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*Weekly highlight*

- The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/Updates#July_24,_2025:_Watchlists_and_Recent_Changes_pages, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist on the topic.

*Updates for editors*

- The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Upload_dialog to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Cross-wiki_media_upload_tool/History related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki:Abusefilter-disallowed-cross-wiki-upload or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T370598 - On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398347 - View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks .

*Updates for technical contributors*

- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.12

*Meetings and events*

- Wikimania 2025 https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025:Wikimania will run from August 6–9. The program is available https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/schedule/ for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/2025:Registration for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as: - Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/KFEFVG/ - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/TVCVAB/ - A dozen visions for wikitext! https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/WTRQCJ/ - Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/talk/wikimania2025/talk/8YKKP9/ - The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/MediaWiki_Users_and_Developers_Conference_Fall_2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.

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