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Tech News: 2025-44

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 Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
• Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [1]

Updates for technical contributors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
• The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Spesial:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [2]
• Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
• A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
• Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [3]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 27. okt. 2025 kl. 20:30 (CET)

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

• Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
• Ombuds commission (OC)
• Case Review Committee (CRC)

Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cstwikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

- MKaur (WMF) 30. okt. 2025 kl. 15:12 (CET)

Tekniske nyheter: 2025-45

De siste tekniske nyhetene fra Wikimedias utviklere. Fortell gjerne andre om disse endringene. Ikke all endringer vil påvirke deg. Oversettelser til andre språk er tilgjengelige.

Oppdateringer for bidragsytere

• Administratorer kan nå se at Spesial:Flett historikk er mer fleksibel om hva som kan flettes. Funksjonen kan nå flette seksjoner tatt fra midten av kildens historikk (istedenfor kun fra begynnelsen) og sette inn sideversjoner på enhver plass i destinasjonens historikk (istedenfor kun på begynnelsen). [4]
• For brukere med «Abonner på emner automatisk» aktivert i innstilligene sine: Når en starter et nytt emne eller gir et svar til et eksisterende et, kommer man nå til å bli abonnert til emnets svar. Tidligere skjedde dette kun om DiscussionTools-funksjonene «Nytt emne» eller «Svar» ble anvendt. Når DiscussionTools opprinnelig ble utgitt, ble ikke dette automatisk aktivert for eksisterende kontoer, så dette påvirker primært nyere kontoer og brukere som med vilje har endra sine innstillinger siden den gang. [5]
• Scribunto-moduler kan nå brukes for å generere SVG-bilder. Dette kan benyttes til å bygge opp diagrammer, grafikk og andre visualiseringer dynamisk gjennom Lua, som reduserer trangen til å komponere dem eksternt og laste dem opp som filer. [6]
• Wikimedia-sider gir nå alle anonyme brukere valget om å aktivere mørkt tema, med lys tekst på en mørk bakgrunn. Denne forbedringa har som mål å gi en bedre leseopplevelse, spesielt i lite belyste omgivelser. [7]
• Brukere med store overvåkningslister har over lang tid hatt vansker med å redigere Spesial:Rediger overvåkningsliste. Denne siden laster nå oppslag i mindre seksjoner istedenfor alt på én gang, som tillater alle å redigere sin overvåkningsliste problemfritt. Som en del av databaseoppdateringa, er det ikke lenger mulig å sortere etter utløpsdato, ettersom det var hundre ganger saktere enn tittelbasert sortering. Et ønske fra fellesskapet er skapt for å utforske alternative måter en kan gjenopprette utløpssortering. Om denne funksjonen er viktig for deg, vis støtte til ønsket! [8]
• Se alle 31 saker sendt inn av fellesskapet som ble fikset forrige uke. For eksempel, så er et problem med den vedvarende framhevelsen ved bruk av VisualEditor og finn-og-erstatt i løpet av et søk løst. [9]

Oppdateringer for tekniske bidragsytere

• Wikimedia URL Shortener på https://w.wiki har vært tilgjengelig på alle WIkimedia-wikier siden 2019, for å skape korte lenker til artikler, permanente lenker, differ osv. Den er tilgjengelig i sidemenyen som «Hent forkortet URL». Det er 30 wikier som også installerer en eldre «ShortUrl»-utvidelse. Den fjernes snart. Dette betyr at /s/-URL-er ikke vises under artikkeltitler gjennom HTML-class="title-shortlink". /s/-URL-ene fortsetter å fungere. [10]
• Teamene for MediaWiki Interfaces og SRE Service Operations begynte tirsdag, 30. oktober å omdirigere Action API-trafikk gjennom en vanlig API-port. Individuelle wikier oppdatered basert på de standarde utgivelsesgruppene, med totaltrafikk økende over tid. Denne endringa forvents å ikke være til bry og ikke ødelegge noe. Om det observeres noen feil, opprett en Phabricator-sak til Service Ops team-tavla.
• MediaWiki Train-distribueringer settes på pause i de to siste ukene i 2025: 22. og 29. desember. Bakporter (backport windows) pauses også mellom mandag, 22. desember 2025 og tirsdag, 2. januar 2026. En bakport er en planlagt tid der programvarefeilrettinger og konfigureringsendringer legges til. Det er syv distribueringer igjen i 2025. [11]
• Detaljerte kodeoppdateringer senere denne uka: MediaWiki

I dybden

• Wikimedia Foundation rapporterte i 2025 at KI-systemer og søkemotorer i økende grad benytter Wikipedia-innhold uten å bringe brukere til siden, som bidro til en nedgang på 8 % i menneskelige sidevisninger sammenlignet med 2024. Etter å ha oppdaga roboter «forkledd» som mennesker, har Wikimedia oppdatert trafikkdata for å speile dette skiftet. Les mer om gjeldende brukertrender på Wikipedia i en bloggpost på Diff.

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MediaWiki message delivery 3. nov. 2025 kl. 20:32 (CET)

A new look for talk pages

Hello

Sorry for using English. Hjelp til med å oversette til ditt språk. Takk.

For your information, the Editing team will soon change how talk pages look. These changes have been available as a Beta feature on your wiki for some time. Perhaps you are already using them?

The new look on the desktop interface, in Korean language.

Usability Improvements are a set of incremental design and functional changes to Wikipedia’s talk pages, aimed at making these spaces more intuitive and accessible for all contributors, especially newcomers.

The improvements focus on visual clarity, easier navigation, and better tools for communication.

The data shows these changes lead to more productive participation and fewer mistakes.

We plan to deploy these changes to your wiki, starting on November 12. These changes can be opt-out in user preferences.

What have we changed?

• Visual Clarity: Sans-serif fonts for titles, bolder action buttons (reply, subscribe, new topic), and clearer section headings make talk pages different from articles.
• Metadata: We show the number of comments per topic, the date of the latest comment, and an improved table of contents that highlights the number of replies.
• Action Tools: Easier-to-find buttons for replying, starting new topics, and thanking contributors from the reading interface.
• Backward Compatibility: Usability Improvements apply to all skins, on both mobile and desktop experiences; they can be disabled in user preferences.

These changes complete recent talk pages improvements by addressing long-standing usability issues identified in the 2019 Talk Pages Consultation. They align with Wikimedia’s goal to make editing more inclusive and accessible.

Does this change has an impact?

It increases engagement and reduces reverts

• 11% decrease in revert rates for talk page edits across all experience levels.
• 12.5% decrease in revert for new contributors (<100 edits), helping newcomers participate more successfully.
• 19% increase in the proportion of talk page views by new contributors that included a saved edit.

Users have a better success at leaving a comment

• 3.3% overall increase in edit completion rates (edits started and successfully published).
• 10.2% increase for new contributors at pilot wikis.

It has minimal disruption for users

• No significant increase in the number of users blocked after publishing a desktop talk page edit.
• Less than 1% of users opted out after deployment.

You can read the full analysis for more information.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding these improvements.

Best, Trizek (WMF) (diskusjon) 5. nov. 2025 kl. 17:27 (CET)

Hopefully this feature will be possible to turn on/off globally, when it's rolled out to all Wikis. As of now, global setting doesn't work. I tried disabling it at mw:Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-editing, but it was still active on Commons. Even if my c:Special:GlobalPreferences#mw-prefsection-editing said it was inactive, I still had to deactivate it at c:Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing… ///Mvh. 1000mm (diskusjon) 7. nov. 2025 kl. 02:36 (CET)

Thank you for letting me know. I will report it to the engineering team so that they can investigate. Trizek (WMF) (diskusjon) 10. nov. 2025 kl. 11:08 (CET)

///Mvh. 1000mm (diskusjon) 10. nov. 2025 kl. 13:12 (CET)

Tech News: 2025-46

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Vis aktivitet på diskusjonssider". [12]
• MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [13]
• Using the "Forhåndsvisning" or "Vis endringer" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [14][15][16]
• Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [17]
• The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [18]
• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [19]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [20]

Updates for technical contributors

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
• The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [21]
• The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from <user id> to mw:<identity type>:<user id>, where <identity type> is typically CentralAuth: (for SUL wikis) or local:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the sessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [22]
• MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page $9 or emailing other users $10. [23]
• A REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [24]
• The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [25][26]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 10. nov. 2025 kl. 21:37 (CET)