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Latesttech 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

• All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "More" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using theAdvanced mobile contributions setting.[1]
• Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their localMediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove,can be found with this global search and inthis example, and you can learn more about how to help on theCSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered byParsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
• When editors embed a file (e.g.[[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[2] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g.{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[3]
• When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,[4] and respects cascading protection.[5]
• When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.[6]
• Thepreviously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation onGroup0 wikis this week. Seethe SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
• Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.[7]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia inSylheti (w:syl:)[8]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile.[9]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Updates for editors

• Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of theSUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use.[10][11]
• The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions inAfrika Baraza and the lastESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts?Join the discussion or emailaramadan@wikimedia.org!
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterlyGrowth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
• An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You canread more details about this change.

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Weekly highlight

• Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performsa datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter.Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You canread more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis onMarch 19 at 14:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

• Theimproved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipediassoon. Withthe unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-basedarticle suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access theCommunity-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
• On Wikimedia Commons, anew system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
• The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for theMultiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on theproject talk page.
• Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at12 Wikipedias:Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see allReference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documentedon Phabricator.[12]
• TheGlobal reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see thelisting of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
• TheGlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults.[13]
• View all 26 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages.[14]

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issuesplease report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on thedrafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

• TheCampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (seedeployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools:Event Registration,Collaboration List, andInvitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to theextension talk page or in Phabricator (with#campaigns-product-team tag).
• Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants inEvent Registration, as part of theCampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup byrequesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the#campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
• Administrators at wikis that have a customizedMediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using* specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April.[15]
• The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts.[16]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• VisualEditor has introduced anew client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can beshared in the task.
• Developers who use themw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with theuserAgent parameter:var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic.[17][18]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Updates for editors

• The Editing team is working on a newEdit check:Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input:in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messagingTrizek (WMF).
• Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience forMediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on theon the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers toshare feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• Sometimes a small,one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack servingmaps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform adatacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result ofextensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over tokubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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Latesttech 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 now on,interface admins andcentralnotice admins are technically required to enabletwo-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights.[19]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such asfont-size,line-height, andsize-icon.
• The results of theDeveloper Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for avisa ore-visa to enter the country.

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Weekly highlight

• Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations.[20]
• File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step.[21][22]

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation are 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 so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
• To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time passwordemailed to their account. It is recommended that youcheck that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose.[23]
• "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will beasked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. TheModerator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
• On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported onquery.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available throughquery-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through thequery.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which wasannounced in September 2024. More information isavailable on Wikidata.
• The latest quarterlyWikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The latest quarterlyTechnical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Updates for editors

• Wikifunctions is now integrated withDagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to callfunctions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. 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 ofa stable and global function, rather than via a local template.[24]
• A new type of lint error has been created:Empty headings (documentation). TheLinter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them.[25]
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, isnow also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overallStructured Contents project, and about thefirst release that's freely usable.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings and events

• The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discussPeacock check, which is the latestEdit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. Themeeting will be on April 28, 2025 at18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.

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Updates for editors

• Event organizers who host collaborative activities onmultiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to theCampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events asrequested by a community.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The release of the next major version ofCodex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number ofbreaking changes and minorvisual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented onthis page. Pre-release testing is reported inT386298, with post-release issues tracked inT392379 andT392390.
• Users ofWiki Replicas will notice that the database views ofipblocks,ipblocks_ipindex, andipblocks_compat arenow deprecated. Users can query theblock andblock_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterlyLanguage and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improvedContent Translation Dashboard Tool,support for new languages,highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign,results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.

Meetings and events

• TheLet's Connect Learning Clinic will take place onApril 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You canregister now to attend.
• The2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.

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Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to theirannual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes anexecutive summary (also onDiff), details about the three maingoals (Infrastructure,Volunteer Support, andEffectiveness),global trends, and thebudget andfinancial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on thetalk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

• For wikis that have theCampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
  • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted forEvent Registration viaCommunity 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 nowtransclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special: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 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers who use themoment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like theIntl library or the newmediawiki.DateFormatter library. Themoment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, andask 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.[26]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• The latestChart 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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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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Weekly highlight

• 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.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• 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.

Meetings and events

• The 2nd edition of 2025 ofAfrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place onMay 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regardingWikimedia Annual planning and progress.
• TheMENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting forMENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place onMay 17 at 17:00 UTC. You canregister now to attend.

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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 areinvited 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 andcheckusers 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. Pleasecontact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing toSpecial:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionalityon 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 thehelp page for more information.[27]
• Later this week, theSpecial:SpecialPages listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has beenredesigned 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 bepreviewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.[28]
• TheChart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read thedeployment timeline.
• Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries:Hausa,Igbo,Bengali,Malayalam, andDhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to callfunctions 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 ofa stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub forexperiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movementunderstand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples aregenerated video, theWikipedia Roblox speedrun game andthe Discord bot.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed.[29]

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact withSpecial:Block may need to be updated to work with the newmanage blocks interface. Please review thedeveloper 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 thetalk page.[30]
• Themw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in theLua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, namedisDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.[31]
• User script developers can use anew reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css fromgitlab.wikimedia.org withmw.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 ongitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. SeeTool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

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

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Weekly highlight

• A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development ofAbstract 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 atAbstract 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 exceptthe largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will haveadditional 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 isscheduled to happen in June.
• The#ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness ofSpecial:WantedPages, 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.[32]
• This week, the Moderator Tools team will launcha 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.
• TheNewsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation ofvarious 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.[33]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The previously deprecatedipblocks views inWiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the newblock andblock_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 canread the Program schedule andregister.

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Weekly highlight

• TheChart 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 legacyGraph extension.

Updates for editors

• It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor'scitation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the_default key in the localMediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations whennew 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.[34]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in usingaction=login oraction=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots usingbot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such asOAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; usingaction=login without a bot password was deprecatedin 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.[35]
• 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 isasync/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.[36]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications to participate in theGLAM 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 canapply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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Weekly highlight

• TheTrust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll outtemporary 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 thetalk page, andjoin a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

• Thewatchlist 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. Thepreferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.[37]

• 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 changesonDiff. It is possible to opt out of these changesin user preferences ("Show discussion activity").[38][39]
• Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accountsrevealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.[40]
• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout ofa 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 includethe rest of the Wikipedias in this project.[41]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved 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 areavailable on Phabricator.
• Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and onsome wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties onmw.title objects, namedpageImage andpageAssessments.[42][43]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Remove Page Protection Order

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Updates for editors

• You cannominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of theCoolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved 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 canread more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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The World Destubathon

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Weekly highlight

• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout ofa 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 includethe rest of the Wikipedias in this project.[44]

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.[45]
• Later this week, the Editing team will releaseMulti Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multipleReference 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%).[46]
• 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 inthe 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 24 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected.[47]

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use withExtension: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.[48]
• Theall_links variable inAbuseFilter is now renamed tonew_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.[49]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterlyGrowth 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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Weekly highlight

• TheCampaignEvents 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, andInvitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit theDeployment information page.

Updates for editors

• AbuseFilter maintainers can nowmatch against IP reputation data inAbuseFilters. 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.[50]
• Hidden content that is withincollapsible 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.[51][52]
• A new feature, calledFavourite 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 acommunity wishlist focus area.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.[53]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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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, andRepository 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 thinkon the talk page.
• Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the newtrivia 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.[54]
• 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 theTabbed Browsing project page.
• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now useSpecial:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabledtwo-factor authentication.[55]
• A new feature related toTemplate Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: atemplate 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 communitythrough 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.[56]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part ofMediaWiki 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 atManual:Notifications, information about migration inT388663 and details on deprecated hooks inT389624.
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open forsession proposals and forregistration. 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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Updates for editors

• Featured templates, a new feature related toTemplate 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 communitythrough the Community Wishlist.[57][58]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in theWikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate.[59]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited tosubmit a project idea for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Readthis 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. Submityour scholarship application andprogram 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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Updates for editors

• The Translation Suggestions feature in theContent 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.[60]
• Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The"Add a Link" Structured Taskhelps 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 theCommunity Configuration feature.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• For AbuseFilter editors onsome 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 theORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
• TheBeta Cluster wikis havebeen moved frombeta.wmflabs.org tobeta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can bereported 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.[61]

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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. Pleaseread the latest update, and if you have ideas, pleasesubmit a wish on the topic.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to blockcross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because ofwidespread 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 themessage or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.[62]
• 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 namedMediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp.[63]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. Theprogram 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, pleaseregister 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
• TheMediaWiki 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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NYC August: Wikimania Satellite Social + Roosevelt Island Wiknic

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 27

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the WikipediaScripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times.Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily.Aaron Liu (talk)21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up scripthere!

Featured script

WikiTextExpander byPolygnotus, is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates theWP:WTF? problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.

Updated scripts

• CanonNi: AlertAssistant has been fixed and rewritten using OOUI instead of Twinkle's Morebits. Such modern, very tool. (Do note that the maintainer has since become inactive.)
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader has been updated to use modern JS APIs that replace the browser's URL bar with the link you clicked on to load in place. The "back" (and "forward") buttons also work now. Cool, innit?
• My prayers have been... answered?DreamRimmer/Search sort is a fork ofPrimeHunter/Search sort that makes the 11 portlet links much smaller and nicer to look at.
• andrybak: Unsigned helper no longer shows an error when the message to sign was added in the earliest 50 revisions of a page's history. This is especially relevant to pages with short histories.

Newly maintained scripts

• Cyberdog958/Superlinks finally fixes the famousBradv/Superlinks to work with Vector 2022!

Improve a script

• Many of our favorite scripts such asEizen/PageCreator,Eizen/LastEditor,Fred Gandt/userResourceManager andGuarapiranga/search-shortcuts haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but has alienuser interface design. Someone could improve it...
• BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeatingfiasco history.

Requested scripts

We need scripts that...

• allow sorting lists of citationssuch as by URI or other identifier
• automatically convert the capitalization of citations' titles
• collect a list of discussion participants and generate a ping list
• automate starting merge discussions
• ...and many more, all available atWikipedia:User scripts/Requests

Miscellaneous

In breakingm:Tech/News,Gadgets can now include.vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces usingVue.js, in particular usingCodex, the official design system of Wikimedia.Codex icons are now also available.The documentation has examples.

• Appo/Globstory integratesOpenHistoryMap, updating the map whenever hovering/clicking on a location or year, the latter of which changes the map to be (hopefully) accurate to the year selected. It's pretty interesting.

• 

  Somewhat similar toWP:NavPops,Awesome Aasim/linkinfo(pictured) provides a collection of links to replace the right-click context menu, presented beautifully.
• Chaotic Enby/Recent Unblock Highlighter is the #1WP:ROPE dispensary of the year. Admins exclusive, naturally.
• Chew/HighlightQuotes: Makes all text between double quotes have a yellow background. Shiny.
• Daniel Quinlan/RangeHelper allows you to treat IP ranges as users and calculate the smallest range that contains specific addresses IP.
• Dbeef/C+ allows CheckUsers to generate a{{sock list}} from theSpecial:CheckUser page. Its checkboxes make this task hassle-free.
• DreamRimmer has been working at it with the state-of-the-art Vue.jsmw:Codex UI lately!
  • /CHUHelper and/EFFPRH reply to username-change and edit-filter requests, respectively.
  • /DraftNoCat deactivates the categories on a draft article. Dogs are better, really.

  • 

    /EasySubpage(pictured) creates subpages... easily!
  • TBanHelper warns you when your current page's title contains certain namespaces or keywords, sternly.
• DVRTed/multiContribs provides an aggregate view of the contributions of multiple users and a link atWikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations to automatically activate it with all users in a sockpuppet category.
• Edit7hesadparts/linkColorRandomizer turns your links rainbowy.
• Macaw*/noRefListAlert alerts you when the list of references is missing.
• Polygnotus
  • /DetectPromo is an interesting alternative to the classicMoonythedwarf/extra-unreliable, though of course the word list is somewhat different, you'll see.
  • /DiscussionToolsDrafts gives you a centralized page to see automatically-saved DiscussionTools reply drafts, just likeEditRecovery.
  • PreviousDiscussions provides a link to search for your username on subpages of another user's userpage and talkpage conveniently.
• Twineeea/noRedLinks brings you to the "read" instead of the "create" tab when you visit a red link. Contemplate life's mysteries as you stare into the blank! Deeply.

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Latesttech 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 theUser 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 inyour global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.[66]
• Everybody is invited to share comments onCollaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by theConnection 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 theproject talk page.[67]
• Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page namedMediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined inMediaWiki: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.[68]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets can now include.vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces usingVue.js, in particular usingCodex, 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, anAPI module now exists to load Codex icons.[69][70]
• Module developers can now use aLua 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 towatch the demo video, read more abouttranslatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki'sModule:User Wikimedia project for example usage, andshare 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.[71]
• Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies withthe user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that areoverusing 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 theParsoid/Parser Unification project page.[72]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. Theprogram 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, pleaseregister 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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Latesttech 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 includesits keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.[73]
• TheProduct and Technology Advisory Council published a set ofproposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 onthis 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.[74]
• Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This isan 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.[75]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The multiwiki datasets ofUnicode data have been moved toCategory: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 atthe talkpage.[76]
• Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using themw.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.[77]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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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.[80]
• 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.[81]
• An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August usingExperimentation 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.[82]
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource inTagalog (s:tl:)[83]
  • a Wikisource inMadurese (s:mad:)[84]
  • a Wikipedia inRakhine (w:rki:)[85]
  • a Wikibooks inMinangkabau (b:min:)[86]
  • a Wiktionary inStandard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:)[87]
• View all 46 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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Updates for editors

• Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used byTemplateStyles was updated. For example:width: fit-content;ruby-align; relative units such aslh; and custom strings inlist-style-type. These improvements are aCommunity Wishlist wish.[88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95][96][97]
• 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.[98]
• Administrators can now access theSpecial:BlockedExternalDomains page from theSpecial:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.[99]
• 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.[100][101]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary inBetawi (wikt:bew:)[102]
• View all 39 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Two fields of therecentchanges database table are being removed.rc_new andrc_type are being removed in favor ofrc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should userc_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.[103]
• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterlyLanguage 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 nextLanguage Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at15:00 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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Latesttech 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 inT402601, or to share their list withTrizek_(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

• TheCampaignEvents 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, andInvitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.[104]
• 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.[105]
• On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of ourgroup by toggle experiment of theSpecial:RecentChanges,Special:Watchlist, andSpecial: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.[106][107]
• 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 37 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved 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 isa newsletter to learn more.
• The latestReaders 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 WMDEshared 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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September 10: Wikimedia NYC Annual Election Meeting

Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

This week'sarticle for improvement (week 37, 2025)

The Signpost: 9 September 2025

Tech News: 2025-37

Latesttech 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, pleasetell us in this task, orcontact the team.

Updates for editors

• Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting"beta feature will be able to use alinting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See thehelp page for more information.[108]
• When browsing a wiki (likeen.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (likeen.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.[109]
• 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.[110]
• 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.[111][112]
• 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.[113]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

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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.[114]
• Starting in the week of October 6, onsmall wikis andmedium wikis that have theCampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to useEvent Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made forlarge 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 theintitle: keyword:metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors[115]
  • for bothintitle: andinsource: keywords: shorthandcharacter classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); andescape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g.\uHHHH).[116]
• 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.[117]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You canread more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved 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.[118]

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 tojoin an upcoming discovery interview, orleave 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.[119]
• The newUnicode 17.0 version has been released. Thedatasets on Commons for theModule: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 theWikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now accessParsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of theStructured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through theOn-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
• Adataset of English Wikipedia biographical information fromWikimedia 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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Weekly highlight

• On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduleddatacenter 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 canread more about the process on the Diff blog.

Updates for editors

• Editors of60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to callfunctions 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 other65 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 newparser function has been added:{{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of thecontent model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such asMediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page.[120]
• Adding or editing aDISPLAYTITLE 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 inthis ticket.
• Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesignedActivity 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 12 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week:MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involvinggeo-coordinates,quantities andtime 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 inthis video and Wikifunctions'August 1 newsletter (for quantities) andAugust 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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Weekly highlight

• A major software upgrade has been made toPhabricator. 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.[121]

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 thisin the latest update or you can consult thecurrent documentation on MediaWiki.
• As announcedon Diff blog, the production trial of thehCaptcha 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 existingCAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
• TheCampaignEvents extension has beendeployed 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 theevent organizer right.
• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You cantest the feature on testwiki oron betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts onusing templates in sub-references orvolunteer to become a pilot wiki.
• On wikis using theMentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship throughSpecial: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.[122]
• 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 areinvited 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 ofmultiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions 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 withsp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced withthose prefixed withblocked-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.[123]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote inMalay (q:ms:)[124]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, theUser Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.[125]

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use themw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases theexpensive function count once.
• A newUnsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to theProduct & 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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