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Tech News: 2024-47

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

• Users of Wikimedia sites will now be warned when they create a redirect to a page that doesn't exist. This will reduce the number of broken redirects to red links in our projects. [1]
• View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pywikibot, which automates work on MediaWiki sites, was upgraded to 9.5.0 on Toolforge. [2]

Updates for technical contributors

• On wikis that use the FlaggedRevs extension, pages created or moved by users with the appropriate permissions are marked as flagged automatically. This feature has not been working recently, and changes fixing it should be deployed this week. Thanks to Daniel and Wargo for working on this. [3][4]

In depth

• There is a new Diff post about Temporary Accounts, available in more than 15 languages. Read it to learn about what Temporary Accounts are, their impact on different groups of users, and the plan to introduce the change on all wikis.

Meetings and events

• Technical volunteers can now register for the 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. Application for travel and accommodation scholarships is open from November 12 to December 10 2024. The registration for the event will close in mid-April 2025. The Wikimedia Hackathon is an annual gathering that unites the global technical community to collaborate on existing projects and explore new ideas.
• Join the Wikimedia Commons community calls this week to help prioritize support for Commons which will be planned for 2025–2026. The theme will be how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons. This is an opportunity for volunteers who work on different things to come together and talk about what matters for the future of the project. The calls will take place November 21, 2024, 8:00 UTC and 16:00 UTC.
• A Language community meeting will take place November 29, 16:00 UTC to discuss updates and technical problem-solving.

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:01, 19 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-48

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 version of the standard wikitext editor-mode syntax highlighter will be available as a beta feature later this week. This brings many new features and bug fixes, including right-to-left support, template folding, autocompletion, and an improved search panel. You can learn more on the help page.
• The 2010 wikitext editor now supports common keyboard shortcuts such Ctrl+B for bold and Ctrl+I for italics. A full list of all six shortcuts is available. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. [5]
• Starting November 28, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: bswiki, elwiki, euwiki, fawiki, fiwiki, frwikiquote, frwikisource, frwikiversity, frwikivoyage, idwiki, lvwiki, plwiki, ptwiki, urwiki, viwikisource, zhwikisource. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a user creating a new AbuseFilter can now only set the filter to "protected" if it includes a protected variable.

Updates for technical contributors

• The CodeEditor, which can be used in JavaScript, CSS, JSON, and Lua pages, now offers live autocompletion. Thanks to SD0001 for this improvement. The feature can be temporarily disabled on a page by pressing Ctrl+, and un-selecting "Live Autocompletion".
• Tool-maintainers who use the Graphite system for tracking metrics, need to migrate to the newer Prometheus system. They can check this dashboard and the list in the Description of the task T350592 to see if their tools are listed, and they should claim metrics and dashboards connected to their tools. They can then disable or migrate all existing metrics by following the instructions in the task. The Graphite service will become read-only in April. [6]
• The New PreProcessor parser performance report has been fixed to give an accurate count for the number of Wikibase entities accessed. It had previously been resetting after 400 entities. [7]

Meetings and events

• A Language community meeting will take place November 29 at 16:00 UTC. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Mooré Wikipedia, the language support track at Wiki Indaba, and a report from the Wayuunaiki community on their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community over the last 3 years. This meeting will be in English and will also have Spanish interpretation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:42, 25 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

CEE Newsletter - November 2024 Issue Now Available!

We're excited to announce the release of the November 2024 issue of the CEE Newsletter! This edition is particularly special, with 23 updates from affiliates and communities in the CEE region — a record high for this newsletter!

We hope you enjoy the inspiring stories and achievements showcased by our vibrant CEE communities.

Happy reading! --MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 15:11, 28 Νοεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-49

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

• Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
• Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [8]
• Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [9]
• This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [10]

Updates for technical contributors

• In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:23, 2 Δεκεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-50

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

• Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature

• Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
• The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [11]
• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
• The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [12]
• The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [13]
• One new wiki has been created: a Βικιταξίδια in Indonesian (voy:id:) [14]
• Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [15]
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [16][17]

Updates for technical contributors

• Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [18]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
• The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [19]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation discussions with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on December 12 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is new media and new contributors. Contributors from all wikis are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:16, 9 Δεκεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

This Month in Education: November 2024

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This Month in Education

Volume 13 • Issue 9 • November 2024

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In This Issue

• Auckland Museum Wikipedia Student Programme
• Citizenship and free knowledge on Wikipedia in Albanian language
• Engaging students with Wikipedia and Wikidata at Hasanuddin University’s Wikimedia Week
• Minigrant initiative by empowering the Rrëshen community in Albania
• Wikidata birthday in Albania, 2024
• Wikidata birthday in School
• Wikimedia Education Workshop at Lumbini Technological University
• Wikimedia MKD's new collaborations and new content
• Improving Historical Knowledge on Persian Wikipedia through a continuous Wikimedia Education Program: Shahid Beheshti University Wikipedia Education Program

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Tech News: 2024-51

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

• Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

• Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
• Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
• The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 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 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

• There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [20]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:25, 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Πρόταση σελίδας για διαγραφή

Αγαπητέ/ή Geraki, η σελίδα Πρότυπο:Πολλαπλή πρόταση διαγραφής που δημιούργησες (ή σε ενδιαφέρει) έχει προταθεί για διαγραφή. Μπορείς να συμμετάσχεις καταθέτοντας την άποψή σου και επιπλέον πληροφορίες στη [[Συζήτηση:Πρότυπο:Πολλαπλή πρόταση διαγραφής/Πρόταση διαγραφής|σχετική συζήτηση]]. Πιθανόν να χρειάζεται να διαβάσεις την πολιτική (π.χ. Εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα) και τις σχετικές οδηγίες πριν σχηματίσεις άποψη. Σε κάθε περίπτωση, η πρόταση διαγραφής δεν έχει προσωπικό χαρακτήρα και αφορά αποκλειστικά την πολιτική της Βικιπαίδειας.—ℍⅠ∘⊻∀℃ℹ (∫⋃⋝ℍ⅂ℎ∑∓) 13:38, 30 Δεκεμβρίου 2024 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 66

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 66, November – December 2024

• Les Jours and East View Press join the library
• Tech tip: Newspapers.com

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Tech News: 2025-03

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 Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

• On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [21]
• One new wiki has been created: a Βικιπαίδεια in Tigre (w:tig:) [22]
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [23]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
• Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
• For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [24]
• Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [25]

Meetings and events

• The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:42, 14 Ιανουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-04

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

• Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [26]
• On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [27]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [28]
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:37, 21 Ιανουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Karipis1952 στην Δημήτρης Καλλιγέρης (13:38, 24 Ιανουαρίου 2025)

Γειά Ο Δημήτρης Καλλιγέρης δεν γεννήθηκε το 1949 , αλλά το 1952 ήμασταν παιδικοί φίλοι και συμμαθητές από το Δημοτικό σχολείο --Karipis1952 (συζήτηση) 13:38, 24 Ιανουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-05

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

Weekly highlight

• Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

Updates for editors

• iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
• Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Ειδικό:ΠρόσφατεςΑλλαγές and Ειδικό:ΝέεςΣελίδες. [29]
• Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [30]
• Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [31]
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the mediawiki_user_history dump, the anonymous field will be renamed to is_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [32]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:15, 27 Ιανουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-06

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

• Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [33]
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[34] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[35] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
• Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
  • (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.
  • (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber. [36]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [37]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [38]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:09, 4 Φεβρουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: January 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 1 • January 2025

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In This Issue

• Advancing Education Pillar in Kosovo: 2024 Journey
• Auckland Museum Wikipedia Students Making Progress
• Celebrating 10 Years of Wiki Education
• Empowering Multilingual Students: Expanding Wikipedia Through Collaboration of foreign languages faculty's students of the University of Tehran
• Ensuring accurate and authentic information with 1Lib1Ref Campaign in Anambra
• Experiences of Wikipedia in the classroom with a gender perspective in Monterrey
• Fine Arts University Students exploring Wikipedia in Tirana, Albania
• Lviv hosted Ukraine’s first student photo walk for Wikipedia
• Many new trained volunteers and new articles at the end of the year in Macedonia
• Wikimedia and Scientific Events in Brazil
• Wiki Workshop- Call for Contributions

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Tech News: 2025-07

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

Weekly highlight

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.

Updates for editors

• The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [39]
• As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
• Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [40]
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Ειδικό:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [41]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [42]
• The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [43]
• As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [44]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Sarikakis Manolis (12:17, 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2025)

Καλησπέρα θα ηθελα να μπει το όνομά μου μέσα στην wikipedia με βάση αρθρα και τλπ που εχουν αναρτηθεί δημοσια εδώ και χρονιαβγια εμενα γιατί πολλοί ψάχνουν πληροφορίες για εμενα στο διαδίκτυο και θα ήθελα να μπορούν να βρουν και πληροφορίες στην wikipedia ... Να γραφτει ένα ωραίο βιογραφικο και τλπ .

Υπάρχουν πολλές πηγές και μεσα που μιλάνε για εμενα ως δημόσιο πρόσωπο. --Sarikakis Manolis (συζήτηση) 12:17, 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-08

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

• Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Ειδικό:Αρχική σελίδα for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Ειδικό:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

Highlighted talk pages improvements

• Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [45]
• You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [46]
• When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
• The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
• A new filter has been added to the Ειδικό:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [47]
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Ειδικό:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [48]
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [49]

Updates for technical contributors

• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [50][51]
• Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [52]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:17, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Fotis Liveris (02:19, 19 Φεβρουαρίου 2025)

Καλημέρα σας . Θα ήθελα να κάνω κάποιες αλλαγές στη σελίδα .παράδειγμα

Θέλω η ηλικία να αλλάζει αυτόματα όταν αλλάζει η χρονιά να μη χρειάζεται να το επεξεργαστώ εγώ . 

Ευχαριστώ για το ενδιαφέρον. --Fotis Liveris (συζήτηση) 02:19, 19 Φεβρουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-09

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

Updates for editors

• Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using Ειδικό:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [53]
• The wikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as wikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting. [54][55][56]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:) [57]
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. [58]

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:41, 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-10

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

Updates for editors

• All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Επεξεργασία ολόκληρης της σελίδας" link is accessible from the "Περισσότερα" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [59]
• Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
• When editors embed a file (e.g. [[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[60] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[61]
• When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,[62] and respects cascading protection.[63]
• When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards. [64]
• The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
• Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week. [65]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti (w:syl:) [66]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile. [67]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:31, 4 Μαρτίου 2025 (UTC)

Growth Newsletter #33

A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

Constructive Activation Experiments

This year, the Growth team is exploring ways to help more new account holders start editing—and do so constructively, meaning their edits are not reverted. Our latest experiments include:

• Gradual rollout of "Add a Link" at English Wikipedia – We are gradually introducing the "Add a Link" structured task to newcomers at English Wikipedia (T386029). This serves as a natural A/B test to measure its impact on activation, retention, and revert rates (T382603). Previous experiments on pilot wikis showed that "Add a Link" increases newcomer participation, particularly by helping them make constructive (non-reverted) edits.
• Testing in-article suggestions for first-time editors – Many new account holders want to contribute but don’t know where to start. To help, we’re piloting a feature that surfaces structured task suggestions directly in an article’s read view for brand-new editors (T385343). These suggestions will appear for logged-in users with no edits, providing a clear, simple way to begin contributing that is surfaced while they read.

Community Updates

Newcomers often struggle to find their place in Wikipedia’s collaborative environment. While experienced editors easily discover events like edit-a-thons and writing campaigns, newcomers often miss out.

• To bridge this gap, we launched the Community Updates module for the Newcomer Homepage. This module is disabled by default, allowing Community Admins to decide how (or if) to use it.
• If your community hosts events, consider setting up a Community Update to engage and welcome newcomers! Learn more on Diff. To configure, visit Special:CommunityConfiguration.

Community Configuration

Community Configuration is now available across all wikis, including non-Wikipedia projects (T383910). Community Configuration allows admins to customize various features like Growth features and Automoderator for their communities, and more recently the Babel extension now allows admins to modify configuration:

• Babel customization – Admins can now configure Babel settings (T374348), including category naming, automatic category creation, and more. See an example on Wikimedia Commons.
• Upcoming configurable features – Projects exploring community configuration options include: Incident Reporting System (T374113) and Cite backlinks (T378807).

Mentorship

Mentors play a key role in guiding new editors. If you’re interested in mentoring, or turning mentorship on at your wiki, check out the Mentorship FAQ

• Starting February 17, 100% of new accounts at English Wikipedia will be assigned a mentor (T384505).
• At Spanish Wikipedia, on 50% of newcomers get a mentor. Experienced contributors are encouraged to join mentorship so that Spanish Wikipedia can provide a mentor to all new users.

Looking Ahead

In the coming months, we will continue balancing maintenance work—such as deprecating EditGrowth Config (T367574) and migrating Statslib (T359352) — with user-facing improvements that support new editors and foster the next generation of contributors.

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Tech News: 2025-11

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

Updates for editors

• Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [68][69]
• The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
• An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:09, 10 Μαρτίου 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: February 2025

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 2 • February 2025

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In This Issue

• Activities series at the Shefit Hekali school in Peqin, Albania
• Wikimedia Brazil has formed a partnership with a public policy research institute
• Preserving Heritage: Tuluvas Aati Month Educational Wikimedia Programs
• Reflecting on our Past: Farewell to the Auckland Museum Summer Students
• Successful Conclusion of the Second Phase of "Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom" in Yemen
• Wiki Workshop in Mitrovica
• Wikimedia MKD' Education: Lots of new trained users, lots of new articles
• Wikimedia Serbia receives accreditation from the National Library of Serbia for the Wiki Senior seminar

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Tech News: 2025-12

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

Weekly highlight

• Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

• The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
• On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
• The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
• Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [70]
• The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
• The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [71]
• View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [72]

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48, 17 Μαρτίου 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 67

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 67, January – February 2025

• East View Press and The Africa Report join the library
• Spotlight: Wikimedia+Libraries International Convention and WikiCredCon
• Tech tip: Suggest page

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2025-13

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

• The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
• Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
• Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Ειδικές σελίδες listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [73]
• The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [74]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
• Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [75][76]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:43, 24 Μαρτίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-14

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

Updates for editors

• The Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
• Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
• View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:05, 1 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

April 2025 CEE Hub Newsletter Now Available

Good morning,

The latest edition of the CEE Hub Newsletter is now available, bringing you updates from across the region and beyond. This issue features new initiatives, event highlights, and opportunities for engagement.

In This Issue:

• Meet Karolina Gruszczyk – Introducing the new Community & Communications Specialist at CEE Hub, working to strengthen communication and support communities across the region.
• International Wikimedia Updates – A look at key global events and discussions shaping the movement in 2025.
• Next CEE Catch-up (April 23, 2025) – A Foundation Annual Planning Workshop focused on global trends affecting Wikimedia communities.
• Wiki Loves Food in Latvia – The Latvian Wikipedia community successfully revives engagement with a culinary writing competition.
• Czechoslovakia 2024 Challenge – Over 210 articles and 498 photographs contributed to document history, culture, and everyday life.
• WikiGap Tirana 2025 – The 8th edition of this initiative continues efforts to improve the representation of women on Albanian Wikipedia.
• Wikipedia for 55+ in Ukraine – A new program supporting senior citizens in becoming active Wikipedia editors.
• Cultural Heritage Under Threat – A photography exhibition in St. Petersburg showcasing endangered cultural heritage sites.
• Open Calls & Consultations – Opportunities for community members to share their perspectives and participate in movement-wide discussions.

Read the full newsletter here. Happy reading!

On behalf of the CEE Newsletter team,

--janbery, 08:43, 2 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από GrF4rmer στην Σήραγγα Γκρόπας (14:22, 6 Απριλίου 2025)

Καλησπέρα σας. Είμαι σχετικά καινούριος εδώ και θα ήθελα να σας ρωτήσω πως βάζουμε πίνακα στα άρθρα.Καλο σας απόγευμα --GrF4rmer (συζήτηση) 14:22, 6 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Καλησπέρα και καλώς ήρθες! Για τους πίνακες, κοίταξε στη Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή στους πίνακες με τον VisualEditor. Είναι αρκετά εύκολο πλέον. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 15:45, 6 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από VATRIMA (22:11, 6 Απριλίου 2025)

Καλημέρα, θα ήθελα να καταχωρησω νέα σελίδα --VATRIMA (συζήτηση) 22:11, 6 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Καλώς ήρθες! Ακολούθησε το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος διαβάζοντάς το με προσοχή, μέχρι το τελευταίο βήμα. Θα πρέπει όμως να κάνει πρώτα μερικές διορθώσεις σε άλλα λήμματα για να δεις τον τρόπο επεξεργασίας. Δες την Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή και Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή στην επεξεργασία με VisualEditor αν χρειαστείς βοήθεια. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 07:54, 7 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-15

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

• From now on, interface admins and centralnotice admins are technically required to enable two-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights. [77]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
• The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.

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This Month in Education: March 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 3 • March 2025

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• A Whole New World: Research Findings on New Editor Integration in Serbian Wikipedia
• Bolivia: a new round of Leamos Wikipedia begins in Bolivia
• Faculty of Social Sciences Workshop in Albania
• Lots of contributions and trainings as part of Wikimedia MKD's Education Programme
• Wikimedia organized multiple events of science and education in Brazil during the month of March

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Ερώτηση από VinTurboDiesel (12:56, 11 Απριλίου 2025)

Καλησπέρα. Βλέπω ότι υπάρχει το πρότυπο Πρότυπο:πετοσφαιριστής το οποίο είναι για παικτές βόλλεϊ, δεν υπάρχει όμως πρότυπο για παίκτες μπιτς βόλλεϊ, το οποίο περιλαμβάνει κάποια διαφορετικά πεδία. Σκέφτηκα να δημιουργήσω ένα, αλλά είδα ότι στην Αγγλική Βικιπαίδεια τα πρότυπα για αθλητές βόλλεϊ και μπιτς βόλλεϊ βρίσκονται "κάτω" από το ίδιο πρότυπο μιας και αποτελούν παραλλαγές το ένα του άλλου και μάλιστα κάποιος παίκτης μπορεί να έχει υπάρξει αθλητής και των δύο αυτών συγγενικών αθλημάτων. Μήπως θα ήταν σκόπιμο να κάνω τροποποίηση του προτύπου Πρότυπο:πετοσφαιριστής λοιπόν; Αν ναι, πως μπορώ να το κάνω με ασφάλεια έτσι ώστε να μην επηρεαστούν οι σελίδες που ήδη χρησιμοποιούν αυτό το πρότυπο; Ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων, VTD --VinTurboDiesel (συζήτηση) 12:56, 11 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Καλημέρα, καλώς ήρθες. Ναι, απλώς πρέπει να μην πειραχτούν θα ονόματα των υπαρχόντων παραμέτρων. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 06:34, 12 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-16

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

• Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [78]
• File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [79][80]

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
• To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [81]
• "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used f reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
• On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
• The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Ερώτηση από Diosakis (13:13, 21 Απριλίου 2025)

Για σας, Είμαι εγκονός τού Ιωάννη Μάρτζιου, Διονύσης Γ. Μηλιαρέσης, και θα ήθελα να προστεθεί μία καλύτερη φωτογραφία του στο άρθρο μαζί με κάποια στοιχεία που γνωρίζω από την μητέρα μου που πέθανε πριν από τρία χρόνια. --Diosakis (συζήτηση) 13:13, 21 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Γειά σας. Για να προστεθεί μια φωτογραφία θα πρέπει είτε να την έχετε τραβήξει ο ίδιος, είτε ο φωτογράφος να έχει πεθάνει πριν το 1946, είτε η φωτογραφία τραβήχτηκε πριν το 1946 και δεν είναι γνωστό το όνομα του φωτογράφου. Ανάλογα, θα σας δώσω κατάλληλες οδηγίες. Στοιχεία που γνωρίζετε από την μητέρα σας δεν μπορείτε να προσθέσετε, καθώς δεν μπορούν να επαληθευτούν σε τρίτες πηγές. Θα πρέπει να υπάρχει αξιόπιστη πηγή για να προστεθεί κάποια πληροφορία. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 17:25, 21 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Kostivo (15:07, 21 Απριλίου 2025)

Καλησπέρα σας και Χρόνια πολλά. Έχω μια ερώτηση, κοιτώντας τις επεξεργασίες που έχω κάνει σε κείμενα της Wikipedia, παρατηρώ αριθμούς με είτε θετικό είτε αρνητικό πρόσημο. Τι ακριβώς είναι αυτοί οι αριθμοί; Ευχαριστώ --Kostivo (συζήτηση) 15:07, 21 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Καλησπέρα, μην δίνεις καμία σημασία σε αυτούς τους αριθμούς, είναι απλά τα bytes χαρακτήρων που προστέθηκαν οι αφαιρέθηκαν στο σύνολο του εγγράφου. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 17:27, 21 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Εγινε,ευχαριστώ Kostivo (συζήτηση) 18:45, 21 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-17

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

Updates for editors

• Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template. [82]
• A new type of lint error has been created: Empty headings (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [83]
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings and events

• The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.

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Ερώτηση από Koutsou96 (10:38, 26 Απριλίου 2025)

Καλησπέρα, για κάποιο λόγο κάποιος μου διέγραψε την σελίδα χωρίς να με προειδοποιήσει και έχασα αρκετό κείμενο που δεν είχα κάνει backup. Θα μπορούσα μίπως να το βρώ κάπως? --Koutsou96 (συζήτηση) 10:38, 26 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Καλησπέρα, από ότι βλέπω α) η σελίδα ήταν εξολοκλήρου στα αγγλικά, ενώ εδώ είναι η ελληνόγλωσση Βικιπαίδεια. Τέτοια κείμενα διαγράφονται αμέσως. β) υπήρχε σοβαρό πρόβλημα εγκυκλοπαιδικότητας, καθώς είναι παιχνίδι που δεν έχει κυκλοφορήσει ακόμη, και αν μαντεύω καλά είσαι ο developer του, οπότε υπάρχει και θέμα σύγκρουσης κινήτρων. Το κείμενό σου είναι εδώ αλλά δεν μπορείς να το βάλεις στη Βικιπαίδεια. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 08:43, 29 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Τον λόγο τον καταλαβαίνω. Το κείμενο προσπαθώ να ανακτήσω. Koutsou96 (συζήτηση) 08:49, 29 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Repentance17 (18:17, 26 Απριλίου 2025)

ΚΑΛΗΣΠΕΡΑ. ΠΩΣ ΜΠΟΡΩ ΝΑ ΒΑΛΩ ΠΡΟΤΥΠΟ ΓΙΑ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΟ ΧΩΡΟ ΣΕ ΕΝΑ ΚΑΙΝΟΥΡΓΙΟ ΑΡΘΡΟ ΠΟΥ ΦΤΙΑΧΝΩ? ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ --Repentance17 (συζήτηση) 18:17, 26 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Καλησπέρα, μπορείς να βάλεις το Πρότυπο:Πληροφορίες αρχαίας τοποθεσίας ή το Πρότυπο:Κτίριο. Έχουν οδηγίες για το πως να τα χρησιμοποιήσεις. Εναλλακτικά μπορείς να κάνεις αντιγραφή και επικόλληση από ένα άλλο παρόμοιο λήμμα και μετά να αλλάξεις τις παραμέτρους. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 08:53, 29 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-18

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

• Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
• Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.

Meetings and events

• The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
• The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon, which brings the global technical community together to connect, brainstorm, and hack existing projects, will take place from May 2 to 4th, 2025, at Istanbul, Turkey.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:32, 28 Απριλίου 2025 (UTC)

Συνέντευξη

Αγαπητό geraki:

Θα ήθελα να έρθω σε επικοινωνία μαζί σας με θέμα την Wikipedia και τις δραστηριότητες των διαχειριστών της.

Το email μου, εαν ενδιαφέρεσαι:

anestis_ag@yahoo.gr Kedleing14 (συζήτηση) 01:05, 3 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από ΜΑΤΡΩΝΑ ΧΑΤΖΗ (07:20, 3 Μαΐου 2025)

παρακαλώ θα ήθελα γύρω από τη ναυτιλία θέματα --Μ. ΧΑΤΖΗ (συζήτηση) 07:20, 3 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Καλημέρα, παρακαλώ γράψτε πιο καθαρά τι θέλετε. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 08:22, 5 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Βοήθεια: Λανθασμένη Διαγραφή Άρθρου

Πριν από λίγες μέρες, δημιούργησα το άρθρο Grand Hotel (τηλεοπτική σειρά), καθώς δεν υπήρχε άρθρο στην Βικιπαίδεια, και επειδή είναι γνωστή τηλεοπτική σειρά, με μεγάλο/σημαντικό ποσοστό τηλεθέασης, συμαίνει έχει εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα. Εξάλου υπάρχουν και άλλες τηλεοπτικές σειρές με υψηλά επίπεδα τηλεθέασης, στην Βικιπαίδεια. Το προβλήμα είναι ότι την επόμενη μέρα, ο διαχειριστής @CubicStar , διέγραψε την σελίδα ως "(Λ5: Μη εγκυκλοπαιδικό:+κ/πειστ)". Συνήθως κάτι τέτοιο θα το κατανοούσα, αλλά σε αυτή την περίπτωση πιστεύω ότι είναι λάθος, καθώς το άρθρο είναι εγκυκλοπεδικό. Έλεγξα το άρθρο πέρι εγκυκλοπεδικότητας και αναφέρει συην ουσία ότι πολλαπλές ανεξάρτητες πηγές αναφέρονται και αναγνωρίζουν την συμαντικότητα ένος προσώπου, γεγωνόντος κτλ. Οπότε εγώ θεωρώντας το, λάθος, ρώτησα το διαχειριστή γιατι το διέγραψε ( Αναγνωρίζω το γεγονός ότι μπορεί να ήμουν λίγο έντονος τελειώνοντας το μήνυμα με "WTF", αλλά είναι εκνεριστηκό να διαγράφετε το άρθρο όπου έγραψες). Στην συνέχεια, παρατριρώντας στο Talk Page του διαχειριστή, ότι και άλλοι χρήστες παραπονιούνται για λανθασμένες διαγραφές, και ο ίδιος δεν απαντούσε, θεώρησε να ρωτήσω και έναν άλλο διαχειριστη, τον @MARKELLOS, καθώς το έω δει ενεργό στην Βικιπέδεια. Αφού περίμενα μερικές μέρες, κανένας από τους δύο δεν είχε απαντήσει, αλλά πιστεύω τουλάχιστον στην περίπτωση του MARKELLOS, ήταν θεωρητικά εξαιτίας ότι τον ρώτησα στα Αγγλικά. Για αυτόν το λόγο, στέλνω μήνυμα σε έσας / εσένα, ειδκόρερα στα Ελληνικά, καθώς φαίνεστε επίσης ενεργός και είστε γραφειοκράτης ( το επόμενο/ανώτατο επίπεδο στην Wikipedia), ώστε να με βοηθήσετε.

Ι.Σ.: Η Αιτιολογία διαγραφής λέει "+κ/πειστ", και αν αυτό συμαίνει πειστήρια, ποιά είναι αυτά τα πειστήρια, όπου "αιτιολογούν" την διαγραφή. Mant08 (συζήτηση) 22:08, 3 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

@Mant08 Καλησπέρα. Θα σου απαντήσω εγώ αντι των διαχειριστών προς το παρόν. Α) Το "+κ/πειστ", που ανέφερε ο CubicStar εννοεί αντιγραφή και επικόλληση (copy & paste). Β) Οσον αφορά την εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα του λήμματος θα πρέπει να πληροί κάποια από τα κριτήρια βλέπε Βικιπαίδεια:Εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα. Τα νούμερα τηλεθέασης από μόνα τους δεν σημαίνουν κάτι.– Fotis A. (αφήστε μήνυμα...!) 22:40, 3 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

@Fotis A. Ευχαριστώ για την άμεση απάντηση σου/σας, αλλά Α) το (copy & paste) δρν το έκανα εγώ, και πείγα να το διαγράψω για αυτόν τον λόγο, αλλά δεν πρόλαβα να το σβήσω, καθώς η σελίδα είχε ίδη διαγραφή. Τέλος, Β) διάβασα για την εγκυκλοπεδικότητα, και για αυτό ανέφερα τον παράγωντα "πολλές διαφορετικές / ανεξάρτητες πηγές, αναφέρουν ή θεωρούν αξιωσήμητο κάτι" , καθώς πολλαπλές πηγές αναφέρονται στην σειρά: Imdb, ιστοσελίδες. Mant08 (συζήτηση) 11:45, 4 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

@Mant08 Οσον αφορά τις πηγές που ανεφερες και ειδικά η imdb δεν θεωρειται αποδεκτη ως πηγη γιατι είναι βαση δεδομενων χρηστων. Είναι γεγονος σε οτι αφορά τις τηλεοπτικές σειρές είναι δυσκολο να βρεθούν αξιοπιστες πηγές γι αυτό πολλες φορες διαγραφονται. Υπαρχει και η οδηγία Βικιπαίδεια: Αξιόπιστες πηγές που μπορεί να σε βοηθησει να κατανοήσεις τους λόγους διαγραφης.

ΥΓ.Φιλικη συμβουλή: καλυτερα να μην ασχολεισαι με την τηλεοραση γενικά, χασιμο χρόνου είναι και τιποτε αλλο. καλη συνεχεια – Fotis A. (αφήστε μήνυμα...!) 11:59, 4 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

@Fotis A. Ευχαριστώ για την βοήθεια!. Mant08 (συζήτηση) 12:16, 4 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από NickVasi στην Λανς Μπάρμπερ (17:28, 5 Μαΐου 2025)

Γεια. Πώς μπορώ να προσθέσω μια φωτογραφία του ανθρώπου για τον οποίο γράφω στην Βικιπαίδεια; --NickVasi (συζήτηση) 17:28, 5 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Γεια χαρά! Μπορείτε να ακολουθήσετε βήμα προς βήμα (και πιστά) τις οδηγίες στην Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή στις εικόνες με τον VisualEditor. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 08:04, 6 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-19

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 Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

• For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
  • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
  • Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Ειδικό:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
• Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [84]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:14, 6 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Αίτημα ελέγχου πρόχειρου λήμματος

Καλησπέρα σας, θα εκτιμούσα αν μπορούσατε να ρίξετε μια ματιά στο εξής πρόχειρο λήμμα, το οποίο έχει υποβληθεί για μεταφορά στον κύριο χώρο:

Χρήστης:Dimitriaio/Γιάννης Δημητροκάλλης

Πιστεύω ότι πληροί τα κριτήρια εγκυκλοπαιδικότητας και έχει διαμορφωθεί με πλήρεις παραπομπές και ουδέτερο ύφος.

Σας ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων!  

--~~~~ Dimitriaio (συζήτηση) 18:03, 8 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: April 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 4 • April 2025

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In This Issue

• Ceremony of giving certificates and awarding the winners of the edit-a-thon: Meet Slovenia
• The Workshops Wikimedia & Education are back in Brazil
• EduWiki Nigeria: Advancing Digital Literacy in Schools
• Empowering the Next Generation: Wikidata Training at Federal Government Boys College, FGBC Abuja
• Final Wikipedia project with Shefit Hekali school in Peqin, Albania
• Teachers who graduated from the Leamos Wikipedia program in Bolivia become mentors for their colleagues
• Wikivoyage in Has region, Northern Albania
• Wikivoyage workshop in Bulqiza

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Tech News: 2025-20

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

• The "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
• Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
• The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
• The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.

Meetings and events

• The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
• The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:38, 12 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 68

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 68, March–April 2025

In this issue we highlight two resource renewals, #EveryBookItsReader, a note about Phabricator, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

Read the full newsletter

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Tech News: 2025-21

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 Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

• From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
• Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Ειδικό:Φραγή?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [85]
• Later this week, the Ειδικό:ΕιδικέςΣελίδες listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [86]
• The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
• Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
• Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [87]

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Ειδικό:Φραγή may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [88]
• The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [89]
• User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:12, 19 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 9

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on 6 May. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Global Trends Community Workshop: Join Foundation staff and trustees on May 28th from 16:00 UTC for an online community workshop about global trends impacting Wikimedia. This workshop is part of continuous conversations aimed at connecting the movement and collaborating on the Foundation's annual plan.
• Wiki Causerie: Wiki Causerie call with a focus on discussing the global trends to help shape the Foundation's annual plan will be held on May 23.
• ESEAP Summit: The ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025 will take place in Manila, Philippines on May 23–25.
• EduWiki Conference 2025: The EduWiki Conference 2025 will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on May 30–June 1.
• Wiki Workshop 2025: The 12th annual Wiki Workshop will take place online on May 21–22.
• U4C Call for Candidates: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 elections are accepting candidates until May 28.

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

• Content Translation: A decade of consistent improvements to the Content Translation tool yields over two million Wikipedia articles.
• Charts Extension: After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment. Please consult our page to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki.
• Abstract Wikipedia: Where Abstract Wikipedia fits into the new Wikimedia AI strategy.
• Tech News: The “Get shortened URL” link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently. More updates from Tech News week 19 and 20.
• Topical Lists: Read about the important role of topical lists in supporting campaigns and editing, as well as strategies for the future development, implementation, and sustainment of list-building support.
• Two-factor Authentication: From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Read the announcement.
• Mobile Apps: The iOS app team is experimenting with an "Activity Tab" on Turkish, Spanish, French, and Chinese Wikipedias to see if inviting new editors to add images through Suggested Edits increases engagement. This insight will guide future improvements to the app experience.

Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also: list of movement events · WikiLearn News

• Learning Clinic: The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will be about "Communication and Cultural Sensitivity in Conflict Resolution - Best practices (Part 2)" and will take place on May 27 at 13:00 UTC.
• The Wikipedia Library: An important milestone for The Wikipedia Library (TWL) has been reached. More than a million links have been added to Wikimedia projects by Library users.
• Wikisource: Watch the video celebrating the global Wikisource community in safeguarding our cultural heritage for future generations.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• India Legal Update: Good news from our legal team, the Supreme Court of India set aside the Delhi High Court’s order directing the takedown of the Asian News International v. Wikimedia Foundation English Wikipedia article. The Supreme Court’s verdict upholds the right to report and share information on matters of public interest, including legal proceedings in open courts.
• UK Legal Challenge: Wikimedia Foundation brings legal challenge to new UK Online Safety Act requirements.
• UCoC Updates: The Universal Code of Conduct 2025 annual review concluded, with community voting approving the proposed changes to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Ερώτηση από Michael Mavr (22:06, 25 Μαΐου 2025)

Χαίρετε. Προσπαθώ να φτιάξω ένα νέο λήμμα για τον Μητροπολίτη Φθιώτιδος Ιάκωβο Παπαγεωργίου αδυνατώ ωστόσο ως νέος που είμαι να δημιουργήσω ένα λήμμα ομοιόμορφο με τα υπόλοιπα ( λείπειο πίνακας και η παραγραφική δομή) μήπως μπορείτε να με καθοδηγήσετε; ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων. --Michael Mavr (συζήτηση) 22:06, 25 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-22

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

• A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

Updates for editors

• Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June.
• The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Ειδικό:ΕπιθυμητέςΣελίδες, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated. [90]
• This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.
• Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
• The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue. [91]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The previously deprecated ipblocks views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the new block and block_target views instead.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:05, 26 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: May 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 5 • May 2025

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• Journalism students at Aleksandër Xhuvani University explore Wikipedia in Albania
• Reviewing pending articles editathon with high school students in Albania
• Several educational workshops to promote science on Wiki were held in Brazil in the month of May
• Simón Bolívar Teacher Training College joins the Let's Read Wikipedia Program
• Students become Editors: Wikimedia Chile launches Latin America's first Vikidia Workshop
• The DemocraTICon competition was held, this year for the first time with a discipline focused on Wikipedia
• Wikimedia MKD's "Lajka" workshop in Skopje

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Join us at the Next CEE Catch up! Learn about Temporary accounts!

Hi everyone,

We want to announce the tenth CEE Catch Up session, which will be dedicated to the Temporary accounts, as this important change is going to affect every Wikipedia soon, so it is important for patrollers and functionaries like you to understand this change. On wikis where temporary accounts are enabled, IP addresses of unregistered editors are not visible publicly. Only those who fight spam, vandalism, harassment and disinformation have access to IP addresses there.

The session will take place on 10th of June 2025, 18:00-19:00 CEST (check your local time).

If you are interested in this topic, then sign-up for the session here.

TRistovski-CEEhub (συζήτηση) 11:17, 29 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από SisiosEvangelos (17:55, 31 Μαΐου 2025)

Γεια σα;, Μου έχει ανατεθεί μια εργασία από την σχολή μου που μου ζητάνε να ανεβάσω στην wikipedia ένα σύντομο άρθρο για ενα χωριό της σάμου. Πώς το κάνω αυτό; --SisiosEvangelos (συζήτηση) 17:55, 31 Μαΐου 2025 (UTC)

Γεια σου και καλωσήρθες! Δες το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος για να ξεκινήσεις. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 11:02, 1 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Constantine of Katakoly (12:01, 1 Ιουνίου 2025)

Γεία σας καί καλό μήνα. 'Εχω μια ερώτηση για την δημιουργία λημμάτων. Όταν δημιουργώ λήμμα με σχέση έναν εθνικό ύμνο ή ποιήματις είναι υποχρεωτικό να κάνω ανάλυση στο περιεχώμενο. π.χ: Να γράψω το βασικό νοήμα του τραγουδίου ή τις βασικές ιδεες. --Constantine of Katakoly (συζήτηση) 12:01, 1 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Γεια! Σίγουρα όχι μόνο τους στίχους. Τουλάχιστον την ιστορία για την συγγραφή, σύνθεση και καθιέρωσή του. Για το βασικό νόημα και βασικές ιδέες θα χρειαστείς πηγές, όπως και για τα υπόλοιπα. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 16:45, 1 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ πολυ!. Τώρα το είδα επείδη έχω και ενδοσχολικές εξετάσεις. Θα προσπαθήσω να κάνω μία μικρή ανάλυση στο λήμμα που έφτιξα: (Ρωσικός Αυτοκρατορίκος ύμνος) σύντομα. Constantine of Katakoly (συζήτηση) 18:57, 2 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-23

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

Weekly highlight

• The Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.

Updates for editors

• It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [92]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [93]
• From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [94]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:55, 2 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 10

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on 16 May. Please help translate.

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Wikimania: Register now to attend Wikimania Nairobi! Registration for the in-person event will be open until July 13 or while places remain. For joining virtually, you will be able to register at any time.
• Let's Connect: The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will focus on "1Lib1Ref: Tools, Tactics and Innovation". The session will take place on June 5 at 15:00 UTC.
• U4C Call for Candidates: The voting period for Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 is open from June 3 to June 17 at 12:00 UTC.

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

• Tech News: The Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments; The Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. More updates from Tech News week 21 and 22.
• Abstract Wikipedia: A community-wide discussion for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed.
• Temporary accounts: Admins, bureaucrats, or stewards will be manually granting access to temporary account IP addresses to users without certain extended rights. Previously, these users were gaining this right automatically. The decision to change this was made by the Trust and Safety Product team after discussing with almost 20 large Wikipedia communities and Meta-Wiki. See the full message about the change. In addition, the team is finishing work which unblocks rollouts on large wikis. A series of deployments will be happening in June. See the latest project update to learn about the satisfaction survey, related changes to features and tools, and more.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is deployed on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. Users of the five projects are now allowed to call on Wikifunctions' functions freely from their user interface.
• WikiGames: A daily trivia game called WikiGames is coming to the Wikipedia Android app. It invites users to test their knowledge by guessing which historical event happened first based on real events from Wikipedia's "On this day" content. The game's goal is to help new audiences discover a preferred destination for discovering, engaging, and building encyclopedic content. It has been gradually rolled out as an A/B test to 50% of users in English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
• Wikimedia Cloud VPS: We have introduced IPv6 to the cloud virtual network, enhancing the platform's scalability, security, and future-readiness.
• CampaignEvents extension: Two new features Invitation Lists and Collaboration List that allow organizers to promote events and WikiProjects on the wikis are now available.

Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also: list of movement events · WikiLearn News

• WikiLearn: Discover how online learning is helping develop Wikidata skills and the new courses coming up this quarter on WikiLearn News May 2025 edition.
• Youth Conference: Young Wikimedians gathered in Prague for the first-ever Youth Conference, created for young people and by young people.
• Gender Gap: Wikimedia Foundation Reflections on the Celebrate Women* Campaign 2025.
• Accessibility: In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2025, we would like to look back together and highlight recent improvements and progress to ensure that the Wikimedia projects are more accessible for everyone.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• India Legal Update: A victory for free speech, for Wikipedia and Beyond! The Supreme Court of India overturned a Delhi High Court order that had required the removal of an English Wikipedia article about an ongoing lawsuit.
• Mandatory 2FA: Checkusers and oversighters will need to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled, otherwise they won't be able to use their tools. In the future, this requirement may apply to more user right groups. This is to increase the security of user accounts. See the full message.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Election: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection & Call for Questions.
• Assamese Wikimedia Community User Group: Recognition of Assamese Wikimedia Community User Group.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Ερώτηση από Παιδικο Πανεπιστημιο (06:47, 8 Ιουνίου 2025)

Επιθυμω να προσθεσω νεο λημα. Παρακαλω που πρεπει να κατευνθυνθω? --Παιδικο Πανεπιστημιο (συζήτηση) 06:47, 8 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-24

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

• The Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

• The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [95]

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Εμφάνιση δραστηριότητας συζήτησης"). [96][97]
• Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [98]
• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [99]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
• Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [100][101]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Ερώτηση από Kostivo (09:21, 13 Ιουνίου 2025)

Καλημέρα Να κάνω μια ερώτηση; Εκτός από τις προσθήκες,τις διορθώσεις και τα σχετικά, μπορώ να προσθέσω κείμενο για κάτι που δεν υπάρχει σαν θέμα στι Βικιπαιδεια; Ευχαριστώ --Kostivo (συζήτηση) 09:21, 13 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-25

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

Updates for editors

• You can nominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 16 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Growth News #34

A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

Mentoring new editors

In February, Mentorship was successfully rolled out to 100% of newcomers on English Wikipedia. Following this milestone, we collaborated with Spanish Wikipedia to expand Mentorship coverage to 70% of new accounts, with plans to reach 85% soon unless concerns are raised by mentors. (T394867)

“Add a Link” Task – Iteration and Experimentation

Our efforts to improve and scale the “Add a Link” structured task continued across multiple fronts:

• Community Feedback & Model Improvements: We’ve responded to community concerns with targeted changes:
  • Restricting access to newer accounts (T393688)
  • Some links types were removed to align with recommendations written in the English Wikipedia Manual of Style (T390683)
  • Allowing communities to limit “Add a Link” to newcomers (T393771)
  • The model used to suggest the links was improved to ease its training (T388258)
• English Wikipedia rollout and A/B test: We increased the rollout to 20% of newcomers, with analysis underway. Preliminary data suggests this feature makes new account holders more likely to complete an unreverted edit. (T386029, T382603)
• Surfacing Structured Tasks: An experiment where we show “add a link” suggestions to newly registered users while they are reading an article is running on pilot wikis (French, Persian, Indonesian, Portuguese, Egyptian Arabic). Initial results are under analysis. (T386029)

Newcomer Engagement Features

• “Get Started” notification: Engineering is in progress for a new notification (Echo/email) to encourage editing among newcomers with zero edits. Early research shows this type of nudge is effective. (T392256)
• Confirmation email: We are exploring ways to simplify and improve the initial account confirmation email newly registered users receive. (T215665)

Community Configuration Enhancements

Communities can now manage which namespaces are eligible for Event Registration via Community Configuration. (T385341)

Annual Planning

The Wikimedia Foundation’s 2025–2026 Annual Plan is taking shape. The Growth and Editing teams will focus on the Contributor Experiences (WE1) objective, with a focus on increasing constructive edits by editors with fewer than 100 cumulative contributions.

Get Involved

We value your insights and ideas! If you would like to participate in a discussion, share feedback, or pilot new features, please reach out on the relevant Phabricator tasks or at our talk page, in any language.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 11

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

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This month we celebrate Loretta and her contributions.

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

• Tech News: The Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. The Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias. More updates from Tech News week 23 and 24.
• New Engagement Experiments: We're testing out WikiRun, a fun game that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible! It's an experiment to explore new ways of engaging readers. Give it a try and let us know what you think on the talk page!

Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also: list of movement events · WikiLearn News

• WikiCelebrate: How one librarian brought Wikipedia into the classroom and beyond: this month we celebrate Loretta.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: The next showcase will center around the theme of "Ensuring Content Integrity on Wikipedia" and will take place on June 18 at 16:30 UTC.
• Resource Support: Resource Support pilot project is now open to requests. This is a pilot project which aims to support Wikipedia content editors in obtaining resources that they need to improve content on Wikipedia.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Global Advocacy: Read important highlights on public policy advocacy from Wikimedia Foundation's Global Advocacy team.
• Global Advocacy: The Global Advocacy team will be representing the Wikimedia Foundation at several events in June and July – including hosting an edit-a-thon during UN Open Source week and running a booth at the Internet Governance Forum.

Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Board Election: The call for candidates for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2025 Selection will be opened on June 17.
• Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand: Welcoming Wikimedia Aotearoa New Zealand as the Latest Wikimedia Chapter.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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Ερώτηση από Constantine of Katakoly (12:16, 18 Ιουνίου 2025)

Χαίρετε κύριε Geraki. έχω να κάνω μια ερώτηση όσο αφορά την προεσκόπηση τών άρθρων (δηλαδή όταν βάζεις τον κέρσορα πάνω τους εμφανίζουν σύντομες πληροφορίες) Στα λήμματα που έγραψα: Le reve passe και Marcia Reale μου εμφανιζει πρόβλημα και δεν φένετε κάτι όταν βαζώ τον κέρσορα πάνω τους:(Μου εμφανίζει μόνο οτι υπάρχει πρόβλημα) Απαντήστε μου όταν μπορείτε καλή σας ημέρα --Constantine of Katakoly (συζήτηση) 12:16, 18 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Γεια σου Constantine. Στα λήμματα αυτά όπως στο Marcia Reale έχεις τοποθετήσει το εισαγωγικό σκέλος/ περίληψη του λήμματος υπό ενότητα με τίτλο #Εισαγωγή. Αυτό αφενός κάνει τον μηχανισμό να μην το βλέπει (ανιχνεύει ό,τι υπάρχει πριν από την πρώτη ενότητα), αφετέρου αποτρέπεται από τις οδηγίες μορφής και σύνταξης. Καλή συνέχεια. — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 20:09, 18 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Ευχαριστω για την βοήθεια θα το φτιάξω σύντομα Constantine of Katakoly (συζήτηση) 21:17, 18 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-26

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

• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [102]

Updates for editors

• Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [103]
• Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [104]
• A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [105]

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available. [106]
• The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [107]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:21, 23 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

This Month in Education: June 2025

Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.

This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 6 • June 2025

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In This Issue

• Albanian high school students at the Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 in Prague
• Bolivia has 20 new teachers graduated from the Let's Read Wikipedia in the Classroom program
• Brazil was present at the EduWiki Conference 2025 in Bogota
• Does Wikipedia has future in the times of Chat-GPT
• PhilWiki Community promotes accessible multilingual stories for children
• Reading and Editing Wikipedia in a Bangladeshi College
• Wikimedia MKD's Workshops in June
• Wikipedia meets 2500 Ukrainian educators at the country’s biggest education festival

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Tech News: 2025-27

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

Weekly highlight

• The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.

Updates for editors

• AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [108]
• Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers. [109][110]
• A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [111]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:41, 30 Ιουνίου 2025 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 69

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 69, May–June 2025

In this issue we highlight a new partnership, Citation Watchlist and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.

Read the full newsletter

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 12

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

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Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 Istanbul

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

• Elections for the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Call for candidates is now open until July 2 at 11:59 UTC.
• Sister projects task force: The sister projects task force has started a community consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews.
• Wikimania 2025: Register now to join Wikimania 2025 virtually from 6–9 August.
• Neutral Point of View: This year's annual planning saw many conversations about the global trends that affect our movement including neutrality and the NPOV policies.

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

• Wikimedia Hackathon 2025: Highlights from Wikimedia Hackathon, a place where everything is 'technically possible'.
• Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon: Reflections and insights from participants and mentors.
• Wikimedia API: The MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse.
• Tech News: The Editing team will release Multi Check to most Wikipedias. This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. More updates from Tech News week 25 and 26.
• Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts were rolled out on ten large and medium-size Wikipedias, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Polish, Indonesian and more. Deployments on more Wikipedias will follow this week. Share your thoughts about the project.
• Mobile Apps: Mobile Apps team launched A/B test of Tabbed Browsing on the iOS Wikipedia App. Users in Arabic, English, and Japanese in select regions will see the test.
• WikiGames: The Android team launched Which Came First? — a fun, multilingual trivia game now available to all Android users in nine languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish). It's a new step in making Wikipedia more interactive and engaging for mobile users.
• Community Wishlist: Read results of the recently closed "Wishathon", our internal hackathon organized by Community Tech to help fulfil more wishes from Community Wishlist.
• Wikifunctions: Read Wikifunctions' July–September 2025 plans.
• CampaignEvents Extension: CampaignEvents extension has now been deployed to all Wikipedia, meaning that organizers on any language Wikipedia can now gain access to the extension features directly on that Wikipedia through the Wikipedia local admins.

Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also: list of movement events · WikiLearn News

• Let's Connect Peer Learning: A look into 3 years of Let's Connect and peek into what's next.
• Knowledge Equity Fund: How a Knowledge Equity Fund grantee and a Wikimedia affiliate collaborate on Human Rights.
• A Wiki Minute Videos: We published three new 'A Wiki Minute' videos about what it takes to run Wikipedia and more topics. All videos are recorded and captioned in Arabic, German, English, French, Brazilian-Portuguese, Spanish.

Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog

• Legal: Administrative update to the Wikimedia Foundation Terms of Use.
• Global Advocacy: Expanding tech policy knowledge at the first big UN Wikipedia edit-a-thon.
• Legal: We announced that a Wikipedia admin has joined our UK Online Safety Act lawsuit.

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l'actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:08, 1 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Pitsinis (10:12, 2 Ιουλίου 2025)

Πως μπορώ να ανακτησω ενα διαγραμενο λήμμα --Pitsinis (συζήτηση) 10:13, 2 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

Γραμματοσειρά

Καλησπέρα, έχει γίνει κάποια αλλαγή με τις γραμματοσειρές και εμφανίζονται πολύ περισσότερο bold απ'ότι συνήθως; Αναφέρομαι σε πρότυπα/infoboxes. 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 23:23, 6 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

Δεν νομίζω. Παράδειγμα σελίδας; Screenshot; — Geraki ^{(συζήτηση)} 15:06, 7 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

Λήμμα Νέα Ισπανία, περίπτωση προτύπου πρώην κρατών, πρώτη περίπτωση παραδείγματος που μου έρχεται στο μυαλό. Αλλά, σίγουρα, είμαι βέβαιος το είχα δει και σε άλλες σελίδες, με άλλα πρότυπα, αυτό το ζήτημα. Μήπως φταίει τυχόν μη ανανέωση του κώδικα του πρότυπο, πειραματισμοί χρηστών ή, μήπως, κάτι άλλο; 😕🤷‍♂️🤔 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 19:42, 7 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

Ερώτηση από Constantine of Katakoly (19:37, 7 Ιουλίου 2025)

Χαίρετε! Θα ήθελα να ρωτήσω την διαφορά μεταξύ παραπομπών και πηγών επειδή στα λημματά μου έχω βάλει πηγές και όχι παραπομπές --Constantine of Katakoly (συζήτηση) 19:37, 7 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

@Constantine of Katakoly: Καλησπέρα, ας μου επιτραπεί μια μικρή παρέμβαση εδώ, μιας και το είδα. Πέραν όσων εξηγήσεων μπορεί να δοθούν εδώ, έχουμε και τις σελίδες: Βικιπαίδεια:Παράθεση πηγών και Βικιπαίδεια:Μορφή παραπομπών, οι οποίες και θα το εξηγήσουν πιο αναλυτικά, με παραδείγματα και μορφοποίηση που καλό είναι να ακολουθείται. 🙂 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ^{ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ} 19:45, 7 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

Ευχαριστώ πολύ για την βοήθεια! Θα τα κοιτάξω σύντομα!

Καλή σας συνέχεια! Constantine of Katakoly (συζήτηση) 21:10, 7 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-28

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

Weekly highlight

• Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.

Updates for editors

• Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game and let the team know what you think on the talk page.
• Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. [112]
• Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.
• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use Ειδικό:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [113]
• A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
• It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. [114]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of MediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications, information about migration in T388663 and details on deprecated hooks in T389624.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:06, 8 Ιουλίου 2025 (UTC)