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*Updates for editors*

- The Reader Experience team https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reader/Reader_Experience has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experience/WE3.3.4_Reading_lists, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/W102 to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426453. - Suggestion Mode https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Suggestion_Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EditChecks are community-configurable https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Suggestion_mode#For_administrators_%E2%80%93_local_customization. The TextMatch https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Configuration#:~:text=maximumEditcount based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Suggestion_mode#Create_custom_local_types_of_Suggestions for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:VisualEditor/Suggestion_Mode is appreciated. - 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 For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430577. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.

*Updates for technical contributors*

- On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430854 for more information and to provide feedback. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.12

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