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Tech News: 2025-49

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• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
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Legobot contributions

Hello! Thanks for all your work on Legobot. Redrose suggested that you'd like some help maintaining it. RfC's are of interest interest to me, so maybe I could help with that task. I'd be willing to let you know my real identity if that's required. (Conversely, I'd like to keep public work on the bot separate from my real/offwiki identity so would appreciate some guidance on that if you'd like help). Dw31415 (talk) 17:27, 7 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Dw31415, I appreciate the offer, I'm in the middle of final exams right now, but I will get back to you mid-to-late next week once that's all done. Legoktm (talk) 15:46, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

@Legoktm, thanks for replying. I’ll look more at bots to gauge what level of contribution I’d like to make. Good luck on your finals! Dw31415 (talk) 17:06, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2025-50

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

• Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

• Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
• Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
• Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
• Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [4]
• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
• A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [5]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [6]

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• Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [7]
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• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Empty categories

Hello, Legoktm,

I hope you are doing well these days.

If you have some free time now, could you please take a look on the Toolforge link https://empty-categories.toolforge.org/? It was so much easier to use than the Quarry options that exist and unlike Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories, it can run more than once a day. Thanks for any help you can offer and have a great week. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:43, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Liz, I deployed some fixes, it seems to be working better now. I'm not 100% sure it's addressed everything but it seems to be working now... Legoktm (talk) 08:36, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-51

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• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [9]

Updates for technical contributors

• To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [10]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:00, 15 December 2025 (UTC)

Legobot

Hello,

I've noticed User:Legobot seems to have stopped archiving closed WP:MFD discussions and they're starting to build up. Just a heads up in case something's up with that. CoconutOctopus talk 22:12, 16 December 2025 (UTC)

I should have time to look into this within the next day or two, sorry about the delay. Legoktm (talk) 07:35, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

No worries at all! CoconutOctopus talk 11:04, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

@CoconutOctopus: fixed. Legoktm (talk) 02:00, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Brilliant, thanks! CoconutOctopus talk 07:14, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for your lint fixer!

Very well coded tool IMO, I'm using it on Commons! Just a quick note, the repo should probably be updated to ignore night-mode-unaware-background-color lint errors when deciding, since they usually have no correlation to other lint errors (unless there's a decision to not do that that I'm not aware of). Also, I'm getting a lot of errors for files in this format:

2025-12-21T21:12:31.875683Z ERROR delinter: Error when processing File:D9R-001a.jpg: HTTP error: HTTP status client error (412 Precondition Failed) for url (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/rest.php/v1/transform/html/to/wikitext/File%3AD9R-001a.jpg/1066892559)

These errors only seem to happen on file description pages, is this normal? Thanks, —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 21:26, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

@Matrix: yay, glad to hear it!! I think it would be good to merge whatever changes you've made into the main repo (we can probably have it conditionally select the edit summary based on the wiki or something). If you could send a PR that would be great.

The main philosophy behind the bot is that unless it can fix everything, it skips. The idea was that we'd add fixes for the other lint errors into the bot as well, so it would only need to make 1 edit per page ... but that didn't really happen. I haven't looked into the night-mode errors in detail but instead of skipping I think we should aim to implement fixes for that too.

Regarding the 412 Precondition Failed, try updating to the latest version? I pushed a few fixes in the past few days. Also make sure your config doesn't reference RESTBase anymore and just has wiki_url. If it still keeps happening then there's probably a bug in mwbot or the REST API that we'll have to figure out... Legoktm (talk) 20:07, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

If I'm being honest, the only changes I've made are changing the URLs and DB name ;). I will try updating to the latest version after Christmas. Problem is, we can't really fix the night mode lint errors now, because that would either require unsubstituting everything (which would require consensus and a lot of manual finding and creating regexes), or waiting till 2028 when light-dark() will be supported. I might start working towards it by trying to fix Template:Yes (phab:T411550), but we currently have ~22M of this type of lint error so it will definitely be a journey. —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 21:39, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

@Matrix: I think it would still be good to get those in the main repo, just so others don't accidentally make changes that make it harder for you to update. Plus I wanted to add some enwp specific fixes into the code. Once this MR lands and is released, I think we can easily add conditionals based on the wiki name / database name that shouldn't require any modifications from you. Legoktm (talk) 04:58, 26 December 2025 (UTC)

I'll make a PR later today, so just based on site name right? —Matrix _{ping me}^{when u reply} (t? - c) 11:47, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

Yep. Legoktm (talk) 16:30, 31 December 2025 (UTC)

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• From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [11]
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [12]

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [13]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

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