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Tech News: 2025-11
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. [1][2]
- 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.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- 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.
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Dialogue
@CFA, it’s disappointing to see the tone of your responses in the discussion you initiated (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#User:Paradygmaty). I’m reaching out with a friendly hand because I genuinely want to engage as a discussion partner, not just a subject of debate. I believe we can approach this constructively and in good faith. If you’re open to that, I’m more than willing to have a productive conversation. Paradygmaty (talk) 15:33, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hey @CFA, just following up on my message from yesterday. I’d still like to engage in a constructive discussion if you’re open to it. Let me know what you think! Paradygmaty (talk) 19:24, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- You should try addressing the concerns raised in your own words. No one is interested in talking to AI. C F A 20:02, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- I assure you, these are my own words and my own thoughts. If you disagree with my points, that’s perfectly fine, but dismissing a genuine attempt at dialogue in this way is neither constructive nor particularly courteous. I approached you in good faith, and I’d expect at least a minimum of the same in return Paradygmaty (talk) 21:12, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- Paradygmaty, you need to actually address the concerns raised in the thread. You replied with a vague wall of text that was obviously generated by ChatGPT. It didn't answer anything. In fact, you blatantly lied, saying "
I am equally shocked that CFA has immediately resorted to accusations of vandalism—an extremely serious charge that I find unwarranted and unfair.
" — ironically, it was you who accused FromCzech of vandalism. Do you acknowledge your controversial page moves and mass nominations were disruptive? Do you acknowledge you were following FromCzech around? C F A 15:59, 14 March 2025 (UTC)- I reached out to you in good faith, yet your responses have been consistently aggressive and accusatory. That’s frustrating, because I genuinely wanted to have a constructive discussion. Instead, I find myself being labeled and misrepresented. Ironically, while you accuse me of ‘following’ someone, it seems you’re the one fixated on my actions. I’d prefer to focus on resolving the actual issue rather than engaging in personal attacks - are you willing to do the same Paradygmaty (talk) 16:33, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- Your actions have been disruptive. You need to acknowledge this and apologize to FromCzech – that's how you resolve the issue. C F A 16:38, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- It seems like you're more focused on targeting me than engaging in a real discussion. If this is how you prefer to interact, then I’ll step away. Take care Paradygmaty (talk) 17:01, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- Your actions have been disruptive. You need to acknowledge this and apologize to FromCzech – that's how you resolve the issue. C F A 16:38, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- I reached out to you in good faith, yet your responses have been consistently aggressive and accusatory. That’s frustrating, because I genuinely wanted to have a constructive discussion. Instead, I find myself being labeled and misrepresented. Ironically, while you accuse me of ‘following’ someone, it seems you’re the one fixated on my actions. I’d prefer to focus on resolving the actual issue rather than engaging in personal attacks - are you willing to do the same Paradygmaty (talk) 16:33, 14 March 2025 (UTC)
- Paradygmaty, you need to actually address the concerns raised in the thread. You replied with a vague wall of text that was obviously generated by ChatGPT. It didn't answer anything. In fact, you blatantly lied, saying "
- I assure you, these are my own words and my own thoughts. If you disagree with my points, that’s perfectly fine, but dismissing a genuine attempt at dialogue in this way is neither constructive nor particularly courteous. I approached you in good faith, and I’d expect at least a minimum of the same in return Paradygmaty (talk) 21:12, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
- You should try addressing the concerns raised in your own words. No one is interested in talking to AI. C F A 20:02, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #193 is out: Upcoming NLG meeting, Recent Changes in the software
There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we invite you to the next NLG SIG Meeting, that will take place on Tuesday March 18 at 16 UTC, 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) 16:39, 15 March 2025 (UTC)
Impersonation.
Hey, someone is impersonating you at User:CFA II. Just wanted to let you know. It was BuickCenturyDriver. Codename AD talk 17:44, 16 March 2025 (UTC)
Feedback request: Wikipedia style and naming request for comment
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This week's article for improvement (week 12, 2025)
Hello, CFA. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Rake (tool) • Kerosene Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 March 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2025-12
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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.
Updates for editors
- The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
- 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. [3]
- 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. [4]
- 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. [5]
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.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Books & Bytes – Issue 67
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025
- East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
- Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon
- Tech tip: Suggest page
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