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*Updates for editors*

- Add a Link https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link has been upgraded for English Wikipedia users with improved detection of links that have different capitalization. This will help reduce ambiguous suggestions caused by differences in capitalization in article titles, including articles about cultural goods. A second phase of improvements is planned, which will also prepare the feature for release in other languages. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T435526#12240876 [2] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T434259 - The Article guidance https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Article_guidance feature will be enabled by default for junior editors on Simple English and Turkish Wikipedia starting 10 September 2026 following an experiment https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Article_guidance/Updates#Summary_of_experiment_result. Junior editors with 0 to 99 edits will automatically see the feature when they click a red link or use the "Madde oluşturto https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi:Madde_sihirbaz%C4%B1" option on Turkish Wikipedia to create a new article. The change is intended to help junior editors create higher-quality articles that meet each Wikipedia’s standards. Additional improvements https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/z3tcTjmLMxk5/#R will continue based on the experiment results and community feedback. - The Pageviews Analysis https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/ tool which allows users to compare pageviews across multiple pages, turns 10 years old this year and several new features have been added. They include WikiNav https://iw.toolforge.org/wikinav which provides insights into how readers of Wikipedia explore the content, editing stats in Siteviews https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/siteviews?range=latest-30&sites=en.wikipedia.org, the ability to lookup articles belonging to a WikiProject https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/massviews?source=wikiproject&project=en.wikipedia.org, and support for dark mode. [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T378549 - A visually simplified Minerva https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Growth/Minimal_Minerva navigation bar is being tested for logged-out readers using mobile web on the Bengali, Czech, English, Farsi, and Polish Wikipedias. The experiment aims to determine whether simplifying the navigation improves reader retention. The test will run from August 31 to September 28, and no action is required from users. - WMDE Technical Wishes https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/WMDE_Technical_Wishes is working on improving auto-generated reference names in VisualEditor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Named_references. Editors will only notice a slight change starting this week. When adding automatic reference names the numbering will start at :1 instead of :0. Read more on the project page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMDE_Technical_Wishes/References/VisualEditor_automatic_reference_names . [4] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/VisualEditor/VisualEditor/+/1332704 - All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/Server_switch on September 23. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433363 - View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks. For example, an issue where Parsoid https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Parsoid could mishandle nested nowiki tags, causing content to be lost and displaying unwanted text has now been fixed. [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T435116

*Updates for technical contributors*

- Interface administrators can configure gadgets from MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. The definition format has been updated and no longer requires the ResourceLoader option, as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. This simplifies gadget configuration by removing an option that is no longer necessary, making gadget definitions easier for administrators. [7] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298199 - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.19

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