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Tech News: 2025-34

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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

• Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [1]
• An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [2]
• An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [3]
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:) [4]
  • a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:) [5]
  • a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:) [6]
  • a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:) [7]
  • a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:) [8]
•   View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

•   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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User:DeltaQuadBot hasn't listed usernames on Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention/Bot for over 24 hours. Secretlondon (talk) 19:43, 22 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Apparently I was out of compliance. phab:T400119 - it is now fixed. I'll have to grab my other ones later this weekend. -- Amanda (she/her) 20:23, 22 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for fixing it. Secretlondon (talk) 09:57, 24 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-35

Latest comment: 3 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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

•     Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
• On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [19]
• Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [20]
• Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [21][22]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [23]
•   View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [24]
•   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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