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This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2025)
[edit ] Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Computer algebra system • Emergency management Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions [reply ] |
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Tech News: 2025-50
[edit ]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
- Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
- Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
- Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
- Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [1]
- The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
- A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [2]
- Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [4]
- Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [5]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
CS1 error on Philip Bilden
[edit ]Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Philip Bilden, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:
- A bare URL and missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)
Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 04:26, 11 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- This is now resolved as far as I can take it. Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 05:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #230 is out: How to write better error messages
[edit ]There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we share an essay on how to write better error messages, on improving which we focused in the last months.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 12 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2025)
[edit ] Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Judgement • Computer algebra system Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 December 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions [reply ] |
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New userbox idea
[edit ]We need a new userbox that says "{username1} has been blocked n fewer times than {username2}". It's for avoiding personal attacks (as we always should!) yet still getting their goat with objective facts. By the way, I've been blocked one time, for 3RR, over 20 years ago. Can another specific user with a shizload of blocks on their record stand the heat? teehee. Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 08:09, 15 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Sometimes, when the need is great, you just have to make your own. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:14, 17 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Oh, they're easy to make. I was just lettin' off some steam heah. :) Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 06:18, 17 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Tech News: 2025-51
[edit ]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Recurrent item View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [6]
Updates for technical contributors
- To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinkstable on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [7] - Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Orlando brown Page
[edit ]Hi Stefen, just wanted to clarify on the Orlando Brown page that the many edits recently have been of a inter/student project who is learning Wikipedia from scratch. They only get a couple hours a day to work on the article, and they do not always have time to cite it before leaving. If you can be patient and let them work on it piecemeal it would be much appreciated. Lhhscurator (talk) 17:51, 16 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- Feel free to use a sandbox for that purpose, but you cannot add uncited material to an article under any circumstances. Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 17:56, 16 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- We'll try our best. Lhhscurator (talk) 17:59, 16 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
The Signpost: 17 December 2025
[edit ]- Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan
Say hello to the new WMF CEO.
- News and notes: We're gonna have a party!
And a new WMF CEO!
- In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope
Pay up, big guys!
- Traffic report: Death and stranger things
And going for the FIFA prize!
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Something old and something new!
- Obituary: Michal Lewi (Iwelam) and Alan R. King (A R King)
Rest in peace.
- Concept: List of xxtreme sports (redirected from Electrojousting)
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #231 is out: We wish you a happy new Gregorian year!
[edit ]There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we showcase some templates using Wikifunctions functions on several projects, and we wrap up work for this Gregorian year, wishing you happy holidays.
The updates will resume in the week of January 14, so if you feel like you want more, you can always read the previous updates in our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 16:01, 18 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Airport route tables
[edit ]Hi, just for info - the existing consensus is that airport route tables need to be sourced with independent sources. The guidance is at WP:AIRPORT-CONTENT, which also links to the RfC. I personally may not agree, but that's what the most recent consensus is. Danners430 tweaks made 11:34, 19 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- OK, but your reverts weren't exactly surgical - I did useful cleanup and structural changes outside of that concern that now have to be redone. Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 17:47, 19 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- That's mostly because it wasn't clear from your summaries and the diffs which were source changes etc. and what was cleanup. Also, I'd personally be against putting all cites in the refs column - especially where the cite only refers to one or two routes, not everything in that row. Danners430 tweaks made 18:06, 19 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Kentucky Kingdom
[edit ]Sorry I did not post the source I used this is where I found the 1.5 million number from.
https://www.kentuckykingdom.com/explore-the-park/festivals-events/christmas/ Indianajosi (talk) 18:46, 21 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- That is a primary source. Please find a secondary source. Also, "over a million" and "1.5 million" are compatible expressions at any rate. Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 18:55, 21 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2025)
[edit ] Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:
Telecommunications in Kazakhstan Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Spoken language • Judgement Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 December 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions [reply ] |
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Tech News: 2025-52
[edit ]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [8]
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
- Recurrent item View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [9]
Updates for technical contributors
- Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced withdata-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with otherdata-mwattributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [10] - Recurrent item There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Meetings and events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 22 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
Out of pocket
[edit ]Hiyas! I'm going to be especially out of pocket for a day or so. It's possible I will be able to check in a bit, but I can't promise to do anything of substance during this period. Best to all. Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 06:50, 27 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2026)
[edit ] Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Telecommunications in Kazakhstan • Spoken language Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 December 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions [reply ] |
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There’s no need
[edit ]to take seriously any of the users who try to auto-nuke bios they choose to see as "went to one Olympics and didn’t win" and who don’t bother assessing any of those such articles’ individual merits. Indeed, treating it as the disruptive anti-creation illegitimate deletionism it is, may be the only way to get them to stop! Kingsif (talk) 00:01, 30 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
- I disagree. My approach is the standard approach, and should be enough to inform. WP:AGF is a policy, not a suggestion. Stefen Tower Huddle • Handiwerk 00:06, 30 December 2025 (UTC) [reply ]
This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2026)
[edit ] Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Outpost (military) • Telecommunications in Kazakhstan Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 January 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • Opt-out instructions [reply ] |
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