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Tech News: 2025-43

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Updates for editors

• To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.[1]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.[2]

Updates for technical contributors

• The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under therest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to theService 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.[3]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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