter is
available on Meta in different languages
and attached
here in PDF format
for your reading.
Voting commenced on SecurePoll on
June 25, 2024
at
00:01 UTC
and will conclude on
July 9, 2024
at
23:59 UTC
. Please read more on the
voter information and eligibility details
After reading the Charter, please
vote here
and share this note further.
If you have any questions about the ratification vote, please contact the Charter Electoral Commission at
cec@wikimedia.org
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Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the
top-requested community wishes
, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in
the latest Web team update
Logged-in users can now set
global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode
, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis.
If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new
CSS
features and to send less code to all readers.
Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using
Community Configuration
. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure
Growth features
on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months.
Editors interested in language issues that are related to
Unicode standards
, can now discuss those topics at
a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org
. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a
member of the Unicode Consortium
, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
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Cleaning up files
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illustrator என்பதன் தமிழ் வார்த்தை என்ன
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Voting to ratify the Wikimedia Movement Charter is ending soon
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Wikimedia Movement Charter
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July 9, 2024
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If you have not voted yet, please vote
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The
CampaignEvents
extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the
CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki
Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the
Add an Image
feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
Thank you to
all of the authors
who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the
percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year
, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.
Problems
A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin,
has been fixed
Future changes
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U4C Special Election - Call for Candidates
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A special election has been called to fill additional vacancies on the U4C. The call for candidates phase is open from now through July 19, 2024.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the
UCoC
. Community members are invited to submit their applications in the special election for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the
U4C Charter
In this special election, according to
chapter 2 of the U4C charter
, there are 9 seats available on the U4C:
four
community-at-large seats and
five
regional seats to ensure the U4C represents the diversity of the movement.
No more than two members of the U4C can be elected from the same home wiki
. Therefore, candidates must not have English Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, or Italian Wikipedia as their home wiki.
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Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both
Gerrit
and
GitLab
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Migration status
page.
The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the
Product and Technology Advisory Council
(PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects.
Please apply here by August 10
Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new
Edit Patrol
features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold,
you can contact the team
. You can
read more about this project on Diff blog
Editors who have access to
The Wikipedia Library
can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation
contacted
them to restore access. You can read more about
this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week
Changes later this week
This week,
dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias
, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some
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to help.
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Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the
temporary accounts
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share your opinions and questions on the project talk page
Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at
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Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification voting results
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After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the
Charter Electoral Commission
is pleased to announce the final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter voting.
As
communicated
by the Charter Electoral Commission, we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time the vote closed on
July 9, 23:59 UTC
. We thank all 2,451 individuals and 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement Strategy.
The final results of the
Wikimedia Movement Charter
ratification voting held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows:
Individual vote:
Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have been accepted as valid votes. Among these,
1,710
voted “yes”;
623
voted “no”; and
113
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333).
Affiliates vote:
Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these,
93
voted “yes”;
18
voted “no”; and
18
selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter (18/111).
Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation:
The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted
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the proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Nataliia Tymkiv,
shared the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next steps
With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is
not ratified
We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our movement’s governance.
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Stewards can now
globally block
accounts. Before
the change
only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out.
Global locks
(a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the
Temporary Accounts
project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of
FlaggedRevs
(also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and
Wikimedia's design system
. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and
Minerva skin
was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to
Codex
by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers.
Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via
GlobalVanishRequest
. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed.
Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone?
A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App
highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the
Commons Impact Metrics
analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons.
Project Updates
Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened
Community Wishlist
. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on
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How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent
blog post
by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the
WMF Future Audience initiative
, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a
ChatGPT plugin
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Add a Fact
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Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the
project talkpage
Bugs status
Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week.
These errors
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linter
rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
Editors can use the
IP Information tool
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28 other community-submitted tasks
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Project updates
There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can
read details about these and other improvements in this summary
There is an
update on the Charts project
. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikivoyage
in
Czech
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There is a
new Wikimedia Foundation data center
in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
There is new
user research
on problems with the process of uploading images.
Commons Impact Metrics are
now available
via data dumps and API.
The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
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Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{
#dir
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and
{{
#bcp47
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Template:Dir
and
Template:BCP47
on Commons and allow us to
drop 100 million rows
from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania.
Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance
Wikipedia:
or
Wikisource:
namespaces) if they understand the
known limitations
. For discussions, users can already use
DiscussionTools
in these namespaces.
The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension"
in TranslateWiki
. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out
a brief survey
or share your thoughts
on the talkpage
. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
The new parser is being rolled out on
Wikivoyage
wikis over the next few months. The
ஆங்கில விக்கிபயணம்
and
Hebrew Wikivoyage
were
switched
to Parsoid last week. For more information, see
Parsoid/Parser Unification
There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the
key sessions related to the product and technology area
The latest
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin
is available.
The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization newsletter
is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
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Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
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The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on
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. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote?
The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
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AbuseFilter
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. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots.
Stewards
can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before
this change
by the
Trust and Safety Product
Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
Nominations are open on Wikitech
for new members to refresh the
Toolforge standards committee
. The committee oversees the Toolforge
Right to fork policy
and
Abandoned tool policy
among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
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West Coast Bajau
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Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!
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Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on
the project page
We want your feedback
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the current state of development on beta wiki and
let us know what you think
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Technical Wishes
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Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new
sub-referencing
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about the project
and
how to test the prototype
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for:
DynamicPageList
Kartographer
Phonos
RSS
Score
WikiHiero
. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements.
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the
categories
property of
mw.title objects
. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with
Talk:WP:
so that their titles start with
Wikipedia talk:
), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to
Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/
instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in
phab:P67388
Editors who volunteer as
mentors
to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to
a bug fix
. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Project updates
The application deadline for the
Product & Technology Advisory Council
(PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
The
2024 Coolest Tool Awards
were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the
Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon
. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latest
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin
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Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
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Hi all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can
sign up on this wiki page
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document
here
and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
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Administrators can now test the
temporary accounts
feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please
share your opinions and questions on the project talk page
Later this week, editors at wikis that use
FlaggedRevs
(also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface.
Bugs status
Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will
no longer
experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Project updates
Please review and vote on
Focus Areas
, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern?
Outreachy
is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read
this recent highlights summary on Diff
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together
(55 mins) - about the
Community Configuration
project.
Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views
(30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the
platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences
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Announcing the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
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The scrutineers have finished reviewing the vote and the
Elections Committee
have certified the
results
for the
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) special election
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on
Meta-Wiki
On behalf of the U4C and the Elections Committee,
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Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can
read more about this project update
and help to test the charts.
Feature news
Editors who use the
சிறப்பு:UnusedTemplates
page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word
__EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__
to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.
Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will
now be reminded
to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and
28
other community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.
Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the
new dropdown menu
Project updates
A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs
has been published on Meta-Wiki
. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on
the proposed update’s talk page
until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization
(25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia
(90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as
Content
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MinT
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Have your say: Vote for the 2024 Board of Trustees!
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2024 Board of Trustees election
is now open. There are twelve (12) candidates running for four (4) seats on the Board.
Learn more about the candidates by
reading their statements
and their
answers to community questions
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll
voting page to vote.
The vote is open from September 3rd at 00:00 UTC to September 17th at 23:59 UTC
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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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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Feature news
Starting this week, the standard
syntax highlighter
will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the
help page
Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions
entity:getSitelink()
and
mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid)
will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from
inconsistent sitelinks tracking
Project updates
Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
Contributors of
11 Wikipedias
, including English will have a new
MOS
namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with
MOS:
(usually shortcuts to the
Manual of Style
) are not broken by
Mooré
Wikipedia (language code
mos
).
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Tech News: 2024-38
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Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area,
Template recall and discovery
, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding
new wishes
The new automated
சிறப்பு:NamespaceInfo
page helps editors understand which
namespaces
exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.
References Check
is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.
It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can
request
a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's
public databases
from both
Quarry
and
Superset
. Those databases have always been accessible to every
Toolforge
user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be
queried from Quarry itself
. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and
20
other community-submitted tasks that were
resolved last week
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes
mw-message-box
need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a
global-search
to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer
cdx-message
group of classes as a replacement (see
the relevant Codex documentation
, and
an example update
), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.
Technical project updates
Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at
15:00 UTC
. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes.
This maintenance process also targets other services.
The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.
Tech in depth
The latest monthly
MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter
is available. This edition includes details about: research about
hook
handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Hackathon Showcase
(45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are
more details and links available
in the Phabricator task.
Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem
(40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
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உங்கள் விக்கி விரைவில் வாசிக்க மட்டும் முடியும் நிலைக்கு செல்லும்.
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இச்செய்தியை பிறிதொரு மொழியில் படிக்கவும்
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விக்கிமீடியா நிறுவனம்
, தனது தரவு மையங்களுக்கிடையே போக்குவரத்தை மாற்றம் செய்கிறது. ஒரு பேரிடருக்கு பின்னும் விக்கிப்பீடியா மற்றும் இதர விக்கிமீடியா விக்கிகள் இணைப்பில் இருப்பதை இது உறுதிப்படுத்தும்.
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25 செப்டெம்பர்
அன்று மாற்றப்படும். சோதனை தொடங்கும் நேரம்:
15:00 UTC
நல்வாய்பற்ற விதத்தில்,
மீடியாவிக்கியில்
உள்ள சில குறைபாடுகள் காரணமாக, மாற்றம் செய்யப்படும் போது எல்லா தொகுப்பு செயல்களும் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டும். இந்த இடையூறுக்கு நாங்கள் வருந்துகிறோம். மேலும் இவற்றை வருங்காலத்தில் குறைப்பதற்கு முயல்கிறோம்.
இந்த செயல்பாடு நடப்பதற்கு 30 நிமிடங்களுக்கு முன்பு அனைத்து விக்கிகளிலும் ஒரு பேனர் காண்பிக்கப்படும்.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
நீங்கள் ஒரு குறுகிய காலத்திற்கு அனைத்து விக்கிகளையும் படிக்க முடியும், ஆனால் தொகுக்க முடியாது.
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நீங்கள் அதிக பட்சமாக ஒரு மணி நேரத்திற்கு தொகுக்க முடியாது.
இந்த நேரங்களில் நீங்கள் தொகுக்கவோ அல்லது சேமிக்கவோ முயன்றால், நீங்கள் ஒரு பிழை செய்தியை காண்பீர். இந்த நிமிடங்களில் எந்த தொகுப்பும் தொலையாது என நம்புகிறோம், ஆனால் எங்களால் அதை உறுதி செய்ய இயலாது. நீங்கள் அந்த பிழை செய்தியை கண்டால், தயவு செய்து எல்லாம் இயல்பு நிலைக்கு திரும்பும் வரை காத்திருக்கவும். அதன் பின் நீங்கள் உங்கள் தொகுப்பை சேமிக்க முடியும். இருப்பினும், முன்னெச்சரிக்கையாக உங்கள் மாற்றங்களை ஓர் பிரதி எடுத்து கொள்வதை நாங்கள் பரிந்துரைக்கிரோம்.
பிற விளைவுகள்
பின்புல வேலைகள் மந்தமாக இருக்கும். மேலும் அவற்றில் சில கைவிடப்படலாம். சிகப்பு இணைப்புகள் வழக்கமான வேகத்தில் புதுப்பிக்கப்படாமல் போகலாம். நீங்கள் வேறு எங்கேனும் இணைக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு கட்டுரையை உருவாக்கினால், அந்த இணைப்பு வழக்கத்தை விட அதிக நேரம் சிகப்பாகவே இருக்கும். சில நீண்ட நேரம் ஓடும் துணுக்குகள் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டி இருக்கும்.
மற்ற வாரங்களைப் போலவே மூல பயன்கொள் நடக்கும் என்று நாங்கள் எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம். இருப்பினும், சில சூழ்நிலைகளில் செயல்பாட்டிற்கு பிறகு தேவைப்பட்டால் மூல முடக்கம் சரியான நேரத்தில் நடக்கலாம்.
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தேவைப்பட்டால் இந்த திட்டம் ஒத்திவைக்கப்படலாம். நீங்கள்
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. எந்த மாற்றங்களும் அட்டவணையில் அறிவிக்கப்படும்.
தயவு செய்து இந்த தகவலை உங்கள் சமூகத்துடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளுங்கள்.
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Tech News: 2024-39
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Weekly highlight
All wikis will be
read-only
for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at
15:00 UTC
. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the
Alt Text suggested-edit experiment
after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "
Add an image
". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on
the discussion page
The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The
most noticeable changes
for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within

tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax
{{…}}
are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
Two bugs were fixed in the
GlobalVanishRequest
system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message.
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25
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
From
Wikimedia Enterprise
The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on
the project's blog post
. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (
blog post on that
) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (
blog post on that
). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the
WDQS Graph Split project
, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "
scholarly
" and "
main
" subgraphs of Wikidata. The
query.wikidata.org endpoint
will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see
the announcement on Wikidata
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'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...
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Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.
Tracked in
Phabricator
Task T66315
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The
Wikidata item
sitelink
currently found under the
General
section of the
Tools
sidebar menu will move into the
In Other Projects
section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the
Discussion page
before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on
the project page
We welcome your feedback and questions.
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Tech News: 2024-40
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Updates for editors
Readers of
42 more wikis
can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the
night-mode-checker tool
if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The
recommendations page
provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsource
to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in
your preferences
For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin.
about the changes related to donor experiences.
The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been
enabled
on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki.
Chinese Wikipedia has decided
to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress
on Spanish Wikipedia
and
on Wikidata
. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit
the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki
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tasks
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resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should
check if any action is required
for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
The
server switch
was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of
only 2 minutes 46 seconds
. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes.
Meetings and events
October 4–6:
WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon
in Johannesburg, South Africa
November 4–6:
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024
in Vienna, Austria
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Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey
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Dear all,
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.
We are excited to announce the upcoming
Wiki Loves Ramadan
event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
Survey link:
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!
Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.
Warm regards,
User:ZI Jony 03:20, 6 அக்டோபர் 2024 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team
Tech News: 2024-41
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Communities can now request installation of
Automoderator
on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can
read details about the necessary steps
for installation and configuration.
Updates for editors
Translators in wikis where
the mobile experience of Content Translation is available
, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can
try it with your mobile device
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Updates for technical contributors
It is now possible for

code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the
copy=1
attribute is
set on the tag
. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.
Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML.
Later this month,
temporary accounts
will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on
these 11 wikis
, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts.
Guidance on how to update the code is available
Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools
Gerrit
and
GitLab
to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through
nftables
firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on
Firewall
GitLab limits
and
Gerrit operations
Five new wikis have been created:
Wikipedia
in
Komering
w:kge:
Wikipedia
in
Mooré
m:mos:
Wiktionary
in
Madurese
wikt:mad:
Wikiquote
in
Gorontalo
q:gor:
Wikinews
in
Shan
n:shn:
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Preliminary results of the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees elections
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Hello all,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the
2024 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election
. Close to 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted.
The following four candidates were the most voted:
Christel Steigenberger
Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz
Victoria Doronina
Lorenzo Losa
While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.
Learn more about the results on Meta-Wiki.
Best regards,
The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group
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Updates for editors
The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by
DiscussionTools
, which is used on any regular talk page.
A first set of wikis
are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode.
WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A
change last week
on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the
hastemplate
and
incategory
keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available.
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EditCheck
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Updates for technical contributors
Editors who use the Toolforge tool
Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector
will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements.
Phabricator
users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again.
Sending email to Phabricator
has been fixed.
Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a

element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is
not recommended
and might break at any time.
In depth
The latest monthly
MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter
is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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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:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by
visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki
. Post to the talk page or email
cst@wikimedia.org
with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
--
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Weekly highlight
The Mobile Apps team has released an
update
to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned
navigation refresh
to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents
Updates for editors
Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's
Content Discovery Experiments page
and
subscribe to their newsletter
Later this month, logged-out editors of
these 12 wikis
will start to have
temporary accounts
created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new
type of user account
. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts.
Guidance on how to update the code is available
. Read more about the
deployment plan across all wikis
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community-submitted
tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the
South Ndebele
Pannonian Rusyn
Obolo
Iban
and
Tai Nüa
Wikipedia languages were created last week.
It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new
Wikidata lexeme type
launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in
the latest Wikifunctions newsletter
Updates for technical contributors
Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{
#timef
:…}}
parser function. For example,
{{#timef:now|date|en}}
will show as "
20 April 2026
". Previously,
{{#time:…}}
could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.
#timef
(or
#timefl
for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta.
Commons and Meta users can now efficiently
retrieve the user's language
using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}
instead of using
{{int:lang}}
The
Product and Tech Advisory Council
(PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the
Movement Strategy's Technology Council
initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform.
In depth
The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
The Wikimedia Foundation is
now an official partner of the CVE program
, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish
common vulnerabilities and exposures
(CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
The
Community Wishlist
is now
testing machine translations
for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar -
Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard
, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
20–22 December 2024 -
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024
in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.
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Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the
Wikidata item
sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the
General
section into the
In Other Projects
section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2.
Please let us know
if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -
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Updates for editors
Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read
the October project update
and see the
latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia
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community-submitted
tasks
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. For example,
Pediapress.com
, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use
Wikimedia Maps
to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia.
Updates for technical contributors
Wikis can use
the Guided Tour extension
to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with
dark mode
. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set
emitTransitionOnStep
to
true
to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag
allowAutomaticBack
to avoid back-buttons they don't want.
Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the
Nuke Extension
will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.
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Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
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We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Survey Link:
Complete the Survey
Deadline: November 10, 2024
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity
: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
Application Link:
Apply Here
Application Deadline: October 31, 2024
Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here:
Position Descriptions
Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:13, 29 அக்டோபர் 2024 (UTC)
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Updates for editors
Stewards can now make
global account blocks
cause global
autoblocks
. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the
Temporary Accounts
project. You can read more about the
progress on key features for temporary accounts
Wikis that have the
CampaignEvents extension enabled
can now use the
Collaboration List
feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of
the 2024/25 annual plan
. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can
follow these steps
or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode.
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community-submitted
tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, on multilingual wikis, users
can now
hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.
Updates for technical contributors
XML
data dumps
have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated.
In depth
Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for
this work
, you can read about
the deployment plans
. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on
seven other projects
. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to
User:Udehb-WMF
for assistance.
The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization newsletter
is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024
is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.
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On wikis with the
Translate extension
enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages.
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community-submitted
tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the submitted task to use the
SecurePoll extension
for English Wikipedia's special
administrator election
was resolved on time.
Updates for technical contributors
In
1.44.0-wmf-2
, the logic of Wikibase function
getAllStatements
changed to behave like
getBestStatements
. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable.
Wikimedia REST API
users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer
MediaWiki REST API
endpoints. The
impacted endpoints
include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related
Phabricator ticket
In depth
Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects
where Automoderator is enabled
can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions.
This Superset dashboard
calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit
the documentation page
for more information about this work.
Meetings and events
21 November 2024 (
8:00 UTC
16:00 UTC
) -
Community call
with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.
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Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a
redirect
to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.
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Pywikibot
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Updates for technical contributors
On wikis that use the
FlaggedRevs extension
, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this.
In depth
There is a new
Diff post
about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.
Meetings and events
Technical volunteers can now register for the
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey.
Application for travel and accommodation scholarships
is open from
November 12 to December 10 2024
. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
Join the
Wikimedia Commons community calls
this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place
November 21, 2024,
8:00 UTC
and
16:00 UTC
Language community meeting
will take place
November 29, 16:00 UTC
to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.
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Sign up for the language community meeting on November 29th, 16:00 UTC
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Hello everyone,
The next language community meeting is coming up next week, on November 29th, at 16:00 UTC (Zonestamp! For your timezone <
>). If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page: <
>.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
Looking forward to seeing you at the language community meeting! Cheers,
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A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode
syntax highlighter
will be available as a
beta feature
later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support,
template folding
autocompletion
, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the
help page
The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such
Ctrl
for bold and
Ctrl
for italics. A full
list of all six shortcuts
is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.
Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis:
bswiki
elwiki
euwiki
fawiki
fiwiki
frwikiquote
frwikisource
frwikiversity
frwikivoyage
idwiki
lvwiki
plwiki
ptwiki
urwiki
viwikisource
zhwikisource
. This is done as part of
StructuredDiscussions deprecation work
. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact
Trizek (WMF)
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if it includes a protected variable
Updates for technical contributors
The
CodeEditor
, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages,
now offers
live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing
Ctrl
and un-selecting "
Live Autocompletion
".
Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check
this dashboard
and the list in the Description of the
task T350592
to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.
The
New PreProcessor parser performance report
has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.
Meetings and events
Language community meeting
will take place November 29 at
16:00 UTC
. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at
Wiki Indaba
, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.
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{{
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interwiki link
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{{
#interlanguagelink
}}
function adds an
interlanguage link
. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with
MOS:
on English Wikipedia
conflict with the
mos
language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia
Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the
HTTPS Browser Recommendations page
for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.
Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis:
arwiki
cawiki
frwiki
mediawikiwiki
orwiki
wawiki
wawiktionary
wikidatawiki
zhwiki
. This is done as part of
StructuredDiscussions deprecation work
. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact
Trizek (WMF)
This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version
on Testwiki
and read
the November project update
for more details.
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resolved last week
. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to
this list
. In addition, review the
updated documentation
to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the
project talk page
or in the
dedicated thread
on the
Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English)
for support and to share feedback.
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Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the
Documentation hub
on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new
#wikimedia-techdocs
IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please
contact the Technical Documentation Team
Updates for editors
Layout change for the Edit Check feature
Later this week,
Edit Check
will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with
new Checks
that appear
while
they are typing. The
initial results
show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples
on Testwiki
and read
the November project update
for more details.
Translators in wikis where the
mobile experience of Content Translation is available
, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "
All collection
" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the

tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to
the step-by-step guide
The
Nuke
feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a
multiselect filter for namespace selection
. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
The Nuke feature also now
provides links
to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.
The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the
Citoid
tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively,
archiveUrl
and
archiveDate
, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an
example of a change in a template
, and a
list of all relevant templates
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikivoyage
in
Indonesian
voy:id:
Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.
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resolved last week
. For example, a bug in the
Add Link
feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.
Updates for technical contributors
Codex
, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage
implementation in PHP
. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through
Composer
, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in
the documentation
. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.
Wikimedia REST API
users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on
testwiki
from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related
Phabricator ticket
before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated
RESTBase
system.
The
2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey
is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated
privacy statement
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings and events
The next meeting in the series of
Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community
will take place on
December 12 at 8:00 UTC
and
at 16:00 UTC
. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.
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Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The
CampaignEvents extension
offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the
deployment status page
Updates for editors
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a
personalized Year in Review
with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new
Rabbit Holes
feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The
global reminder bot
is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See
the technical details page
for more information.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
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fixed
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Updates for technical contributors
There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.
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The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See
the SUL3 project page
for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
On wikis with
PageAssessments
installed, you can now
filter search results
to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject:
keyword. (These wikis:
Arabic Wikipedia
English Wikipedia
English Wikivoyage
French Wikipedia
Hungarian Wikipedia
Nepali Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
Chinese Wikipedia
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
in
Tigre
w:tig:
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. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting
some page content endpoints
from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the
MediaWiki Interfaces Team
in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs.
Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for
OAuth 1
and
OAuth 2
returned a JSON object with an integer in its
sub
field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.
Many wikis currently use
Cite CSS
to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to
not
clean up your
MediaWiki:Common.css
until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.
Meetings and events
The next meeting in the series of
Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community
will take place on
January 15 at 8:00 UTC
and
at 16:00 UTC
. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.
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Launching! Join Us for Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025!
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We’re happy to announce the launch of
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025
, an annual international campaign dedicated to celebrating and preserving Islamic cultures and history through the power of Wikipedia. As an active contributor to the Local Wikipedia, you are specially invited to participate in the launch.
This year’s campaign will be launched for you to join us write, edit, and improve articles that showcase the richness and diversity of Islamic traditions, history, and culture.
Topic:
Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 Campaign Launch
When: Jan 19, 2025
Time: 16:00 Universal Time UTC and runs throughout Ramadan (starting February 25, 2025).
Join Zoom Meeting:
Zoom meeting hosted by
Wikimedia Bangladesh
To get started, visit the
campaign page
for details, resources, and guidelines: Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025.
Add
your community here
, and organized Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 in your local language.
Whether you’re a first-time editor or an experienced Wikipedian, your contributions matter. Together, we can ensure Islamic cultures and traditions are well-represented and accessible to all.
Feel free to invite your community and friends too. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or need support as you prepare to participate.
Let’s make Wiki Loves Ramadan 2025 a success!
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Updates for editors
Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using
Extension:Nuke
. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
On
wikis that use
the
Patrolled edits
feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use
filters
on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
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community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been
fixed
Updates for technical contributors
The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by
DiscussionTools
, which is used on any regular talk page.
The last group of wikis
Catalan Wikiquote
Wikimedia Finland
Goan Konkani Wikipedia
Kabyle Wikipedia
Portuguese Wikibooks
Wikimedia Sweden
) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping
Trizek (WMF)
at your wiki.
The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: provide your comments on the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and
13 other questions
to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a
personalized Year in Review
feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in
சிறப்பு:RecentChanges
and
சிறப்பு:NewPages
Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a
double redirect
). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement.
Wikimedia wikis allow
WebAuthn
-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is
fragile
and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of
SUL3
(single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected.
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that were
resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
For developers that use the
MediaWiki History dumps
: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the
Temporary Accounts
initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_history
dump, the
anonymous
field will be renamed to
is_anonymous
. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.
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Reminder: first part of the annual UCoC review closes soon
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This is a reminder that the first phase of the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines will be closing soon. You can make suggestions for changes through
the end of day
, 3 February 2025. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
. After review of the feedback, proposals for updated text will be published on Meta in March for another round of community review.
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor.
Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.
You can now also insert

tags using a new toolbar button.
Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
Help is needed to ensure the
citation generator
works properly on each wiki.
(1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
to include entries for
preprint
standard
, and
dataset
; Here are example diffs to replicate
for 'preprint'
and
for 'standard' and 'dataset'
(2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing,
one will need to be added
. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates
for 'preprint'
and
for 'standard' and 'dataset'
. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID
identifier
repository
organization
repositoryLocation
committee
, and
versionNumber
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
in
Central Kanuri
w:knc:
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OCR (optical character recognition) tool
used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic.
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Tech News: 2025-07
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The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published
a draft of their recommendations
for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on
mobile experiences
, particularly contributions. They request community
feedback at the talk page
by 21 February.
Updates for editors
The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at
T385346
As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out
the project page
for more information.
Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion
prefers-reduced-transparency
prefers-contrast
, and
forced-colors
). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements.
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tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the
சிறப்பு:CentralAuth
page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards.
Updates for technical contributors
Wikidata
now supports a special language as a "default for all languages"
for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed.
The function
getDescription
was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers.
As part of the RESTBase deprecation
effort
, the
/page/related
endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "
morelike
" action API in MediaWiki, and
a migration example
is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team
can be contacted
for any questions.
In depth
The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization newsletter
is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
The latest
Chart Project newsletter
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Migration to Parsoid
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Hello everyone! I am glad to inform you that as the next step in the
Parser Unification
project, Parsoid will soon be turned on as the default article renderer on your Wiktionary. We are gradually increasing the number of wikis using Parsoid, with the intention of making it the default wikitext parser for MediaWiki's next long-term support release. This will make our wikis more reliable and consistent for editors, readers, and tools to use, as well as making the development of future wikitext features easier.
If this transition disrupts your workflow, don’t worry! You can still opt out through a user preference or turn Parsoid off on the current page using the Tools submenu, as described in the
Extension:ParserMigration
documentation.
There is
more information about our roll-out strategy
available, including the testing done before we turn on Parsoid for a new wiki.
To report bugs and issues, please look at our
known issues
documentation and if you found a new bug please create a phab ticket and tag the
Content Transform Team in Phabricator
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20:48, 12 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-08
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Weekly highlight
Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the
சிறப்பு:முகப்புப்பக்கம்
for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at
சிறப்பு:CommunityConfiguration
. To learn more about this feature, please read
the Diff post
, have a look
at the documentation
, or contact
the Growth team
Updates for editors
Highlighted talk pages improvements
Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis –
Spanish Wikipedia
French Wikipedia
Italian Wikipedia
Japanese Wikipedia
– will get
a new design
. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of
talk pages improvements
You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement.
When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used,
an error message
was displayed. As part of the work to
modernize Cite customization
, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can
help to update the localized versions
. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
A new filter has been added to the
சிறப்பு:Nuke
tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the
சிறப்பு:Nuke
tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements.
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Updates for technical contributors
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the
Parsoid/Parser Unification
project page.
Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that
mw.Uri
is deprecated. Tools requiring
mw.Uri
must explicitly declare
mediawiki.Uri
as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native
URL
API soon.
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Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
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We’re excited to announce that the next
Language Community Meeting
is happening soon,
February 28th at 14:00 UTC
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This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.
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Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here:
Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January
. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page:
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Administrators can now customize how the
Babel feature
creates categories using
சிறப்பு:CommunityConfiguration/Babel
. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.
The
wikimedia.org
portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as
wikibooks.org
, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wiktionary
in
Santali
wikt:sat:
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Meetings and events
The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at
14:00 UTC
. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply
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All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "
Edit full page
" link is accessible from the "
மேலும்
" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the
Advanced mobile contributions
setting.
Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "
mw-ref
" from their local
MediaWiki:Common.css
. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove,
can be found with this global search
and in
this example
, and you can learn more about how to help on the
CSS migration project page
. The Cite footnote markers ("
[1]
") are now rendered by
Parsoid
, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("
mw:referencedBy
") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
When editors embed a file (e.g.
[[File:MediaWiki.png]]
) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.
In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g.
{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}
) will now restrict edits to the page.
When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,
and respects cascading protection.
When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.
The
previously noted
update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on
Group0
wikis this week. See
the SUL3 project page
for more details and an updated timeline.
Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikipedia
in
Sylheti
w:syl:
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Universal Code of Conduct annual review: proposed changes are available for comment
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I am writing to you to let you know that
proposed changes
to the
Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines
and
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter
are open for review.
You can provide feedback on suggested changes
through the
end of day
on Tuesday, 18 March 2025. This is the second step in the annual review process, the final step will be community voting on the proposed changes.
Read more information and find relevant links about the process on the UCoC annual review page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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18:52, 7 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)
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Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the
SUL3 project
which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use.
The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in
Afrika Baraza
and the last
ESEAP call
, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts?
Join the discussion
or email
aramadan@wikimedia.org
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at
14:00 UTC
. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can
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உங்கள் விக்கி விரைவில் வாசிக்க மட்டும் முடியும் நிலைக்கு செல்லும்.
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இச்செய்தியை பிறிதொரு மொழியில் படிக்கவும்
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விக்கிமீடியா நிறுவனம்
, தனது தரவு மையங்களுக்கிடையே போக்குவரத்தை மாற்றம் செய்கிறது. ஒரு பேரிடருக்கு பின்னும் விக்கிப்பீடியா மற்றும் இதர விக்கிமீடியா விக்கிகள் இணைப்பில் இருப்பதை இது உறுதிப்படுத்தும்.
எல்லா போக்குவரத்தும்
19 மார்ச்சு
அன்று மாற்றப்படும். சோதனை தொடங்கும் நேரம்:
14:00 UTC
நல்வாய்பற்ற விதத்தில்,
மீடியாவிக்கியில்
உள்ள சில குறைபாடுகள் காரணமாக, மாற்றம் செய்யப்படும் போது எல்லா தொகுப்பு செயல்களும் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டும். இந்த இடையூறுக்கு நாங்கள் வருந்துகிறோம். மேலும் இவற்றை வருங்காலத்தில் குறைப்பதற்கு முயல்கிறோம்.
இந்த செயல்பாடு நடப்பதற்கு 30 நிமிடங்களுக்கு முன்பு அனைத்து விக்கிகளிலும் ஒரு பேனர் காண்பிக்கப்படும்.
This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
நீங்கள் ஒரு குறுகிய காலத்திற்கு அனைத்து விக்கிகளையும் படிக்க முடியும், ஆனால் தொகுக்க முடியாது.
செவ்வாய்,
புதன் 19 மார்ச்சு 2025
நீங்கள் அதிக பட்சமாக ஒரு மணி நேரத்திற்கு தொகுக்க முடியாது.
இந்த நேரங்களில் நீங்கள் தொகுக்கவோ அல்லது சேமிக்கவோ முயன்றால், நீங்கள் ஒரு பிழை செய்தியை காண்பீர். இந்த நிமிடங்களில் எந்த தொகுப்பும் தொலையாது என நம்புகிறோம், ஆனால் எங்களால் அதை உறுதி செய்ய இயலாது. நீங்கள் அந்த பிழை செய்தியை கண்டால், தயவு செய்து எல்லாம் இயல்பு நிலைக்கு திரும்பும் வரை காத்திருக்கவும். அதன் பின் நீங்கள் உங்கள் தொகுப்பை சேமிக்க முடியும். இருப்பினும், முன்னெச்சரிக்கையாக உங்கள் மாற்றங்களை ஓர் பிரதி எடுத்து கொள்வதை நாங்கள் பரிந்துரைக்கிரோம்.
பிற விளைவுகள்
பின்புல வேலைகள் மந்தமாக இருக்கும். மேலும் அவற்றில் சில கைவிடப்படலாம். சிகப்பு இணைப்புகள் வழக்கமான வேகத்தில் புதுப்பிக்கப்படாமல் போகலாம். நீங்கள் வேறு எங்கேனும் இணைக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு கட்டுரையை உருவாக்கினால், அந்த இணைப்பு வழக்கத்தை விட அதிக நேரம் சிகப்பாகவே இருக்கும். சில நீண்ட நேரம் ஓடும் துணுக்குகள் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டி இருக்கும்.
மற்ற வாரங்களைப் போலவே மூல பயன்கொள் நடக்கும் என்று நாங்கள் எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம். இருப்பினும், சில சூழ்நிலைகளில் செயல்பாட்டிற்கு பிறகு தேவைப்பட்டால் மூல முடக்கம் சரியான நேரத்தில் நடக்கலாம்.
90 நிமிடங்களுக்கு
கிட்லாப் (GitLab)
-ஐ பயன்படுத்த இயலாது.
தேவைப்பட்டால் இந்த திட்டம் ஒத்திவைக்கப்படலாம். நீங்கள்
அட்டவணையை wikitech.wikimedia.org இல் படிக்கலாம்
. எந்த மாற்றங்களும் அட்டவணையில் அறிவிக்கப்படும்.
தயவு செய்து இந்த தகவலை உங்கள் சமூகத்துடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளுங்கள்.
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Weekly highlight
Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs
a datacenter server switchover
, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter.
Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia
tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can
read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog
. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on
March 19 at 14:00 UTC
Updates for editors
The
improved Content Translation tool dashboard
is now available in
10 Wikipedias
and will be available for all Wikipedias
soon
. With
the unified dashboard
, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based
article suggestion filters
(initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the
Community-defined lists
filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
On Wikimedia Commons, a
new system to select the appropriate file categories
has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the
Multiblocks
feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the
project talk page
Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at
12 Wikipedias
Multi-Check
. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all
Reference Checks
during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented
on Phabricator
The
Global reminder bot
, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the
listing of existing translations and documentation
to check if their language needs updating or creation.
The
GlobalPreferences
gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults.
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community-submitted
tasks
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. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages.
Updates for technical contributors
Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues
please report them
. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
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The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the
drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities
for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.
Updates for editors
The
CampaignEvents extension
will be released to multiple wikis (see
deployment plan
for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation Lists
. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the
extension talk page
or in Phabricator (with
#campaigns-product-team
tag).
Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in
Event Registration
, as part of the
CampaignEvents
extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by
requesting a configuration change
in Phabricator (and adding the
#campaigns-product-team
tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
Administrators at wikis that have a customized
MediaWiki:Sidebar
should check that it contains an entry for the
சிறப்புப் பக்கங்கள்
listing. If it does not, they should add it using
* specialpages-url|specialpages
. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April.
The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (
). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts.
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VisualEditor has introduced a
new client-side hook
for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be
shared in the task
Developers who use the
mw.Api
JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the
userAgent
parameter:
var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );
. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic.
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The Editing team is working on a new
Edit check
Peacock check
. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input:
in this Phabricator task
, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging
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Single User Login
has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
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Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for
MediaWiki REST APIs
. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the
on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page
for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to
share feedback about your experience
. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
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Sometimes a small,
one line code change
can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving
maps.wikimedia.org
- a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a
datacenter switchover
. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of
extensive work
by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to
kubernetes
, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025
is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.
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The proposed modifications to the
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines
and the U4C Charter
are now on Meta-wiki for community notice
in advance of the voting period. This final draft was developed from the previous two rounds of community review. Community members will be able to vote on these modifications starting on 17 April 2025. The vote will close on 1 May 2025, and results will be announced no later than 12 May 2025. The U4C election period, starting with a call for candidates, will open immediately following the announcement of the review results. More information will be posted on
the wiki page for the election
soon.
Please be advised that this process will require more messages to be sent here over the next two months.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
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From now on,
interface admins
and
centralnotice admins
are technically required to enable
two-factor authentication
before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights.
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The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the
2.0 overview documentation
, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as
font-size
line-height
, and
size-icon
The results of the
Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)
are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
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Meetings and events
The
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a
visa
or
e-visa
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Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations.
File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called
Edge Uniques
which will enable
A/B testing
, help protect against
Distributed denial-of-service attacks
(DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password
emailed to their account
. It is recommended that you
check
that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose.
"Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be
asked at 7 wikis starting next week
, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The
Moderator Tools team
wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on
query.wikidata.org
. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through
query-scholarly.wikidata.org
, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the
query.wikidata.org
endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was
announced in September 2024
. More information is
available on Wikidata
The latest quarterly
Wikimedia Apps Newsletter
is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
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The latest quarterly
Technical Community Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
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Vote now on the revised UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines ("UCoC EG") and the UCoC's Coordinating Committee Charter is open now through the end of 1 May (UTC) (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review of the EG and Charter was planned and implemented by the U4C. Further information will be provided in the coming months about the review of the UCoC itself. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
review the U4C Charter
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Wikifunctions
is now integrated with
Dagbani Wikipedia
since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of
a stable and global function
, rather than via a local template.
A new type of lint error has been created:
Empty headings
documentation
). The
Linter extension
's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them.
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Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is
now also available on Kaggle
. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall
Structured Contents project
, and about the
first release that's freely usable
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings and events
The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss
Peacock check
, which is the latest
Edit check
that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The
meeting will be on April 28, 2025
at
18:00–19:00 UTC
and hosted on Zoom.
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Event organizers who host collaborative activities on
multiple wikis
, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the
CampaignEvents extension
this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as
requested by a community
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The release of the next major version of
Codex
, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of
breaking changes
and minor
visual changes
. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on
this page
. Pre-release testing is reported in
T386298
, with post-release issues tracked in
T392379
and
T392390
Users of
Wiki Replicas
will notice that the database views of
ipblocks
ipblocks_ipindex
, and
ipblocks_compat
are
now deprecated
. Users can query the
block
and
block_target
new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved
Content Translation Dashboard Tool
support for new languages
highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign
results from the Language Onboarding Experiment
, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.
Meetings and events
The
Let's Connect Learning Clinic
will take place on
April 29 at 14:30 UTC
. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can
register now
to attend.
The
2025 Wikimedia Hackathon
, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.
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Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter
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The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (
find in your time zone
).
Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting
on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may
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to remove GFDL from the list of licenses users see during upload. I know it is not very likely many files are uploaded but GFDL is not a good license for media files.
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The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their
annual plan
for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an
executive summary
(also on
Diff
), details about the three main
goals
Infrastructure
Volunteer Support
, and
Effectiveness
),
global trends
, and the
budget
and
financial model
. Feedback and questions are welcome on the
talk page
until the end of May.
Updates for editors
For wikis that have the
CampaignEvents extension enabled
, two new feature improvements have been released:
Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for
Event Registration
via
Community Configuration
documentation
). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
Editors can now
transclude
the Collaboration List on a wiki page (
documentation
). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via
சிறப்பு:AllEvents
example
). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
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Developers who use the
moment
library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the
Intl
library or the new
mediawiki.DateFormatter
library. The
moment
library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and
ask related questions in this Phabricator task
Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (
wbt_*
) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead.
Documentation and related links are available
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The latest
Chart Project newsletter
is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.
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We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
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Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the
old Graph extension
was disabled in 2023
due to security reasons
. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the
Charts extension
, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the
EasyTimeline extension
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from
May 6
. Please, consult
our page on MediaWiki.org
to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also
consult the documentation
about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the
project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org
, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the
talk page
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The
"Get shortened URL"
link on the sidebar now includes a
QR code
. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called
Edge Uniques
, which will enable
A/B testing
, help protect against
distributed denial-of-service attacks
(DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has
previously written about this
. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the
talk page
Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the
CampaignEvents extension
enabled can use
Event Registration
in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at
Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents
The Wikipedia project now has a
Wikipedia
in
Nupe
w:nup:
). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to
new Wikipedia
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Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the
Structured Contents snapshots (beta)
. The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
The
/page/data-parsoid
REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is
scheduled to be turned off
on June 7, 2025.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The
IPv6 support
is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out
this blog post
for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.
Meetings and events
The 2nd edition of 2025 of
Afrika Baraza
, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on
May 15 at 17:00 UTC
. This edition will focus on discussions regarding
Wikimedia Annual planning and progress
The
MENA Connect Community Call
, a virtual meeting for
MENA
Wikimedians to connect, will take place on
May 17 at 17:00 UTC
. You can
register now
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Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)
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The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is
available on Meta-wiki
You may now
submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C
through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about
eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki
. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.
If you have any questions, you can ask on
the discussion page for the election
. -- in cooperation with the U4C,
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Tech News: 2025-21
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The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:
Peacock check
. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are
invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org
. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.
Updates for editors
From May 20, 2025,
oversighters
and
checkusers
will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights.
Multiblocks
will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please
contact the team
if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to
சிறப்பு:Block
?usecodex=1
, and can test the full multiblocks functionality
on testwiki
. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the
help page
for more information.
Later this week, the
சிறப்பு:SpecialPages
listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been
redesigned
to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be
previewed
at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.
The
Chart extension
is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the
deployment timeline
Wikifunctions
will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries:
Hausa
Igbo
Bengali
Malayalam
, and
Dhivehi/Maldivian
. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of
a stable and global function
, rather than via a local template.
Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for
experiments
. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement
understand new users
, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are
generated video
, the
Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game
and
the Discord bot
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Updates for technical contributors
Gadgets and user scripts that interact with
சிறப்பு:Block
may need to be updated to work with the new
manage blocks interface
. Please review the
developer guide
for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the
talk page
The
mw.title
object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the
Lua
programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named
isDisambiguationPage
. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.
User script developers can use a
new reverse proxy tool
to load javascript and css from
gitlab.wikimedia.org
with
mw.loader.load
. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on
gitlab.wikimedia.org
without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See
Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech
for more information.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
The 12th edition of
Wiki Workshop 2025
, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can
register now
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RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)
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Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.
We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
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Tech News: 2025-22
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A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of
Abstract Wikipedia
is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at
Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content
, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.
Updates for editors
Since last week, on all wikis except
the largest 20
, people using the mobile visual editor will have
additional tools in the menu bar
, accessed using the new
toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is
scheduled
to happen in June.
The
#ifexist
parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of
சிறப்பு:WantedPages
, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated.
This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch
a new filter to Recent Changes
, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more.
Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers,
WikiGames
, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
The
Newsletter extension
that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of
various newsletters
for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue.
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Updates for technical contributors
The previously deprecated
ipblocks
views in
Wiki Replicas
will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new
block
and
block_target
views instead.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
Wikidata and Sister Projects
is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can
read the Program schedule
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions
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Dear all,
This year, the term of 2 (two) Community- and Affiliate-selected Trustees on the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees will come to an end [1]. The Board invites the whole movement to participate in this year’s selection process and vote to fill those seats.
The Elections Committee will oversee this process with support from Foundation staff [2]. The Governance Committee, composed of trustees who are not candidates in the 2025 community-and-affiliate-selected trustee selection process (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina and Esra’a Al Shafei) [3], is tasked with providing Board oversight for the 2025 trustee selection process and for keeping the Board informed. More details on the roles of the Elections Committee, Board, and staff are here [4].
Here are the key planned dates:
May 22 – June 5: Announcement (this communication) and call for questions period [6]
June 17 – July 1, 2025: Call for candidates
July 2025: If needed, affiliates vote to shortlist candidates if more than 10 apply [5]
August 2025: Campaign period
August – September 2025: Two-week community voting period
October – November 2025: Background check of selected candidates
Board’s Meeting in December 2025: New trustees seated
Learn more about the 2025 selection process - including the detailed timeline, the candidacy process, the campaign rules, and the voter eligibility criteria - on this Meta-wiki page
[link]
Call for Questions
In each selection process, the community has the opportunity to submit questions for the Board of Trustees candidates to answer. The Election Committee selects questions from the list developed by the community for the candidates to answer. Candidates must answer all the required questions in the application in order to be eligible; otherwise their application will be disqualified. This year, the Election Committee will select 5 questions for the candidates to answer. The selected questions may be a combination of what’s been submitted from the community, if they’re alike or related.
[link]
Election Volunteers
Another way to be involved with the 2025 selection process is to be an Election Volunteer. Election Volunteers are a bridge between the Elections Committee and their respective community. They help ensure their community is represented and mobilize them to vote. Learn more about the program and how to join on this Meta-wiki page
[link].
Thank you!
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[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
Best regards,
Victoria Doronina
Board Liaison to the Elections Committee
Governance Committee
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The
Chart extension
is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy
Graph extension
Updates for editors
It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's
citation generator
. Administrators can now set a default template by using the
_default
key in the local
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
page (
example diff
). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when
new item types
are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template.
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Updates for technical contributors
Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using
action=login
or
action=clientlogin
will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using
bot passwords
or using a loginless authentication method such as
OAuth
are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using
action=login
without a bot password was deprecated
in 2016
. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.
From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is
async
await
syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
Scholarship applications to participate in the
GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can
apply here
. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.
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Tech News: 2025-24
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The
Trust and Safety Product team
is finalizing work needed to roll out
temporary accounts
on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project,
see this update
. If you have any comments or questions, write on the
talk page
, and
join a CEE Catch Up
this Tuesday.
Updates for editors
The
watchlist expiry
feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The
preferences
also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (
some
have already received this design change,
a few
will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes
on
Diff
. It is possible to opt out of these changes
in user preferences
("
Show discussion activity
").
Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts
revealed automatically
during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.
This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of
a new filter to Recent Changes
, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias:
Afrikaans Wikipedia
Belarusian Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia
Welsh Wikipedia
Hawaiian Wikipedia
Icelandic Wikipedia
Kazakh Wikipedia
Simple English Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include
the rest of the Wikipedias in this project
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Updates for technical contributors
AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are
available on Phabricator
Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on
some wikis
to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on
mw.title objects
, named
pageImage
and
pageAssessments
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election
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Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the
2025 Election information page
. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at
12:00 UTC
Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C,
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Tech News: 2025-25
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Updates for editors
You can
nominate your favorite tools
for the sixth edition of the
Coolest Tool Award
. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
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Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
MediaWiki
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Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can
read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post
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Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 - Call for Candidates
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Hello all,
The
call for candidates for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection is now open
from June 17, 2025 – July 2, 2025 at 11:59 UTC [1]. The Board of Trustees oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's work, and each Trustee serves a three-year term [2]. This is a volunteer position.
This year, the Wikimedia community will vote in late August through September 2025 to fill two (2) seats on the Foundation Board. Could you – or someone you know – be a good fit to join the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees? [3]
Learn more about what it takes to stand for these leadership positions and how to submit your candidacy on
this Meta-wiki page
or encourage someone else to run in this year's election.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair of the Elections Committee
On behalf of the Elections Committee and Governance Committee
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Weekly highlight
This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of
a new filter to Recent Changes
, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias:
Azerbaijani Wikipedia
Latin Wikipedia
Macedonian Wikipedia
Malayalam Wikipedia
Marathi Wikipedia
Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia
Punjabi Wikipedia
Swahili Wikipedia
Telugu Wikipedia
Tagalog Wikipedia
. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include
the rest of the Wikipedias in this project
Updates for editors
Last week,
temporary accounts
were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow.
Share your thoughts
about the project.
Later this week, the Editing team will release
Multi Check
to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple
Reference checks
within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test.
The test shows
that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%).
A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in
the task
. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
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. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected.
Updates for technical contributors
Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with
Extension:Chart
. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations.
Information on how to use transforms is available
The
all_links
variable in
AbuseFilter
is now renamed to
new_links
for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The latest quarterly
Growth newsletter
is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.
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Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews
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Dear Wikimedia Community,
The
Community Affairs Committee (CAC)
of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned
the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF)
to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki
projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF)
A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.
Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose.
Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources
. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.
Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.
Lastly,
failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones
. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.
Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.
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The
application to consider Wikispore
was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.
After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided
not to recommend
Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows
better flexibility
and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.
We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.
As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.
Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.
Wikinews
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We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.
Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.
[1]
[2]
[3]
Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.
While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action
[4]
[5]
, see section 5
as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews
[6]
Initial metrics
compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.
Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.
SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.
Options
mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:
Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
Archive Wikinews projects.
Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.
Feedback and next steps
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We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages:
Public consultation about Wikispore
and
Public consultation about Wikinews
. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.
I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.
--
Victoria
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The
CampaignEvents extension
has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation List
. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the
Deployment information page
Updates for editors
AbuseFilter maintainers can now
match against IP reputation data
in
AbuseFilters
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Hidden content that is within
collapsible parts of wikipages
will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.
A new feature, called
Favourite Templates
, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a
community wishlist focus area
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தமிழ் பெயர் மற்றும் வினைச் சொற்களின் திரிபுகளைக் காண்பிக்க ஆங்கில விக்சனரியில்
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வில்
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Access to IP
, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and
Repository
with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.
Updates for editors
Anyone can play an experimental new game,
WikiRun
, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers.
Try playing the game
and let the team know what you think
on the talk page
Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new
trivia game
Which came first?
is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers.
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the
Tabbed Browsing project page
Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use
சிறப்பு:VerifyOATHForUser
to check if users have enabled
two-factor authentication
A new feature related to
Template Recall and Discovery
will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a
template category browser
will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community
through the Community Wishlist
It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed.
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As part of
MediaWiki 1.44
there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at
Manual:Notifications
, information about migration in
T388663
and details on deprecated hooks in
T389624
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
WikidataCon 2025
, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for
session proposals
and for
registration
. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".
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Hello everyone, the
Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects
team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your
Watchlists
and
Recent Changes
lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the
Wikidata:Glossary
for further explanations.
The upcoming change is scheduled for
17.07.2025
, between
1300 - 1500 UTC
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:
These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.
Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.
Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this
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Featured templates
, a new feature related to
Template Recall and Discovery
will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community
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Detailed code updates later this week:
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Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to
submit a project idea
for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read
this Diff blog post
for more details.
Meetings and events
WikiIndaba 2025
scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit
your scholarship application
and
program proposal
now!
WikiCon Brasil 2025
will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!
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The Translation Suggestions feature in the
Content Translation tool
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... More
" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "
Regions
" filter.
Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The
"Add a Link"
Structured Task
helps new account holders start editing
, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the
Community Configuration
feature.
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For AbuseFilter editors on
some wikis
, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the
ORES/AbuseFilter variables
documentation.
The
Beta Cluster
wikis have
been moved
from
beta.wmflabs.org
to
beta.wmcloud.org
. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be
reported in the task
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
WikiCite 2025
will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon.
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The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please
read the latest update
, and if you have ideas, please
submit a wish
on the topic.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block
cross-wiki uploads
to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of
widespread problems
related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the
message
or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.
On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named
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Meetings and events
Wikimania 2025
will run from August 6–9. The
program is available
for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please
for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors
Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
A dozen visions for wikitext!
Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council
The
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025
will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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Editors can now enable the
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your global preferences
, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.
Everybody is invited to share comments on
Collaborative Contributions
, a project recently launched by the
Connection team
. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the
project talk page
Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named
MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account
and use a value defined in
MediaWiki:Ipboptions
. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList.
More documentation
is available.
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Gadgets can now include
.vue
files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using
Vue.js
, in particular using
Codex
, the official design system of Wikimedia.
Codex icons
can be loaded through the gadget definition.
The documentation
has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an
API module
now exists to load Codex icons.
Module developers can now use a
Lua interface
to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to
watch the demo video
, read more about
translatable modules
to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's
Module:User Wikimedia project
for example usage, and
share their feedback
on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet.
Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with
the user-agent policy
. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are
overusing
Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent.
More technical details are available
, and related questions are welcome in that task.
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the
Parsoid/Parser Unification
project page.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
Wikimania 2025
will run from August 6–9. The
program is available
for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please
for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse
Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!
Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience
Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next
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The WikiEditor toolbar now includes
its keyboard shortcuts
in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
The
Product and Technology Advisory Council
published a set of
proposed experiments
the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on
this talk page
The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.
Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is
an A/B experiment
that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.
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The multiwiki datasets of
Unicode data
have been moved to
Category:Unicode Module Datasets
on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at
the talkpage
Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the
mw.addWarning()
function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected.
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கடந்த விக்கிமேனியாவில் நிரலாக்க நிகழ்வில் உருவாக்கிய
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பயனர்கருவியைப் பரிந்துரைத்து, அறிமுகம் செய்ய விரும்புகிறேன். மலையாள விக்சனரியின் தேவைக்காக உருவாக்கிய இதைப் பொதுக் கருவியாக மாற்றியுள்ளேன். விக்சனரி, விக்கிப்பீடியா என்று எந்தத் திட்டப் பக்கத்திற்கான உச்சரிப்பிற்கான ஒலிக்கோப்பினை இது பரிந்துரை செய்யும். குறிப்பாக
லிங்காலிபரல்
வழியாக உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ள என்னெற்ற ஒலிக்கோப்புகளை இதில் அடையாளங்கண்டு நமது பக்கத்தில் ஒலியை இணைத்துக் கொள்ளமுடியும். தேவையுள்ளவர்கள் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ளலாம். பின்னூட்டங்களை திட்டப்பக்கத்தில் வழங்கலாம்.-
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Discussion tools
Beta Feature
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Learn more about this feature
An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.
An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using
Experimentation Lab
. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.
Five new wikis have been created:
Wikisource
in
Tagalog
s:tl:
Wikisource
in
Madurese
s:mad:
Wikipedia
in
Rakhine
w:rki:
Wikibooks
in
Minangkabau
b:min:
Wiktionary
in
Standard Moroccan Amazigh
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Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by
TemplateStyles
was updated. For example:
width: fit-content
ruby-align
; relative units such as
lh
; and custom strings in
list-style-type
. These improvements are a
Community Wishlist wish
On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.
Administrators can now access the
சிறப்பு:BlockedExternalDomains
page from the
சிறப்பு:CommunityConfiguration
list page. This makes it easier to find.
Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wiktionary
in
Betawi
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Two fields of the
recentchanges database table
are being removed.
rc_new
and
rc_type
are being removed in favor of
rc_source
. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use
rc_source
instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table.
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The latest quarterly
Language and Internationalization Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.
Meetings and events
The next
Language Community Meeting
is happening soon, August 29th at
15:00 UTC
. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.
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Hello, we are the Wikimedia Foundation
Product Safety and Integrity
team. We would like to announce that
we plan to enable
temporary accounts
for this wiki in the week of September 1
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:
~2025-12345-67
(a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users who
meet the relevant requirements
will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers
who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users who
meet the requirements
will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (
Special:IPContributions
). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to the
IP Info
feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the
autoblock
option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
Our requests for you, and next steps
If you know of any tools, bots, gadgets etc. using data about IP addresses or being available for logged-out users, you may want to test if they work on
testwiki
or
test2wiki
. If you are a volunteer developer,
read our documentation for developers
, and in particular, the section on
how your code might need to be updated
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at our
previous message
about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check out
our FAQ
– you will find many useful answers there. You may also
look at the updates
(we have just posted one) and
subscribe to our new newsletter
. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
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The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in
T402601
, or to share their list with
Trizek_(WMF)
Arabic Wikipedia
Czech Wikipedia
German Wikipedia
English Wikipedia
Spanish Wikipedia
Persian Wikipedia
French Wikipedia
Hebrew Wikipedia
Indonesian Wikipedia
Italian Wikipedia
Japanese Wikipedia
Korean Wikipedia
Dutch Wikipedia
Polish Wikipedia
Portuguese Wikipedia
Turkish Wikipedia
Ukrainian Wikipedia
Vietnamese Wikipedia
Chinese Wikipedia
. This project is open until September 9th 2025.
Updates for editors
The
CampaignEvents extension
has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features:
Event Registration
Collaboration List
, and
Invitation List
. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.
The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.
On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our
group by toggle experiment
of the
Special:RecentChanges
Special:Watchlist
, and
Special:RelatedChanges
pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results.
Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles.
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Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is
a newsletter
to learn more.
The latest
Readers Newsletter
is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.
Meetings and events
Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE
shared tools to help communities search for these
La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs
: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.
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The Editing team is working on a new check:
Paste check
. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please
tell us in this task
, or
contact the team
Updates for editors
Later this week, users of the "
Improved Syntax Highlighting
beta feature
will be able to use a
linting tool
to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the
help page for more information
When browsing a wiki (like
en.wikipedia.org
), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like
en.m.wikipedia.org
). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out.
When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.
Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results.
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References lists that are made using the

tag
will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width.
Starting in the week of October 6, on
small wikis
and
medium wikis
that have the
CampaignEvents extension
enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use
Event Registration
as an organizer. No changes will be made for
large wikis
unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right.
Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
for the
intitle:
keyword:
metacharacters
for start-of-line (
) and end-of-line (
) anchors
for both
intitle:
and
insource:
keywords: shorthand
character classes
for digits (
\d
), whitespace (
\s
), and word characters (
\w
); and
escape codes
for line feed (
\r
), newline (
\n
), tab (
\t
), and unicode (e.g.
\uHHHH
).
When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.
All wikis will be read-only
for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at
15:00 UTC
. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can
read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog
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Updates for technical contributors
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to
join an upcoming discovery interview
, or
leave feedback onwiki
Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
The new
Unicode 17.0
version has been released. The
datasets on Commons
for the
Module:Unicode data
have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
Users of the
Wikimedia Enterprise
Structured Contents endpoints can now access
Parsed Tables
. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the
Structured Contents initiative
. Structured Contents output is freely available through the
On-demand API
, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information
from
Wikimedia Enterprise
has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
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Meetings and events
Scholarship applications
for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.
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உங்கள் விக்கி விரைவில் வாசிக்க மட்டும் முடியும் நிலைக்கு செல்லும்.
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விக்கிமீடியா நிறுவனம்
, தனது தரவு மையங்களுக்கிடையே போக்குவரத்தை மாற்றம் செய்கிறது. ஒரு பேரிடருக்கு பின்னும் விக்கிப்பீடியா மற்றும் இதர விக்கிமீடியா விக்கிகள் இணைப்பில் இருப்பதை இது உறுதிப்படுத்தும்.
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நீங்கள் ஒரு குறுகிய காலத்திற்கு அனைத்து விக்கிகளையும் படிக்க முடியும், ஆனால் தொகுக்க முடியாது.
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நீங்கள் அதிக பட்சமாக ஒரு மணி நேரத்திற்கு தொகுக்க முடியாது.
இந்த நேரங்களில் நீங்கள் தொகுக்கவோ அல்லது சேமிக்கவோ முயன்றால், நீங்கள் ஒரு பிழை செய்தியை காண்பீர். இந்த நிமிடங்களில் எந்த தொகுப்பும் தொலையாது என நம்புகிறோம், ஆனால் எங்களால் அதை உறுதி செய்ய இயலாது. நீங்கள் அந்த பிழை செய்தியை கண்டால், தயவு செய்து எல்லாம் இயல்பு நிலைக்கு திரும்பும் வரை காத்திருக்கவும். அதன் பின் நீங்கள் உங்கள் தொகுப்பை சேமிக்க முடியும். இருப்பினும், முன்னெச்சரிக்கையாக உங்கள் மாற்றங்களை ஓர் பிரதி எடுத்து கொள்வதை நாங்கள் பரிந்துரைக்கிரோம்.
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பின்புல வேலைகள் மந்தமாக இருக்கும். மேலும் அவற்றில் சில கைவிடப்படலாம். சிகப்பு இணைப்புகள் வழக்கமான வேகத்தில் புதுப்பிக்கப்படாமல் போகலாம். நீங்கள் வேறு எங்கேனும் இணைக்கப்பட்ட ஒரு கட்டுரையை உருவாக்கினால், அந்த இணைப்பு வழக்கத்தை விட அதிக நேரம் சிகப்பாகவே இருக்கும். சில நீண்ட நேரம் ஓடும் துணுக்குகள் நிறுத்தப்பட வேண்டி இருக்கும்.
மற்ற வாரங்களைப் போலவே மூல பயன்கொள் நடக்கும் என்று நாங்கள் எதிர்பார்க்கிறோம். இருப்பினும், சில சூழ்நிலைகளில் செயல்பாட்டிற்கு பிறகு தேவைப்பட்டால் மூல முடக்கம் சரியான நேரத்தில் நடக்கலாம்.
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On September 24th at 15:00 UTC
, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled
datacenter server switchover
. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the
"Listen to Wikipedia"
tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can
read more about the process on the Diff blog
Updates for editors
Editors of
60 more Wiktionaries
will soon be able to call
functions from Wikifunctions
and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other
65 Wiktionary language editions
, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
A new
parser function
has been added:
{{#contentmodel}}
. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the
content model
of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as
MediaWiki:editinginterface
, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page.
Adding or editing a
DISPLAYTITLE
for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in
this ticket
Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned
Activity tab
, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
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Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving
geo-coordinates
quantities
and
time
values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in
this video
and Wikifunctions'
August 1 newsletter
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August 22 newsletter
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22:56, 22 செப்டெம்பர் 2025 (UTC)
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Wikifunctions will be deployed on your wiki on 2025-10-01
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Hi all, we want to let you know that
Wikifunctions
is coming to your project soon! When enabled, you will be able to call functions from your project, and integrate them in your articles.
A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output. Think of adding up two numbers, or converting miles into metres, or calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. This is usually done with templates that are complicated to create or to import. With Wikifunctions, you will be able to do this with just a couple of clicks!
Please check out
these tutorials
for more details. You’re also invited to
create functions
that you find useful, or
ask for help from the Wikifunctions community
We would like to invite you to contribute to Wikifunctions, by translating the existing functions labels into your language, so that more users in your community can more easily reuse them on the project. You can also translate the messages for the Wikifunctions interface on TranslateWiki (
here for VisualEditor messages
, and
here for the Wikifunctions interface proper
).
Of course, we are happy to help in case there are questions or difficulties, and we are ready to listen to your feedback. Please ping me directly in case of necessity or reach out to me
on my talk page
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A major software upgrade has been made to
Phabricator
. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more.
Updates for editors
The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this
in the latest update
or you can consult the
current documentation on MediaWiki
As announced
on Diff blog
, the production trial of the
hCaptcha
service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing
CAPTCHA
(FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
The
CampaignEvents
extension has been
deployed
to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the
event organizer right
Sub-referencing
, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can
test the feature
on testwiki or
on betawiki
as well. Please share your thoughts on
using templates in sub-references
or
volunteer to become a pilot wiki
On wikis using the
Mentorship
system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through
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The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers:
Tone check
. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are
invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org
. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
The rollout of
multiblocks
had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on
சிறப்பு:Contributions
and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix,
messages prefixed with
sp-contributions-blocked-notice
will be removed and replaced with
those prefixed with
blocked-notice-logextract
in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as
[ ] |
after the fragment identifier (
). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikiquote
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Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the
mw.title.newBatch
function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the
expensive function
count once.
A new
Unsupported Tools Working Group
has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the
Product & Technology Advisory Council
(PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
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Upcoming Dark Mode user interface rollout for anonymous Wikimedia sites users
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Hello
Wikimedians,
Apologies if this message is not in your language.
Please help translate to your language
The
Reader Experience team
will launch the Dark mode feature for anonymous users on all Wikimedia sites, including yours, on October 29, 2025.
Dark mode
is an option that allows users to view pages in light-coloured text, and icons on a dark background. Once it is available for anonymous users, they can enable it when using various devices. More information on ways to enable it can be found on
this page
Given many pages are still not compatible with dark mode this will be an opt-in feature and not automatically apply to pages.
Dark mode requires modifications to content pages and templates, and since our initial launch
in July 2024
, we have been working with communities and helping them prepare for dark mode. Before the rollout, it is essential that template authors and technical contributors test dark mode and read
this page
to learn how to make pages Dark mode-ready and address any compatibility issues found in templates.
We will fix most color compatibility issues only on the most-viewed pages on projects with over 5 million monthly page views. Technical contributors with an account should opt into dark mode currently using preferences or settings and test pages and seek help before the release to ensure everything complies before the enablement.
If you have any questions or need help, please
contact the Reader Experience team
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Paste Check
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22 wikis will test Paste Check
. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like
en.wikipedia.org
), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like
en.m.wikipedia.org
). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available.
New
date filters
creationdate:
and
lasteditdate:
, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g.
>2024
) and relative dates (e.g.
today-1d
), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges.
Wikifunctions
now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a
Latin declination table
that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an
example output
. If you need any help or have any feedback, please
contact the Wikifunctions Team
An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.
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The field
rev_sha1
in the revision database table is being removed in favor of
content_sha1
in the content database table. See
the announcement
for more information.
The
Reader Experience team
will roll out
Dark Mode
user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to
learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode
and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on
this talk page
before the enablement.
Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the
rest.php
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Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees
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Hello all,
The voting period for the
2025 Board of Trustees election
is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.
To check your voter eligibility, please visit the
voter eligibility page
Learn more about them by
reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos
When you are ready, go to the
SecurePoll voting page to vote
The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.
Best regards,
Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee
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Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for
Special:AccountSecurity
, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the
Account Security
project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at
Special:AccountSecurity
. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.
This week, users at wikis where talk page
Usability Improvements
are already available by default (everywhere
except
the 12 wikis listed in
T379264
) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can
learn more about this change
Users who have not
verified their email address
will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.
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resolved last week
. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.
Updates for technical contributors
The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen
Video2Commons
as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.
Learn more on Meta
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Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Hello
. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from
Wikifunctions
and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then
please learn more and vote now
at meta-wiki.
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To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.
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. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the
rest.php
route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the
Service Ops team board
Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
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The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can
read more on the project page
Autoconfirmed users on
small
and
medium wikis
with the CampaignEvents extension can now use
Event Registration
without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.
Visit the deployment page to learn more
The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the
சிறப்பு:RestSandbox
page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the
project launch
page.
Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the
REST Sandbox
. See the
MediaWiki REST API Deprecation
page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
A dedicated
changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API
. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please
join the discussion
Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from
Q130635582
. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited.
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Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees
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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:
Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
Ombuds commission (OC)
Case Review Committee (CRC)
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
wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
For the Committee Support team,
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Updates for editors
Administrators will now find that
சிறப்பு:MergeHistory
is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start).
For users with "
Automatically subscribe to topics
enabled in their preferences
, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "
தலைப்பைச் சேர்
" 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.
Scribunto modules can now be used to
generate SVG images
. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.
Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.
Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing
Special:EditWatchlist
. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A
community wish
has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish!
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resolved last week
. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.
Updates for technical contributors
Since 2019 the
Wikimedia URL Shortener
at
is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means
/s/
URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML
class="title-shortlink"
. The
/s/
URLs will keep working.
On Thursday, October 30, the
MediaWiki Interfaces
and
SRE Service Operations
teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the
Service Ops team
board.
MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025.
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In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in
a Diff blog post
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Updates for editors
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
Starting November 12, users will see a change in the
appearance of talk pages
on
some Wikipedias
. Almost
all wikis
have received this design change;
English Wikipedia
will get these changes later. You can read more
on
Diff
. Users can opt out of these changes
in their user preferences
in "
Show discussion activity
".
MediaWiki can now display a
page indicator
automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by
community request
Using the "
முன்தோற்றம் காட்டு
" or "
மாற்றங்களை காட்டு
" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like '
useskin
', '
uselang
' and '
section
'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content.
Wikivoyage wikis can use
colored map markers in the article text
. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed.
The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis.
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Nominations are open on Wikitech
for new
Toolforge standards committee
members. The committee oversees the Toolforge
Right to fork policy
and
Abandoned tool policy
among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
The
JWT issuer field
in
OAuth 2 access tokens
for
SUL wikis
has been changed to
. Old access tokens will still work.
The
JWT subject field
in
OAuth 2 access tokens
will soon change from

to
mw::
, where

is typically
CentralAuth:
(for
SUL wikis
) or
local:
(for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the
sessionJwt
cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work.
MediaWiki's block messages (
blockedtext
blockedtext-partial
autoblockedtext
systemblockedtext
blockedtext-tempuser
autoblockedtext-tempuser
) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page
$9
or emailing other users
10
REL1_45
branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change.
The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support.
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Updates for editors
The
Reader Experience team
is experimenting with
reading lists on mobile web
, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the
Account Security
initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in.
One new wiki has been created: a
Wikisource
in
Minangkabau
s:min:
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tasks
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resolved last week
Updates for technical contributors
As part of the
Parser Unification
project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the
Extension:ParserMigration
documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the
"Report Visual Bug"
link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the
Content Transform Team in Phabricator
Unsupported Tools: Several issues with
Video2Commons
have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the
Phabricator board
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Meetings and events
Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026.
Scholarship applications are currently open
, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email
hackathon@wikimedia.org
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Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
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Hello
. 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.
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Updates for editors
Last week, the
Wikimedia Search Team
recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for
cxfcnmt
on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for
счастье
("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week.
Later this week, users of the "
Improved Syntax Highlighting
beta feature
will have syntax highlighting available in
DiscussionTools
. This requires that the "
Enable editing tools in source mode
" preference be set.
Campaign events extension
– the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as
Collaborative contribution
to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming
learning session
to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
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24
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the
recruitment survey
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for
format=xml
&xlst={stylesheet}
will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026).
The WDQS legacy endpoint (
query-legacy-full.wikidata.org
) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (
- Main graph or
- Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the
Data Access
and
Request a Query
pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
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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)
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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.
Two new wikis have been created:
Wikipedia
in
Toki Pona
w:tok:
Wikiquote
in
Nigerian Pidgin
q:pcm:
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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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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Tech News: 2025-50
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Latest
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Weekly highlight
Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use
two-factor authentication
(2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the
Account Security
initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
Following last week's deployments, the
Add a link
feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional
33 Wikipedias
starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact
Trizek (WMF)
Last week, the
Search Platform team
added
transliterated
as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script
are now rewritten into Georgian script
to look for more matches. For example, searching for either
bedniereba
or
бедниереба
will now suggest the existing article about
ბედნიერება
("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful
on Phabricator
for future development.
Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find
more details
about the project.
Later this week, the
Reader Growth team
will launch a
mobile web experiment
to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
The
Wikipedia Year in Review 2025
, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications.
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community-submitted
tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
Starting this week, users of the "
Improved Syntax Highlighting
beta feature
will have
CodeMirror
as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of
CodeEditor
. With this, the
linters
will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience.
Developers are encouraged to take the
2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey
, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Tech News: 2025-51
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. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit.
Updates for technical contributors
To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in
சிறப்பு:LinkSearch
, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinks
table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2025-52
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Updates for editors
From January, edit filters
can be set
to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material.
The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
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. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected.
Updates for technical contributors
Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"
to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with
data-mw-interface=""
, to avoid potential conflicts with other
data-mw
attributes, which are generated by Parsoid.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Meetings and events
The
Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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Tech News: 2026-03
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The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on
Meta
and
Diff
. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the
talk page
Updates for editors
As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the
Multiple watchlists
project, the display of
EditWatchlist
will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on
will be updated too, as a part of the work on the
Revamp pagination / page navigation
wish.
The Global Watchlist
is a MediaWiki
extension
that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular
Watchlist
, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs.
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Updates for technical contributors
The
VisualEditor citation tool
and
Reference Previews
now support "map" as a reference type.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Thank You for Last Year – Join Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026
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Dear Wikimedia communities,
We hope you are doing well, and we wish you a happy New Year.
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:
Meta-Wiki
Wikimedia Commons
Early registration for updates is now open via the
Event page
Stay connected and receive updates:
Telegram channel
Mailing list
We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.
The Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 Organizing Team
19:45, 16 சனவரி 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-04
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Updates for editors
The tray shown on
Special:Diff
in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered.
The Global Watchlist
lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The
extension
continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added.
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tasks
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resolved last week
. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.
Updates for technical contributors
As mentioned in the
October 2025 deprecation announcement
, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the
REST Sandbox
. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the
#MW-Interfaces-Team board
Interactive reference documentation for the
Wikimedia REST API
has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through
RESTBase
(e.g.:
) are now redirected to the
REST Sandbox
The
WMF Wikidata Platform team
(WDP) has published its
January 2026 newsletter
. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can
subscribe to the WDP newsletter
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
The
Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!
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20:29, 19 சனவரி 2026 (UTC)
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Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines
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I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review.
Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta
The
Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee
(U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C,
you may review the U4C Charter
Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.
-- In cooperation with the U4C,
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21:02, 19 சனவரி 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-05
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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.
Updates for technical contributors
A new AbuseFilter variable,
account_type
, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the
createaccount
and
autocreateaccount
actions. As part of this change, the variable
accountname
has been renamed to
account_name
, and
accountname
is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable.
Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to
upload.wikimedia.org/…
will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes.
Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task
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Tech News: 2026-06
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Updates for editors
The "
இப்பக்கத்தின் தகவல்
" feature, which gives validating information about a page (
example
), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local
மீடியாவிக்கி: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.
Updates for technical contributors
There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the
MediaWiki REST API
. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the
#MW-Interfaces-Team board
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Weekly highlight
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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Tech News: 2026-07
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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.
When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
The
Global Watchlist
lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The
extension
continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both
Wikidata
and
testwikidata
. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been
deprecated in wikitext since 2021
due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new
built-in parser function
{{#isbn}}
available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so.
Two new wikis have been created:
Wikipedia
in
Jju
w:kaj:
Wikipedia
in
Nawat
w:ppl:
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A new global user group has been created:
Local bots
. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive
web scrapers
. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Meetings and events
The
MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026
will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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IMPORTANT: Admin activity review
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Hello. A policy regarding the removal of "advanced rights" (administrator, bureaucrat, interface administrator, etc.) was adopted by
global community consensus
in 2013. According to this policy, the
stewards
are reviewing administrators' activity on all Wikimedia Foundation wikis with no inactivity policy. To the best of our knowledge, your wiki does not have a formal process for removing "advanced rights" from inactive accounts. This means that the stewards will take care of this according to the
admin activity review
We have determined that the following users meet the inactivity criteria (no edits and no logged actions for more than 2 years):
User:செல்வா
(administrator)
These users will receive a notification soon, asking them to start a community discussion if they want to retain some or all of their rights. If the users do not respond, then their advanced rights will be removed by the stewards.
However, if you as a community would like to create your own activity review process superseding the global one, want to make another decision about these inactive rights holders, or already have a policy that we missed, then please notify the
stewards on Meta-Wiki
so that we know not to proceed with the rights review on your wiki. Thanks,
EPIC
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Hello, I would like to keep my permissions and status. I'll be resuming my activities in this Wiki. Thanks!
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Tech News: 2026-08
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The
SRE Team
will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's
Etherpad
instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.
Updates for editors
The Information Retrieval team will be launching an
Android mobile app experiment
that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March.
on Diff blog.
The Reader Growth team will run
an experiment
for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
Previously, site notices (
மீடியாவிக்கி:Sitenotice
and
மீடியாவிக்கி: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
மீடியாவிக்கி:Minerva.css
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tasks
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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.
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.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2026-09
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Reference Check
has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
Updates for editors
The
InterwikiSorting extension
, which allowed for the
sorting of interwiki links
, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code.
Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened.
The Reader Experience team
is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in
MediaWiki:skin-theme-description
and
MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag
to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
The improved
Activity tab
which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
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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.
Updates for technical contributors
The
Global Watchlist
lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The
extension
that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a
new hook
ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild
, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2026-10
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Wikipedia 25
Birthday mode
is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on
~2,500 articles
, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via
community configuration
on the local wiki.
Updates for editors
Sub-referencing
, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and
a couple of other wikis
. You can
try the feature
on these projects or on testwiki and
betawiki
. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been
published in a report
. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are
interested in becoming a pilot wiki
Paste Check
will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check
tags
all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via
சிறப்பு:EditChecks
Research
across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can
help to localize
this and related features.
The
Reader Experience team
will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface.
Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one.
Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon.
The
Global Watchlist
which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The
extension
now allows activating the
language fallback system
for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no
uselang=
URL parameter is provided.
The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of
hybrid search
on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
For security reasons, members of certain user groups are
required to have two-factor authentication
(2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will
gradually change in March
. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule.
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tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in
Wikibase.cloud
has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
To help ensure
fair use of infrastructure
, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see
Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits
The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts.
The new Parsoid parser
continues to be deployed to additional wikis
, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
The process and criteria for
requesting exceptional access
to the high volume feed of the
Wikimedia Enterprise
APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases),
have now been published
. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
Tech Blog
, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community
will be migrating
to
Diff
, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at
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.
Translations
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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.
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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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.
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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Tech News: 2026-12
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from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you.
Translations
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Updates for editors
The
Improved Syntax Highlighting
beta feature, also known as
CodeMirror 6
, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new
features
to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta,
please share
Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks.
On wikis using
Flagged Revisions
, the number of pending changes shown on
சிறப்பு:PendingChanges
previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself.
Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about
the changes
Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'.
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tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
A new special page,
சிறப்பு: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:
சிறப்பு:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color
Users of the
Improved Syntax Highlighting
beta feature have been using
CodeMirror
instead of
CodeEditor
for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026.
Feedback or concerns are welcome
The
CodeMirror
JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the
ext.CodeMirror
or
ext.CodeMirror.lib
modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the
ext.CodeMirror.switch
hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the
migration guide
for more information.
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include
extension APIs
. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for
GrowthExperiments
and
Wikifunctions
APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the
REST Sandbox
(i.e.,
சிறப்பு:RestSandbox
, available on all wiki projects).
The
Scribunto
extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the
mw.site
library. Starting last week, the library also provides a
way
of accessing the
wiki ID
that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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The
2026 Coolest Tool Award
celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the
nomination survey
form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the
survey privacy statement
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Tech News: 2026-13
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Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional
"Log in with passkey" button
will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The
screen recording
demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
All wikis will be read-only
for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at
15:00 UTC
. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests,
which happen twice a year
. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
Updates for editors
Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a
new Toolforge tool
. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an
early version of an experience
that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
The
Special:Block
now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at:
MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown
Mobile editors
at several wikis
can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance
account creation experience on mobile
and then increase participation.
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tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.
Updates for technical contributors
Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent
cloud-announce email
and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible.
The
API Portal
documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to
mediawiki.org
. Learn more on the
project page
Detailed code updates later this week:
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WMDE Technical Wishes
is considering improvements to
automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor
. Please check out the
proposed solutions
and participate in the
request for comment
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Tech News: 2026-14
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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.
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. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive
Newspapers.com
was no longer working, due to a block in
Citoid
requests, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)
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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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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.
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community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
The
sub-referencing feature
, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to
more wikis
later this year. Wikis using the
Reference Tooltips
gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at
MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js
as shown
here
) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected.
All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.
The
Action API
has had several formats for requested output. One of them,
format=php
, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the
JSON format
. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots.
The
Special:NamespaceInfo
page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
Detailed code updates later this week:
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Tech News: 2026-16
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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.
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.
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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,
முறைகேடு வடிகட்டி தொகுப்பாளர்கள்
who have the
Improved Syntax Highlighting
beta feature enabled will have
CodeMirror
instead of
CodeEditor
as the editor at
Special:AbuseFilter
. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
Tools and bots that access the
Notifications API
action=query&meta=notifications
) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
Detailed code updates later this week:
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After two years of development,
Improved Syntax Highlighting
, also known as
CodeMirror 6
, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other
benefits
to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer
Bhsd
who developed many of the new features, including
code folding
autocompletion
, and
linting
A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design.
Download the latest version
and explore the update.
Updates for editors
Reading lists
is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
An experiment which explores extending
Page Previews to mobile web
will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps.
Read more about this experiment and others
On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't
confirmed their email addresses
can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it.
View all
15
community-submitted
tasks
that were
resolved last week
. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
As part of the promotion of
CodeMirror
from a beta feature, all users will use
CodeMirror
instead of
CodeEditor
for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
The
mirrors.wikimedia.org
service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute.
You can read more
The
image
and
oldimage
table will be removed from
wikireplicas
. If your tools or queries access
image
or
oldimage
directly, please update them to use the
file
and
filerevision
table before 28 May.
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Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Hyderabad 2026 - Call for Applications
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The
Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
is pleased to announce the upcoming
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Hyderabad 2026
, scheduled to take place in Hyderabad from 26 - 28 June 2026 (with 25 June as Day 0), in collaboration with the
IIITH-OKI
and
OSDG
club at
International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Wikimedia hackathons are spaces for developers, designers, content editors, and other community stakeholders to collaborate on building technical solutions that help improve tools, workflows, and overall user experience across Wikimedia projects.
The hackathon is intended for:
Technical contributors active in the Wikimedia technical ecosystem, including developers, maintainers (admins/interface admins), translators, designers, researchers, documentation writers, etc.
Content contributors having an in-depth understanding of technical issues in their home Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc.
Contributors from other FOSS communities or those who have participated in Wikimedia events in the past and would like to begin contributing to Wikimedia technical spaces.
Participants may work on curated hackathon tasks and are also encouraged to propose their own ideas, supported by a clear problem statement and a proposed approach.
To encourage participation and support promising contributions, scholarships will be provided to support participants’ related expenses.
Apply here:
Scholarship application form (Deadline: 2 May 2026):
Google form
More information:
We encourage interested contributors to apply and participate. Further updates, including program details and venue, will be shared on the Meta page.
Meta page:
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Hyderabad 2026
If you have any questions, concerns, or need support with the application, please reach out via the Meta-Wiki talk page or email at
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On behalf of Indic Mediawiki Developers User Group
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