MediaWiki-l March 2026

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MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2026.02
by Kartik Mistry 02 Apr '26

02 Apr '26

We would like to announce the release of MediaWiki Language Extension Bundle 2026.02. This bundle is compatible with *MediaWiki 1.45.0*. It requires *PHP >= 8.1.0*. The next MLEB is expected to be released in 6 months after *MediaWiki 1.46 release*. If there are important bug fixes, we will do an intermediate release. Please give us your feedback at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:MLEB. - Download: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2026.02.tar… - sha256sum: 297e6ca2b62615db17b614021cf805e875dd10d2f03e81c222431fd2edb6ebf4 - Signature: https://translatewiki.net/mleb/MediaWikiLanguageExtensionBundle-2026.02.tar… *Quick links* - Installation instructions are at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MLEB - Announcements of new releases will be posted to a mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki-i18n.lists.wikimedia.… - Report bugs to: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/1464 Highlights Babel - Localisation and maintenance updates only. cldr - Update to cldr 48. - Localisation and maintenance updates. Translate - Removed support for Yandex machine translation service. - Mark Echo extension dependency as optional. This is only required if Message group subscription feature is enabled. (T389998 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T389998>) - Require permission to create translations of empty categories. (T390348 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T390348>) - Enable subpage syntax based search in Special:SearchTranslations. ( T405607 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T405607>) - Security fix: Ensure session information is set in jobs. (T399627 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399627>) - Check DisabledTargetLanguages and group configuration for disabled languages to check for reason. (T402132 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402132>) - Add hook to control the state of title translation on Special:PageTranslation (T401874 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401874>) - Fix empty proofread section on Special:Translate when moving from untranslated tab. (T253017 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253017>) - Don't display unusable shortcuts on Special:Translate (T406826 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406826>) - Fix fatal error when a message bundle page is empty (T401348 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401348>) - Force-load the translation unit editor if saving fails (T345987 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T345987>) - Make it clearer how to edit "translations" into the source language ( T393515 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T393515>) - Block external attempts to move translatable pages and message bundles (T370714 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370714>) - Display all validation errors when using the legacy editor (T409665 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409665>) UniversalLanguageSelector - The languagesearch API has moved to MediaWiki core with no changes to its signature. The Universal Language Selector will maintain the code for legacy compatibility until the next MLEB release, at which point it will be removed. - Localisation and maintenance updates. Full release notes are available at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Language_Extension_Bundle/2026.02 -- Kartik Mistry

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Security and maintenance release: 1.43.7 / 1.44.4 / 1.45.2
by Sam Reed 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

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Removing the PHP response format of Action APIs
by Amir Sarabadani 31 Mar '26

31 Mar '26

Hello, The PHP response format [1] has been deprecated in favor of json format for more than ten years <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=API:Data_formats&diff=prev&oldi…>now. The usage of it is extremely low (0.17% which mostly are scrapers loading links or examples). In comparison, The xml format that was also deprecated for more than ten years now still gets 18 times more requests than the PHP format. It is now time to pull the plug. We will drop the format in a month (around May 1, 2026). You can follow the work or comment (for example if you need more time) in T118538 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T118538>. [1] for example: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo&siprop=gene… Best -- Amir (he/him)

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SVWP title DOM differ from displaytitle
by Viktoria Hillerud 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Hi! We are working on the Wikispeech extension and have run into an issue on Swedish Wikipedia (svwp) where the page title DOM seems different both from the *displayTitle* returned by the API and from what we see on other wikis. For example, if we query: *https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&page=Apa&prop=displaytitle&formatversion=2 <https://sv.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&format=json&page=Apa&prop=d…>* we get: *{"title":"Apa","pageid":3877894,"displaytitle":"Apa"}}* However, in the actual DOM on svwp, the title appears wrapped differently, for example: *Apa + editsection span* So it adds an extra **.. What confuses us is that this seems to behave differently from other wikis we have tested, such as enwp, where the title DOM appears as the *displayTitle* structure. Is there something specific about svwp that causes the page title DOM to be wrapped differently from other wikis, or has there been any updates regarding the structure? Kind regards, *Viktoria Hillerud Ahlbäck* *Developer* Wikimedia Sverige (WMSE)

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Security pre-release announcement: 1.43.7 / 1.44.4 / 1.45.2
by Sam Reed 30 Mar '26

30 Mar '26

Hi all, Tomorrow we will be issuing a security and maintenance release to all supported branches of MediaWiki. The new releases will be: - 1.43.7 - 1.44.4 - 1.45.2 This will also resolve security issues in bundled extensions, along with bug fixes included for maintenance reasons. These security issues also affect many unsupported versions of MediaWiki. We will make the fixes available in the respective release branches and master in git. Tarballs will be available for the above mentioned point releases as well. A summary of some of the security fixes that have gone into non-bundled MediaWiki extensions will also follow later. As a reminder, MediaWiki 1.39 became EOL in December 2025 and MediaWiki 1.42 became EOL in June 2025. More information on these timelines can be viewed on the version lifecycle page at [1]. [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Version_lifecycle

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problem upgrade mediawiki from 1.42.1 to other
by hdyugoplastika＠gmail.com 03 Mar '26

03 Mar '26

Hello I have a problem to upgrade from ver 1.42.1 to other: I have tried to 1.42.7, to 1.42.2 but nothing. The upgrade seems to work but: 1) when i try to add new image or file the file are saved in old version images dir 2) from special pages the version is old one the update command execution don't show error This is the installation dir situation: /var/www/html/wiki -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 9662 Jun 7 2017 favicon.ico -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 6065 Oct 8 2024 PLUTO_logo_135.png -rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache apache 2001 Sep 19 2024 pluto_logo.png -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 144 Sep 27 2024 .htaccess -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 1056 Feb 25 10:59 index.html drwxr-xr-x. 15 apache apache 4096 Sep 25 2024 mediawiki-1.26.4 drwxr-xr-x. 14 apache apache 4096 Dec 12 2024 mediawiki-1.35.14 drwxr-xr-x. 14 apache apache 4096 Feb 25 17:13 mediawiki-1.42.1 drwxr-xr-x. 14 apache apache 4096 Feb 25 16:22 mediawiki-1.42.2 drwxr-xr-x. 14 apache apache 4096 Feb 25 12:16 mediawiki-1.42.7 drwxr-xr-x. 14 apache apache 4096 Feb 25 14:32 mediawiki-1.43.6-notwork -rw-r--r--. 1 apache apache 2823 Jun 7 2017 style.css lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 16 Feb 25 16:34 wiki -> mediawiki-1.42.1 I have tried to update to 1.43.6 but from "Special Pages" I many error about pat h: the path is old one ( /var/www/html/wikinet/mediawiki-1.42.1/* ) Please, could You help me? Cheers, yugo

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