# விக்கிப்பீடியா:ஆலமரத்தடி (தொழினுட்பம்)/தொகுப்பு16


## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-03</span>

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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 <code dir=ltr>inproject:</code> keyword. (These wikis: )
- One new wiki has been created: a in Tigre (<code>w:tig:</code>)
- 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**  
- 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.
- 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 <code>sub</code> 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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Common.css</bdi> 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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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:41, 14 சனவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-04</span>

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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 mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
- 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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:36, 21 சனவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-05</span>

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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>mediawiki_user_history</code></bdi> dump, the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>anonymous</code></bdi> field will be renamed to <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>is_anonymous</code></bdi>. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:14, 27 சனவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-06</span>

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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></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 <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json</code> to include entries for <code dir=ltr>preprint</code>, <code dir=ltr>standard</code>, and <code dir=ltr>dataset</code>; 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 <code dir=ltr>archiveID</code>, <code dir=ltr>identifier</code>, <code dir=ltr>repository</code>, <code dir=ltr>organization</code>, <code dir=ltr>repositoryLocation</code>, <code dir=ltr>committee</code>, and <code dir=ltr>versionNumber</code>.
- One new wiki has been created: a in Central Kanuri (<code>w:knc:</code>)
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:08, 4 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-07</span>

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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.
- Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (<code dir=ltr>prefers-reduced-motion</code>, <code dir=ltr>prefers-reduced-transparency</code>, <code dir=ltr>prefers-contrast</code>, and <code dir=ltr>forced-colors</code>). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements.
- 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 <code dir="ltr">getDescription</code> 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 <code dir="ltr">/page/related</code> 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 "<code dir="ltr">morelike</code>" 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:11, 11 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-08</span>

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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 <code></code> 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 <code></code>. 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**  

- 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.
- 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 <code dir=ltr>mw.Uri</code> is deprecated. Tools requiring <code dir=ltr>mw.Uri</code> must explicitly declare <code dir=ltr>mediawiki.Uri</code> as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native <code dir=ltr>URL</code> API soon.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 21:16, 17 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## தமிழி நிரலாக்கப் போட்டி

ஸ்டார்டப்-டிஎன் மற்றும் இதர மொழி சார்ந்த அமைப்புகளுடன் இணைந்து தமிழி என்ற நிரலாக்கப் போட்டி(Hackathon) அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதில் தமிழ் விக்கித்திட்டங்கள் தொடர்பான ஒரு தனிப் பிரிவுள்ளது. அதனால் தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா தொடர்பான கருவிகளையும் படைக்கலாம். userscript, Lua script, BOT, Webapp, Mobileapp போன்று எந்த ஒரு தொழில்நுட்பத் தீர்வையும் தமிழ் விக்கித் திட்டங்களுக்கு உருவாக்கலாம். சிறப்புப் பரிசினை சிஐஎஸ்-ஏ2கே வழங்குகிறார்கள். ஆர்வமுள்ள பயனர்கள் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ளலாம். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 10:47, 19 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## தமிழ் விக்கிப் பக்கங்களுக்கு உள்ள ShortURL ஐ நகலெடுக்கும் வசதி

தமிழ் விக்கிப் பக்கங்களுக்கு உள்ள ShortURL ஐ நகலெடுக்க, அதை தெரிவு செய்து நகலெடுக்க வேண்டியுள்ளது.  
இதை இலகுவாக்க, ஒரு சிறு javascript நிரல் எழுதியுள்ளேன்.  

ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:USERNAME/common.js  

உங்கள் பயனர் பக்கத்துக்கான common.js ல் பின்வரும் வரியை ஒட்டி சேமிக்கவும்.  

mw.loader.load('//ta.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tshrinivasan/copy-shortlink.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');  

பிறகு CTRL+F5 தந்து பக்கத்தை மீளேற்றவும்.  

இப்போது, ShortURL அருகே ஒரு சிறு படம் இருக்கும். அதை கிளிக் செய்தால் போதும். ShortURL நகலெடுக்கப் பட்டுவிடும்.  

பயன்படுத்தி பார்த்து, ஏதேனும் மாற்றம் வேண்டுமெனில் தெரிவிக்கவும். த.சீனிவாசன் (பேச்சு) 20:55, 20 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-09</span>

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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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">wikimedia.org</bdi> 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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">wikibooks.org</bdi>, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.
- One new wiki has been created: a in Santali (<code>wikt:sat:</code>)
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:41, 25 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## translatewiki மொழியாக்கச் சிக்கல்

நமது விக்கியில் சுமார் ஏழில் ஒரு கட்டுரைக்கு பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 07:43, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  
  - :நனறி. நீங்கள் சொல்வது கடைசிக்கட்டத் தீர்வு. முதலில் இச்சொற்களை டிராஸ்லேட்விக்கியில் ஏன் மாற்ற வேண்டும் என்பதிலிருந்து உரையாட விரும்புகிறேன். புதிதாக விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் கட்டுரை எழுதும் பயனர்களுக்கு இந்தச் சொல் வழக்குகள் புதியதாக இருக்கும். அப்படியெனில் அவர்கள் எப்படிக் கற்றுக்கொள்ள முடியும் அல்லது அவர்களுக்கு எப்படி வழிகாட்டல் முடியும் என்று யோசிக்கிறேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 07:55, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
  - :::பகுப்பு பேச்சு:CS1 errors: dates என்ற பக்கத்தில் //19 மார்ச்சு 2024// என்ற நாளில் உரையாடலைத் தொடங்கினேன். தொடர்ந்து ஒரே இடத்தில் அனைவரும் உரையாடுதல் நன்று. ஏனெனில், வெவ்வேறு காலக் கட்டத்தில் வெவ்வேறு இடங்களில் உரையாடுதல் இதுகுறித்து கூட்டுமுயற்சியைக் காட்டாது. 'வரலாறு' முக்கியம். ஒரு முன்மொழிவை அனைத்து மாதங்களுக்கும் சொல்லலாம் அல்லது தற்போதுள்ள சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தினால் என்ன இழப்பு ஏற்பட்டு விடும் என்பதையும் குறிப்பிடுதல் நன்று. என்னைப்பொறுத்தவரை ஏதேனும் ஒரு சீர்தரத்தினைப் பற்றினால் சரி. அத்தகைய** சமூக ஒப்புதல் தந்தால்**, எனக்கு விருப்பமான பைத்தான் நுட்பத்தில் மாற்றங்கள் **பலர் செய்ய நிரல்** எழுத இயலும். காலவரையோடு செயற்பட விருப்பம். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 10:23, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
::: முதலில், டிரான்ஸ்லேட் விக்கியில் செய்த மாற்றங்கள் அனைத்தும் சமூக ஒப்புதல் இல்லாமல் செய்ததால் அதனை மீள்வித்து தற்போதைக்கு இந்தச் சிக்கலைத் தீர்க்கலாம். ஆங்கில மாதங்கள் அனைத்தையும் சீராக பயன்படுத்தும் முறை குறித்து சமூக வாக்கெடுப்பு நடத்தி அதனைப் பயன்படுத்தக் கோரலாம். ஒரே ஆங்கில மாதத்தின் பெயரை தமிழில் டிரான்ஸ்லேட் விக்கியில் கொடுக்கும் போது பெப்பிரவரி/பெப்ரவரி/பிப்ரவரி என்று ஏதேனும் இரண்டு வார்த்தைகளைப் பயன்படுத்தும் வசதி உள்ளதா? எனும் ஐயத்தினைத் தீர்க்க வேண்டுகிறேன்.நன்றி --<font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> 💬உரையாடுக 06:23, 16 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  
::::டிரான்ஸ்லேட் விக்கியில் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைக் கொடுக்கமுடியாது என்றே நினைக்கிறேன். ஆனால் விக்கியில் CS1 வழுகாட்டாமல் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தும் முறையை அமைக்க முடியும் ஆனால் முயன்று பார்த்ததில்லை. எனவே மாற்றுக் கருத்தில்லை என்றால் 2023 டிசம்பருக்கு முன்பிருந்த நிலைக்கு மீளமைத்துவிடப் பரிந்துரைக்கிறேன். பின்னர் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தும் வகையில் சிஎஸ்1 வழுவையும் சரிசெய்ய முயல்வோம். -10:31, 16 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC) நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 10:31, 16 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  
:::::தற்போதுவரை எந்த மாற்றுக் கருத்தும் வரவில்லை. எனவே, மீளமைக்கலாமா?-- <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> 💬உரையாடுக 17:09, 22 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  
://CS1 வழுகாட்டாமல் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தும் முறையை அமைக்க முடியும்// இதனை முதலில் செய்து பாருங்கள்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 21:18, 22 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  
:::::://எனவே மாற்றுக் கருத்தில்லை என்றால் 2023 டிசம்பருக்கு முன்பிருந்த நிலைக்கு மீளமைத்துவிடப் பரிந்துரைக்கிறேன்.// -- <font face="Casteller" size="4">ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா</font> 💬உரையாடுக 15:54, 30 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  

## விளக்கம் வேண்டுதல்
- https://w.wiki/DD$b

--- மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட கட்டுரையின் தகவற்பெட்டியிலுள்ள வரைபடத்தில் காண்பிக்கப்படும் ஆங்கில வார்த்தைகள் தானியக்கமாகத் தோற்றமளிக்கின்றன. ஏன்?  
-- பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 09:44, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

  - கோயில் தொடர்பான கட்டுரைகளில் தகவற்பெட்டி புதிதாக இணைக்கும் போது, வரைபடத்தில் 'தமிழ்நாடு' என்று பதிவிடும் போது, மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட ஆங்கில வார்த்தைகள் தானியக்கமாகத் தோற்றமளிக்கின்றன. தமிழ்நாடு என்ற பதிவை நீக்கினால், வரைபடமும் மறைந்து, வார்த்தைகளும் மறைக்கப்பட்டு காட்சியளிக்கிறது.
-- பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 09:50, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  
: இம்மாற்றத்தைக் கவனியுங்கள் --சா. அருணாசலம் (உரையாடல்) 10:06, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-10</span>

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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 "<code dir="ltr">mw-ref</code>" from their local <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Common.css</bdi>. 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 ("<code dir="ltr">[1]</code>") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("<code dir="ltr">mw:referencedBy</code>") 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. <code></code>) 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. <code></code>) 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 (<code>w:syl:</code>)
- 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**  
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-11</span>

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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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">aramadan@wikimedia.org</bdi>!
- 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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- 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.

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## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-12</span>

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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.
- 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.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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## வேண்டுகோள்
- https://w.wiki/DW95

  - மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட கட்டுரையில் தகவற்பெட்டி வரைபடத்தலைப்பைக் கவனிக்கவும். தானியக்கமாகத் தோற்றமளிக்கும் அதில் 'கேரளா-இல் அமைவிடம்' என்று வருமாறு, வார்ப்புருவில் மாற்றம் செய்ய வேண்டுகிறேன். கோயில் சம்பந்தமான பெரும்பாலான கட்டுரைகளில், 'வரைபடம்' குறித்து 'India Kerala' என்று பதிவிடும் போது, அவ்வாறு காட்டுகிறது. கவனிக்கவும். நன்றி!
பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 13:13, 20 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  

:மாற்றியிருக்கிறேன். தமிழில் கேரளம் என வரவேண்டும், கேரளா அல்ல. விகுதியுடன் கேரளத்தில்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 04:34, 21 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  
  - நன்றி!
பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 17:52, 24 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-13</span>

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  
<section begin="technews-2025-W13"/><div>  
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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">#campaigns-product-team</bdi> 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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">#campaigns-product-team</bdi> tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
- Administrators at wikis that have a customized <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Sidebar</bdi> should check that it contains an entry for the listing. If it does not, they should add it using <code dir=ltr>* specialpages-url|specialpages</code>. 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 . 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.
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- Developers who use the <code dir=ltr>mw.Api</code> JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the <code dir=ltr>userAgent</code> parameter: <code dir=ltr>var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );</code>. 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.
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## கருத்து
வேற்றுமொழி (ஆங்கிலம்) கட்டுரைகளை தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்த்து உருவாக்குவது போல், புதுப்பயனர்களுக்காக தமிழ்மொழியில் புதுக்கட்டுரைகளை வடிவமைக்க, புது வார்ப்புரு ஒன்றை உருவாக்க வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறதா?  

உதாரணமாக, ஊர்கள் / நகரங்கள் பற்றிய கட்டுரைக்காக:  

தகவற்பெட்டி, முன்னுரை, அமைவிடம், போக்குவரத்து (துணைத் தலைப்புகள்: தரைவழி, இருப்புப்பாதை, வான்வழி), கல்வி (துணைத் தலைப்புகள்: பள்ளி, கல்லூரி, பல்கலைக்கழகம்), வர்த்தகம், பொருளாதாரம், சமயம், மற்றும் பிற, குறிப்புகள் / மேற்கோள்கள், வெளியிணைப்புகள்  

போன்றவற்றைக் குறிப்பிட்டு புது வார்ப்புரு.  

இம்மாதிரியே கோயில் கட்டுரைகள், மற்றும் பலவற்றிற்காக.  

பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 10:41, 25 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  

:@பொதுஉதவி வணக்கம். நீங்கள் எவ்வகையான வார்ப்புருவை எதிர்பார்க்கிறீர்கள். இந்த வழிகாட்டல் பக்கம் போதுமானதா? பக்க வடிவமைப்பு கையேடு - மா. செல்வசிவகுருநாதன் (பேச்சு) 16:05, 25 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  

: விக்கிப்பீடியா:புதிய கட்டுரை எழுதுதல்/புறநகர் குறித்தான கட்டுரை வடிவமைப்பு இது போன்று உருவாக்குங்கள்; நன்றி! - மா. செல்வசிவகுருநாதன் (பேச்சு) 08:30, 26 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  
## வேண்டுகோள்
- https://w.wiki/Db63
  - மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட கட்டுரையில், வரைபடத் தலைப்பின் தானியங்கி மாற்றத்தை சரிப்படுத்த வேண்டுகிறேன். நன்றி!
பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 02:24, 27 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  

## மாற்றம் வேண்டுதல்
.  

தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் ...  

- தொகுப்பு வரலாற்றைப் பார் --> தொகுப்பு வரலாற்றைப் பார்க்க

- பேச்சுப் புத்தகத்தைப் பார் --> பேச்சுப் புத்தகத்தைப் பார்க்க

- கட்டுரையை உலாவியிற் பார் --> கட்டுரையை உலாவியிற் பார்க்க

- வாசி --> வாசிக்க

- மூலத்தைத் தொகு --> மூலத்தைத் தொகுக்க

- நகர்த்து --> நகர்த்துக

- முன்தோற்றம் காட்டு --> முன்தோற்றம் காட்டுக

- மாற்றங்களைக் காட்டு --> மாற்றங்களைக் காட்டுக

- உள்ளிடு --> உள்ளிடுக

- கைவிடு --> கைவிடுக

- ஏற்று --> ஏற்றுக

- மறை --> மறைக்க

- மீளமை --> மீளமைக்க

- தேடு --> தேடுக

- மின்னஞ்சலிடு --> மின்னஞ்சலிடுக

- மற்றப் பயனர்களிடமிருந்து மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுமதி --> மற்றப் பயனர்களிடமிருந்து மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுமதிக்க

- மேலும் சேர் --> மேலும் சேர்க்க

- கடவுச் சொல்லை மாற்று --> கடவுச் சொல்லை மாற்றுக

- வரைபடம் தமிழ் நாடு --> வரைபடம் தமிழ்நாடு

- விக்கிப்பீடியா தளத்தில் தேடு --> விக்கிப்பீடியா தளத்தில் தேடுக

- மொழிகளைச் சேர் --> மொழிகளைச் சேர்க்க

- இப்பயனருக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடு --> இப்பயனருக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடுக

- பயனர் குழுக்களைக் காட்டு --> பயனர் குழுக்களைக் காட்டுக

- கோப்பைப் பதிவேற்று --> கோப்பைப் பதிவேற்றுக

- குறுகிய உரலியைப் பெறு --> குறுகிய உரலியைப் பெறுக

- ஒரு நூலாக்கு --> ஒரு நூலாக்குக

- தலைப்பைச் சேர் --> தலைப்பைச் சேர்க்க

- PDF ஆகப் பதிவிறக்கு --> PDF ஆகப் பதிவிறக்குக

- கணக்குத் தரவை அணுகு --> கணக்குத் தரவை அணுகுக

- உலகளாவிய பயனர் விவரத்தைக் காண் --> உலகளாவிய பயனர் விவரத்தைக் காண்க

- மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியை மாற்று / நீக்கு --> மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியை மாற்றுக / நீக்குக

- பக்கங்களினதும் கோப்புகளினதும் சிறு தொகுப்புகள் தொடர்பிலும் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடு --> பக்கங்களினதும் கோப்புகளினதும் சிறு தொகுப்புகள் தொடர்பிலும் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடுக

- இப்பயனர்கள் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடுவதைத் தடு --> இப்பயனர்கள் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடுவதைத் தடுக்க

- நான் மற்ற பயனர்களுக்கு அனுப்பும் மின்னஞ்சல்களின் ஒரு நகலை எனக்கு அனுப்பு --> நான் மற்ற பயனர்களுக்கு அனுப்பும் மின்னஞ்சல்களின் ஒரு நகலை எனக்கு அனுப்பவும்

- மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியும் பயனர் பெயரும் ஆகிய இரண்டும் வழங்கப்பட்டால் மட்டுமே கடவுச்சொல் மீளமைப்பு மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுப்பு --> மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியும் பயனர் பெயரும் ஆகிய இரண்டும் வழங்கப்பட்டால் மட்டுமே கடவுச்சொல் மீளமைப்பு மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுப்பவும்

- பக்கத்தை மொழிபெயர் --> பக்கத்தை மொழிபெயர்க்க

- மொழிபெயர்க்கத் தொடங்கு --> மொழிபெயர்க்கத் தொடங்குக

- பழைய பார்வைக்கு மாறு --> பழைய பார்வைக்கு மாறுக

- பக்கத்தை ஆக்கு --> பக்கத்தை ஆக்குக

- முன்தோற்றம் காட்டு --> முன்தோற்றம் காட்டுக

- மாற்றங்களைக் காட்டு --> மாற்றங்களைக் காட்டுக

- எல்லாப் புலன்களையும் காட்டு --> எல்லாப் புலன்களையும் காட்டுக

- உசாத்துணையைச் சேர் --> உசாத்துணையைச் சேர்க்க

- நூற்பட்டியலைச் சேர் --> நூற்பட்டியலைச் சேர்க்க

- புலங்களை வடிகட்டு --> புலங்களை வடிகட்டுக

- மூலத்தை ஆக்கு --> மூலத்தை ஆக்குக

- ஒரு வரைபடத்திற் பார் --> ஒரு வரைபடத்திற் பார்க்க

- மாற்றங்களைப் பார் --> மாற்றங்களைப் பார்க்க

- புத்தம் புதிய பயனர்களிடமிருந்து மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுமதி --> புத்தம் புதிய பயனர்களிடமிருந்து மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுமதிக்க

____ என்று கட்டளைகளின் வார்த்தைகளை மாற்ற முயற்சிக்க வேண்டுகிறேன். நன்றி!  

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பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 04:06, 27 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)  

:இல்லை. இங்கே ஓர் அஃறிணைப் பொருளுக்கே கட்டளையிடப்படுகிறது. அதனை உயர் திணையாக்குவது தவறு. பாஹிம் (பேச்சு) 02:40, 2 ஏப்பிரல் 2025 (UTC)  
:இன்னுமொரு முக்கிய சிக்கலையும் கருத்திற் கொள்ள வேண்டும். பயனர் இடைமுகம் என்பது இத்தகைய மொழிபெயர்ப்பில் முக்கியமானது. மொழிபெயர்ப்பு முடிந்தளவு சுருக்கமாகவும் இருக்க வேண்டும், அதே நேரம் அஃறிணைப் பொருளுக்கு மட்டும், அஃதாவது கணனி முறைக்கு மட்டும் கட்டளையிடுவதாகவும் இருக்க வேண்டும். அதற்கு மாற்றமாக, ஆட்களுக்குக் கட்டளைபிறப்பிக்கும் போது, இங்கே தமிழ் விளக்கம் குறைவான சிலர் ஒருமையில் அழைக்கக் கூடாது என்று கண்ட நின்றதற்கெல்லாம் குறை பிடிக்கத் தொடங்குவதுண்டு. அவர்களே செய்க, வருக, தருக போன்ற சொற்களை மரியாதையானவை என்கின்றனர், ஆனால் நீர் என்றழைத்தால் மரியாதைக் குறைவு என்கின்றனர். அவர்கள் அப்படி முன்னுக்குப் பின் முரணாகத் தமிழை விளங்கி வைத்திருப்பது இங்கே தேவையற்ற சிக்கலைத் தருகிறது. அவர்களுக்குத் தெரியவில்லை நீர் செய்க, நீர் வருக, நீர் தருக என்பதே தமிழ் முறையென்பது. அத்தகையோர் நீங்கள் தருக, நீங்கள் வருக என்று இலக்கணக் குற்றமாக எழுதுவதைச் சரியென நினைக்கின்றனர். பாஹிம் (பேச்சு) 02:45, 2 ஏப்பிரல் 2025 (UTC)  
  - நீவிர் வருக! நீவிர் செல்க! என்று அறிந்துள்ளேன்.
பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 09:10, 5 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

:இல்லை. நீர் வருக என்பது ஒருமை. பன்மையில் நீவிர் வாரீர் என்பதே சரி. பாஹிம் (பேச்சு) 03:47, 8 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-14</span>

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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.
- 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.
- 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 <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">maps.wikimedia.org</bdi> - 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:04, 1 ஏப்பிரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## திருத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டுதல்
கட்டுரைகளை ஒன்றிணைக்க வேண்டுதல், கட்டுரைத் தலைப்பு திருத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டுதல் போன்றவற்றிற்கு, நிருவாகிகள் அவற்றைச் சரிசெய்த பின்னர் பயனர்களின் பேச்சுப் பக்கங்களில் பதில்கள் தரும்போது, 'Y ஆயிற்று' என்றவாறு வருகின்றன. கவனிக்கவும். நன்றி!  
பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 07:05, 7 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

: அந்தப் பணியைச் செய்தாயிற்று என்பதற்குப் பதிலாக என வார்ப்புரு வழியாகப் பதிலளிக்கிறோம். இந்த வார்ப்புருவைப் பயனர்கள் அனைவரும் பயன்படுத்தலாம். இந்த வார்ப்புருவை எவ்வாறு மாற்றலாம் என்பதை நீங்களும் வார்ப்புரு:ஆச்சு இதன் பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தில் குறிப்பிடுங்கள். -- சா. அருணாசலம் (உரையாடல்) 07:51, 7 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-15</span>

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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.
- 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 <code dir=ltr>font-size</code>, <code dir=ltr>line-height</code>, and <code dir=ltr>size-icon</code>.
- 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.
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 18:51, 7 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## சிறப்பு:WhatLinksHere/ஆனைக்கொய்யா

சிறப்பு:WhatLinksHere/ஆனைக்கொய்யா இக்கட்டுரையின் பேச்சுப்பக்கப்படி பெயர்மாற்ற உள்ளேன். புதிய பெயரினை இது போல இணைந்துள்ள கட்டுரைகளிலும் மாற்ற ஏதேனும் கருவி உள்ளதா? <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:33, 11 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

:பியூட்டிபுல் சூப் கொண்டு செய்ய முயற்சிக்கிறேன். ஆர்வமுள்ளவர் தெரிவிக்கவும். இணைந்து செய்வோம். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 03:16, 15 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  
::AutoWikiBrowser கொண்டு மாற்றலாமே.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 06:46, 15 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  
:::நான் விக்கிமூலத்திற்க்காக, டெபியன் இயங்குதளம் பயன்படுத்துவதால், AWB நிறுவ இயலாது. பிறர் செய்தளித்தால், அப்பேச்சுப்பக்கப்படி பெயர் மாற்றலாம். அல்லது நான் PAWS முறையில், ஒவ்வொரு பக்கமாக சரிபார்த்து மாற்றங்களை சேமிக்க முயற்சிக்கிறேன். <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 07:28, 15 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-16</span>

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<section begin="technews-2025-W16"/><div>  
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 size will be increased from to . 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 size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger 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 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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">query.wikidata.org</bdi>. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">query-scholarly.wikidata.org</bdi>, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">query.wikidata.org</bdi> 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.
- 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.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:23, 15 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## கட்டுரையில் வார்ப்புருக்களின் எண்ணிக்கை

கட்டுரை ஒன்றில் இருக்கக்கூடிய வார்ப்புருக்களின் அதிகப்பட்ச எண்ணிக்கை எவ்வளவு? உருசியா கட்டுரையில் **எச்சரிக்கை: 'வார்ப்புருக்கான அளவு மிக அதிகமாக உள்ளது. சில வார்ப்புருக்கள் சேர்க்கப்பட மாட்டது.** என்று எச்சரிக்கை வருகிறது. மேற்கோள் பிரிவில் 545 இற்குப் பிறகு வார்ப்புருக்கள் எதுவும் காட்டப்படவில்லை. Reflist வார்ப்புருவும் இக்கட்டுரையில் வேலை செய்யவில்லை. கவனியுங்கள்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 02:21, 18 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

: இவ்வழு குறித்து எங்கு முறையிடவேண்டும்?--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 09:56, 13 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  
::இப்பக்கத்தில் எனக்கு வழு காட்டவில்லை. என்ன சிக்கல் என்று அடையாளம் காண இயலவில்லை. பொதுவாக phabricator இல் முறையிடலாம். எந்தப் பக்கம் என்ன வழு என்று தெளிவாகச் சுட்டினால் உதவி கிடைக்க வாய்ப்புள்ளது. -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 15:32, 13 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  
:::உருசியா கட்டுரையில் "தொகு" பின்னர் "முன்தோற்றம் காட்டு" என அழுத்தினால், அந்த வழு எச்சரிக்கை வரும். "மேற்கோள்கள்" பகுதியில் மொத்தமுள்ள 684 மேற்கோள்களில் கடைசி நூற்றிற்கும் அதிகமானவை காட்டப்படவில்லை. வெளி இணைப்புகளில் உள்ள வார்ப்புருக்களும் முழுமையாக இல்லை.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 09:10, 14 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-17</span>

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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: [[Special:LintErrors/empty-heading|]] (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.
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:59, 21 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## Sub-referencing: User testing

<div lang="en" dir="ltr">  

<small>*Apologies for writing in English, please help us by providing a translation below*</small>  

Hi I’m Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team. We are making great strides with the new sub-referencing feature and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:  

1. **Try it out and share your feedback**
1. :Please try the updated *wikitext* feature on the beta wiki and let us know what you think, either on our talk page or by booking a call with our UX researcher.
1. **Get a sneak peak and help shape the *Visual Editor* user designs**
1. :Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start *May 14th*.

We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.  

Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life! </div> <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk)</bdi> 15:04, 28 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-18</span>

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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 soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the before they can manage events as requested by a community.
- 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 <code dir="ltr">ipblocks</code>, <code dir="ltr">ipblocks_ipindex</code>, and <code dir="ltr">ipblocks_compat</code> are now deprecated. Users can query the <code dir="ltr">block</code> and <code dir="ltr">block_target</code> new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**In depth**  
- The latest 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 19:30, 28 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-19</span>

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<section begin="technews-2025-W19"/><div>  
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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Developers who use the <code dir=ltr>moment</code> library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the <code dir=ltr>Intl</code> library or the new <code dir=ltr>mediawiki.DateFormatter</code> library. The <code dir=ltr>moment</code> 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 (<code dir=ltr>wbt_*</code>) 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.
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:13, 6 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!

*(Apologies for posting in English)*  

Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.  

As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.  

After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.  

The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from **May 6**. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.  

If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.  

Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:07, 6 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-20</span>

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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 (<code>w:nup:</code>). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
- 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 <code dir="ltr">/page/data-parsoid</code> REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
- 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.

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## wikita-l mailing list

Hi, Sorry to bother you but wikita-l mailing list currently doesn't have any admins and if anyone from Tamil Wikipedia willing to help, I would appreciate if they take on the adminship (preferably at least two). Currently I'm doing it but I don't know Tamil and can't really be useful. Thank you! Ladsgroup (பேச்சு) 10:16, 13 மே 2025 (UTC)  

:@Ladsgroup, yes, I just noticed the rejection email from this maillist for my few month old posts. I too felt that absence of admin. I am happy to moderate this maillist. please count me.-நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 17:15, 13 மே 2025 (UTC)  
:@Ladsgroup Also count me in if necessary. - <font face="Lucida Handwriting" size="3.5">பாலாஜி </font> <sup><font face="Lucida Handwriting" color="green">(பேசலாம் வாங்க!)</font></sup> 19:20, 13 மே 2025 (UTC)  
::@Balajijagadesh and @Neechalkaran. Thank you! would you mind sending me your email address (the one you prefer to be admin with)? You can send it via Special:EmailUser/Ladsgroup. Thank you! Ladsgroup (பேச்சு) 22:13, 13 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## Join the 6th Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign – 2025 Edition

Dear Wikipedia community,  

(*Please help translate to your language*)  

We invite your community to participate in the 6th edition of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign, a global campaign taking place from July 1 to August 31, 2025.  

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable photo from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.) over the years.  

More than 80 Wikimedia affiliates have participated since the campaign was launched in 2020 and have added images to more than 400,000 Wikipedia articles in over 245 Wikipedia languages. Thanks to the volunteer contributors!  

We now invite your community to organize and lead the campaign within your community. As a local organizer, you may:  

- Encourage individual members to take part by adding images to Wikipedia articles.
- Host edit-a-thons focused on improving visual content.
- Organize training workshops to teach contributors how to correctly integrate images into Wikipedia.

These activities will help build local capacity and increase visual content across Wikipedia.  

Please note that for participants to be eligible to participate in the campaign, they need to have registered an account for at least a year before the official start date of the contest. That is, for the 2025 edition, they must have registered an account on or before July 1, 2025. The account can be from any Wikimedia project wikis.  

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language Wikipedia.  

We would be glad for you to sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.  

With kind regards,  

User:Reading Beans  
On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2025. MediaWiki message delivery (பேச்சு) 21:53, 18 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-21</span>

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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.
- 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.
- 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 <code dir=ltr>mw.title</code> 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 <code dir=ltr>isDisambiguationPage</code>. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function.
- User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with <code dir=ltr>mw.loader.load</code>. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr">gitlab.wikimedia.org</bdi> 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.
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:11, 19 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## Sidebar

இடதுபக்க Sidebar இல் இருந்து "சிறப்புப் பக்கங்கள்" இணைப்பு நீக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. எப்போது/எப்படி இது நிகழ்ந்தது. மீண்டும் கொண்டுவர முடியுமா?--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 09:46, 21 மே 2025 (UTC)  

:@Kanags எந்த உரலி நீக்கப்பட்டதென்று குறிப்பிட்டுச் சொல்ல முடியுமா? கடைசியாக நீக்கப்பட்ட உரலிகளை இங்கே பார்க்கலாம். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 03:21, 22 மே 2025 (UTC)  
::சிறப்புப் பக்கங்கள் கருவிப் பெட்டியில் இணைக்கப்பட்டிருந்தது.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 06:31, 22 மே 2025 (UTC)  
:::தேர்ந்தெடுத்த கட்டுரைகள் எனும் உரலியை இணைத்துள்ளேன். கவனியுங்கள்.-- சா. அருணாசலம் (உரையாடல்) 07:39, 22 மே 2025 (UTC)  
::::இது தேவை தானா?--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 07:46, 22 மே 2025 (UTC)  
: பயனர்களின் தேடல்களுக்கு ஏற்றவாறு, இடப்பக்கத்திலுள்ள இணைப்புகளை மாற்றி அமையுங்கள். அல்லது மீள்வித்து உதவுங்கள். --சா. அருணாசலம் (உரையாடல்) 04:47, 25 மே 2025 (UTC)  
::இங்குள்ள பழைய பதிப்பில் பல காலாவதியான, தேவையற்ற இணைப்புகள் உள்ளன. குறிப்பாக எந்தெந்த இணைப்புகள் உங்களுக்கும் பயனர்களுக்கும் தேவை என்று சொன்னால் அவற்றைச் சேர்த்துவிடலாம். இதனை நிருவாக அணுக்கம் உள்ள எவரும் செய்யலாம். நன்றி. --இரவி (பேச்சு) 11:29, 25 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## வார்ப்புரு:Lang-th

தாய் (மொழி) என்ற கட்டுரையின் இணைப்பினை இந்த வார்ப்புருவில் உருவாக்குதல் வேண்டும். இதனால் சிறப்பு:WhatLinksHere/வார்ப்புரு:Lang-th ஐம்பதுக்கும் குறைவான கட்டுரைகளில் உள்ள இணைப்புகள் சீர் ஆகும். தற்போது Thai மொழி என்ற இணைப்புக்குச் செல்கிறது. எ-கா : புத்தகோசர் <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 01:50, 25 மே 2025 (UTC)  

:திருத்தியிருக்கிறேன் என நம்புகிறேன். ஏதாவது கட்டுரையில் வழு தென்பட்டால் அறியத்தாருங்கள்.--Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 02:58, 25 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-22</span>

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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 <code>+</code> 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.
- The <code dir=ltr>#ifexist</code> 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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- The previously deprecated <code dir=ltr>ipblocks</code> views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new <code dir=ltr>block</code> and <code dir=ltr>block_target</code> views instead.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**Meetings and events**  
- Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:04, 26 மே 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-23</span>

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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 <code dir=ltr>_default</code> key in the local <bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json</bdi> 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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using <code dir=ltr>action=login</code> or <code dir=ltr>action=clientlogin</code> 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 <code dir=ltr>action=login</code> 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 <bdi lang="zxx" dir="ltr"><code>async</code>/<code>await</code></bdi> 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.
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:54, 2 சூன் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-24</span>

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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**  
- 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.

- 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.
- 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 image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named <code dir=ltr>pageImage</code> and <code dir=ltr>pageAssessments</code>.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:16, 10 சூன் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-25</span>

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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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**In depth**  
- Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:37, 16 சூன் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-26</span>

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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.
- 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 <code dir=ltr>all_links</code> variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to <code dir=ltr>new_links</code> for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work.
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:20, 23 சூன் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-27</span>

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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.
- 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.
- 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**  
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:40, 30 சூன் 2025 (UTC)  

## இலக்கணப் பிழையாகத் தட்டச்சிட இயலாதவாறு நிரலாக்குதல்

இங்கே எவ்வளவு தான் இலக்கணப் பிழையாக எழுத வேண்டாமென்று கூறினாலும் அது சிலரது கவனத்தை ஈர்ப்பதேயில்லை அல்லது அவர்களுக்கு அதை விடுத்து எழுதத் தெரியாது. ஆனால் சிதைவது என்னவோ எம்மெழிலார் தமிழ் மொழியேயன்றி வேறில்லை. எனவே, பின்வரும் கருத்திற் கொண்டு நிரலாக்க முடிந்தால் மிகச் சிறப்பாக இருக்கும்.  

1. மெய்யெழுத்துக்களில் சொல் தொடங்க முடியாது.
1. இரண்டு வல்லின மெய்யெழுத்துக்கள் அடுத்தடுத்து வர முடியாது

அடுத்த கட்டமாக,  

1. வடமொழி எழுத்துக்களில் சொல் தொடங்க முடியாது. அவை தமிழேயல்ல. சமய வழக்குச் சொற்களுக்கு இதில் விதிவிலக்களிக்கலாம். இது தொடக்கத்திற் சற்று எளிதின்றி இருக்கலாமென்பதால் குறித்த சொற்களை உரையாடி முடிவெடுக்லாம்.
1. வல்லின மெய்யெழுத்தைத் தொடர்ந்து வல்லினம் மட்டுமே வர வேண்டும்.

இன்னும் பல தேவைகள் இருப்பினும் இப்போதைய நிலையில் இவை போதும். மற்றவற்றைப் பின்னர் சேர்த்துக் கொள்ளலாமென நினைக்கிறேன். பாஹிம் (பேச்சு) 12:18, 1 சூலை 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-28</span>

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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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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".

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:04, 8 சூலை 2025 (UTC)  

## Wikidata Item and Property labels soon displayed in Wiki Watchlist/Recent Changes

*(Apologies for posting in English, you can help by translating into your language)*  

Hello everyone, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your Watchlists and Recent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the Wikidata:Glossary for further explanations.  

The upcoming change is scheduled for **17.07.2025**, between **1300 - 1500 UTC**.  
The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:  

These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.  

Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.  

Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this project task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated Talk page.  

Thank you, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team. MediaWiki message delivery (பேச்சு) 12:46, 14 சூலை 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-29</span>

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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.
- 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**  
- 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!

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:08, 14 சூலை 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-30</span>

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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.
- 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 <code dir=ltr>beta.wmflabs.org</code> to <code dir=ltr>beta.wmcloud.org</code>. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**Meetings and events**  
- WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:41, 21 சூலை 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-31</span>

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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 <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp</code>.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- 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.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:25, 29 சூலை 2025 (UTC)  

## பகுப்புகளில் வழு

பல பகுப்புகளில் உள்ள உப பகுப்புகள் பலவற்றில் நிறையக் கட்டுரைகள் இருந்தும் "காலி" எனக் காட்டுகிறது. எ-கா: Kanags <sup>\உரையாடுக</sup> 06:47, 2 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-32</span>

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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 <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account</code> and use a value defined in <code dir=ltr>MediaWiki:Ipboptions</code>. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Gadgets can now include <code dir=ltr>.vue</code> 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.
- 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

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 03:39, 5 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-33</span>

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Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Updates for editors**  
- The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
- The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.
- Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.
- View all 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 <code dir=ltr>mw.addWarning</code> function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 23:28, 11 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  

## ஒலிக்கோப்பு பரிந்துரை கருவி அறிமுகம்

கடந்த விக்கிமேனியாவில் நிரலாக்க நிகழ்வில் உருவாக்கிய இந்தப் பயனர்கருவியைப் பரிந்துரைத்து, அறிமுகம் செய்ய விரும்புகிறேன். மலையாள விக்சனரியின் தேவைக்காக உருவாக்கிய இதைப் பொதுக் கருவியாக மாற்றியுள்ளேன். விக்சனரி, விக்கிப்பீடியா என்று எந்தத் திட்டப் பக்கத்திற்கான உச்சரிப்பிற்கான ஒலிக்கோப்பினை இது பரிந்துரை செய்யும். குறிப்பாக லிங்காலிபரல் வழியாக உருவாக்கப்பட்டுள்ள எண்ணற்ற ஒலிக்கோப்புகளை இதில் அடையாளங்கண்டு நமது பக்கத்தில் ஒலியை இணைத்துக் கொள்ளமுடியும். தேவையுள்ளவர்கள் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ளலாம். பின்னூட்டங்களை திட்டப்பக்கத்தில் வழங்கலாம்.-நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 07:25, 12 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-34</span>

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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 (<code>s:tl:</code>)
  - a in Madurese (<code>s:mad:</code>)
  - a in Rakhine (<code>w:rki:</code>)
  - a in Minangkabau (<code>b:min:</code>)
  - a in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (<code>wikt:zgh:</code>)
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:37, 19 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-35</span>

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Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Updates for editors**  
- Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: <code>width: fit-content</code>; <code>ruby-align</code>; relative units such as <code>lh</code>; and custom strings in <code>list-style-type</code>. 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 (<code>wikt:bew:</code>)
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. <code>rc_new</code> and <code>rc_type</code> are being removed in favor of <code>rc_source</code>. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use <code>rc_source</code> 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.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**In depth**  
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

**Meetings and events**  
- The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 00:11, 26 ஆகத்து 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-36</span>

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Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Weekly highlight**  
- The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): . This project is open until September 9th 2025.

**Updates for editors**  
- The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.
- The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.
- On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the <code>Special:RecentChanges</code>, <code>Special:Watchlist</code>, and <code>Special:RelatedChanges</code> 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.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**In depth**  
- Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter to learn more.
- The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.

**Meetings and events**  
- Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
  - Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these.
  - La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 20:49, 1 செப்டெம்பர் 2025 (UTC)  

## {.{Death date and age|1979|06|25|1902}}

செய்திப்பெட்டியில் என்ற வார்ப்புருவை பயன்படுத்துப்போது வழு வருகிறது. அதனை களைவது எப்படி? வழுவுள்ள கட்டுரை : இலில்லியன் ஐச்லர் வாட்சன் <font>**த<font color = "red">♥</font>உழவன்**</font><sup><big><font> **(உரை)** </font></big></sup> 07:04, 6 செப்டெம்பர் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-37</span>

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Latest **tech news** from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.  

**Weekly highlight**  
- The Editing team is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please tell us in this task, or contact the team.

**Updates for editors**  
- Later this week, users of the "" beta feature will be able to use a linting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information.
- When browsing a wiki (like <code dir=ltr>en.wikipedia.org</code>), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like <code dir=ltr>en.m.wikipedia.org</code>). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out. Learn more.
- When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.
- Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more.
- Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 01:13, 9 செப்டெம்பர் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-38</span>

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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 <code dir=ltr></code> 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 . Learn more.
- Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
  - for the <code dir=ltr>intitle:</code> keyword: metacharacters for start-of-line (<code dir=ltr>^</code>) and end-of-line (<code dir=ltr>$</code>) anchors
  - for both <code dir=ltr>intitle:</code> and <code dir=ltr>insource:</code> keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (<code dir=ltr>\d</code>), whitespace (<code dir=ltr>\s</code>), and word characters (<code dir=ltr>\w</code>); and escape codes for line feed (<code dir=ltr>\r</code>), newline (<code dir=ltr>\n</code>), tab (<code dir=ltr>\t</code>), and unicode (e.g. <code dir=ltr>\uHHHH</code>).
- When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
- View all 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).
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**Meetings and events**  
- Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 17:05, 15 செப்டெம்பர் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-39</span>

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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**  
- On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog.

**Updates for editors**  
- Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
- A new parser function has been added: <code></code>. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as *MediaWiki:editinginterface*, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page.
- Adding or editing a <code>DISPLAYTITLE</code> for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the <code></code> would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket.
- Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

**In depth**  
- Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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<bdi lang="en" dir="ltr">MediaWiki message delivery</bdi> 22:54, 22 செப்டெம்பர் 2025 (UTC)  

## <span lang="en" dir="ltr">Tech News: 2025-40</span>

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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 major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more.

**Updates for editors**  
- The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
- As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
- The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer .
- Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
- On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through [[]]. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship.
- The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
- The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, [ messages prefixed with <code>sp-contributions-blocked-notice</code>] will be removed and replaced with [ those prefixed with <code>blocked-notice-logextract</code>] in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
- There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as <code dir=ltr></code> after the fragment identifier (<code></code>). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed.
- One new wiki has been created: a in Malay (<code>q:ms:</code>)
- View all community-submitted that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.

**Updates for technical contributors**  
- Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the <code>mw.title.newBatch</code> function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
- A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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