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Tech News: 2025-06

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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. [1]
  • 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.[2] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[3] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
  • Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
    • (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.
    • (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber. [4]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [5]
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [6]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:06, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - January 2025 Newsletter

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This is our thirty-ninth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 11, 13 and 15.

Question from Kawlaogow (22:50, 4 February 2025)

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Hi! How do I add reference numbers to the edits --Kawlaogow (talk) 22:50, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, read this referencing for beginners. User:Em-mustapha talk 05:04, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * Sent manually via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 05:46, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from KhanJamshed13 (18:57, 8 February 2025)

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hello, how to edit ? --KhanJamshed13 (talk) 18:57, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

if i were to make a pun

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if i was discussing a topic in a talk page, would that be allowed if i just added a small little pun. Unifonisagoodalphabet (talk) 21:04, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-07

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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

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. [7]
  • 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.
  • Advanced item Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [8]
  • Recurrent item View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [9]

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. [10]
  • The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [11]
  • As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [12]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:09, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Felixsockwell (02:04, 12 February 2025)

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Hey there

I’d Like to create a wiki page for Myself. Can you help with this? My name is Felix Sockwell, author of Thinking in icons --Felixsockwell (talk) 02:04, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sakib ilsm on News International phone hacking scandal (20:42, 12 February 2025)

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Plz help me Haking dis my phone --Sakib ilsm (talk) 20:42, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Hamidullah.Husssaini (21:12, 12 February 2025)

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چرا برداشت من تاییدنمی شود --Hamidullah.Husssaini (talk) 21:12, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Pizzafordinner (23:28, 12 February 2025)

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hi --Pizzafordinner (talk) 23:28, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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