Hello everyone,
We’re happy to announce that General Registration
<https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/Hackathon-2026/> for the 2026 Wikimedia
Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2026> is
officially open! The Hackathon will be taking place in person from May 1 -
3, 2026 in Milan, Italy.
The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual event that brings together the global
technical community to connect, hack, and explore new ideas. Experienced
technical contributors from all around the world come together to improve
the technological infrastructure and software that powers and benefits the
Wikimedia projects. The 2026 event is being organized by the Wikimedia
Foundation in collaboration with local Wikimedia affiliate, Wikimedia
Italia (WMIT) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Italia>.
During the Hackathon, we will focus on bringing together people who have
already contributed to the many technical aspects of Mediawiki and our
Wikimedia projects, those who know how to find their way around on our
technical ecosystem, and who are able to work or collaborate on projects
rather autonomously.
We'll be livestreaming the Hackathon opening ceremony and closing showcase
for those unable to attend in person. Local and global communities are also
welcome to organize pre-hackathon events or related meetups.
To register for the hackathon: Everyone who attends the event in person is
required to register in advance. Registration must be done through Pretix
<https://pretix.eu/wikimedia/Hackathon-2026/>, by selecting “General
Registration”. This year we are charging a $2 USD registration fee to
minimize the large volume of spam received in previous years. If you have
any issues or concerns with the payment, please contact the organizing
team.
You can reach the organizing team through email at hackathon(a)wikimedia.org
or comment on the talk page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2026&a…>.
All participants will adhere to the Code of Conduct
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_Conduct> for Wikimedia technical
spaces and the Friendly Space Policy
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Friendly_space_policy>.
We hope to see you in May!
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*Bee Piovesan *(she/her)
Lead Program Manager, Developer Outreach
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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/2025/52> are
available.
*Updates for editors*
- From January, edit filters can be set
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:AbuseFilter/Acc…>
to
automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted
edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent
doxxing or other suppressible material. [1]
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290324>
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026
because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators,
and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
- View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resol…>.
For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the
Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens
as expected. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411546>
*Updates for technical contributors*
- Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki
used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki
content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to
avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are
generated by Parsoid. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409187>
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
*Meetings and events*
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_Northwestern_Europe_2026>
will
take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications
just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if
capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early
application is encouraged.
Hello everyone!
We're excited to announce that the next Language Community Meeting is
happening soon - on November 28th at 16:00 UTC! If you’d like to join,
simply sign up on the wiki page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
.
This is a participant-driven meeting where we share updates on
language-related projects, discuss technical challenges in language wikis,
and collaborate on solutions. For example, in our upcoming meeting, we plan
to hear from contributors of the Wikitongues project and Fante
Wikimedia Community.
Got a topic to share? Whether it’s a technical update from your project, a
challenge you need help with, or a request for interpretation support, we’d
love to hear from you! Feel free to reply to this message or add agenda
items to the document here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/language-community-meeting-nov-2025>.
Also, we’d like to highlight that the 9th edition of the Language &
Internationalization Newsletter (October 2025)
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Language_and_Product_Localization/…>
is
now available. This newsletter provides updates from the July–September
2025 quarter on new feature development, improvements in various
language-related technical projects and support efforts, details about
community meetings, and ideas for contributing to projects. To stay
updated, you can subscribe to the newsletter
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Newsletter:Language_and_Internationalization…>
on
its wiki page.
Are you interested in contributing to the technical work around language
development? See a curated list of technical contribution tasks here:
T407935 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407935>.
We look forward to your ideas and participation at the Language Community
Meeting. See you there!
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Senior Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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