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Tech News: 2026-07
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.- A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more. [1]
- When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. [2]
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. [3][4]
- The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function
{{#isbn}}available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. [5] - Two new wikis have been created:
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. [8]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend. [9]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:27, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
Duplicate entries and incorrect date of death in the person's name in Wikidata
[edit]- Robert Juliusz Hirszbandt (Q102083542) and Robert Juliusz Hirszbandt (Q116767355) → pilot, officer of the Polish Army (pilot, oficer Wojska Polskiego)
- Aleksander Stephan (1884-1944) (Q111016737) → he died in 1962 in Warsaw
regards (pozdr) ~2026-92352-2 (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Poprawiłem --Jarekt (talk) 14:08, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
User:Ronald Weiss on Wikidata
[edit](en) Hello. You are an admin who works in both English and Polish. I've noticed problems with the Wikidata edits made by user Ronald Weiss. He is making completely unbiased changes to the column regarding the official current English names of places in Poland, inserting the historical German names in parentheses. I've already contacted him on his talk page. I'm asking for your intervention.
(pl) Witam. Jestes adminem operującym w jezyku angielskim i polskim. Zauwazylem problemy ze zmianami na wikidata wprowadzanymi przez użytkownika Ronald Weiss. Dokonuje on pozbawionych jakiegokolwiek obiektywizmu zmian w szpalcie dotyczacej oficjalnych obecnych nazw angielskich miejscowosci w Polsce, wprowadzajac w szpalte przeznaczona dla nazw angielskich w nawiasie historyczne nazwy niemieckie. Napisalem juz do niego na jego stronie dyskusji. Prosze o interwencje. Nazw Cieszyn i Jelenia Gora nie moglem zmienic gdyz hasla sa zablokowane ~2026-92352-2 (talk) 14:33, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- Czy możesz mi pakazać jakieś przykłady? Przejżałem jakieś 20 zmian miejsc w Polsce i one były dobre, np. ta. --Jarekt (talk) 14:07, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
- Po tym jak zwrocilem mu uwage, sam wycofal te zmiany w szpalcie angielskojezycznej label. Sprawa dotyczyla np. tej zmiany w english label Dzieki ~2026-92352-2 (talk) 11:40, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
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~2026-10455-80 (talk) 18:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-08
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice. [10]
Updates for editors
- The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog. [11]
- The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add
#siteNotice { display: none; }to MediaWiki:Minerva.css. [12][13] - View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected. [14]
Updates for technical contributors
- New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more. [15]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:14, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
Edit request
[edit]Hi Jarekt,
I am currently validating the w3c status of the files in this category, and it appears that this one is protected but needs updates: do you think you could proceed with the removal of [[Category:Quality images - valid vector]] and the update of Igen to {{Igen|I|-1|+|^|s=l|cb=+/M/wmr/wikimedia red/wmg/wikimedia green/wmb/wikimedia blue}} (added tool I + status -1 as the file is uncheckable, because of CDATA - although the validator claims a 502 error)? --Kontributor 2K (talk) 08:36, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
- Kontributor 2K, I changed protection to only moving and reuploading is restricted while categorizing and wikitext changes are allowed. --Jarekt (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you. It's ok for me… I had not planned any file correction, --Kontributor 2K (talk) 20:57, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
Category:Medal Pamiątkowy za Wojnę 1918–1921 / przekierowanie
[edit]Witaj. Ta kategoria ma już 873 haseł i tu moje zapytanie jak stworzyć na wikidata przekierowanie do jeszcze nie istniejącej kategorii na commons "Category:Recipients of the Commemorative Medal for the War of 1918–1921" czy lepiej "Category:Recipients of the Commemorative Medal for the War of 1918–1921 (Poland)". Przykład: Jan Gromnicki na wikidata w szpalcie P166 (award received) "Medal Dziesięciolecia Odzyskanej Niepodległości / Decade of Independence Regained" po przejściu na Jan Gromnicki na commons widać, że takie przekierowanie jest. W przypadku Jan Gromnicki na wikidata w szpalcie P166 (award received) "War Medal 1918-1921 / Medal Pamiątkowy za Wojnę 1918–1921" po przejściu na Jan Gromnicki na commons takiego przekierowania z automatu nie ma i trzeba każdorazowo wpisywać "Category:Medal Pamiątkowy za Wojnę 1918–1921". Nie mam pojęcia jak to zrobić, czy dasz radę stworzyć takie przekierowanie a jezeli nie to moze poprosic jakiegos bota ?. Dzięki z góry ... pozdr ~2026-92352-2 (talk) 14:05, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
- to potrzebowałeś --Jarekt (talk) 14:59, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
- Tak. Dzięki, super.~2026-92352-2 (talk) 15:16, 19 February 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-09
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web. [16]
Updates for editors
- The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code. [17]
- Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened. [18][19]
- The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in
MediaWiki:skin-theme-descriptionandMediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tagto indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta. - The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality. [20]
Updates for technical contributors
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook,
ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. [21] - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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