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/2024/51 are available.

*Weekly highlight*

- Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CampaignEvents/Deployment_status#How_to_Request_the_CampaignEvents_Extension_for_your_wiki .

*Updates for editors*

- Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Personalized_Wikipedia_Year_in_Review with insights based on their reading and editing history. - Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Rabbit_Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles. - The global reminder bot https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_reminder_bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_reminder_bot/Technical_details for more information. - The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year. - [image: Recurrent item] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, a bug was fixed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374988 in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

*Updates for technical contributors*

- There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar/2025

*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_delivery • Contribute https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute • Translate https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/51 • 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_ambassadors.*