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Wikimedians of Japan User Group 2024-11
全体ニュース
- ウィキメディア財団のオンブズ委員会と事案審査委員会への応募の締め切りは12月2日(UTC)です。(詳細)
- 来年5月にイスタンブールで行われるウィキメディアハッカソン2025の参加費用補助(奨学金)の申し込みは12月10日(UTC)までです。
- 来年8月にナイロビで行われるウィキマニア2025
の参加費用補助(奨学金)の申し込みは12月8日(UTC)までです。
Wikimedians of Japan User Groupからのお知らせ
- X(旧twitter)のアカウント@WikimediansJPUGを作成しました。
- アジア月間のサブイベントとして韓国特集を行いました。
- 11月9日にウィキペディア・アジア月間2024の一環として、友好エディタソンイベントをウィキメディア韓国協会と関西オープンフォーラム内で共催しました。
- 良質な記事の選考
- ローマ哲学が選考を通過。
- 日本の悪霊が選考を通過。
- おひつじ座が選考を通過。
- ImageNetが選考を通過。
- 吾妻川電力が選考を通過。
- 秋川新聞が選考を通過。
- Kの昇天が選考を通過。
- マレーシアの漫画が選考を通過。
- 麗子微笑が選考を通過。
- きゅうくらりんが選考を通過。
- あすと長町が選考を通過。
- 夕立が選考を通過。
- 持続可能なエネルギーが選考を通過。
- ローマ軍のアフリカ撤退 (紀元前255年)が選考を通過。
- グラコロが選考を通過。
- 鯨ひげが選考中です。(2024年12月9日 (月) 00:04 (UTC)まで)
- 酸素中毒が選考中です。(2024年12月9日 (月) 00:04 (UTC)まで)
- 排水 (道路)が選考中です。(2024年12月9日 (月) 13:51 (UTC)まで)
- 闇の絵巻が選考中です。(2024年12月11日 (水) 09:26 (UTC)まで)
- 福岡トンネルが選考中です。(2024年12月12日 (木) 14:13 (UTC)まで)
- 下出民義が選考中です。(2024年11月29日 (金) 12:36 (UTC)まで)
- カシオペヤ座が選考中です。(2024年12月2日 (月) 12:09 (UTC)まで)
12月のイベント情報
- 12月2日 地域情報発信講座 ウィキペディアタウンin志賀町
- 12月12日 知られざるウィキペディアの世界
- 12月15日 遺跡 de ウィキペディア in ユリ遺跡
イベント安全対策のための情報
- イベントの安全を守る
- イベント追放の方針
- 事務局行動
- 当UGではビラも作成しています。ぜひご覧ください。
- メタウィキのコンテンツページが150,000ページを超えました。
前回配信:2024年10月31日
配信元: Wikimedians of Japan User Group
フィードバック。 登録・削除。09:50, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-49
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
- Two new parser functions were added this week. The
{{#interwikilink}}
function adds an interwiki link and the{{#interlanguagelink}}
function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning withMOS:
on English Wikipedia conflict with themos
language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia. - Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [1]
- Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [2]
- This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
- In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:23, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-50
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
- Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.
Updates for editors

- Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
- The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the
<page-collection> </page-collection>
tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [4] - The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [5]
- The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively,
archiveUrl
andarchiveDate
, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [6] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (
voy:id:
) [7] - Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [8]
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [9][10]
Updates for technical contributors
- Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [11]
- Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
- The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [12]
Meetings and events
- The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 9 December 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-51
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.
Updates for editors
- Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
- Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
- The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.
Updates for technical contributors
- There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [13]
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:25, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
Wikimedians of Japan User Group 2024-12
Wikimedians of Japan User Groupからのお知らせ
- 2025年1月25日(土)のオープンソースカンファレンス大阪に出展およびセミナーを行います。
- 当メルマガに載せたい情報はありませんか? ユーザーグループではウィキメディア関係の情報を募集しています。イベント告知、ユーザーの活躍情報などございましたら、お気軽にこちらに投稿してください。(編集部の判断により掲載されないこともございます。あらかじめご了承ください)
- 良質な記事の選考
- 万丈窟が選考を通過。
- 子房が選考を通過。
- 東京・神戸間の高速道路計画が選考を通過。
- リンゴが選考を通過。
- ジャスミン (ディズニーキャラクター)が選考を通過。
- ワルイージが選考を通過。
- ダフニスとクロエ (ラヴェル)が選考を通過。
- 正長の土一揆が選考を通過。
- グスターヴ・ホルストが選考を通過。
- 阿波の土柱が選考を通過。
- 磯貝浩が選考を通過。
- 鯨ひげが選考を通過。
- 排水 (道路)が選考を通過。
- 闇の絵巻が選考を通過。
- 福岡トンネルが選考を通過。
- 下出民義が選考を通過。
- カシオペヤ座が選考を通過。
- バグラダス川の戦い (紀元前240年)が選考中(2025年1月1日 (水) 23:59 (UTC)まで)
- クルド文学が選考中(2025年1月7日 (火) 15:47 (UTC)まで)
- バハラーム6世が選考中(2025年1月7日 (火) 15:50 (UTC)まで)
- 心臓が選考中(2025年1月22日 (水) 00:04 (UTC)まで)
- 宮中祭祀が選考中(2025年1月8日 (水) 00:04 (UTC)まで)
- シャンブルが選考中(2025年1月11日 (日) 02:38 (UTC)まで)
- ヘンリー・パジェット (初代アングルシー侯爵)が選考中(2025年1月2日 (木) 07:39 (UTC)まで)
- 寝殿造が選考中(2025年1月7日 (火) 14:04 (UTC)まで)
- エドワード・サーロー_(初代サーロー男爵)が選考中(2025年1月8日 (水) 17:38 (UTC)まで)
2025年1月のイベント情報
- 1月19日 ウィキペディアタウン in 神保町 vol.2
- 1月25日 オープンソースカンファレンス大阪
- 日本語話者向けニュース
- メタウィキでは翻訳者を常時募集しています。気になる方は翻訳ポータルをご確認下さい。
前回配信:2024年11月30日
配信元: Wikimedians of Japan User Group
フィードバック。 登録・削除。07:24, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-03
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 Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject:
keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [14] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (
w:tig:
) [15] View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [16]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
- Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its
sub
field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [17]- Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [18]
Meetings and events
- The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-04
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
- Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [19]
- On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [20]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [21]
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-05
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [22]
- Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [23]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [24]
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_history
dump, theanonymous
field will be renamed tois_anonymous
. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [25]
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14, 27 January 2025 (UTC)
Wikimedians of Japan User Group 2025-01
Wikimedians of Japan User Groupからのお知らせ
- 2025年2月22日(土)のオープンソースカンファレンス(OSC)東京/春に参加およびセミナーを行います。
- 上記OSC東京/春のイベント内イベントとして、10時より Japan Wikimedian カンファレンス2025を行います。ウィキメディア運動(ムーブメント)やウィキデータ
についてのセミナーもありますので、ぜひご参加ください。
- 2月23日(日)、13時15分より、黙々とウィキデータの編集を行う会を開きます。詳細はこちら
- 当メルマガに載せたい情報はありませんか? ユーザーグループではウィキメディア関係の情報を募集しています。イベント告知、ユーザーの活躍情報などございましたら、お気軽にこちらに投稿してください。(編集部の判断により掲載されないこともございます。あらかじめご了承ください)
全体ニュース
- 来年度のウィキメディア財団の年次計画案についてのアンケートが募集されています。日本語でも回答可能です。
- 2月5日午前1時(JST)からロゴとバナーに関する方針の更新についてのオフィスアワー(事務局時間)が行われます。
- スチュワード選挙2025及び現在のスチュワードへの信任投票への投票が2月6日 14:00 (UTC) から2月27日 14:00 (UTC) まで行われます。
- 良質な記事の選考
- ヘンリー・パジェット (初代アングルシー侯爵) が選考を通過。
- バグラダス川の戦い (紀元前240年)が選考を通過。
- 寝殿造が選考を通過。
- バハラーム6世が選考を通過。
- エドワード・サーロー (初代サーロー男爵) が選考を通過。
- 第二メルボルンが選考を通過。
- 心臓が選考を通過。
- 安全地帯XIIが選考を通過。
- 五間堀川が選考を通過。
- クルド文学が選考を通過。
- サウィン祭が選考を通過。
- 蔦屋重三郎が選考を通過。
- 熱田大宮司家が選考を通過。
- ロバート・オッペンハイマーが選考を通過。
- 平野千恵子が選考を通過。
- PCエンジンのゲームタイトル一覧が選考を通過。
- オホス・デル・サラードが選考を通過。
- 上下町上下が選考を通過。
- 酸素中毒が選考を通過。
- 著作権法の判例一覧 (欧州)が選考中(2025年2月21日 (金) 15:45 (UTC)まで)
- 都市が選考中(2025年2月8日 (土) 00:04 (UTC)まで)
- ユリ遺跡が選考中(2025年2月2日 (日) 06:09 (UTC)まで)
- ステゴサウルスが選考中(2025年2月6日 (木) 06:30 (UTC)まで)
- ユースフ1世 (ナスル朝)が選考中(2025年2月10日 (月) 23:59 (UTC)まで)
- 記事数が900,000ページを超えました。
- 記事数が200ページを超えました。
2025年1月のイベント情報
- 1月19日 ウィキペディアタウン in 神保町 vol.2
- 1月25日 オープンソースカンファレンス大阪
前回配信:2024年12月31日
配信元: Wikimedians of Japan User Group
フィードバック。 登録・削除。05:16, 31 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-06
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
- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [26]
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[27] You can now also insert
<code>
tags using a new toolbar button.[28] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json
to include entries forpreprint
,standard
, anddataset
; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID
,identifier
,repository
,organization
,repositoryLocation
,committee
, andversionNumber
. [29]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:
) [30] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [31]
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Tech News: 2025-07
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.
Updates for editors
- The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [32]
- As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion
,prefers-reduced-transparency
,prefers-contrast
, andforced-colors
). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [33]View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [34]
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [35]
- The function
getDescription
was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [36] - As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the
/page/related
endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike
" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [37]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
- The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.
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Tech News: 2025-08
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
- Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the
Special:Homepage
for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase atSpecial:CommunityConfiguration
. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.
Updates for editors

- Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [38]
- You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [39]
- When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
- The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [40]
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [41]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [42]
Updates for technical contributors
- Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [43][44]
- Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that
mw.Uri
is deprecated. Tools requiringmw.Uri
must explicitly declaremediawiki.Uri
as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser nativeURL
API soon. [45]
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