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Tech News: 2025-07
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The 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. [1]
- 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.
Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion
,prefers-reduced-transparency
,prefers-contrast
, andforced-colors
). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [2]View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [3]
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. [4]
- 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. [5] - 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. [6]
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.
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"T:DAB" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect T:DAB has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 February 13 § T:DAB until a consensus is reached. Utopes (talk / cont) 13:09, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Submitted page for AfC review.
[edit]Review is pending. 93.195.126.246 (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
- 93.195.126.246, it was rejected as contrary to the purpose of Wikipedia - see what Wikipedia is not. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:43, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Akorede Adams (21:48, 15 February 2025)
[edit]How can I write my biography and make it public --Akorede Adams (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- Akorede Adams, as per WP:AUTOBIO, please do not write a Wikipedia article about yourself - it will be a waste of everyone involved's time. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:32, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-08
[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
- Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the
Special:Homepage
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 atSpecial: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

- 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. [7]
- 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. [8]
- 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 Special: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. [9]
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [10]
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. [11]
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. [12][13]
- Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that
mw.Uri
is deprecated. Tools requiringmw.Uri
must explicitly declaremediawiki.Uri
as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser nativeURL
API soon. [14]
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Question from Jamelia Busisiwe Baloyi (13:52, 19 February 2025)
[edit]How to apply For metro Police --Jamelia Busisiwe Baloyi (talk) 13:52, 19 February 2025 (UTC)
Hi! I created some edits in sandbox. I hit publish but they did not go live. Do you know if I need to do something to make it go live? --Evaninco (talk) 22:05, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- Evaninco, it looks like you managed to edit the article properly. Let me know if you have any further questions. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:04, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Kanada liru (23:15, 20 February 2025)
[edit]Hy --Kanada liru (talk) 23:16, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Kanada liru (23:17, 20 February 2025)
[edit]How do i write my own article and to have a picture --Kanada liru (talk) 23:17, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- Kanada liru, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! For adding a picture, see Wikipedia:Uploading images and Help:Pictures. Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 10:05, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
- or maybe firstly pls teach coz am new Kanada liru (talk) 14:28, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
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Question from DoubleOhh7 (04:20, 22 February 2025)
[edit]wanted to know how to edit and update a page with a corresponding death date that will link correctly --DoubleOhh7 (talk) 04:20, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- DoubleOhh7, what page in particular, and what do you mean by
that will link correctly
? In general, it's as simple as replacing the old date with the new one, though I can give more specific help if you tell me which page you want to update the date for. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:55, 22 February 2025 (UTC)- I was looking to make another clean edit of course to this page
- Chō Kōran
- by updated the death date information as I has made one of my first edits by adding it to the main section of the following page
- 1879
- it went from date unknown to the date listed.
- I noticed that the top right square on the Chō Kōran page is not updated and wanted to try the edit but noticed it was a bit more than I know how to do. DoubleOhh7 (talk) 14:35, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- DoubleOhh7, it looks updated to me. To edit using the Visual Editor, just open the editing screen, click on the infobox (the top right square, as you called it), and click on edit. Then change the death date from
to whatever you want to change it to (though as I said, it already appears correct to me). — Qwerfjkltalk 14:44, 22 February 2025 (UTC){{death year and age|1879|1804}}
- thank you for the update. DoubleOhh7 (talk) 16:05, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
- DoubleOhh7, it looks updated to me. To edit using the Visual Editor, just open the editing screen, click on the infobox (the top right square, as you called it), and click on edit. Then change the death date from
Upcoming Language Community Meeting (Feb 28th, 14:00 UTC) and Newsletter
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We’re excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC! If you’d like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis, and collaborate on solutions. In our last meeting, we covered topics like developing language keyboards, creating the Moore Wikipedia, and updates from the language support track at Wiki Indaba.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda items to the document here.
Also, we wanted to highlight that the sixth edition of the Language & Internationalization newsletter (January 2025) is available here: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter/2025/January. This newsletter provides updates from the October–December 2024 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter on its wiki page: Wikimedia Language and Product Localization/Newsletter.
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Question from DoubleOhh7 (06:15, 23 February 2025)
[edit]How do I create a citation for a weblink. it is currently live on page 1809 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1809 looking at February 20 ‘United States v. Peters’ I have already added the website from a quick google search but am new to being able to site a linked wikilink and then make sure it is cited down below. any help would be greatly appreciated. --DoubleOhh7 (talk) 06:15, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
- DoubleOhh7, for the visual editor, click on the cite button to cite a source. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:32, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Radiolaloma (20:48, 23 February 2025)
[edit]Hello, i want to write a bout online radio. --Radiolaloma (talk) 20:48, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Radiolaloma, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! Qwerfjkltalk 16:04, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
My Qwerfjkl (bot) notification
[edit]That was via Huggle. Did Qwerfjkl (bot) create Draft:A Title Editing:JPEG or is there (yet another) issue with Huggle? If you know, I would like to report the problem. Probably will need to ask an admin. Sorry about that mis-post. Cheers Adakiko (talk) 21:32, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
- Adakiko, it's because of task 15 of my bot. From the page logs, we can see my bot didn't create the draft, though it probably edited it almost directly afterwards. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:42, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-09
[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
- Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using Special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [15]
- 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. [16][17][18]
- One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (
wikt:sat:
) [19] 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. [20]
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.
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Mariano Vivanco
[edit]Hi there - Mario here - Studio Manager at Mariano Vivanco. I noticed you were in the history tab for the article on Mariano Vivanco. Would you please be so kind as to help with adding more? I've added some source materials in the talk tab but it has yet to be added. I can't seem to do it because I get flagged for being part of Mariano's organization (COI). Many thanks, Mario Marioatphotomv (talk) 11:00, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Marioatphotomv, I have never edited the article. My bot has edited the talk page, which is what I assume you are referring to. I suggest you follow the advice given to you on the article's talk page. Qwerfjkltalk 16:52, 25 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Chrossland on Lezianos (19:48, 26 February 2025)
[edit]Hello why i can't make a Wikipedia pages?😂 --Chrossland (talk) 19:48, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
- Chrossland, you need an account of at least 4 days and 10 edits. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:37, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Kanada liru on Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts (19:58, 26 February 2025)
[edit]Hy where do i create my own article --Kanada liru (talk) 19:58, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Kanada liru, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 21:38, 26 February 2025 (UTC)
- am done with my first auditing and all is ready i just dont know where to post because am just new Kanada liru (talk) 16:29, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- Kanada liru, see Wikipedia:Your first article. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:00, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- Am done reading all of the graphs and am ready to 0ubpish my mine where do i do that Kanada liru (talk) 17:45, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- Kanada liru, what do you mean by
reading all of the graphs
? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:50, 27 February 2025 (UTC)- i mean am done reading all of the long sentences formed as a graph Kanada liru (talk) 20:42, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- Kanada liru, what do you mean by
- Am done reading all of the graphs and am ready to 0ubpish my mine where do i do that Kanada liru (talk) 17:45, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- Kanada liru, see Wikipedia:Your first article. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:00, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- am done with my first auditing and all is ready i just dont know where to post because am just new Kanada liru (talk) 16:29, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
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Question from Owasim ton on Mind control (06:43, 1 March 2025)
[edit]Please help me --Owasim ton (talk) 06:43, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Owasim ton, with what? — Qwerfjkltalk 22:13, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
How do I write about a biography of someone I know --Said004 (talk) 06:02, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Said004, the advice at Wikipedia:Autobiography probably applies here (even though it isn't technically an autobiography). — Qwerfjkltalk 09:41, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
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Article "U.S. Economy and Economic Regions"
[edit]@Qwerfjkl This article was created by me. Does English follow Wikipedia's rules? Please do not delete or delete any article I created! Thanks. Happy editing! (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 14:11, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
- @Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, it seems to duplicate the article Economy of the United States. Is there a reason why you haven't edited that article instead? — Qwerfjkltalk 14:16, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- I did not want to repeat it, I created a new article. Thanks. (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 14:20, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
- @Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, Wikipedia will not have two articles on the same subject. You are wasting your time on your new article. Qwerfjkltalk 14:25, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- @QwerfjklWhy do you say that, is this article two? Thanks. (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 14:27, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
- @Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, there are two articles, Draft:US economy and economic regions which you wrote and Economy of the United States. Your article is redundant. Qwerfjkltalk 14:29, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- Understandable. If not, I will create another article. Thank u. Happy editing. (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 15:11, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
- @Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, there are two articles, Draft:US economy and economic regions which you wrote and Economy of the United States. Your article is redundant. Qwerfjkltalk 14:29, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- @QwerfjklWhy do you say that, is this article two? Thanks. (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 14:27, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
- @Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, Wikipedia will not have two articles on the same subject. You are wasting your time on your new article. Qwerfjkltalk 14:25, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- I did not want to repeat it, I created a new article. Thanks. (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 14:20, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
Article "Classification of world countries according to socio-economic development"
[edit]This article was created by me. The article is written from a neutral point of view. Thanks. Happy editing! (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 16:21, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, this reads more like an essay than a wikipedia article - see WP:NOTESSAY.Nevermind. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:47, 2 March 2025 (UTC)- I didn't know again, I wrote from the 10th grade "Geography" book. I just entered the words from the book. Thank you. (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 17:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
- @Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, That is copyright infringement and plagiarism. I suggest you tag the article for deletion, because it is not suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia (see WP:NOT). Otherwise, you will need to remove all of the infringing text (which I understand to be all of it). Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- @QwerfjklYes, should I remove all text from the article? Thanks (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 18:25, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
- @Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27, That is copyright infringement and plagiarism. I suggest you tag the article for deletion, because it is not suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia (see WP:NOT). Otherwise, you will need to remove all of the infringing text (which I understand to be all of it). Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- I didn't know again, I wrote from the 10th grade "Geography" book. I just entered the words from the book. Thank you. (Wikiloves Sherzodbek 2008 03.27 (talk) 17:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC))
Question from Blessed to Bless Life Ministries (01:16, 3 March 2025)
[edit]How can I edit my profile please? --Blessed to Bless Life Ministries (talk) 01:16, 3 March 2025 (UTC)