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Tech News: 2026-14
[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 Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.
Updates for editors
- The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
- The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:22, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Node.js versions of Photo Challenge Tools
[edit]I currently rewrite the tools to Node.js version. Here's the Github's link. I use OpenAI Codex and Claude Code to do the Vibe coding, and start to do the notification functions right now. You could check and test it. After finish the tools, I will release with a free license. Thanks. This is Taiwania Justo speaking (Reception Room) 11:55, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. I am more of a python coder, not so familiar with JavaScript. Do you think you can get it to the point where we can run it as a gadget within the browser ? --Jarekt (talk) 20:15, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
- Currently it runs on local computer. I will test it online if I could have time. This is Taiwania Justo speaking (Reception Room) 06:19, 7 April 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-15
[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
- The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed. [2]
Updates for technical contributors
- The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected. [3]
- All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
- The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them,
format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots. [4] - The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia. [5]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:16, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-16
[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
- Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.
Updates for editors
- On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki. [6]
- The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. [7]
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting later this week, Abuse filter editors who have the Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. [8][9]
- Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (
action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. [10] - Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). [11]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 15:16, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
Hi Jarekt, are you able to remove this template from Category:Language templates with no text displayed? --Leyo 19:55, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
- Leyo
Done --Jarekt (talk) 13:18, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you. --Leyo 15:45, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
Missing (but present) translation
[edit]Can you check why at the bottom of this page button "Purge page to update desciptions" is still in english, although there is translation of it. Ma▀▄Ga 17:00, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
- User:MaGa translated pages in my expirience do not follow logic. Everything looks fine to me (as far as I can tell). If you have added this translation recently I would wait a couple days. Also you can check at Commons:Translators' noticeboard, maybe someone there has some ideas. Sorry I can not be more helpful. --Jarekt (talk) 17:22, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
- I know that about translation logic. I even think I have more of those problematic pages with translations. Thank you for directing me to the right page. Ma▀▄Ga 18:45, 15 April 2026 (UTC)