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Tech News 2025, week 52
by Sandister Tei 22 Dec '25

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Tech News 2025, week 51
by Sandister Tei 15 Dec '25

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Tech News 2025, week 50
by Sandister Tei 08 Dec '25

08 Dec '25

Latest *tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/50> are available. *Weekly highlight* - Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Two-factor_authenti…> (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_Safety_and_Integr…> 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 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_l…> feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T410469> 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) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/user:Trizek_(WMF)>. - Last week, the Search Platform team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Search_Platform> added transliterated <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Transliteration> 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T127003> 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T375215> 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 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409112> about the project. - Later this week, the Reader Growth team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Growth> will launch a mobile web experiment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Growth/WE3…> 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. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409485> - The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikip…>, 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. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411238> - View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…>. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T341281> *Updates for technical contributors* - Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeat…> will have CodeMirror <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror> as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CodeEditor>. With this, the linters <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CodeMirror…> will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373711> - Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey <https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/552643>, 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. [5] <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> - There is no new MediaWiki version this week. *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_d…> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/50> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambass…>.*

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Tech News 2025, week 49
by Sandister Tei 01 Dec '25

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