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*Weekly highlight*
- The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2026-2027/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs and *Diff https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/10/shaping-wikimedia-foundations-2026-2027-annual-goals-key-questions-for-the-wikimedia-movement/*. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2026-2027 .
*Updates for editors*
- As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/W372 project, the display of EditWatchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/W186 wish. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411596 - The Global Watchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist is a MediaWiki extension https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398361[3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298919[4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273526[5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286309 - View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401293
*Updates for technical contributors*
- The VisualEditor citation tool https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Citation_tool and Reference Previews https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reference_Previews now support "map" as a reference type. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411083 - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.10/MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.11
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