Tech News: 2024-31   Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  Feature news  Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.  Bugs status  Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.  Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.  Project updates  There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.  There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.  One new wiki has been created: a  in Czech (voy:cs:)    Learn more  There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.  There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.  Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.  The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:০৯, ২৯ জুলাই ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-32   Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  Feature news  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania.   Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.  The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.  Project updates  Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item The new parser is being rolled out on  wikis over the next few months. The  and  were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.  Learn more  There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.  The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.  The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.  The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.  The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:৪১, ৫ আগস্ট ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-33   Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  Feature news  AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots.   Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.  Project updates  Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.  One new wiki has been created: a  in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:)   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:২০, ১২ আগস্ট ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-34   Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  Feature news  Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.  Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements.   Bugs status  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.  Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.  Project updates  The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.  Learn more  The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.  The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:৫১, ২০ আগস্ট ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-35   Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  Feature news  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.  Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface.   Bugs status  Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.  Project updates  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.  Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.  Learn more  If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.  To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:  Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.  Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:৩০, ২৬ আগস্ট ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-36   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  Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.  Feature news  Editors who use the  page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements.   Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and  other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.  Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now.   Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.  Project updates  A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.  Learn more  To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:  Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.  State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding.   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০১:০৪, ৩ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-37   Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  Feature news  Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page.   Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking.   Project updates   Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.   Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos).   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ১৮:৫০, ৯ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ: ২০২৪-৩৮   উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।  Improvements and Maintenance  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|ইচ্ছেতালিকার উপাদান Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.  The new automated  page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements.   References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed.   It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|উন্নত উপাদান Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and  other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.  Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best.   প্রযুক্তিগত প্রকল্পের হালনাগাদ  Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible.   Tech in depth  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|উন্নত উপাদান The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|উন্নত উপাদান To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:   Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.  Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.  প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:০০, ১৭ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-39   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  All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.  Updates for editors thumb|A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature  Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.  The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.   Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message.   View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item From Wikimedia Enterprise:   The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.  The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.  In depth  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:৩৪, ২৩ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-40   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  Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.  Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences.   For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences.   The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.  View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.  In depth  The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes.   Meetings and events  October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa  November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:১৭, ৩০ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ: ২০২৪-৪১   উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।  Weekly highlight  Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration.   Updates for editors  Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device.   View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements.   Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|উন্নত উপাদান Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|উন্নত উপাদান Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.  Five new wikis have been created:   a  in Komering (w:kge:)   a  in Mooré (m:mos:)   a  in Madurese (wikt:mad:)   a  in Gorontalo (q:gor:)   a  in Shan (n:shn:)   প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:৩৯, ৭ অক্টোবর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ: ২০২৪-৪২   উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।  সম্পাদকদের জন্য হালনাগাদ  The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode.   WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available.   গত সপ্তাহে সমাধান হওয়া  সম্প্রদায়ের জমা দেওয়া সমস্ত  দেখুন৷ উদাহরণস্বরূপ, রাশিয়ান উইকিপিডিয়াতে EditCheck ইনস্টল করা হয়েছিল এবং অনুপস্থিত ব্যবহারকারী ইন্টারফেস শৈলীর কিছু ভুল সংশোধন করা হয়েছিল।  প্রযুক্তিগত অবদানকারীদের জন্য হালনাগাদ  Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements.   ফ্যাব্রিকেটর ব্যবহারকারীরা টিকিট তৈরি করতে ও বিদ্যমান টিকিটের উপর আবার ইমেলের মাধ্যমে মন্তব্য যোগ করতে পারে। ফ্যাব্রিকেটরে ইমেইল পাঠানো সংশোধন করা হয়েছে।   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|উন্নত উপাদান Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time.   গভীর কভারেজ  সর্বশেষ মাসিক মিডিয়াউইকি পণ্য অন্তর্দৃষ্টি নিউজলেটার পড়ার জন্য উপলব্ধ। এই সংস্করণে অন্তর্ভুক্ত রয়েছে: উইকিমিডিয়ার প্রমাণীকরণ ব্যবস্থার হালনাগাদ, মিডিয়াউইকি প্ল্যাটফর্মে বৈশিষ্ট্য উন্নয়ন সহজ করার জন্য গবেষণা, পার্সার ইউনিফিকেশন ও ম্যাথএমএল রোলআউট সম্পর্কিত হালনাগাদ এবং আরও অনেক কিছু।  সর্বশেষ ত্রৈমাসিক প্রযুক্তি সম্প্রদায়ের নিউজলেটার এখন পড়ার জন্য উপলব্ধ এই সংস্করণে অন্তর্ভুক্ত রয়েছে: দেশগুলির সাথে সম্পর্কিত বিষয় পরামর্শগুলি উন্নত করার বিষয়ে গবেষণা, পিএইচপি ইউনিট পরীক্ষার উন্নতি এবং আরও অনেক কিছু।  প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।  MediaWiki message delivery ২১:১৮, ১৪ অক্টোবর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-43   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 Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years. thumb|iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents  Updates for editors  Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.  Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.  View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week.   It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.  Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}.   The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform.   In depth  The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.  The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.  The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.  Meetings and events  24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.  20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:৫০, ২১ অক্টোবর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-44   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 in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.  View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia.   Updates for technical contributors  Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want.    Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier.   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:৫৪, ২৮ অক্টোবর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-45   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  Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts.   Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.  The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode.   View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.  Updates for technical contributors  XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated.   In depth  Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.   The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available.  It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.  Meetings and events  MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:৪৮, ৪ নভেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   References Check to be activated at your wiki   Hello  Sorry to use English. .   The Editing team is working on a new feature, Edit check.  Edit Check's goal is to provide more guidance to users when they edit, and thus to reduce the number of lower-quality edits. It means that experienced users would have fewer low-quality edits to deal with. Checks are in-context advice, shown when a certain action is performed. They are only visible to newcomers.  A good example is around adding citations. On Wikipedia, it is asked to provide a citation when you add a new fact, but newcomers often do not understand this requirement. It is not really explained after you click on “Edit”, so newcomers could forget about it. থাম্ব|Screenshot of Reference check as of September 2023 Our first check is References Check. In its first iteration, References Check is shown when a new paragraph with no citation is added to an article, using the visual editor. You can test it at your wiki, by editing any article and adding &ecenable=1 to the editing URL. Example:   Click on https://bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=সূর্য&veaction=edit&ecenable=1 This will open the article about "সূর্য" using the visual editor.  Then, add a new paragraph to the article, with no citation.  When you publish this change, the edit is not published. Instead, Reference Check is activated, as visible on the screenshot.  Try the different options provided.  Any edit made with Edit Check is tagged. This way, it is possible to identify edits where References Check was activated, and when a user declined the invite to add a citation. It is useful information when you need to explain a reverted edit.  We tested References Check at 11 wikis, and the results are encouraging. Reference Check caused an increase in the quality of edits newcomers publish and did not cause any significant disruption. People shown the Reference Check are more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is constructive (not reverted within 48 hours): 2.2 times more likely on desktop and 4.2 times more likely on mobile.  Your wiki is one of the last wikis where References Check will be deployed. We plan to deploy References Check to your wiki, in two weeks. Meanwhile, if you have any questions regarding this feature, please let me know. Trizek (WMF) (আলাপ) ১৫:৩৭, ১৭ অক্টোবর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)  We will deploy this feature before the end of this week. Trizek (WMF) (আলাপ) ১৩:২৭, ৬ নভেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ: ২০২৪-৪৬   উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।  Updates for editors  On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages.   View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time.    Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|উন্নত উপাদান In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable.   Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.  In depth  Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work.   সভা ও অনুষ্ঠানসমূহ  21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:০৫, ১২ নভেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-47   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  Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects.   View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge.   Updates for technical contributors  On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this.   In depth  There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.  Meetings and events  Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.  Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.  A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০১:৫৮, ১৯ নভেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-48   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  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item A new version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.  The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement.   Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswikielwikieuwikifawikifiwikifrwikiquotefrwikisourcefrwikiversityfrwikivoyageidwikilvwikiplwikiptwikiurwikiviwikisourcezhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).   View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.  Updates for technical contributors  The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities.   Meetings and events  A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:৪০, ২৫ নভেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-49   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  Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.  Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects.   Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwikicawikifrwikimediawikiwikiorwikiwawikiwawiktionarywikidatawikizhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).   This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.  View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed.   Updates for technical contributors  In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:২০, ২ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-50   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  Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.  Updates for editors thumb|Layout change for the Edit Check feature  Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.  The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.  Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide.   The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.  The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements.   The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates.   One new wiki has been created: a  in Indonesian (voy:id:)   Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases.   Updates for technical contributors  Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library.   Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.  The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.  There is no new MediaWiki version this week.   Meetings and events  The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:১৪, ৯ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2024-51   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  Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.  Updates for editors  Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.  Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.  The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.  The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.  Updates for technical contributors  There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January.    Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:২২, ১৬ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার সম্পাদনা সংখ্যা গণনায় কি বাগ আছে?   আমাকে ইমেইলে একজন জানিয়েছেন যে, তার অন্য সম্পাদনাগুলোতে সম্পাদনা সংখ্যা বাড়লেও রোলব্যাকগুলোর পর সম্পাদনাসংখ্যা সঠিকভাবে বাড়ছে না। বিষয়টি আমিও আমার শেষ রোলব্যাকে লক্ষ্য করেছি। রোলব্যাকের পূর্বে যে সংখ্যা ছিল, তাই আছে। এছাড়া লক্ষ্য করলাম উইকিপিডিয়ায় প্রদর্শিত সম্পাদনা সংখ্যা, xtools এর চেয়ে কম হয়ে থাকে (বিশেষ করে যারা রোলব্যাকার)। আবার প্রতি রোলব্যাকেই যে সম্পাদনা গণনা হয়নি, তা বলা যাচ্ছে না, MdsShakil ভাইয়ের ক্ষেত্রে xtools আর উইকিপিডিয়ায় প্রদর্শিত সম্পাদনা সংখ্যার পার্থক্য প্রায় ৬৪০, যেখানে তার রোলব্যাক সংখ্যা ৮৪০০+। তবুও যথেষ্ট সম্ভাবনা, মাঝে মাঝে হয়তো গণনার ত্রুটিটি হচ্ছে বা একটা নির্দিষ্ট সময় থেকে বর্তমানে ত্রুটিটি হচ্ছে। সংস্করণ সংখ্যা গণনা আর উইকিপিডিয়ায় প্রদর্শিত সম্পাদনাসংখ্যার পার্থক্য হওয়ার আরেকটি কারণ হতে পারে, পাতা আমদানির মাধ্যমে অন্য উইকি থেকে আসা সম্পাদনা। তবু বিষয়টি নিয়ে আরো অনুসন্ধান প্রয়োজন। যদি বর্তমানে সবার সব রোলব্যাকেই সম্পাদনা সংখ্যা না বাড়ে তাহলে phabricator.wikimedia.org এ টাস্ক খোলা যেতে পারে। — AKanik 💬 ০৮:২৮, ২৫ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)  @Ahmad Kanik আমি পুনর্নির্দেশ পাতা তৈরি করলে সম্পাদনা সংখ্যায় তা গণনা করা হচ্ছেনা। আমার সম্পাদনা সংখ্যা যদি ১০০ হয়, নতুন একটি পাতা তৈরির পর সেই সংখ্যা ১০০+১ হবার কথা, কিন্তু দেখা যায় ১০০–ই রয়ে গেছে, কোন পরিবর্তন হয়নি। ভেনজেন্স • আলাপ ০৮:৩৩, ২৫ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)  কিছুদিন ধরে রোলব্যাক করা সম্পাদনা গণণা করছে না, একই সমস্যা ইংরেজি উইকিতেও হচ্ছে। বাগ রিপোর্ট করতে পারেন। —শাকিল (আলাপ · অবদান) ০৮:৫৬, ২৫ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   phab:T382761 খুলেছি। আপনাদের প্রমাণগুলো দিয়ে সাহায্য করতে পারেন। এছাড়া টাস্কের বিবরণ ও ট্যাগ উন্নত করেও সাহায্য করতে পারেন। — AKanik 💬 ১২:২৩, ২৫ ডিসেম্বর ২০২৪ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-03   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 Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.  Updates for editors  On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: )    One new wiki has been created: a  in Tigre (w:tig:)   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.   Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.  Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13.   Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.   Meetings and events  The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.  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MediaWiki message delivery ০১:৪০, ১৪ জানুয়ারি ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ: ২০২৫-৪   উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।  সম্পাদকদের জন্য হালনাগাদ  প্রশাসকগণ গণঅপসারণ এক্সটেনশন ব্যবহার করে কোনো নিবন্ধিত ব্যবহারকারী বা আইপির তৈরি একাধিক পাতা একসঙ্গে অপসারণ করতে পারেন। পূর্বে এটি শুধুমাত্র সর্বশেষ ৩০ দিনের মধ্যে তৈরি পাতাগুলো অপসারণ করতে অনুমতি দিত। তবে এখন এটি ব্যবহার করে নির্দিষ্ট কোনো নিবন্ধিত ব্যবহারকারী বা আইপির সর্বশেষ ৯০ দিনের মধ্যে তৈরি পাতাগুলোও মুছে ফেলা যাবে।   On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|পৌনঃপুনিক উপাদান সম্প্রদায় কর্তৃক জমা দেওয়া গত সপ্তাহে সমাধান করা টি  দেখুন। উদাহরণস্বরূপ, দৃশ্যমান সম্পাদনার "লিংক যোগ করুন" বৈশিষ্ট্যটি সম্পাদকের টাইপ করা শুরু করার সময় সর্বদা সঠিকভাবে বিদ্যমান পাতাগুলোর প্রস্তাব করত না, যা এখন সমাধান করা হয়েছে।  প্রযুক্তিগত অবদানকারীদের জন্য হালনাগাদ  কাঠামোবদ্ধ আলোচনা এক্সটেনশন (যা Flow নামেও পরিচিত) উইকিগুলো থেকে ধীরে ধীরে অপসারণ করা হচ্ছে। এই এক্সটেনশনটি অরক্ষিত এবং বিভিন্ন সমস্যার কারণ হয়ে দাঁড়িয়েছে। এটি আলোচনা সরঞ্জাম দ্বারা প্রতিস্থাপিত হবে, যা সাধারণ আলোচনা পাতায় ব্যবহৃত হয়। শেষ দফার উইকিগুলোর () সাথে শীঘ্রই যোগাযোগ করা হবে। এই প্রক্রিয়া সম্পর্কে আপনার যদি কোনো প্রশ্ন থাকে, তাহলে অনুগ্রহ করে আপনার উইকিতে Trizek (WMF)-কে পিং করুন।   সর্বশেষ ত্রৈমাসিক কারিগরি সম্প্রদায়ের নিউজলেটার এখন উপলব্ধ। এই সংখ্যায় ডাটা প্ল্যাটফর্ম ইঞ্জিনিয়ারিং টিমগুলোর পরিষেবা সম্পর্কে হালনাগাদ, ডিজাইন সিস্টেম টিমের কোডেক্স সম্পর্কিত তথ্য এবং আরও অনেক কিছু অন্তর্ভুক্ত রয়েছে।  প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।  MediaWiki message delivery ০১:৩৫, ২১ জানুয়ারি ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-05   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  Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.  Updates for editors  iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in  and .   Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors   For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.    Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:১২, ২৭ জানুয়ারি ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-06   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 who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor.   Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons. You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button. Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.  Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.  (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.  (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber.   One new wiki has been created: a  in Central Kanuri (w:knc:)   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic.   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:০৭, ৪ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-07   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 Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.  Updates for editors  The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346.   As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the  page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards.   Updates for technical contributors  Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed.   The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers.   As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions.   In depth   The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.   The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:১০, ১১ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-08   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  Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the  for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at . To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.  Updates for editors thumb|Highlighted talk pages improvements  Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis –  – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements.   You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement.   When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed.  As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.  The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.  A new filter has been added to the  tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below.   Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the  tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again.   Updates for technical contributors  Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page.   Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon.   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২১:১৫, ১৭ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-09   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  Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using . They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.   The wikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as wikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.   One new wiki has been created: a  in Santali (wikt:sat:)   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations.   Meetings and events  The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:৩৯, ২৫ ফেব্রুয়ারি ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-10   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  All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "" link is accessible from the "" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting.   Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.  When editors embed a file (e.g. [[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads. In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.  When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights, and respects cascading protection.  When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.   The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.  Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.   One new wiki has been created: a  in Sylheti (w:syl:)   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile.   Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০২:২৯, ৪ মার্চ ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-11   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 who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use.   The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!  All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.  An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:০৭, ১০ মার্চ ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-12   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  Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.  Updates for editors   The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.  On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.  The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.  Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator.   The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.  The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages.   Updates for technical contributors  Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:৪৫, ১৭ মার্চ ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-13   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 is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.  Updates for editors  The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).  Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.  Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the  listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April.   The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (16px|link=|class=skin-invert). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.  Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:৩৮, ২৪ মার্চ ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-14   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 Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).  Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.  Meetings and events  MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:০১, ১ এপ্রিল ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-15   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 now on, interface admins and centralnotice admins are technically required to enable two-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.  The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Meetings and events  The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ১৮:৪৯, ৭ এপ্রিল ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-16   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  Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations.   File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step.   Updates for editors  The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.  To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose.   "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.  On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.  The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:২১, ১৫ এপ্রিল ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-17   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  Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.   A new type of lint error has been created:  (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.  There is no new MediaWiki version this week.  Meetings and events  The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:৫৭, ২১ এপ্রিল ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-18   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  Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.  Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.  Meetings and events  The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.  The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ১৯:২৮, ২৮ এপ্রিল ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-19   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 the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.  Updates for editors  For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:  Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.  Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via  (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.  Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:১১, ৬ মে ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-20   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 "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.  Updates for editors  The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.  Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.  The Wikipedia project now has a  in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.  The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.  Meetings and events  The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.  The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২২:৩৪, ১২ মে ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-21   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 and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.  Updates for editors   From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item  Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to [ ?usecodex=1], and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information.   Later this week, the  listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task.   The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.  Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.  Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed.   Updates for technical contributors  Gadgets and user scripts that interact with  may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page.   The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.   15px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Meetings and events  The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:০৯, ১৯ মে ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-22   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  A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.  Updates for editors  Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of , which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated.   This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.  Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.  Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.  The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  The previously deprecated ipblocks views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new block and block_target views instead.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Meetings and events  Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:০১, ২৬ মে ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-23   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 Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.  Updates for editors  It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses.   From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Meetings and events  Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:৫১, ২ জুন ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-24   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 Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.  Updates for editors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback.  thumb|alt=Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages|Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.  The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("").   Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards.   This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: . The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.  Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০১:১৩, ১০ জুন ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-25   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  You can nominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:৩৫, ১৬ জুন ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-26   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  This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: . The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project.   Updates for editors  Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project.   Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%).   A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected.   Updates for technical contributors  Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available.   The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:১৭, ২৩ জুন ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   দৃষ্টি আকর্ষণ   টেমপ্লেট:পতাকা সম্পাদনা অনুরোধ Nimon didarul (আলাপ) ১৬:৩১, ২৭ জুন ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-27   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 CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.  Updates for editors  AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.   Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.   Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:৩৭, ৩০ জুন ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-28   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  Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.  Updates for editors  Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game and let the team know what you think on the talk page.  Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers.   Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.  Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use  to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.  It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  As part of MediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications, information about migration in T388663 and details on deprecated hooks in T389624.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Meetings and events  WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:০১, ৮ জুলাই ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-29   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  Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate.   Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  In depth  Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post for more details.  Meetings and events  WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application and program proposal now!  WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:০৫, ১৪ জুলাই ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-30   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 Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "" filter.   Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration feature.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.  The Beta Cluster wikis have been moved from beta.wmflabs.org to beta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Meetings and events  WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon.   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:৩৮, ২১ জুলাই ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)   Tech News: 2025-31   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 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.  Updates for editors  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.   On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item 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:  Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors  Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors  A dozen visions for wikitext!  Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council  The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:২২, ২৯ জুলাই ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (This message was sent to :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) and is being posted here due to a redirect.)   Tech News: 2025-32   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-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki: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.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Gadgets can now include .vue files. 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.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item 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:  Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse  Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!  Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience  Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০৩:৩৬, ৫ আগস্ট ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (This message was sent to :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) and is being posted here due to a redirect.)   Tech News: 2025-33   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.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  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.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ২৩:২৫, ১১ আগস্ট ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (This message was sent to :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) and is being posted here due to a redirect.)   Tech News: 2025-34   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  in Tagalog (s:tl:)   a  in Madurese (s:mad:)   a  in Rakhine (w:rki:)   a  in Minangkabau (b:min:)   a  in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:)   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:৩৩, ১৯ আগস্ট ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (This message was sent to :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) and is being posted here due to a redirect.)   Tech News: 2025-35   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  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Wishlist item 12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item 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 as lh; and custom strings in list-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  page from the  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  in Betawi (wikt:bew:)   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table.    12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item 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.   Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০০:০৭, ২৬ আগস্ট ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (এই বার্তাটি :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) পাতায় পাঠানো হয়েছিল ও একটি পুনর্নির্দেশের কারণে এখানে পোস্ট করা হচ্ছে।)   প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ: ২০২৫-৩৬   উইকিমিডিয়ার কারিগরি সম্প্রদায় থেকে প্রকাশিত সাম্প্রতিক প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ। অনুগ্রহ করে এই পরিবর্তনগুলি সম্পর্কে অন্য ব্যবহারকারীদের জানান। সকল পরিবর্তন আপনাকে প্রভাবিত করবে না। আরও অনুবাদ উপলব্ধ রয়েছে।  সাপ্তাহিক আলোকপাত  কপিরাইট লঙ্ঘনের কারণে কোনো সম্পাদনা সরানোর সময় সম্পাদনা সারাংশে ব্যবহৃত টেমপ্লেট, বিশেষ পরিভাষা এবং নীতিমালার একটি তালিকা তৈরি করতে চায় সম্পাদনা দল। এর ফলে কপিরাইট জনিত কারণে কতগুলো সম্পাদনা বাতিল করা হয়েছে, তা শনাক্ত করতে সুবিধা হবে। এই বিষয়ে আমরা নিম্নলিখিত উইকিগুলোর সম্প্রদায়ের সদস্যদের আমন্ত্রণ জানাচ্ছি T402601-এ এই পরিভাষাগুলো তালিকাভুক্ত করতে অথবা তাদের তালিকাটি Trizek_(WMF)-এর সাথে শেয়ার করতে: । এই প্রকল্পটি ৯ই সেপ্টেম্বর, ২০২৫ পর্যন্ত চলবে।  সম্পাদকদের জন্য হালনাগাদ  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, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results.   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.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|পৌনঃপুনিক উপাদান সম্প্রদায় কর্তৃক জমা দেওয়া গত সপ্তাহে সমাধান করা টি  দেখুন।  প্রযুক্তিগত অবদানকারীদের জন্য হালনাগাদ  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|পৌনঃপুনিক উপাদান এই সপ্তাহের কোড হালনাগাদের বিস্তারিত তথ্য: MediaWiki  পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ  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.  সভা ও অনুষ্ঠান  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.  প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ লেখক দ্বারা প্রস্তুতকৃত ও বট দ্বারা প্রকাশিত প্রযুক্তি সংবাদ • অবদান রাখুন • অনুবাদ করুন • সাহায্য পান • মতামত জানান • গ্রাহকত্ব পরিচালনা করুন।  MediaWiki message delivery ২০:৪৫, ১ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (এই বার্তাটি :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) পাতায় পাঠানো হয়েছিল ও একটি পুনর্নির্দেশের কারণে এখানে পোস্ট করা হচ্ছে।)   Tech News: 2025-37   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  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item Later this week, users of the "" 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.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Advanced item 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 (like en.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.   12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  that were resolved last week.  Updates for technical contributors  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ০১:০৯, ৯ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (এই বার্তাটি :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) পাতায় পাঠানো হয়েছিল ও একটি পুনর্নির্দেশের কারণে এখানে পোস্ট করা হচ্ছে।)   Tech News: 2025-38   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  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: and insource: 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).   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.  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item View all  community-submitted  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).  12px|link=|class=skin-invert|Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki  Meetings and events  Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.  Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.  MediaWiki message delivery ১৭:০২, ১৫ সেপ্টেম্বর ২০২৫ (ইউটিসি)  (এই বার্তাটি :উইকিপিডিয়া:আলোচনাসভা (কারিগরি) পাতায় পাঠানো হয়েছিল ও একটি পুনর্নির্দেশের কারণে এখানে পোস্ট করা হচ্ছে।)