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Tech News: 2025-52
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [1]
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [2]
Updates for technical contributors
- Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced withdata-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with otherdata-mwattributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [3] - There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Meetings and events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:42, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
Composites of Frans Hals pendant paintings
[edit]Hello Jarekt,
I am admiring a composite, File:Frans Hals - Stephanus Geraerdts and Isabella Coymans - WGA11159.jpg, that was uploaded with your bot and which I assume you made. I would like to include similar composites in two English Wikipedia articles that I plan to write, and I wonder whether you could make and upload such composites—please. They are:
1) File:Frans Hals - Portrait of a Man Holding a Skull.JPG and File:Frans Hals - Portrait of a woman.jpg, with the man on the left
2) File:Frans Hals - Portrait of a woman in an octagonal frame - Stuttgart.jpg and File:Frans Hals - Portrait of a man in an octagonal frame - Stuttgart.jpg, with the woman on the left.
I would be very grateful.
If you cannot do this, perhaps you could let me know and perhaps point me in the direction of somebody who might, if you know someone.
Thank you, and happy new year to you. -- Frans Fowler (talk) 03:08, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
- Frans Fowler, I did not created File:Frans Hals - Stephanus Geraerdts and Isabella Coymans - WGA11159.jpg, but I did create other similar files. I use GIMP and the instructions you can find at https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/83446/gimp-how-to-combine-two-images-side-by-side ( I use the one by vaudt). Using that approach I created the octagonal frame pair. The other pair already has a good photo:
-WUS03346.jpg)
--Jarekt (talk) 04:36, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
- Brilliant! Thank you very much Jarekt --- Frans Fowler (talk) 05:50, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-03
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
Updates for editors
- As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish. [4]
- The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [5][6][7][8]
- View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [9]
Updates for technical contributors
- The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type. [10]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:30, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
Category deletion
[edit]I accidentally created a category that already exists. In the tools there is no shortcut to start the automatic procedure of deletion. How can I nominate it for deletion? Ma▀▄Ga 18:48, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
- User:MaGa, I deleted it. --Jarekt (talk) 20:36, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you very much. Ma▀▄Ga 06:46, 17 January 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-04
[edit]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. [11]
- 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. [12][13][14][15]
- 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. [16]
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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