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[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
- Editors can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [1]
- Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page. [2]
- Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named
MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-accountand use a value defined inMediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available. [3] 
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Gadgets can now include
.vuefiles. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module now exists to load Codex icons. [4][5] - Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. [6]
- Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
- Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [7]
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
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MediaWiki message delivery 03:36, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
Category:User pages with invalid language codes
[edit]Hi Jarekt - I'm asking you as the creator of this category, but feel free to point me elsewhere. I see it's largely populated with user talk pages that have a substed {{Cdw}} template. It appears that the issue is |lang={{#invoke:Caller title|lang|base=Template:Cdw}}
, which seems to generate the page title rather than a language code. It is generated by the TRANSLATIONLANGUAGE magic word, but that's as far as my skills take me - I'm not experienced with the translation templates. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:43, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
- Pi.1415926535, The purpose of this category was to unclutter Category:Pages with invalid language codes, (see this discussion page) after creation of
{{#dir}}magic word. We had no intention of fixing user pages, but #dir adds some category to all bad pages so we separated user pages, so it is easier to locate templates and other pages we cared about. --Jarekt (talk) 21:27, 8 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-33
[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
- The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [8]
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
- The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [9]
- Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [10]
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage. [11]
- Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the
mw.addWarning()function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. [12] - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:25, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-34
[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
- 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. [13]
- 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. [14]
- 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. [15]
- Five new wikis have been created:
- 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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:33, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
Bot to auto-replace all instances of manual pasting of same license template
[edit]Do you know if it's possible to have a bot auto-replace all instances of manual pasting of the same wikitext for a license template with a custom license template, specifically this wikitext:
<table style="width:100%; clear:both; margin:0.5em auto; background-color:#f7f8ff; border:2px solid #8888aa; direction: ltr; border-spacing: 8px; padding: 0px;" class="layouttemplate mw-content-ltr" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <tr> <td>[[File:Deepin logo.svg|100px]]</div> <td> {{LangSwitch |en=This is a [[Deepin]] icon {{#if:{{{1|}}}|from the '''{{{1}}}''' theme|}} and is copyright Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. ({{lang|zh-CN|[[:zh:武漢深之度科技有限公司|武漢深之度科技有限公司]]}}), a wholy owned subsidiary of [[:en:UnionTech|UnionTech]] ([[:zh:统信软件|统信软件]]). |zh=這是一個[[Deepin]]圖示， {{#if:{{{1|}}}|來自'''{{{1}}}'''的主題|}}並且版權屬於{{lang|zh-CN|[[:zh:武漢深之度科技有限公司|武漢深之度科技有限公司]]}}，這是[[:zh:统信软件|统信软件]]的全資子公司。 |ja=これは[[Deepin]]のアイコンで、{{#if:{{{1|}}}|'''{{{1}}}'''のテーマからであり、|}}権利は[[:ja:武漢深之度科技有限公司|武漢深之度科技有限公司]]にあります。これは{{lang|zh-CN|[[:ja:统信软件|统信软件]]}}の完全子会社です。 }} </td> <td>[[File:VirtualBox_Linux_Deepin_20.1_LARGE_17_03_2021_11_00_50.png|100px]]</td> </tr> </table> {{GPLv3+}} * see: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-icon-theme/blob/master/LICENSE * https://web.archive.org/web/20240107174806/https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-icon-theme/blob/master/LICENSE
in all occurrences of files in Category:Deepin Icon Theme? They were placed there during a mass upload it seems with no template. Thanks. Waddie96 (talk) 22:39, 22 August 2025 (UTC)
- Waddie96, That should be relatively easy with AutoWikiBrowser if you use a bot account. My AutoWikiBrowser stopped working for some complicated reason, but if you want to give it a try I can help you. VisualFileChange is useful for smaller jobs and you do not need a bot account. Pywikibot/replace might also work, but not easily. You can also request those edits at Commons:Bots/Work requests. --Jarekt (talk) 03:01, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Ok cool. I'll give it a try, I thought I needed special user rights to use AWB? Waddie96 (talk) 03:10, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Waddie96, I gave you AWB permissions. You still can not use the bot mode, what might be needed for few thousands files. I also just tested just tested VisualFileChange and it works fine just one folder at a time. --Jarekt (talk) 03:35, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Awesome! Thanks so much. Waddie96 (talk) 04:52, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Waddie96, I gave you AWB permissions. You still can not use the bot mode, what might be needed for few thousands files. I also just tested just tested VisualFileChange and it works fine just one folder at a time. --Jarekt (talk) 03:35, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Ok cool. I'll give it a try, I thought I needed special user rights to use AWB? Waddie96 (talk) 03:10, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-35
[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
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 aslh; and custom strings inlist-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]- 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. [31]
- Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [32]
- 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. [33][34]
- One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (
wikt:bew:) [35] - 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_newandrc_typeare being removed in favor ofrc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should userc_sourceinstead. 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. [36] - 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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