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I'm curious about your comment "The kind of people who need help when they forget their password should use Bitwarden not KeePass. And most people who use KeePass should probably use KeePassXC". Why do you think Bitwarden and KeePassXC are better than Keepass? And p.s. I don’t use any browser plugins for passwords; Keepass can do autotype and of course copy/paste is easy enough. David10244 (talk) 04:15, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@David10244 Relevant Teahouse link.
  • The KeePassXC website explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePass (They may or may not be a bit biased. Possibly.) and mentions one of the problems with KeePass. It also explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePassX.
  • I think that most KeePass users don't need help when they lost their password (being relatively nerdy and more educated on the topic, on average, in my estimation), and Bitwarden is more userfriendly for a wider range of people.
Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
@Polygnotus I'm a bit late, but thanks for the info. The supposed disadvantage that KeePass only works on Windows, and requires the .NET runtime, is not a disadvantage to me -- because I also only work in Windows, and I write code that uses .NET. 🙂 I don't use any KP plugins, and I have not considered KeePassX.
But I am now experimenting with KeePassXC, based on your comment. I think it looks slightly better than KeePass -- although not by a huge margin. I haven't decided whether to switch yet.
(Your link labeled "problems" goes to the FAQ page. The FAQ page doesn't really explain why KPXC is better than KP except for that one cross-platform thing. The other Q&A's apply to KP and KPXC both, or apply to all password managers... And yeah, I am nerdy enough to not need something that might be great for a wider audience. But now I understand what you meant by "the kind of people...")
I appreciate you taking the time to answer. I'll keep experimenting with KPXC and see how it goes! Thanks. David10244 (talk) 05:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

About Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-12-17/Interview

If you want the section hatted, please hat it. Don't just undo me without actually hatting things. I've made the a similar request to PresN on their user talk as well. Right now both of you are reverting me, which means both of yall's extended bickering is on the page in a format that negatively affects the actual discussion of the topics. Soni (talk) 05:42, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

@Soni Yeah I saw you hatted it but that was undone unfortunately. Generally speaking I prefer hatting over cutting and pasting because hatting ensures the timeline is still easy to follow. Often but not always it is best if someone uninvolved does the hatting. I did make a script for that at some point but it is far from production ready:
User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Timeline.js
It shows a slider under the section headers. If you click it and move your mouse to the left and right you can travel through time. It only appears on talkpages when there are 10 or more messages in a discussion. This can be helpful when many people participate in a multi-threaded discussion. Polygnotus (talk) 05:48, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

A Very Merry Christmas to you!

Hello there. 'Tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! Your contributions to Wikipedia in 2025 are greatly appreciated! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas, and here's to a happy and productive 2026! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:12, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

@Dr. Blofeld Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and yours and various others. Polygnotus (talk) 10:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

Your archives

Hello, Polygnotus! Not here to get on your case or anything, just curious: is there a reason your last twenty or so archive pages have only one topic each? Or is it perhaps an incorrect bot-instructions configuration? (As a manual archiver myself, I have little idea how those work.)—Odysseus1479 21:31, 19 December 2025 (UTC)

@Odysseus1479 Yeah its because I messed up with some script or bot setting and then instead of dealing with it I just shrugged and ignored it. Polygnotus (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
Fixed Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 07:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #711

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Vitaly Zdanevich
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.

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  • Mobile statement editing:
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    • We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (T407247)
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Yo Ho Ho!

ϢereSpielChequers is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec25}} to your friends' talk pages.

@WereSpielChequers Thank you! Merry Christmas and happy holidays and all that! I recommend picking a handful of holidays and celebrating them all at the same time! Polygnotus (talk) 03:07, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Please add classes to SectionLinks script

I tried SectionLinks but uninstalled it because the icons were too big. Adding a class would let users customize to their preference. How about, |class="sect-link", |class="sect-link-perm", and |class="sect-link-oldid", or you pick. Also, I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script, but I'd rather have the icons after the section name (and also superscripted and small, but I can do that with the classes). Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 02:57, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

@Mathglot Good idea, thanks!  Done Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Polygnotus (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
@Mathglot Please test User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js and let me know what you think.
I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script Kinda sorta, it can store settings in localStorage. Not ideal but better than nothing. Polygnotus (talk) 03:28, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Also I think you can db-g7 User:Mathglot/Foo.js at this point. Polygnotus (talk) 04:17, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Working on it; not doing what I expected; not seeing any icons (with ...2) but maybe something's up with my css. With the main script, I get the icons for H2 headers, but not H3, or H4. Currently installed is SectionLinks2.js; test bed at User:Mathglot/sandbox7. Feel free to add more tests there, or copy to jump-start your own. May not get back to it tonight, not sure yet. Mathglot (talk) 04:38, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
@Mathglot I should probably add h2/h3/h4 as a setting. Snævar's comment here led to Quarry 100236 and then I posted the output and Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts to Claude and it spit out:
  • Position 143: User:Quarl/util.js - 161 total users, 16 active users, inactive for 7,256 days (~19.9 years)
  • Position 212: User:Topaz/comm.js - 101 total users, 1 active user, inactive for 7,276 days (~19.9 years)
It isn't correct, but its worth further investigation.
I have to do some things but will probably return to this soonish.
Note that the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js contains a typo.
Compare:
importScript( 'User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js // assisting testing...
importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // assisting testing...
Your common.js also imports User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/generatedoi.js which won't work since that url is a 404.
Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Note to self look at test here User:Polygnotus/tmp/testsectionlinks
Oh, thanks for the tips! If I'm not around later, I'll be back tomorrow. Happy holidays! Mathglot (talk) 05:45, 23 December 2025 (UTC)
Ran into a more serious problem that is a dealbreaker for me, though perhaps not for others. I use script User:BrandonXLF/ShowRevisionID which adds revision ids to history and contrib pages. This is like a killer app for me, and I depend on it. The SectionLinks script somehow interacts with it, so that when both are installed, ShowRevisionID stops working. Not sure what is going on, or which one should be changed, but maybe you could look into it. If the locus of the problem is in his script, Brandon is around, but not a lot, and if you feel like forking his script instead of waiting and adjusting it so it plays nice with SectionLinks, I'll install both; otherwise, I'll just keep his, as I can't do without it, now. (Sort of like mobile phones, that none of us knew we needed until we had one.) Anyway, happy Holiday, and talk when you get back! Mathglot (talk) 01:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
@Mathglot The SectionLinks script does not and cannot interfere with the ShowRevisionID script.
The reason you experienced problems is because part of the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js is missing.
Remove the last line and use this instead:
importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js]]
Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Season's Greetings

Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

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Thank you! Merry Christmas! Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #712

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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Exomoon "massive" in phrase "signature, massive" is not promotional Chronos.Zx (talk) 04:50, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

Do you have login problem by PAWS?

Hi, Polygnotus. I see you uses the tool PAWS. I cann't login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ since last Saturday. I reported that at , but I cann't still login. I have not access to Phabricator to see of somebody is working about it or not. But my first question is maybe I'm the solely who have problem to login. I ask you, can you login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ nowadays? If you have too problem, do you know somebody who can help us? Thank you and sorry for my English. Leonprimer (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2025 (UTC)

@Leonprimer Hello! There was a problem, see T413510. It is fixed now. Polygnotus (talk) 15:13, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

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Happy New Year, Polygnotus!

Happy New Year!

Polygnotus,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Thank you! Happy new year! Polygnotus (talk) 18:59, 1 January 2026 (UTC)

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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Rock_wren "leading" in phrase "leading up to" is not promotional(cool script btw) monkeysmashingkeyboards (talk) 20:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
Close to 40k edits in 3 years... Wow! This barnstar is to appreciate that and more. Keep it going! Volten001 ☎ 05:08, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
Thank you! Happy new year! Polygnotus (talk) 22:39, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

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"Relevance"?

At one time this set up the later development of Dee Dee trying to blame some of Gypsy's purported issues on that accident. I'll have to look through older versions of the article. Daniel Case (talk) 07:08, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Hmm, unreliable source allthatsinteresting says: Then, when Gypsy Rose was around eight years old, she fell off of her grandfather’s motorcycle. Dee Dee took her to the hospital, where she was treated for a minor abrasion to her knee. But Dee Dee was unconvinced that her daughter was healed. She believed that Gypsy Rose would need several surgeries if she ever hoped to walk again. Until then, Dee Dee decided, Gypsy Rose would remain in a wheelchair as to not aggravate her knee further. Polygnotus (talk) 07:31, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
@Daniel Case Ah here we go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOQcOQ4Mk_I&list=PL2h7Wy4Xi82iPibi7LEZNErOBJavQ3Zqh&index=2 Polygnotus (talk) 07:35, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

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Wikidata weekly summary #715

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
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Discussions

  • Closed request for comments: Deprecate P642? - Consensus to deprecate was reached.

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Tool of the week

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We continued work on supporting more datatypes for editing, specifically date, musical notation and monolingual text.
    • We worked on displaying constraint violation indicators.
    • You can try out the current state by enabling it in the beta features section of your preferences.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to investigate options for further reducing the amount of Wikidata changes in recent changes and watchlist on the other wikis to reduce the size of the database tables.
  • Dumps: We finished our research on dumps, especially looking into different ways to define subsets. We will publish the report with results by end of February.
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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Stephanie_S._Watowich "outstanding" in phrase "Award for Outstanding" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 14:42, 21 January 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

FlyingDog "a record" in phrase "a record label" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 14:23, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

Valentino (fashion designer) https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/08/archives/its-more-dazzle-for-the-new-valentino.html Esprit15d • talk • contribs 14:36, 22 January 2026 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:Rafaelthegreat submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I nominate Polygnotus to be Editor of the Week for their amazing scripts and teahouse work. This user has made many wonderful scripts (like the AI Proofreader which I use and is very helpful) that help out very well. He even helped someone create a script! We should all thank them for their incredible knowledge of scripting and code (look at their user page!) And when Editor Oshwah was not online, this user skillfully responded to tricky questions at Oshwah's talk page. They even respond to questions at WP:TEA! This nomination was seconded by Bunnypranav, TechnoSquirrel69 and LuniZunie

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Nominated to be Editor of the Week for their amazing scripts and Teahouse work. Polygnotus has made many wonderful scripts such as the AI Proofreader which many editors use as a helpful tools in article creation. He has even helped an editor create a script! Their incredible knowledge of scripting and code is second to none. And when Editor Oshwah was off-line for an extended period, Polygnotus skillfully responded to tricky questions at Oshwah's talk page.
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Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 15:39, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! That is very nice to hear! Wikipedia can feel like shouting into the void sometimes so its nice when someone notices. Thanks again, Polygnotus (talk) 02:00, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
Congrats! Very well deserved =) – LuniZunie(talk) 19:45, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
Thank god I didn't waste those 17 months writing my acceptance speech! Polygnotus (talk) 20:07, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

talk page comment conventions

A (now-inactive) user created User:IndentBot, which fixed inconsistencies in wikitext list markup, but they stopped running the bot, possibly because many users get cranky when the bot makes an imperfect edit, or when they disagree with its edit. (It used to save me from making lots of edits to improve accessibility in discussion threads.) For this particular situation, since only the arbitration clerks and arbitrators can copy edit the comment in question, a script would help only if they wanted to use it.

I have a custom stylesheet (see User:Isaacl/style/discussion-threads) that adds a vertical bar to the left of lists used within discussion threads and alternates between two different colours for the background of each level of nested list. With this stylesheet, it's easy to spot changes in list style type, as the vertical bar will be interrupted. isaacl (talk) 23:25, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Surrey_County_Cricket_Club "historic" in phrase "historic county" (also "historic counties") is not promotional (the countries of the British Isles have historic counties and England has ceremonial counties.)
PS: The phrase "historic offences" appears quite a lot too, to literally mean offences that were committed long ago but where a perpetrator is now held to account. There may be similar ones like "historic crimes". Komonzia (talk) 02:53, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Germanwings_Flight_9525 "expert" in phrase "expert support" is not promotional birdn4t0r (talk) 06:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Germanwings_Flight_9525 "exceptional" in phrase "exceptional cases" is not promotional birdn4t0r (talk) 06:17, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Getting_Killed "a record" in phrase "a record label" is not promotional. Also include the phrase "a record producer" Cattos💭 16:43, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Kudos

... for maintaining your cool with this PITA. It's hard to know what the dumbest aspect of his argumentation is:

  • Is it that he still, at this late date, thinks that the size of the wikisource (not not images, templates, and Wikimedia-added gadgetry and administrative debris) is the main determinant of load time?
  • Or is it that he actually appealed to some nobody's blog , wherein the nobody (citing some other nobody's blog) actually informs us that if tabs, empty lines, and comments were removed from his university's homepage "from the start of the year to 25 October 2020, we could have saved 2.2GB of bandwidth ... and reduce our carbon footprint"? 2.2GB! Imagine! (And the carbon footprint just has to be intentional self-parody.) I don't know what's stupider -- being the guy who says such a thing and puts his name on it, or being the guy who cites the guy who says such a thing.
  • Or perhaps you have your own favorite.

He poses as some kind of technical expert, but it's clear he's just a script kiddie. I always suspected it, but when he wrote that my talk "is still lagging real hard and I still couldn't type a medium-sized word without the edit page going unresponsive for like 10 seconds" it became certain that he was either not using section edits, or was using that stupid Reply tool, or had some kind of syntax highlighter or other stuff installed -- or all three -- and that he either doesn't understand the significance of those, or does but expects others to cater to his personal preferences (which he's now explicitly said). Congrats for forcing that out into the open.

The parallels to the insane proposal for an "Article Breakup Committee" of long ago ...

I am interested in starting a small "long article" breakup committee ... First, an editor tries to establish consensus: the issue is brought up on the talk page, and it is suggested that the regulars break up the article into subtopics, with short summary paragraphs (w/ main article attachments) ... so that the main page gets below a certain limit. Second, if plan #1 stifles out in argument and indecision to act, for a number of consecutive weeks, than an breakup arbitration committee notice is placed on the talk page, putting an ultimatum deadline, such that either the regulars break up the page to below a certain limit by that date or an external breakup committee, enforced by a team of administrators, will do so.

... are really striking. That guy called anything over 100K a "super long page", which even 20 years ago was stupid. And like our friend today, he didn't seem to understand about templates, images, and so on, but was certain of the righteousness of his cause.

Anyway, thanks for doing what I probably could not have done without losing my cool, which is make it clear to all what the true source of his trouble is. Hopefully it's finally dawning on him what a fool he's made of himself. EEng 18:29, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

@EEng The best bit is obviously do you pretend to know better than me how my device works in response to Guy Macon.
I have the filenames of c:Category:Large images so I can make browsers struggle with less than 75KB of wikicode. Polygnotus (talk) 20:24, 31 January 2026 (UTC)
While I share most or all of the above opinions, I prefer to avoid getting into a fight, and don't need to be pinged. I believe I made my position on supposedly overly long wikitext perfectly clear in this comment:
And yes, I probably do know better than he does how his device works.
Speaking of large images, I may have created the smallest image on Wikipedia that actually shows the user something useful: --Guy Macon (talk) 00:34, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
@Guy Macon One time I discovered codegolf.stackexchange.com and https://www.dwitter.net/ and then I somehow lost about two weeks of my life. Polygnotus (talk) 11:11, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Stop closing discussions while involved

This is the second time in two days . You are in violation of WP:INVOLVED/WP:BADNAC because you extensively commented against my proposal and made public your opinion about how this discussion is a waste of time. You were told so the first time. You ignored me regardless. You provide no rationale whatsoever.
This is not how requests for comment are held, and as an experienced user, you must know this. Also, to preempt your argument, The snowball clause may not always be appropriate if a particular outcome is merely "likely" or "quite likely", and there is a genuine and reasoned basis for disagreement. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 20:01, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

@Szmenderowiecki You are "in violation of" [sic] WP:BADRFC, WP:BADGER, WP:DROPTHESTICK, WP:WIKILAWYER and various other uppercase shortcuts. Wikilawyering doesn't work with experienced users (especially not those who made WikiTextExpander).
Do you really think re-opening that discussion is going to somehow lead to the result you want? Do you not see how closing it is in your advantage? Can you not predict the future? Extrapolate from the data points you have. You are 66 edits deep in that discussion and there is just one person who was working towards a solution. Polygnotus (talk) 20:20, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
Balls deep
To the first paragraph: Wikilawyering is providing tortured reading of policy to fit your argument. You were given the literal reading of WP:INVOLVED - you are party to the discussion, you don't get to close it. It can't be clearer than that. And you were balls deep in that discussion as well, with 40 edits.
To the second paragraph: at least half of the edit count could have been avoided on VPI if people cared to read its contents. While reading some of the other arguments, I could not escape parallels with debates over the attire of the sexual assault victim on the night she went to the nightclub. The one person who actually worked towards something is to be commended for spending time thinking about alternatives and proposed at least something. This is constructive debate. Most other editors flat out refused to help. It's their right but also they don't get to say that the discussion was not productive. You shut this all down.
Just because the original proposal wasn't going to pass doesn't mean that search for solution could not be happening.
Guy Macon I know what WP:INVOLVED stands for, it has been long accepted practice that non-admin users closing discussions assume admin responsibilities and accountability, even while not using admin tools, because closures are generally the domain of administrators. That's WP:NACINV. It was a shorthand. Szmenderowiecki (talk · contribs) 20:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
@Szmenderowiecki Can you do me a favour and never make Godwinian-like comparisons to debates over the attire of the sexual assault victims again? It makes you look really bad, and I am sure that is not your intention. Thanks. You are comparing people to rape apologists for disagreeing with you. I have seen people blocked for less. Fun fact: Mike Godwin worked at the WMF.
Just because the original proposal wasn't going to pass doesn't mean that search for solution could not be happening. I started the "search for solution". And now you have a Phab ticket authored by Quiddity. No one else was searching for a solution.
Thanks to me you literally have the best result you could've hoped to achieve from that discussion: an actual WMF nerd who can actually do something to fix the problem.
Closing that discussion is saving your ass from yet more pile-ons; Wikipedians are herd animals. So instead of complaining about it you should thank me for that as well.
Subscribe to the Phabricator ticket over at T416247. Polygnotus (talk) 09:36, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
@Szmenderowiecki You are "in violation of" posting a purposely misleading user warning to this page. Try actually reading WP:INVOLVED. Polygnotus is not an administrator and closing a discussion is not a use of administrator tools. Please don't pick random policies and accuse people of violating them when they clearly do not apply.
Polygnotus, per WP:NACINV you should have posted a call for close instead of closing the discussion yourself. Please don't do that. --Guy Macon (talk) 20:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
I have a draft essay arguing the opposite point in Sublime Text, which has equal weight. Polygnotus (talk) 09:54, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

1RR violation

You violated WP:1RR on 2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting with this edit. Please self-revert. Longhornsg (talk) 04:57, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Also, explain your edit summary you can't link these things per NPOV in response to an accurate sourcing of an RS (that you admit is an RS). Longhornsg (talk) 04:58, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

I replied over at Talk:2025 Capital Jewish Museum shooting#NPOV. Polygnotus (talk) 05:21, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #717

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #716.


Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

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Development

  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects:
    • We are making progress with identifying additional ways in which we can reduce the number of irrelevant changes from Wikidata showing up in recent changes and watchlist on Wikipedia and co.
    • We are discussing with pilot Wikipedias about turning on showing Wikidata changes by default in watchlist and recent changes (moving it from opt-in to opt-out)
  • GraphQL: We are putting the last touches on a GraphQL endpoint for Wikidata. We are planning to get it live later this month for feedback.
  • LDF endpoint: We are planning to decommission the endpoint in preparation for the migration away from Blazegraph on the 18th of February (phab:T415696)
  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We are almost done with adding support for editing statements with quantity and monolingual text datatype and finished support for mathematical expression statements. We started support for editing coordinate statements.
    • We are continuing the work on showing constraint violations.
  • Wikibase Ecosystem: We are in the process of setting up a demo system for ontology federation (i.e. using Wikidata Items as values in statements on another Wikibase instance)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-06

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • The "Page information" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
  • Recurrent item View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
  • The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
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Weekly highlight

  • Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. 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.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2

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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Castro_Peak_Lookout "historic" in phrase "Historic Lookout" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 18:50, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

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Sub-referencing: Update

Sub-referencing example

Greetings from WMDE Technical Wishes! In September 2025 we deployed sub-referencing to German Wikipedia to make re-using references with different details easier. Thanks for piloting and helping to improve the feature!

We recently published our insights and next steps in our report. Some highlights:

  • Over 6,000 Wikipedia articles use the new feature, with a total of over 15,000 sub-references created to date.
  • There are both experienced editors in featured articles (e.g. de:Explosion des Oppauer Stickstoffwerkes) and relatively inexperienced VisualEditor users (e.g. in de:Schmerzhafte Muttergottes (Guido Cagnacci)) using the feature. The majority of all sub-references (approx. 90%) are created in wikitext, yet over 300 editors have used the function in VisualEditor alone.
  • Workarounds like <ref name="Miller" /><sup>p. 44</sup> (in the reader view [1] p. 44) have been replaced entirely by sub-referencing, which means that the complete reference information – including the page number – is now visible in both the reference list and in Reference Previews.
  • Sub-referencing is used with lots of different citation details – predominantly page numbers, but also details such as chapters, paragraphs, quotes or video / audio timestamps.

What has happened since September?

  • We ensured that re-used sub-references actually appear as re-used in the reader view and in VisualEditor.
  • We've made some cosmetic changes to the reference list: Initially, multi-line sub-references (e.g. quotations) were not displayed ideally, and two-digit sub-reference numbers were not indented correctly.
  • In VisualEditor, we have provided a feature to choose whether changes to re-used sub-references should affect all uses of the same sub-reference or only the one currently edited.

What's next?

  • We will deploy sub-referencing to additional pilot wikis next week: Polish Wikipedia, Swedish Wikipdia and seven smaller wikis (phab:T414094). All of these projects have been notified in advance.
  • We are working on technical adjustments to make sub-referencing usable in all wikis that use variants of the {{Reflist}} template.
  • We are continuing to address community feedback: Among other things, we are currently exploring various ideas for visually improving reference lists with lots sub-references (e.g. de:Liste der Straßen in Bad Honnef#Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen).
  • In addition to sub-referencing, we are looking at other reference-related improvements: We are considering general improvements to Reference Previews or solving issues with automatically created reference names in VisualEditor – there will be announcements and community consultations on this in the near future.

More information about sub-referencing on our project page, more about our learnings and next steps in our report. All the best from WMDE Technical Wishes!

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@Johannes Richter (WMDE) Wooooohoooooo! Thanks! Polygnotus (talk) 15:37, 9 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #718

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #717.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Wiki Clarity Tool: Clarity Tool is a lightweight web application built to empower editors across Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. It helps contributors identify missing information in articles and suggests structured data from Wikidata to fill those gaps.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Mobile editors can now edit String and External ID datatypes directly in the mobile view. To help improve this new interface, Wikimedia Deutschland is looking for volunteers for UX testing sessions. Participants will be compensated for their time. Sign up here (greatquestion) and learn more on the project page: Mobile editing of statements

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Development

  • Dumps: We published the report from our research into the user experience with Wikidata's dumps.
  • Mobile editing: We are finalizing the support for quantity, monolingual text, mathematical expression and musical notation statements as well as a first version for coordinate statements.
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We have continued our investigation into existing Lua modules in order to find more ways in which we can reduce unwanted entries from Wikidata in Recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We found a number of options that we are looking into now. (phab:T416822, phab:T416825, phab:T416826, phab:T416827)
  • Wikidata Vector embedding: We added German to the embedding (next to English, French and Arabic)

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Tech News: 2026-07

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
  • A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more.
  • When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
  • The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
  • The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function {{#isbn}} available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so.
  • Two new wikis have been created:
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has.
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Administrators' newsletter – February 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2026).

Oversight changes

added Daniel Quinlan

Arbitration

  • Due to the result of a recent motion, a rough consensus of administrators at the arbitration enforcement noticeboard may impose an expanded topic ban on Israel, Israelis, Jews, Judaism, Palestine, Palestinians, Islam, and/or Arabs, if an editor's Arab-Israeli conflict topic ban is determined to be insufficient to prevent disruption. At least one diff per area expanded into should be cited.

Miscellaneous

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:09, 10 February 2026 (UTC)

ai;dr

I saw that post, immediately thought we needed a Wikipedia template/redirect for it, and found you'd beat me to it. Is there a suitable equivalent for the {{end}}? Then it could be added to the table in the template doc. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 05:12, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

@ClaudineChionh Ha I had just db-g7'ed em for exactly that problem. But perhaps you are more creative than I am? Polygnotus (talk) 05:14, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
(talk page stalker) How about {{drai}} or perhaps {{dr;ai}}? Somewhat echoes the beep-boop scheme.—Odysseus1479 07:19, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
@Odysseus1479 Thanks, that works.  Done Polygnotus (talk) 17:32, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

"Complicated situation…"

I am duly impressed by your psychic powers!   Maproom (talk) 17:54, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #719

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #718.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Sjö - RfP scheduled to end after 17 February 2026 10:02 (UTC)
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: SEEKCommonsBot - Task: Synchronize Wikidata records created by the SEEKCommons project with OpenAlex
  • Closed request for permissions/Bot:
    • AmeisenBot 3 - Task: Adding descriptions (and possibly labels and aliases as well) to items based on their statements. Request closed as approved.
    • Che-W-bot - Request withdrawn.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Queer Memory multilingual web app that explores global queer history through live Wikidata timelines, places, rights, culture, and activism. Currently available in English, French, and Spanish.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Etherpad cleanup, save your pads now. All pads after 1st March 2026 willbe deleted so if you need any of your pads, please make a local backup.
  • The Wikibase REST API search endpoints are now available on v1 and considered stable! It's important to note that the older v0, which has been live on Wikidata since July 2025, will remain available for a two month transition period until mid-April 2026. We encourage all users to migrate to the new v1 endpoints during this time to ensure that their applications can continue to work seamlessly.
  • The WMF Wikidata Platform team has published its February 2026 newsletter. It includes result of an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates as part of the migration away from Blazegraph, the next Blazegraph migration office hour, and more. To have new issues of the WDP monthly newsletter delivered to your user talk page, Subscribe to WDP newsletter!

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Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We are putting finishing touches on editing support for external ID, URL, monolingual text, quantities and coordinate statements.
    • We worked on visually highlighting preferred and deprecated statements on the mobile site similar to how it is done on desktop.
    • We worked on showing more than one constraint violation when a statement violates multiple constraints.
  • Ontology Federation: We continued working allowing other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata Items in their statements (and later from other Wikibase instances). You can see a demo video of the current development state at ontology federation demo.
  • GraphQL: We worked on documentation to get get the GraphQL endpoint ready for a first release.
  • Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team published their report of the evaluation of Blazegraph alternatives. You can read it at File:WDQS Triple Store Evaluation - Benchmark Results Report.pdf.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-08

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • The SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.

Updates for editors

  • The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog.
  • The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
  • Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add #siteNotice { display: none; } to MediaWiki:Minerva.css.
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.

Updates for technical contributors

  • New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The Signpost: 17 February 2026

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on January 30. Please help translate.

Highlights

  • Wikipedia Library: Wikipedia Library gained new content partnerships, restored access to the British Newspaper Archive, and added an Arabic language academic resource with more than 7 million records.
  • Gender gap: The Celebrate Women 2026 campaign will run from March 1–31 to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally.
  • Annual Planning: The Annual Plan is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. We invite you to shape this plan together with us. Between now and the end of June 2026, we will have continuous conversations about how global trends may shape our future, how we can experiment, adapt and respond together.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

  • Patrolling improvements: A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming.
  • Wikifunctions: How Abstract Wikipedia articles can be integrated into Wikipedia language editions to enable Wikipedians to write an abstract article once and have it available in many languages.
  • Suggestion Mode: A new Beta Feature for the VisualEditor, Suggestion Mode, is now available on English Wikipedia for experienced editors. This features proactively suggests actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, such as "add citation", "improve tone", or "fix an ambiguous link".
  • WDQS Blazegraph Migration: As part of the migration away from Blazegraph (the current backend of the Wikidata Query Service), an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates has been completed. Using the published evaluation methodology, performance, stability, and compatibility was assessed.
  • Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 06 and 07 include the new Watchlist labels feature that allows logged-in contributors to organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows. They also link to the 44 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

Wikipedia 25 celebration in Warsaw.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Moqui_Lookout_Cabin "historic" in phrase "Historic Lookout" is not promotional pHLOGISTON eNTHUSIAST (tALK pAGE) 19:21, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Planning help pages for AI workflows

I'm contacting the members of WikiProject AI Tools because there is a related discussion about creating help pages on using such tools on Wikipedia. You are invited. It's at Wikipedia talk:Help Project#Planning help for AI workflows. See you there!    — The Transhumanist   14:13, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

AI RfC analysis

You mentioned a Claude analysis of RfC’s. I’d love to learn more.


Look at this answer… ChatGPT knows you!

Prompt: Have there been previous conversations about whether RFCBEFORE is mandatory.


Yes — there have been actual discussions on Wikipedia’s talk pages about whether RFCBEFORE should be considered mandatory before starting a Request for Comment (RfC), and those discussions are visible in archived talk pages. Here’s a summary of what editors have been debating:

🗣️ Talk page discussion on

Talk:Requests for comment

On the Wikipedia talk page for Requests for Comment, editors debated recent changes to the wording of the guidance around RFCBEFORE (the guideline that recommends having a prior discussion before initiating an RfC). This section of the talk page (archived) became the focal point:

  • One editor (WAID) had edited the Requests for Comment guidance to include a clarification that “RFCBEFORE good advice, but it’s not required.” Another editor, Polygnotus, reverted that change because they felt it was functionally creating a new rule and could be misused to shut down RfCs.  
  • Some editors argued that RFCBEFORE should be mandatory — in other words, editors should always try to discuss an issue on talk pages before tagging it as an RfC, and failing to do so could be a reason to close an RfC. Others pointed out that the existing wording uses “should,” which technically means optional in Wikipedia policy language.  
  • Several editors supported the traditional approach — that prior discussion is strong advice but not an absolute requirement — and that an RfC can be opened even if pre-RFC discussion hasn’t happened in every case.  
  • A few comments pointed out that making RFCBEFORE “mandatory” (a hard rule) could encourage procedural debates instead of substantive discussions on the topic itself.  

📌 Key takeaway from the talk page

The consensus on that talk page was not that RFCBEFORE is strictly mandatory. Instead:

  • Most editors treated RFCBEFORE as a strong recommendation — something you ought to do first — but not a hard requirement that automatically invalidates an RfC if not followed.  
  • Some editors explicitly opposed granting it mandatory status and expressed concern about procedural rigidity.  

If you want, I can pull a link to the exact archived section where this debate happens so you can read the full thread yourself. Dw31415 (talk) 02:40, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

@Dw31415 Just messing about a bit with Sonnet 4.6. If you don't have a Claude API key gimme a shout and I'll make one for you if you wanna test it. Polygnotus (talk) 04:59, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
More information Extended content ...
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Cool. I’ll take a detailed look later Dw31415 (talk) 05:05, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Cat

A ridiculous cat

Information icon Please excuse my erroneous edit, likely a mistaken rollback or revert caused by my fat fingers, hypnagogia, or one of my ridiculous cats. I have likely self reverted or noticed the mistake after you corrected it. Again, my apologies. Thank you. EvergreenFir (talk) 06:28, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

@EvergreenFir That is an excellent cat. Polygnotus (talk) 06:32, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #720

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-02-23. Missed the previous one? See issue #719.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Jan Myšák - RfP scheduled to end after 28 February 2026 11:11 (UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Sjö - Closed as successful, congratulations User:Sjö.
  • New request for comments: Notability policy reform: Round 2, where policy is suggested based on round 1 discussions.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Dagbanli dictionary - a monolingual Dagbanli dictionary built using Wikidata lexemes, with 20000 native audio recordings as usage examples pulled from Mozilla Common Voice. This means when you look up a word, you can hear it spoken in example sentences. See this in action here: suɣulo

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are preparing to reach out to editors about improving specific templates that are written in a way that creates a lot of unnecessary entries in Recent Changes and Watchlists.
  • Mobile statement editing: We are getting close to having editing support for all datatypes. We are currently still working on the support for globe coordinates. We also added support for showing constraint violations on qualifiers and references.
  • Data quality: We are doing technical investigations about how to make constraint violations available for querying again.
  • GraphQL: We are getting ready to make GraphQL available on Wikidata later this week.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.

Updates for editors

  • The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code.
  • Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened.
  • The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in MediaWiki:skin-theme-description and MediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tag to indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta.
  • The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
  • Recurrent item View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook, ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Draft:Baby_Globe "promising" in phrase "An editor has marked this as a promising draft" is not promotional (see {{Promising draft}}) dot.py 07:54, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Logical quotation autofixing

No worries on the revert. But I don't think fully-general automatic punctuation shuffling is the right approach: comparing your automated edit to my fully hand-crafted one, we see that yours moved the terminal punctuation out of longer quotes where it's possible that the original had terminal punctuation, in which case keeping it inside the quote would be correct; I didn't bother chasing up the sources for the quotes to check and left them as-is on the precautionary principle. I find it difficult to imagine an automated tool getting these cases right. (It also missed a case where a full stop was inside italics rather than quotes proper, but that's not fundamental to the approach.) One easy case that probably can be reasonably automated is single words inside quotes with punctuation, which will almost never be correct (and which usually draw my eye, annoy me, and make me fix the whole page). Polyphemus Goode (talk) 08:24, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

@Polyphemus Goode Good point. Life would be so much easier if we could just shorten such quotes by 1 char. Polygnotus (talk) 09:22, 25 February 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

Abortion in Illinois https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6289084 J11csd (talk) 19:50, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Revival Process There are many false positives on this page. I would love if you could take a look at them. Here is one instance as an example: "The regime had already banned some distinctive markers of Muslim identity, such as religious clothing, leading to the widespread use of replacements for these articles." Where the flagged word is "leading." This example is "leading to."

I apologize for writing directly on your page, but this is where the tool directs to. Pietrus1 (talk) 00:39, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – March 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2026).

Administrator changes

removed

CheckUser changes

removed Ks0stm

Oversight changes

removed Ks0stm

Guideline and policy news

Arbitration

  • Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
  • Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
  • The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

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Wikidata weekly summary #721

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-02. Missed the previous one? See issue #720.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Jan Myšák: Closed as successful, congratulations to Wikidata's newest admin!
  • New request for comments: Notability Policy - Round 2: we are still requesting your input on the new Notablity policy. Including whether to elevate the self-promotion essay to a policy.

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • Next Linked Data for Libraries LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group session 3 March, 2026: We have our next LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group Session on Tuesday, March 3 9am PT / 12pm ET / 17:00 UTC / 6pm CET (Time zone converter). Wikiproject P244 maintenance uses SPARQL queries to identify and resolve two types of constraint violations in Wikidata: instances of Wikidata items with more than one LCNAF identifier and instances of the same LCNAF identifier existing on more than one Wikidata item. The February 17th session walked participants through how to resolve the former issue, while the March 3rd session will focus on the latter. This session will be more discussion-focused, since instances where two LCNAF identifier have the same Wikidata item can be difficult to resolve because of Wikidata’s innate quirks. Maybe your ideas will become the official best practice! Event page: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LD4_Wikidata_Affinity_Group/Project_Series/LCNAF_Duplicate_Detection_P244_Maintenance
    • Bring-Your-Own-Data-Lab, on 24.04.2026, the HERMES Data Competence centre hosts an online BYODL. Dr. Katrin Moeller and Dr. Olaf Simons will share how to enrich your own personal data with standard data and the Wikibase FactGrid. Click the link for registration and more information.
    • Wikidata Workshop w/ Wikipedia Riba Aruba + University of Aruba Research Center (UARC), March 2, 12 - 2pm GMT-4. Click here to register.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
  • GraphQL: We are getting ready to launch the first version later this week, including preparing the documentation for how to use it.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • Wikipedia 25 Birthday mode is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via community configuration on the local wiki.

Updates for editors

  • Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and a couple of other wikis. You can try the feature on these projects or on testwiki and betawiki. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been published in a report. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are interested in becoming a pilot wiki.
  • Paste Check will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check tags all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via Special:EditChecks. Research across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can help to localize this and related features.
  • The Reader Experience team will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface.
  • Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one.
  • Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon.
  • The Global Watchlist which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The extension now allows activating the language fallback system for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no uselang= URL parameter is provided.
  • The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of hybrid search on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
  • For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in Wikibase.cloud has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
  • The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts.
  • The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
  • The process and criteria for requesting exceptional access to the high volume feed of the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), have now been published. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
  • Tech Blog, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community will be migrating to Diff, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:50, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

Tux_and_Fanny_(video_game) "a record" in phrase "a record player" is not promotional (Talk) PHLOGISTON ENTHUSIAST 12:13, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on Feb 13. Please help translate.

Highlights
Let's Talk continues

  • Birthday mode: This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias have joined in the fun.
  • Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons: Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

  • Etherpad cleanup: For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.
  • Activity tab: Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.
  • Reference Check: The feature Reference Check has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
  • Semantic search: The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.
  • Navigation experience: The Foundation will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
Screenshot of the current prototype of Abstract Wikipedia, showing a two sentence article about Kolkata.
  • Site notices: Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.
  • Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 08 and 09 include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
  • Wikifunctions: Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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Your draft article, Draft:Ram Krishan Goel

Hello, Polygnotus. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Ram Krishan Goel".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 07:13, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

Conversation

Re: (because I have a knack for kibozing myself - obligatory comment that for this year's April fool's day I want to start an RM to rename your "find mentions of yourself" script to that) I just have to say that it was a fun conversation, and we need to get back to songwriting for Tone Death . GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 22:45, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

@GreenLipstickLesbian Still not sure about the album title. What do you think? Sparkle of Doom or Glitter in the Abyss? Or maybe Blood is Just a Darker Shade of Pink (Bedazzled Edition)? Polygnotus (talk) 23:02, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
Blood is Just a Darker Shade of Pink (Bedazzled Edition) has to be our debut, obviously. Plus, it makes me think of what is possibly one of my all time favourite songs Gimme Chocolate!!. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 17:53, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
Just looking at the signpost piece, spotted this, then looked closer at the Amazon Alexa sample
.... JFC, you'd think for something that weird it had to be AI! But nope! Citation bot for the win!!!!! GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 23:19, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
Thanks! I have some WikiBlame code laying around somewhere. A java version, not the JS version. I may be able to use that. Polygnotus (talk) 10:59, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

"u da goat" barnstar

The Technical Barnstar
Thank you for User:Polygnotus/Scripts/SectionLinks! I realized how much I depend on it when all scripts were turned off.

— DVRTed (Talk) 23:23, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Goats are lovely creatures. Polygnotus (talk) 23:41, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

ANI was too suspicious

...so I did this.

If you've got anything to add you're more than welcome, but hopefully I covered everything! Blue Sonnet (talk) 15:59, 7 March 2026 (UTC)

Yeah that was... interesting. I'll keep an eye on it, thanks! Polygnotus (talk) 10:59, 8 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary 722

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #721.

Discussions

  • New requests for permissions/Bot: DifoolBot 8 - Task: Remove Wikipedia import references from statements where the referenced article has since been deleted.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Data2Go : An iOS app for browsing and editing Wikidata with a mobile-first UI. It combines fast search, rich item detail views, statement editing, map previews, media galleries, and account-based write access to Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • GraphQL: We have released the first version of this new API. You can read more about it and try it out.
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We have worked with editors to improve some highly-used modules that access Wikidata in a suboptimal way. They have been adjusted to lead to less unneeded change notification in people's watchlists and recent changes on Wikipedia and co.
  • Mobile statement editing: We fixed an issue where certain Properties were not accessible in the new mobile UI. We are also working on fixing a bug with saving musical notation statements. We are continuing the work on supporting editing of geocoordinates.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2026-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
  • Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the post on the Stewards' noticeboard (translations).

Updates for editors

  • Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as iCloud Private Relay) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again.
  • Later this week, Suggestion Mode will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at Special:EditChecks and there are instructions for how administrators can customize the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to Edit check which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment.
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools.

Updates for technical contributors

  • API rate limiting update: To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
  • The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and give feedback. You can also sign up for usability tests.
  • The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read this update to learn more.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected pilot wikis and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, and Turkish. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more on the project page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:51, 9 March 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 March 2026

  • Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
    A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:12, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you

The Signpost Barnstar
For your Signpost op-ed (vol. 22 issue 4) and the careful research that made it possible.  

☆ Bri (talk) 04:58, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Polygnotus (talk) 14:20, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikidata weekly summary #723

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-03-16. Missed the previous one? See issue #722.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • If you have not tried it yet, now is an excellent time to turn it on in the beta features section of your preferences, test it and give feedback.
    • We have added support for editing globe coordinate statements
  • Wikidata integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are continuing to work on the issue of too many Wikidata in recent changes and watchlists on Wikipedia and co. We are currently prototyping a way to only consider changes that actually have an impact on the article (phab:T419823). We also finished the work on an emergency switch to turn off sending changes for qualifiers and references to Wikipedia and co in case of major database disruptions (phab:T412956).
  • Ontology federation: We are working towards getting the code for ontology federation (in its first version of using Wikidata Items as values on other Wikibase instances) ready for wider testing.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

· Previous issue · JosefAnthony talk ·MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:35, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-12

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • The Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature, also known as CodeMirror 6, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new features to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta, please share.
  • Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks.
  • On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on Special:PendingChanges previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself.
  • Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about the changes.
  • Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'.
  • Recurrent item View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • A new special page, Special:LintTemplateErrors, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: Special:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color.
  • Users of the Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature have been using CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026. Feedback or concerns are welcome.
  • The CodeMirror JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the ext.CodeMirror or ext.CodeMirror.lib modules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of the ext.CodeMirror.switch hook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the migration guide for more information.
  • The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include extension APIs. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for GrowthExperiments and Wikifunctions APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the REST Sandbox (i.e., Special:RestSandbox, available on all wiki projects).
  • The Scribunto extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the mw.site library. Starting last week, the library also provides a way of accessing the wiki ID that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on February 27. Please help translate.

Highlights

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

  • Experiments: The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.
  • Article guidance: Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article.
  • Wikifunctions: You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output.
  • Editing feature: Suggestion Mode is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.
  • Paste Check: Paste Check is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.
  • Mobile experience: The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.
  • Two-factor authentication: For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March.
  • Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 10 and 11 include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
WikiCelebrates Mervat.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

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