ஆலமரத்தடிக்கு (தொழினுட்பம்) வருக! இங்கு விக்கிப்பீடியா தொழினுட்பம் குறித்த செய்திகள், அறிவிப்புகள், கொள்கை விளக்கங்கள், புதிய சிந்தனைகள், உதவிக் குறிப்புகள், தொழினுட்ப விவாதங்கள் போன்றவை இடம்பெறுகின்றன. நீங்களும் இப்பக்கத்தில் உங்கள் கருத்துகளைப் பிற பயனர்களுடன் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ளலாம். இந்தப் பக்கத்தில் இருக்கும் பழைய, முடிவடைந்த கலந்துரையாடல்கள் அவ்வப்போது இங்கிருந்து நீக்கப்பட்டுக் காப்பகத்தில் சேர்க்கப்பட்டு விடும் என்பதையும் கருத்தில் கொள்ள வேண்டும். விக்கி மென்பொருளிலுள்ள வழுக்களை முறையிடுவதற்கு, பேப்ரிக்கேட்டரைப் பயன்படுத்தவும்..
இப்பகுதி தொடங்குவதற்கு முன் நடந்த உரையாடல்கள், இப்பகுப்பில் தொகுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளன.
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 Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [1]
One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [2]
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [4]
Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [5]
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
Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [6]
On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [7]
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [8]
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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
Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in சிறப்பு:RecentChanges and சிறப்பு:NewPages. [9]
Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [10]
Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [11]
For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [12]
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. [13]
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.[14] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[15] 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. [16]
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 Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.
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. [19]
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.
View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the சிறப்பு:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [21]
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. [22]
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. [23]
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. [24]
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.
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
Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the சிறப்பு:முகப்புப்பக்கம் for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at சிறப்பு:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.
Updates for editors
Highlighted talk pages improvements
Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [25]
You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [26]
When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
A new filter has been added to the சிறப்பு:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [27]
Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the சிறப்பு:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [28]
View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [29]
Updates for technical contributors
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [30][31]
Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [32]
ஸ்டார்டப்-டிஎன் மற்றும் இதர மொழி சார்ந்த அமைப்புகளுடன் இணைந்து தமிழி என்ற நிரலாக்கப் போட்டி(Hackathon) அறிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. இதில் தமிழ் விக்கித்திட்டங்கள் தொடர்பான ஒரு தனிப் பிரிவுள்ளது. அதனால் தமிழ் விக்கிப்பீடியா தொடர்பான கருவிகளையும் படைக்கலாம். userscript, Lua script, BOT, Webapp, Mobileapp போன்று எந்த ஒரு தொழில்நுட்பத் தீர்வையும் தமிழ் விக்கித் திட்டங்களுக்கு உருவாக்கலாம். சிறப்புப் பரிசினை சிஐஎஸ்-ஏ2கே வழங்குகிறார்கள். ஆர்வமுள்ள பயனர்கள் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ளலாம். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 10:47, 19 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
தமிழ் விக்கிப் பக்கங்களுக்கு உள்ள ShortURL ஐ நகலெடுக்கும் வசதி
தமிழ் விக்கிப் பக்கங்களுக்கு உள்ள ShortURL ஐ நகலெடுக்க, அதை தெரிவு செய்து நகலெடுக்க வேண்டியுள்ளது.
இதை இலகுவாக்க, ஒரு சிறு javascript நிரல் எழுதியுள்ளேன்.
ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:USERNAME/common.js
உங்கள் பயனர் பக்கத்துக்கான common.js ல் பின்வரும் வரியை ஒட்டி சேமிக்கவும்.
இப்போது, ShortURL அருகே ஒரு சிறு படம் இருக்கும். அதை கிளிக் செய்தால் போதும். ShortURL நகலெடுக்கப் பட்டுவிடும்.
பயன்படுத்தி பார்த்து, ஏதேனும் மாற்றம் வேண்டுமெனில் தெரிவிக்கவும். த.சீனிவாசன் (பேச்சு) 20:55, 20 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-09
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
Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using சிறப்பு:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [33]
The wikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as wikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting. [34][35][36]
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. [38]
Meetings and events
The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.
நமது விக்கியில் சுமார் ஏழில் ஒரு கட்டுரைக்கு சிஎஸ்1 வழு இருப்பதைக் கவனித்தேன் அவற்றுள் பெரும்பாலான பிழைகள் டிராஸ்லேட்விக்கி தளத்தில் மாதங்களின் பெயர் மாற்றத்தால் நிகழ்ந்துள்ளதாகக் கணிக்கிறேன். ஜனவரி என்பதை 'சனவரி' என்றோ பெப்ரவரி என்பதை 'பெப்பிரவரி' என்றோ உள்ளடக்கத்தில் மாற்றினால் இவ்வழுக்கள் விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் நீங்குகின்றன. காரணம் 2023 டிசம்பரில் அத்தளத்தில் இப்பெயர்கள் மாற்றப்பட்டதால் அதன் பிறகே இந்தச் சிக்கல் எழுந்திருக்கும் என நினைக்கிறேன். இத்தகைய திருத்தங்களைச் செய்வதற்கு முன் எங்கேனும் உரையாடல் நிகழ்ந்துள்ளதா? பல பக்கள் இதனால் பதிக்கப்படுவதால் என்ன செய்யலாம்? @Fahimrazick கவனிக்க வேண்டுகிறேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 07:31, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
பெப்பிரவரி, மார்ச்சு, ஏப்பிரல், சூன், சூலை, செப்தெம்பர், திசம்பர் என்ற மாதங்களின் பெயர்களின் திருத்தங்களுக்குப் பிறகு, வழுக்கள் நீங்குகின்றன, நான் திருத்திய கட்டுரைத் தொகுப்புகளில். -- பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 07:43, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
நனறி. நீங்கள் சொல்வது கடைசிக்கட்டத் தீர்வு. முதலில் இச்சொற்களை டிராஸ்லேட்விக்கியில் ஏன் மாற்ற வேண்டும் என்பதிலிருந்து உரையாட விரும்புகிறேன். புதிதாக விக்கிப்பீடியாவில் கட்டுரை எழுதும் பயனர்களுக்கு இந்தச் சொல் வழக்குகள் புதியதாக இருக்கும். அப்படியெனில் அவர்கள் எப்படிக் கற்றுக்கொள்ள முடியும் அல்லது அவர்களுக்கு எப்படி வழிகாட்டல் முடியும் என்று யோசிக்கிறேன். -நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 07:55, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
பகுப்பு பேச்சு:CS1 errors: dates என்ற பக்கத்தில் //19 மார்ச்சு 2024// என்ற நாளில் உரையாடலைத் தொடங்கினேன். தொடர்ந்து ஒரே இடத்தில் அனைவரும் உரையாடுதல் நன்று. ஏனெனில், வெவ்வேறு காலக் கட்டத்தில் வெவ்வேறு இடங்களில் உரையாடுதல் இதுகுறித்து கூட்டுமுயற்சியைக் காட்டாது. 'வரலாறு' முக்கியம். ஒரு முன்மொழிவை அனைத்து மாதங்களுக்கும் சொல்லலாம் அல்லது தற்போதுள்ள சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தினால் என்ன இழப்பு ஏற்பட்டு விடும் என்பதையும் குறிப்பிடுதல் நன்று. என்னைப்பொறுத்தவரை ஏதேனும் ஒரு சீர்தரத்தினைப் பற்றினால் சரி. அத்தகைய சமூக ஒப்புதல் தந்தால், எனக்கு விருப்பமான பைத்தான் நுட்பத்தில் மாற்றங்கள் பலர் செய்ய நிரல் எழுத இயலும். காலவரையோடு செயற்பட விருப்பம். த♥உழவன்(உரை) 10:23, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
@Neechalkaran: முதலில், டிரான்ஸ்லேட் விக்கியில் செய்த மாற்றங்கள் அனைத்தும் சமூக ஒப்புதல் இல்லாமல் செய்ததால் அதனை மீள்வித்து தற்போதைக்கு இந்தச் சிக்கலைத் தீர்க்கலாம். ஆங்கில மாதங்கள் அனைத்தையும் சீராக பயன்படுத்தும் முறை குறித்து சமூக வாக்கெடுப்பு நடத்தி அதனைப் பயன்படுத்தக் கோரலாம். ஒரே ஆங்கில மாதத்தின் பெயரை தமிழில் டிரான்ஸ்லேட் விக்கியில் கொடுக்கும் போது பெப்பிரவரி/பெப்ரவரி/பிப்ரவரி என்று ஏதேனும் இரண்டு வார்த்தைகளைப் பயன்படுத்தும் வசதி உள்ளதா? எனும் ஐயத்தினைத் தீர்க்க வேண்டுகிறேன்.நன்றி --ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா 💬உரையாடுக 06:23, 16 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)
டிரான்ஸ்லேட் விக்கியில் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைக் கொடுக்கமுடியாது என்றே நினைக்கிறேன். ஆனால் விக்கியில் CS1 வழுகாட்டாமல் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தும் முறையை அமைக்க முடியும் ஆனால் முயன்று பார்த்ததில்லை. எனவே மாற்றுக் கருத்தில்லை என்றால் 2023 டிசம்பருக்கு முன்பிருந்த நிலைக்கு மீளமைத்துவிடப் பரிந்துரைக்கிறேன். பின்னர் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தும் வகையில் சிஎஸ்1 வழுவையும் சரிசெய்ய முயல்வோம். -10:31, 16 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC) நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 10:31, 16 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)
தற்போதுவரை எந்த மாற்றுக் கருத்தும் வரவில்லை. எனவே, மீளமைக்கலாமா?-- ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா 💬உரையாடுக 17:09, 22 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)
//CS1 வழுகாட்டாமல் ஒன்றிற்கும் மேற்பட்ட சொற்களைப் பயன்படுத்தும் முறையை அமைக்க முடியும்// இதனை முதலில் செய்து பாருங்கள்.--Kanags\உரையாடுக 21:18, 22 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)
//எனவே மாற்றுக் கருத்தில்லை என்றால் 2023 டிசம்பருக்கு முன்பிருந்த நிலைக்கு மீளமைத்துவிடப் பரிந்துரைக்கிறேன்.//Yஆயிற்று -- ஸ்ரீதர். ஞா 💬உரையாடுக 15:54, 30 மார்ச்சு 2025 (UTC)
--- மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட கட்டுரையின் தகவற்பெட்டியிலுள்ள வரைபடத்தில் காண்பிக்கப்படும் ஆங்கில வார்த்தைகள் தானியக்கமாகத் தோற்றமளிக்கின்றன. ஏன்?
-- பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 09:44, 27 பெப்பிரவரி 2025 (UTC)
கோயில் தொடர்பான கட்டுரைகளில் தகவற்பெட்டி புதிதாக இணைக்கும் போது, வரைபடத்தில் 'தமிழ்நாடு' என்று பதிவிடும் போது, மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட ஆங்கில வார்த்தைகள் தானியக்கமாகத் தோற்றமளிக்கின்றன. தமிழ்நாடு என்ற பதிவை நீக்கினால், வரைபடமும் மறைந்து, வார்த்தைகளும் மறைக்கப்பட்டு காட்சியளிக்கிறது.
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
All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "More" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [39]
Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
When editors embed a file (e.g. [[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[40] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[41]
When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,[42] and respects cascading protection.[43]
When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards. [44]
The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week. [45]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile. [47]
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 password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [48][49]
The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.
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
Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.
On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [50]
The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [51]
View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [52]
Updates for technical contributors
Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
மேற்குறிப்பிட்ட கட்டுரையில் தகவற்பெட்டி வரைபடத்தலைப்பைக் கவனிக்கவும். தானியக்கமாகத் தோற்றமளிக்கும் அதில் 'கேரளா-இல் அமைவிடம்' என்று வருமாறு, வார்ப்புருவில் மாற்றம் செய்ய வேண்டுகிறேன். கோயில் சம்பந்தமான பெரும்பாலான கட்டுரைகளில், 'வரைபடம்' குறித்து 'India Kerala' என்று பதிவிடும் போது, அவ்வாறு காட்டுகிறது. கவனிக்கவும். நன்றி!
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Weekly highlight
The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.
Updates for editors
The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the சிறப்புப் பக்கங்கள் listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [53]
The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [54]
VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [55][56]
வேற்றுமொழி (ஆங்கிலம்) கட்டுரைகளை தமிழில் மொழிபெயர்த்து உருவாக்குவது போல், புதுப்பயனர்களுக்காக தமிழ்மொழியில் புதுக்கட்டுரைகளை வடிவமைக்க, புது வார்ப்புரு ஒன்றை உருவாக்க வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறதா?
உதாரணமாக, ஊர்கள் / நகரங்கள் பற்றிய கட்டுரைக்காக:
தகவற்பெட்டி, முன்னுரை, அமைவிடம், போக்குவரத்து (துணைத் தலைப்புகள்: தரைவழி, இருப்புப்பாதை, வான்வழி), கல்வி (துணைத் தலைப்புகள்: பள்ளி, கல்லூரி, பல்கலைக்கழகம்), வர்த்தகம், பொருளாதாரம், சமயம், மற்றும் பிற, குறிப்புகள் / மேற்கோள்கள், வெளியிணைப்புகள்
போன்றவற்றைக் குறிப்பிட்டு புது வார்ப்புரு.
இம்மாதிரியே கோயில் கட்டுரைகள், மற்றும் பலவற்றிற்காக.
பயனர் குழுக்களைக் காட்டு --> பயனர் குழுக்களைக் காட்டுக
கோப்பைப் பதிவேற்று --> கோப்பைப் பதிவேற்றுக
குறுகிய உரலியைப் பெறு --> குறுகிய உரலியைப் பெறுக
ஒரு நூலாக்கு --> ஒரு நூலாக்குக
தலைப்பைச் சேர் --> தலைப்பைச் சேர்க்க
PDF ஆகப் பதிவிறக்கு --> PDF ஆகப் பதிவிறக்குக
கணக்குத் தரவை அணுகு --> கணக்குத் தரவை அணுகுக
உலகளாவிய பயனர் விவரத்தைக் காண் --> உலகளாவிய பயனர் விவரத்தைக் காண்க
மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியை மாற்று / நீக்கு --> மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியை மாற்றுக / நீக்குக
பக்கங்களினதும் கோப்புகளினதும் சிறு தொகுப்புகள் தொடர்பிலும் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடு --> பக்கங்களினதும் கோப்புகளினதும் சிறு தொகுப்புகள் தொடர்பிலும் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடுக
இப்பயனர்கள் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடுவதைத் தடு --> இப்பயனர்கள் எனக்கு மின்னஞ்சலிடுவதைத் தடுக்க
நான் மற்ற பயனர்களுக்கு அனுப்பும் மின்னஞ்சல்களின் ஒரு நகலை எனக்கு அனுப்பு --> நான் மற்ற பயனர்களுக்கு அனுப்பும் மின்னஞ்சல்களின் ஒரு நகலை எனக்கு அனுப்பவும்
மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியும் பயனர் பெயரும் ஆகிய இரண்டும் வழங்கப்பட்டால் மட்டுமே கடவுச்சொல் மீளமைப்பு மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுப்பு --> மின்னஞ்சல் முகவரியும் பயனர் பெயரும் ஆகிய இரண்டும் வழங்கப்பட்டால் மட்டுமே கடவுச்சொல் மீளமைப்பு மின்னஞ்சல்களை அனுப்பவும்
இல்லை. இங்கே ஓர் அஃறிணைப் பொருளுக்கே கட்டளையிடப்படுகிறது. அதனை உயர் திணையாக்குவது தவறு. பாஹிம் (பேச்சு) 02:40, 2 ஏப்பிரல் 2025 (UTC)
இன்னுமொரு முக்கிய சிக்கலையும் கருத்திற் கொள்ள வேண்டும். பயனர் இடைமுகம் என்பது இத்தகைய மொழிபெயர்ப்பில் முக்கியமானது. மொழிபெயர்ப்பு முடிந்தளவு சுருக்கமாகவும் இருக்க வேண்டும், அதே நேரம் அஃறிணைப் பொருளுக்கு மட்டும், அஃதாவது கணனி முறைக்கு மட்டும் கட்டளையிடுவதாகவும் இருக்க வேண்டும். அதற்கு மாற்றமாக, ஆட்களுக்குக் கட்டளைபிறப்பிக்கும் போது, இங்கே தமிழ் விளக்கம் குறைவான சிலர் ஒருமையில் அழைக்கக் கூடாது என்று கண்ட நின்றதற்கெல்லாம் குறை பிடிக்கத் தொடங்குவதுண்டு. அவர்களே செய்க, வருக, தருக போன்ற சொற்களை மரியாதையானவை என்கின்றனர், ஆனால் நீர் என்றழைத்தால் மரியாதைக் குறைவு என்கின்றனர். அவர்கள் அப்படி முன்னுக்குப் பின் முரணாகத் தமிழை விளங்கி வைத்திருப்பது இங்கே தேவையற்ற சிக்கலைத் தருகிறது. அவர்களுக்குத் தெரியவில்லை நீர் செய்க, நீர் வருக, நீர் தருக என்பதே தமிழ் முறையென்பது. அத்தகையோர் நீங்கள் தருக, நீங்கள் வருக என்று இலக்கணக் குற்றமாக எழுதுவதைச் சரியென நினைக்கின்றனர். பாஹிம் (பேச்சு) 02:45, 2 ஏப்பிரல் 2025 (UTC)
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 Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.
Meetings and events
MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.
கட்டுரைகளை ஒன்றிணைக்க வேண்டுதல், கட்டுரைத் தலைப்பு திருத்தம் செய்ய வேண்டுதல் போன்றவற்றிற்கு, நிருவாகிகள் அவற்றைச் சரிசெய்த பின்னர் பயனர்களின் பேச்சுப் பக்கங்களில் பதில்கள் தரும்போது, 'Y ஆயிற்று' என்றவாறு வருகின்றன. கவனிக்கவும். நன்றி!
பொதுஉதவி (பேச்சு) 07:05, 7 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
@பொதுஉதவி: அந்தப் பணியைச் செய்தாயிற்று என்பதற்குப் பதிலாக Yஆயிற்று என வார்ப்புரு வழியாகப் பதிலளிக்கிறோம். இந்த வார்ப்புருவைப் பயனர்கள் அனைவரும் பயன்படுத்தலாம். இந்த வார்ப்புருவை எவ்வாறு மாற்றலாம் என்பதை நீங்களும் வார்ப்புரு:ஆச்சு இதன் பேச்சுப் பக்கத்தில் குறிப்பிடுங்கள். -- சா. அருணாசலம் (உரையாடல்) 07:51, 7 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
Tech News: 2025-15
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025) are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.
நான் விக்கிமூலத்திற்க்காக, டெபியன் இயங்குதளம் பயன்படுத்துவதால், AWB நிறுவ இயலாது. பிறர் செய்தளித்தால், அப்பேச்சுப்பக்கப்படி பெயர் மாற்றலாம். அல்லது நான் PAWS முறையில், ஒவ்வொரு பக்கமாக சரிபார்த்து மாற்றங்களை சேமிக்க முயற்சிக்கிறேன். த♥உழவன்(உரை)07:28, 15 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
Tech News: 2025-16
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
Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [58]
File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [59][60]
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Foundation are 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 so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [61]
"Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
கட்டுரை ஒன்றில் இருகக்க்கூடிய வார்ப்புருக்களின் அதிகப்பட்ச எண்ணிக்கை எவ்வளவு? உருசியா கட்டுரையில் எச்சரிக்கை: 'வார்ப்புருக்கான அளவு மிக அதிகமாக உள்ளது. சில வார்ப்புருக்கள் சேர்க்கப்பட மாட்டது. என்று எச்சரிக்கை வருகிறது. மேற்கோள் பிரிவில் 545 இற்குப் பிறகு வார்ப்புருக்கள் எதுவும் காட்டப்படவில்லை. Reflist வார்ப்புருவும் இக்கட்டுரையில் வேலை செய்யவில்லை. @Neechalkaran and Balajijagadesh: கவனியுங்கள்.--Kanags\உரையாடுக02:21, 18 ஏப்ரல் 2025 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
Tech News: 2025-17
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
Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. 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. [62]
A new type of lint error has been created: Empty headings (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [63]
Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings and events
The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.
Get a sneak peak and help shape the Visual Editor user designs
Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start May 14th.
We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.
Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!
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
Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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 சிறப்பு: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.
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. [64]
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.
We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!
(Apologies for posting in English)
Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.
As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.
After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.
The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.
If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.
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.
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.
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.
Hi, Sorry to bother you but wikita-l mailing list currently doesn't have any admins and if anyone from Tamil Wikipedia willing to help, I would appreciate if they take on the adminship (preferably at least two). Currently I'm doing it but I don't know Tamil and can't really be useful. Thank you! Ladsgroup (பேச்சு) 10:16, 13 மே 2025 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
@Ladsgroup, yes, I just noticed the rejection email from this maillist for my few month old posts. I too felt that absence of admin. I am happy to moderate this maillist. please count me.-நீச்சல்காரன் (பேச்சு) 17:15, 13 மே 2025 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
Join the 6th Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign – 2025 Edition
Dear Wikipedia community,
(Please help translate to your language)
We invite your community to participate in the 6th edition of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign, a global campaign taking place from July 1 to August 31, 2025.
Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable photo from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.) over the years.
More than 80 Wikimedia affiliates have participated since the campaign was launched in 2020 and have added images to more than 400,000 Wikipedia articles in over 245 Wikipedia languages. Thanks to the volunteer contributors!
We now invite your community to organize and lead the campaign within your community. As a local organizer, you may:
Encourage individual members to take part by adding images to Wikipedia articles.
Host edit-a-thons focused on improving visual content.
Organize training workshops to teach contributors how to correctly integrate images into Wikipedia.
These activities will help build local capacity and increase visual content across Wikipedia.
Please note that for participants to be eligible to participate in the campaign, they need to have registered an account for at least a year before the official start date of the contest. That is, for the 2025 edition, they must have registered an account on or before July 1, 2025. The account can be from any Wikimedia project wikis.
The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language Wikipedia.
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 சிறப்பு: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. [65]
Later this week, the சிறப்பு: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. [66]
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. [67]
Updates for technical contributors
Gadgets and user scripts that interact with சிறப்பு: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. [68]
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. [69]
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.
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.
இடதுபக்க Sidebar இல் இருந்து "சிறப்புப் பக்கங்கள்" இணைப்பு நீக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. எப்போது/எப்படி இது நிகழ்ந்தது. மீண்டும் கொண்டுவர முடியுமா?--Kanags\உரையாடுக09:46, 21 மே 2025 (UTC)[பதிலளி]
