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Tech News 2025, week 40
by Uzoma Ozurumba 29 Sep '25

29 Sep '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/2025/40> are available. *Weekly highlight* - A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/>. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/321/iterative_improvement…> *Updates for editors* - The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/Updat…> or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CommunityR…> . - As announced on Diff blog <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/09/02/better-detecting-bots-and-replacing-o…>, the production trial of the hCaptcha <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_Safety_and_Integr…> service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ConfirmEdit#Fan…> (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges. - The CampaignEvents <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:CampaignEvents> extension has been deployed <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents/Deploymen…> to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Event_organiz…> . - Sub-referencing <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Su…>, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Su…> on testwiki or on betawiki <https://en.wikipedia.beta.wmcloud.org/wiki/Sub-referencing> as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing#…> or volunteer to become a pilot wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WMDE_Technical_Wishes/Sub-referencing#…> . - On wikis using the Mentorship <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Mentorship> system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship>. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403563> - The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Tone_Check>. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Tone_Check/Mod…>. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test. - The rollout of multiblocks <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Manage_blocks> had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&prefix=sp-…> will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Allmessages&prefix=blo…> in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed. - There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404823> - One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9237> (q:ms: <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/ms:>) [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404698> - [image: Recurrent item] View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…>. For example, the User Info Card <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_Safety_and_Integr…> now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401128> *Updates for technical contributors* - Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:Scribunto/Lua_r…> function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Parser_functions#E…> count once. - A new Unsupported Tools Working Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_A…> has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Product_and_Technology_A…> (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool. - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.21> *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/2025/40> • 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…>.* -- Uzoma Ozurumba (She/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Product and Tech) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UOzurumba_(WMF)

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Tech News 2025, week 39
by Uzoma Ozurumba 23 Sep '25

23 Sep '25

*Weekly highlight* - On September 24th at 15:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1758726000>, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch>. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" <http://listen.hatnote.com/> tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/03/12/hear-that-the-wikis-go-silent-twice-a…> . *Updates for editors* - Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:Mylanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_…> will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Introdu…> and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_…>, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator. - A new parser function <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Magic_words#Technica…> has been added: {{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:ChangeContentModel> of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as *MediaWiki:editinginterface*, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T328254> - Adding or editing a DISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P83438>. - Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Andro…>, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. - [image: Recurrent item] View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…> . *Updates for technical contributors* - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.20> *In depth* - Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Z6011>, quantities <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Z6010> and time <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Z6064> values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ImportingWikidataDatatypesIntoWikif…> and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_…> (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_…> (for geo-coordinates). *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/2025/39> • 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…>.* -- Uzoma Ozurumba (She/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Product and Tech) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UOzurumba_(WMF)

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Server switch and read-only time - September 24
by Eliza Blackorby 16 Sep '25

16 Sep '25

Hello, A server switch will happen on *Wednesday, September 24, at 15:00 UTC*. All wikis will be in read-only mode for a few minutes. We will inform communities as we usually do through Tech News. Also, a banner will be displayed 30 minutes before the event. We need your assistance to inform your communities through local channels. You can link to the information page we usually use: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch. Thank you in advance, Eliza -- Eliza Blackorby Movement Communications Specialist (Product & Tech) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> GMT-4

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Tech News 2025, week 38
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '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/2025/38> are available. *Updates for editors* - References lists that are made using the <references/> tag <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Cite#references-tag> will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T334941> - Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/%2B/a2d2aaab9ace…> and medium wikis <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/%2B/a2d2aaab9ace…> that have the CampaignEvents extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEv…> enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event_Center/Registration> as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/operations/mediawiki-config/%2B/a2d2aaab9ace…> unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right. Learn more <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents/Proposal_…> . - Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including: - for the intitle: keyword: metacharacters <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:CirrusSearch#Metacha…> for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T317599> - for both intitle: and insource: keywords: shorthand character classes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:CirrusSearch#Charact…> for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:CirrusSearch#Escape_…> for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g. \uHHHH). [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T403212> - When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results. [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306325> - All wikis will be read-only <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch> for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1758726000>. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/03/12/hear-that-the-wikis-go-silent-twice-a…> . - 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 affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor. [5] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401043> *Updates for technical contributors* - The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to join an upcoming discovery interview <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ2aZzb…>, or leave feedback onwiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_Interfaces_Team/Developer_Feedback…>. Learn more <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/…> . - Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata_For_Wikimedia_Projects/Reduce_chan…>. [6] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401288> - The new Unicode 17.0 <https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode17.0.0/> version has been released. The datasets on Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Unicode_Module_Datasets> for the Module:Unicode data <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39301585> have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets. - Users of the Wikimedia Enterprise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise> Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables <https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/blog/parsed-wikipedia-tables/>. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative <https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/api/structured-contents/>. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API <https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/on-demand/#article-structured-content…>, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services. - A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information <https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/wikimedia-foundation/english-wikipedia-peop…> from Wikimedia Enterprise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Enterprise> has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot). - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.19> *Meetings and events* - Scholarship applications <https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2026:Scholarships> for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31. *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/2025/38> • 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 37
by Nick Wilson (Quiddity) 09 Sep '25

09 Sep '25

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Tech News 2025, week 36
by Uzoma Ozurumba 01 Sep '25

01 Sep '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/2025/36> are available. *Weekly highlight* - The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402601>, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Trizek_(WMF)>: Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025. *Updates for editors* - The CampaignEvents extension <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEv…> has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event_Center/Registration> , Collaboration List <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents/Collabora…>, and Invitation List <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Connection_Team/Invitati…>. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page. [1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CampaignEvents/Deployment_status#How_to_Req…> - The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401066> - On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Moderator_Tools/Watchlist…> of the Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T402958> [4] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396789> - Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reading/Web/Content_Disco…> . - [image: Recurrent item] View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…> . *Updates for technical contributors* - [image: Recurrent item] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.17> *In depth* - Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter <https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikifunctions:Status_…> to learn more. - The latest Readers Newsletter <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Newsletter_update…> is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more. *Meetings and events* - Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions: - Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw9o8Lsl974&t=15910s>. - La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs <https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/TCHZKH/>: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation. *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/2025/36> • 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…>.* -- Uzoma Ozurumba (She/her) Movement Communications Specialist (Product and Tech) meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:UOzurumba_(WMF)

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