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Tech News: 2026-03

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 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.

Updates for editors

• As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish.
• The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13.

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 12 jan 2026 20:33 (CET)

Thank You for Last Year – Join Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026

Dear Wikimedia communities,

We hope you are doing well, and we wish you a happy New Year.

Last year, we captured light. This year, we’ll capture legacy.

In 2025, communities around the world shared the glow of Ramadan nights and the warmth of collective iftars. In 2026, Wiki Loves Ramadan is expanding, bringing more stories, more cultures, and deeper global connections across Wikimedia projects.

We invite you to explore the Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 Meta page to learn how you can participate and sign up your community.

📷 Photo campaign on Wikimedia Commons

If you have questions about the project, please refer to the FAQs:

• Meta-Wiki
• Wikimedia Commons

Early registration for updates is now open via the Event page

Stay connected and receive updates:

• Telegram channel
• Mailing list

We look forward to collaborating with you and your community.

The Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 Organizing Team 16 jan 2026 20:45 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-04

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 tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered.
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox.
• The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!

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MediaWiki message delivery 19 jan 2026 21:29 (CET)

Annual review of the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines

I am writing to you to let you know the annual review period for the Universal Code of Conduct and Enforcement Guidelines is open now. You can make suggestions for changes through 9 February 2026. This is the first step of several to be taken for the annual review. Read more information and find a conversation to join on the UCoC page on Meta.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this information with other members in your community wherever else might be appropriate.

-- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19 jan 2026 22:02 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-05

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

• Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
• All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
• Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new AbuseFilter variable, account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in the createaccount and autocreateaccount actions. As part of this change, the variable accountname has been renamed to account_name, and accountname is now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable.
• Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to upload.wikimedia.org/… will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 26 jan 2026 22:17 (CET)

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 "Paginagegevens" 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.
• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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MediaWiki message delivery 2 feb 2026 18:43 (CET)

Toegang tot Ensie

Zouden WikiWoordenboekvrienden toegang kunnen krijgen tot https://www.ensie.nl? Blijkbaar hebben onderwijsinstellingen toegang? --Geertivp 8 feb 2026 17:53 (CET)

Voor zover ik kan nagaan gaat het daarbij om betaalde abonnementen per instelling. Misschien kunnen Wikimedia België en Wikimedia Nederland een gezamenlijk zo'n instellingsabonnement afsluiten. Je zou ook kunnen kijken of ENSIE kan worden opgenomen in de Wikipedia Library. MarcoSwart (overleg) 9 feb 2026 14:04 (CET)

Ensie kopieert zelf geregeld vanaf o.a. dit project en Wikipedia. Het lijkt me dus niet echt nodig om hier een speciale externe link of zo van te maken (je creëert dan immers voornamelijk cirkelverwijzingen), hooguit kan er misschien in bepaalde gevallen naartoe worden gelinkt als dat echt iets van meerwaarde oplevert. De Wikischim (overleg) 12 feb 2026 13:03 (CET)

De vraag ging - denk ik - alleen maar over de mogelijkheid om ENSIE te raadplegen. MarcoSwart (overleg) 12 feb 2026 13:34 (CET)

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

• 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:
  • a Wikipedia in Jju (w:kaj:)
  • a Wikipedia in Nawat (w:ppl:)
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new global user group has been created: Lokale 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 10 feb 2026 00:30 (CET)

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.
• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 feb 2026 20:17 (CET)

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.
• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23 feb 2026 20:03 (CET)

Samenwerkingsproject met Swánga̱lyiatwuki

Meer dan een jaar geleden heb ik in De kroeg het samenwerkingsproject met de wiktionary in the Tyap, Swánga̱lyiatwuki aangekondigd. Dit is inmiddels in de derde fase beland. Aan de Nigeriaanse kant vormen de minimale faciliteiten waarmee ze het project moeten ontwikkelen de grootste belemmering. Aan onze kant is lastig dat er vrijwel geen openbaar toegankelijke informatie over het Tyap bestaat. Op dat laatste punt gaat Jolan Douwes, masterstudent taalkunde aan de Universiteit Leiden die via de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland stage loopt bij WikiWoordenboek ons helpen om een goede beschrijving van woordsoorten en verbuigingen te krijgen, zodat we beter in staat zijn categorieën en sjablonen voor het Tyap te ontwikkelen. MarcoSwart (overleg) 25 feb 2026 14:43 (CET)

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 Speciaal: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.
• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 2 mrt 2026 18:51 (CET)

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.
• 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.
• 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 9 mrt 2026 19:53 (CET)

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Bij verwijzing naar online bronnen is het vaak nuttig ook een archieflink aan te maken, vooral bij websites die zelf niet als archief zijn bedoeld. Voor dit doel wordt op WikiWoordenboek meestal het Internet Archive (archive.org) gebruikt. Daarnaast gebruiken we soms ook wel het daarvan los staande archive.today of een van zijn mirrorsites (meestal archive.ph). Het gebruik van archive.today en zijn mirrors is op Wikimediaprojecten omstreden geworden. De eigenaar van archive.today kreeg een ruzie met een blogger en ging er toen toe over om gebruikers van archive.today via wat code ongemerkt ook loze html-oproepen aan het blog te laten sturen, zodat het raadplegen daarvan werd bemoeilijkt. Daarnaast werd ook duidelijk dat hij op archive.today opgeslagen archiefpagina's van een eigen site had aangepast. Voor sommige Wikimediaprojecten waren dit voldoende redenen om helemaal geen gebruik meer te maken van archive.today, andere projecten kiezen voor minder vergaande beperkingen. De WMF laat deze kwestie voor dit moment over aan de afzonderlijke projecten, maar sluit niet uit dit in de toekomst zal veranderen.

Op WikiWoordenboek is de situatie vrij overzichtelijk, omdat we hier vooral archive.org gebruiken: er zijn vele duizenden pagina's die naar die site verwijzen en nog geen 130 waar archive.today is gebruikt. Daarbij zitten echter wel een aantal pagina's die zich niet via archive.org laten archiveren. Soms lijkt dit een technische kwestie, maar er wordt in sommige gevallen ook expliciet aangegeven dat een site niet via archive.org wil worden vastgelegd omdat zo'n archiefpagina kan worden gebruikt om kunstmatige intelligentie te trainen. In dat soort gevallen lijken de voordelen van archivering via archive.today mij groter dat het weglaten van een archieflink of van de hele verwijzing.

Mijn pragmatische voorstel is daarom als volgt:

1. We spreken af om in principe archive.org voor archieflinks te gebruiken. Indien mogelijk wordt een bestaande archieflink naar archive.today vervangen door een equivalent op archive.org.
2. In gevallen waarin een onvervangbare bron of vindplaats zich niet op die manier laat archiveren, wordt archive.ph gebruikt. Op die manier houden we goed overzicht van het gebruik van archive.today. Voor de bestaande links heb ik dit klusje al uitgevoerd. De keus voor deze mirror is ingegeven doordat dit het minste werk opleverde.
3. We maken geen gebruik meer van de overige sites van archive.today en voegen die toe aan de lijst van sites waar niet naartoe kan worden gelinkt.
4. We verzoeken de WMF uitdrukkelijk om bij het doorvoeren van meer ingrijpende maatregelen eerst een voorziening te treffen voor pagina's die niet op archive.org kunnen worden bewaard.

Mij staat voor ogen om de komende 4 weken de reacties af te wachten en afhankelijk daarvan 3. en 4. uit te voeren. Met het oog op dat laatste punt ben ik wel al bezig met de vervangingen onder 1. omdat er zo een beter beeld ontstaat van de sites waar het om gaat. MarcoSwart (overleg) 11 mrt 2026 13:11 (CET)

Nee, de kwestie is niet slechts een ruzie. De blog heeft door middel van doxing geprobeerd de eigenaar van archive.today onder druk te zetten. Het raadplegen van de blog is niet bemoeilijkt en is niet uitgevallen.

Voor veel Nederlandstalige bronnen is archive.today de enige manier om te archiveren. Ook de Internet Archive heeft regelmatig last van storingen. Ik pleit daarom voor diversificatie in plaats van minimalisatie. In andere woorden, dat bronnen in zo veel mogelijk archiefsites worden opgeslagen. Romaine (overleg) 17 mrt 2026 13:02 (CET)

Feitelijk gebruiken we nu maar 2 archiefsites: meestal archive.org en soms archive.ph (een van de onderling uitwisselbare domeinnamen die archive.today toepast). Op zichzelf ben ik het eens met Romaine dat de laatstgenoemde site soms de enige mogelijkheid is om Nederlandstalige bronnen te archiveren en ook dat het nuttig kan zijn een bron in beide sites te archiveren. Ik heb dat in veel gevallen ook gedaan. Mijn gedachte is om bovenstaand voorstel daarom als volgt aan te passen:

1. We spreken af om waar mogelijk archive.org voor archieflinks te gebruiken. Waar zo'n link mogelijk is en ontbreekt, wordt deze toegevoegd.
2. Waar mogelijk wordt ook een archieflink naar archive.ph gemaakt. Op die manier houden we goed overzicht van het gebruik van archive.today. De keus voor de mirror archive.ph is ingegeven doordat die al veruit het meest werd gebruikt.
3. We maken geen gebruik van de overige domeinnamen van archive.today en voegen die toe aan de lijst van sites waar niet naartoe kan worden gelinkt.
4. We verzoeken de WMF uitdrukkelijk om bij het doorvoeren van meer ingrijpende maatregelen eerst een voorziening te treffen voor pagina's die niet op archive.org kunnen worden bewaard.

Tot mijn verbazing blijkt de algemene filter nu niet langer alleen te melden dat een pagina archive.today gebruikt, maar ook het opslaan van zo'n pagina tegen te houden. Ik heb geen discussie kunnen vinden die dat rechtvaardigt. Gelet op onze voorgaande discussie hierboven heb ik voor WikiWoordenboek een uitzonderingsregel gemaakt, waardoor archive.ph hier gewoon bruikbaar blijft. Ik probeer nog te achterhalen waar de nieuwe beperking vandaan komt, maar afhankelijk van de reacties hier zou ik over twee weken bovenstaande afspraken gaan willen aanhouden. Feitelijk komt dat vooral neer op punt 4. met de melding dat wij een wat andere lijn hebben gekozen dan enkele Wikipedia's.

Ten overvloede: ik kijk wel iets anders aan tegen het geschil dat de aanleiding vormt voor deze discussie dan Romaine. Maar voor de praktijk op WikiWoordenboek lijkt dat me niet zo vreselijk van belang. MarcoSwart (overleg) 21 jun 2026 00:47 (CEST)

Na verder zoeken heb ik de aanleiding voor aanpassing van het filter gevonden. Dit leidt wat mij betreft niet tot een verandering van mijn aangepaste voorstel. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 1 jul 2026 14:55 (CEST)

Save the Date: zaterdag 20 juni 2026 Verjaardagsfeest Wikipedia 25 jaar!

Op 19 juni bestaat de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia precies 25 jaar en dat willen we vieren!

Daarom nodigen we je van harte uit voor het verjaardagsfeest op zaterdag 20 juni van 12:00 tot 17:00 uur bij restaurant LE:EN in Utrecht.

Inschrijving is geopend! Op deze pagina vind je meer informatie alsmede het inschrijfformulier.

We hopen dat je erbij kunt zijn en kijken ernaar uit je te mogen verwelkomen. Tot dan!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Team Wikimedia Nederland JansenKirsten (overleg) 12 mrt 2026 11:53 (CET)

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 ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ 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 Speciaal:PaginasVerouderdeEindredactie 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'.
• 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, Speciaal: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: Speciaal:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color.
• Users of the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ 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., Speciaal: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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The 2026 Coolest Tool Award celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16 mrt 2026 20:35 (CET)

Beursaanvraag Wikimania 2026 geopend

Van 21 - 25 juli vindt Wikimania in Parijs plaats, de jaarlijkse wereldwijde conferentie voor iedereen die betrokken is bij een of meerdere Wikimedia-projecten.

Wikimedia Nederland stelt een beperkt aantal beurzen beschikbaar voor reis- en verblijfskosten voor het hoofdprogramma van 23–25 juli. Je kunt tot uiterlijk zondag 12 april een beurs aanvragen.

Meer informatie over de beursaanvraag vind je op de verenigingswiki.

Wikimedia Nederland JansenKirsten (overleg) 23 mrt 2026 15:12 (CET)

Tech News: 2026-13

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 site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional "Log in with passkey" button will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The screen recording demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
• 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.

Updates for editors

• Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
• Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an early version of an experience that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
• The Special:Block now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown.
• Mobile editors at several wikis can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance account creation experience on mobile and then increase participation.
• View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.

Updates for technical contributors

• Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent cloud-announce email and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible.

• The API Portal documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• WMDE Technical Wishes is considering improvements to automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor. Please check out the proposed solutions and participate in the request for comment.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23 mrt 2026 17:51 (CET)

Kandidatuur Latijn als moderator

Latijn heeft zich 26 maart kandidaat gesteld als moderator, zonder hiervan in De Kroeg melding te maken. Het is aannemelijk dat Latijn niet wist dat dit goed gebruik is, vandaar dat ik dat nu maar doe. Het is in mijn ogen wel een indicatie dat er gewoon nog onvoldoende ervaring aanwezig is om moderator te worden. Een echte contra-indicatie is in mijn ogen het volgende: op 29 maart 16:46 is er een nieuw account TijdBot aangemaakt. Dit account heeft in de hele Wikimediawereld precies twee bewerkingen gedaan: om 16:47 deze bewerking op de overlegpagina van Latijn, die om 17:38 door Latijn ongedaan is gemaakt, gevolgd door een stem voor Latijn als moderator om 18:17, die door mij inmiddels om een voor de hand liggende reden ongeldig is verklaard. MarcoSwart (overleg) 30 mrt 2026 14:20 (CEST)

is het nu geldig Latijn (overleg) 30 mrt 2026 14:22 (CEST)

Kiezen Jochenknabben, Kvdrgeus en Marcel coenders voor of niet Latijn (overleg) 30 mrt 2026 15:57 (CEST)

wat is voor, en wat is tegen Latijn (overleg) 30 mrt 2026 22:44 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-14

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 Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
• The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
• View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 30 mrt 2026 21:25 (CEST)

Alternatief om moderator te worden

Wat is hier een goed alternatief om een moderator te worden? Latijn (overleg) 2 apr 2026 16:13 (CEST)

Kies liever niks Latijn (overleg) 7 apr 2026 16:30 (CEST)

Het is een belangrijk uitgangspunt dat een moderator het vertrouwen van de overgrote meerderheid van overige bewerkers heeft. Daar is geen alternatief voor. MarcoSwart (overleg) 8 apr 2026 14:01 (CEST)

Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)

Hello everyone,

This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as Module:Itemgroup/list).

The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property P1846, combined with the qualifier P180: Q19571328.

We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property: P14226.

What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from P14226 instead of the old P1846 + P180 structure. A list of pages was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.

Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on P1846 to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old P1846 statements will be removed after May 1, 2026. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.

Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help! ZI Jony using MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 3 apr 2026 19:11 (CEST)

Gebruiker:Lekkereten ...

... blijft knoeien, zie en .

Ook bekend als:

gebruiker:Latijn en

gebruiker:LatijnBot (beide geblokkeerd op Wikibooks, plus nog 2 of 3 sokpoppen),

gebruiker:Latijn1,

gebruiker:22appels (geblokkeerd op nl.wikipedia en inmiddels globaal vergrendeld) en

gebruiker:Vuurregenboog.

En een checkuser op de volgende accounts (zojuist snel na elkaar aangemaakt) lijkt me ook nuttig:

gebruiker:Uxic,

gebruiker:Hipgamer,

gebruiker:Andhrelu,

gebruiker:Vrolijkkerstfeest,

gebruiker:Laatmelachen en

gebruiker:Dwuz.

- Erik Baas (overleg) 5 apr 2026 23:58 (CEST)

WikiWoordenboek heeft (nog) geen checkuserbeleid. Maar snel aangemaakte accounts die kennelijk bedoeld zijn voor toekomstig spammen, worden wel preventief geblokkeerd. MarcoSwart (overleg) 6 apr 2026 10:35 (CEST)

Er is nu al wel de pagina sokpop met daarop alle relevante definities. Maar ja, in de praktijk heb je daar natuurlijk nog niets aan, dan zul je toch echt een checkuser moeten gaan aanstellen...? De Wikischim (overleg) 8 apr 2026 17:56 (CEST)

Of je doet een verzoek op Meta, dat lijkt me sneller en gemakkelijker. - Erik Baas (overleg) 8 apr 2026 18:32 (CEST)

Een verzoek op Meta is uiteraard eenvoudiger dan het invoeren van checkusers op WikiWoordenboek, maar preventief blokkeren is nog weer eenvoudiger. MarcoSwart (overleg) 10 apr 2026 10:25 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-15

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 CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
• The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected.
• All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
• The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them, format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots.
• The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 6 apr 2026 18:19 (CEST)

Over de pagina were

Zojuist zie ik dit langskomen. Deze IP-er heeft helaas wel gelijk, en het blijkt er al vanaf de allereerste versie in 2008(!) (aangemaakt door gebruiker:Jcwf) zo ingestaan te hebben. Als ik die pagina onder ogen had gekregen had ik het natuurlijk zelf gecorrigeerd, maar ik ging ervan uit dat dit soort basale onderwerpen hier wel in orde waren.

Nou niet meteen de allerbeste reclame voor dit project, zou ik zeggen. Tel hierbij op dat het alles bij elkaar dus bijna 20 jaar zo is blijven staan. Jammer. De Wikischim (overleg) 9 apr 2026 12:48 (CEST)

We kunnen er op verschillende manieren tegenaan kijken. Jcwf heeft hier meer bijna 100.000 bewerkingen gedaan en ruim 30.000 pagina's aangemaakt. Uiteraard zitten daar ook wel eens verschrijvingen in. En als we allemaal zoveel bijdroegen als Jcwf, zouden we capaciteit te over hebben om die sneller te corrigeren. Maar niet iedereen heeft evenveel tijd en zin. Ik denk niet dat iemand jou verwijt dat je deze correctie nooit gemaakt hebt. Laten we gewoon blij zijn met iedere inspanning om WikiWoordenboek beter te maken. Ik vind het eigenlijk wel reclame voor wiki's dat je als incidentele bezoeker meteen een substantiële bijdrage kan leveren. MarcoSwart (overleg) 10 apr 2026 10:20 (CEST)

Nodig je oud-collega’s uit voor het verjaardagsfeest van Wikipedia

Beste WikiWoordenboek-collega,

Als het goed is, staat het al in je agenda voor zaterdag 20 juni 2026, het verjaardagsfeest van Wikipedia.

Kom jij op het feest in Utrecht? Als gebruiker van WikiWoordenboek ben je van harte welkom, uiteraard! En zou je het leuk vinden als je dan niet alleen huidige collega’s kan ontmoeten, maar ook mensen van vroeger? Mensen die je de laatste jaren niet meer ziet? Ook door hen is Wikipedia gegroeid en sterk geworden. Help jij mee om hen uit te nodigen voor het feest, zodat we samen kunnen proosten op de toekomst?

Ik zou je daarom willen vragen om oud-collega’s, mensen die de Nederlandstalige Wikipedia of WikiWoordenboek om wat voor reden dan ook verlaten hebben, uit te nodigen. Mensen met wie jij het goed kon vinden. Heb je een mailadres? Stuur zo iemand een persoonlijk mailtje, waarin je zegt hoe leuk je het zou vinden als die persoon komt. Hier kan je een voorbeeldmail vinden, maar pas het vooral aan, zodat het persoonlijk wordt. Heb je geen mailadres, dan kan je het natuurlijk ook sturen via de overlegpagina van die persoon, maar er bestaat natuurlijk een grote kans dat die niet gelezen wordt.

Heb je inspiratie nodig wie je wil uitnodigen? Dan hier wat tips.

• Kijk in de geschiedenis van je eigen overlegpagina. Wie heeft jou welkom geheten? Wie heeft je aangemoedigd?
• Kijk op de pagina met jubilea of op de andere pagina’s met Wikipedia-sterren; zijn er mensen die je mist de laatste tijd?
• Kijk naar je oudste bijdragen: wie heeft die destijds verbeterd?
• Kijk wie er allemaal vertrokken zijn via het sjabloon "vertrokken".
• En zoek natuurlijk in je eigen mailarchief met wie je ooit gecorrespondeerd hebt.

Het is handig als je hier aangeeft met welke Wikipediaan jij contact hebt opgenomen. Dan ontvangt de persoon niet al te veel dubbele uitnodigingen.

N.B. Van iedereen die deelneemt aan dit evenement wordt verwacht dat zij het Beleid Vriendelijke Ruimtes respecteren. Je kunt er hier meer over lezen.

P.S. Heb jij je zelf nog niet aangemeld? Je kan je hier nog inschrijven.

Dank je wel alvast en hopelijk tot ziens 20 juni! Met feestelijke groet, Elly _(Overleg) 12 apr 2026 21:22 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-16

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

• Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.

Updates for editors

• On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki.
• The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting later this week, Misbruikfilterredacteuren who have the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
• Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications.
• Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-17

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

• After two years of development, ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, also known as CodeMirror 6, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd who developed many of the new features, including code folding, autocompletion, and linting.
• A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.

Updates for editors

• Reading lists is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
• An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others.
• On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more.
• View all 15 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of the promotion of CodeMirror from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
• The mirrors.wikimedia.org service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more.
• The image and oldimage table will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries access image or oldimage directly, please update them to use the file and filerevision table before 28 May.
• Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. 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 and Frequently Asked Questions.
• The Attribution API is now available as a beta. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia). Share your feedback on the project talk page.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20 apr 2026 17:00 (CEST)

Request for comment (global AI policy)

Apologies for writing in English. Help met het vertalen in uw taal A request for comment is currently being held to decide on a global AI policy. Bedankt! MediaWiki message delivery (overleg) 26 apr 2026 02:58 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-18

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

• There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the Automatisch bevestigde gebruikers group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions.
• All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure. 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, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 27 apr 2026 20:06 (CEST)

Inactieve moderatoren

Op WikiWoordenboek:Regelingen rond moderatoren staat: "Een moderator die in de laatste 12 maanden minder dan 50 bewerkingen heeft gedaan zal de moderatorstatus worden ontnomen", maar wat is de procedure voor dit ontnemen? Volgens mij komen Cadfaell en Wikibelgiaan hiervoor in aanmerking. bdijkstra (overleg) 3 mei 2026 17:29 (CEST)

Als er geen officieel beleid is zou ik op de OP van beide medewerkers de vraag stellen of ze nog prijs stellen op behoud van de moderator-rechten, en als daar binnen een redelijke termijn (2 weken?) geen bevestigend antwoord op gegeven wordt een verzoek doen op meta om het modbitje te laten verwijderen. NB Cadfaell is ook bureaucraat. - Erik Baas (overleg) 4 mei 2026 12:32 (CEST)

De omgangsvormen op WikiWoordenboek houden iets meer rekening met de mogelijkheid dat er persoonlijke omstandigheden kunnen zijn die iemand niet meteen op zijn overlegpagina wil bespreken. Daarom begin ik meestal met een vraag via e-mail of er wat aan de hand is.

Met Wikibelgiaan heb ik vorig jaar contact gehad. Hij verwachtte toen in het najaar mogelijk meer tijd te krijgen, maar dat is hier niet zichtbaar geworden. Ik wil hem in het verlengde van dat contact nu wel via zijn overlegpagina voorleggen dat het wellicht beter is om moderator buiten dienst te worden. Mij staat voor ogen om dit, afhankelijke van eventuele reacties hier, morgenavond te doen.

Met Cadfaell heb ik na een periode van inactiviteit in 2024 contact gehad; hij kon toen wegens andere bezigheden minder tijd aan WikiWoordenboek besteden, maar hij is daarna weer enige tijd actief geweest. Ik heb opnieuw contact gezocht en wacht nu eerst zijn reactie af. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 4 mei 2026 21:23 (CEST)

Het maakt m.i. weinig uit of er persoonlijke omstandigheden zijn of niet. Accounts zijn te hacken. Inactieve moderatoraccounts zijn een risico. bdijkstra (overleg) 5 mei 2026 18:24 (CEST)

Volgens mij zijn we het eens over de wenselijkheid om dat risico beperkt te houden. Ik hoop dat die overeenstemming zich ook kan uitstrekken tot een hoffelijke manier om dat te doen. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 5 mei 2026 22:39 (CEST)

Wat mij betreft wel. Misschien dat de projectpagina op een manier kan worden aangepast die hoffelijkheid aanmoedigt. bdijkstra (overleg) 6 mei 2026 21:26 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-19

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 Article guidance team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.

Updates for editors

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page.
• The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so.
• From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot in that the latter reminds users a week before the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages.
• The Global Watchlist, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata now support EntitySchema elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The second phase of global API rate limits has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 4 mei 2026 22:43 (CEST)

Wikibelgiaan moderator buiten dienst

Wikibelgiaan heeft laten weten dat hij onverminderd enthousiast is over WikiWoordenboek, maar op dit moment niet de tijd heeft om als vanouds actief te zijn. Dat kan in de toekomst weer veranderen, dus hij kiest er op dit moment voor om moderator buiten dienst te zijn. Ik wil dit moment wel benutten om hem in ieder geval te bedanken voor zijn vele bijdragen tot nu toe aan WikiWoordenboek, ook los van de bijna 14 jaar moderatorschap. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 6 mei 2026 22:27 (CEST)

Aanpassing sjabloon audio

Ik heb een kleine aanpassing aan het sjabloon {{audio}} gedaan. Als er nog niet kan worden gelinkt naar een geluidsbestand, wordt wél het woord getoond waar het om gaat, maar dan in grijs. Dit lijkt me vooral nuttig als we meerdere varianten van de uitspraak weergeven: het is nu beter te zien welke variant ontbreekt. Als dit problemen of bezwaren oplevert kan het uiteraard verder worden aangepast of teruggedraaid. MarcoSwart (overleg) 8 mei 2026 12:09 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-20

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

• Community Tech has published new guidance explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.
• The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.
• View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The ResourceLoader module mediawiki.ui.input, deprecated since September 2023, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 11 mei 2026 21:20 (CEST)

Etymologiebank en WNT tijdelijk onbereikbaar

Omdat het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal last heeft van hackers zijn sites als de Etymologiebank en het Woordenboek der Nederlandsche taal (WNT) tijdelijk onbereikbaar. Daardoor zullen links die hier via sjablonen in grote aantallen zijn toegevoegd enige tijd niet naar behoren werken. MarcoSwart (overleg) 13 mei 2026 12:53 (CEST)

https://ivdnt.org/ Kvdrgeus (overleg) 14 mei 2026 08:53 (CEST)

Mijn indruk is dat de sites waar wij vaak heen linken nu weer bereikbaar zijn. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 29 mei 2026 14:23 (CEST)

Cadfaell moderator buiten dienst

Cadfaell heeft mij laten weten dat beperkingen die de ouderdom met zich meebrengt maken dat voor hem nu tot zijn spijt de tijd is gekomen om zijn activiteit op WikiWoordenboek terug te brengen. Met meer dan 115.000 bewerkingen en een periode als moderator van bijna 13 jaar heeft hij een buitengewoon grote bijdrage aan ons project geleverd. In lastige situaties was hij altijd beschikbaar voor overleg of assistentie op een manier die hoffelijkheid en zakelijkheid paarde. Voor dit alles wil ik hem ook persoonlijk graag bedanken. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 17 mei 2026 13:53 (CEST)

Nieuwe moderator gezocht

In een discussie in 2022 was de slotsom dat er bij voorkeur minstens drie moderatoren gewoonlijk elke dag op WikiWoordenboek actief zijn. Het gaat niet zozeer om de hoeveelheid werk die gedaan moet worden: die is meestal niet zo groot. En als er incidenteel veel werk is, zijn er gelukkig moderatoren waarop een beroep kan worden gedaan. Het gaat meer om het snel genoeg kunnen reageren op alledaagse problemen. Voor heel herkenbaar vandalisme of spam is er een internationaal team dat bewerkingen snel terugdraait op wiki's waar moderatoren niet continu aanwezig zijn, maar er zijn regelmatig gevallen waarin het wenselijk is dat er binnen een etmaal door iemand van ons naar gekeken wordt, vanwege de taal of de afspraken die we hier hebben. Na het terugtreden van Cadfaell ging het met nog twee doorgaans dagelijks actieve moderatoren (Marcel coenders en ikzelf) meestal goed, maar als een van ons soms een tijdje is verhinderd, kan het gemakkelijk gebeuren dat er een gat van meer dan 24 uur ontstaat. MarcoSwart (overleg) 17 mei 2026 14:01 (CEST)

Nieuwe bureaucraat gezocht

Een bureaucraat kan na de daarvoor geldende procedure bewerkers moderator maken of bots die aan de regels voldoen de mogelijkheid geven op WikiWoordenboek actief te worden. In de praktijk wil dat meestal ook zeggen dat je de betreffende procedures bewaakt. Nu Cadfaell stopt, ben ik de enige bureaucraat van WikiWoordenboek. Het lijkt me voor de continuïteit wenselijk dat we minstens 2 bureaucraten hebben die goed kijk hebben op wat er op WikiWoordenboek speelt. MarcoSwart (overleg) 17 mei 2026 14:19 (CEST)

Bijwerken regelingen rond moderators en bureaucraten

Zoals hierboven opgemerkt kan het verhelderend zijn als de tamelijk oude beschrijvingen van de regelingen rond moderators en bureaucraten wat meer bij de actuele praktijk brengen. Ik wil daarmee de komende weken een begin maken. Uiteraard zijn vragen en suggesties hieronder welkom. Het niet mijn bedoeling inhoudelijk wezenlijk iets te veranderen aan de bestaande praktijk, maar die gewoon wat beter te beschrijven. Hierop is één uitzondering: ik zou willen voorstellen de termijn voor besluitvorming op twee weken te brengen. WikiWoordenboek kent redelijk wat bewerkers die niet meer dan eens per week actief zijn. Een termijn van één week kan er dan gemakkelijk toe leiden dat je een belangrijk besluit helemaal mist. MarcoSwart (overleg) 17 mei 2026 14:45 (CEST)

Eens met de twee weken. bdijkstra (overleg) 2 jun 2026 19:05 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-21

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 Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.

Updates for editors

• An experiment to show Reading Lists to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.
• To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights.
• Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more.
• The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18 mei 2026 22:21 (CEST)

Aanmelden moderator

Ik heb me hier aangemeld om mogelijks moderator te worden. Jochenknabben (overleg) 21 mei 2026 19:58 (CEST)

In reactie op deze aanmelding is alleen steun en geen bezwaar naar voren gekomen. Aangezien aan alle voorwaarden is voldaan, is Jochenknabben nu moderator. Bedankt voor de bereidheid om ook aan dit werk bij te dragen! --MarcoSwart (overleg) 6 jun 2026 00:21 (CEST)

Technieuws: 2026-22

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Hoogtepunt van de week

• Na een succesvol experiment met het aanmaken van accounts wordt een verbeterd waarschuwingsbericht voor niet aangemelde bewerkers in de eerste week van juni worden uitgerold naar alle Wikimedia-wiki's. De wijziging treft alleen niet aangemelde gebruikers op mobiel die een bewerkingssessie openen. De bijgewerkte ervaring is ontworpen om het aanmaken van een account duidelijker aan te moedigen, terwijl gebruikers nog steeds kunnen bewerken met tijdelijke accounts. Resultaten van het experiment lieten een significante toename zien in het aanmaken van accounts, met een relatieve stijging van 27% onder gebruikers die het bijgewerkte bericht te zien kregen. Zoals verwacht namen tijdelijke accounts relatief af met 16% doordat meer mensen een account aanmaakten. Het experiment liet geen significante veranderingen zien in het aantal constructieve bewerkingen of andere gemonitorde bijdragerstatistieken.

Updates voor moderatoren

• Om veiligheidsredenen moeten leden van bepaalde gebruikersgroepen tweetrapsauthenticatie (2FA) ingeschakeld hebben. Leden van deze groepen kunnen de laatste 2FA-methode op hun account niet uitschakelen, en het is onmogelijk om gebruikers zonder 2FA aan deze groepen toe te voegen. Gebruikers kunnen nog steeds nieuwe authenticatiemethoden toevoegen of verwijderen, zolang er ten minste één methode continu ingeschakeld blijft. In de komende weken worden gebruikers zonder 2FA uit deze groepen verwijderd. Dit geldt met name voor bureaucraten. Zie de gekoppelde taken voor uitrolschema's.
• WMDE Technische Wensen voert een A/B-test uit op 10 wiki's, waarbij mogelijke verbeteringen voor Referentievoorvertoningen worden getest. Het experiment duurt ongeveer 2 weken aan het einde van mei / begin juni en treft 10% van de desktoplezers op de deelnemende wiki's.
• Na twee succesvolle experimenten rolt het Reader Growth-team op 25 mei een bètafunctie Afbeeldingen bladeren uit voor alle Wikipedia's op mobiel. Dit betekent dat iedereen die standaard alle bètafuncties ingeschakeld heeft deze functie te zien krijgt, en anderen kunnen het vakje aanvinken om het in te schakelen in hun voorkeuren. De bètafunctie bevat een carrousel van alle afbeeldingen van een pagina bovenaan de pagina, met opties voor redacteuren om afbeeldingen uit te sluiten van de carrousel van de pagina of om een pagina volledig uit te sluiten van de functie.
• Bekijk alle 30 door de gemeenschap ingediende taken die vorige week opgelost zijn. Zo werden driedimensionale STL-bestanden incorrect weergegeven door de 3D-uitbreiding van de mediaviewer, wat nu is opgelost.

Updates voor technische bijdragers

• De verouderde CSS-klassen tleft en tright zijn vervangen door floatleft en floatright omdat de eerste niet consistent werken op alle MediaWiki-platforms, met name mobiel en mobiele apps. Projecten die deze klassen gebruiken worden aangemoedigd om gerelateerd gebruik te bekijken en een migratie te plannen. Houd er rekening mee dat floatleft en floatright in de toekomst ook verouderd kunnen worden verklaard, hoewel er momenteel geen plannen zijn om dit te doen. Meer informatie.
• Gedetailleerde code updates later deze week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 25 mei 2026 23:52 (CEST)

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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 1 jun 2026 23:08 (CEST)

Voorbeeldzinnen met alleen van het grondwoord afgeleide vormen; overzetten?

Het valt mij al langere tijd op dat er in pagina's over van een grondwoord afgeleide vormen, zoals de verkleinwoorden en meervouden bij zelfstandige naamwoorden, bijna nooit voorbeeldzinnen staan. Anderzijds hebben de pagina's over het grondwoord soms voorbeeldzinnen waarin enkel afgeleide vormen van dat grondwoord staan. Een voorbeeld is eethuis, waar nu alleen een voorbeeldzin met het verkleinwoord dat bovendien in het meervoud staat (twee verbuigingen tegelijk dus, zeg maar).

Mijn voorstel is om vanaf nu voorbeeldzinnen die alleen een afgeleide vorm van het kernwoord geven, standaard over te zetten naar de pagina over die afgeleide vorm. In het onderhavige geval zou dat dus betekenen dat de voorbeeldzin die momenteel staat op eethuis wordt overgezet naar het lemma eethuisjes, dat nu zelf geen voorbeeldzin heeft. Het lemma eethuis kan dan een andere voorbeeldzin krijgen.

Meningen? In de praktijk zal dit wel nogal wat overzetwerk gaan betekenen aangezien het om vrij veel Nederlandstalige lemma's gaat. Het zou dus wellicht een soort deelproject moeten worden. De Wikischim (overleg) 2 jun 2026 11:33 (CEST)

Wat zou je dan doen met woorden met meerdere definities? Het is in dat geval informatiever om passende citaten bij de bijhorende definities te zetten, dan ze bij het afgeleide lemma te zetten. In het geval met voorbeeldzinnen i.p.v. citaten is dit probleem natuurlijk wel wat meer "maakbaar", maar dan zou op zijn minst een duidelijke voorbeeldzin staan in het hoofdlemma. Het probleem van het "verlies van informatie" door niet direct de definitie te weten, maakt het misschien wel lastig voor de leek. Jochenknabben (overleg) 2 jun 2026 13:52 (CEST)

Dag, ik begrijp geloof ik niet helemaal goed welk verband je precies ziet met het hebben van meerdere definities bij een term, en wat het bijbehorende probleem dan is.

Verder: natuurlijk zouden er idealiter geen lemma's over een grondwoord zonder bijbehorende voorbeeldzin moeten ontstaan, maar dat valt vrij eenvoudig op te lossen door een andere voorbeeldzin ervoor in de plaats te zoeken waarin echt het onverbogen grondwoord voorkomt. De Wikischim (overleg) 2 jun 2026 15:53 (CEST)

Bij meerdere definities van het term zou het misschien voor mensen minder duidelijk zijn welke definitie exact bedoeld wordt, maar dat is inderdaad wel op te lossen als je gewoon een citaat neemt bij het grondwoord zelf.

De argumenten die ik eerder heb gezet zijn inderdaad niet echt overtuigend... Ik laat het even gisten, ik ben voorlopig niet echt voor of tegen. Jochenknabben (overleg) 2 jun 2026 16:46 (CEST)

Dit lijkt me echt een geval waar het nuttig is om verschil te maken tussen echte voorbeeldzinnen (die we zelf maken) en vindplaatsen (die we citeren).
Bij de voorbeeldzinnen ben ik het wel eens met de gedachte dat die beter de vorm kunnen bevatten die op de pagina wordt beschreven.
Bij de vindplaatsen valt het niet altijd mee om een goed bruikbaar citaat te vinden. Het lijkt me geen goed idee om op het trefwoord een citaat weg te halen zonder het te vervangen. Op zichzelf vind ik de aanwezigheid van een citaat met een afgeleide vorm op het trefwoord zelf niet per se verkeerd. Ik kan me ook voorstellen dat een vindplaats zowel op het trefwoord als op de verbuiging of vervoeging wordt gebruikt.
Een complicatie is dat we voor nogal wat van dat soort vormen sjablonen gebruiken waarbij het niet mogelijk is om een citaat op de juiste plaats in te voegen. Als we dat meer willen gaan doen, is het misschien beter om eerst die sjablonen aan te passen. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 2 jun 2026 17:11 (CEST)

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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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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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 Speciaal: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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RFC about AI-generated content in Wikimedia Commons

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this message to your language. You are invited to participate in a request for comment on Wikimedia Commons about a policy update for AI content. This may affect files that are uploaded to Wikimedia Commons for use on this project. Thank you. Codename Noreste (overleg) 23 jun 2026 19:12 (CEST)

Deployment of Legal and Safety Contacts Link in the Footer of Your Wiki

Legal & Safety Contacts

Hello community, the Wikimedia Foundation has provided a single legal and safety contact page, to be linked in the footer of your wiki, to ensure access to accurate legal information. This is a regulatory requirement. We have already rolled out links to English, German, Italian, Spanish and other wikis and we will deploy to your wiki soon. Please read more on the project page and leave any comments in this thread or on the talk page.

-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 25 jun 2026 15:31 (CEST)

Hello Sannita,

I have translated the contact page, so Dutch speakers can read it more easily and I have updated our legal information page. I noticed the name of the link in the footer of English Wikipedia is Legal & safety contacts. I would suggest to use Contact juridische kwesties on WikiWoordenboek. What in Wikimedia context is meant by "security" is mostly covered by "juridische kwesties". Translating it separately suggests a much wider meaning than intended. MarcoSwart (overleg) 27 jun 2026 00:45 (CEST)

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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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 6 jul 2026 15:57 (CEST)

Categorie:Aardrijkskunde van Macedonië in het ...

N.a.v. de recente verwijdering van Categorie:Aardrijkskunde van Macedonië in het Nederlands: zou de inhoud van deze categorieën niet allemaal moeten worden verplaatst naar Categorie:Aardrijkskunde van Noord-Macedonië in het ...? bdijkstra (overleg) 12 jul 2026 16:38 (CEST)

Ik denk het wel. Ik had de Categorie:Aardrijkskunde van Macedonië in het Nederlands verwijderd naar aanleiding van een overleg (dat blijkbaar verwijderd is samen met de categorie) met een anonieme gebruiker die op het bestaan van deze categorie wees. De categorie was immers ook leeg en de inhoud was volledig verplaatst naar Categorie:Aardrijkskunde van Noord-Macedonië in het Nederlands. Zelf had ik nog niet gekeken naar de andere talen.

Jochenknabben (overleg) 13 jul 2026 10:53 (CEST)

Om de geschiedenis te bewaren is het in dit soort gevallen beter om de categorie te hernoemen (zonder een verwijzing achter te laten, dat kun je als moderator). Het is van belang eerst op de eventuele pagina's die nog in de categorie de verwijzing naar de nieuwe naam aan te brengen. Ik heb een en ander ondertussen uitgevoerd. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 13 jul 2026 17:07 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-29

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

• Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
• The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
• View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
• To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.

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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.

Updates for technical contributors

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

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Request for comment (the future of Abstract Wikipedia)

Apologies if this has not yet been translated into your wiki's language. Help met het vertalen in uw taal You are invited to voice your opinions in a request for comment about the future of Abstract Wikipedia. Bedankt! Kowal2701 (talk) 24 jul 2026 14:25 (CEST)

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.

Updates for editors

• 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.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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.
• Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too.
• From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-32

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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MediaWiki message delivery 3 aug 2026 21:46 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-33

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

• A new ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons for users interested in creating charts from their own data. The wizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. Users can still switch to the JSON editor if they prefer. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Wikipedia iOS app’s Picture of the Day widget displayed the same image every day instead of updating daily, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Math formula SVG images will soon be generated in the browser instead of on the server. MathML continues to be generated on the server and renders in the browser without JavaScript. Wikibooks will see this change on 12 August, Wikisource on 19 August and Wikipedia from 20-27 August. You can try this by selecting "MathML met SVG-afbeelding (client-side MathJax-rendering)" in your preferences. This change is part of deprecating RESTBase and deprecating Mathoid.
• Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category. This will make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. It will also improve workflows for maintenance categories such as deletion backlogs and other time-based review tasks. You can use cldsort=timestamp URL argument in category view to sort the entries.
• Gadgets and user scripts on Wikimedia wikis may now use ES2018 features and ES2019 features in JavaScript code. Previously, the platform only allowed up to ES2017. MediaWiki validates the source code to protect functionality from syntax errors and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 10 aug 2026 22:45 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-34

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 Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

• Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word __EXPECTSHORTPAGE__.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole (w:bol:)
• Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error.

Updates for technical contributors

• Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 17 aug 2026 23:04 (CEST)

Tech News: 2026-35

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 Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. The panel showing project statistics no longer appears next to the form on desktop and mobile web. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration.
• In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images lower down an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics.

• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where image thumbnails in Abstract Wikipedia could fail to display after the corresponding file was moved on Wikimedia Commons, has now been fixed. Thumbnails will now update correctly when files are moved.

Updates for technical contributors

• User Info card is a feature that helps patrollers see information about user accounts. So far, it has been available only in places such as page history, logs and recent changes. Now, it's possible to place it in the page content as well, using the {{#uic:}} parser function. It can be particularly useful in templates like {{Userlinks}} (or their specialized variants), as it will make it easier to see the context about a user on various noticeboard pages. The card will be displayed only to users who have it enabled in their preferences.
• Due to user security and privacy risks, we have disabled access to Special:MyPage URLs when specifically using action=raw. If you are impacted by this, consider whether you can use an alternative approach. Special:MyPage URLs can still be accessed and used without action=raw. Specified user page URLs (e.g. User:Myusername) can still be used with action=raw.
• Due to an update, the thumbnailing software has been improved. This includes upgrading librsvg to 2.60 and ImageMagick to 7, as well as resolving a number of long-standing thumbnailing bugs like rendering errors.

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 24 aug 2026 22:45 (CEST)

Ensie

Misschien is het al eens besproken. Ik zie dat het materiaal van WikiWoordenboek niet vrij toegankelijk is op Ensie. Er staat het volgende bij een lemma (Epitome) dat ik daar opzocht vanavond:

Epitome

betekenis & definitie
epitome - Zelfstandignaamwoord 1. uittreksel Woordherkomst afgeleid van het Griekse 'temnein' (snijden)... (de rest onleesbaar)

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Mijn vraag is of dit in overeenstemming is met de voorwaarden van de CCBYSA4.0 licentie. Ik meen dat men bij hergebruik (dat mag natuurlijk) ook weer moet publiceren met een vrije licentie zonder restricties. Meningen? Elly (overleg) 27 aug 2026 19:32 (CEST)

Enkele jaren terug heb ik ENSIE erop gewezen dat ze om te voldoen aan de licentie bij elk item dat ze uit WikiWoordenboek overnemen de toepasselijke licentie moeten vermelden met een directe link naar het betreffende lemma op WikiWoordenboek. Dat hebben ze toen ook netjes gedaan. Ik veronderstel dat dit achter de betaalmuur nog steeds zo gebeurt: ik heb zelf geen abonnement op ENSIE. Voor zover ik weet staat de CC:BY:SA wel toe dat je informatie achter een betaalmuur plaatst (dat is nu net het verschil tussen SA en NC); de vrije licentie wil alleen zeggen dat mensen deze informatie weer vrijelijk uit ENSIE mogen overnemen, in tegenstelling tot de meeste items daar, waarop auteursrecht uitdrukkelijk wordt voorbehouden. Het lijkt me vergelijkbaar met kranten en tijdschriften achter een betaalmuur die in mijn waarneming ook wel eens afbeelding van Commons gebruiken: zolang de bij de afbeelding de vrije licentie wordt aangegeven met een correcte bronvermelding is aan de licentievoorwaarden voldaan. --MarcoSwart (overleg) 29 aug 2026 18:32 (CEST)

dank je wel voor je toelichting @MarcoSwart. Ik zal erop letten als ik een keer geen betaalmuur zie. Groet, Elly (overleg) 29 aug 2026 21:35 (CEST)

Technieuws: 2026-36

Het laatste technieuws van de technische gemeenschap van Wikimedia. Niet alle wijzigingen hebben een merkbaar effect op alle projecten. Meer vertalingen zijn beschikbaar.

Hoogtepunt van de week

• Een nieuw format voor de Community Wishlist staat open voor terugkoppeling. U kunt de voorgestelde ideeën op Meta lezen. Dit nieuwe proces is bedoeld om te verbeteren hoe wensen worden gesorteerd, er over wordt gestemd en hoe ze worden geprioriteerd op een manier die transparant en evenwichtig is over projectfamilies en taalversies heen. Deze consultatie staat twee weken open.

Updates voor moderatoren

• De nieuwste versie van de Wikipedia Android-app bevat updates voor de functie Opgeslagen, waarmee de opslagervaring van de app dichter bij iOS en web komt. De update herontwerpt het tabblad Opgeslagen met een weergave "Alle pagina's", verwijdert de standaard leeslijst "Opgeslagen", hernoemt leeslijsten naar "Verzamelingen" en moderniseert de ervaring voor het opslaan van pagina's.
• De functie Leeslijsten is op 25 augustus ingeschakeld voor alle aangemelde gebruikers op de Bengaalse, Chinese, Tsjechische en Vietnameestalige Wikipedia's, na enkele maanden als bètafunctie. Leeslijsten komen op 1 september beschikbaar voor alle aangemelde gebruikers op de Arabische, Franse en Indonesische Wikipedia's, gevolgd door de Engelstalige Wikipedia op 14 september en alle overige Wikipedia-wiki's op 28 september.
• Vanaf het einde van de maand zien sommige niet aangemelde lezers op de Bengaalse, Tsjechische, Perzische, Engelstalige en Poolse Wikipedia's die de Minerva-skin op mobiel gebruiken een bijgewerkte navigatiebalk in een A/B-test. De test vergelijkt de huidige navigatiebalk met een nieuwe versie die is ontworpen om informatie sneller te kunnen vinden. Het doel is te bepalen of deze wijzigingen lezers aanmoedigen vaker terug te keren. Dit experiment verandert de ervaring voor aangemelde lezers en/of bewerkers niet.
• Redacteuren die doorverwijzingen, sjablonen en categorieën op doorverwijspagina's bijhouden, hebben nu verbeterde manieren om doorverwijzingen te vinden en te cureren. Voorheen konden deze pagina's niet worden doorzocht. Twee nieuwe zoekwoorden, onlyredirects: en withredirects:, maken het nu mogelijk om doorverwijzingen direct te doorzoeken en kunnen worden gecombineerd met bestaande zoekwoorden zoals incategory:, intitle: en insource:.
• De ISBN-opzoekhulpmiddelen voor het maken van referenties werkten recentelijk niet vanwege problemen met externe diensten. Ontwikkelaars werken aan oplossingen.
• Bekijk alle 30 door de gemeenschap ingediende taken die vorige week opgelost zijn. Zo is een probleem opgelost waarbij het zoeken naar pagina's op categorie met deepcat geen of niet-gerelateerde resultaten kon opleveren.

Updates voor technische bijdragers

• Het domein van url's voor miniatuurafbeeldingen verandert van upload.wikimedia.org naar thumb.wikimedia.org. De oude url's blijven in de nabije toekomst werken, maar MediaWiki laat voortaan het nieuwe domein zien. Url's naar andere mediatypen, zoals originele bestanden, video's en transcodings, worden nog steeds aangeboden vanuit upload.wikimedia.org.
• De Wikimedia Math-API is nu verouderd. Deze eindpunten worden eind september 2026 volledig buiten gebruik gesteld. Ontwikkelaars die deze eindpunten aanroepen, moeten overstappen op alternatieve wiskundige weergaveoplossingen, zoals MathML of MathJax. Externe MediaWiki-installaties die de Math-uitbreiding gebruiken voor het weergeven van formules, moeten upgraden naar v1.43+ om onderbrekingen van de dienst te voorkomen.

• Gedetailleerde code updates later deze week: MediaWiki

In detail

• Lees meer over TextMatch in een Diff-post Aangepaste bewerkingssuggesties voor elke wiki: Hoe gemeenschappen de suggestiemodus vormgeven met TextMatch.

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