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We have an unusual problem with DR bot II right now andUser:DreamRimmer bot II/Reports/G13 eligible drafts. Right now, DR bot II is tagging stale drafts appropriately, and also notifying draft creators, which is great. But it's not issuing the hourly report atUser:DreamRimmer bot II/Reports/G13 eligible drafts. If you look, you'll see that the latest report is from 3 or 4 hours ago. But it is detecting drafts and tagging them, it's just not compiling the report and I've never seen this problem before. We did have a very large report with over 30 drafts a few hours ago (its last report) but I don't see how the size of the report would affect it. Anyway, we can still function by looking up these tagged pages onCategory:Candidates for speedy deletion as abandoned drafts or AfC submissions, I just thought I'd let you know about the problem. Maybe a restart would fix this? I don't know, but thanks for your help.LizRead!Talk!21:35, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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MediaWiki can now display apage indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled bycommunity request.[2]
Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" 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.[3][4][5]
Wikivoyage wikis can usecolored 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.[6]
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.[7]
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.[8]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.[9]
TheJWT subject field inOAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from<user id> tomw:<identity type>:<user id>, where<identity type> is typicallyCentralAuth: (forSUL wikis) orlocal:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and thesessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work.[11]
AREL1_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.[13]
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.[14][15]
I submitted the job on the same day it was approved, but an error occurred and it stopped after fixing about 3500 pages. I did not have time to follow up at that moment, but I have submitted the job again now and it should finish soon. –DreamRimmer■13:12, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've been noticing that sometimes DreamRimmer bot II doesn't post notifications on draft creator's pages for drafts it tags for CSD G13 speedy deletion. An example of this from this morning isDraft:Mohamed Qamber whereUser:Mroahyaymaend should have received a notice but didn't. Since this editor has created this article several times, I thought it might be what I call "the Firefly Bot" affect as Firefly Bot will only leave a notification one time. But if you look at editor'suser talk page, you can see that they've never received a notice from DreamRimmer bot II. I think thought that maybe DreamRimmer bot II might have mistakenly given the notice to another editor but if you look atSpecial:Contributions/DreamRimmer_bot_II their contributions, you can see that they didn't post any notices forDraft:Mohamed Qamber. This is obviously not an emergency as I'm only aware of this happening a few times but it is puzzling so I thought I'd ask you about it. Thanks!LizRead!Talk!19:47, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
From day one, it has never notified a user again if they were notified about the same draft in the past and the old notice was still on their talk page; it only sends a new deletion notice when that earlier message is no longer there. I did not fix this earlier because I kept putting it off, but I will take some time in the next few days to address it. –DreamRimmer■17:48, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi DreamRimmer. I hope you're doing well. Can you lookat the task 2 which is currently active but still there is an inactive word. Is it necessary to change to active or not? Thank You!Fade258 (talk)18:07, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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TheReader Experience team is experimenting withreading 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.
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Unsupported Tools: Several issues withVideo2Commons 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 thePhabricator board.
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Last week, theWikimedia 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 forcxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions forсчастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week.[17]
Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting"beta feature will have syntax highlighting available inDiscussionTools. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set.[18]
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 asCollaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcominglearning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.[19]
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Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill therecruitment survey.[20]
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support forformat=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).[21]
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 orhttps://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review theData Access andRequest a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
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