Wikitech-ambassadors June 2025

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Tech News 2025, week 27
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 01 Jul '25

01 Jul '25

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Tech News 2025, week 26
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 24 Jun '25

24 Jun '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/2025/26> are available. *Weekly highlight* - This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025_RecentChanges_Langua…>, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025_RecentChanges_Langua…>. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964> *Updates for editors* - Last week, temporary accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…> were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Acco…> about the project. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T340001> - Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_check#Multi_che…> to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Edit_check#Reference…> within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows <https://analytics.wikimedia.org/published/reports/editing/multi_check_ab_te…> that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395519> - A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396903>. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update. - View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…>. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T364023> *Updates for technical contributors* - Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart>. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Transforms>. [5] <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart/Project/U…> - The all_links variable in AbuseFilter <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseFilter> is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391811> - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.7> *In depth* - The latest quarterly Growth newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Growth/Newsletters/34> is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration. *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/2025/26> • 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 25
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 17 Jun '25

17 Jun '25

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Tech News 2025, week 24
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '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/2025/24> are available. *Weekly highlight* - The Trust and Safety Product team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product> is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…> on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Trust_and_Safety_Product/…>. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Trust_and_Safety_Product/Temporary_Acco…>, and join a CEE Catch Up <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:CEE_Catch_up_Nr._10_(June_2025)> this Tuesday. *Updates for editors* - [image: Wishlist item] The watchlist expiry <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Watchlist_expiry> feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlis…> also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265716> - The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/19> have already received this design change, a few <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T379264> will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on *Diff* <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/05/02/making-talk-pages-better-for-everyone/>. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-…> ("Show discussion activity"). [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T319146>[3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T392121> - Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T358853> during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386492> - This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025_RecentChanges_Langua…>, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025_RecentChanges_Langua…>. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964> - [image: Recurrent item] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…> . *Updates for technical contributors* - AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T369611>. - Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/+/2e4ab14aa15bb9…> to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_r…>, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131911>[7] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T380122> - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.5> *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/2025/24> • 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 23
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '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/2025/23> are available. *Weekly highlight* - The Chart extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Chart> is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Graph>. *Updates for editors* - It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Citoid/Enabling_Citoid_on…>. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json> page (example diff <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Diff/6969653/7646386>). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347823> are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T384709> - [image: Recurrent item] View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…> . *Updates for technical contributors* - Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Bot_passwords> or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/OAuth/Owner-only_consumers> are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016 <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…>. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T395205> - From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T381537> - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.4> *Meetings and events* - Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/GLAM_Wiki_2025> are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/GLAM_Wiki_2025/Scholarsh…>. Scholarship applications close on June 7th. *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/2025/23> • 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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