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Tech News: 2026-04

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

Updates for editors

• The tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered. [1]
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added. [2][3][4][5]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed. [6]

Updates for technical contributors

• As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:26, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Regarding a chart you made nine years ago

In 2017, you made a chart for VRT volunteers (see Commons talk:Volunteer Response Team/Archive 2#Coaching offer for less experienced volunteers?), and I can't tell what Line 13 was supposed to be, as no other line points the volunteer to it. Do you remember what that was about? JJP_Master (she/they) 06:19, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

JJP, the "Is the copyright holder a person?" line is meant to deal with copyrights held not by individuals but by some companies or institutions, in which case it is unclear is the person you are communicating with has rights to speak for this company or institution. It does not prevent accepting the images but it has to be stated explicitly in the permission. My writeup does not cover it very well. --Jarekt (talk) 15:30, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-05

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

Updates for editors

• Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
• All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
• Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. [7]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of. [8]

Updates for technical contributors

• A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. [9]
• Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:14, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Duplicate entries in Wikidata for specific people

• Wiesław Budzyński (Q112412220) and Wiesław Budzyński (Q134620489) → writer and journalist (dziennikarz i pisarz)
• Adam Kowalski (Q137915273) and Adam Kowalski (Q102157573) → ships captain (kapitan żeglugi wielkiej).
• Adam Jerzy Kowalski (Q11724302) and Adam Jerzy Kowalski (Q85732229) → psychologist and researcher (psycholog i naukowiec)

regards (pozdr) ~2025-33002-22 (talk) 23:25, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

Zreperowałem. --Jarekt (talk) 03:36, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

January Photo Challenge Voting Page

I tested your code and generate one of the voting page: User:Taiwania Justo/Sandbox/Voting Draft 1 and User:Taiwania Justo/Sandbox/Voting Draft 2. Please check if the contents are correct. Thanks. This is Taiwania Justo speaking (Reception Room) 14:04, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

User:Taiwania Justo, I am looking at it. When running the code the "Brutalist architecture" challenge page had some issues with redirected files. I corrected submission page and rerun the page generation, and got some slightly different results. Unfortunately since you created Commons:Photo challenge/2026 - January - Brutalist architecture/Voting page, User:Jacek79 already voted, so my page creation overwrote his votes. Sorry, Jacek79. Can you vote again? Page Commons:Photo challenge/2026 - January - Peace/Voting seemed OK. I updated Commons:Photo challenge/Voting to open those files for voting. --Jarekt (talk) 15:08, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. In the process of using your python code, I found something bugs and add some features (e.g. progress bar). After trying for this month's challenge (January and February), I will release it on my User page and Github for the public review. This is Taiwania Justo speaking (Reception Room) 13:16, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@Taiwania Justo: , I recently added this code to my github at https://github.com/jarek-tuszynski/Commons_photo_challenge. You can add your proposed changes there.--Jarekt (talk) 13:36, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-06

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

Updates for editors

• The "Page information" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [10]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [11]

Updates for technical contributors

• There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [12]
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Weekly highlight

• Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:40, 2 February 2026 (UTC)