सदस्य चर्चा:Usernamekiran

कामाची पावती

हल्ली कोणी कोणाला असे बार्नस्टार देताना फारसे दिसत नाहीत. पण आपण अल्पावधीत केलेल्या कामाबद्दल हा स्टार. बॉट कसा वापरावा हे तुमच्याकडून शिकण्यासारखे आहे. दुसरे वैशिष्ट्य म्हणजे आपण सामान्य सदस्यांचे ऐकता, कंपूबाजी न करता त्यांना विश्वासात घेता, विचारलेल्या प्रश्नांची प्रामाणिक उत्तरे देता हे सर्व माझ्यासाठी फार महत्त्वाचे आहे. Shantanuo (चर्चा) १२:४७, ५ एप्रिल २०२२ (IST)

शुद्धिचिकित्सक बॉटसाठी

@Shantanuo: खूप खूप धन्यवाद. पण botचा जवळपास ९८% code आधीच तयार होता, त्यात मी फक्त २% वाढवला आणि खरं तर मराठी विकिपीडियावर bot ची केवळ तांत्रिक प्रोग्रामिंग मी केली, त्यातील जास्तीत जास्त शब्द तुम्हीच सुचवले. ह्याव्यतिरिक तांत्रिकदृष्ट्यासुद्धा तुम्ही खूप मदत केली. मी काही दिवसांपूर्वीच तुम्हाला औपचारिकरीत्या धन्यवाद म्हणणार होतो, पण राहून गेलं. मी त्यामध्ये तुम्ही म्ह्टल्याप्रमाणेच म्हणणार होतो कि स्वतःचा काही फायदा/हेतू नसतानासुद्धा तुम्ही भरपूर मदत केलीत. ह्याचा मी खूप आदर करतो.

मी मराठी विकिपीडियावर सक्रियरित्या कार्यरत नसलो तरी गेल्या २-३ वर्षांपासून मी mrwiki बघतोय. सध्या हेतू नसताना कार्य करणारे केवळ १० ते १५ संपादक आहेत, पण ते किती दिवस टिकतील त्याचा नेम नाही.

विकिपीडिया हा आपल्या सगळ्यांचाच आहे. मला वाटते त्यामध्ये कंपूबाजी नसावी. पारदर्शकता खूप महत्वाची आहे. तुमच्या मदतीसाठी पुन्हा एकदा आभार. —usernamekiran (talk) १५:१०, ५ एप्रिल २०२२ (IST)

शुद्धलेखनाचा बार्नस्टार

		शुद्धलेखनाचा बार्नस्टार
		किरणबॉट द्वारे केलेल्या अविरत परिश्रमाबद्दल.- संतोष गोरे ( 💬 ) २१:३९, १७ एप्रिल २०२२ (IST)

मिडियाविकी:Spam-blacklist

मिडियाविकी:Spam-blacklist याला संरक्षित केलेले दिसते. मिडियाविकी पाने फक्त प्रचालक संपादन करू शकतात. त्यामुळे संरक्षण काढावे अशी विनंती. --Tiven2240 (चर्चा) २२:१६, १ जुलै २०२२ (IST)

काढले. —usernamekiran (talk) ०१:४७, २ जुलै २०२२ (IST)

Request to move (or delete) a page

I don't know where to request this on mrwiki, so asking you for help. The article लोकेनाथ is not the correct name of the subject. It is लोकनाथ and should be moved to that title. Alternatively, it may be just deleted because it doesn't have any article content at all. Thanks! CX Zoom (चर्चा) १६:०९, १३ जुलै २०२२ (IST)

नवीन पान निर्माण करून पुनर्निर्देशित देखील केले.- संतोष गोरे ( 💬 ) १७:११, १३ जुलै २०२२ (IST)

@CX Zoom: Hello. Editor संतोष गोरे has taken care of it. @संतोष गोरे: धन्यवाद :-) —usernamekiran (talk) १८:३८, १३ जुलै २०२२ (IST)

Thank you both you! CX Zoom (चर्चा) १८:४२, १३ जुलै २०२२ (IST)

साचा:Ambox

नमस्कार {{Ambox}} हा साचा मोबाईल view मध्ये बरोबर दिसत आहे. परंतु डेस्कटॉप view मध्ये तो गायब झाला आहे. मी संबंधीत साच्यात बदल केले आहेत, परंतु तरीही साचा बरोबर दिसत नाही. आपण काही मदत करू शकाल का? --Tiven2240 (चर्चा) १२:३१, १० ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

@Tiven2240: साच्यामध्ये lua आहे. जर मला जुना (बरोबर काम करत असलेला) व आत्ताचा source code सदस्य:Usernamekiran/sandbox वर टाकून दिला तर मी धुळपाटीवर प्रयत्न करून बघू शकतो. —usernamekiran (talk) १६:३५, १० ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

वर्गातील पाने स्थानांतरण

कृपया किरण बॉटद्वारे खालील वर्गातील पाने स्थानांतरित करावी, धन्यवाद!

1. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँड क्रिकेट → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडमधील क्रिकेट
2. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँड क्रिकेट संघाचे परदेशी दौरे → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंड क्रिकेट संघाचे परदेशी दौरे
3. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँड मधील क्रिकेट संघ → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडमधील क्रिकेट संघ
4. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँडचे एकदिवसीय क्रिकेट खेळाडू → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडचे एकदिवसीय क्रिकेट खेळाडू
5. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँडचे कसोटी क्रिकेट खेळाडू → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडचे कसोटी क्रिकेट खेळाडू
6. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँडचे क्रिकेट खेळाडू → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडचे क्रिकेट खेळाडू
7. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँडचे पंतप्रधान → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडचे पंतप्रधान
8. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँडच्या महिला क्रिकेट खेळाडू → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडच्या महिला क्रिकेट खेळाडू
9. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँडमधील क्रिकेट मैदाने → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडमधील क्रिकेट मैदाने
10. वर्ग:न्यू झीलँडमधील शहरे → वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडमधील शहरे
11. वर्ग:ऑस्ट्रेलिया क्रिकेट संघाचे न्यू झीलँड दौरे → वर्ग:ऑस्ट्रेलिया क्रिकेट संघाचे न्यू झीलंड दौरे
12. वर्ग:ऑस्ट्रेलियन क्रिकेट संघाचे भारत दौरे → वर्ग:ऑस्ट्रेलिया क्रिकेट संघाचे भारत दौरे
13. वर्ग:इंग्लिश क्रिकेट खेळाडू → वर्ग:इंग्लंडचे क्रिकेट खेळाडू
14. वर्ग:इंग्लिश क्रिकेट → वर्ग:इंग्लंडमधील क्रिकेट
15. वर्ग:इंग्लिश महिला क्रिकेट खेळाडू → वर्ग:इंग्लंडच्या महिला क्रिकेट खेळाडू
16. वर्ग:फिलिपाईन्सचे क्रिकेट खेळाडू → वर्ग:फिलिपिन्सचे क्रिकेट खेळाडू

Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १२:२०, १२ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: हो. —usernamekiran (talk) १४:२२, १२ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: वरील ऐवजी वर्ग:न्यू झीलंडमधील क्रिकेट व वर्ग:इंग्लंडमधील क्रिकेट ह्या नावाने वर्ग तयार केले. —usernamekiran (talk) १२:५६, १५ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

सगळे झाले. —usernamekiran (talk) ०९:०७, १६ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

नवी यादी

अजून काही वर्गातील पाने किरण बॉटद्वारे स्थलांतरित करावी.

1. वर्ग:ऑस्ट्रेलिया क्रिकेट → वर्ग:ऑस्ट्रेलियामधील क्रिकेट
2. वर्ग:श्रीलंका क्रिकेट → वर्ग:श्रीलंकामधील क्रिकेट
3. वर्ग:वेस्ट इंडीज क्रिकेट → वर्ग:वेस्ट इंडीजमधील क्रिकेट
4. वर्ग:दक्षिण आफ्रिका क्रिकेट → वर्ग:दक्षिण आफ्रिकेमधील क्रिकेट
5. वर्ग:पाकिस्तान क्रिकेट → वर्ग:पाकिस्तानमधील क्रिकेट
6. वर्ग:बांगलादेश क्रिकेट → वर्ग:बांगलादेशमधील क्रिकेट
7. वर्ग:मर्सिडिज-बेंझ → वर्ग:मर्सेडिझ-बेंझ
8. वर्ग:ब्राझिलचे राष्ट्राध्यक्ष → वर्ग:ब्राझीलचे राष्ट्राध्यक्ष
9. वर्ग:अशियामधील राष्ट्रीय फुटबॉल संघ → वर्ग:आशियामधील राष्ट्रीय फुटबॉल संघ
10. वर्ग:आर्जेंटिनाचे फुटबॉल खेळाडू → वर्ग:आर्जेन्टिनाचे फुटबॉल खेळाडू
11. वर्ग:उन्हाळी ऑलिंपिक मैदाने → वर्ग:ऑलिंपिक स्टेडियम
12. वर्ग:चंदिगड लायन्स खेळाडू → वर्ग:चंदिगढ लायन्स खेळाडू
13. वर्ग:ओरिसामधील जिल्हे → वर्ग:ओडिशामधील जिल्हे
14. वर्ग:ओरिसामधील लोकसभा मतदारसंघ → वर्ग:ओडिशामधील लोकसभा मतदारसंघ
15. वर्ग:ऑस्कर पुरस्कारविजेते दिग्दर्शक → वर्ग:ऑस्कर पुरस्कार विजेते दिग्दर्शक
16. वर्ग:आंध्र प्रदेशामधील लोकसभा मतदारसंघ → वर्ग:आंध्र प्रदेशमधील लोकसभा मतदारसंघ
17. वर्ग:मध्य प्रदेशामधील लोकसभा मतदारसंघ → वर्ग:मध्य प्रदेशमधील लोकसभा मतदारसंघ
18. वर्ग:कोच्चीतील पर्यटनस्थळे → वर्ग:कोचीमधील पर्यटनस्थळे
19. वर्ग:भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थाने → वर्ग:भारतीय तंत्रज्ञान संस्था

Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १३:४६, ३ सप्टेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: एक-दोन दिवसात करतो. —usernamekiran (talk) २२:२१, ९ सप्टेंबर २०२२ (IST)

दोन महिने झाले अजून बॉटद्वारे स्थानांतर केले नाही, आठवण करुन दिली धन्यवाद. Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १०:५६, ९ नोव्हेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: हुकूमशाह आणि हुकूमशहा या दोन शब्दांपैकी योग्य कोणता हे मला नक्की माहीत नाही, त्यामुळे मी तो वर्ग बदलला नाही. @Shantanuo: यांना विचारावे लागेल. तसेच "श्रीलंकामधील" ऐवजी "श्रीलंकेमधील", आणि "ऑलिंपिक स्टेडियम" ऐवजी "ऑलिंपिक मैदाने" अशे वर्ग तयार केले. —usernamekiran (talk) २२:०९, २२ नोव्हेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: नमस्कार. जुनी टिप्पणी (comment) बदलण्याऐवजी प्रत्येक वेळेस नवी टिप्पणी लिहून सही करावी हि विनंती. —usernamekiran (talk) २१:२६, २ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

अधीक्षक का अधिक्षक

नमस्कार आपल्या बॉट मध्ये 'अधीक्षक —> अधिक्षक' असा बदल दिसून येतो. परंतु आंतरजालावर तसेच गडचिरोली पोलिस येथे हा शब्द 'अधीक्षक' असा लिहिलेला दिसून येत आहे. कृपया नक्की अचूक शब्द कोणता आहे हे सांगावे.

cc @Shantanuo: -संतोष गोरे ( 💬 ) १९:१४, २४ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

चूक नजरेस आणून दिल्याबद्दल धन्यवाद. किरण साहेब, कृपया 'अधिक्षक' > 'अधीक्षक' अशी नवीन नोंद करावी आणि '_अधीक_' > '_अधिक_' अशी स्पेस द्यावी. Shantanuo (चर्चा) ०९:४५, २५ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

https://shabdakosh.marathi.gov.in/ महाराष्ट्र शासन व्यवहारासाठी शब्दकोश आणि शास्त्रीय व तांत्रिक परिभाषा कोश येथे पण हा शब्द 'अधीक्षक' असा लिहिलेल आहे.--Omega45 (चर्चा) १०:२६, २५ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

@संतोष गोरे, Omega45, आणि Shantanuo: माफ करा, मी काही दिवस गावाबाहेर होतो. मी आवश्यक ते बदल केले आहेत, सर्व संपादने दुपारी अडीच वाजता होतील, व फक्त "अधिक्षक → अधीक्षक" हा बदल दुपारी साडे तीन वाजता होईल. —usernamekiran (talk) ०३:०३, २८ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

पान वगळणे

वर्ग:उल्लेखनीयता रद्दीकरण मध्ये बरीच अनावश्यक पाने व वर्ग आहेत ती कृपया वगळावी, धन्यवाद. Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १७:२०, १८ सप्टेंबर २०२२ (IST)

विपत्र

नमस्कार,

गेले काही दिवस मला नोटिफिकेशन येत आहे की तुम्ही मला विपत्र पाठविले आहे परंतु ते मला माझ्या ईमेल मध्ये दिसत नाही. तरी तुम्ही नक्की हे पाठविले होते का हे कळवावे.

धन्यवाद.

अभय नातू (चर्चा) १४:२५, १६ ऑक्टोबर २०२२ (IST)

@अभय नातू: हो. विपत्र कदाचित स्पॅम मध्ये गेले असावे? तुम्ही मला एक विपत्र पाठवसाल का? म्हणजे मी त्याला उत्तर देऊ शकतो. —usernamekiran (talk) १६:३५, १६ ऑक्टोबर २०२२ (IST)

पाठविले.

अभय नातू (चर्चा) ०८:२८, २१ ऑक्टोबर २०२२ (IST)

@अभय नातू: I've sent you an email, but directly this time. Did you get it? —usernamekiran (talk) ००:०१, १३ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

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Can you kindly provide me a valid reason for this edit? [१] Tiven2240 (चर्चा) ०८:५०, १८ ऑक्टोबर २०२२ (IST)

@Tiven2240: आताचे संपादन ठीक आहे का? —usernamekiran (talk) १९:१२, १८ ऑक्टोबर २०२२ (IST)

पिंपरी-चिंचवडमधील नाट्यगृहे

नमस्कार सर , आता तुम्ही हे पिंपरी-चिंचवडमधील नाट्यगृहे' पानाचं स्थानांतर केलेलं आहे हे पान महाराष्ट्रातील नाट्यगृहांची यादी नावाने पुन्हा पूर्वपदावर आणा. वेगळं पान न बनवता महाराष्ट्रातील सर्व नाट्यगृहाची माहिती या पानांमध्ये जोडता येऊ शकतं. AShiv1212 (चर्चा) १९:२०, ३ नोव्हेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@AShiv1212: eka tasat karto :-) —usernamekiran (talk) १९:४०, ३ नोव्हेंबर २०२२ (IST)

धन्यवाद सर AShiv1212 (चर्चा) ००:१५, ४ नोव्हेंबर २०२२ (IST)

बदल स्वीकारण्याची आणि पान हटवलेले परत आणायचे विनंती

नमस्कार किरण, सुप्रभात मी एका आठवड्यानंतर विकिपीडियावर परत आलो आणि पाहिले की तुम्ही माझ्याद्वारे तयार केलेली आणि अनुल्लेखनीयताचा टॅग असलेली पाने हटवली आहेत. (हे लेख आहेत - जय जय लाइव ‎, नयामत हांडा )

मी ह्यच्या माघे सुदाह लेखात अधिक माहिती आणि संदर्भ घालून अनुल्लेखनीयताचा टॅग काढून घेतला आहे. मला सर्व उल्लेखनीयतेचे निकष माहित आहेत, ही विनंती आहे की कृपया मला पृष्ठांच्या संदर्भांसह अधिक माहिती जोडण्याची संधी द्या जेणेकरून ते उल्लेखनीयतेचे निकष पूर्ण करेल.स्थिरता समस्या असलेल्या लेखात इंटरनेटवर सार्वजनिकपणे उपलब्ध असलेल्या संदर्भांसह पुरेशी माहिती जोडण्याचा माझा नेहमीच हेतू असतो.

धन्यवाद Rockpeterson (चर्चा) १२:४४, ४ नोव्हेंबर २०२२ (IST)

वर्ग नाव बदल

कारंजा घाडगे तालुका पानावरील कारंजा घाडगे तालुक्यातील गावे विभागातील सर्व पाने वर्ग:कारंजा लाड तालुक्यातील गावे हा वर्ग काढून वर्ग:कारंजा घाडगे तालुक्यातील गावे या नव्या वर्गास जोडावीत ही विनंती. Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १३:४८, १० डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: कारंजा घाडगे तालुका, आणि कारंजा लाड तालुका हे दोन वेग-वेगळे तालुके आहेत. वरीलप्रमाणे संपादने केल्यास दोन्ही तालुक्यातील गावे एकाच तालुक्याच्या वर्गात जोडण्यात येतील. —usernamekiran (talk) १४:०५, १५ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@Usernamekiran: आधीपासून कारंजा घाडगे तालुक्यातील गावे कारंजा लाड च्या वर्गात समाविष्ट आहेत, मग पुन्हा ते एकत्र कसे होतील? Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १४:५९, १५ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: मी काही दिवसांनंतर दोन्ही तालुक्यातील गावे योग्य त्या वर्गात टाकतो. —usernamekiran (talk) १५:०३, १५ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

ठीक आहे, धन्यवाद. Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १५:०४, १५ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

@Khirid Harshad: झाले. —usernamekiran (talk) २०:५९, १९ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

जावद रमदानी

Hi Usernamekiran, sorry for writing in English. I wanted to mark जावद रमदानी for deletion as this page is crosswiki spam / fake, see e.g. [२][३] (I can provide more links if you want). Unfortunately an abuse filter told me to consider not posting the deletion request as community consensus is against SMWT Members being active on your wiki.

Could you take a look at this and either delete the page or create a deletion request yourself? Thanks and best regards --Johannnes89 (चर्चा) १८:४६, ८ जानेवारी २०२३ (IST)

@Johannnes89: deleted, and salted. Thanks for the heads-up. —usernamekiran (talk) २०:३८, ८ जानेवारी २०२३ (IST)

वर्ग स्थानांतरण

खालील वर्गातील फक्त वर्षाचे वर्ग (उदा. वर्ग:इ.स. ४१४ किंवा वर्ग:इ.स. ६२८) नव्या वर्गात स्थानांतरण करावे.

1. वर्ग:इ.स.चे ५ वे शतक → वर्ग:इ.स.च्या ५ व्या शतकातील वर्षे
2. वर्ग:इ.स.चे ६ वे शतक → वर्ग:इ.स.च्या ६ व्या शतकातील वर्षे
3. वर्ग:इ.स.चे ७ वे शतक → वर्ग:इ.स.च्या ७ व्या शतकातील वर्षे

Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) १५:०८, १६ जानेवारी २०२३ (IST)

एक महिना उलटून गेला असल्याने आठवण करुन दिली, धन्यवाद. Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) २१:४२, १७ फेब्रुवारी २०२३ (IST)

1. वर्ग:विसावे शतकातील वर्षे → वर्ग:इ.स.च्या २० व्या शतकातील वर्षे
2. वर्ग:न्यू यॉर्कमधील काउंटी → वर्ग:न्यू यॉर्क राज्यामधील काउंटी
3. वर्ग:वॉशिंग्टनमधील काउंटी → वर्ग:वॉशिंग्टन राज्यामधील काउंटी
4. वर्ग:समुद्र किनार्याची चित्रे → वर्ग:समुद्र किनाऱ्याची चित्रे
5. वर्ग:इमारती चित्रे → वर्ग:इमारत चित्रे
6. वर्ग:खाण्याच्या वस्तू चित्रे → वर्ग:खाद्य पदार्थाची चित्रे

Khirid Harshad (चर्चा) ०९:५८, २६ फेब्रुवारी २०२३ (IST)

दुवा दुरुस्ती

नमस्कार स्त्रीवाद आणि लोकसाहित्य या प्रकल्पाचे एक गठ्ठा संदेश सक्रिय सदस्यांना पाठवण्यात आले आहेत. परंतु त्यात पुढील दुवा चुकीचा टाकण्यात आलाय. https://fountain.toolforge.org/editathons/fnf2023 या ऐवजी https://fountain.toolforge.org/editathons/fnf2023-mr हा दुवा पाहिजे आहे. कृपया आपण त्यात बदल करताल का.-संतोष गोरे ( 💬 ) २०:५७, ७ फेब्रुवारी २०२३ (IST)

@संतोष गोरे: namaskar. Mi saddhya gavabaher ahe, tyamule mi durusti karu shaknar nahi. Mi 11 tarkhela durusti karu shakel. Abhay Natu aani Tiven doghe AWB vapartat, te hi durusti karu shaktil. —usernamekiran (talk) २१:४२, ७ फेब्रुवारी २०२३ (IST)

@अभय नातू आणि Tiven2240: कृपया बदल करून द्यावा ही विनंती. संतोष गोरे ( 💬 ) ०८:५४, ८ फेब्रुवारी २०२३ (IST)

झाले. --Tiven2240 (चर्चा) ०९:४६, ८ फेब्रुवारी २०२३ (IST)

मंगरूळपीर तालुका, वाशिम जिल्ह्यातील गावांची नावे बदलणे

नमस्कार, आपल्या KiranBOT ह्या बॉटद्वारे आपण जे गावांच्या नावाबाबतीत काम करीत आहात त्यात सहभाग घ्यावा वाटला. मला प्रत्यक्ष माहीत असलेल्या गावांची नावे मी "स्थानांतरण " च्या मदतीने बदलली आहेत. तरी ही कृती योग्य आहे का हे सांगावे. आणि उचित कृती सुचवावी. धन्यवाद. मंदार १ (चर्चा) २१:४६, १६ एप्रिल २०२३ (IST)

Tech News: 2025-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. [४]

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. [५]
• 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%). [६]
• 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.
• View all २४ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [७]

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. [८]
• The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [९]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• 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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Tech News: 2025-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [१०]
• 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. [११][१२]
• 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.
• View all ३१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [१३]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: 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. [१४]
• 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 विशेष:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [१५]
• 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. [१६]
• View all २७ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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: MediaWiki

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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Tech News: 2025-29

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• 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 through the Community Wishlist. [१७][१८]
• View all ३१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [१९]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• 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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Tech News: 2025-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... 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. [२०]
• 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.
• View all २९ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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: MediaWiki

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. [२१]

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Tech News: 2025-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. [२२]
• 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 MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [२३]
• View all २१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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 register 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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Tech News: 2025-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Editors can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [२४]
• 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. [२५]
• 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. [२६]
• View all २७ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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. [२७][२८]
• 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. [२९]
• 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. [३०]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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 register 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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Tech News: 2025-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [३१]
• 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. [३२]
• 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. [३३]
• View all ३१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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. [३४]
• 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. [३५]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [३६]
• 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. [३७]
• 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. [३८]
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:) [३९]
  • a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:) [४०]
  • a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:) [४१]
  • a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:) [४२]
  • a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:) [४३]
• View all ४६ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-35

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• 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. [४४][४५][४६][४७][४८][४९][५०][५१][५२][५३]
• 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. [५४]
• Administrators can now access the विशेष:BlockedExternalDomains page from the विशेष:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [५५]
• 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. [५६][५७]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [५८]
• View all ३९ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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. [५९]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• 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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Tech News: 2025-36

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. [६०]
• 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. [६१]
• 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. [६२][६३]
• 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. Learn more.
• View all ३७ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• 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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Tech News: 2025-37

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. [६४]
• 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. Learn more. [६५]
• 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. [६६]
• 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. Learn more. [६७][६८]
• 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. [६९]
• View all ३१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-38

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• References lists that are made using the <references/> tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width. [७०]
• 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. Learn more.
• 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 [७१]
  • 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). [७२]
• 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. [७३]
• 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.
• View all २४ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor. [७४]

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. Learn more.
• 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. Learn more. [७५]
• 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.
• A 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).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.

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Tech News: 2025-39

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. [७६]
• 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.
• View all १२ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• 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 (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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Tech News: 2025-40

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. [७७]

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 विशेष:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [७८]
• 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 विशेष:योगदान 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. [७९]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:) [८०]
• View all २१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [८१]

Updates for technical contributors

• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-41

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 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. Learn more. [८२]
• 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. [८३]
• 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. [८४]
• 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. [८५]
• View all ३४ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved. [८६]

Updates for technical contributors

• 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. [८७]
• Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the rest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal 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. [८८]
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Tech News: 2025-42

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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. [८९]
• 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. [९०]
• 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. [९१][९२]
• View all २१ community-submitted tasks that were 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. [९३]

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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-43

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Updates for editors

• 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. [९४]
• View all २० community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. [९५]

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. [९६]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-44

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Updates for editors

• The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
• Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• View all ३१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [९७]

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 विशेष:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [९८]
• 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. [९९]
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Tech News: 2025-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Administrators will now find that विशेष:इतिहास एकत्र करा 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). [१००]
• 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 "विषय जोडा" 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. [१०१]
• 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. [१०२]
• 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. [१०३]
• 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! [१०४]
• View all ३१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [१०५]

Updates for technical contributors

• Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki 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. [१०६]
• 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. [१०७]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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Tech News: 2025-46

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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". [१०८]
• 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. [१०९]
• Using the "झलक पहा" or "बदल दाखवा" 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. [११०][१११][११२]
• 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. [११३]
• 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. [११४]
• 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. [११५]
• View all २७ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [११६]

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 https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [११७]
• The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from <user id> to mw:<identity type>:<user id>, where <identity type> is typically CentralAuth: (for SUL wikis) or local:<wiki id> (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. [११८]
• 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. [११९]
• A 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. [१२०]
• 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. [१२१][१२२]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-47

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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. Learn more.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau (s:min:) [१२३]
• View all २३ community-submitted tasks that were 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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Tech News: 2025-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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. [१२४]
• 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. [१२५]
• 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.
• View all २४ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. [१२६]

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. [१२७]
• 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). [१२८]
• 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 (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - 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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Tech News: 2025-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
• The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
• Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all ३४ 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. [१२९]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:) [१३०]
  • a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:) [१३१]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• 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 learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

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Tech News: 2025-50

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

• Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
• Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
• Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
• Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [१३२]
• 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. [१३३]
• View all २३ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [१३४]

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. [१३५]
• 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. [१३६]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Tech News: 2025-51

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• View all १८ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. 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. [१३७]

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 विशेष:दुवाशोध, 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. [१३८]
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Tech News: 2025-52

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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. [१३९]
• 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.
• View all १६ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. 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. [१४०]

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. [१४१]
• 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

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• 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 Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish. [१४२]
• 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. [१४३][१४४][१४५][१४६]
• View all २८ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [१४७]

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type. [१४८]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-04

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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. [१४९]
• 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. [१५०][१५१][१५२][१५३]
• View all ३२ community-submitted tasks that were 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. [१५४]

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.: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) 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: MediaWiki

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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Tech News: 2026-05

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• 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. [१५५]
• View all २० community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. 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. [१५६]

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. [१५७]
• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The "पानाबद्दलची माहिती" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local मिडियाविकी:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [१५८]
• View all २१ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [१५९]

Updates for technical contributors

• There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [१६०]
• 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: MediaWiki

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

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• 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. Learn more. [१६१]
• 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. [१६२]
• 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. [१६३][१६४]
• 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. [१६५]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Jju (w:kaj:) [१६६]
  • a Wikipedia in Nawat (w:ppl:) [१६७]
• View all २३ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. [१६८]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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. [१६९]

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