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AI slop[change source]Simple Talk[change source]Wikipedia:Simple_talk#Deprecating_Template:Nobelprize_proposal - Schools[change source]Populate Category:Lists of schools in South East England (en) - create school articles Populate Category:Lists of schools in England (en) - create school articles Update all navboxes at Category:Lists of schools in South East England - . –Davey2010Talk 20:03, 25 January 2025 (UTC) Create lists at Lists of schools in the United Kingdom –Davey2010Talk 21:37, 1 February 2025 (UTC) Spam websites and spam IPs Docs[change source]IPs Vandals Doc[change source]IPs Vandals Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iWGGy1CtMGO_opYgjvqgfI-ptXYt_xkAHBjlkrckCb4/edit –Davey2010Talk 10:58, 4 June 2024 (UTC) Check IP edits[change source]Check IP edits WPCleaner notes[change source]Wikimedia dumps[change source]Users appear to add dump logs from whereever to WPCleaner - check check.wi last update. –Davey2010Talk 15:08, 24 April 2025 (UTC) Category:Accessibility issue tracking categories[change source]Special:LintErrors/bogus-image-options[change source]Special:LintErrors/bogus-image-options –Davey2010Talk 14:53, 7 April 2025 (UTC) Bus cat[change source]ADL[change source]
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[change source]You did to rewrote List of Kate & Mim-Mim episodes, I will give you a barnstar. 2605:59C0:204E:FB08:1A65:71FF:FE7A:3C62 (talk) 23:53, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
- No worries, Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:08, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Explanations
[change source]Why did you revert my edit here? https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=24-hour_clock&oldid=10334934
I thought it was cool and interesting to put in which periods/parts of the day the hours belong: postmidnight (00:00 to 06:00), morning (06:00 to 12:00), afternoon (12:00 to 18:00) and evening/night (18:00 to 00:00). 168.232.221.4 (talk) 04:57, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Imho the previous table and content looked fine and didn't need changing, If you disagree please start a discussion at the article talkpage or at WP:Simple Talk, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 07:35, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Dummy edits
[change source]Can you please avoid making dummy edits like Special:Diff/10345400 and Special:Diff/10345404? I don't know why you're linking to MOS:ITALICS: those edits have nothing to do with italics; they're just removing a space, and do not change the visual output in any way. 209.178.201.90 (talk) 22:27, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @209.178.201.90, I'll be honest a lot of pages need purging and I was too lazy to manually refresh each one so decided to make these edits instead, I don't know why the source change script is mentioning Italics and truth be told I don't know why I've never noticed that before?,
- Anyway I've self reverted all of my edits, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 22:36, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Ok, I wasn't saying to revert them, just that edits like that can fill up the page history and recent changes without good reason. I'm pretty sure Special:Diff/10345420 was OK but I haven't investigated whether it improved the page or not. 209.178.201.90 (talk) 22:39, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Just an FYI but the script at Enwiki shows MOS:ITALICS in the edit summary too even when you don't make italic changes, I'm assuming there's consensus for this over there,
- I know but it didn't sit right with me those edits standing when in fact I didn't make any italic changes, it's misleading and deceiving, If I saw someone else making those edits I would've warned them and told them to stop using fake summaries so yeah I can't in good conscience let them stand,
- Thank you for the heads up it's much appreciated, Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 22:44, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
- Ok, I wasn't saying to revert them, just that edits like that can fill up the page history and recent changes without good reason. I'm pretty sure Special:Diff/10345420 was OK but I haven't investigated whether it improved the page or not. 209.178.201.90 (talk) 22:39, 20 June 2025 (UTC)
Short description
[change source]Hi, I've updated it so the template only appears in preview mode. It's not very important as it doesn't affect the page in any way and can be swiftly removed using AWB or an automated script. I don't think displaying a red message on top of pages is a good idea, especially when the template's main purpose is just to prevent red links when people copy pages from other wikis. We had some discussion on it before. Thanks,-- BRP ever 00:02, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @BRPever, Okay that's fair enough, I'll be completely honest I'm not happy it's gone at all but instead of removing it with some bs excuse you have actually took the time to meet us half way which I appreciate a lot so thank you,
- I see your point but I just don't agree with it - I'll get used to it over time I guess, Don't really want to edit war even more so when you've took the time to be the middle person here instead of being one sided, Thanks again, –Davey2010Talk 00:37, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
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Your wrongful edit on "SpaceX_Starship"
[change source]Hi, your edit of today on Starship, is wrongful.--As of today, there is no (known) schedule for the next launch.
Discussion at,
simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:SpaceX_Starship&oldid=10353489
. 2001:2020:32D:CF3C:5144:5DA:DFC6:FF90 (talk) 10:05, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @2001:2020:32D:CF3C:5144:5DA:DFC6:FF90, There's no need to state "the date of the next test flight, is unknown" - this should be obvious to readers, If a test flight is announced then we'd add it obviously, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 11:03, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
Hey Davey2010,
you offered to take care of making the List of cities and towns in England page a disambiguation. Would you please take care of it? I just closed the RfD and would like to spend the time on reducing our backlog there. -Barras talk 12:58, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Barras, Yep sure I'll do it later tonight, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:53, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
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31.0.62.86
[change source]Hi Davey, with this IP, given they vandalised a lot of different articles, I just blocked them right off the bat. If you're reverting many of their edits, it's probably best to either report to VIP (although this case was technically 12 hours ago) or just give one higher level warning rather than giving three different ones at once. Thanks, --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 10:12, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Ferien, Many thanks for blocking and for your help, I've gone down that route before and a certain admin has declined on the basis that "they were insufficiently warned", this has happened on more than one occasion so that's why I do it that way, I'm not happy with doing it the way I do but I don't really see any other way as I know when they were declined I then had to go from Level 1-4 again so basically they had 4 more times to vandalise which is stupid. Anyway thanks again for your help it's very much appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 10:37, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- It definitely depends on the case, some admins prefer to see more warnings than others. For me, I like to see warnings, but if a user has gone on a vandalising spree like that IP did, then I will just block immediately or without warnings. Some users can stop if given warnings - given the fact they vandalised so many times if you feel like warning them, you can still just drop them a level 2 or 3 to start and that probably wouldn't be viewed as excessive. Thanks, --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 14:15, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- Exactly, I mean I wouldn't lvl4 someone who's made a few silly edits here and there but when it's been like this IP then yeah lvl 4 should be done obviously, I guess it all comes down to luck of the draw with which admin you get :), Anyway thanks again for your helpful comments and for blocking the IP its much appreciated, Have a great day, Many Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 14:23, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
- It definitely depends on the case, some admins prefer to see more warnings than others. For me, I like to see warnings, but if a user has gone on a vandalising spree like that IP did, then I will just block immediately or without warnings. Some users can stop if given warnings - given the fact they vandalised so many times if you feel like warning them, you can still just drop them a level 2 or 3 to start and that probably wouldn't be viewed as excessive. Thanks, --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 14:15, 1 July 2025 (UTC)
britannica.com
[change source]Can you please explain why you have removed a reference to britannica.com as spam? --M7 (talk) 10:30, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- @M7 Because various new accounts have been adding Britannica and I simply assumed these spammers had been paid to add Britannica, Maybe I'm wrong though, –Davey2010Talk 10:45, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
Flood
[change source]if you are just doing refs before punctuations do you want the flood flag? fr33kman 14:23, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hey @Fr33kman, No thanks that was it, Thanks for asking though much appreciated, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 14:26, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- OK, if in the future you need the flag leave me a message on my talk page as it will ping my email and I can come online and give you the flag for a bit :) fr33kman 14:31, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Okay will do :), , Thanks again, –Davey2010Talk 14:35, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Do remember these can just be done by FerienBot anyways! Thanks, --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 15:16, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Ferien, Ah okay the bot hasn't edited since March so I just assumed it wasn't active anymore, Duly noted I'll stop with those edits, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 15:23, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
Edit period/s: Every month or so when Ferien remembers...
I'm a forgetful person especially as I've basically been on hiatus these past few months so that was fair enough! :) But going forward it should be every month on the 1st. So next run will be 1 August. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 15:25, 7 July 2025 (UTC)- Haha no worries :), okie dokie no worries I'll stop with those edits :), Many thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 15:33, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Ferien, Ah okay the bot hasn't edited since March so I just assumed it wasn't active anymore, Duly noted I'll stop with those edits, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 15:23, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- OK, if in the future you need the flag leave me a message on my talk page as it will ping my email and I can come online and give you the flag for a bit :) fr33kman 14:31, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
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Apology
[change source]My apologies GeoGlobe Tales (talk) 02:46, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
Apologies
[change source]Dear Davey2010,
I apologise for my initial reaction to the deletion of my article. I have figured you were just trying to help me. I just got mad because I worked hard. How did you feel when I erased all your work? My intent was to alert you, then revert the page. However, it turned out to be very far from what my plan was. I am officially apologising for my rude reaction, and I promise to always read why you think my articles are not good, so I can improve on them. I am feeling great remorse for you and thank you, for helping me improve my articles.
Signed, GeoGlobeTales GeoGlobe Tales (talk) 02:50, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @GeoGlobe Tales, Thank you for your apology, All is forgiven :), If my articles were QD'd I'd be less than impressed so I do understand and do sympathise, Unfortunately though love it or hate it it's the process but yeah I totally get why you reacted that way, Happy editing Geo :), Thanks again for your apology, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 09:42, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
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A barnstar for you!
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The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar | |
| For your tireless work here on the simplewiki, making new articles and working on current ones (and now helping with that pesky IP vandal) I present to you the Defender of the Wiki Barnstar! Congratulations! Bobherry Talk My Changes 18:47, 23 July 2025 (UTC) |
- Hi User:Bobherry, Thanks so much I greatly appreciate the barnstar :), Thank you for improving the articles and for fixing the mistakes I make, Your help is always greatly appreciated :), Happy editing, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 19:37, 23 July 2025 (UTC)
Vandalism?
[change source]Hello dear, i restored the last fair version on Koli caste so why you reverted my edits. Harbhajan Piyale (talk) 13:14, 24 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi User:Harbhajan Piyale, My sincere and unreserved apologies, I thought you were vandalising the article, Unfortunately I didn't look back far enough and didn't realise you were actually reverting an IP so my sincere apologies for reverting you - Thank you for spotting this and for reverting the article back to its original state,
- Could I please ask in future that when you revert to a revision that you state who you're reverting otherwise it unfortunately looks like you're just vandalising it, Happy editing :), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 13:27, 24 July 2025 (UTC)
- Of course brother, you can absolutely ask me anything. Harbhajan Piyale (talk) 13:29, 24 July 2025 (UTC)
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- 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. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.
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- The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread 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 the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.
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Flooding
[change source]Hello, you're flooding recent changes at the moment and seem to be making a lot of the same change. Would you like the flood flag? --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 19:53, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Ferien, Oops so sorry, Yes please, Not sure how long this will take though as I'm constantly stopping to make sure all edits made are okay, So sorry for flooding the rc page though, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 19:56, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- No worries, I can take a look through any of the changes that might have slipped through while you were doing it. I will keep it on for 3 hours. I should be online for quite a while. Let me know when you complete if you want to move onto something else. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 19:58, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Ferien, Okay brilliant thank you :), Okay I'll ping here once I'm done (or once the ratelimit has exhausted my patience lol whichever one comes first :)), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 20:00, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- I won't ping you bc I don't want to bring you here unnecessarily - Still going to run this, I'm using AI to get Python running but at the moment I'm having to split the .txt doc into many parts so it's all taken longer than I planned/hoped. I'll ping once done, Thanks :) –Davey2010Talk 21:59, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- All done thanks @Ferien :), My plan was to sort though more Lint stuff this week but having spent over 6 hours trying to set up a scraping code with Python via an AI ... yeah my brain is fried.
- If only Wikipedia went with page= instead of offset=<random number>, I would've been done like 11 hours sooner and I would have more braincells than I do right now 😭, Anyway I've gone through all edits and have fixed those that have messed up, Thanks again, –Davey2010Talk 23:10, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- I won't ping you bc I don't want to bring you here unnecessarily - Still going to run this, I'm using AI to get Python running but at the moment I'm having to split the .txt doc into many parts so it's all taken longer than I planned/hoped. I'll ping once done, Thanks :) –Davey2010Talk 21:59, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Ferien, Okay brilliant thank you :), Okay I'll ping here once I'm done (or once the ratelimit has exhausted my patience lol whichever one comes first :)), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 20:00, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
- No worries, I can take a look through any of the changes that might have slipped through while you were doing it. I will keep it on for 3 hours. I should be online for quite a while. Let me know when you complete if you want to move onto something else. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 19:58, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Montbard
[change source]Can you take a look at your edit here and figure out what went on? Looks like you pasted a whole different article into it. CountryANDWestern (talk) 18:37, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @CountryANDWestern, Thanks for the heads up, I am pausing and checking each and every edit made just to be safw, Not sure why but I keep getting "conflict" pop ups which means like that edit everything's gone wrong, Anyway I'll check all soon, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 18:57, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
Explanations
[change source]Why do you revert my edits for no reason? I'm not vandalizing, even though my IP address is this format. I edit multiple times to make the pages "as perfect as possible," with straightforward, easy-to-understand information. I'm not spamming anything. 2804:5758:0:2CD6:84F3:876E:808C:CB08 (talk) 00:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- Your edits are unsourced, Thanks. –Davey2010Talk 00:54, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- Much of the information on this wiki is unsourced, yet you chose to revert my edits out of pure persecution. Why don't you stop this? 2804:5758:0:40F2:D15A:351F:1E68:C1B (talk) 01:45, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- I don't want fights or confusion, I just want to edit in peace and for editors like you to stop this bizarre and childish behavior of having edit wars with these horrible reversions. 2804:5758:0:40F2:D15A:351F:1E68:C1B (talk) 01:47, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- See WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, The project having unsourced claims doesn't mean yours should be excused either. All edits here must be reliably sourced and in an ideal world I would love for that to be the case .... but we have like 8 million articles here ... do you really think we're gonna get that unsourced number down in my lifetime ? Yeah I don't either.
- Please seek consensus for your changes. –Davey2010Talk 01:51, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- I've already added the source to the articles. Now there's no reason for you to act unhealthily with your unfair reversals. On the page, Witching hour, I just put the times in 12-hour format (AM/PM) in parentheses. Although the source says morning is between midnight and noon, there are sources that say the period between midnight and dawn is postmidnight. This is proof that I really just want to contribute to the project; I never intended to vandalize here. 2804:5758:0:40F2:D15A:351F:1E68:C1B (talk) 02:00, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- I've put back the fonts you removed from the witching hour page. 2804:5758:0:40F2:D15A:351F:1E68:C1B (talk) 02:13, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- You'd replaced a claim and 2-3 reliable sources with a claim and 1 unreliable source, also the content you're adding doesn't match Enwiki, Lastly you were told 3/4 times to seek consensus for your changes which you failed to do –Davey2010Talk 09:12, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
- I don't want fights or confusion, I just want to edit in peace and for editors like you to stop this bizarre and childish behavior of having edit wars with these horrible reversions. 2804:5758:0:40F2:D15A:351F:1E68:C1B (talk) 01:47, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-32
[change source]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
- Editors can now enable the User 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 in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.
- Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection 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 the project talk page.
- Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named
MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-accountand 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. - View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Gadgets can now include
.vuefiles. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, 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, an API module now exists to load Codex icons. - Module developers can now use a Lua 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 to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share 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.
- Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing 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 the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program 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, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
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August 2025
[change source]
Once the block has ended you can make helpful changes. Please read Wikipedia's blocking policy and remember that adding spam, making changes that do not have a neutral point of view, making personal attacks on others, not respecting other people's privacy, and vandalizing pages are not allowed. If you do any of these things, you will be blocked again.
If you think this block is unfair, you can ask to be unblocked by adding {{Unblock|your reason here}} below. If you cannot do this or the reason is private please send an e-mail to simple-admins-l@lists.wikimedia.org and an administrator will look at your reason and reply. You may want to read our guide to unblock requests before asking to be unblocked. Barras talk 22:08, 7 August 2025 (UTC)- @Barras, Indeed I did call them a moron but I also called myself a moron and then 20 odd minutes later stated "Scrubbing edit summary which I apologise for, I simply don't understand why you'd be awkward for the sake of being awkward .... How have your edits helped the article?, How has moving this benefited the project ?, What is to be gained from moving the article back to a title that doesn't even match Enwiki ?, Whatever it's moved, article is back to pre-improvement state so everyone wins except the reader."
- I don't understand the logic of "the article has to remain at its current title whilst at the RFD" - Why?, Agreed if it's deleted then the admin would have to delete an extra page, but on the flip side if it's kept it now meets Wikipedia standards and matches Enwiki ..... I simply don't understand why someone has to be awkward and disruptive for the sake of being awkward and disruptive ....
- Nonetheless I still commented on the contributor, not the contribution so I was rightfully blocked, although Auntof6 hasn't used naughty language imho their actions have still been disruptive to the project and probably more disruptive than my naughty word. –Davey2010Talk 09:43, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
- I’m not commenting on the underlying issue. I’m sorry about the block, as I just noted at AN. Disputes between users should be handled civilly, and I was genuinely disappointed to see those edits from you. I do think you’re a net positive for the project; however, what you did was out of line. -Barras talk 15:33, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
ONESTRIKE Review
[change source]Good afternoon Davey, There is an ongoing discussion at the administrators' noticeboard related to your pattern of incivility on this project. I personally feel that this situation does fall under ONESTRIKE. If you would like to provide a response on why the project should not apply ONESTRIKE in this instance, please post it here.
Separately, I am saddened we are here, as I have appreciated your strong work on the project and I count you as a fellow member of the community. Unfortunately, your actions have resulted in this situation, and as administrators and a community as a whole, we have to maintain a civil and kind environment for all. Best, Griff (talk) 13:02, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Barras, @Griffinofwales et al.
- I've come a long way from the person I was even 2 years ago and although I'm not perfect - I'm not as bad either but still some of the comments listed at ANI were completely over the line and should never have been said irrespective of how angry or frustrated I was,
- I do want to give context for the comments listed which is by no means me justifying what was said but give reason as to why what was said was said:
- - Auntof6 has/had a habit of interfering with my sandboxes which I'll be honest did infuriate me, I personally don't believe this was incivil
- I had asked at AN for an article to be moved, Adelaide had took it upon themselves to move the article to a completely random and odd name which simply created more work for admins, I can't remember why but it wasn't the first time Ade had done something "silly" and so when it happened the second time I was less than pleased however nonetheless the language used should not have been used (and FWIW I've regretted those comments since the day I made them).
- - Not really incivil per se, I offered my help to an editor who turned out to be a prolific LTA, Could I have used better quotes than "you f'd around and found out = absolutely)
- - Auntof6 has/had a habit of interfering with my sandboxes which I'll be honest did infuriate me, I personally don't believe this was incivil
- That all being said none of the language used is okay and I'm certainly not doubling down and saying it was acceptable because it categorically is/was not but not every comment listed there was incivil imho.
- I also didn't realise the whole Commons thing made me an easier target to be blocked everywhere else (again hindsight's a lovely thing).
- Anyway as I said above I've come a long long with my comments and how I deal with things but sure I'm not perfect but then again no one is perfect, We all have our flaws and unfortunately mine is having a short fuse.
- I can promise to rein it in and try to use better words etc but I cannot promise that I'll never make an incivil comment again (that's not me saying "I'll continue as is", I'm simply saying I'm going to slip up from time to time, But I'll try and do better and continue to improve as I have been doing these past few years).
- I'm not here for fights, I'm not here to tell people to F Off or call people morons; I'm here to improve this encyclopedia for our readers as we all are.
- I would love to be unblocked, and for things to return as they were (just without my comments and for me to use much better phrasing) but I guess that ship's sailed. I don't like the idea of being given a final chance/monitored because then anyone can drag me back there for the most silliest of reasons; (although I guess the best thing to do would be not to give someone a reason to drag me there; easier said than done). I don't make the comments everyday and certainly going forward I would do better as I already have been.
- I know my comments here won't make an ounce of difference and by the looks of it I'm going to be community banned anyway so I may as well seal that deal and throw my support in for a CBAN. It's been nice working with you all and I wish you all the very best, I'm just sorry for my comments and that it had to end this way, Anyway take care and thanks again for everything, Bye, Dave // –Davey2010Talk 21:00, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman, So I originally wasn't going to respond any further but felt your reply needed a reply, Could you please explain how I'm not taking any responsibility for my comments ?, I have literally stated right above and I quote "I've come a long way from the person I was even 2 years ago and although I'm not perfect - I'm not as bad either but still some of the comments listed at ANI were completely over the line and should never have been said irrespective of how angry or frustrated I was" - How is that not taking responsibility ?, "my comments are fine and I stand by them, the end" would be closer to your comment no?
- "Davey must also publicly apologise to Auntof6" - The "Imagine waking up one day and saying to yourself "You know what, I'm going to be awkward for the sake of being awkward"" comment I felt was/is true - this isn't the first time Ao6 has unneedlessly been awkward, maybe they were following procedure and I'm just completely unaware of it/not seeing it but as I say this isn't the first time they've what I have perceived to be "awkward and or disruptive for the sake of it" (case in point being VIP, sandboxes, articles moves, other things which I've long forgotten), That being said the rest of the comment shouldn't have been said and I had (indirectly) apologised for it here,
- "As such I'd support waiting for the block to expire and being given a final zero-tolerance warning which would result in an instant 6-12 month block upon even a single violation" - I appreciate that but a final zero-tolerance warning just gives someone the ammunition to take something I say out of context or twist it to make it sound like something it isn't and drag me back there?; I've very much aware of the severity of the situation I've got myself in (and although it is NOT about what I want) I would rather the block expires, thread gets closed (and a warning too), and I continue as is with no final warnings being placed under me (I will certainly be treating it as a final warning and will do much better going forward) but for me setting this final thing in stone just gives someone the ammunition to drag me there for the most silliest of reasons.
- I would be happy to support an IBAN between myself and Aof6 if that would help as it seems the majority (not all) of my incivilty has revolved around them,
- As I'm not requesting unblocks; if anyone wishes I stop replying here I would happily abide by that, don't want to lose talkpage access. Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 00:16, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
- Merely stating, multiple times, that you feel some of your comments were not incivil leads me to the conclusion that you're not taking responsibility for your comments. I'm sure you've heard it before but "it's not what you say, it's how you say it." I've had interactions with other people that I've scratched my head over but never once have I been rude to them. It is also worth noting that no pages on a wiki belong to us, not even sandboxes. You could have taken her edits as being helpful and simply have moved on. Instead you took things personally when you shouldn't have. Take this situation as a chance to learn and grow. I'm sure you are a good person, don't let your temper prove otherwise. fr33kman 00:35, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
- I had replied to each and every point but in the end felt it was probably only making things worse for myself, I will say however I had asked them on more than one occasion to not edit my sandboxes but unfortunately they still continued, If someone asked me to stop editing their sandbox then I would stop so I simply wished my requests could have been fulfilled instead of ignored,
- I always welcome feedback positive or negative and genuinely do try and improve, Anyway I'll stop replying as I don't want to turn this into ANI.2 and certainly don't want to dig myself a deeper hole (as someone at Enwiki once said to me; If you've dug yourself a hole; stop digging before you can't get yourself out!), Perfect time to be following that advice! :),
- I've loved every second of editing here and loved creating articles here - being in this situation truly does suck (and I only have myself to blame), –Davey2010Talk 01:28, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
- Merely stating, multiple times, that you feel some of your comments were not incivil leads me to the conclusion that you're not taking responsibility for your comments. I'm sure you've heard it before but "it's not what you say, it's how you say it." I've had interactions with other people that I've scratched my head over but never once have I been rude to them. It is also worth noting that no pages on a wiki belong to us, not even sandboxes. You could have taken her edits as being helpful and simply have moved on. Instead you took things personally when you shouldn't have. Take this situation as a chance to learn and grow. I'm sure you are a good person, don't let your temper prove otherwise. fr33kman 00:35, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
Warning
[change source]As your block has now expired I am here to issue you with a warning about your future behaviour. You will not use foul language or insulting comments towards any other user on this project. If you do so even once you will be blocked for a period between 6 and 12 months depending on the nature of violation. This is your last and only warning. fr33kman 01:33, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
- To accept the terms of this warning you must acknowledge this here and furthermore you will make a public apology to Auntof6 on her talk page within 24 hours. Failure to do these two things will result in a 6 month block. fr33kman 04:06, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
- Since you have not responded after 24 hours you have been blocked for 6 months for being rude or unkind. fr33kman 05:11, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Fr33kman I'm rather disappointed that you felt the need to block me so quickly considering I've not been on and considering I've not edited any project since I last edited here.
- My only reason for not responding sooner is because I've been self-reflecting and have been thinking about my incivility across different projects not just here; I can't help but think maybe my bluntless (and occasional anger outburst) has made me incompatible with Wikimedia as a whole. I'm indeffed on Commons, by some miracle escaped a block on Enwiki and by some miracle escaped an indef block here so clearly my incivility is a problem and perhaps more of a problem than I realised. I also notice that no one anywhere leaves the edit summaries that I do and I think maybe there's a reason for that; they're already indeffed!. I also know that we now have WP:UCOC which makes it 10x easier for me to be blocked too,
- I've also realised I'm now a strong candidate for being RFC-blocked on Meta considering my incivility has spawned across 3 projects.
- @Auntof6, I sincerely apologise for calling you a moron and sincerely apologise for my incivil comments to you in the past, I very much don't agree with a lot of things you do but at the end of the day we're here for one thing; our readers. I will do better going forward.
- I do feel like it's now or never and I fear the never part will see me indeffed on another project which I don't want. I would like to work towards not being incivil and actually hoping to reverse my indef block on Commons at some point (I wished I thought about ONESTRIKE much much sooner; scary part is that actually applies to me and probably applies across all projects not just here!,
- Anyway I'm inclined to keep the 6 month block as is in order to give me a break for a bit, Without going into too much detail life isn't a bed of roses right now and I've found out a family member won't be with us anywhere between now-year etc and I know when that happens ... yeah .... I won't be in the right frame of mind and I don't want to undo the good work I would've done, Deep down when that day comes; I'll want to edit here to keep my mind busy but yeah I know someone will tick me off and we'll be back to square one and the last thing I'll want is another block so yeah I would like to keep the block as is please.
- Before I disappear; I also want to apologise to the community for my constant incivil comments, I don't take any enjoyment from being incivil but as I say I will do better going forward and will implement steps going forward. Of course words are taken with a pinch of salt; it's actions that need to be seen.
- I will see you all in February,
- Thanks,
- Kind Regards,
- Dave
- CC @Auntof6, @CountryANDWestern, @Griffinofwales, @BRPever, @Barras, @Fr33kman and @Peterdownunder whom had all commented on the ANI thread. (sorry not sure if anyone's watching my page, thanks) –Davey2010Talk 11:06, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- Take care and I hope you come back after your block has ended. Regards fr33kman 12:49, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks I hope so too, Take care Fr33kman, Thanks –Davey2010Talk 18:24, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- I will miss you! Hope you return Cactus🌵 hi ツ 09:23, 12 August 2025 (UTC)
- Take care and I hope you come back after your block has ended. Regards fr33kman 12:49, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
- Since you have not responded after 24 hours you have been blocked for 6 months for being rude or unkind. fr33kman 05:11, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-33
[change source]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 WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this 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.
- Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an 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.
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category: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 at the talkpage.
- Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the
mw.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. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2025-34
[change source]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
- 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.
- 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.
- An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation 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.
- Five new wikis have been created:
- a Wikisource in Tagalog (
s:tl:) - a Wikisource in Madurese (
s:mad:) - a Wikipedia in Rakhine (
w:rki:) - a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (
b:min:) - a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (
wikt:zgh:)
- a Wikisource in Tagalog (
- View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2025-35
[change source]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
-
Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content;ruby-align; relative units such aslh; and custom strings inlist-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. - 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.
- Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.
- 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.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (
wikt:bew:) - View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed.
rc_newandrc_typeare being removed in favor ofrc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should userc_sourceinstead. 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. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest quarterly Language 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 next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 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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Tech News: 2025-36
[change source]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 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 in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(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
- The CampaignEvents 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, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.
- 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.
- On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the
Special:RecentChanges,Special:Watchlist, andSpecial:RelatedChangespages 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. - 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 were resolved 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 is a newsletter to learn more.
- The latest Readers 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 WMDE shared 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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Tech News: 2025-37
[change source]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 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, please tell us in this task, or contact the team.
Updates for editors
- Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will be able to use a linting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information.
- When browsing a wiki (like
en.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. - 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved 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. - Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large 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 the
intitle:keyword: metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors - for both
intitle:andinsource:keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g.\uHHHH).
- for the
- 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.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
- View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved 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.
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 to join an upcoming discovery interview, or leave 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.
- The new Unicode 17.0 version has been released. The datasets on Commons for the Module: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 the Wikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
- A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information from Wikimedia 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 scheduled datacenter 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 can read more about the process on the Diff blog.
Updates for editors
- Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions 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 other 65 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 new parser function has been added:
{{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as MediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. - Adding or editing a
DISPLAYTITLEfor 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 in this ticket. - Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity 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 were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time 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 in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).
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Weekly highlight
- A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. 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.
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 this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
- As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha 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 existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
- The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed 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 the event organizer right.
- Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
- On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Special: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.
- 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 are invited 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 of multiblocks 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 with
sp-contributions-blocked-noticewill be removed and replaced with those prefixed withblocked-notice-logextractin 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. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (
q:ms:) - View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.
Updates for technical contributors
- Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the
mw.title.newBatchfunction to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once. - A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & 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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Weekly highlight
- Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
- Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like
en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. - New date filters,
creationdate:andlasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g.>2024) and relative dates (e.g.today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. - Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team.
- An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.
- View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
- The field
rev_sha1in the revision database table is being removed in favor ofcontent_sha1in the content database table. See the announcement for more information. - The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement.
- Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the
rest.phppath will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Weekly highlight
- Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
- Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.
- This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change.
- Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Updates for editors
- To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the
rest.phproute through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. - Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers 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.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Updates for editors
- The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
- Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
- The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Special:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page.
- Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
- A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
- Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Updates for editors
- Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start).
- For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Add topic" or "Reply" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.
- Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.
- Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.
- Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish!
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.
Updates for technical contributors
- Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means
/s/URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTMLclass="title-shortlink". The/s/URLs will keep working. - On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
- MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.
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Updates for editors
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- Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Show discussion activity".
- MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request.
- Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content.
- Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed.
- The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
- The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
- The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to
https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. - The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from
<user id>tomw:<identity type>:<user id>, where<identity type>is typicallyCentralAuth:(for SUL wikis) orlocal:<wiki id>(for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and thesessionJwtcookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. - MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page
$9or emailing other users$10. - A
REL1_45branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. - The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Updates for editors
- The Reader Experience team is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
- Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau (
s:min:) - View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
- Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.
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Updates for editors
- Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for cxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for счастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week.
- Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set.
- Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
- View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey.
- The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for
format=xml&xlst={stylesheet}will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). - The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2025-49
[change source]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 Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
- The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
- Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
- View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed.
- Two new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (
w:tok:) - a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (
q:pcm:)
- a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.
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Tech News: 2025-50
[change source]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
- Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
- Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
- Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
- Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
- Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
- A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience.
- Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Tech News: 2025-51
[change source]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
- View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit.
Updates for technical contributors
- To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinkstable on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2025-52
[change source]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
- From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material.
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
- View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected.
Updates for technical contributors
- Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced withdata-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with otherdata-mwattributes, which are generated by Parsoid. - There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Meetings and events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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Tech News: 2026-03
[change source]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 Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
Updates for editors
- As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish.
- The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs.
- View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13.
Updates for technical contributors
- The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2026-04
[change source]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 tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered.
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.
Updates for technical contributors
- As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
- Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox. - The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!
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Tech News: 2026-05
[change source]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
- Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
- All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
- Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page.
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new AbuseFilter variable,
account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in thecreateaccountandautocreateaccountactions. As part of this change, the variableaccountnamehas been renamed toaccount_name, andaccountnameis now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. - Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to
upload.wikimedia.org/…will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2026-06
[change source]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 "Page information" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
- The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Weekly highlight
- Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
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