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The"Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes aQR 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 calledEdge Uniques, which will enableA/B testing, help protect againstdistributed 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 haspreviously 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 thetalk page.
Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with theCampaignEvents extension enabled can useEvent 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 atSpecial:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia inNupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute tonew Wikipedia.
Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through theStructured 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 isscheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
TheIPv6 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 outthis blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.
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