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Tech News: 2025-45

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 will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start).
• For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Add topic" or "Reply" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.
• Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.
• Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.
• Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish!
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.

Updates for technical contributors

• Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working.
• On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Kent Parker

Hello @StefenTower. I recently created the article Kent Parker which you kindly reviewed and edited. I've made a number of revisions to make the tone less like a resume. I'm hoping you could take another look and let me know if I could remove the template. As far as meeting Wikipedia:Notability, I think I've provided adequate citations. If nothing else, the patents seem like they should be enough. If not, what other suggestions do you have? Thank you Variety312 (talk) 22:52, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you as well for improvements. However, I find that the tags continue to apply. There is very little WP:SIGCOV for his professional career - really, just one article that I found in the mix, which may be perceived by readers as a lack of notability. Also, the content about his professional career is structured in resume-like sectioning, per company, when, combined with the lack of SIGCOV, comes off as a resume/CV. We need to see a lot more WP:SECONDARY coverage of the subject at these positions; otherwise, he's a non-notable business executive (and most are non-notable, like most in any given profession). The bottom line is that if the article was submitted to WP:AFD, I'm not confident the article would be kept as of this moment. Stefen 𝕋ower_{'s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 16:37, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #225 is out: First round of voting for naming the wiki for abstract content closed; Calling for Wiktionary functions; Embedded Wikifunctions on Bengali Wikipedia and seven more Wiktionaries

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we update you on the closing of the first phase of the naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we introduce a possible implementation of Wikifunctions for Wiktionaries, we talk about our latest outreach events, and we take a look at the latest Type and software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:06, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 46, 2025)

Various crop seeds Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Crop Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Performance • 99-year lease Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 November 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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Tech News: 2025-46

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

Updates for editors

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

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

Updates for technical contributors

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

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:36, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #226 is out: Getting ready for second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content; Rewriting the backend: Why Rust?

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we summarise current discussion regarding the naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we discuss how we are rewriting the backend, we ask for help in substituting a function, we suggest you the recordings of Wikifunctions-related sessions at the WikidataCon 2025, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also we remind you that the next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting will be held on November 18, at 16:00 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:42, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:1847 disestablishments in Indiana

A tag has been placed on Category:1847 disestablishments in Indiana indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 19:48, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

I created this by mistake as I wasn't paying close enough attention to the establishment/disestablishment years in 5th Indiana Volunteers. Please delete. Stefen 𝕋ower_{'s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 19:54, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Message

Stay off my talk page. Viriditas (talk) 20:24, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

I think you may prefer that response to your baseless personal attacks than having this discussion at WP:ANI. In my 59 years of life, I have never been so viciously attacked than you did me, after I completed a lot of research that YOU requested. Never. And it was baseless and brutally unfair, all because you cannot handle the possibility that a photograph from nearly 90 years ago may be involved in a case of yellow journalism.

Now, you stay off my talk page. You are a proven brutal, un-wiki individual who does not assume good faith, and I dare say, does not belong here in our movement. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 20:31, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

To wit, this individual compared me to "Fox News" and a demonic person who declared a school massacre of young children was fake, and then expects me to continue discussion about original research on-wiki, where it does not belong. This was very deserving of an ANI case.

And to this individual, I ask at this point to cease the harassment on this talk page, all because we have different opinions about a f**king photo. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 20:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

By the way, thank you for the additional evidence of PA (see the edit summary). I shall keep it in my lockbox for safekeeping until one day needed. At any rate, the removal of your baseless attacks is wise because of the grossly unfair maligning of a WikiProject that came along with your brutality toward me. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 21:07, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 47, 2025)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Kidnapping Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Crop • Performance Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 November 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2025-47

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

• The Reader Experience team is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
• Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau (s:min:)
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
• Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 71

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Objectivity is to Assume Good Faith

State and regional pride may affect a person's perspective in such a way that they become blind to facts even when they have been suppressed by willful ignorance. I reverted two of your edits on the Kentucky Colonel article because according to state commissioning records at KDLA the first commissions were issued by McCreary in 1875, not W.O. Bradley in 1894 who was not even Governor yet. Further information presented in court suggest that there is no starting point in 1813 and that the HOKC has not operated in good faith by introducing a fictional backstory (i.e. 1813 with Governor Shelby and Chas. Todd). Considering as much they should probably be removed from the article as they have compounded upon a myth, see the Historical Markers at Boonesborough. Civilian Officer (talk) 23:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

One of the most notable commissions made by McCreary was Henry Watterson, Editor-in-Chief of the Louisville Courier Journal. Civilian Officer (talk) 23:07, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

You are injecting straight-up nonsense into the article. At the very least, you should do a better job of adding only the parts that make some encyclopedic sense. There is no "1833s" and "Kentucy" was not misspelled that way in the provided source. By the way, this discussion belongs on the article's talk page. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 23:32, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

I did not write "Kentucy", dig deeper it was not my edit. I see reviewing the history of the article, there was some compelling historical references made in the past. I did not put "1833s" either (not my edit either), but I see that 1833 may be when the title was first applied historically. Have fun with it, whether you realize it or not it is against the law in the United States to create (or support) a false designation of origin. I am done and disgusted. Civilian Officer (talk) 00:10, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

For the record, I did not make any statement or support any such thing as a "false designation origin". Note WP:THREAT. I just reverted a poor set of edits that need to be redone more carefully. Since we have no WP:DEADLINE, we can wait for the work to be properly done, if it needs to be done at all. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 17:55, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Also, as I stated on your talk page, the edit history does show you wrote those nonsensical portions of text into the article, so there's that as well. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 18:05, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

@StefenTower Before I touched the article the nonsensical stuff was already there (see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kentucky_Colonel&oldid=1322426351) so again you are wrong and still have not read the references I used. You rolled back good edits. Civilian Officer (talk) 18:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

I already rechecked this, and you added the nonsensical bits. I rolled back messy work. See your edits here and here. The only thing I got wrong was the misspelling of Kentucky. You misspelled it as Kentuky, not Kentucy.

Instead of debating this, you could be doing a more careful re-edit of additions. I have not stopped you from doing that. Reverts are not forever in Wikipedia articles. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 18:46, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

@StefenTower I did not misspell it as "Kentuky" or "Kentucy" either, the ONLY thing I did wrong was change 1850s to 1833s instead of 1830s or 1833, which is when the term "Kentucky Colonel" first appeared in a US newspaper. All the other 30+ edits I made were good edits and double checked. For my tiny mistake of leaving the letter 's' in place you rolled back good edits. Civilian Officer (talk) 19:12, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

When multiple aspects of nonsense are spotted, a full revert of material is the prudent thing to do, because if a couple aspects are nonsensical, that suggests additional problems. Therefore, I did the right thing. Now, the right thing for you to do is redo the work and make sure you are not injecting nonsense like before. Or leave it up to other editors to handle. There is nothing else to discuss here. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:18, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #227 is out: Second round of voting for naming the wiki with language-independent content; Sharing function calls

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we announce the start of the second phase of the naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we share the results of the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change contest, we share the recording of the last NLG SIG meeting, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:11, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 48, 2025)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Emergency management Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Kidnapping • Crop Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 November 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2025-48

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

• Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for cxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for счастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week.
• Later this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set.
• Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey.
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for format=xml&xlst={stylesheet} will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026).
• The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
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MediaWiki message delivery 15:54, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Garret Lewis

Hey, Stefen! Maybe you missed it, but the assertion about the public assessment of Lewis' character is supported by the citation just prior to that sentence. Newspapers are public statements. The writer said he could talk long about how trustworthy Lewis was. I don't mean to start an edit war with you by removing the citation. I'm saying this here on your talk page because it's too long for an edit summary. Please let me know if you disagree and one of us can revert my edit. Oona Wikiwalker (talk) 22:23, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

If a citation you already have backs it up, edit the article to show that. It's as simple as that. Stefen 𝕋ower_{'s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 22:36, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #228 is out: Vote on the new wiki name! Finishing each other’s sentences

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we update you on our naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we discuss our progress on sentence creation with functions, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers' Corner will be held on December 1, at 18:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:38, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Crazy day

Hi. After my last reply at Wikipedia talk:Database reports I started wondering why I just didn't do what I always used to do all the time before we had the daily updates like here for example. I believe that it is what you suggested as the correct action if needed, right? Why I didn't do exactly that, I don't know, but it really has been a very bizarre day, dealing with the foot of snow, among a few other crazy things, I probably shouldn't have bothered editing today.

I appreciate all you do and thanks for the input. --DB1729^talk 01:15, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, that is the correct action but again, only if really really necessary. The link to regenerate the report usually works, and is pretty much guaranteed to return a clean result, so that is the preferred action. And the most preferred thing of all is letting the report update itself. :)

Re: snow, yuck, I hate it, and I'm sure we'll get our share in Louisville soon enough. But it's a cost in living in a place with seasons. Happy holidays! Stefen 𝕋ower_{'s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 01:50, 30 November 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 49, 2025)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Computer algebra system Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Emergency management • Kidnapping Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 1 December 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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• News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
  Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

• In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
  Plus mammoth mummy sex-change operation completed!

• Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
  And other recent publications about contradictions and retractions.

• Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
  At work on Wikipedia whitewashing. How much should they be paid?

• Traffic report: It's a family affair
  Even in these times there is something to be thankful for!

• Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
  Jimmy Wales and Dan Gardner write a book inspired by Wikipedia. What's in it?

• From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
  The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

• Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
  A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.

• Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
  Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.

• Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
  A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.

• Comix: Madness
  It could happen to anyone.

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Tech News: 2025-49

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Updates for editors

• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
• The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
• Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed.
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:)
  • a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:)

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #229 is out: And the name is Abstract Wikipedia

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we share the final results of the naming contest for Abstract Wikipedia, we share two demos about new Wikifunctions features, we talk about Wikidata components in Wikifunctions, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:02, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 50, 2025)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Judgement 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 •

Tech News: 2025-50

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" 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.
• 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.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

CS1 error on Philip Bilden

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)

This is now resolved as far as I can take it. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 05:18, 11 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #230 is out: How to write better error messages

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.

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Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 12:01, 12 December 2025 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 51, 2025)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Spoken language 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 •

Tech News: 2025-51

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

• 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.

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 externallinks table 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Orlando brown Page

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)

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)

We'll try our best. Lhhscurator (talk) 17:59, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

New userbox idea

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)

Sometimes, when the need is great, you just have to make your own. – Jonesey95 (talk) 06:14, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

Oh, they're easy to make. I was just lettin' off some steam heah. :) Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 06:18, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

The Signpost: 17 December 2025

• Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan
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• In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #231 is out: We wish you a happy new Gregorian year!

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)

Airport route tables

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)

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)

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)

Kentucky Kingdom

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)

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)

This week's article for improvement (week 52, 2025)

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 •

Tech News: 2025-52

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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 with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid.
• 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)

Out of pocket

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)

This week's article for improvement (week 1, 2026)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Outpost (military) 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 •

There’s no need

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)

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)

This week's article for improvement (week 2, 2026)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Battle of Messana 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 •

8 January 2026

Hello! Remember me from TheManTheyCallAdam? What if I tell you that there is a similar user, right now, damaging Wikipedia with WP:OR and uncited content, even if he is warned several times. And what if I tell you, that I already reported him twice at WP:ANI with dozens of examples of such edits of that user, they both got to nowhere, and he's still continuing. When I make another report at WP:ANI, can I get you check these edits and decide what should be done (just like Adam, he doesn't reply to anything)? I'd be really happy with your answer, Jako96 (talk) 20:47, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Sure, I'd be happy to assist. Let me know when you report. Coincidentally, I may also have another candidate for ANI soon myself, someone injecting a series of problematic edits into a good-rated article while being radio-silent and using temporary accounts for reverts. What a fun site this is sometimes. :) Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 21:02, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! I can also take a look at your problem whenever you ask. Well, yes, messing with such people is an enjoyable thing sometimes. Jako96 (talk) 22:16, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 3, 2026)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Mormon pornography Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Battle of Messana • Outpost (military) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 January 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2026-03

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Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

Updates for editors

• As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish.
• The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13.

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, Stefen

I've noticed all the help and corrections you've made on all the editing I've doing on Frances Farmer's page. I've been trying to learn from your corrections. For example, I notice we don't (do not) contract unless it's a direct quote? Why is that, I can't help but wonder? But I'll (I will) try hard to avoid contractions in the future. I also notice a dash correction but that one I haven't been able to figure out how to do myself on my keyboard. Just wondering if you could explain how I do that - when you have the time, of course! Thanks!

Cheers, Rand Poiluj (talk) 23:24, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi. I sometimes link to something that explains the change in Wikipedia's Manual of Style. For contractions, it's MOS:CONTRACTION. The overall idea is that we write in WP:FORMAL language for an encyclopedia.

As far as dashes are concerned, the Wikipedia editor provides the en-dash and em-dash among other symbols. I don't use the keyboard for dashes, as the sequence is too difficult to recall. But I keep them around in my notes app or clipboard for easy access if necessary. Hope this helps. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 03:03, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

It does help. Thanks! Poiluj (talk) 19:11, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 15 January 2026

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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #232 is out: 25 years of Wikipedia

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In the first issue of 2026, we celebrate our incredible milestone of 25 years of Wikipedia and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:04, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

This week's article for improvement (week 4, 2026)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is: Hope chest Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mormon pornography • Battle of Messana Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 19 January 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •