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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typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more.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 For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed.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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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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Information

you are incorrect. ~2026-42250-59 (talk) 05:22, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-42250-59: If you believe your edit is correct, you should add a reliable source, since Wikipedia is strict on any information about living people and unsourced information must be removed. ~2numforice~ (twonum/talk about it) 05:26, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 2 August 2026

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

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

• WikiConference: "Kurier, Signpost, wikipress: You can be a Wikimedia journalist" - Wikimania presentation by User:Noé Recap
  A recap of Noé Gasparini's Wikimania 2026 presentation on the variety of wikipress outlets

• In focus: Is Larry Sanger the co-founder of Wikipedia?
  A look over the years.

• Arbitration report: Think, and not just about content
  ArbCom continues business.

• News from Diff: Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2026!
  Wikimedians of the Year 2026 announced at Wikimania 2026 - Paris

• On the bright side: The beautiful game
  2026 Men's FIFA World Cup, Wikimania music, and wikipress.

• Traffic report: Odyssey and Oyarzabal
  To take you in the sun to (Ithaca), to show you the World Cup, it's the time of the season for editing!

• Comix: Well-spotted
  You dasherdly—dash–dash−dash-dash!

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Question from Wiki-WanderingTidepool (02:49, 3 August 2026)

Hello! I'm WanderingTidepool, Fisch, or Fish. I am discovering today that Wikipedia has mentors? Neat! I come to you with the following question, in the hopes that you might have an answer: Is there, like... a way for me to find a page that actually needs editing, and that I might have the skills to help out with? Or does it kind just require me to frequently visit lots of pages and spot things that need improvement? --Wiki-WanderingTidepool (talk) 02:49, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello Fish, and welcome to Wikipedia!

There's many ways to find articles to edit, like Homepage suggested edits (made by Growth Team, also the developer of the mentorship system), which is a very easy way to find problems in articles to fix. Easy tasks are guided using VisualEditor using a step-by-step model. You can go to your homepage by clicking your username.

If you want more ways to improve Wikipedia, you can go to the Task Center for a large list of tasks for editors of various experience levels, although they're not as guided as the Homepage tasks. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 03:39, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Creepie1 (06:24, 3 August 2026)

Hello Im new to the page I would like to donate funds to Wiki please let me know if I can from my home page many thanks Michael --Creepie1 (talk) 06:24, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

@Creepie1: If you wish to donate to the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit hosting Wikipedia), see https://donate.wikimedia.org.

<pov><!-- The following is all my personal opinion. It is still important nonetheless. -->Given the Wikimedia Foundation's current activities of union busting and using its funds for that purpose, and hiring Littler Mendelson, a union-busting law firm (directly using donor money), I strongly discourage giving any money to WMF until it recognizes Wiki Workers United.</pov> ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 06:49, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from FloodedEnthusiast (08:00, 3 August 2026)

how do i make it so that i dont make the tone of a page inaccurate? --FloodedEnthusiast (talk) 08:00, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @FloodedEnthusiast, and welcome to Wikipedia! We have a policy, called Neutral point of view, that essentially boils down to: Articles should not take sides, but provide a fair, unbiased explanation of major sides. Take a look at WP:NPOVT for an introduction to NPOV. As for tone, the explanatory essay WP:TONE explains it well, although it is not a policy.

I also suggest you check out the introduction for a guide to editing Wikipedia and some of Wikipedia's core policies and guidelines. Happy editing! (edited 17:55, 3 August 2026 (UTC)) ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 17:53, 3 August 2026 (UTC)

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).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, 2NumForIce. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

• You must not share IP address data with someone who does not have the same access permissions unless disclosure is permissible as per guidelines listed at Foundation:Policy:Wikimedia Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy.
• Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).

It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:

• When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
• Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
• Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with one or more IP addresses (using the CIDR notation format).

Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! Extraordinary Writ (talk) 07:00, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Navneetsharmapunnj (07:41, 5 August 2026)

Can I create new page or person profile ? --Navneetsharmapunnj (talk) 07:41, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Navneetsharmapunnj, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Creating an article (not a "profile") is a very advanced process that should be done only after completing some easier tasks on your Homepage. There are many core rules, with the most important being maintaining a neutral point of view, writing carefully about living people, making sure information is verifiable, and not using any original research. If you have a conflict of interest, especially if you are being paid per the Wikimedia Terms of Use, you must disclose that (general, paid).

I suggest brand new editors do some tasks on their Homepage and go through the introduction before creating an article. If you're experienced enough to make an article, see Help:Your first article to learn how to write an article and submit a draft. Happy editing! ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 17:55, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Srmcem official (10:32, 5 August 2026)

Hi! I am an official representative of Shri RamSwaroop Memorial College of Engineering and Management (SRMCEM). I would like to propose some updates to the college's Wikipedia page. Since I have a Conflict of Interest (COI), could you please guide me on the proper process and best practices for submitting edit requests? --Srmcem official (talk) 10:32, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Srmcem official, welcome to Wikipedia! Before editing, you need to change your username, which is against policy for implying shared use (accounts are for one person only) and being promotional. See the message I left on your talk page for a more detailed reason and instructions to change your username.

After your username change is approved, you need to disclose your COI. Since you are a representative of SRMCEM, you are being paid, and under the Wikimedia Terms of Use, you must disclose your paid COI before editing.

COI editing is strongly discouraged and frowned upon on Wikipedia, and you must take care not to be promotional when editing. See the Plain and simple conflict of interest guide for more info about this and to submit an edit request. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 18:02, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

August 2026

Hello, I'm The person who loves reading. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Plan have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use your sandbox. If you have any questions, you can ask for assistance at the Teahouse or the Help desk. Thanks. The person who loves reading (talk) 23:28, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

@The person who loves reading: When I reverted the edit, I used the Huggle menu to add the edit summary "unexplained content removal", so it was pretty clear what I was doing. (It actually appears to be a test edit now) I reverted it because it broke a link and a word was removed without an edit summary. I don't want to edit war, so I'm not reverting your revert. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 23:34, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, I was also trying to remove that same edit, and AntiVandal for some reason did not recognize your revert and placed a warning in your talk page instead of the vandal's. I have reverted my edit, so things should be back to normal. Thanks for letting me know by the way, and I really appreciate you fighting vandalism as well! :D The person who loves reading (talk) 23:39, 5 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Z24-a on Stepan Rostomyan (09:41, 6 August 2026)

Hello, I’m editing the page for Stepan Rostomyan and there are excerpts from newspapers that I can’t seem to find any sources for. Could you help with this? I’m not sure what to do --Z24-a (talk) 09:41, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Z24-a, welcome to Wikipedia! Could you let me know which specific newspaper you're referring to so I can check? If you're referring to https://www.european-festivals.eu/en/festivals/members/profile/888/Yerevan%20Perspectives%20International%20Music%20Festival/, it is a dead link which has been archived. I'll use the CS1 citation style which supports archives. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 16:46, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your reply, I’m specifically looking for a source for ‘"New Beginnings" Festival. Janet Beat ("Scotsman", 28 November 1989)’, I have gone to the Scotsman archive and have found both from before the year 2000. I’m not sure if I’m explaining this right or understanding everything properly, could you just give me some advice? I don’t want you to have to go out of your way to find the website. Z24-a (talk) 21:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

The article definitely needs some fixing, for example, not overusing quotations (Stepan Rostomyan § Critic's responses only has quotations without paraphrasing or describing). Overusing quotes, like in the section, is a bad idea per MOS:QUOTE and should be rewritten in original words. In general, inline referencing (editor cite button/<ref>) should be used. The VisualEditor cite button and source editor cite form can cite newspapers without a URL, so you don't need a URL (and shouldn't link to copyright infringement sites). ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 22:17, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Thanks again for all of your help, I don’t know very much about Stepan Rostoyman so I think that I will leave the page for someone else, who knows more about the topic, to fix. Z24-a (talk) 09:05, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from Sales2026 (19:59, 6 August 2026)

How do I create --Sales2026 (talk) 19:59, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Sales2026, and welcome to Wikipedia. Assuming you meant creating an article:

Creating an article is a very advanced process that should be done only after completing some easier tasks on your Homepage. There are many core rules, with the most important being maintaining a neutral point of view, writing carefully about living people, making sure information is verifiable, and not using any original research. If you have a conflict of interest, especially if you are being paid per the Wikimedia Terms of Use, you must disclose that (general, paid). See my standard COI advice.

I suggest brand new editors do some tasks on their Homepage and go through the introduction before creating an article. If you're experienced enough to make an article, see Help:Your first article to learn how to write an article and submit a draft. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 22:21, 6 August 2026 (UTC)

Scream into the void

Let them do it. They want attention so it's better to starve them of it. Unless it's something truly bad I just leave it and ignore them. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 18:28, 10 August 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – August 2026

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

Administrator changes

• MCE89
• Staraction

• Danaman5

CheckUser changes

• dbeef

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the 30-day requirement for extended-confirmed status now begins after an account's first edit instead of its registration (T431060).

Technical news

• Inactive editors can now be removed as mentors at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship automatically.
• The Suggested Edits' Revise Tone feature is now enabled. It encourages editors to identify and revise non-neutral language in articles.

Miscellaneous

• The Unreferenced articles August 2026 backlog drive is underway. Help to add references to 47,000 articles.
• The Articles for creation August 2026 backlog drive is under way. Help to review 4,500+ drafts.

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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 with SVG image (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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Question from Trojan2026 (03:49, 11 August 2026)

How can I register as an editor and contribute to the Wikipedia ? --Trojan2026 (talk) 03:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @Trojan2026, welcome to Wikipedia! You just created an account, which is your first step to editing. Check out Help:Introduction for a tutorial on editing, The Wikipedia Adventure for an interactive game, and your Homepage to find articles to edit. And (as I always say, I have way too many COI mentees) if you are connected to or paid by the subject of the articles you're editing (COI), you need to disclose that. Happy editing! ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 03:59, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from HytrErtrw on Wikipedia:Contact us (21:38, 11 August 2026)

hello hope u are doing good , i want to make page but dont know from where i make , i have all info and coded version of poage just to findf path from where i can make my page new? --HytrErtrw (talk) 21:38, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Hello @HytrErtrw, welcome to Wikipedia!

Creating an article is a very advanced process that should be done only after completing some easier tasks on your Homepage. There are many core rules, with the most important being maintaining a neutral point of view, writing carefully about living people, making sure information is verifiable by using reliable sources, and not using any original research. If you have a conflict of interest, especially if you are being paid per the Wikimedia Terms of Use, you must disclose that (general, paid).

I suggest brand new editors do some tasks on their Homepage and go through the introduction before creating an article. If you're experienced enough to make an article, see Help:Your first article to learn how to write an article and submit a draft. Happy editing! ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 22:46, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

Question from HytrErtrw on Wikipedia:Contact us (23:48, 11 August 2026)

is my page Mohra Sharif Rawalpindi is officially published?? --HytrErtrw (talk) 23:48, 11 August 2026 (UTC)

 Courtesy link: User:HytrErtrw/sandbox

@HytrErtrw: I had to nominate your article for speedy deletion under G15 (unreviewed LLM content) because AI cannot be used on Wikipedia for the most part. The subject already has an article at Mohra Sharif and your article has very few reliable sources using inline citations and formatting issues. I suggest you read the Simplified Manual of Style and go through the entire introduction first before creating an article. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 03:46, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Ugh, sock. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 02:15, 14 August 2026 (UTC)

Revdel request on Social contract

Hi,

I've declined your copyvio revdel request at Social contract because the source material is licensed CC-BY-4.0 which is a compatible license. It was missing the required attribution so I have added it, as well as restoring the text. I have no idea if the text is appropriate for the article so removal for editorial reasons is still possible, but not removal as a copyright violation. Cheers. -- Whpq (talk) 22:43, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

@Whpq: Oh, didn't notice that it's CC. I'll take a look at the article later and see if it's appropriate since it's unwikified. ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 22:45, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

Looked at it and decided it's fine to keep, except for the non-English text (removed) and the quote need to be an actual blockquote (formatted). ~2numforice~ (climb/wavedash) 22:55, 12 August 2026 (UTC)

The licensing isn't immediately obvious. The page uses a tabbed format, and you need to click on the licensing tab to find the CC-BY4.0 license. -- Whpq (talk) 00:07, 13 August 2026 (UTC)