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Tech News: 2025-19

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

Weekly highlight

The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
- Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
- Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (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 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [1]
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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Igenc Tech News

Hi Jarekt,
I've finally solved the issue mentioned here (at 'This coat of arms was created with Inkscape…important by xxx'), the “important” option creates a link that leads to a section of the manual with the aim of informing the user that his file is not optimized; the option is generated by the code “im”, its counterpart is the code “iz”, that informs the user that the file is indeed optimized, it's still visible on this file, just click on “optimized” to get to the help in question. It's likely that this attention wasn't correctly perceived by users, as the link wasn't visible, and I think I'll deprecate it when I get to the related extension ; also, the code “iz” is defined elsewhere than in Module:IgenCoa, probably at the top level, i.e. Template:Image_generation that the module depends on.
Which brings to the next point: Managing users in IgenCoa does indeed make it hard to maintain - I'm gradually reducing the number of ids, per each user's files managed in, also the categorization can also be done directly in the file by adjusting the options ; the advantage of user-categorization by igen code (directly in the file page) is to avoid categorization in a user's category of another user's files, when categories entered normally are copy-pasted from one file to another without verification, which happens frequently…
The next point, then, is that IgenCoa is just a part of Template:Image_generation, which doesn't only define CoAs but also logos, diagrams, flags, icons, seals, emblems, symbols, which is great, but the main issue is that it also defines tools and there are too many of them, some of which are barely used, example: this category handles many subcategories for a too-limited amount of files, then it might be relevant to merge the categorization of barely used tools (other than Adobe, inkscape, Corel, Txt, etc.) with Other tools, while retaining the icon on the file description
I'm not there yet. BR,--Kontributor 2K (talk) 10:23, 11 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kontributor 2K, Thank you for the update. I am also still confused by "important" option. I read Help:Inkscape and {{Image generation}} and still message "This vector image was created with Inkscape…important by v" visible in File:Cilician Armenia-en.svg makes no sense and the link does not help. Does it just mean that it is stored as Inkscape SVG not plain SVG? Or if it means it is not optimized than maybe the message should be "This unoptimized vector image was created with Inkscape by v". The message " This PNG …important was created with Inkscape…important." visible in File:Tropfsteine-hell edited with tags.png also makes no sense in English. --Jarekt (talk) 02:26, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for this update too,

"This vector image was created with Inkscape…important by" does just look to mean, according to "Handling Inkscape SVG" section on the target page, that it's "stored in Inkscape SVG" rather than plain/optimized, and tagged as such by a user; that said it's unlikely that users would handle this paremeter correctly, or even simply use it, so this option seems above all to add some complexity, globally.

I think too that the message could indeed be "This unoptimized vector file…", rather than "…important".

The message on the .png file indeed makes no sense, of course there's no reason for Im to be used on raster files, other than a careless code copy-paste, For now I've removed the im/iz parameters from the user table in Igencoa/sb. --Kontributor 2K (talk) 17:13, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-20

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

Weekly highlight

The "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
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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MediaWiki message delivery 22:34, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-21

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

Weekly highlight

The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
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 Special:Block?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. [2]
Later this week, the Special:SpecialPages 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. [3]
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 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Special:Block 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. [5]
The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [6]
User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:09, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-22

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

Weekly highlight

A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

Updates for editors

Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June.
The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Special:WantedPages, 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. [7]
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. [8]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

The previously deprecated ipblocks views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new block and block_target views instead.
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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MediaWiki message delivery 20:01, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Commons:Deletion requests/File:Koszyszcze cmentarz Legionów Polskich.jpg

Witam. Czy byłbyś uprzejmy sprawdzić, czy usunięcie w/w pliku przez @Stifle było właściwe?

Pozdrawiam.

Grzes1966 (talk) 09:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Grzes1966, usunięcie pliku File:Koszyszcze cmentarz Legionów Polskich.jpg, nie jest niewłaściwe. Szablon {{PD-Poland}} powinien być używany jedynie jeśli jest to skan z polskiej publikacji wydanej przed 1994 rokiem. Twoja fotografia nie spełnia tego wymogu. Nie sądzę że Stifle wziął to pod uwagę, ale decyzje na podstawie tego pliku i tej licencji nie jest niewłaściwa. W przypadku tej i podobnych fotografii, szablon {{PD-anon-70-EU}}, dla fotografii anonimowych fotografów których prawa autorskie wygasają "70 lat od czasu kiedy praca została udostępniona dla publiczności", może być lepszy. Co prawda nie znamy dokładnej daty kiedy ta fotografia była "udostępniona dla publiczności", ale fakt ze jest to fotografia z 1933 roku dostępna dla publiczności a polskim archiwum, może znaczyć że przypuszczalnie trafiła do tego archiwum przed 1955 roku (70 lat temu). Tak przy okazji, jak przesyłasz podpisy to używaj {{PD-signature}}. Jeśli masz w przyszłości pytania na temat Commons czy licencji to chętnie pomogę. Pozdrowienia --Jarekt (talk) 13:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jarekt Dziękuję za odpowiedź.

Czy można przywrócić usunięty plik, czy też musiałbym go pnownie przesłać?

Grzes1966 (talk) 14:00, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Grzes1966, Jakby to było na 100% w domenie publicznej to bym przywrócił, ale nie jest to wolę się do tego nie dotykać. --Jarekt (talk) 11:54, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jarekt Ok. Grzes1966 (talk) 12:46, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]