ویکیپیدیا:دیوەخان (تەکنیکی)

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بەشی تەکنیکیی دیوەخان بۆ وتووێژ لەسەر کێشە تەکنیکییەکان سەبارەت بە ویکیپیدیا بەکاردەگیرێ. ئەگەر تووشی کێشەیەکی تەکنیکی لە داڕێژەکان، ئامرازەکان، بۆتەکان و … یان لە پەڕەکانی میدیاویکی، HTML ،CSS، JS و … بوون، دەتوانن لێرەدا وتووێژی لەسەر بکەن. بەگەکان و کەلێنەکانی نەرمامێری میدیاویکی دەبێ لە فابریکەیتردا (چۆنێتیی ڕاپۆرتی بەگێک) ڕاپۆرت بکرێ.

« وتووێژە کۆنترەکان، ١، ٢، ٣، ٤، ٥، ٦، ٧، ٨، ٩، ١٠

ئامرازی ئاماژە بە سەرچاوە تێکچووە

سڵاو @Aram و @Muhammed taha، ئامرازی ئاماژە بە سەرچاوە تێکچووە، بە تایبەت بەشی ڕێکەوتەکەی. نم سەیری وردبوونە گەورەکە بکەن. ◂  ئێپین  _♬ ‏١٦:٠٩، ٢٧ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

سڵاو @Épine: لە وتووێژی داڕێژە:بیرخستنەوەی وێب٢/doc بە کاک Muhammed tahaم وتووە گەر دەرفەتێکی ھەبوو، سەیرێکی بکات. مۆدیوولەکانی سەرچاوەکان کێشەیان زۆر بوو بۆیە، ناچار بووم کە لەڕێگەی ویکیی فارسییەوە ھەوڵێک بۆ نوێکردنەوەیان بدەم. ئێستاش چاوەڕێی کاک Muhammed tahaم و بزانم دەتوانێت کارێک بۆ فۆڕماتی ڕێکەوتەکە بکات. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٩:٢١، ٢٧ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

کاک ئاکام تکایەکی برایانە، لەمەودوا کێشەکان یەک یەک چارەسەر بکە، بە بەسەرتدا کەڵەکە نەبێت. ئێستا کۆمەڵێک نوێکردنەوەی زۆر کراون کە ڕەنگە باش نەبن بەو شێوەیەی ئێستایان، ھەرچەندە من دەستخۆشیت لێ دەکەم و دەزانم خەمخۆری بۆیە کردووتن، بەڵام پێویستە کێشەیەک چارەسەر بکەین ئینجا بچینە سەر کێشەیەکی تر. ئێستا ویکیپیدیای کوردیی ناوەندی دوو ئامرازی زۆر بە کەڵکیان ڕاوەستاون و ناتوانین بە ھیچیشیان ڕابگەین. پێم باشە لەمەودوا بۆ کارکردن لەسەر ئەو پەڕانەی کە کاریگەری لەم شێوەیە دروست دەکەن، وتووێژ بکەین و ڕای کۆمەڵگە وەربگرین. ◂  ئێپین  _♬ ‏١٩:٣٠، ٢٧ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

کاک @Épine: بۆ توینکڵ حەقی خۆتانە ھەرچی بڵێن. دەبووایە زووتر خەریکی بایەم، بەڵام بۆ سەرچاوەکان پێشتریش وتم کە Kushared ئاگادارە. سەبارەت بە وتووێژیش، تا ئێوارە ئەم چوار بەکارھێنەرەین. ئەوەندەیشی من تێبینیم کردبێت، بەکاربەرانی نوێ بۆ زۆر شت ڕایان نییە و ھەر دەڵێن لەگەڵ؛ بەکارھێنەرە کۆنەکانیش زۆر بەدەگمەن دەبینم. مافی دەستکاریکەری ڕووکاریش تەنیا بە من، کاک Muhammed taha و کاک Calakە کە کاک چالاک کاری پێ ناکات و دەمێنێتەوە من کاک محەممەد! من خۆشم بە تەنیا فریای ئەو ھەموو کارانە ناکەوم. سێ ڕۆژ پێش ئێستا وتم خەریکی داوایەکی ساکوورا دەبم کەچی ئەم بەکارھێنەرە نوێیە نازڵ بوو؛ سێ دانە ڕۆژە نازانم خەریکی چیم و کاتەکەم بەس بەوەوە دەڕوات! بەخوا حەز دەکەم ئەم مافە بەڕێوەبەرییەم لێ بسەندرێتەوە و بۆ خۆم خەریکی دروستکردنی وتار بم و بحەسێمەوە. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٩:٤٤، ٢٧ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

ڕێک خۆمم بیرکەوتەوە، لێت تێ دەگەم بەڵام بەڕاستی پێویستە چاکسازی لە چۆنییەتی کارکردنمان بکەین لەسەر شتە تەکنیکییەکان، ئەو ساڵەم لە ویکی ئینگلیزی بەسەر برد بینیم ھەمووشتێک بە testcase و لە خۆڵەپەتانێ ئەنجام دەدەن و تاکوو ١٠٠% شتەکان ڕێک نەخەنەوە وەشانە ڕەسەنەکە ناگۆڕن، ھیوادارم ئێمەش بتوانین وا کار بکەین. ◂  ئێپین  _♬ ‏١٩:٤٨، ٢٧ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

@Épine: من ڕانەھاتوومە کار بەو تێستکەیسانە بکەم. وەختی خۆی و لە ٢٠١٩ش کاک چالاک وتی لە ژێرپەڕەی خۆتدا کار لەسەر تووڵامراز بکە تا تەواوی دەکەیت. وتم من ئاوا ڕاستەوخۆ کار لەسەر ئامرازەکان نەکەم، لێم تێک دەچێت. حەز دەکەم، بەڵام ناتوانم. بۆ شتێکی وەک سەرچاوەکان کە مۆدیوول و داڕێژەیان زۆرن ئەستەمتریشە بۆم. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢٠:١٥، ٢٧ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

بمبورن یەکسەر دێمە ناو باسەکە @Aram، @Épine نامەکانم خوێندەوە چەن تێبنییەکم ھاتە یاد لەسەر بابەتی کارەکانی ویکیپدییای سۆرانی، بەڕێز @Aram تۆ مرۆڤیت ماندوو دەبیت پێویستت بە پشوو دەبێت، ژیانی ڕۆژانەی خۆتت ھەیە، پلانی داھاتووی ژیانت ھەیە، دڵنیام خوێندنیش ھەیە، ئەوە ھەموومان دەگرێتەوە، لەسەر تۆ نییە ھەموو کارەکانی ویکی سۆرانی بگریتە ئەستۆ و بەتەنھا بیکەیت، ویکیپیدیا واتا بەیەکەوە کارکردن، مادام ئیش و کارەکان زۆرن و بەیەک کەسیش بەڕێوە ناچێت ئەم ھەموو ئیش و کارە; بەڕێز @Épine من خۆم ئاگاداری کارەکانی بەڕێز ئارامم زۆر ماندووە بەدەست ویکیپدییا وە زۆر زۆر چالاکە، بەڵام ئەوەمان لەبیر بێت ویکیپیدیا فەرمانگە یان ئەرک نییە پێویستە کارەکان دابەش بکرێن لە حاڵەتێکی وەک ئێستا بەڕێوەبەرێک زیاد بکەن من پێشنیار دەکەم خۆت@Épine بێیتەوە لەگەل بەڕێز ئارام کارەکان بکەن دڵنیام ئەمە زۆر باشە و پێشکەوتنێکی باش و کارئاسانییەکی باش دەکات، تکایە با بەڕێوەبەرێک بپاڵێوین من پێشنیاری خۆت@Épine دەکەم.  زۆر سوپاس! —— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏١٣:٤٠، ١٢ی ئەیلوولی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

کاک ئارام ئێستا ڕووکاری ویکیپیدیا زۆر ناشرین بووە بە بۆنەی ئەم کێشەیە. بەچی گەیشت؟ ئەگەر ناتوانن بەو زووانە کاری تێدا بکەن، تکایە بیگەڕێننەوە سەر وەشانە کۆنەکان.--◂  ئێپین  _♬ ‏٢٢:١١، ٢٢ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

توینکڵ بۆ ماوەیەک وەستاوە

سڵاو توینکڵ وادیارە بە لەچەن ویکییەک وەستاوە وابزانم ئێرەشی گرتۆتەوە. تکایە گەر ھەر کەسێکیش ھەمان کێشەی ھەیە ئەوە لێدوان لێرە بدات  زۆر سوپاس! —— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏١٢:٤٩، ٨ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

سڵاو @Sakura emad: کێشەکە زانراوە. لەژێر کاردایە... ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١١:١٨، ٩ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

@Sakura emad:  چارەسەر کرا. سپاس! ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٩:٠٧، ٩ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

 زۆر سوپاس!} —— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏٢٣:٣٩، ٩ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

بەڕێز @Aram چەن کێشەیەکی تر بەدیار کەوت، وەک ناتوانم دووگمەی ئاگادارکردنەوە بەکاربێنم و بەکارھێنەر ئاگاداربکەمەوە، یاخوود بەخێرھاتن کارناکات بێگومان کێشەی تریش ھەیە بەڵام ئەمانە کێشە گەورەکانن پێویستە گرنگی پێ بدرێت  زۆر سوپاس! —— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٥٢، ١١ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: دەبێت سەرتاپا نوێ بکرێتەوە. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٦:٥٣، ١٧ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

کێشەی InternetArchiveBot

لە فابریکەیتر باس دەکرێت
ئەرک: T292102

سڵاو تکایە شتێک تێبینی بکەن، بۆتی user:InternetArchiveBot کێشەی بۆ ھەنێک وتار دروستکردووە و وێنەکانیان دەشێوێنێت و تاگی بەستەری مردوویان لێدەدات[1][2][3] لەوانەشە بەردەوام بێت لە داھاتوو گەر چارەسەر نەکرێت —— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏١١:٥٥، ١٢ی ئەیلوولی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: ھیچ پێویست ناکات پارامەتری |link= بنووسن. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٦:٣٤، ١٨ی ئەیلوولی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

ڕوونکردنەوەی زیاتر پێویستە... —— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٤٤، ١٨ی ئەیلوولی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

@Aram ئەوە جگە لەوەی دەستکاری قەبارەی وێنەی وتارەکانیش دەکات —— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٥٢، ٢٧ی ئەیلوولی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

سڵاو بابەتەکە برایە Phab (مێتا ببینە)--—— 💖Sakura Hana🌸 (لێدوان) ‏١٢:٤٣، ٨ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: بژیت! ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٤:٢٩، ١٠ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢١ (UTC)

Save the Date: Coolest Tool Award 2021: this Friday, 17:00 UTC

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Hello all,

The ceremony of the 2021 Wikimedia Coolest Tool Award will take place virtually on Friday 14 January 2022, 17:00 UTC.

This award is highlighting software tools that have been nominated by contributors to the Wikimedia projects. The ceremony will be a nice moment to show appreciation to our tool developers and maybe discover new tools!

Read more about the livestream and the discussion channels.

Thanks for joining! andre (talk) -08:02, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

نایەکگرتووییی شێواز لە داڕێژەی زمانەکاندا

سڵاو،

تێبینیی ئەوەم کرد کە لە داڕێژەی زمانەکاندا (بە زمان) نایەکگرتووییەک هەیە لە شێوازەکانیاندا. بۆ نموونە:

• پارامیتەرە دراوەکە بە {{بە ئینگلیزی}} یان {{بە عەرەبی}} لار نابن و ئاسایین، بەڵام
• پارامیتەرە دراوەکە بە {{بە ئیسپانی}} لار دەبێت.

دڵنیا نیم ئەگەر کێشەکە فراوان بێت و لە داڕێژەی زۆرتردا هەبێت، تکایە لەسەری بکۆڵکنەوە و ئەگەر کرا، چارەسەریان بکەن. زۆربەی داڕێژە هاوشێوەکانیان پارێزراون و بەکارهێنەری ئاسایی مافی دەستکاریکردنی نییە. — ڕۆژ ‏١٩:٣٦، ٢٢ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

سڵاو @ڕۆژ سەربەست: جارێک کاک سەرچیا وتی کە لارکردنی دەق بۆ ئێمە نابێت بۆیە لەسەر قسەی ئەو، دەقەکانم لەسەر چەند داڕێژەیەک (نەک ھەمووی) کردە دەقی ئاسایی. بەس زۆر گەڕام و وتووێژەکەم نەدۆزییەوە. ڕەنگە سڕابێتەوە. بیرم نایەت. وتووێژی داڕێژە:بە ئینگلیزیم دۆزییەوە، بەڵام ئەوە وتووێژەکەی ئێمە نەبوو. وا دیارە کاک مارمزۆکیش لێرە ھەمان قسەی کردووە، بەس پێم وا بێت قسەی ئەو تەنیا لەسەر زمانە ڕاست بۆ چەپەکان بووە. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٨:٤٤، ٢٦ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

ڕاستە، منیش دەڵێم ئەوانەی کە لار ماونەتەوە ڕێکیان بکەوە، وەک {{بە ئیسپانی}}. — ڕۆژ ‏١٨:٤٧، ٢٦ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

@ڕۆژ سەربەست: من لە ئێستادا ڕاستی و دروستییەکەیان نازانم، بەس من لە ناوەڕۆکی وتاری ئەکتەر، گۆرانیبێژ، نووسەر و فیلمەکان بۆ ناوی فیلم، کتێب، ئەلبوومەکان و ئەو جۆرە بابەتانە دەقەکان لار دەکەمەوە. جارێ تا ئێستاش قسەیەکی پێچەوانەی قسەکانی کاک سەرچیا و مارمزۆکم نەبینیوە. دڵنیاش نیم کاک سەرچیا ئەو قسەیەی بۆ زمانە چەپ بۆ ڕاستەکانیش بووە یان بەس بۆ ڕاست بۆ چەپەکان. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٩:٥٨، ٢٦ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

پاککردنەوەی ویکیپیدیا

سڵاو،

لە لێکۆڵینەوەیەک بۆم دەرکەوت کە لەناو ٨٥٨٨٥ پەڕەی ویکیپیدیای کوردی (بە هەموو بەشەکانەوە (namespace)، داڕێژە و هتد)، ٥٨٦٨٧ دانەیان لە ناوەکانیاندا یەکێک لەم نووسانەی تێدایە: ه ك ة آ ص ض ؤ.

ڕەنگە ئەگەر نووسەی ناکوردیی زۆرتر و نیومەودای فارسییش حساب بکەین، زۆرتر بکات. زۆربەی پەڕەکانیش (لە وتارەکان) کە ئەو نووسانەیان تێدا بووە، ڕەوانەکەر بوون بۆ پەڕەیەکی دیکە کە ڕاستی کردوونەتەوە. ئەنجامەکانی لێکۆڵینەوەکەم لە ئێرە داناوە. من وا بیر دەکەمەوە دەبێت ئەو پەڕانە (لانی کەم وتارەکان) بسڕدرێنەوە کە ئەو نووسە نامۆیانەیان بە کوردی تێدایە و تەنیا ڕەوانەکەرن. ئەگەر یەکێک ویستی ئەو کارە بکات، دەتوانم لیستی ئەو وتارانە بنێرم کە تەنیا ڕەوانەکەرن.

سپاس. — ڕۆژ ‏١٨:٢٢، ٢٧ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

سڵاو @ڕۆژ سەربەست: زۆر پێم خۆشە کە ئەو باسانە دەکەیتەوە. سەرەتا پێم سەیرە کە چۆن ئەنجامەکان لای تۆ ئاوا زۆرن. بڕوانە کواری ٦٤٨٦٤ کە پیتی زۆر زیاترم نووسیوە و ئەنجامەکانیش (بێجگە لە پەڕەکانی وتووێژ و بەکارھێنەر) ٢٨٬٤٧١ دانەن. تۆ بڵێی کاممان ھەڵەمان کردبێت؟ بەڵێ، ڕەوانەکەری زۆرمان ھەن کە پیتە ناستانداردەکانیان تێدایە. بەشێکیان دەگەڕێتەوە بۆ ئەو کاتەی کە ھێشتا تەختەکلیلی کوردی دروست نەکرابوو و بەشێکیشیان بۆ کێشەی ھەندێ پیتە کە تا ئێستاش ھەن. بۆ سڕینەوەی ئەو ڕەوانەکەرانەش، ڕاستییەکەی ئەو کارە زۆر ھەستیارە و دەبێت کۆمەڵگە وتووێژێکی چڕی لەسەر بکەن تا بزانین کامانە و چەندیان بسڕینەوە. یان ھەر ئەسڵەن بیانسڕینەوە یان نا؟ ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٠٩:٢١، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

ھەنێک لە ڕەوانەکەرەکان بە ئەنقەست بە ناستانداردی درووستکراون تا خوێنەران بتوانن لە گەڕانی ویکیپیدیا ئاسانتر وتارەکان بدۆزنەوە بە سڕینەوەی ئەو ڕەوانەکەرانە پێم وایە ھیچ یارمەتییەکی خوێنەران نادەین. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏٠٩:٣٦، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: خوێنەر واتە ئەو کەسەی کە دەخوێنێتەوە و خوێنەوارە، نەک ئەو کەسەی کە بە پیتی ناکوردی گەڕان دەکات بۆ دەقی کوردی. باوەڕیش ناکەم هیچ کەسێک کە ئەنجامی کوردیی بوێت بگەڕێت بۆ دەقێکی هاوشێوەی آنگون، تۆ بڵێیت؟ — ڕۆژ ‏١٧:٠٧، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

@Aram: لە هەموو پەڕەکان گەڕاوم، تەنیا ڕەوانەکەرەکان نین ئەو ژمارەیە. هەروەها هەموو نەیسپەیسەکانیش وەک ئاماژەم پێ کردبوو. — ڕۆژ ‏١٦:٥٩، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

@Aram: وا دیارە پەڕە سڕاوەکانیشی لەخۆ گرتووە، لە گەڕانەکانی ترمدا پاڵاوتنەکان دەگۆڕم. — ڕۆژ ‏١٧:٠٩، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

@ڕۆژ من نوێنەراییەتی گشت ڕەوانەکەرەکان ناکەم من وتم "ھەنێک" لە ڕەوانەکەرەکان سوود بەخشن بۆ خوێنەر و بە ئەنقەست وا درووستمان کردووە تا دۆزینەوە ئاسان بێت. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٥٦، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

لە ماوەی بەشداریکردنم لێرە ئەوەم بۆ ڕوون بووە کە نەک خوێنەر بەکارھێنەرە تازەکارەکانیشمان کێشەیان لەگەڵ تەختە کلیلی ستاندارد ھەبووە جا چجای ئەوەی بگات بە خوێنەر کە کاری بە ویکیپیدیا نەبێت و تەنھا بۆ خوێندنەوە ھاتبێت بۆ ئێرە. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٥٧، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

@Sakura emad:

«نوێنەراییەتی گشت ڕەوانەکەرەکان ناکەم»

قسەیەکی جوانە. دەتوانین لانی کەم ڕەوانەکەرە زۆر نامۆکان بسڕینەوە، وەک ئەوانەی کە نیومەودا یان «آ» و «ص» و ئەمانەیان تێدایە. — ڕۆژ ‏١٨:١٤، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: نیگەران مەبە و دڵنیا بە ئێمە ناچین ھەموو ڕەوانەکەرەکان بسڕینەوە. بۆ نموونە، سەردەمی ئەوە بەسەر چووە پیتی «ك» لای ئێمە بەکاربێت. دڵنیاش بە تا ڕای زۆرینە وەرنەگرین، قەت ئەو کارە ناکەین. جارێ سەرەتای وتووێژە. @ڕۆژ سەربەست: پێم سەیر بوو کە ئامارەکەت لە ھەموو پەڕەکانی ویکیپیدیا ئەوەندە زۆرە. وتم جا ئەوەندە ناونیشانی ناستانداردمان ھەبێت، کەواتە ڕەوانەکەرمان لە وتارەکان و بۆشاییناوەکانی تریش زیاترە. بەھەرحاڵ، جارێ چاوەڕێ دەکەین تا بزانین برادەرانی تریش چی دەڵێن ئەوسا بەپێی وتووێژ کارەکان دەکەین. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٩:٣٩، ٢٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

لەگەڵ سڕینەوەی ڕەوانەکەرەکان نیم بە هیچ جۆرێک. ◂  ئێپین  _♬ ‏٢١:٣٤، ٢١ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

بەکارھێنەرانی پاسدەر: پێویستییەکی زۆرمان بە ئێوە ھەیە

ناساندن

سڵاو بەکارھێنەرانی ویکیپیدیا بە تایبەتی بەکارھێنەرانی خاوەن ماف، لە ئێستادا زۆرترین کارمان بەم بەکارھێنەرانەیە کە شارەزان لە مافەکە و خاوەنی مافەکەن یان ئەوانەشی خاوەنی نین، لە ئێستادا گەر سەیری تۆمارەکان بکەین زۆرترین پەڕە لەسەرمان کۆبۆتەوە پێویستە پێداچوونەوەی بۆ بکەین و بەتەنھاش ناتوانین ئەم کارە بکەین ھەربۆیە داوا دەکەین ئەو بەکارھێنەرانەی خاوەن مافن و توانا و کاتیان ھەیە بێنەوە ویکیپیدیا و دەست بە چالاکییەکانیان بکەنەوە، و ئەوانەشی ناتوانن چیتر مافەکە بگرنە دەست و بەڕێوەی بەرن من لێرەوە زۆر سپاسی بەشدارییەکانی پێشوویان دەکەم و بەڵام پێویستمانە ئێستا چالاک ببنەوە بەپێچەوانەوە داوا دەکەم واز لە مافەکە بێنن و بیدەین بە کەسانێک کە دەیانەوێت بەشداری پڕۆژەکە بکەن و لەگەڵمان بن لە بەرەو پێشبردنی پڕۆژەکە.

داواکاری

بەھۆی کۆبوونەوەی پەڕەیەکی زۆر لەسەرمان و نەتوانین بۆ کۆنتڕۆل کردنی گشت پەڕەکان داوای چالاکبوونەوەی بەکارھێنەرانی پێشوو دەکەم و داوا دەکەم مافەکەیان بەکاربێنن بە پێچەوانەوە سپاسی بەشدارییەکانی پێشوویان دەکەم و داوا دەکەم واز لە مافەکە بێنن بۆ بەکارھێنەری چالاکتر

پڕۆژەکە لە ئێستادا پێویستی بەوانە ھەیە کە دەیانەوێت خزمەت بکەن، و ھەرکەسێک دەیەوێت لە ئێستا و لە داھاتوو مافەکە وەرگرێت ئێمە ئاسانکاری لە وەرگرتنی دەکەین ئەو کەسەی داوای مافەکە دەکات پێشنیار دەکەم سەرەتا مافی پاسدراوی خۆگەر ھەبێت و مەرجەکانی پاسدەری تێدا بێت، و من بەپێی توانای خۆم گشت کارئاسانییەک دەکەم بۆ ئەو بەکارھێنەرەی دەیەوێت ببێتە خاوەنی مافەکە.

داوای لێسەندنەوەی مافەکە

لەگەڵ ئەوەی مافەکە لەو بەکارھێنەرانە بسەندرێتەوە کە کار بە مافەکە ناکەن؟ ھەرخۆی ڕێسای مافەکە پشتگیری داواکارییەکە دەکات (بینین) تکایە بۆ ھەر دەنگێک ڕوونکردنەوەی خۆت بدە 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏٢٣:٥٦، ٢١ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

سڵاو بۆ ھەموو لایەک، پێشنیارێکی باشە. من خۆم پێشداش لە وتووێژی ویکیپرۆژەی کۆمەڵە وتارەکاندا بە کاک ئارامم ڕاگەیاند کە چیتر چالاکیم نابێت و ئێستاش تەنانەت لەبەر پڕۆژەکە ماومەوە و دەنا بەزووترین کات دەمھەوێ ویکیپیدیا بەجێبھێڵم. ئێستاش داوا دەکەم ھەر مافێکی کە پێتان وایە بۆ بەکارھێنەرێکی کەمچالاک یان ناچالاک نابێت، لێمی بستێننەوە. ھەتا ئێستاش کە مافی پاسدەر یان ھەر مافێکی ترم پێ بووە ھەموو ھەوڵیکم بۆ بەکارھێنانی داوە کە بەسوود بێت بۆ ویکیپیدیا. ھیوادارام لەمەبەدواش بەکارھێنەرانی بەئەزموونی پێشوو یان نوێیەکان ئەو مافانە بگرنە دەست و بۆ بەرەوپێشچوونی ویکیپیدیا بەکاریبێنن. زۆر سپاس. AHR _{(وتووێژ)} ‏١٣:٤٤، ٩ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

داواکارییەکە چۆن کاردەکات؟

• ھەر بەکارھێنەرێکی خاوەن ماف بۆ ماوەی سێ مانگ یان زیاتر ھیچ چالاکی نەبوو یان کەمتر لە نۆ چالاکی پاسدانی ھەبوو کە ئەمەش دابەش دەبێت بۆ سێ چالاکی بەسەر ھەر مانگێک لە سێ مانگەکەدا، ئەوا مافەکەی لێ دەسەندرێتەوە دوای ئەوەی مافەکەی لێ سەندرایەوە ئاگاداری بۆ دەنێردرێت لەلایەن بەڕێوەبەری پەیوەندیدارەوە و بارودۆخەکەی بۆ ڕوون دەکرێتەوە بە شێوەیەکی پوخت.

پشتگیری

لەگەڵ -دیارە پاس نەدانی وتارەکان دەبێتە هۆی ئەوەی کە وتارەکە وەک خۆی بمێنێتەوە بەتایبەتی ئەو وتارانەی کە پەیوەندی بە ڕووداوێکی هەنووکەی هەیە من لەگەڵ ئەوەدام ئەگەر بەکارهێنەرانی خاوەن ماف بۆ ماوەیەکی زۆر ناچالاک بوون پێویست بە بوونی مافەکە ناکات کە هەیان بێت . من خۆم ئامادەم ئەگەر بەگونجاوم دەزانن،لەگەڵ ڕێزدا Kurd2021 (لێدوان) ‏١٤:٥٣، ٢٢ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

• لەگەڵ – لەخوارەوە ڕایەکەم نووسوە. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٦:٠٥، ١ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ ئەگەر بەکارھێنەر مافەکە بەکار نەھێنێت ھیچ سوودێکی نابێت و تەنیا مەبەستی مافەکە دەشکێنێت. پێم باشە ئەوەی بەکاری نەھێنا، مافەکەی لێ بسەندرێتەوە. —ھەڵبەست _{(لێدوان)} ‏٠٩: AHR _{(وتووێژ)} ‏١٣:٤٤، ٩ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

١٧، ٩ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

• لەگەڵ — ھاندەرێکی باشە بۆ ئەوەی بەکارھێنەری خاوەن ماف بکەوێتە خۆی و کار بە مافەکە بکەن. ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _وتووێژ ‏١٨:٣٩، ٩ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

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لێدوان

لێدوانەکان (داواکارییەکە پەسەندکرا)

چاوەڕێی لێدوانەکانتانم  زۆر سوپاس! 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏٢٣:٥٦، ٢١ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) @Sakura emad: ویکیپیدیا بووەتە شوێنێک بۆ کۆکردنەوەی دەسەڵات! کە توانا یان کاتت نییە کار بە مافەکەت بکەیت، وازی لێ بێنە یان ئەسڵەن بۆچی داوای دەکەیت؟! من خۆشم کارم بە مافەکەم نەکرد، لێم بسێننەوە. من ئەوەندەی پێم کرابێت بەسەر پەڕەکاندا چوومەتەوە و باشەکانم پاس داوە. بەکارھێنەری نوێ و پەڕەی نوێش زۆرن، و من وەک خۆم ھەر ئەوەندە فریا دەکەوم. ئیتر سپاس! ⇐ئارام وتووێژ💭 ‏١٦:٠٥، ١ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) @Aram زۆر زیاتر لە پێویستت کردووە بەڕێز ئارام ئەم چەند تۆمارە شاھێدن مانگی پێنج تا تەواوی شەش. مانگی شەش تا حەوت شەش و تەواوی مانگی حەوت. پێویستت بە نیشانێک ھەیە. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٣٨، ١ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) @Kurd2021: ئێوە یەکێکن لە گوونجاوترین بەکارھێنەرەکانمان لە ویکیپیدیای سۆرانی لەدوای وەرگرتنی مافی پاسدراوی خۆگەر کە من پێشنیار دەکەم ئەو مافەت ھەبێت دوودڵ مەبە لەوەی داوای مافی پاسدەر بکەیت ھەرکاتێک بتەوێت 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٤٢، ١ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) زۆر سپاس @Sakura emad: بۆ ئەمە چی بە پێویست دەزانن، بیکەن. ڕەنگە ھەرکاتێک کاتێکی گونجاومان دەستکەوت، ئەو بەکارھێنەرانەی کە بۆ ماوەی ساڵێک ناچالاکن و خاوەنی ھەر مافێکن، سەرجەمیان لێ بسەنینەوە. ⇐ئارام وتووێژ💭 ‏١٨:٥٩، ١ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) @Sakura emad سوپاست دەکەم، دیارە من لە ڕاستیدا تەنها لەنەبوونی کەس ئەو داواکاریەم کرد دەنا بەش بەحاڵی خۆم بە پێویستی نازانم، لەگەڵ ئەوەش دەکرێت ئەو مافە وەربگرم ئەوەی پێم کرا ئەنجامی دەدەم. Kurd2021 (لێدوان) ‏١٠:٥٠، ٢ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) بەڕێز @Aram تکایە با نەیکەین بە ساڵێک ئەمە زۆر زۆرە بۆ مافی پاسدەر و وەک مافی بەڕێوەبەڕایەتیی نییە نە لەڕووی زەحمەتی بەدەست ھێنانەوە کە پێویستمان بە ڕۆژ و ھەفتە بێت تا مافەکە بدەینەوە بە کەسەکە و پێویستی بە چوونە مێتا ھەبێت، تەنھا یەک کرتە کردنە لەلایەن بەڕێوەبەرێک بۆ ئەوەی دەیەوێت دووبارە وەری بگرێتەوە و ئەرکێکی قورس نییە بۆیە، من پێم باشە مانگانە بێت ھەر پاسدەرێک زیاتر لە سێ مانگ ھیچ چالاکییەکی نەبوو مافەکەی لێ دەسەندرێتەوە بە ئاگاداری یان بێ ئاگاداری ئەوە دەکەوێتە سەر بڕیاری بەڕێوەبەر کە کام بەکارھێنەر لێرەیە و ئاگای لێمانە و ئاگاداری پێدەگات و کامە بەکارھێنەریش لەگەڵمان نییە و لە ژیانی ڕۆژانە سەرقالە و ئاگادارییەکەی پێناگات، وە نە لەڕووی کۆبونەوەی ئەرکەوە بەڕێوەبەران وەک پاسدەرانن، ئەرکی پاسدەران زیاترە و وتار درووستکردن ڕۆژانەیە و کە پێویستە لەسەر پاسدەر بەپێی پێویست پێداچوونەوەیان بۆ بکات 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٠:٢٠، ٦ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) پێشنیار دەکەم بەم شێوەیە بێت: @Aram، @Kurd2021 ھەر بەکارھێنەرێکی خاوەن ماف بۆ ماوەی سێ مانگ یان زیاتر ھیچ چالاکی نەبوو یان کەمتر لە نۆ چالاکی پاسدانی ھەبوو کە ئەمەش دابەش دەبێت بۆ سێ چالاکی بەسەر ھەر مانگێک لە سێ مانگەکەدا، ئەوا مافەکەی لێ دەسەندرێتەوە دوای ئەوەی مافەکەی لێ سەندرایەوە ئاگاداری بۆ دەنێردرێت لەلایەن بەڕێوەبەری پەیوەندیدارەوە و بارودۆخەکەی بۆ ڕوون دەکرێتەوە بە شێوەیەکی پوخت. سپاس 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٠:٢٦، ٦ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) @Sakura emad: مادام ڕوونکردنەوەکەت جوان بوو، با وا بێ کە وتت. سپاس! ⇐ئارام وتووێژ💭 ‏١٠:٥٣، ٦ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC) 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٠:٥٦، ٦ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

ئەو بەکارھێنەرانەی لەژێر کاریگەری داواکارییەکە دەبن

@Amine yousefi:

@Halbast1:

@Épine:

ئەو بەکارھێنەرانەی پێویستە ئاگاداربن

@Ahrir:

سپاس. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٥:٤٨، ٨ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

•  لێدوان: سڵاوتان لێبێت! ئەوەی ڕاستی بێت من ماوەیەکی زۆرە لە ویکیپیدیا دابڕاوم، بەڵام خۆشحاڵم کە ڕایبگەیەنم کە بڕیارم داوە بگەڕێمەوە و چەنێک پێم بکرێت پەڕە نوێیەکان پاس ئەدەم. ماندوو نەبن! —ھەڵبەست _{(لێدوان)} ‏٠٩:١٧، ٩ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

  @Halbast1 سپاس کاریگەریەکە لەسەر بەڕێزتان نەما بەڵام ئەوکاتە بەتەواوی ھەڵدەوەشێتەوە کە سێ چالاکی تەکنیکی تۆمار بکەن لەم مانگە و شەش دانەی تر لە دوو مانگەکەی تر سپاس. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٨:٥٠، ٩ی ئابی ٢٠٢٢ (UTC)

گۆڕینی قەدبڕی (پ)

داواکاری

بە پێویستی دەزانم لەجیاتی کورتکردنەوەی پۆل کە خۆی سێ پیتە و کورتە، پەڕگە شیاوترە و ئەو کورت بکەینەوە و قەدبڕی (پ) ڕەوانە بکەین بۆ پەڕگە و لەگەڵ ئەو بەستەرانەشی کە پۆلن و کەوتوونەتە ژێر قەدبڕی (پ) بیانگوازینەوە بۆ پۆل خۆی، و ئیتر کە نووسین پ:نموونە دەمان گوازێتەوە بۆ پەڕگە:نموونە لەجیاتی پۆل:نموونە.

قەدبڕ چییە؟

سڵاو بەکارھێنەرە چالاکەکان بە پێویستم زانی کێشەیەک بخەمە ڕوو کە لە ویکیپیدیای سۆرانی دەمێکە ھەیە، قەدبڕی (پ) کە کورتکراوەی پۆل بۆ نموونە لەجیاتی بنووسیت پۆل:زیندووان، پ:زیندووان یەکسەر دەتگوزاێتەوە سەر ھەمان شوێن ئەوەی ھەڵەیە لێرە کاتی خۆی ئەم قەدبڕەیان بۆ کورتکردنەوە بەکارھێناوە کە شتێکی زۆر درێژی پێ کورت بکەینەوە بۆ نموونە لەجیاتی بنووسین ویکیپیدیا:سەلماندنیبوون دەنووسین وپ:سەلماندنیبوون دەتگوازێتەوە سەر ھەمان بابەت. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٥:٣٠، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

بانگھێشتنامە

@Kushared, @Aram @Gejeluk @Kurd2021, @Tessla, @Calak @Pirehelokan, @Serchia, @Hamaredha، @RasberryPedia، @ئارۆ سالار محمود، @ئاریا سالار، @Paraw، @Épine، @MFTG ، @Aza، @Ferhad Mamosk 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٥:٣٠، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Mamozk 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٥:٣١، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@‏Nskoalj 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٥:٣٢، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

پشتگیری

• لەگەڵ Tessla (وتووێژ) ‏١٥:٤٨، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ دەستان خۆشبێت، بەڕاستی شتێکی زۆر باشە، بۆ ویکیپیدیا.ئارۆ سالار محمود (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٤٧، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ گێژەڵووک ^{وتووێژ🪐} ‏١٧:٥٤، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ ‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _وتووێژ ‏١٧:٥٦، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ MFTG (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٥٨، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ Hamaredha (لێدوان) ‏١٨:١٠، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ پێموایە بۆ پەڕگە باشتر بێت. Kushared (لێدوان) ‏٢٠:١٦، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ و بڕوانە لێدوانەکەشم لە بەشی لێدوان. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢٠:٣٤، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ کارێکی باش دەکەیت.مامۆزک ^وتووێژ ‏١٥:١٣، ٥ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)
• لەگەڵ Nskoalj (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٣٧، ٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

دژایەتی

• دژ هەردووک وشەکە کورتن. پۆلیش زیاتر بەکاردێت. لەبەر ئەوە پێم باشترە وا بمێنێتەوە. سەرچیا — ‏١٦:٥٦، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

• دژ لەگەڵ سەرچیام. -Aza (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٠١، ١٣ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

لێدوان

سپاس 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٥:٣٠، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Serchia ئێمە دەزانین ھەردوو وشەکە کورتن بەڵام کاتی خۆی قەدبڕتان درووست کردووە بۆ پۆل کە زۆر کورتە شیاوترە بۆ پەڕگە بەکاربھێنرێت، پێویستە لەسەر ڕابردوو نەڕۆین و زانستنامەکە پەرە پێبدەین ئەمەش یەکێکە لەوانەی پێویستە بکرێت سپاس. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٧:٣٣، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: ڕاستییەکەی من لەگەڵ تۆم، بەڵام بە پێویستتری دەزانم کە داواکارییە بچووکەکانمان بخەینە پاڵ چەند داواکارییەک و کەمێک زۆر ببن ئینجا بە یەک جار پێشکەشیان بکەین. بۆ نموونە چ کێشەیەکی تری قەدبڕەکانمان ھەن؟ تا فابریکەیتر بە داواکاریی بچووک بچووکی ئێمە پڕ نەبێتەوە و ھەمیش خۆمان ئاسانتر داواکانمان بدۆزینەوە. وا بزانم ئەوکاتە تۆ لێرە نەبوویت کە داوام کرد بە یەک جار کۆمەڵێک وشەی سێحری بکەینەوە کوردی، بەڵام ئیشەکە گەرموگوڕ نەبوو و بێجگە لە وشەی #REDIRECT کە کرایە #ڕەوانەکەر، ئەوانی تر نەکران. لێرە بڕوانە داواکەم. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢٠:٣١، ٤ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

بەرێز @Aram لەگەڵ داواکەی بیروبۆچونەکەی بەرێزتم، بەڵام گەر سەیری بکەی جگە لە ڕەوانەکەر ھیچ یەکێکی تر نەکراوە بە کوردی؟ و کاتێکی باشی دەوێت تا ھەمووی بکرێتەوە کوردی، جگە لەوەش ئایا داواکارییەکە کۆمەک نابێت بەسەر یەک گەر ھەمووی بەسەر یەک کۆ بکەینەوە؟ چونکە جگە لەو دوو داواکارییەی کە ئێستا ھەیە، بەپێی ئەو وتووێژەی لەگەڵ بەڕێزت و @Kushared کردوومە بەم زوانە داوای ھەردوو مافی Template editor و Extended confirmed دەکرێت بۆ ئەوەی لە ویکیی سۆرانی زیاد بکرێت. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏٠٨:٣٠، ٥ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: لە مەبەستەکەم تێنەگەیشتی. مەبەستم ڕێک ئەو وشە سێحرییانە نەبوو؛ تەنیا نموونەیەکم بۆت هێنایەوە. وتم بگەڕێ و بزانە چ کێشەیەکی تری قەدبڕمان ھەیە و ھەمووی بکە یەک داواکاری. بۆ ئەو دوو مافەش، بە ڕای من جارێ پێویستمان نین. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٣:٥٠، ٥ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Nskoalj بۆچی پێت وایە نابێت ھیچیان کورت بکرێنەوە؟ کە لە ئێستادا دانەیەکیان ھەر کورتکراونەتەوە، لە داواکارییەکەت تێنەگەیشتم. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٠٠، ٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: چۆن ھەر دووکیان، سەرتاکەیان بە «پ»یە پێموایە پێویست نییە کورت بکرێنەوە. بەڵام ئەگەر دەتوانن تەواوی ئەوانەی لەجیاتی پۆل بە پ نووسراون بکەنەوە پۆل و ئەوانەی بە پەڕگەش نووسراون بکەنە پ ئەو کات بۆچوونەکەم دەگۆڕم. Nskoalj (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٠٥، ٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Nskoalj: ئێمەش ھەر ئاوا دەکەین بە شێوەیەکی تەکنیکی کە قەدبڕی پ دەگۆڕین بۆ پەڕگە، ھەموو ئەو بەستەرانەی تایبەتن بە پۆل و لەژێر قەدبڕی "پ" دان دەیگۆڕین و دەیگوازینەوە بۆ پۆل خۆی، خەمخۆرییەکەت درووستە و ئێمەش بیرمان لێی کردۆتەوە بیکەین. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٢٨، ٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

زۆر باشە بەڕێز @Sakura emad: بۆچوونی خۆم گۆڕی، سپاس. Nskoalj (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٣٨، ٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: پێم وا بوو دەبێ لە ئینکیوبەیتر داوا بکەین، بەڵام چووم کۆدەکانی خۆمانم پشکنی و ئەسڵەن کورتکراوەیان تێدا نەبوو! دوای گەڕانێک، بۆم دەرکەوت ئەو کورتکراوانە ئامڕازی ویکیپیدیا:گەڕانی کورتکراوەکان بووە نەک لە پشتەوە تۆمار کرابێتن :/ خۆشم ھاوردەم کردووە، بەڵام لەبیرم نەمابوو. سەیرێکی بکەن و بزانن ھیچ کێشەیەکی تر ھەیە؟ ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٨:٣٥، ٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Aza ئەم داواکارییە لە جێبەجێبوون دایە بەپێی داواکاری کۆمەڵگا و ڕوونیش نییە بۆچی بەڕێزت دژایەتی دەکەیت جگە لە داواکەی بەڕێز سەرچیا کە داواکاری بەڕێزیان بە شێوەیەکی تەکنیکی وەڵام دراوەتەوە. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٦:٠٣، ١٣ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: ڕاستە ئەو ئامرازە دەستی ھەیە لەم ئیشە، بەڵام لە دۆخی سەلامەتیشدا «پ» ھەر ڕەوانەت دەکات بۆ «پۆل». ھەر دەبێ لە پشتەوە شتێک بکرێت. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏١٩:٢٨، ١٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

مەبەستتان چییە لە پشتەوە؟ ئایا ئامرازکە ھۆکاری ئەوە نییە کە "پ" ڕەوانەمان دەکات بۆ پۆل؟ 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٩:٤٤، ١٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Aram ـ 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏١٩:٤٥، ١٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: نەخێر، لە دۆخی سەلامەتدا ئەو ئامڕازە ناچالاکە، بەڵام ھەر ڕەوانەمان دەکات بۆ پۆل. لێرەدا یان دەبێت لە (سیستمی) پشتەوە یان دێڕێک لە جاڤاسکریپت بێت ئەو کارە بکات. ئممم... جارێ مێشکم ماندووە، بەڵام دەمبووسێکم لەم بەشە دا. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢٠:٤٣، ١٦ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Sakura emad: ھممم... دۆزیمەوە! لە پشتەوەیە، بەڵام کۆمەڵگە دڵنیان لەم گۆڕانکارییە گەر بیکەین؟ وا دیارە دوو دەنگی دژ ھەن. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢٠:١٥، ١٧ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

@Aram دەنگی بەڕێز ئازا ھیچ ڕوونکردنەوەیەکی لەگەڵ نییە بیرمان نەچێت ویکیپیدیا دیموکراسی نییە، و پشت دەبەستێت بە دەنگی بەرێز سەرچیا کە من ماوەیەکی باشە وەڵامم داوەتەوە. 🌸 Sakura emad 💖 (لێدوان) ‏٢٠:٢٩، ١٧ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

ڕاستە دیموکراسی نییە، و عادەتەن دەنگی دژ ھۆکاری دەبێ و دەبێ حیسابی بۆ بکرێت تا لە یەکتری تێ بگەین. ئەوەشمان لەبیر بێت لە ویکیفەرھەنگ توانای بارکردن چالاک ناکەین. من خۆشم ئێستا کەمێک دوودڵم لەسەر ئەمە. ⇐ئارام _{وتووێژ💭} ‏٢١:٢٣، ١٧ی کانوونی دووەمی ٢٠٢٣ (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-19

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 the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

• For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
  • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
  • Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via تایبەت:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
• View all ٢٧ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
• Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!

(Apologies for posting in English)

Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.

As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.

After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.

The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.

If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.

Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) ١٥:٠٦، ٦ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-20

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 "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
• Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
• The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
• View all ٢٧ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
• The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

Meetings and events

• The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
• The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.

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Join the 6th Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign – 2025 Edition

Dear Wikipedia community,

(Please help translate to your language)

We invite your community to participate in the 6th edition of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign, a global campaign taking place from July 1 to August 31, 2025.

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable photo from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.) over the years.

More than 80 Wikimedia affiliates have participated since the campaign was launched in 2020 and have added images to more than 400,000 Wikipedia articles in over 245 Wikipedia languages. Thanks to the volunteer contributors!

We now invite your community to organize and lead the campaign within your community. As a local organizer, you may:

• Encourage individual members to take part by adding images to Wikipedia articles.
• Host edit-a-thons focused on improving visual content.
• Organize training workshops to teach contributors how to correctly integrate images into Wikipedia.

These activities will help build local capacity and increase visual content across Wikipedia.

Please note that for participants to be eligible to participate in the campaign, they need to have registered an account for at least a year before the official start date of the contest. That is, for the 2025 edition, they must have registered an account on or before July 1, 2025. The account can be from any Wikimedia project wikis.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language Wikipedia.

We would be glad for you to sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.

With kind regards,

User:Reading Beans On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2025. MediaWiki message delivery (لێدوان) ٢١:٥٣، ١٨ی ئایاری ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-21

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 and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

• From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
• Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to تایبەت:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information.
• Later this week, the تایبەت:پەڕە تایبەتەکان listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.
• The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
• Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
• View all ٢٩ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with تایبەت:Block may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page.
• The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.
• User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.

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Tech News: 2025-22

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 community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

Updates for editors

• Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June.
• The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of تایبەت:پەڕە پێویستەکان، بەستەرە شکاوەکان, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated.
• This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.
• Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
• The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue.
• View all ٣٢ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The previously deprecated ipblocks views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new block and block_target views instead.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.

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Tech News: 2025-23

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 Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.

Updates for editors

• It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template.
• View all ٢٠ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.
• From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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Tech News: 2025-24

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 Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

• The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("چالاکیی وتووێژ پیشان بدە").
• Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.
• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project.
• View all ٢٧ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
• Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-25

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

• You can nominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
• View all ٣٣ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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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.

Updates for editors

• Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project.
• Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%).
• A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
• View all ٢٤ 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available.
• The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.
• Detailed code updates later this week: 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.
• Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.
• A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
• View all ٣١ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.

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.
• 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 تایبەت:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication.
• A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
• It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed.
• View all ٢٧ 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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Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes

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Hello everyone, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your Watchlists and Recent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the Wikidata:Glossary for further explanations.

The upcoming change is scheduled for 17.07.2025, between 1300 - 1500 UTC. The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:

These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.

Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.

Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this project task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated Talk page.

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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.
• View all ٣١ 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.

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.
• 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 ٢٩ 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.

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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.
• 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.
• View all ٢١ 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.
• Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page.
• Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available.
• View all ٢٧ 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.
• Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet.
• Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: 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.
• The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
• The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.
• Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.
• View all ٣١ 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.
• An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:)
  • a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:)
  • a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:)
  • a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:)
  • a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:)
• View all ٤٦ 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.
• On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.
• Administrators can now access the تایبەت:BlockedExternalDomains page from the تایبەت:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.
• Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:)
• View all ٣٩ 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.
• 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.
• The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.
• On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results.
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
• View all ٣٧ 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.
• 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.
• When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.
• Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more.
• 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.
• View all ٣١ 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.
• 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
  • for both intitle: and insource: keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g. \uHHHH).
• When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
• View all ٢٤ 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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 ١٢ 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.

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 تایبەت: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.
• 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 تایبەت:بەشدارییەکان and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
• There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:)
• View all ٢١ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.

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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Upcoming Dark Mode user interface rollout for anonymous Wikimedia sites users

Hello Wikimedians,

Apologies if this message is not in your language. Please help translate to your language.

The Reader Experience team will launch the Dark mode feature for anonymous users on all Wikimedia sites, including yours, on October 29, 2025.

Dark mode is an option that allows users to view pages in light-coloured text, and icons on a dark background. Once it is available for anonymous users, they can enable it when using various devices. More information on ways to enable it can be found on this page. Given many pages are still not compatible with dark mode this will be an opt-in feature and not automatically apply to pages.

Dark mode requires modifications to content pages and templates, and since our initial launch in July 2024, we have been working with communities and helping them prepare for dark mode. Before the rollout, it is essential that template authors and technical contributors test dark mode and read this page to learn how to make pages Dark mode-ready and address any compatibility issues found in templates.

We will fix most color compatibility issues only on the most-viewed pages on projects with over 5 million monthly page views. Technical contributors with an account should opt into dark mode currently using preferences or settings and test pages and seek help before the release to ensure everything complies before the enablement.

If you have any questions or need help, please contact the Reader Experience team for support.

Thank you!

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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.
• New date filters, creationdate: and lasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. >2024) and relative dates (e.g. today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges.
• Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team.
• An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.
• View all ٣٤ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.

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.
• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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.
• This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change.
• Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.
• View all ٢١ 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.

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

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

• 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.
• View all ٢٠ 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.

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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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دانان و لابردنی چەند تاگێک بە شێوەیەکی خۆگەڕ

سڵاو لە @Hivja، Pirehelokan، Tessla، Zemen، Épine، مامۆستا، و هیوا: (کە لە دوایین باس لێدوانتان دابوو) و ئەوانیش تریش، ماوەی دوو ساڵە سکریپتێکی نیوەچڵم بۆ بە خۆگەڕکردنی دانان و لابردنی چەند تاگێک (ئەوەندەی ڕێی تێ دەچێ) لەسەر وتارەکان ھەبوو، بەڵام شکور ئەم مانگەی دوایی ئیشەکانیم تەواو کرد و ئێستا ئامادەیە. لەم کاتەدا سکریپتەکە پشتگیری لە زیادکردنی و لابردنی حەوت تاگ دەکات کە ئەمانەن:

• {{بێسەرچاوە}}
• {{ژکزی بێسەرچاوە}}
• {{یەک سەرچاوە}}
• {{ژکزی یەک سەرچاوە}}
• {{بنبەست}}
• {{ھەتیو}}
• {{بێپۆل}}

ڕەنگە بتوانین لە داھاتوو تاگی زیاتریشی بۆ زیاد بکەین. ئەگەر ڕازین، لەم یەک دوو ڕۆژە زیادی دەکەم و لەمەودوا پێویست ناکات وزە و کات و بیری خۆتان بە زیادکردن و لابردنی ئەو تاگانەی کە سکریپتەکە پشتگیرییان لێ دەکات بە فیڕۆ بدەن و ئەو بەکارھێنەرانەشی کە تاگەکان بەبێ چارەسەرکردنی کێشەکان لادەبەن، بۆتەکە دووبارە زیادیان دەکاتەوە تا کێشەکەی چارە دەکرێت، و کە چارەسەر کرا، بۆتەکە خۆی تاگەکە لادەبات. سکریپتەکە بۆ ھەموو زمانێکی ویکیپیدیا کار دەکات. لەگەڵ ئەوەی ئیشێکی زۆر وردم لەسەری کردووە و زۆر ئاقڵانە دەستکاریی تاگەکان دەکات، بەڵام ڕەنگە منیش حسابی ھەموو شتێکم نەکردبێت و پێویست بێت ئێوە لەو ھەڵانەی کە دەیانکات، ئاگادارمان بکەنەوە تا چاکیان بکەین. چی دەڵێن؟ بە شتێکی باشی دەزانن بیخەینە گەڕ؟ سپاس! ⇐ئارام _وتووێژ ١٩:٣٢، ٢٢ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

لەگەڵ، من پێم باشە هەبێ. دەستخۆش! ◂ ئێپین _♬ ١٢:٢٩، ٢٣ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

لەگەڵ: هەر بژییی :) دڵنیام کەڵکی باشی لێ وەردەگیرێ.  زەمەنCefayî  (لێدوان) ٢٠:١٤، ٢٤ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

لەگەڵ شتێکی باشە. مامۆستا (لێدوان) ٢١:٠٠، ٢٤ی تشرینی یەکەمی ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

 کرا سپاس! ⇐ئارام _وتووێژ ١٥:٢٠، ١ی تشرینی دووەمی ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

ھەر بۆ مێژوو خۆشە ئەم ئامارە دانێم. سکریپتەکە لەسەر تەواوی وتارەکان بەڕێوە چوو و وا بزانم لە مێژووی بۆتەکەم ئەمە گەورەترین ڕێژەی دەستکاری بوو کردبێتی، کە بە نزیکەی حەفتەیەک و بەبێ ھیچ کێشەیەکیش بەڕێوە چوو.

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لەمەودوا ڕۆژانە لە کاتێکی دیاریکراو (ڕەنگە سەعات ١١:٠٠ی شەو دانێم) ئەم سکریپتە کاری خۆی دەکات. سپاسی دووبارە! سپاس بۆ @مامۆستا: کە ئاگام لێ بوو کێشەی چەند تاگێکی چارە کرد و تاگەکانی لابرد. ⇐ئارام _وتووێژ ١٥:٥١، ٨ی تشرینی دووەمی ٢٠٢٥ (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-44

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 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 ٣١ 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.

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 تایبەت:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page.
• Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
• A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
• Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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 تایبەت:کردنەیەکی مێژوو is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start).
• For users with "بە شێوەیەکی خۆگەڕ بەشداری لە بابەتەکان بکە" 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 "بابەت دابنێ" or "وەڵامدانەوە" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.
• Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.
• Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.
• Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish!
• View all ٣١ 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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

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

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 "چالاکیی وتووێژ پیشان بدە".
• MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request.
• Using the "پێشبینین نیشان بدە" or "گۆڕانکارییەکان نیشان بدە" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content.
• Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed.
• The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis.
• View all ٢٧ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
• The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-47

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 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:)
• View all ٢٣ 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.
• Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "ئامرازەکانی دەستکاریکردن لە دۆخی سەرچاوەدا چالاک بکە" preference be set.
• Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
• View all ٢٤ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey.
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for format=xml&xlst={stylesheet} will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026).
• The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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 ٣٤ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed.
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:)
  • a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:)

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.
• 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.
• View all ٢٣ 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience.
• Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Tech News: 2025-51

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 ١٨ 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.

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 تایبەت:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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.
• 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 ١٦ 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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Tech News: 2026-03

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.
• 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.
• View all ٢٨ 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type.
• 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.
• 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.
• View all ٣٢ 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.

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.
• View all ٢٠ 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable.
• Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
• 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 "زانیاریی پەڕە" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local میدیاویکی:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
• View all ٢١ 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: 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.
• When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
• The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function {{#isbn}} available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so.
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Jju (w:kaj:)
  • a Wikipedia in Nawat (w:ppl:)
• View all ٢٣ 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.
• 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.

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Tech News: 2026-08

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 SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.

Updates for editors

• The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog.
• The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Previously, site notices (میدیاویکی:Sitenotice and میدیاویکی:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add #siteNotice { display: none; } to میدیاویکی:Minerva.css.
• View all ١٩ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.

Updates for technical contributors

• New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-09

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

• Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.

Updates for editors

• The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code.
• Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened.
• The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in MediaWiki:skin-theme-description and MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
• The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
• View all ٢١ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook, ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-10

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

• Wikipedia 25 Birthday mode is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via community configuration on the local wiki.

Updates for editors

• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and a couple of other wikis. You can try the feature on these projects or on testwiki and betawiki. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been published in a report. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are interested in becoming a pilot wiki.
• Paste Check will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check tags all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via تایبەت:EditChecks. Research across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can help to localize this and related features.
• The Reader Experience team will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface.
• Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one.
• Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon.
• The Global Watchlist which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The extension now allows activating the language fallback system for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no uselang= URL parameter is provided.
• The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of hybrid search on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
• For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule.
• View all ٢٧ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in Wikibase.cloud has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
• The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts.
• The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
• The process and criteria for requesting exceptional access to the high volume feed of the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), have now been published. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
• Tech Blog, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community will be migrating to Diff, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-11

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

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
• Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the post on the Stewards' noticeboard (translations).

Updates for editors

• Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as iCloud Private Relay) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again.
• Later this week, Suggestion Mode will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at Special:EditChecks and there are instructions for how administrators can customize the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to Edit check which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment.
• View all ٢٣ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools.

Updates for technical contributors

• API rate limiting update: To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
• The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and give feedback. You can also sign up for usability tests.
• The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read this update to learn more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected pilot wikis and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, and Turkish. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more on the project page.

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Tech News: 2026-12

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 Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature, also known as CodeMirror 6, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new features to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta, please share.
• Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks.
• On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on تایبەت:گۆڕانکارییە ھەڵواسراوەکان previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself.
• Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about the changes.
• Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'.
• View all ٢٨ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new special page, تایبەت:LintTemplateErrors, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: تایبەت:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color.
• Users of the Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature have been using CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026. Feedback or concerns are welcome.
• The CodeMirror JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the ext.CodeMirror or ext.CodeMirror.lib modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the ext.CodeMirror.switch hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the migration guide for more information.
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include extension APIs. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for GrowthExperiments and Wikifunctions APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the REST Sandbox (i.e., تایبەت:RestSandbox, available on all wiki projects).
• The Scribunto extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the mw.site library. Starting last week, the library also provides a way of accessing the wiki ID that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The 2026 Coolest Tool Award celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement.

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Request for Comment: VisualEditor automatic reference names

Hi, I’m Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team. Apologies for writing in English. Please help translate to your language! We are considering to work on Community Wishlist/W17: Improve VE references' automatic names and reuse. This has been a long-term issue for wikitext editors (see e.g. en:WP:VisualEditor/Named references) which has been among the top-voted wishes in several Community Wishlist Surveys, e.g. 2017, 2019, 2022 or 2023.

We would like your input on the solutions proposed on our project page: m:WMDE Technical Wishes/References/VisualEditor automatic reference names. We are considering several options, which can be combined if desired by the community.

• Changing the default pattern for automatically generated reference names (currently ":n", e.g. ":0", ":1"...) to use the reference type instead (e.g. "book_reference-1").
• Providing a simple mechanism for communities to configure a different default name.
• Generating automatic reference names based on the domain name (if it’s a web citation).
• Generating automatic reference names based on template parameters (e.g. "title" or "last"+"first") – defined by the community.

Feedback

Visit our project page to read about our proposal in detail and share your thoughts on metawiki.

Please note: We will only implement a solution if there’s clear consensus among the global community. Our intention is not to build the perfect solution, but to find a simple and lean one that alleviates the pain caused by auto generated names. We are aware that some experienced VisualEditor users might prefer an option to manually change reference names in VisualEditor, but such a UX intervention is difficult to achieve across reference types and thus out of scope for our team, we can only improve the auto-naming mechanism. We are happy about suggestions for improving certain details of the proposed solutions. Any other feedback and alternative proposals are also welcome – even though it’s out of scope for us, it might still be relevant for future work on this topic.

Please support us interpreting consensus by clearly indicating your opinion (e.g. by using support/neutral/oppose templates). We are aware of en:WP:NOTVOTE, but given that we are facilitating this discussion with users from different wikis, potentially commenting in their native language, clearly indicating your position helps us avoid misunderstandings.

Thank you for participating!

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Tech News: 2026-13

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

• Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional "Log in with passkey" button will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The screen recording demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

Updates for editors

• Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
• Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an early version of an experience that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
• The Special:Block now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown.
• Mobile editors at several wikis can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance account creation experience on mobile and then increase participation.
• View all ٣٦ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.

Updates for technical contributors

• Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent cloud-announce email and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible.

• The API Portal documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• WMDE Technical Wishes is considering improvements to automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor. Please check out the proposed solutions and participate in the request for comment.

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Tech News: 2026-14

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 Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
• The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
• View all ٤٥ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)

Hello everyone,

This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as Module:Itemgroup/list).

The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property P1846, combined with the qualifier P180: Q19571328.

We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property: P14226.

What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from P14226 instead of the old P1846 + P180 structure. A list of pages was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.

Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on P1846 to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old P1846 statements will be removed after May 1, 2026. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.

Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help! ZI Jony using MediaWiki message delivery (لێدوان) ١٧:٠٩، ٣ی نیسانی ٢٠٢٦ (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-15

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 CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
• The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
• View all ٢٣ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected.
• All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
• The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them, format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots.
• The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-16

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

Weekly highlight

• Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.

Updates for editors

• On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki.
• The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
• View all ٣٠ community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

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

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