ویکیپیڈیا:دیوان عام (مجموعی)

یہ دیوان عام (مجموعی) صفحہ ہے جس میں آسانی سے دیکھنے کے لیے تمام موضوعات کی فہرست دی گئی ہے۔ دیوان عام کے مختلف خانوں کی فہرست دیکھنے کے لیے دیوان عام پر جائیں، یا اس خانےکے اوپر موجود ترمیمی لنک پر کلک کریں جس میں آپ تبصرہ کرنا چاہتے ہیں۔ اس صفحہ میں حالیہ ترمیمات کی فہرست دیکھنے کے لیے صفحہ، اوپر دیے گئے تاریخچہ لنک پر کلک کریں اور آن اسکرین ہدایات پر عمل کریں۔ (دیوان عام کے ذیلی صفحات پر حالیہ تبدیلیاں دیکھنے کے لیے)

دیوان عام میں خوش آمدید! !

دیوان عام میں آپ نئے خیالات اور مسائل پیش کرسکتے ہیں، نیز ویکیپیڈیا سے متعلق تجاویز اور مشورے بھی یہاں پیش کیے جاسکتے ہیں۔ دیوان عام کئی شعبوں پر مشتمل ہے، ان میں سے جو شعبہ آپ کے پیغام کے موضوع سے متعلق ہو اس کے خانہ میں موجود نیا موضوع پر طق کرکے اپنا پیغام تحریر کرسکتے ہیں۔ اگر کسی بھی شعبہ سے آپ کا پیغام مطابقت نہیں رکھتا ہے تو متفرقات میں اپنا پیغام درج کریں۔ اور اپنے پیغام کے آخر میں اپنی دستخط ~~~~ کرنا نہ بھولیں۔

دیوان عام کے شعبے

حکمت عملی

نیا موضوع، زیر نظر، تلاش
پرانی اور نئی حکمت عملیوں پر گفتگو کریں

تکنیکی

نیا موضوع، زیر نظر،تلاش
ویکیپیڈیا کے تکنیکی اور طرزیاتی امور پر گفتگو کریں

تجاویز

نیا موضوع، زیر نظر، تلاش
نئی تجاویز پر گفتگو کریں جو پالیسی سے متعلق نہیں ہیں۔

کارگاہ خیال

نیا موضوع، زیر نظر، تلاش
تجویز کرنے سے پہلے نئے خیالات پر گفتگو کریں

ویکیمیڈیا فاؤنڈیشن

نیا موضوع، زیر نظر،تلاش
ویکیمیڈیا فاؤنڈیشن سے متعلق مسائل پر تبادلہ خیال کریں۔

متفرقات

نیا موضوع، زیر نظر،تلاش
ایسے پیغامات پوسٹ کریں جو کسی دوسرے زمرے سے مطابقت نہ رکھتے ہوں۔

دیوان عام کے سبھی خانےایک ساتھ دیکھیں

دیگر سوالات اور مناسب مقامات

مجھے تلاش ہے...	پھر یہاں تشریف لے جائیں...
...ویکیپیڈیا استعمال اور ترمیم کرنے کی	چائے خانہ (نئے صارفین کے لیے) یامعاونت میز (برائے تجربہ کار صارفین)
...مخصوص حقائق (مثلاً دنیا کی طویل ترین نہر کونسی ہے؟)	حوالہ میز
...کسی مخصوص مضمون پر تبصرہ کرنا	مضمون کا تبادلہ خیال صفحہ
...دیگر ویکیمیڈیا منصوبوں کو دیکھنے اور ان پر گفتگو کرنے کے لیے	ویکیمیڈیا میٹا۔ویکی
...سوالات پوچھنا یا تبصرے کرنا	سوالات

حکمت عملی

منتظمین کی معزولی

اتفاق رائے:

مجوزہ تینوں شرائط کو اتفاق رائے سے منتظمین کی معزولی کے لیے ایک حکمت عملی کا درجہ دیا جاتا ہے۔تاہم، جو منتظمین ذاتی خوشی سے اختیار واپس کرنا چاہتے ہیں وہ دیوان عام پر یا میٹا ویکی پر مضیفین سے درخواست کرسکتے ہیں۔ دوبارہ منتظم بننے کے لیے رائے شماری لازمی ہے۔ منتظمین کی معزولی کے حوالے سے اس حکمت عملی کے طے پانے سے قبل جو رائے شماریاں ہوئی ہیں وہ جائز ہیں۔ تاہم مستقبل میں متعلقہ صارف کو اس حکمت عملی کا اور معزول ہونے کے خدشے کا پیغام ارسال کرنا ازحد لازمی ہے۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 18:25، 28 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

گفتگو کو مقفل کر دیا گیا ہے۔ براہ کرم اسے تبدیل نہ کریں۔ تبصرے ممکنہ طور پر متعلقہ صفحہ پر رکھے جائیں گے۔ اب اس گفتگو میں مزید کوئی تبدیلی نہ ہوگی۔

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آداب۔ ایسا محسوس ہوتا ہے کہ منتظمین کی معزولی کے حوالے سے ہماری حکمت عملی واضح نہیں ہے۔ میں درج ذیل اصلاحات تجویز کرتا ہوں: ایسے منتظمین جو درج ذیل میں سے ایک یا تمام وجوہات کا مصداق ٹھہرتے ہوں انھیں غیر فعالی کے تحت معزول کر دیا جائے گا۔ منتظم بنے رہنے کے لیے ایک منتظم کے لیے ضروری ہے کہ گذشتہ چھ ماہ سے اس نے کم سے کم سو ترامیم کی ہوں اور گذشتہ چھ ماہ کے دوران کم سے کم بیس انتظامی امور پر عمل در آمد کیا ہو۔

1. گذشتہ چھ ماہ سے کوئی عمومی ترمیم یا کوئی بھی انتظامی عمل انجام نہ دیا ہو۔
2. گذشتہ چھ ماہ کے دوران بیس سے کم انتظامی امور پر عمل در آمد کیا ہو۔
3. گذشتہ چھ ماہ کے دوران 100 سے کم ترامیم کی ہوں۔

آپ سے گزارش ہے کہ اس گفتگو میں شرکت کریں اور اپنی رائے دیں تاکہ معزولی کے حوالے سے ایک واضح حکمت عملی کو اپنایا جاسکے۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 15:58، 21 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

میرا اس معاملے میں ایک اور خیال ہے۔ ایک منتظم جو ان شرائط پر پورا نہیں اترتا ہے اسے ایک پیغام دیا جائے اور اگر وہ اس کے ایک ماہ بعد تک کوئی جواب نہیں دیتا تو سیدھا میٹا ویکی پر معزولی کی درخواست جمع کی جائے۔ واضح حکمت عملی ہونے کی وجہ سے بار بار رائے شماریاں کرنے کی ضرورت نہیں رہے گی۔ رائے شماریوں کو فقط اختلافی معزولیوں تک محدود رکھا جائے۔اگر آپ حضرات ان تجاویز سے اتفاق یا اختلاف رکھتے ہیں یا ان میں کسی طرح کی اصلاح چاہتے ہیں تو گفتگو میں حصہ لے کر ضرور بتائیں۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 16:30، 22 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

تبصرے، تنقید اور تائید

1. تائید بطور نامزد کنندہ۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 12:56، 23 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
2. تائید ─ Fahads1982 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 16:31، 23 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
3. تائید--| عاقب نذیر (تبادلہ خیال) 16:59، 23 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
4. تائید :) —خادم—  مورخہ 23 جنوری 2024ء، بوقت 11 بج کر 06 منٹ (بھارت)
5. تائید--طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 06:45، 24 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
6. تائید--Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 11:38، 24 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
7. تائید ابوالحسن راجپوت میں ان تجاویز سے متفق ہوں -- ابوالحسن راجپوت ابوالحسن راجپوت (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 14:08، 24 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
8. تائید -- کام کی توسیع کے لیے لازمی اقدام، انتظامی امور میں حد بندی ضروری Ghalib241 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 19:56، 24 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
9. تائید ذیشان امجد (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:09، 25 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
10. تائید۔ --ساجد امجد ساجد^{پیغام لکھئے} 06:25، 25 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
11. تائید--محمد طاہر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:00، 25 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
12. تائید--محمد عارف سومرو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:29، 25 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
13. تائید --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:33، 25 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)
14. تائید--تبصرہ پر غور کرنے کی درخواست کے ساتھ--ابو السرمد محمد یوسف (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 06:29، 26 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

تبصرہ

منتظم ہونا ایک اعزازی عہدہ ہے اس عہدہ سے کوئی مالی فوائد وابستہ نہیں میرا خیال ہے کہ اس کے ساتھ کچھ اخلاقی پہلو مد نظر رکھنے چاہیئں مندرجہ بالا تین شرائط کی بجائے اگر کوئی منتظم کچھ عرصہ نہ وقت دے سکے تو خود بخود اپنے عہدے سے فارغ ہو جائے اور پھر جب کبھی اس کے پاس وقت ہو وہ اس خدمت کو سر انجام دینا چاہے تواس کے تجربہ کی وجہ سے اسے یہ حق ہو کہ وہ عہدہ سنبھال سکے کیونکہ اس معزولی کے کھیل میں ہم نہ صرف ایک منتظم بلکہ اچھے صارف سے بھی محروم ہوجاتے ہیں--ابو السرمد محمد یوسف (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 06:29، 26 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

@Abualsarmad: مجھے خوشی ہے کہ آپ نے ایک کارآمد تبصرہ کیا ہے۔ یقینا منتظم ہونا ایک رضاکارانہ ذمہ داری ہے جس سے کوئی مالی فوائد وابستہ نہیں۔مندرجہ تین شرائط کے علاہ اگر کوئی منتظم بذات خود اپنے اختیارات واپس کرنا چاہتا ہے یہ خیال کر کے کہ کچھ عرصے تک ان کے پاس فرصت نہیں ہے تو ایسی صورت میں بجا ہے جیسا اکثر ویکیوں پر ہوتا ہے کہ وہ منتظم دیوان عام پر یا میٹا ویکی پر مضیفین سے درخواست کرے کہ اس کے انتظامی حقوق ختم کر دیے جائیں۔ تاہم دوبارہ منتظم بننے کے لیے پالیسی کے مطابق انھیں ایک نئی رائے شماری شروع کرنی ہوگی۔ اگر رائے شماری ان کے حق میں ہوتی ہے (جو میرا یقین ہے کہ ہوگی اس وجہ سے کہ ہمارے ہاں منتظمین کی تعداد بہت قلیل ہے اور ان کا تجربہ بھی اس کی ضمانت دیتا ہے) تو انھیں پھر سے منتظمی کا اختیار مل سکتا ہے۔ اوپر والی تجاویز میں ان سطروں کا خلاصہ شامل کیا جا سکتا ہے۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 14:38، 26 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

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گفتگو کو مقفل کر دیا گیا ہے، براہ کرم اسے تبدیل نہ کریں۔ تبصرے ممکنہ طور پر متعلقہ صفحہ پر رکھے جائیں گے۔ اب اس گفتگو میں مزید کوئی تبدیلی نہیں ہوگی۔

ویکیپیڈیا:غیر فعال منتظمین میں اصلاح

آداب۔ میرا خیال ہے کہ اس حکمت عملی میں مختصر اصلاح کی ضرورت ہے۔ اندازہ لگائیے کہ ایک منتظم جو پس پردہ انتظامی امور (حذف شدگی وغیرہ) میں حصہ لے رہا ہے تاہم ترمیم کاری میں حصہ نہیں لے پارہا؛ اس حکمت عملی کے نزدیک وہ منتظمی سے معزول کیا جانا چاہیے۔ اس وجہ سے اس میں مختصر اصلاح کرکے تیسری وجہ خارج کردی ہوجائے اور پہلی دو کے درمیان امتیاز کے لیے "یا" لگادیا جائے۔ ترمیم کاری کوئی انتظامی امر نہیں ہے اور نہ اس سے انتظامی اختیارات کا فیصلہ ہونا چاہیے۔ اوپر ہی دو سال قبل یہ رائے شماری ہوئی ہے۔ _{آپ کا خیرخواہ،} عافیؔ 18:53، 1 جنوری 2026ء (م ع و)

طرزیات

Tech News: 2023-47

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

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [1][2]
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Quechua Wikipedia, Romansh Wikipedia, Romani Wikipedia, Rundi Wikipedia, Aromanian Wikipedia, Tarandíne Wikipedia, Rusyn Wikipedia, Kinyarwanda Wikipedia, Sanskrit Wikipedia, Sakha Wikipedia, Santali Wikipedia, Sardinian Wikipedia, Sicilian Wikipedia, Scots Wikipedia, Sindhi Wikipedia, Northern Sami Wikipedia, Sango Wikipedia, Serbo-Croatian Wikipedia, Sinhala Wikipedia, Slovak Wikipedia, Slovenian Wikipedia, Samoan Wikipedia, Somali Wikipedia, Albanian Wikipedia, Serbian Wikipedia, Sranan Tongo Wikipedia, Swati Wikipedia, Southern Sotho Wikipedia, Saterland Frisian Wikipedia, Sundanese Wikipedia, Silesian Wikipedia, Tamil Wikipedia, Tulu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tetum Wikipedia, Tajik Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkmen Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia, Tswana Wikipedia, Tongan Wikipedia, Tok Pisin Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Tsonga Wikipedia, Tatar Wikipedia, Twi Wikipedia, Tahitian Wikipedia, Tuvinian Wikipedia, Udmurt Wikipedia, Uyghur Wikipedia, Uzbek Wikipedia, Venda Wikipedia, Venetian Wikipedia, Veps Wikipedia, West Flemish Wikipedia, Volapük Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [3][4][5]
• The Vector 2022 skin will have some minor visual changes to drop-down menus, column widths, and more. These changes were added to four Wikipedias last week. If no issues are found, these changes will proceed to all wikis this week. These changes will make it possible to add new menus for readability and dark mode. Learn more. [6]

Future changes

• There is an update on re-enabling the Graph Extension. To speed up the process, Vega 2 will not be supported and only some protocols will be available at launch. You can help by sharing what you think about the plan.

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Tech News: 2023-48

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 November. It will be on all wikis from 30 November (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [7][8]
• MediaWiki's JavaScript system will now allow async/await syntax in gadgets and user scripts. Gadget authors should remember that users' browsers may not support it, so it should be used appropriately. [9]
• The deployment of "Add a link" announced last week was postponed. It will resume this week.

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Tech News: 2023-49

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

Recent changes

• The spacing between paragraphs on Vector 2022 has been changed from 7px to 14px to match the size of the text. This will make it easier to distinguish paragraphs from sentences. [10]
• The "طے شدہ طور پر اس صفحہ درج ذیل نام کے تحت درج کریں" feature in VisualEditor is working again. You no longer need to switch to source editing to edit {{DEFAULTSORT:...}} keywords. [11]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [12][13]
• On 6 December, people who have the enabled the preference for "Show discussion activity" will notice the talk page usability improvements appear on pages that include the __NEWSECTIONLINK__ magic word. If you notice any issues, please share them with the team on Phabricator.

Future changes

• The Toolforge Grid Engine shutdown process will start on December 14. Maintainers of tools that still use this old system should plan to migrate to Kubernetes, or tell the team your plans on Phabricator in the task about your tool, before that date. [14]
• Communities using Structured Discussions are being contacted regarding the upcoming deprecation of Structured Discussions. You can read more about this project, and share your comments, on the project's page.

Events

• Registration & Scholarship applications are now open for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2024 that will take place from 3–5 May in Tallinn, Estonia. Scholarship applications are open until 5 January 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:49، 4 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

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

Recent changes

• On Wikimedia Commons, there are some minor user-interface improvements for the "choosing own vs not own work" step in the UploadWizard. This is part of the Structured Content team's project of improving UploadWizard on Commons. [15][16]

Problems

• There was a problem showing the Newcomer homepage feature with the "impact module" and their page-view graphs, for a few days in early December. This has now been fixed. [17][18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 December. It will be on all wikis from 14 December (calendar). [19][20]

Future changes

• The 2023 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 5 January 2024, and has an associated privacy statement.

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Tech News: 2023-51

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

Tech News

• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 8 January 2024 because of the holidays.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 December. It will be on all wikis from 21 December (calendar). There is no new MediaWiki version next week. [21][22]
• Starting December 18, it won't be possible to activate Structured Discussions on a user's own talk page using the Beta feature. The Beta feature option remains available for users who want to deactivate Structured Discussions. This is part of Structured Discussions' deprecation work. [23]
• There will be full support for redirects in the Module namespace. The "Move Page" feature will leave an appropriate redirect behind, and such redirects will be appropriately recognized by the software (e.g. hidden from خاص:غیر مربوط صفحات). There will also be support for manual redirects. [24]

Future changes

• The MediaWiki JavaScript documentation is moving to a new format. During the move, you can read the old docs using version 1.41. Feedback about the new site is welcome on the project talk page.
• The Wishathon is a new initiative that encourages collaboration across the Wikimedia community to develop solutions for wishes collected through the Community Wishlist Survey. The first community Wishathon will take place from 15–17 March. If you are interested in a project proposal as a user, developer, designer, or product lead, you can register for the event and read more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:17، 18 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-02

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

Recent changes

• mediawiki2latex is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
• The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [25]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [26][27]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:19، 9 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-03

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

Recent changes

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [28]
• Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [29]
• Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [30]
• You can now thank edits made by bots. [31]
• An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [32][33]
• Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [34]
• The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [35]

Future changes

• Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12، 16 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-04

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

Problems

• A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [36]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [37][38]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:03، 23 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

A new feature for previewing references on your wiki

Apologies for writing in English. If you can translate this message, that would be much appreciated.

Hi. As announced some weeks ago ^{[1] [2]}, Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team introduced Reference Previews to many wikis, including this one. This feature shows popups for references in the article text.

While this new feature is already usable on your wiki, most people here are not seeing it yet because your wiki has set a gadget as the default for previewing references. We suggest removing the default flag from this gadget on your wiki. That will mean:

• The new default for reference popups on your wiki will be Reference Previews.
• However, if you want to keep using the gadget, you can still enable it in your personal settings.

The benefit of having Reference Previews as the default is that the user experience will be consistent across wikis and with the Page Previews feature, and that the software will be easier to maintain overall.

If your wiki wants to make this change, you can remove the default flag yourself or ask the Technical Wishes team to remove it for you, ideally by February 12. – Kind regards, Johanna Strodt (WMDE), 09:40، 23 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-05

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

Recent changes

• Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [39]
• There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [40][41]
• On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new خاص:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [42]
• Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [43]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31، 29 جنوری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-06

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

Recent changes

• The mobile site history pages now use the same HTML as the desktop history pages. If you hear of any problems relating to mobile history usage please point them to the phabricator task.
• On most wikis, admins can now block users from making specific actions. These actions are: uploading files, creating new pages, moving (renaming) pages, and sending thanks. The goal of this feature is to allow admins to apply blocks that are adequate to the blocked users' activity. Learn more about "action blocks". [44][45]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 6 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 7 February. It will be on all wikis from 8 February (calendar). [46][47]
• Talk pages permalinks that included diacritics and non-Latin script were malfunctioning. This issue is fixed. [48]

Future changes

• 24 Wikipedias with Reference Tooltips as a default gadget are encouraged to remove that default flag. This would make Reference Previews the new default for reference popups, leading to a more consistent experience across wikis. For 46 Wikipedias with less than 4 interface admins, the change is already scheduled for mid-February, unless there are concerns. The older Reference Tooltips gadget will still remain usable and will override this feature, if it is available on your wiki and you have enabled it in your settings. [49][50]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:22، 5 فروری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-07

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

Recent changes

• The WDQS Graph Split experiment is working and loaded onto 3 test servers. The team in charge is testing the split's impact and requires feedback from WDQS users through the UI or programmatically in different channels. [51][52][53] Users' feedback will validate the impact of various use cases and workflows around the Wikidata Query service. [54][55]

Problems

• There was a bug that affected the appearance of visited links when using mobile device to access wiki sites. It made the links appear black; this issue is fixed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 13 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 14 February. It will be on all wikis from 15 February (calendar). [56][57]
• As work continues on the grid engine deprecation,[58] tools on the grid engine will be stopped starting on February 14th, 2024. If you have tools actively migrating you can ask for an extension so they are not stopped. [59]

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MediaWiki message delivery 05:48، 13 فروری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-08

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

Recent changes

• If you have the "جب میرے زیر نظر صفحہ یا فائل میں کوئی تبدیلی ہو تو مجھے برقی ڈاک بھیجیں" option enabled, edits by bot accounts no longer trigger notification emails. Previously, only minor edits would not trigger the notification emails. [60]
• There are changes to how user and site scripts load for Vector 2022 on specific wikis. The changes impacted the following Wikis: all projects with Vector legacy as the default skin, Wikivoyage, and Wikibooks. Other wikis will be affected over the course of the next three months. Gadgets are not impacted. If you have been affected or want to minimize the impact on your project, see this ticket. Please coordinate and take action proactively.
• Newly auto-created accounts (the accounts you get when you visit a new wiki) now have the same local notification preferences as users who freshly register on that wiki. It is effected in four notification types listed in the task's description.
• The maximum file size when using Upload Wizard is now 5 GiB. [61]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 February. It will be on all wikis from 22 February (calendar). [62][63]

• Selected tools on the grid engine have been stopped as we prepare to shut down the grid on March 14th, 2024. The tool's code and data have not been deleted. If you are a maintainer and you want your tool re-enabled reach out to the team. Only tools that have asked for extension are still running on the grid.
• The CSS filter property can now be used in HTML style attributes in wikitext. [64]

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:36، 19 فروری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-09

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

Recent changes

• The mobile visual editor is now the default editor for users who never edited before, at a small group of wikis. Research shows that users using this editor are slightly more successful publishing the edits they started, and slightly less successful publishing non-reverted edits. Users who defined the wikitext editor as their default on desktop will get the wikitext editor on mobile for their first edit on mobile as well. [65]
• The mw.config value wgGlobalGroups now only contains groups that are active in the wiki. Scripts no longer have to check whether the group is active on the wiki via an API request. A code example of the above is: if (/globalgroupname/.test(mw.config.get("wgGlobalGroups"))). [66]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 27 February. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 28 February. It will be on all wikis from 29 February (calendar). [67][68]

Future changes

• The right to change edit tags (changetags) will be removed from users in Wikimedia sites, keeping it by default for admins and bots only. Your community can ask to retain the old configuration on your wiki before this change happens. Please indicate in this ticket to keep it for your community before the end of March 2024.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:23، 26 فروری 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-10

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

Recent changes

• The Special:Book page (as well as the associated "Create a book" functionality) provided by the old Collection extension has been removed from all Wikisource wikis, as it was broken. This does not affect the ability to download normal books, which is provided by the Wikisource extension. [69]
• Wikitech now uses the next-generation Parsoid wikitext parser by default to generate all pages in the Talk namespace. Report any problems on the Known Issues discussion page. You can use the ParserMigration extension to control the use of Parsoid; see the ParserMigration help documentation for more details.
• Maintenance on etherpad is completed. If you encounter any issues, please indicate in this ticket.
• Gadgets allow interface admins to create custom features with CSS and JavaScript. The Gadget and Gadget_definition namespaces and gadgets-definition-edit user right were reserved for an experiment in 2015, but were never used. These were visible on Special:Search and Special:ListGroupRights. The unused namespaces and user rights are now removed. No pages are moved, and no changes need to be made. [70]
• A usability improvement to the "Add a citation" in Wikipedia workflow has been made, the insert button was moved to the popup header. [71]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 March. It will be on all wikis from 7 March (calendar). [72][73]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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. [74]
• The HTML markup of headings and section edit links will be changed later this year to improve accessibility. See Heading HTML changes for details. The new markup will be the same as in the new Parsoid wikitext parser. You can test your gadget or stylesheet with the new markup if you add ?useparsoid=1 to your URL (more info) or turn on Parsoid read views in your user options (more info).

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:46، 4 مارچ 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-11

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

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 March. It will be on all wikis from 14 March (calendar). [75][76]
• After consulting with various communities, the line height of the text on the Minerva skin will be increased to its previous value of 1.65. Different options for typography can also be set using the options in the menu, as needed. [77]
• The active link color in Minerva will be changed to provide more consistency with our other platforms and best practices. [78]
• Structured data on Commons will no longer ask whether you want to leave the page without saving. This will prevent the “information you’ve entered may not be saved” popups from appearing when no information have been entered. It will also make file pages on Commons load faster in certain cases. However, the popups will be hidden even if information has indeed been entered. If you accidentally close the page before saving the structured data you entered, that data will be lost. [79]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. 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. [80][81]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:04، 11 مارچ 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-12

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

Recent changes

• The notice "Language links are at the top of the page" that appears in the Vector 2022 skin main menu has been removed now that users have learned the new location of the Language switcher. [82]
• IP info feature displays data from Spur, an IP addresses database. Previously, the only data source for this feature was MaxMind. Now, IP info is more useful for patrollers. [83]
• The Toolforge Grid Engine services have been shut down after the final migration process from Grid Engine to Kubernetes. [84][85][86]
• Communities can now customize the default reasons for undeleting a page by creating میڈیاویکی:Undelete-comment-dropdown. [87]

Problems

• RevisionSlider is an interface to interactively browse a page's history. Users in right-to-left languages reported RevisionSlider reacting wrong to mouse clicks. This should be fixed now. [88]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 March. It will be on all wikis from 21 March (calendar). [89][90]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 20. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. [91][92]

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:39، 18 مارچ 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-13

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

Recent changes

• An update was made on March 18th 2024 to how various projects load site, user JavaScript and CSS in Vector 2022 skin. A checklist is provided for site admins to follow.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 March. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 March. It will be on all wikis from 28 March (calendar). [93][94]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:56، 25 مارچ 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-14

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

Recent changes

• Users of the reading accessibility beta feature will notice that the default line height for the standard and large text options has changed. [95]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 2 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 3 April. It will be on all wikis from 4 April (calendar). [96][97]

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Foundation has an annual plan. The annual plan decides what the Wikimedia Foundation will work on. You can now read the draft key results for the Product and Technology department. They are suggestions for what results the Foundation wants from big technical changes from July 2024 to June 2025. You can comment on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:35، 2 اپریل 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-15

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

Recent changes

• Web browsers can use tools called extensions. There is now a Chrome extension called Citation Needed which you can use to see if an online statement is supported by a Wikipedia article. This is a small experiment to see if Wikipedia can be used this way. Because it is a small experiment, it can only be used in Chrome in English.
• A new Edit Recovery feature has been added to all wikis, available as a user preference. Once you enable it, your in-progress edits will be stored in your web browser, and if you accidentally close an editing window or your browser or computer crashes, you will be prompted to recover the unpublished text. Please leave any feedback on the project talk page. This was the #8 wish in the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey.
• Initial results of Edit check experiments have been published. Edit Check is now deployed as a default feature at the wikis that tested it. Let us know if you want your wiki to be part of the next deployment of Edit check. [98][99]
• Readers using the Minerva skin on mobile will notice there has been an improvement in the line height across all typography settings. [100]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 April. It will be on all wikis from 11 April (calendar). [101][102]
• New accounts and logged-out users will get the visual editor as their default editor on mobile. This deployment is made at all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. [103]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:37، 8 اپریل 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-16

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

Problems

• Between 2 April and 8 April, on wikis using Flagged Revisions, the "ردِّ ترمیم" tag was not applied to undone edits. In addition, page moves, protections and imports were not autoreviewed. This problem is now fixed. [104][105]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 April. It will be on all wikis from 18 April (calendar). [106][107]
• Default category sort keys will now affect categories added by templates placed in footnotes. Previously footnotes used the page title as the default sort key even if a different default sort key was specified (category-specific sort keys already worked). [108]
• A new variable page_last_edit_age will be added to abuse filters. It tells how many seconds ago the last edit to a page was made. [109]

Future changes

• Volunteer developers are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. Learn more.
• Four database fields will be removed from database replicas (including Quarry). This affects only the abuse_filter and abuse_filter_history tables. Some queries might need to be updated. [110]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:28، 15 اپریل 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-17

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

Recent changes

• Starting this week, newcomers editing Wikipedia will be encouraged to try structured tasks. Structured tasks have been shown to improve newcomer activation and retention. [111]
• You can nominate your favorite tools for the fifth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations will be open until May 10.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 April. It will be on all wikis from 25 April (calendar). [112][113]

Future changes

• This is the last warning that by the end of May 2024 the Vector 2022 skin will no longer share site and user scripts/styles with old Vector. For user-scripts that you want to keep using on Vector 2022, copy the contents of خاص:میرا صفحہ/vector.js to خاص:میرا صفحہ/vector-2022.js. There are more technical details available. Interface administrators who foresee this leading to lots of technical support questions may wish to send a mass message to your community, as was done on French Wikipedia. [114]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:27، 22 اپریل 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-18

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

Recent changes

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

• The appearance of talk pages changed for the following wikis: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Romanian Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia. These wikis participated to a test, where 50% of users got the new design, for one year. As this test gave positive results, the new design is deployed on these wikis as the default design. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at all wikis in the coming weeks. [115]
• Seven new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Betawi (w:bew:) [116]
  • a Wikipedia in Kusaal (w:kus:) [117]
  • a Wikipedia in Igala (w:igl:) [118]
  • a Wiktionary in Karakalpak (wikt:kaa:) [119]
  • a Wikisource in Burmese (s:my:) [120]
  • a Wikisource in Malay (s:ms:) [121]
  • a Wikisource in Georgian (s:ka:) [122]
• You can now watch message groups/projects on Translatewiki.net. Initially, this feature will notify you of added or deleted messages in these groups. [123]
• Dark mode is now available on all wikis, on mobile web for logged-in users who opt into the advanced mode. This is the early release of the feature. Technical editors are invited to check for accessibility issues on wikis. See more detailed guidelines.

Problems

• Kartographer maps can use an alternative visual style without labels, by using mapstyle="osm". This wasn't working in previews, creating the wrong impression that it wasn't supported. This has now been fixed. [124]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 April. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 1 May. It will be on all wikis from 2 May (calendar). [125][126]

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MediaWiki message delivery 03:33، 30 اپریل 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-19

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

Recent changes

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

• The appearance of talk pages changed for all wikis, except for Commons, Wikidata and most Wikipedias (a few have already received this design change). You can read the detail of the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt-out these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). The deployment will happen at remaining wikis in the coming weeks. [127][128]
• Interface admins now have greater control over the styling of article components on mobile with the introduction of the SiteAdminHelper. More information on how styles can be disabled can be found at the extension's page. [129]
• Wikimedia Enterprise has added article body sections in JSON format and a curated short description field to the existing parsed Infobox. This expansion to the API is also available via Wikimedia Cloud Services. [130]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 7 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 8 May. It will be on all wikis from 9 May (calendar). [131][132]
• When you look at the Special:Log page, the first view is labelled "All public logs", but it only shows some logs. This label will now say "Main public logs". [133]

Future changes

• A new service will be built to replace Extension:Graph. Details can be found in the latest update regarding this extension.
• Starting May 21, English Wikipedia and German Wikipedia will get the possibility to activate "Add a link". This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to all Wikipedias. These communities can activate and configure the feature locally. [134]

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:44، 6 مئی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-20

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

Recent changes

• On Wikisource there is a special page listing pages of works without corresponding scan images. Now you can use the new magic word __EXPECTWITHOUTSCANS__ to exclude certain pages (list of editions or translations of works) from that list. [135]
• If you use the user-preference "صفحہ تازہ کیے بغیر نمائش دکھائیں", then the template-page feature "اس سانچہ کے ذریعہ صفحہ کی نمائش" will now also work without reloading the page. [136]
• Kartographer maps can now specify an alternative text via the alt= attribute. This is identical in usage to the alt= attribute in the image and gallery syntax. An exception for this feature is wikis like Wikivoyage where the miniature maps are interactive. [137]
• The old Guided Tour for the "New Filters for Edit Review" feature has been removed. It was created in 2017 to show people with older accounts how the interface had changed, and has now been seen by most of the intended people. [138]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 14 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 15 May. It will be on all wikis from 16 May (calendar). [139][140]
• The خاص:تلاش results page will now use CSS flex attributes, for better accessibility, instead of a table. If you have a gadget or script that adjusts search results, you should update your script to the new HTML structure. [141]

Future changes

• In the Vector 2022 skin, main pages will be displayed at full width (like special pages). The goal is to keep the number of characters per line large enough. This is related to the coming changes to typography in Vector 2022. Learn more. [142]
• Two columns of the pagelinks database table (pl_namespace and pl_title) are being dropped soon. Users must use two columns of the new linktarget table instead (lt_namespace and lt_title). In your existing SQL queries:
  1. Replace JOIN pagelinks with JOIN linktarget and pl_ with lt_ in the ON statement
  2. Below that add JOIN pagelinks ON lt_id = pl_target_id
  • See phab:T222224 for technical reasoning. [143][144]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58، 13 مئی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-21

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

Recent changes

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. [145]
• New changes have been made to the UploadWizard in Wikimedia Commons: the overall layout has been improved, by following new styling and spacing for the form and its fields; the headers and helper text for each of the fields was changed; the Caption field is now a required field, and there is an option for users to copy their caption into the media description. [146][147]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 21 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 22 May. It will be on all wikis from 23 May (calendar). [148][149]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It will change on 22 May in some skins (Timeless, Modern, CologneBlue, Nostalgia, and Monobook). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in all other skins. The developers are also considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:04، 20 مئی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-22

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

Recent changes

• Several bugs related to the latest updates to the UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons have been fixed. For more information, see T365107 and T365119.
• In March 2024 a new addPortlet API was added to allow gadgets to create new portlets (menus) in the skin. In certain skins this can be used to create dropdowns. Gadget developers are invited to try it and give feedback.
• Some CSS in the Minerva skin has been removed to enable easier community configuration. Interface editors should check the rendering on mobile devices for aspects related to the classes: .collapsible, .multicol, .reflist, .coordinates, .topicon. Further details are available on replacement CSS if it is needed.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 28 May. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 29 May. It will be on all wikis from 30 May (calendar). [150][151]
• When you visit a wiki where you don't yet have a local account, local rules such as edit filters can sometimes prevent your account from being created. Starting this week, MediaWiki takes your global rights into account when evaluating whether you can override such local rules. [152]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:15، 28 مئی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-23

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

Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [153]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [154]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [155]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [156][157]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:34، 3 جون 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-24

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

Recent changes

• The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [158]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [159]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [160]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [161][162]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [163]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [164]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:20، 10 جون 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-25

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

Recent changes

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [165]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [166][167]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [168]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [169]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [170]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [171][172]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [173]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [174]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:48، 17 جون 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-26

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

Recent changes

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [175]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [176]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [177]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [178][179]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [180]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:32، 24 جون 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-27

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

Recent changes

• Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [181]
• Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [182]
• If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [183][184]
• Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [185]
• Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [186]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [187]

Future changes

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 2 weeks. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:58، 1 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-28

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

Recent changes

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

Tech News survey

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 1 more week. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:31، 8 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-29

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

Tech News survey

• Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.

Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [188]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:30، 16 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-30

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

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [189]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [190]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [191]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

Learn more

• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:04، 23 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-31

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

Feature news

• Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

• Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
• Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
• There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [192]

Learn more

• There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
• There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
• Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:10، 29 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-32

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

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [193][194]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The انگریزی ویکی سفر and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:43، 5 اگست 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-33

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

Feature news

• AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [195]
• Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

Project updates

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [196]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:21، 12 اگست 2024ء (م ع و)

Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!

Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.

We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:

• Please try the current state of development on beta wiki and let us know what you think.
• Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.

Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.

Please help us spread the message. --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 10:36, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

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

Feature news

• Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
• Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [197]
• Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [198][199]

Bugs status

• Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to خاص:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
• Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

• The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:53، 20 اگست 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-35

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

Feature news

• Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
• Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [200]

Bugs status

• Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
• Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.

Learn more

• If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Community Configuration - Shaping On-Wiki Functionality Together (55 mins) - about the Community Configuration project.
  • Future of MediaWiki. A sustainable platform to support a collaborative user base and billions of page views (30 mins) - an overview for both technical and non technical audiences, covering some of the challenges and open questions, related to the platform evolution, stewardship and developer experiences research.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:32، 26 اگست 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-36

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

• Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.

Feature news

• Editors who use the خاص:غیر مستعمل سانچے page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [201]
• Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [202]
• Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.

Project updates

• A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.

Learn more

• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Charts, the successor of Graphs - A secure and extensible tool for data visualization (25 mins) – about the above-mentioned Charts project.
  • State of Language Technology and Onboarding at Wikimedia (90 mins) – about some of the language tools that support Wikimedia sites, such as Content/Section Translation, MinT, and LanguageConverter; also the current state and future of languages onboarding. [203]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:06، 3 ستمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-37

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

Feature news

• Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [204][205]
• Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [206]

Project updates

• Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [207]
• Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [208]

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:52، 9 ستمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-38

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

Improvements and Maintenance

• Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
• The new automated خاص:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [209]
• References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [210]
• It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [211]
• Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
• Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [212]

Technical project updates

• Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [213]

Tech in depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
• To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
  • Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
  • Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:02، 17 ستمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-39

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

Weekly highlight

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.

Updates for editors

A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature

• Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
• The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
• It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [214]
• Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [215][216]
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• From Wikimedia Enterprise:
  • The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
  • The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.

In depth

• The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:36، 23 ستمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

'Wikidata item' link is moving. Find out where...

Apologies for cross-posting in English. Please consider translating this message.

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Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project. The Wikidata item sitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.

We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2. More information can be found on the project page.

We welcome your feedback and questions.
MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:58، 27 ستمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-40

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

• Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding ?veaction=editsource to the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [217]
• For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [218]
• The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.

In depth

• The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [219]

Meetings and events

• October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
• November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:19، 30 ستمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-41

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 can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [220]

Updates for editors

• Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [221]
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• It is now possible for <syntaxhighlight> code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if the copy=1 attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [222]
• Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [223]
• Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
• Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Komering (w:kge:) [224]
  • a Wikipedia in Mooré (m:mos:) [225]
  • a Wiktionary in Madurese (wikt:mad:) [226]
  • a Wikiquote in Gorontalo (q:gor:) [227]
  • a Wikinews in Shan (n:shn:) [228]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:42، 7 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-42

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 Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [229][230]
• WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [231]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [232]
• Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [233]
• Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a <bdi> element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [234]

In depth

• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:20، 14 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-43

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 Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.

iOS Wikipedia App's profile menu and contents

Updates for editors

• Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
• Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [235][236][237][238][239]
• It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new {{#timef:…}} parser function. For example, {{#timef:now|date|en}} will show as "19 January 2026". Previously, {{#time:…}} could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation. #timef (or #timefl for local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [240][241]
• Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using {{USERLANGUAGE}} instead of using {{int:lang}}. [242]
• The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [243]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
• The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
• The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.

Meetings and events

• 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
• 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:52، 21 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

'Wikidata item' link is moving, finally.

Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE) 11:29، 22 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-44

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

• Later in November, the Charts extension will be deployed to the test wikis in order to help identify and fix any issue. A security review is underway to then enable deployment to pilot wikis for broader testing. You can read the October project update and see the latest documentation and examples on Beta Wikipedia.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, Pediapress.com, an external service that creates books from Wikipedia, can now use Wikimedia Maps to include existing pre-rendered infobox map images in their printed books on Wikipedia. [244]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikis can use the Guided Tour extension to help newcomers understand how to edit. The Guided Tours extension now works with dark mode. Guided Tour maintainers can check their tours to see that nothing looks odd. They can also set emitTransitionOnStep to true to fix an old bug. They can use the new flag allowAutomaticBack to avoid back-buttons they don't want. [245]
• Administrators in the Wikimedia projects who use the Nuke Extension will notice that mass deletions done with this tool have the "Nuke" tag. This change will make reviewing and analyzing deletions performed with the tool easier. [246]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:55، 28 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-45

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

• Stewards can now make global account blocks cause global autoblocks. This will assist stewards in preventing abuse from users who have been globally blocked. This includes preventing globally blocked temporary accounts from exiting their session or switching browsers to make subsequent edits for 24 hours. Previously, temporary accounts could exit their current session or switch browsers to continue editing. This is an anti-abuse tool improvement for the Temporary Accounts project. You can read more about the progress on key features for temporary accounts. [247]
• Wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled can now use the Collaboration List feature. This list provides a new, easy way for contributors to learn about WikiProjects on their wikis. Thanks to the Campaign team for this work that is part of the 2024/25 annual plan. If you are interested in bringing the CampaignEvents extension to your wiki, you can follow these steps or you can reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for help.
• The text color for red links will be slightly changed later this week to improve their contrast in light mode. [248]
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, on multilingual wikis, users can now hide translations from the WhatLinksHere special page.

Updates for technical contributors

• XML data dumps have been temporarily paused whilst a bug is investigated. [249]

In depth

• Temporary Accounts have been deployed to six wikis; thanks to the Trust and Safety Product team for this work, you can read about the deployment plans. Beginning next week, Temporary Accounts will also be enabled on seven other projects. If you are active on these wikis and need help migrating your tools, please reach out to User:Udehb-WMF for assistance.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New languages supported in translatewiki or in MediaWiki; New keyboard input methods for some languages; details about recent and upcoming meetings, and more.

Meetings and events

• MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 is happening in Vienna, Austria and online from 4 to 6 November 2024. The conference will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49، 4 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2024-46

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

• On wikis with the Translate extension enabled, users will notice that the FuzzyBot will now automatically create translated versions of categories used on translated pages. [250]
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the submitted task to use the SecurePoll extension for English Wikipedia's special administrator election was resolved on time. [251]

Updates for technical contributors

• In 1.44.0-wmf-2, the logic of Wikibase function getAllStatements changed to behave like getBestStatements. Invoking the function now returns a copy of values which are immutable. [252]
• Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. The API will be rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The impacted endpoints include getting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content. These changes will be available on testwiki later this week, with other projects to follow. This change should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints should verify behavior on testwiki, and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket.

In depth

• Admins and users of the Wikimedia projects where Automoderator is enabled can now monitor and evaluate important metrics related to Automoderator's actions. This Superset dashboard calculates and aggregates metrics about Automoderator's behaviour on the projects in which it is deployed. Thanks to the Moderator Tools team for this Dashboard; you can visit the documentation page for more information about this work. [253]

Meetings and events

• 21 November 2024 (8:00 UTC & 16:00 UTC) - Community call with Wikimedia Commons volunteers and stakeholders to help prioritize support efforts for 2025-2026 Fiscal Year. The theme of this call is how content should be organised on Wikimedia Commons.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:06، 12 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

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. [254]
• 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. [255]

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. [256][257]

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 02:00، 19 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

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. [258]
• 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. [259]
• 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. [260]

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 22:41، 25 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

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. [261]
• 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). [262]
• 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. [263]

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 22:22، 2 دسمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

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. [264]
• 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. [265]
• 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. [266]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [267]
• 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. [268]
• 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. [269][270]

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. [271]
• 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. [272]

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 22:15، 9 دسمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

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. [273]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:24، 16 دسمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

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) [274]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [275]
• 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. [276]

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. [277]
• 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 میڈیاویکی: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. [278]

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 01:41، 14 جنوری 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [279]
• 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. [280]
• 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. [281]
• 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 01:36، 21 جنوری 2025ء (م ع و)

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 خاص:حالیہ تبدیلیاں and خاص:جدید صفحات. [282]
• 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. [283]
• 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. [284]
• 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. [285]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:14، 27 جنوری 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [286]
• 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.[287] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[288] 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. [289]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [290]
• 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. [291]

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:08، 4 فروری 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [292]
• 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. [293]
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the خاص:اختیار مرکزی page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [294]

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. [295]
• 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. [296]
• 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. [297]

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 00:11، 11 فروری 2025ء (م ع و)

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 خاص:Homepage 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 خاص: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. [298]
• 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. [299]
• 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 خاص:اجتماعی حذف شدگی 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. [300]
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the خاص:اجتماعی حذف شدگی tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [301]
• 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. [302]

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. [303][304]
• 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. [305]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:16، 17 فروری 2025ء (م ع و)

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 خاص:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [306]
• 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. [307][308][309]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:) [310]
• 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. [311]

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 فروری 2025ء (م ع و)

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 "مکمل صفحہ میں ترمیم" link is accessible from the "مزید" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [312]
• Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local میڈیاویکی: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.[313] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[314]
• 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,[315] and respects cascading protection.[316]
• 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. [317]
• 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. [318]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti (w:syl:) [319]
• 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. [320]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:30، 4 مارچ 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [321][322]
• 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 مارچ 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [323]
• 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. [324]
• 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. [325]

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 23:47، 17 مارچ 2025ء (م ع و)

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 میڈیاویکی:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the خصوصی صفحات 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. [326]
• 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. [327]
• 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. [328][329]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:41، 24 مارچ 2025ء (م ع و)

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 00:04، 1 اپریل 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [330]
• 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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MediaWiki message delivery 18:51، 7 اپریل 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [331]
• 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. [332][333]

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. [334]
• "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for 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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MediaWiki message delivery 00:23، 15 اپریل 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [335]
• 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. [336]
• 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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MediaWiki message delivery 20:59، 21 اپریل 2025ء (م ع و)

Sub-referencing: User testing

Apologies for writing in English, please help us by providing a translation below

Hi I’m Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team. We are making great strides with the new sub-referencing feature and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:

1. Try it out and share your feedback

   Please try the updated wikitext feature on the beta wiki and let us know what you think, either on our talk page or by booking a call with our UX researcher.

2. Get a sneak peak and help shape the Visual Editor user designs

   Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start May 14th.

We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.

Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!

Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 15:03، 28 اپریل 2025ء (م ع و)

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 19:31، 28 اپریل 2025ء (م ع و)

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 خاص: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. [337]
• 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 00:13، 6 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

We will be enabling the new Charts extension on your wiki soon!

(Apologies for posting in English)

Hi all! We have good news to share regarding the ongoing problem with graphs and charts affecting all wikis that use them.

As you probably know, the old Graph extension was disabled in 2023 due to security reasons. We’ve worked in these two years to find a solution that could replace the old extension, and provide a safer and better solution to users who wanted to showcase graphs and charts in their articles. We therefore developed the Charts extension, which will be replacing the old Graph extension and potentially also the EasyTimeline extension.

After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, as well as on MediaWiki.org, as part of a pilot phase, we are now happy to announce that we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment, which will also include your wiki.

The deployment will happen in batches, and will start from May 6. Please, consult our page on MediaWiki.org to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki. You can also consult the documentation about the extension on MediaWiki.org.

If you have questions, need clarifications, or just want to express your opinion about it, please refer to the project’s talk page on Mediawiki.org, or ping me directly under this thread. If you encounter issues using Charts once it gets enabled on your wiki, please report it on the talk page or at Phabricator.

Thank you in advance! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:07، 6 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

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 خاص: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 22:37، 12 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

Join the 6th Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign – 2025 Edition

Dear Wikipedia community,

(Please help translate to your language)

We invite your community to participate in the 6th edition of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign, a global campaign taking place from July 1 to August 31, 2025.

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photos, then add a suitable photo from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, Wiki Loves Monuments, etc.) over the years.

More than 80 Wikimedia affiliates have participated since the campaign was launched in 2020 and have added images to more than 400,000 Wikipedia articles in over 245 Wikipedia languages. Thanks to the volunteer contributors!

We now invite your community to organize and lead the campaign within your community. As a local organizer, you may:

• Encourage individual members to take part by adding images to Wikipedia articles.
• Host edit-a-thons focused on improving visual content.
• Organize training workshops to teach contributors how to correctly integrate images into Wikipedia.

These activities will help build local capacity and increase visual content across Wikipedia.

Please note that for participants to be eligible to participate in the campaign, they need to have registered an account for at least a year before the official start date of the contest. That is, for the 2025 edition, they must have registered an account on or before July 1, 2025. The account can be from any Wikimedia project wikis.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language Wikipedia.

We would be glad for you to sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.

With kind regards,

صارف:Reading Beans On behalf of the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign 2025. MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 21:53، 18 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

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 خاص:پابندی?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. [338]
• Later this week, the خاص:خصوصی صفحات 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. [339]
• 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. [340]

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with خاص:پابندی 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. [341]
• 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. [342]
• 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 23:11، 19 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

ٹرانسلٹریشن

اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر بائی ڈیفالٹ خانہ تلاش اور تدوین میں "ٹرانسلٹریشن" کا آپشن آتا ہے، یہاں ملاحظہ فرمائیں اس پر کلک کرنے ٹرانسلٹریشن کام نہیں کرتی۔ یہ کوئی نامعلوم کی بورڈ لے آؤٹ ہے جو نہ مقتدرہ ہے نہ مونوٹائپ۔ اسے درست کیا جائے تاکہ ٹرانسلٹریشن ٹھیک کام کرے ورنہ سرے سے ہی ختم کر دیا جائے۔--اُردو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:16، 23 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

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 خاص:مطلوبہ صفحات, 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. [343]
• 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. [344]
• 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 20:04، 26 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [345]
• 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. [346]
• 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. [347]
• 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 23:54، 2 جون 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [348]

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 ("Show discussion activity"). [349][350]
• 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. [351]
• 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. [352]
• 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. [353][354]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:16، 10 جون 2025ء (م ع و)

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 23:37، 16 جون 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [355]

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. [356]
• 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%). [357]
• 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. [358]

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. [359]
• The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [360]
• 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 23:20، 23 جون 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [361]
• 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. [362][363]
• 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. [364]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:40، 30 جون 2025ء (م ع و)

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. [365]
• 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 خاص:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [366]
• 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. [367]
• 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 00:04، 8 جولائی 2025ء (م ع و)

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Hello everyone, the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects team is excited to announce an upcoming change in how Wikidata edit changelogs are displayed in your Watchlists and Recent Changes lists. If an edit is made on Wikidata that affects a page in another Wikimedia Project, the changelog will contain some information about the nature of the edit. This can include a QID (or Q-number), a PID (or P-number) and a value (which can be text, numbers, dates, or also QID or PID’s). Confused by these terms? See the Wikidata:Glossary for further explanations.

The upcoming change is scheduled for 17.07.2025, between 1300 - 1500 UTC. The change will display the label (item name) alongside any QID or PIDs, as seen in the image below:

These changes will only be visible if you have Wikidata edits enabled in your User Preferences for Watchlists and Recent Changes, or have the active filter ‘Wikidata edits’ checkbox toggled on, directly on the Watchlist and Recent Changes pages.

Your bot and gadget may be affected! There are thousands of bots, gadgets and user-scripts and whilst we have researched potential effects to many of them, we cannot guarantee there won’t be some that are broken or affected by this change.

Further information and context about this change, including how your bot may be affected can be found on this project task page. We welcome your questions and feedback, please write to us on this dedicated Talk page.

Thank you, - Danny Benjafield (WMDE) on behalf of the Wikidata For Wikimedia Projects Team. MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:46، 14 جولائی 2025ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2025-29

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

Updates for editors

• Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist. [368][369]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [370]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post for more details.

Meetings and events

• WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application and program proposal now!
• WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:08، 14 جولائی 2025ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2025-30

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

Updates for editors

• The Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter. [371]
• Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration feature.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
• The Beta Cluster wikis have been moved from beta.wmflabs.org to beta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon. [372]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:41، 21 جولائی 2025ء (م ع و)

Tech News: 2025-31

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

Weekly highlight

• The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. [373]
• On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [374]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
  • Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors
  • Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
  • A dozen visions for wikitext!
  • Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council
• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:26، 29 جولائی 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-32

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

Updates for editors

• Editors can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [375]
• Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page. [376]
• Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available. [377]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module now exists to load Codex icons. [378][379]
• Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. [380]
• Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [381]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
  • Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse
  • Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!
  • Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience
  • Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next

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Tech News: 2025-33

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

Updates for editors

• The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [382]
• The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
• The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [383]
• Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [384]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage. [385]
• Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the mw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. [386]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:28، 11 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-34

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

Updates for editors

• Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [387]
• An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [388]
• An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [389]
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:) [390]
  • a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:) [391]
  • a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:) [392]
  • a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:) [393]
  • a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:) [394]
• View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:37، 19 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-35

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

Updates for editors

• Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [395][396][397][398][399][400][401][402][403][404]
• On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [405]
• Administrators can now access the خاص:BlockedExternalDomains page from the خاص:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [406]
• Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [407][408]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [409]
• View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [410]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:11، 26 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-36

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 wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. 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. [411]
• The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia. [412]
• On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. [413][414]
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter to learn more.
• The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.

Meetings and events

• Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
  • Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these.
  • La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:49، 1 ستمبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-37

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 is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please tell us in this task, or contact the team.

Updates for editors

• Later this week, users of the "نحو کی بہتر روشن گری" beta feature will be able to use a linting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information. [415]
• When browsing a wiki (like en.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out. Learn more. [416]
• When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes. [417]
• Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more. [418][419]
• Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results. [420]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-38

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

• References lists that are made using the <references/> tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width. [421]
• Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right. Learn more.
• Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
  • for the intitle: keyword: metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors [422]
  • for both intitle: and insource: keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g. \uHHHH). [423]
• When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results. [424]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor. [425]

Updates for technical contributors

• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to join an upcoming discovery interview, or leave feedback onwiki. Learn more.
• Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more. [426]
• The new Unicode 17.0 version has been released. The datasets on Commons for the Module:Unicode data have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
• Users of the Wikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
• A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information from Wikimedia Enterprise has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.

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Tech News: 2025-39

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

• On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog.

Updates for editors

• Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
• A new parser function has been added: {{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as MediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. [427]
• Adding or editing a DISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket.
• Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:54، 22 ستمبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-40

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 major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [428]

Updates for editors

• The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
• As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
• The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
• On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through خاص:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [429]
• The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone 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 Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
• The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on خاص:شراکتیں and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
• There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [430]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:) [431]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [432]

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
• A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:51، 29 ستمبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Upcoming Dark Mode user interface rollout for anonymous Wikimedia sites users

Hello Wikimedians,

Apologies if this message is not in your language. Please help translate to your language.

The Reader Experience team will launch the Dark mode feature for anonymous users on all Wikimedia sites, including yours, on October 29, 2025.

Dark mode is an option that allows users to view pages in light-coloured text, and icons on a dark background. Once it is available for anonymous users, they can enable it when using various devices. More information on ways to enable it can be found on this page. Given many pages are still not compatible with dark mode this will be an opt-in feature and not automatically apply to pages.

Dark mode requires modifications to content pages and templates, and since our initial launch in July 2024, we have been working with communities and helping them prepare for dark mode. Before the rollout, it is essential that template authors and technical contributors test dark mode and read this page to learn how to make pages Dark mode-ready and address any compatibility issues found in templates.

We will fix most color compatibility issues only on the most-viewed pages on projects with over 5 million monthly page views. Technical contributors with an account should opt into dark mode currently using preferences or settings and test pages and seek help before the release to ensure everything complies before the enablement.

If you have any questions or need help, please contact the Reader Experience team for support.

Thank you!

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Tech News: 2025-41

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Weekly highlight

• Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.

Updates for editors

• Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. [433]
• New date filters, creationdate: and lasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. >2024) and relative dates (e.g. today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. [434]
• Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team. [435]
• An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog. [436]
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved. [437]

Updates for technical contributors

• The field rev_sha1 in the revision database table is being removed in favor of content_sha1 in the content database table. See the announcement for more information.
• The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement. [438]
• Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the rest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. [439]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:22، 6 اکتوبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-42

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

• Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.

Updates for editors

• Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage. [440]
• This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change. [441]
• Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account. [442][443]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see. [444]

Updates for technical contributors

• The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:58، 13 اکتوبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-43

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Updates for editors

• To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. [445]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. [446]

Updates for technical contributors

• The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the rest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. [447]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:35، 20 اکتوبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-44

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 Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
• Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [448]

Updates for technical contributors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
• The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the خاص:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [449]
• Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
• A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
• Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [450]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:30، 27 اکتوبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-45

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Updates for editors

• Administrators will now find that خاص:ضم تاریخچہ is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). [451]
• For users with "گفتگو میں خودکار طور پر شریک ہوں" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "نیا موضوع" or "جواب دیں" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. [452]
• Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. [453]
• Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. [454]
• Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! [455]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [456]

Updates for technical contributors

• Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working. [457]
• On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. [458]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:33، 3 نومبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-46

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

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

• Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Show discussion activity". [459]
• MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [460]
• Using the "نمائش" or "تبدیلیاں دکھائیں" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [461][462][463]
• Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [464]
• The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [465]
• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [466]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [467]

Updates for technical contributors

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
• The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [468]
• The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from <user id> to mw:<identity type>:<user id>, where <identity type> is typically CentralAuth: (for SUL wikis) or local:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the sessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [469]
• MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page $9 or emailing other users $10. [470]
• A REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [471]
• The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [472][473]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:37، 10 نومبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
• Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau (s:min:) [474]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
• Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:26، 17 نومبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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Tech News: 2025-48

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

• Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for cxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for счастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week. [475]
• Later this week, users of the "نحو کی بہتر روشن گری" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "ماخذی حالت میں آلات ترمیم فعال کریں" preference be set. [476]
• Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. [477]

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey. [478]
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for format=xml&xlst={stylesheet} will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). [479]
• The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Updates for editors

• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
• The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
• Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [480]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:) [481]
  • a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:) [482]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
• Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
• Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
• Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [483]
• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
• A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [484]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [485]

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting this week, users of the "نحو کی بہتر روشن گری" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [486]
• Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [487]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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Updates for editors

• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [488]

Updates for technical contributors

• To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in خاص:تلاش روابط, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [489]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Updates for editors

• From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [490]
• The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [491]

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [492]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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Weekly highlight

• The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

Updates for editors

• As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish. [493]
• The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [494][495][496][497]
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13. [498]

Updates for technical contributors

• The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type. [499]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki

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تجاویز

غیر معیاری منتخب مضامین

مندرجہ ذیل مضامین کسی طور پر منتخب مضمون کے معیار پر پورے نہیں اترتے اور نہ ان پر کوئی رائے شماری ہوئی ہے، شاید کئی صارفین نے یوں ہی گاہے بگاہے منتخب مضمون کا ٹیگ لگا دیا ہو، اس لیے ان مضامین پر سابقہ منتخب مضمون کا ٹیگ لگایا جانا چاہیے۔ نظام شمسی پر بھی کوئی رائے شماری نہیں ہوئی تاہم صارف کے تبادلہ خیال صفحہ سے معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ اسے ویکیپیڈیا برادری نے متفقہ طور پر منتخب کیا ہے، اس لیے صرف اسے منتخب مضمون کا جائزہ میں پیش کیا جا رہا ہے تاکہ رائے شماری کے مطابق اسے منتخب مضمون رکھا جائے یا خارج کر دیا جائے، گو کہ مضمون منتخب مضمون کے مطابق نہیں ہے۔

• سلطنت غوریہ
• سلطنت غزنویہ
• سلیمان اول
• صفوی سلطنت
• فیفا عالمی کپ
• فیصل آباد
• فاطمہ زہرا
• لیونہارڈ اویلر
• محمد علی (مکے باز)
• مرگ انبوہ
• مشتری
• نظام شمسی
• پولینڈ-لتھوانیا دولت مشترکہ

احباب اگر اس پر کوئی اور تجویز دینا چاہیں تو اچھا رہے گا ورنہ اگلے ہفتہ اس پر عمل درامد کیا جا سکتا ہے۔

-- طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:38، 22 جون 2023ء (م ع و)

فوری طور پر اردو ویکی اور ویکی ڈیٹا سے ٹیگ نکالا جائے اور صفحہ اول کے جن جن ہفتوں میں یہ ماضی میں لگے ہیں، وہاں سے بھی نکال دیا جائے، تاکہ رجوع مکرر کرنے کی وجہ سے دوبارہ صفحہ اول پر نظر نہ آئیں۔Obaid Raza (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:43، 22 جون 2023ء (م ع و)

طاہر محمود ، میرا جواب اس موضوع سے ہٹ کر ہے۔ منتخب فہرست کے لیے آپ نے نئے 8 مضامین نامزد کیے تھے۔ ان پر رائے شماری مکمل ہے۔ ان کو اب منتخب فہرست میں لگنا چاہیے؟

Fahads1982 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 10:04، 22 جون 2023ء (م ع و)

اگر موجودہ منتخب مضمون کے معیار کے 70 فیصد بھی ہیں تو رائے شماری اور تھوڑا کام کر کے مضمون ایسے ہی رہتے ہیں، باقیوں کو خارج کر دیتے ہیں۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:04، 22 جون 2023ء (م ع و)

شاید ایک فیصد بھی نہ ہوں۔ بس کسی نے زمانہ قدیم ایویں ٹیگ لگ دیا ہے۔ ان میں سے ایک مضمون نظام شمسی پر مختلف تبادلہ خیال سے پتا چلتا ہے یہ متفقہ طور پر منتخب مضمون ہے۔ طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:15، 22 جون 2023ء (م ع و)

امین اکبر ، طاہر محمود، Obaid Raza - منتخب مضامین کے لیے 3 مضامین ٹیپو سلطان ، صلاح الدین ایوبی اور عالمی کپ کرکٹ 1992ء کو مزید بہتر کر دیا گیا ہے اور مزید حوالہ جات شامل کیے گئے ہیں۔ ٹیپو سلطان اور عالمی کپ کرکٹ 1992ء پر دوبارہ رائے شماری کی ضرورت ہے۔

Fahads1982 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 22:22، 26 جون 2023ء (م ع و)

طاہر محمود بھائی، پھر ٹھیک ہے۔ جیسے جیسے نئے مضمون زمرے میں آتے جائیں۔ انھیں اڑاتے جائیں تاکہ تعداد تو کم نہ ہو۔ انگریزی ویکی پر ایک فہرست دیکھی تھی کہ کس ویکی پر کتنے منتخب مضمون ہے۔ ابھی ایک ساتھ ڈیلیٹ کریں گے تو وہاں نیچے چلے جائیں گے۔ Fahads1982 بھائی ٹھیک ہے، آپ نامزد کر دیں۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:56، 27 جون 2023ء (م ع و)

مندرجہ بالا مضامین نہ تو معیار کے مطابق ہیں اور نہ ان پر کوئی رائے شماری ہوئی ہے۔ بس کسی نے یوں ہی منتخب مضامین کا ٹیگ لگا دیا ہے۔ اس لیے انھیں منتخب مضامین کی فہرست سے خارج کیا جا رہا ہے۔ کئی بار ان مضامین پر سوال بھی اٹھایا گیا ہے۔ --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 06:14، 4 جولائی 2023ء (م ع و)

نئے منتخب مضامین

ان مضامین کو منتخب مضامین کے لیے نامزدگی کی ضرورت ہے۔ یہ مضامین بہتر کر دیے گئے ہیں۔ اگر کوئی صارف ان مضامین میں مزید بہتری کرنا چاہتا ہے تو کر سکتا ہے۔ ان مضامین میں، میں نے اپنا حصہ ڈال دیا ہے۔

1. اردو
2. مسجد نبوی
3. جامع مسجد بورصہ
4. عراق
5. روزہ (اسلام)
6. اسلام
7. مغلیہ سلطنت
8. شہاب الدین غوری
9. راولپنڈی
10. ٹیپو سلطان
11. اورنگزیب عالمگیر
12. شاہجہان
13. اسلام آباد
14. مسجد
15. خط نستعلیق
16. صلیبی جنگیں

Fahads1982 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:57، 18 جولائی 2023ء (م ع و) Fahads1982 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:57، 18 جولائی 2023ء (م ع و)

مامورین اداری کے حقوق میں اضافہ

درخواست شدہ در فیبریکٹر
ٹاسک T354133

آداب، اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر غیر فعال منتظمین یا ایسے منتظمین جو اپنے حق سے دستبردار ہوتے ہیں، ان سے یہ حق صرف مضیفین ہی سلب کر سکتے ہیں جب کہ ہمارے پاس تین فعال مامورین اداری موجود ہیں۔ انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا جیسے منصوبوں پر یہ حق مامورین اداری کے پاس ہے کہ وہ ایک صارف کو منتظم بنا بھی سکتے ہیں اور منتظمی سے ہٹا بھی سکتے ہیں۔ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر اگر چہ سبکدوشی کے بہت کم واقعات پیش آتے ہیں لیکن حال میں غیر فعال منتظمین کا ایک اچھا خاصا نمبر ہے۔ اس حوالے سے میری رائے ہے کہ منتظمی سے ہٹانے کا امر یہاں بھی مامورین اداری کے پاس ہونا چاہیے۔ ہم فعال مامورین اداری کے ہوتے ہوئے میٹا ویکی پر ایسی درخواست کرنا مناسب نہیں سمجھتے۔ آپ سے تائید کی درخواست ہے۔ شکریہ۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 14:15، 23 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

• تائید از نامزدکنندگاں۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 14:15، 23 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)
• تائید --امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 16:05، 23 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)
• تائید --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:04، 25 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)
• تائید --ابو السرمد محمد یوسف (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:35، 25 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)
• تائید -- Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 16:21، 25 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)
• تائید--محمد عارف سومرو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:29، 26 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)
• تائید -- شہاب (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:35، 27 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)
• تائید :) —خادم—  مورخہ 28 دسمبر 2023ء، بوقت 9 بج کر 19 منٹ (بھارت)
  •  تبصرہ: آپ سب لوگوں کا شکریہ۔ فیبریکیٹر پر میں نے اس حوالے سے درخواست جمع کردی ہے۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 12:13، 31 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

ویکیپیڈیا:منتخب مضامین کی حفاظت میں تبدیلی

ویکیپیڈیا:منتخب مضامین کو اس وقت تک کوئی خود توثیق شدہ صارف بھی تبدیل کر سکتا ہے۔ اس کا درجہ حفاظت محض منتظمین تک محدود ہونا چاہیے۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 15:56، 25 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

• تائید--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 15:56، 25 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

•  تبصرہ:: جب مضمون صفحہ اول پر لگتا ہے تو آبشاری طور پر محفوظ ہو جاتا ہے۔ کیا یہ کہہ رہے ہیں? --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 14:45، 26 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

طاہر محمود میرا خیال ہے کہ امین صاحب اس سے ہٹ کر یہ کہنا چاہتے ہیں کہ ویکیپیڈیا:منتخب مضامین والا صفحہ بھی کلی طور پر محفوظ ہونا چاہیے۔ منتخب مضامین سانچوں کے ذریعے صفحہ اول پر لگائے جاتے ہیں اور وہ سانچے صفحہ اول پر آنے کے بعد ہی آبشاری حفاظت میں شامل ہوتے ہیں۔ یعنی ایک تخریب کار صارف بھی اگر صفحہ اول پر آنے سے قبل ایک ایسا سانچہ بنادیتا ہے تو وہ بھی ہو سکتا ہے۔ امین بھائی اگر اپنی بات واضح کر دیں تو رائے دینے میں آسانی ہوگی۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 18:57، 26 دسمبر 2023ء (م ع و)

صفحہ اول کی کارروائی

مجھے یہ سمجھ میں نہیں آرہا کہ صفحہ اول پر یہ ہو کیا رہا ہے اور کیوں؟ ہم نہ تو انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا کی طرح اتنے ترقی یافتہ ہیں اور نہ عربی ویکیپیڈیا کی طرح۔ کہنے کا مطلب یہ کہ ہماری اپنی ضروریات ہیں اور اپنے مسائل ہیں۔ صفحہ اول کو ہمارے ان مسائل کے تحت ہی رکھنا چاہیے۔ ضروری نہیں کہ جو سانچہ انگریزی عربی کے صفحہ اول پر ہو وہ یہاں پر بھی چسپاں کر دیا جائے۔ بدقسمتی سے گذشتہ کچھ وقت سے بنا کسی اتفاق رائے صفحہ اول میں تبدیلیاں ہورہی ہے اور اس کا حال ایسا ہو گیا ہے کہ خدا خیر کرے۔ اس قدر خالی جگہ ہے اور کئی ایک غیر ضروری سانچے۔ میرا خیال ہے کہ صفحہ اول کو اس کی حال گذشتہ کی طرف پھیر دیا جائے اور پھر تجرباتی طور پر کچھ نئے نسخے بنائے جائیں، رائے شماری ہو اور پھر ہی وہ نسخہ صفحہ اول پر لگایا جائے۔ میرا ایک اور خیال ہے کہ صفحہ اول ایک حساس جگہ ہے اور اس سے وابستہ سانچوں میں صرف ایک انٹرفیس منتظم کو ہی ترمیم کرنے کی اجازت ہونی چاہیے۔ آپ لوگوں سے اس گفتگو میں شریک ہونے کی گزارش ہے۔ — ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 07:27، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

متفق

متفق صفحہ اول پر ویکیپیڈیا برادری کے باہمی اتفاق سے ہی کوئی تبدیلی ہونا چاہیے۔ حالیہ حلیہ افسوس ناک ہے۔ --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:32، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

متفق فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:58، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

متفق موبائل موڈ میں تو درست نظر آ رہا ہے صفحۂ اول؛ مگر ڈیسک ٹاپ موڈ میں خرابی واضح نظر آ رہی ہے۔ کم از کم انتظامیہ کے اتفاق رائے سے ہی صفحۂ اول میں کوئی تبدیلی کرنی چاہیے۔ صفحۂ اول پر جن لوگوں کو ترمیم کا اختیار ہوتا ہے، انھیں کو ترمیم کرنا چاہیے اگر کسی کو مشروط اجازت ملے تو اسے اپنے مشروط اختیارات کے مطابق ہی کام کرنا چاہیے۔ Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 08:02، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

متفق ویکیپیڈیا پر انٹرفیس منتظمین کے نام سے عہدہ اور اس عہدے پر عہدے دار موجود ہیں۔ صرف انھیں ہی یہ اختیار ہے کہ وہ صفحہ اول پر ہی نہیں ہر جگہ انٹرفیس کے حوالے سے براہ راست تبدیلیاں کر سکیں۔ موجودہ عہدے داران اپنے کام میں ماہر ہیں لیکن ظاہر ہے وہ ویکیپیڈیا کے ملازم نہیں، ان کے ساتھ بھی روزگار اور دیگر مسائل ہیں۔ اس لیے وہ ہر وقت دستیاب نہیں رہتے۔ویکیپیڈیا کے انٹرفیس میں بے شک کئی طرح کی کمیاں ہوں گی لیکن موجودہ حالت ماضی کی نسبت ہزار گنا بہتر ہے۔ یہ سب انہی لوگوں کی محنت کا نتیجہ ہے۔ ایک ایک ماڈیول کا اردو کے حساب سے ترجمہ کرتے ہوئے کئی کئی راتیں بھی صرف ہو جاتی ہیں اور یہ لوگ اپنی راتیں اس کام میں صرف کرتے ہیں۔ کسی دوسرے اور کو براہ راست یہ کام نہیں کرنا چاہیے۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 20:38، 13 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

تنقید

تنقید:- صفحہ اول ایک حساس صفحہ ہے۔ اس پر پچھلے کچھ عرصہ سے میں کام کر رہا ہوں۔ اگر اس پر کام ہو رہا ہے تو اس میں بہتری لانے کی بجائے اس پر تنقید کیوں کی جا رہی ہے۔ یہ میرے کچھ سوالات ہیں۔

• صفحہ اول پر پہلے بھی تبدیلیاں ہو چکی ہیں آیا کہ اس سے پہلے بھی دیوان عام پر اس طرح کی بحث ہو چکی ہے؟ اگر ہو چکی ہے تو وضاحت کریں؟
• میں پچھلے ڈیڑھ سال سے صفحہ اول کی بہتری کے حوالے سے تجاویز دے رہا ہوں، کسی بھی منتظم کی طرف سے نہ کوئی جواب دیا گیا اور نہ کسی قسم کی کوئی شنوائی نہیں کی گئی۔
• صفحہ اول پر کون سا غیر ضروری سانچہ لگایا گیا ہے؟
• صفحہ اول پر ایسا کون سا غیر ضروری کام کیا گیا ہے؟
• موبائل موڈ پر صفحہ اول بہترین نظر آ رہا ہے؟ ڈیسک ٹاپ موڈ پر ایک ہی مسئلہ ہے۔
• اگر ہم انگریزی اور عربی ویکیپیڈیا کے مطابق ترقی یافتہ نہیں ہیں تو کم از کم جو اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے صفحہ اول پر بہتری کی کوششیں کر رہا ہے اس پر اتنی تنقید کیوں؟
• صفحہ اول کا حال ایسا کیسا ہو گیا ہے جس پر اتنی زیادہ بحث مباحثہ کی جا رہی ہے۔ مجھ سے صرف منتخب تصاویر کے نیچے وقفہ ختم نہیں ہو رہا، باقی ساتھی منصوبے کے آئیکون اگر برابر نہیں ہیں تو وہ ایک اور منتظم نے اس میں تبدیلی کی تھی۔
• تمام تبدیلیاں عربی، فارسی اور انگریزی کے صفحہ اول کو ملحوظ خاطر رکھ کر کی گئی ہیں۔
• صفحہ اول بہترین ہو گا تو مزید نئے صارفین اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی جانب آئیں گے۔
• بجائے صفحہ اول میں بہتری کرنے کے کچھ منتظمین صرف تنقید ہی کرتے ہیں۔ حتی کہ انھیں چاہیے کہ صفحہ اول میں جو خامیاں بتائی جا رہی ہیں انھیں ختم کریں۔
• بطور ویکی بان مجھ سے پہلے بھی ایک اور ویکی بان، جو اب کچھ عرصہ قبل منتظم بنے ہیں انھوں نے بھی تبدیلیاں کی تھیں اس وقت ان پر کوئی تنقید نہیں کی گئی؟
• ہم سب اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی ہر طرح کی بہتری چاہتے ہیں اور خاص طور پر صفحہ اول کی۔ اور اس کا حلیہ کوئی بھی بگاڑنا نہیں چاہتا۔
• میں نے صفحہ اول کے مختلف سیکشنز میں بہتری لائی ہے نہ کہ خرابی کی ہے۔ (مثال کے طور پر خبروں والے سیکشن کو ہر وقت اپڈیٹ رکھنا، کیا آپ جانتے ہیں کہ والا سیکشن ایک سال پہلے دیکھیں اور اب دیکھیں، منتخب تصاویر کی بہتری، منتخب مضامین اور منتخب فہرستیں بھی نامزد کی ہوئی ہیں جو نہ جانے کس وجہ سے منتخب نہیں ہو پا رہیں، صرف کچھ فہرستیں منتخب ہوئیں)۔ (میرے بعد دوسرے صارفین کے نامزد کیے گئے مضامین اور فہرستیں منتخب ہو چکی ہیں)۔
• رائے شماری کے لیے صفحہ اول کے منتخب مضامین اور منتخب فہرستیں دیکھیں۔ جو کئی کئی مہینوں سے رائے شماری ہونے کے باوجود زیر التواء پڑی ہوئی ہیں؟Fahads1982 ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)- -(شراکتیں)} 07 09:08، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

تنقید:- صفحہ اول پر منتخب تصویر کے نیچے وقفہ/اسپیس کو ختم کر دیا گیا ہے۔ کوششیں کرنے سے بہت کچھ ہو سکتا ہے، تنقید، طنز اور اعتراض کرنے سے کچھ نہیں ہو سکتا۔ جنھوں نے تنقید، طنز اور اعتراض کیا ہے، آئندہ سوچ سمجھ کر سوال یا جواب دیجیے گا۔ اگر کوئی غلطی ہوئی تو طریقے سے اور اصلاحی انداز میں مسئلہ بتائیں، تاکہ اس کا ازالہ کیا جائے، نہ کہ تنقیدی اور طنزیہ طریقہ سے۔ Fahads1982 ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)- -(شراکتیں)} 07 10:21، 13 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

تبصرہ

• فہد صاحب کے سوالات بجا ہیں۔ فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 10:51، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

• شاید تنقید کرنے والے صاحب کا کئی باتوں میں اشارہ میری طرف بھی ہے اس لیے ان کے سوالون کا جواب دینا مناسب سمجھا۔ تاہم میں پہلے بھی کئی مرتبہ کہہ چکا ہوں کہ میں نے صفحہ اول سے ہاتھ اٹھا لیا ہے۔ اس سے قبل میں نے کئی مرتبہ اس کا ذکر کیا لیکن کبھی اس کی وجہ بتانا مناسسب نہیں سمجھا تاہم اب بتا دیتا ہوں کہ سالوں سے صفحہ اور پر مضامین اور اضافہ کر رہا ہوں، لیکن ایک مجھ پر صاحب کئی بار یہ اعتراض کر چکے ہیں کہ میں اپنے مضامین صفحہ اول پر لگاتا ہوں۔ حالانکہ منتخب مضامین کی تعداد اتنی کم ہے کہ ایک سال میں ہر ہفتے نیا مضمون نہیں لگایا جا سکتا۔ انہی مضامین کو دہرانا پڑتا ہے۔ اس وقت بھی میں دسیوں مضامین کو منتخب درجے تک پہنچا چکا ہوں، لیکن ان کو امیدوار برائے منتخب نہیں بنایا تاکہ کسی قسم کا اعتراض نہ ہو۔ اب ان صاحب کے نقاط کا جواب بھی دیتا ہوں۔

* صفحہ اول پر پہلے بھی تبدیلیاں ہو چکی ہیں آیا کہ اس سے پہلے بھی دیوان عام پر اس طرح کی بحث ہو چکی ہے؟ اگر ہو چکی ہے تو وضاحت کریں؟

کتنی بار ایسا ہوا کہ بنا تختحہ مشق پر تجربہ کیے بغیر صفحہ اول پر تبدیلیاں کی گئی ہیں؟ کتنی بار اس کا حلیہ بگاڑا گیا؟ جب بھی اس کا حلیہ بگاڑا جائے گا تو میں اعتراض کروں گا۔ ویسے عمومی بات ہے کہ کوئی ماضی کی غلطی کسی غلط کام کا جواز نہیں۔

* میں پچھلے ڈیڑھ سال سے صفحہ اول کی بہتری کے حوالے سے تجاویز دے رہا ہوں، کسی بھی منتظم کی طرف سے نہ کوئی جواب دیا گیا اور نہ کسی قسم کی کوئی شنوائی نہیں کی گئی۔

اس کا جواب میں دے چکا باقی منتظمین اس کا جواب دے سکتے ہیں۔

* صفحہ اول پر کون سا غیر ضروری سانچہ لگایا گیا ہے؟

ایسا آپ کو کس نے کہا؟ شاید وہ بہتر جواب دے سکیں۔

* موبائل موڈ پر صفحہ اول بہترین نظر آ رہا ہے؟ ڈیسک ٹاپ موڈ پر ایک ہی مسئلہ ہے۔

گویا آپ کی نظر میں یہ کوئی خاص مسئلہ نہیں اس لیے اسے جوں کا توں ہی رہنے دیا۔

* اگر ہم انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا کے مطابق ترقی یافتہ نہیں ہیں تو کم از کم جو اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے صفحہ اول پر بہتری کر رہا ہے اس پر تنقید کیوں؟

جی جو آپ کرنا چاہ رہے ہیں وہ اصل میں کچھ اور لوگ بہتر طور پر کر چکے ہیں۔ اور کیا بہتری کی آپ نے صفحہ اول پر۔ حلیہ کو آپ ویسے ہی نظر انداز کر رہے ہیں۔ انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا کی بات ایک ساتھی نے اس طور پر کی تھی کہ کچھ چیزیں جو انگریزی پر مستعمل ہیں اردو پر نہیں۔ اگر انھیں صفحہ اول پر ڈالا جائے گا اور نئے آنے والے صارف وہاں جائیں اور کچھ رد عمل نہ پائیں تو یہ ایک منفی تاثر ہو گا۔

* صفحہ اول کا حال ایسا کیسا ہو گیا ہے جس پر اتنی زیادہ بحث مباحثہ کی جا رہی ہے۔ مجھ سے صرف منتخب تصاویر کے نیچے وقفہ ختم نہیں ہو رہا، باقی ساتھی منصوبے کے آئیکون اگر برابر نہیں ہیں تو وہ ایک اور منتظم نے اس میں تبدیلی کی تھی۔

اس کا جواب وہ ساتھی دے سکتے ہیں جو ان صاحب کو اس درجہ پر فائز کرنے والے ہیں۔

* تمام تبدیلیاں عربی، فارسی اور انگریزی کے صفحہ اول کو ملحوظ خاطر رکھ کر کی گئی ہیں۔

ان سب کا حلیہ بھی ایسا ہی ہے کیا،

* بجائے صفحہ اول میں بہتری کرنے کے کچھ منتظمین صرف تنقید ہی کرتے ہیں۔ حتی کہ انھیں چاہیے کہ صفحہ اول میں جو خامیاں بتائی جا رہی ہیں انھیں ختم کریں۔

منتظمیں متوجہ ہوں ورنہ یہی ہو گا۔

* بطور ویکی بان مجھ سے پہلے بھی ایک اور ویکی بان، جو اب کچھ عرصہ قبل منتظم بنے ہیں انھوں نے بھی تبدیلیاں کی تھیں اس وقت ان پر کوئی تنقید نہیں کی گئی؟

کیا انھوں نے تجربہ کیے بغیر کچھ صفحہ اول پر ڈالا؟ انھوں نے کیا خرابی کی تھی؟ یہاں بات منتظم یا ویکی بان کی نہیں اصل مسئلہ خرابی ہے چاہے وہ منتظم کرے یا کوئی اور،

--طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:38، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

جن صاحب نے جوابات دیے ہیں ان کے جوابات میں اپنے سوالات میں کر چکا ہوں۔ Fahads1982 ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)- -(شراکتیں)} 07 13:27، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

• ہم سب گنتی کے ہیں ہی کتنے؟ اگر آپس میں اختلاف رہے گا تو مل کر کام نہیں کر پائیں گے۔ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ہم سب ایک فیملی کی طرح ہیں جو ایک دوسرے کی مدد کرتے ہیں اور کوئی غلطی کرے تو اصطلاح کرتے ہیں۔ حسن (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں)

جناب فہد صاحب نے اوپر کئی سوالات پوچھے ہیں اور بدقسمتی سے وہی ہوا۔ ہم آہنگی پیدا کرنے کی بجائے اسے انھوں نے ایسا سمجھ لیا کہ میں ان پر تنقید کررہا ہوں۔ ویکیپیڈیا ایک دائرتہ المعارف ہے جس پر ہر طرح کے صارفین ایک ساتھ آکر اتفاق رائے پیدا کرکے کام کرتے ہیں۔ اوپر آپ نے کئی سوالات اٹھائے ہیں، بہت سے بجا ہیں اور کئی ایک غیر ضروری تنقیدیں۔ مجھے خوشی ہوتی اگر آپ اس گفتگو میں تعمیری حصہ لیتے اور بیجا دوسروں پر تنقید نہ کرتے بلکہ صفحہ اول کے نئے نسخوں کے بارے میں راہ ہموار کرتے اور ان پر گفتگو ہوتی۔ میں اوپر حسن صاحب کی بات سے اتفاق رکھتا ہوں کہ ہماری برادری بہت مختصر ہے اور ہمیں تنقید سے زیادہ اتفاق سے کام لینا چاہیے اور ہر چیز میں تعمیری اور اصلاحی نکات دیکھنے کی کوشش کرنی چاہیے۔ لیکن جس طرح کا رخ اس گفتگو کو دیا گیا ہے اور جس طرح کے سوالات آپ نے کیے ہیں، ضروری ہے کہ ان پر اپنا تبصرہ پیش کروں۔ ذیل میں جلی متن میں فہد صاحب کے سوالات اور ہر سوال کے نیچے میرا جواب ہے:

صفحہ اول پر پہلے بھی تبدیلیاں ہو چکی ہیں آیا کہ اس سے پہلے بھی دیوان عام پر اس طرح کی بحث ہو چکی ہے؟ اگر ہو چکی ہے تو وضاحت کریں؟

کیا آپ گذشتہ دو سالوں میں ایسی کوئی ڈیزائن سے متعلق تبدیلی دکھا سکتے ہیں جس سے صفحہ اول پر اچھا خاصا اثر پڑتا ہو؟ انٹرفیس، صفحہ اول کی حساسیت اس بات کی متقاضی ہے کہ دیوان عام میں دیگر کسی جگہ اتفاق حاصل کر لیا جائے۔ آیا اگر ایسی چھوٹی چھوٹی کاسمیٹک تبدیلیاں انٹرفیس منتظمین نے کی ہیں تو انھیں برادری نے اس بات کا اختیار دیا ہے۔ صفحہ اول کے سانچوں میں تبدیلی الگ بات ہے اور ہر سانچے کے اپنے قواعد ہیں۔ آپ یہاں کس چیز کی بات کر رہے ہیں؟ مطلق صفحے میں ڈیزائن سے متعلق کونسی تبدیلی کسی غیر انٹرفیس منتظم نے کی ہے؟

میں پچھلے ڈیڑھ سال سے صفحہ اول کی بہتری کے حوالے سے تجاویز دے رہا ہوں، کسی بھی منتظم کی طرف سے نہ کوئی جواب دیا گیا اور نہ کسی قسم کی کوئی شنوائی نہیں کی گئی۔

میں اس بات پر آپ سے اتفاق رکھتا ہوں اور اس جانب اپنے ابتدائی پیغام میں اور دیگر پیغامات میں بتلا چکا ہوں کہ ہر منتظم کا اپنا شوق ہے اور وہ برادری کے تابع ہے۔ صفحہ اول میں اس برادری سے اتفاق رائے حاصل نہ ہو تو اتفاق حاصل کرنے کی کوشش ہونے چاہیے۔ لیکن یہ نہیں ہونا چاہیے کہ بنا تجربات کے بذات خود کچھ بھی کر لیا چاہیے۔ اپنے صارفی اسپیس میں بھی صفحہ اول کے نسخے پر آپ محنت کرسکتے ہیں اور جس طرح برادری یہاں آئی ہے وہاں بھی اتفاق یا نااتفاقی ظاہر کرنے آجاتی۔

صفحہ اول پر کون سا غیر ضروری سانچہ لگایا گیا ہے؟

اگر آپ میرا مطلق جملہ دیکھیں تو وہ کچھ یوں ہے کہ صفحہ اول میں کچھ غیر ضروری سانچے ہیں اور بہت سی خالی جگہ ہے۔ اس میں آپ کو مورد الزام نہیں ٹھہرایا گیا۔

صفحہ اول پر ایسا کون سا غیر ضروری کام کیا گیا ہے؟

تیز رفتار سے بنا برادری سے اتفاق کے کوئی بھی نئی چیز شامل کرنا اتفاق رائے سے قبل غیر ضروری ہے۔

موبائل موڈ پر صفحہ اول بہترین نظر آ رہا ہے؟ ڈیسک ٹاپ موڈ پر ایک ہی مسئلہ ہے۔

اوپر اس پر اور تبصرے آچکے ہیں۔ یہ انٹرفیس کے مسائل ہیں اور یہی وجہ ہے کہ ڈیزائن کے متعلق ہمیں اپنے انٹرفیس منتظمین سے سبقت نہیں لے جانی چاہیے۔ ہاں ہم انھیں مشورہ دے سکتے ہیں اور ہمیں دینے چاہیے۔

اگر ہم انگریزی اور عربی ویکیپیڈیا کے مطابق ترقی یافتہ نہیں ہیں تو کم از کم جو اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے صفحہ اول پر بہتری کی کوششیں کر رہا ہے اس پر اتنی تنقید کیوں؟

یہ تنقید ہے؟ یا یہ کہ بہتری کی راہ ہموار کی جارہی ہے کہ پہلے تجربات ہوں اور پھر ان تجربہ شدہ نسخوں پر اتفاق رائے ہو اور پھر وہ ڈیزائن صفحہ اول پر چسپاں کر دیا جائے؟

صفحہ اول کا حال ایسا کیسا ہو گیا ہے جس پر اتنی زیادہ بحث مباحثہ کی جا رہی ہے۔ مجھ سے صرف منتخب تصاویر کے نیچے وقفہ ختم نہیں ہو رہا، باقی ساتھی منصوبے کے آئیکون اگر برابر نہیں ہیں تو وہ ایک اور منتظم نے اس میں تبدیلی کی تھی۔

بحث ہونی چاہیے اور یہ ویکی کے لیے ضروری ہے۔ آپ کی تبدیلیوں سے قبل صفحہ اول پر اتنی خالی جگہ نہیں تھی جتنی اب ہے۔ میرا خیال ہے کہ یہ بھی ایک وجہ ہے

تمام تبدیلیاں عربی، فارسی اور انگریزی کے صفحہ اول کو ملحوظ خاطر رکھ کر کی گئی ہیں۔صفحہ اول بہترین ہو گا تو مزید نئے صارفین اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی جانب آئیں گے۔ بجائے صفحہ اول میں بہتری کرنے کے کچھ منتظمین صرف تنقید ہی کرتے ہیں۔ حتی کہ انھیں چاہیے کہ صفحہ اول میں جو خامیاں بتائی جا رہی ہیں انھیں ختم کریں۔

تعمیری گفتگو شروع کرنا تنقید نہیں ہے۔ ہمیں ویکی پر اس بات کو ذہن نشین کرنا چاہیے کہ ہمارے بس مختصر سی برادری ہے اور ہمیں اسی مختصر سے ماحول میں اپنے لیے کوئی عملی نمونہ تیار کرنا ہے جس سے یہ برادری بڑی ہو۔ یہ کام آؤٹریچ سے ہوتے ہیں، اسٹریٹیجی سے ہوتے ہیں۔ کئی ایسی ویکیپیڈیا برادریاں ہیں جو ہم سے تعداد میں بہت آگے ہیں لیکن ان کا صفحہ اول اتنا اپڈیٹ نہیں اور وہ اس کو نارمل انداز میں ہی رکھتے ہیں جتنا انھیں ضروری معلوم ہوتا ہے۔ صفحہ اول دیکھنے سے ہی بہرحال نئے صارفین نہیں آئیں گے ہاں یہ اردو برادری کے بہترین کام کو دکھانے کا ایک اچھا محرک ہے۔تاہم اس کے لیے اتفاق ضروری ہے۔ اگر مختصر سی برادری اتفاق حاصل نہیں کرپاتی مجھے نہیں لگتا کی برادری کی تعداد بڑا بنانے میں ہم کامیاب ہو سکتے ہیں کیونکہ نئے لوگ نت نئے جھگڑوں سے پریشان ہوں گے اور اس طرح کی toxic برادری کا حصہ نہ بنیں رہیں گے جو تعمیری گفتگو کو بھی فقط تنقیدی پہلو سے دیکھتی ہے۔ سوال یہ نہیں ہونا چاہیے کہ مجھ پر تنقید کیوں بلکہ بات یہ ہونی چاہیے کہ بتائیں کیسے بہتری پھر لائی جائے اور کیسے اسے حصول کے درجے تک پہنچایا جائے۔ مجھے لگتا ہے کہ یہ راہ پہلے ہی بتلائی گئی ہے۔

بطور ویکی بان مجھ سے پہلے بھی ایک اور ویکی بان، جو اب کچھ عرصہ قبل منتظم بنے ہیں انھوں نے بھی تبدیلیاں کی تھیں اس وقت ان پر کوئی تنقید نہیں کی گئی؟

یہ بظاہر مجھ سے ہی سوال ہے۔ کیا آپ بتا سکتے ہیں کہ میں نے ڈیزائن کے حوالے سے ڈائریکٹ صفحہ اول میں کون سی ترمیم کی ہے؟ اور اگر میری ویکی بانی کے دوران آپ میرا تبادلہ خیال دیکھیں تو آپ یہ پائیں کہ طاہر صاحب جنھوں نے مجھے منتظمی کے لیے نامزد کیا مجھ پر کس قدر کچھ خامیوں کی وجہ سے تنقید کرتے رہتے ہیں۔ میں نے اصول میں رہ کر جواب بھی دیے، کہیں غلطی کی معافی مانگی اور کہیں اختلاف کیا۔ تاہم اگر اتفاق رائے کے بغیر میں نے کوئی ایسی تبدیلی کی ہو تو ضرور بتایئں۔ میں ہر وقت تعمیری تبصروں کے حصول کے لیے حاضر ہوں۔

میں نے صفحہ اول کے مختلف سیکشنز میں بہتری لائی ہے نہ کہ خرابی کی ہے۔ (مثال کے طور پر خبروں والے سیکشن کو ہر وقت اپڈیٹ رکھنا، کیا آپ جانتے ہیں کہ والا سیکشن ایک سال پہلے دیکھیں اور اب دیکھیں، منتخب تصاویر کی بہتری، منتخب مضامین اور منتخب فہرستیں بھی نامزد کی ہوئی ہیں جو نہ جانے کس وجہ سے منتخب نہیں ہو پا رہیں، صرف کچھ فہرستیں منتخب ہوئیں)۔ (میرے بعد دوسرے صارفین کے نامزد کیے گئے مضامین اور فہرستیں منتخب ہو چکی ہیں)۔ رائے شماری کے لیے صفحہ اول کے منتخب مضامین اور منتخب فہرستیں دیکھیں۔ جو کئی کئی مہینوں سے رائے شماری ہونے کے باوجود زیر التواء پڑی ہوئی ہیں

آپ کی شراکتوں کے لیے آپ کا شکریہ۔ اس گفتگو کا مقصد آپ کی بے حد اہم شراکتوں کا انکار کرنا نہیں ہے اور نہ یہ گفتگو آپ کی صلاحیت پر سوال ہے۔ مجھے منتخب مضامین سے کوئی اتنا شوق نہیں ہے اور نہ میں مصنفین قسم کے ویکیمیڈینز میں شامل کیا جاتا ہوں۔

اس تمام گفتگو کا نچوڈ یہی ہے کہ صفحہ اول کو اس کی حالت گذشتہ کی طرف پھیر دیا جائے اور پھر جتنا آپ نے اس میں تبدیلیاں چاہیے آپ صفحہ اول کا ایک نیا نسخہ اپنے تختہ مشق میں یا کہیں اور تیار کریں اور یہاں برادری سے سوال کریں کہ کیا یہ نسخہ واجب الاتباع ہے یا اس میں مزید مسائل ہیں؟ گفتگو کے آخر میں کوئی انٹرفیس منتظم اس بات کا خلاصہ کرے گا۔ امید کرتا ہوں کہ آپ اس گفتگو کو تعمیری انداز سے دیکھیں اور تنقید کی عینک ذرا دیر کے لیے نکال دیں۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 21:07، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

اگر آپ اپنے ویکی بان کی نامزدگی میں غور فرمائیں تویہ نکات سامنے آئیں گے کہ آپ ویکی بان کیوں بنے تھے۔ صفحہ اول پر بنا مشاورت اور بنا اتفاق رائے تبدیلیں کرنا اس اصول کے خلاف جاتا ہے جس کے لیے آپ نے یہ حق مانگا تھا۔ امین صاحب نے وہاں بھی بجا طور پرکہا تھا کہ ویکی بان کا اختیار آپ کہاں کہاں استعمال کریں گے۔ "صرف خبروں اور کیاآپ جانتے ہیں سیکشن کو اپ ڈیٹ کرنے کی حد تک تائید۔ صفحات کی حذف شدگی اور دوسرے اختیارات فہد صاحب مشاورت سے استعمال کریں گے، یہ اختیار ایک ماہ کے لیے دیا جائے، اگر فہد صاحب فعال رہیں تو بغیر ووٹنگ کے بڑھایا جاتا رہے۔" مجھے لگتا ہے کہ اس جانب آپ کو لوٹنا چاہیے اور فی الحال کے لیے انھی چیزوں پر فوکس کرنا چاہیے جس کا اختیار آپ کو اتفاق رائے سے ملا ہے۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 21:15، 12 جولائی 2024ء (م ع و)

بیرونی برانڈ لنکس کو AdvancedSiteNotices میں منع کرنا؟

کچھ لوگوں کا خیال ہے کہ چینی Wikinews اور چینی ویکی پیڈیا AdvancedSiteNotices میں برانڈ نام جیسے ٹیلی گرام، انسٹاگرام، گوگل فارم کا مکمل طور پر ذکر نہیں کیا جانا چاہیے اور ان بیرونی لنکس کا استعمال نہیں کیا جانا چاہیے، جسے فوری طور پر Phabricator T375253 پر ٹھیک کیا جانا چاہیے۔

میں اسے بے جا سمجھتا ہوں، افسوس کا اظہار کرتا ہوں اور آپ سب سے مزید رائے مانگتا ہوں۔ اس نے کہا: "مجھے یقین ہے کہ آپ کو کسی سائٹ نوٹس سے ٹیلی گرام یا انسٹاگرام یا گوگل کے برانڈ نام کا حوالہ دینے یا لنک کرنے کی اجازت نہیں ہے۔ آپ کے سنٹرل نوٹیس سے بھی آپ ایسا نہیں کر سکتے، میں نہیں دیکھتا کہ یہاں کوئی مختلف پالیسی کیوں لاگو ہونی چاہیے۔ آپ ان صفحات کا لنک اپنی وکی کے صفحے سے کر سکتے ہیں اور سائٹ نوٹس سے اس وکی کے صفحے پر لنک کر سکتے ہیں۔ لیکن سائٹ نوٹس سے براہ راست بیرونی سائٹ پر لنک نہیں کر سکتے۔ یہ اہم ہے، اسے فوری طور پر ٹھیک کیا جانا چاہیے۔ (جب تک آپ ہمیں نہ دکھا سکتے کہ کسی نے کہا ہے کہ یہ ٹھیک ہے؟)"

?Prohibiting External Brand Links in AdvancedSiteNotice?  

Some believe that the Chinese Wikinews and Chinese Wikipedia AdvancedSiteNotices should not fully mention brand names like Telegram, Instagram, Google Form, and use these external links, needing to be fixed on Phabricator T375253 immediately.

I find this very unreasonable, express regret, and seek more opinions from you all. He said: "I'm pretty sure you're not allowed to link to or even mention the brand names Telegram or Instagram or Google from a sitenotice. you can't from a CentralNotice, I don't see why a different policy should apply here. you can link to those pages from a page on your wiki and link from the sitenotice to that page on your wiki. but not directly from sitenotice to the external site. this is urgent, must be fixed immediately. (unless you can show us where someone said this is ok?)"--Kitabc12345 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 19:34، 20 ستمبر 2024ء (م ع و) ==منتخب مضامین کا تعارف== ہم صفحہ اول پر لگانے کے لیے منتخب مضمون کا تعارف ہفتے کے صفحے پر لگاتے ہیں۔ جیسے ویکیپیڈیا:منتخب مضامین/2024/ہفتہ 01 پر منتخب مضمون میلان کا تعارف ہے۔ میرے خیال میں تعارف کے لیے منتخب مضمون کا ذیلی صفحہ ہی بنانا چاہیے جیسے میلان/تعارف۔ اس کے بعد ہم اسے ہفتہ وار یا یومیہ صفحات پر آسانی سے سانچے کی صورت پیش کر سکیں گے۔اور مختلف ہفتوں یا دنوں کے صفحات میں ہمیں زیادہ متن شامل کرنا نہیں پڑے گا۔رجوع مکرر بھی ہمیں اب مختلف پچھلے ہفتوں سے کرنا پڑتا ہے اور دیکھنا پڑتا ہے کہ کس ہفتے کونسا مضمون صٖفحہ اول پر تھا۔ میرے خیال میں اس طرح زیادہ آسانی رہے گی۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 17:58، 1 دسمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

میرے خیال میں یہ قلیل دورانیے کے لیے تو بہتر رہے گا لیکن جب مستقبل میں منتخب مضامین زیادہ ہو جائیں گے تو یہ طریقہ بہتر نہیں رہے گا۔ اس کی بجائے منتخب مضمون کے تبادلہ خیال پر اس تاریخ کا ربط دینا چاہیے جس میں یہ صفحہ اول پر لگا تھا۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:05، 3 دسمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

صفحہ اول پر منتخب فہرست اور منتخب مضمون کی یومیہ تبدیلی

میری تجویز ہے کہ صٖفحہ اول پر منتخب مضمون اور منتخب فہرست کو روز تبدیل ہونا چاہیے۔ اس طرح روز آنے والے صارف کو صفحہ کچھ تو بدلا ہوا لگے گا۔ میں اس سلسلے میں کام کر رہا ہوں۔ میرے تجربے کے مطابق ایسا بہت آسانی سے کیا جا سکتا ہے۔تجربانی صفحہ اول میرے نام فضا صارف:امین اکبر/صفحہ اول پر دیکھا جا سکتا ہے اور یہاں روز ہی منتخب مضمون اور فہرست تبدیل ہوگی۔اگر تجربہ کچھ دن کامیابی سے چلا تو اسے لائیو کر دینا چاہیے۔ آپ احباب میں سے کوئی تجویز دینا چاہیے تو؟ --امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 20:42، 2 دسمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

انڈین کے اردو نام ’بھارتی‘ اور ’ہندوستانی‘ کے فرق کو اردو ویکیپیڈیا میں سنجیدگی سے برتنا چاہیے

آداب و تسلیمات!

میں ایک نہایت اہم مسئلے کی طرف توجہ دلانا چاہتا ہوں۔ انگریزی لفظ ’’Indian‘‘ (انڈین) کا ترجمہ اردو میں کرتے وقت اکثر یہ خیال نہیں رکھا جاتا کہ یہ لفظ تاریخی لحاظ سے مختلف سیاق رکھتا ہے۔

انگریزی میں ’’انڈین‘‘ کا استعمال متحدہ ہندوستان (یعنی برطانوی راج کے دور) اور موجودہ بھارت دونوں کے لیے ہوتا ہے مگر جیسا کہ سب جانتے ہیں کہ اردو میں ایسا نہیں ہے۔ اردو میں ہم عام طور پر بھارتی کو بھارت (یعنی تقسیم کے بعد والے ملک) کے لیے استعمال کرتے ہیں جب کہ ہندوستانی کا استعمال عموما متحدہ ہندوستان کے لیے زیادہ موزوں سمجھا جاتا ہے۔

چند مثالیں ایسی بھی ملتی ہیں جہاں برطانوی ہندوستان کے افراد کو بھارتی زمرہ جات میں ڈال دیا گیا ہے حالانکہ تاریخی طور پر ان کا بھارت نامی ریاست سے کوئی تعلق نہیں بنتا، کیونکہ بھارت تو سنہ 1947ء کے بعد ایک نیا ملک وجود میں آیا۔ ایسا کرنا جغرافیائی و تاریخی لحاظ سے بھی غلط ہے۔ مثال کے طور پر جو شخص سنہ 1923ء میں متحدہ ہندوستان کے لاہور میں پیدا ہوا وہ ہندوستانی کہلائے گا بھارتی یا پاکستان نہیں۔ اسی طرح بقول علامہ محمد اقبال لاہوری سارے جہاں سے اچھا ہندوستان ہمارا۔۔۔ حالانکہ وہ لاہور (موجودہ پاکستان سے) سے تھے اب ان کو بھارتی یا پاکستانی کہنا درست نہ ہوگا۔ حد تو یہ ہے کہ علامہ اقبال کے مضمون میں بھی بھارتی مسلم شخصیات کا زمرہ درج ہے۔

میری تجویز ہے:

1. اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر زمرہ بندی کے دوران میں یہ امتیاز لازمی طور پر مد نظر رکھا جائے کہ کوئی شخصیت یا ادارہ تقسیم سے پہلے کا ہے یا بعد کا۔
2. ’بھارتی‘ کا استعمال صرف تقسیم کے بعد بھارت سے متعلق افراد، اداروں یا موضوعات تک محدود رکھا جائے۔
3. برطانوی ہندوستان سے متعلق موضوعات کے لیے ’ہندوستانی‘ یا اس جیسے مناسب الفاظ کا استعمال کیا جائے تاکہ قارئین کو تاریخی تسلسل سمجھنے میں آسانی ہو۔
4. انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا کی تقلید کرتے ہوئے براہ راست ’Indian‘ جیسے الفاظ کا بغیر سوچے سمجھے ترجمہ نہ کیا جائے بلکہ اردو کے مزاج اور تاریخی سیاق و سباق کو مد نظر رکھا جائے۔

تمام احباب سے گزارش ہے کہ اس نکتے پر اپنی آرا سے ضرور نوازیں اور اگر اتفاق ہو تو کوئی طریقۂ کار وضع کیا جائے تاکہ آئندہ اس طرح کے پیش و پس سے بچا جا سکے۔– ویری‌تاس _{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 05:52، 11 جون 2025ء (م ع و)

پرفارمنگ آرٹس

حالیہ عرصے میں پرفارمنگ آرٹس کا زمرہ جو فعالی فنون کے نام سے موسوم تھا، انگریزی نام پرفارمنگ آرٹس پر منتقل کیا گیا اور ایضًا کیفیت دیگر زمرہ جات کی ہوئی، جن کے نام میں کہیں فعالی فنون یا پرفارمنگ آرٹس کے ذکر کی ضرورت تھی۔ تاہم یہ غور طلب ہے کہ National Academy of Performing Arts کے لیے ہمارے یہاں قومی اکادمی براۓ فنون موسیقی و بازیگری موجود ہے اور اسی کے پیش نظر مناسب ہے عنوانات یا زمرہ جات بھی ہم فنون موسیقی و بازیگری ہی کی اصطلاح کا استعمال کریں تاکہ ہم انتہا درجے کی انگریزی کی رغبت سے بچیں اور ماضی سے رائج اردو اصطلاحات کو مفقود ہونے سے بچائیں۔ --ڈاکٹر مزمل (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 17:31، 28 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

قومی اکادمی برائے فنون موسیقی و بازیگری درست معلوم نہیں ہوتا کیوں کہ کسی معتبر ماخذ سے یہ ثابت نہیں ہوا کہ یہ آفیشل اردو نام ہے۔ جہاں تک میرا ناقص علم ہے پرفورمنگ آرٹ کو فن ادائیگی کہتے ہیں اور بعض جگہ پڑھا بھی ہے۔– ویری‌تاس _{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 21:43، 28 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

ایک ادارے کا نام ہے جس کا غلط ترجمہ کیا گیا ہے۔ اردو میں نیشنل اکیڈمی آف پرفارمنگ آرٹس ہی مستعمل ہے۔ اسم معرفہ کا ترجمہ نہیں کیا جا سکتا ماسوائے اس کے کہ ادارہ خود اپنا اردو نام بھی استعمال کرتا ہو۔ ناموں کا خود ساختہ ترجمہ ادارے کا نام نام بگاڑنے کے مترادف ہے۔ آپ چاہیں تو قومی اکادمی برائے فنون موسیقی و بازیگری اور نیشنل اکیڈمی آف پرفارمنگ آرٹس سے گوگل پر تلاش کر کے دیکھ لیں فرق معلوم ہو جائے گا۔ --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:23، 29 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

اس عنوان سے گوگل سرچ انجن پر کوئی سرچ ریزلٹ نہیں ہے اور نہ گوگل بکس پر۔ اس سے معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ یہ خود ساختہ اردو ترجمہ ہے۔ اردو زبان و ادب میں بہت سی ایسی مثالیں ملیں گی کہ اردو میں بھی انگریزی نام ہی مستعمل ہو۔ اگر ثابت ہو جائے کہ اس کا اردو ترجمہ صحافتی دنیا میں مستعمل ہے تو استعمال کر لینا چاہیے؛ ورنہ اس طرح کی اردو سازی اچھی نیت پر مشتمل ہوتی ہے؛ مگر اس سلسلے میں اس متعلقہ ادارے والے کو کونس کرنا چاہیے، اگر وہ نام اختیار کر لیں اور چلن ہونے کے بعد ویکیپیڈیا پر استعمال کر لینا بہتر ہے؛ ورنہ اس طرح کی چیزیں اصل تحقیق کے قبیل کی معلوم ہوتی ہیں۔ Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 06:34، 29 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

بازی گر کرتب دکھانے والا ہوتا ہے جیسے سرکس وغیرہ میں۔ بازیگری لکھنا ویسے بھی درست نہیں یہ لفظ بازی گری۔ --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:29، 29 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

قومی اکادمی براۓ فنون موسیقی و بازیگری اگر تسلیم کر بھی لیں تو لفظ Performing میں پوشیدہ دیگر فنون (جسے رقص) ضبطِ معانی کے دائرے سے باہر رہ جاتے ہیں۔ اگر ضروری سمجھا جائے تو اصل نام کے ساتھ قوسین میں اسے لکھا جا سکتا ہے --ڈاکٹر سنجری(تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 20:25، 11 اکتوبر 2025ء(م ع و)

ویکیمیڈیا فاؤنڈیشن

مشاہداتی فہرستوں سے متعلق ایک آنے والا تجربہ

آداب، وکیمیڈیا فاؤنڈیشن کی ماڈریٹر ٹولز ٹیم مشاہداتی فہرست، حالیہ تبدیلیاں اور متعلقہ تبدیلیاں صفحات پر A/B تجربہ کرے گی۔ یہ صفحات شراکت داروں کے لیے ایک اہم نقطہ آغاز ہیں۔ لیکن ان میں بہت سے افعال اور خصوصیات ہیں جو ان کے لیے پریشان کن ہو سکتی ہیں۔۔ ان کی وجہ سے ان موجودہ تبدیلیوں تلاش کرنا مشکل ہوتا ہے جس میں وہ دلچسپی رکھتے ہیں

ان صفحات پر ترامیم کو منظم کرنے میں تعاون کے لیے حالیہ تلاش میں کئی خصوصیات کی درخواستیں کی گئی ہیں، لیکن ان میں سے کچھ خصوصیات پہلے سے موجود ہیں۔ تجربے کے لیے 'گروہ نتیجہ بلحاظ صفحہ' کی خصوصیت کو پیش کیا جائے گا (کیونکہ یہ ان خصوصیات میں سے ایک ہے جس کی درخواست کی گئی ہے لیکن پہلے سے موجود ہے)۔ تجربے کا مقصد یہ دیکھنا ہے کہ کیا وہ لوگ جو اس خصوصیت کو فعال کرتے ہیں وہ مزید ترامیم تلاش کرنے اور دیکھنے کے قابل ہوں گے جن میں وہ دلچسپی رکھتے ہیں۔

یہ تجربہ 3-6 ہفتوں تک چلے گا جہاں کچھ صارفین ڈیسک ٹاپ پر لاگ کرکے اپنی مشاہداتی فہرست، حالیہ تبدیلیوں اور متعلقہ تبدیلیوں کے صفحات پر 'گروپ بہ صفحہ نتائج' کی خصوصیت کو زیادہ نمایاں طور پر دیکھیں گے۔ اگر آپ کے کوئی سوالات ہیں یا آپ اس تجربے اور اس کے پیچھے کی تحقیق کے بارے میں مزید پڑھنا چاہتے ہیں، تو آپ پروجیکٹ صفحہ پر جا سکتے ہیں یا فیبریکیٹر کے ذریعے فالو کر سکتے ہیں: T396789۔

اگر آپ کا کوئی سوال ہو تو براہ کرم ہم سے رابطہ کریں.

OTichonova (WMF) (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:55، 7 اگست 2025ء (م ع و)

ویکیپیڈیا اینڈرائیڈ ایپ پر جگہ کی خصوصیت کی واپسی!

ہیلو،

میرا نام عمل رمضان ہے، ایس ایف ٹی ایم بنیاد میں موبائل ایپس ٹیم کی مدد کرنے والے ایک مجتمع روابط کے اسپیشلسٹ ہوں۔ اگر یہ اردو میں بہتری سے ترجمہ نہیں ہوا ہے تو معذرت خواہ ہوں؛ یہ ایک مشینی ترجمہ شدہ متن ہے۔

ویکیپیڈیا اینڈروائیڈ ایپ ٹیم پلیسز فیچر واپس لارہا ہے!

اس کی مدد سے صارفین مختلف مقامات کے بارے میں مضامین کا جائزہ لے سکتے ہیں نہ صرف قریبی بلکہ دنیا کے نقشہ پر بھی۔ اس فیچر کی مدد سے، صارفین آسانی سے مقامات کی معلومات حاصل کر سکتے ہیں۔

براہ کرم اسے استعمال کرنے کے بعد اپنی پسندیدہ جگہ کے مضمون پر ویکیپیڈیا کی پروجیکٹ کی ٹالک صفحہ پر اپنی رائے ظاہر کریں!

خوش رہو!

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The original message in English:

Hello,

This is Amal Ramadan, Sr. Community relations specialist supporting the mobile apps team in the foundation.

The Wikipedia Android app team is bringing back the places feature!

It enables users to explore articles about various locations not only nearby but also across the global map. With this feature, users can easily navigate and discover information about places of interest worldwide.

Please share your feedback after using it on the project's talk page with your favorite place article on Wikipedia!

Happy exploring! ARamadan-WMF (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 11:15، 5 مارچ 2024ء (م ع و)

انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا صارفین کا ویکیمیڈیا فاؤنڈٰیشن کے لیے کھلا خط

آداب، میں عمومی طور پر ایسے مباحث نہیں چھیڑتا تاہم یہ ایک مسئلہ یہاں جس کا اثر اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر بھی اتنا ہی ہے جتنا کسی دوسری ویکی کے صارفین پر۔ حال ہی میں ویکیمیڈیا فاؤنڈیشن اور اے این آئی کے درمیان چل رہے کیس میں فاؤنڈیشن نے کچھ صارفین کی انفارمیشن دینے کی رضامندی ظاہر کی ہے جو تمام ویکی منصوبوں کے لیے تشویش ناک ہے۔ آپ انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا کی برادری کی گفتگو اس صفحے پر جاکر ملاحظہ کرسکتے ہیں؛ اور برادری کے کھلے خط کو یہاں دیکھ سکتے ہیں۔ شکریہ۔ — ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 06:13، 10 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

فوری مداخلت کی گزارش

محترم ہم خیال ویکیمیڈینز،

میں نہایت عاجزی مگر پوری سنجیدگی کے ساتھ آپ کی فوری مدد کا طلبگار ہوں تاکہ وکیمیڈیا بلاگ ٹیم کی جانب سے ہونے والی ایک طویل عرصے سے جاری ناانصافی کی درستی کی جا سکے۔

سنہ 2014 تا 2020 کے دوران، وکیمیڈیا کے بعض اسٹاف اراکین کے غیر موافق اور حوصلہ شکن رویّے کے باوجود، میں نے مختلف ممالک اور خطّوں سے تعلق رکھنے والے ویکیمیڈینز اور وکیمیڈیا کمیونٹیز کی پروفائلنگ کا بیڑا اٹھایا۔ ان میں بھارت، پاکستان، میانمار، کوریا، ترکی، جمہوریۂ چیک وغیرہ شامل ہیں۔

میں نے خود تحقیق کی، ممتاز اور فعال رضاکاروں کی نشان دہی کی، سوالنامے تیار کیے، تفصیلی انٹرویوز/پروفائلز تحریر کیے اور مجموعی طور پر 35 بلاگ پوسٹس لکھ کر شائع کروائیں۔

افسوسناک امر یہ ہے کہ وکیمیڈیا بلاگ ٹیم کے کم از کم دو اراکین زبردستی اور بلاجواز طور پر تقریباً 10 بلاگ پوسٹس کی مصنّفانہ نسبت (Authorship) اپنے نام سے ظاہر کر رہے ہیں، حالانکہ ان تحریروں کی تحقیق، تیاری اور تحریر مکمل طور پر میری جانب سے کی گئی تھی۔

میں آپ سب سے پُرزور اپیل کرتا ہوں کہ اس صریح ناانصافی کے خلاف اپنی آواز بلند کریں اور یہاں اپنے تبصرے درج کریں تاکہ حقائق سامنے آئیں اور اصل مصنف کو اس کا جائز کریڈٹ مل سکے۔

آپ کی حمایت نہ صرف میرے لیے بلکہ وکیمیڈیا تحریک میں شفافیت، دیانت اور اخلاقی قدروں کے تحفظ کے لیے بھی بے حد اہم ہے۔

پیشگی شکریہ۔ --ڈاکٹر مزمل (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:13، 27 دسمبر 2025ء (م ع و)

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میکانیکی ترجمہ سے بنے صفحات

خال میں اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر بہت سے ایسے صفحات بن رہے ہیں جو غیر اہل زبان بنا رہے ہیں۔ گو کہ کئی صفحات معروفیت کے معیار پر پورے اترتے ہیں، تاہم مکمل صفحہ کو انگریزی سے نسخ کر کے کسی ترجمہ کے سافٹ ویئر میں ڈال کر ترجمہ حاصل کیا جاتا ہے اور پھر اس سے اردو ویکیپیڈٰیا پر صفحہ بنا دیا جاتا ہے۔ مثلا نائجیریا اور بنگالی سے بہت سے صفحات بن رہے ہیں۔ قابل غور بات یہ ہے کہ اکثر صفحات ہاوسا زبان یا بنگالی زبان میں موجود نہیں، لیکن انھیں میکانیکی ترجمہ سے اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر بنا دیا جاتا ہے۔

• اگر ان صفحات کو حذف کے لیے نامزد کیا جاتا ہے تو کچھ ساتھی اس کے معروف ہونے کی دلیل دیتے ہیں۔ یہ ایک خوش آئند بات ہے تاہم اگر کوئی ان تمام صفحات کو درست کرنے کا ذمہ لے لے اور انھیں معیار کے قریب ترین لا کر اسے رکھا جائے تو بہتر ہے،

• بصورت دیگر اردو ویکیپیڈیا کوئی لاورث ویکیپیڈیا یا کچرا کنڈی نہیں کہا جو مضمون اپنی زبان میں نہ بن سکے اور لا کر اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ڈال دیا جائے کہ یہاں سب چلتا ہے

ایک اور اردو صارف نے بھی اسی طرح کے صفحات بنائے ہیں، میرے خیال سے ہمیں اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ایسے صفحات بنانے کی حوصلہ شکنی کرنا چاہیے۔ اردو ویکیپیڈیا ٹیم کو اس کا مل کر سدباب کرنا چاہیے۔

اور اگر کوئی صفحہ اہم سمجھا جائے تو کوئی بھی ٹیم رکن اس کو خود بنائے۔ --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 03:11، 6 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

تخلیقی کام ایک وقت طلب اور دقت سے بھرپور کام ہے ، جب آپ کے زیادہ محنت کے کام کو سراہنے والے کم ہوں اور کم محنت کا فائدہ اٹھانے والے زیادہ ہوں تو چارو نا چار وہی کرنا پڑتا ہے جو پبلک ڈیمانڈ ہوں ، میں خود بھی اپنے تحریری صلاحیتوں کے سست روی سے اکتا کر گذشتہ ایک سال سے میکانیکی ترجمہ ہی کر رہاہوں ۔۔مگر اس کے معیار کی نوک پلک سنوار لیتا ہوں ۔ ۔ واجبی حد تک ۔ اتنی کوشش تو لازمی کرتاہوں کہ جملے بے ربط نہ ہوں ۔۔ اور بس ۔۔ میں اس کے حق میں ہوں کہ میکانیکی ترجمے کے ذریعے مضامین کی تعداد اور معیار دونوں بڑھائی جا سکتی ہیں ۔۔ بس ایک اور اہم فیچر بڑھانے کی ضرورت ہے کہ ایک ایسا سانچہ بنا دیا جائے جو میں اپنے میکانیکی ترجمہ شدہ مضمون میں ڈال دوں تو اس کا ایک زمرہ بن جائے ۔۔ تا کہ میں بعد میں موقع ملنے پر اس زمرے میں جاوں اور ترتیب وار ان مضامین کو حتمی شکل دے کر مکمل کے زمرہ میں ڈال دوں ۔ ۔ شکریہ _ نور جی __☺_ 17:45، 6 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

مشینی ترجمہ حقیقت میں ایک زبردست سہولت ہے لیکن بدقسمتی سے اردو کے معاملے میں یہ ابھی بہت پیچھے ہے۔ اس ٹول کی مدد سے ہی بہت سے ویکیز لاکھوں صفحات بنا چکے ہیں لیکن ہم اردو زبان کی پیچیدگیوں کی وجہ سے ایسا نہیں کر سکتے۔ طاہر بھائی کے دو طرح کے تحفظات ہیں۔ پہلے مشینی ترجمہ کے حوالے سے اور دوسرے معروفیت کے معیار کے حوالے سے۔میری رائے یہ ہے کہ اگر صفحہ انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا پر موجود ہے تو اس کا ایک مطلب ہے کہ وہ معروف ہے۔ ایسے صفحات کو ہمیں کم سے کم مواد کے ساتھ بچا لینا چاہیے۔ کم سے کم مواد دو تین لائنیں، خانہ معلومات اور ویکی معاون سے حاصل کیے گئے زمرہ جات کافی ہیں۔ باقی سب اڑا دیں۔ پچھلے دنوں میانمار کے ایک فوجی جنرل کا صفحہ مشینی ترجمہ سے بنایا گیا۔ انگریزی ویکی کے صفحے پر عنوان میں بریکٹ میں جنرل بھی لکھا تھا۔ مشینی ترجمہ میں اس جنرل کا ترجمہ عام ہو گیا اور انھوں نے بریکٹ میں یہی لکھ دیا۔ وہ فوجی جنرل چونکہ میانمار کے موجود وزیر ہیں تو میں نے مشینی صفحہ حذف کر کے دوسرا بنا دیا۔ صفحے کا عنوان ہی غلط ہو تو آپ بے شک اڑا دیں کہ اسے درست کرنے میں بہت وقت صرف ہوگا۔ اگر انگریزی پر صفحہ موجود نہیں ہے اور مقامی زبان میں بھی موجود نہیں توپھر معروفیت نہیں ہے۔ ایسے صفحات کو حذف کیا جانا چاہیے کہ ہمارے پاس عام طور پر ان حوالہ جات کے معتبر پن کو چیک کرنے کا کوئی ذریعہ نہیں۔پاکستانی اور ہندوستانی صارفین پاکستانی اور ہندی اخبارات کی حد تک جانتے ہیں کہ کونسا معروف ہے اور کونسا نہیں ۔ ایک اہم مسئلہ یہ بھی ہے کہ اگر کسی کی کوریج بنگالی زبان میں ہے تو کیا وہ کوریج اس کا صفحہ اردو کے لیے معروف بناتی ہے۔ میرے خیال میں تو بناتی ہے کہ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ہزاروں صفحات ان انگریزی اور غیر ملکی شخصیات کے ہوں گے، جن کی اردو میں ذرا بھی کوریج نہیں۔ اس کے علاوہ صفحہ مشینی ترجمہ نہ ہو اور ہم کوریج کرنے والی ویب گاہ کے بارے میں تھوڑی معلومات حاصل کر لیں، ظاہر ہے سب کے پاس ایسا کرنے کا وقت نہیں ہوتا۔ میرے پاس بھی نہیں۔ اس لیے اس کام کے لیے میں تو ویکیپیڈیا کا ایک ٹول (User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/CiteHighlighter.js) استعمال کرتا ہوں، جو کامن ڈاٹ جے ایس میں امپورٹ کیا ہوا ہے۔یہ حوالہ جات کو سبز میں ہائی لائٹ کر دے تو وہ معتبر ہے۔ جس پر میں بھی یقین کر لیتا ہوں۔ سرخ ہائی لائٹ کر دے تو معتبر نہیں ہے، اگر ویسے ہی دکھائے تو آپ کی مرضی صفحے کے ساتھ جو مرضی سلوک کریں۔میرے خیال میں انتظامیہ میں سب کو اسے استعمال کرنا چاہیے۔ اس تاثر کو زائل کرنا ضروری ہے کہ اردو ویکیپیڈیا کوئی لاوارث نہیں، اس کے لیے کچھ عادی ”مجرموں“ پر پابندی لگانا کافی ہوگا۔ تاہم اپنا فائدہ بھی دیکھنا چاہیے، میرے خیال میں اپنا فائدہ یہی ہے کہ انگریزی پر موجود صفحات کو کم سے کم مواد سے بچایا جائے لیکن بچانے میں چند منٹ سے زیادہ نہ دیے جائیں۔ --امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:09، 6 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

صارف:Nooruddin2020 آپ اس طرح جو مضمون بنائیں اس میں سانچہ:مشینی ترجمہ ڈال دیا کریں۔ اس کے بعد یہ مضمون زمرہ:مشینی تراجم میں آ جائے گا۔ جب کام ختم کر لیں تو سانچہ ہٹا دیا کریں۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:17، 6 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

میرے ترجموں کے لیے یہ سانچہ مناسب نہيں کیوں کہ میں معیاری ترجمہ ہی پبلش کرتا ہوں ۔ سانچے کے الفاظ ہیں ، _ نور جی __☺_ 13:47، 7 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

• ایسے صفحات حذف کے لیے نامزد کر دیے جائیں تاکہ صارف کو مضمون بہتر کرنے کے لیے وقت مل جائے۔ اس کے علاوہ دیگر صارفین کو بھی موقع مل جائے گا کہ وہ اسے بہتر بنا سکیں۔ نامزدگی کے بعد اگر ایک ہفتے میں بھی مضمون کو درست نہ کیا گیا تو حذف کر دیا جائے۔--محمد عارف سومرو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 04:59، 7 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

•  تبصرہ: میں یہاں ایک وضاحت کرنا چاہوں گا کہ، جب میں میکانیکی ترجمہ کی بات کرتا ہوں تو اس سے مراد یہ نہیں کہ گوگل ٹرانسلیٹ یا دیر آلات کو استعمال ہی نہ کیا جائے۔ ایسا سب کرتے ہیں میری مراد ان مضامین سے ہے جو غیر اہل زبان اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر آ کر انگریزی سے سارا مضمون اٹھا کر گوگل ٹرانسلیٹ میں ڈال کر جو کچھ بھی حاصل ہوا وہ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ڈال دیتے ہیں ظاہر ہے کہ جو اردو میں لکھا ہے وہ اسے پڑھ نہیں سکتے اور نہ بعد میں اس کی درستی کر سکتے ہیں۔ ان صفحات کو یا تو حذف ہونا چاہیے یا کوئی ان کی درستی کا زمہ اپنے سر لے۔ کچھ صارفیں ایسا مستقل بنیاوں پر کر رہے ہیں، کیونکہ انھیں لگتا ہے کہ یہاں ایسا کیا جا سکتا ہے کوئی روک ٹوک نہیں ہوتی۔

میرا مقصد اہل زبان اور ہماری ویکیپیڈیا ٹیم کے میکانیکی ترجمہ استعمال کرنے کی ممانعت نہیں۔ اگر کوئی میکانیکی ترجمہ کرتا ہے اور اس میں کچھ درست نہیں تو وہ اسے ٹھیک کر لیتا ہے۔ لیکن یہ زبان نہ جاننے والے نہیں کر سکتے۔ وہ بس کچھ بھی ڈال دیتے ہیں۔ میرا ماننا یہ ہے جو اردو پڑھ نہیں سکتا وہ یہاں مضمون کیوں ڈال رہا ہے ۔ دوسرے لوگ جب اس مضمون کو پڑھیں گے تو اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے معیار کے بارے میں کیا تاثر اخذ کریں گے۔ --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 08:55، 7 اکتوبر 2024ء (م ع و)

صارف:ترویج اردو پر پابندی

برادری کا اتفاق ہے کہ صارف ترویج اردو پر دائمی پابندی لگائی جائے۔ صارف کو سمجھانے کی کئی کوششیں ہوئی اور انھیں اس بات کی یاد دلائی گئی کہ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر اصل تحقیق جائز نہیں اور یہاں تقابلی مطالعے پیش نہیں کیے جاتے بلکہ جو معلومات معتبر حوالہ جات میں علمی طبقے نے پیش کی ہے ان کا ہی خلاصہ کیا جاتا ہے۔ صارف کے طریقہ کار سے ایسا ظاہر ہوتا ہے کہ وہ سسٹم کے ساتھ گیمنگ کر رہے ہیں اور غیر ضروری لمبے جوابات دیکر اصل سوال سے منہ پھیر لیتے ہیں۔ ایک اہم بات یہ بھی ہے کہ وہ حوالہ جات کا غلط استعمال کرتے ہیں جیساکہ وہابی آئیڈیولاجی اور دیگر مضامین میں پایا گیا اور اس غلطی کو غلطی تسلیم کرنے سے قاصر ہیں۔ لھذا برادری کے اس اتفاق پر قابلیت ضروری ہے کا خیال کرتے ہوئے صارف ترویج اردو پر دائمی پابندی لگائی جاتی ہے۔ تاہم انھیں ان کا صارفی تبادلہ خیال صفحہ استعمال کرنے کی اجازت ہے۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 07:43، 12 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

گفتگو کو مقفل کر دیا گیا ہے۔ براہ کرم اسے تبدیل نہ کریں۔ تبصرے ممکنہ طور پر متعلقہ صفحہ پر رکھے جائیں گے۔ اب اس گفتگو میں مزید کوئی تبدیلی نہ ہوگی۔

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حال ہی میں اردو ویکیپیڈیا کمیونٹی کے درجن بھر فعال صارفین نے صارف:ترویج اردو کے بنائے ہوئے مضامین کی طرف توجہ دلائی ۔ ان کی بنائے مضامین کے تجزیے سے جو باتیں سامنے آتی ہیں، وہ کچھ اس طرح سے ہیں۔

• صارف ترویج اردو صفحات بناتے ہوئے جعل سازی سے کام لیتے ہیں۔ وہ صفحات میں بڑی بڑی ویب سائٹس کے غلط یا مردہ یا گمراہ کن لنکس ڈال کر تاثر دیتے ہیں کہ موضوع کافی مشہور ہے۔نصر الدین حقانی اس صفحے پر بھی انھوں نے ایسے روابط ہی شامل کیے ہیں۔اس ربط پر بھی ”ماذا خسر العالم بانحطاط المسلمين(کتاب)“ کے تاریخچے سے دیکھا جا سکتا ہے کہ انھوں نے اس کتاب کو معروف ثابت کرنے کے لیے جو روابط شامل کیے گئے ہیں، ان کا کتاب سے تعلق ہی نہیں ہے۔مثال کے طور پر عرب نیوز کے لنک پر سیاسی خبر ہے۔اسی طرح حوالہ نمبر 17 میں دعوت اسلامی کی ویب گاہ پر یہ کتاب نہیں بلکہ یہ لنک ایک دوسری کتاب ”جَنَّتیوں کو سب سے پہلے کیا کھلایاجائے گا؟“ کے متعلق ہے۔اس کتاب کو معروف ثابت کرنے کے لیے جو 24 روابط شامل کیے گئے ہیں۔ وہ سب کے سب اسی طرح گمراہ کرنے کی کوشش ہیں۔ اکثر پر دوسری کتابیں ہیں یا صفحہ ہی موجود نہیں۔یہی روش انھوں نے قاضی عبدالرشید کے صفحے پر اپنائی تھی۔ اس ورژن کے مطابق انھوں نے پورا مضمون خود سے لکھا اور ہر ایک میں صرف وفات کی خبر کو ڈال کر تاثر دینے کی کوشش کرتے رہے ہیں متن سے متعلق ہی خبریں ہیں۔ایک گیمنگ وہ اس طرح کرتے ہیں کہ ایسی کتابوں کو حوالے اور صفحہ نمبر لکھتے ہیں جو شاید شائع ہی نہیں ہوئی ہوتی۔ مذہبی علما کے بنائے ان کے صفحات میں جب میں نے حوالہ جاتی کتابوں کو تلاش کرنے کی کوشش کی تو ایک کتاب بھی تلاش نہیں کر سکا، نہ ان کے مصنفین کو، مثال کے لیے دیکھیے عبد الرحمن امروہوی۔ عبد العزیز گوجرانوالوی میں حوالہ نمبر 3 پر انھوں نے عائشہ جلال کی کتاب The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence کے صفحہ 151سے 154 تک کا حوالہ دیا ہے۔ بڑی مشکل سے یہ کتاب آرکائیو پر ادھار ملی تو وہاں مجھے سرسری مطالعے پر ایسا کوئی نام نہیں ملا۔ بلکہ یہ صفحات تو احمدیت اور احرار وغیرہ سے متعلق ہیں۔
• خود ساختہ اصطلاحات ۔ صارف ترویج اردو نے حال ہی میں کئی ایسے صفحات بنائے ہیں، جنہیں سو فیصد اوریجنل ریسرچ کہا جا سکتا ہے۔اوریجنل ریسرچ اور خودساختہ اصطلاحات پر مبنی صفحات اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ممنوع ہیں۔ مثال کے طور پر بوکو حرامیت، پرائیویٹ جہاد ، وہابی جہادی آئیڈیالوجی اور دیگر بہت سے صفحات شامل ہیں۔

صارف ترویج اردو اب تک غالباً سینکڑوں صفحات بنا چکے ہیں۔ یہ تجزیہ حالیہ دنوں میں بنائے گئے صفحات تک ہی محدود ہے۔ ان کے سالوں پہلے بنائے گئے صفحات کا جائزہ لینا تو ابھی باقی ہے۔ اردو ویکی پیڈیا پر فعال صارفین کی پہلے ہی کمی ہے۔ ایسے میں ہم کیسے ان کے بنائے کسی نئے صفحے پر ایک ایک حوالہ جات چیک کریں گے کہ آیا وہ درست ہے یا کمیونٹی کو چکر دینے کے لیے غلط حوالہ شامل کیا گیا ہے؟ اسی وجہ سے اس معاملے کوہائی لائٹ کرنے والے کمیونٹی صارفین کی تجویز ہے کہ صارف: ترویج اردو پر دائمی پابندی عائد کی جائے اور ان کے بنائے ہوئے تمام صفحات میں سے جو مشکوک حوالہ جات والے لگیں یا بنا حوالہ جات کے ہوں، انھیں بنا کسی رائے شماری کے فوری حذف کیا جائے۔--امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 20:04، 5 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

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تبصرے

• میں نے ترویج اردو کی اصلاح کرنے کی کوشش کی۔ تاہم ایسا دور دور تک نظر نہیں آرہا کہ وہ یہاں ایک دائرتہ المعارف بنانے کے لیے ہیں۔ جس طریقے کا تجربہ اوپر ظاہر کیا گیا ہے، حوالہ جات کی وہی گیمنگ ان کے تخلیق کردہ مضمون وہابی جہادی آئڈیولاجی میں پائے جاتے ہیں۔ کئی ایک حوالے میں نے وجہ بتاکر خارج کیے ہیں۔ ان کے تبادلہ خیال اور میرے تبادلہ خیال صفحہ پر ان کے ساتھ میری گفتگو سے یہ بات واضح ہے کہ ان کے ساتھ en:WP:CIR کے مسائل ہیں۔ ─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 20:35، 5 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)
• ان کے مخصوص موضوعات پر بنائے گئے صفحات فورا حذف کیے جانے چاہئیں، ان مضامین میں مشترکہ طور پر یہ وجوہات پائی جاتی ہیں: (1) خود ساختہ اصطلاحات کی ترویج، (2) دو تین سانچے بنا کر اس میں سرخ روابط کی فہرست بنا کر اس خود ساختہ اصطلاحات پر مشتمل سانچے کو استعمال کرکے کئی صفحات بنانا، (4) چیٹ جی پی ٹی سے صفحات بنا کر ڈالنے کا مضبوط اشتباہ کہ سرخ روابط والے زمرہ جات کی بھرمار ہوتی ہے، نیز دیے گئے حوالہ جات یا تو ناکارہ ہوتے ہیں یا بغیر صفحہ کے پوری کتاب کی معلومات شامل کی ہوئی ہوتی ہیں یا اس کتاب سے وہ معلومات میل نہیں کھاتیں، بعض زندہ روابط والے حوالہ جات میں مطلقاً جہاد کے موضوع پر باتیں ہیں، انھیں مخصوص خود ساختہ اصطلاحات پر مشتمل بنائے گئے مضامین میں استعمال کیا گیا ہے، جو ایک دوسرے سے میل نہیں کھاتے! (5) کئی عناوین تو ایسے ہیں کہ انگریزی ویکی پر ان عناوین سے مضامین ہیں؛ مگر یہاں انھوں نے ان ناموں سے صفحہ بنایا تو بھی مذکورۂ بالا اغلاط میں ایک یا زائد چیزوں پر مشتمل۔ (6) مذکورۂ بالا باتوں سے ایسا بھی لگتا ہے کہ جیسے اصل تحقیق پیش کی جا رہی ہو اور ویکیپیڈیا:اصل تحقیق نہیں کے نام سے اس سلسلے میں ضوابط ہیں، تفصیلی ضوابط کے لیے en:Wikipedia:No original research موجود ہے۔ Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 02:15، 6 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

مذکورۂ بالا وجوہات اور باتوں سے اندازہ ہو گیا ہوگا کہ کیوں اِن اور اس طرح کے صفحات کو حذف ہونا چاہیے؛ ورنہ ایسا لگتا ہے کہ اگر انھیں روکا نہ گیا؛ تو یہ ویکیپیڈیا کے ذریعے ہی اصطلاحات گڑھ گڑھ کر ان تمام سرخ روابط پر بھی صفحہ بنا ڈالیں گے، جو مختلف خود ساختہ سانچے بنا کر انھوں نے استعمال کیے ہیں؛ بلکہ متنازع یا حساس (sensitive) موضوعات پر ایک طرح کے پراجیکٹ پر بغیر منتظمین سے مشورہ کے کم از کم اردو پر صفحات بنانے کی اجازت نہ دی جائے۔ تفصیلی وجوہات کے لیے درج ذیل صفحات 1 سے 11 تک بالترتیب دیکھے جا سکتے ہیں: (1) سانچہ: پرائیویٹ جہاد، (2) پرائیویٹ جہاد، (3) وہابی جہادی آئیڈیالوجی، (4) سلفی جہادی آئیڈیالوجی، (5) قطبیت، (6) عزامیت، (7) زرقاویت، (8) بوکو حرامیت، (9) سانچہ:النصرہ فرنٹ، (10) سانچہ:حقانی نیٹ ورک، (11) سانچہ:حرکت الجہاد الاسلامی۔ Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 02:15، 6 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

@امین اکبر:! نصر الدین حقانی کے عنوان سے نصیر الدین حقانی والے صفحے سے متعلق بتائی گئی بات سے پابندی کی بات کرنے کی میں تائید تو نہیں کروں گا؛ کیوں کہ اس موضوع پر حقیقی حوالہ جات موجود ہیں، جو یہاں ملاحظہ کیے جا سکتے ہیں۔ ماذا خسر العالم والے صفحے میں حوالہ جات صحیح طریقے سے پیش نہیں کیے گئے (اگرچہ حقیقت میں اس کتاب پر صفحہ بنانے کے لیے بہت سے حوالہ جات مل جائیں گے، ان کی روشنی میں کوئی بھی صفحہ بنا سکتا ہے)۔ اس طرح سے مواد پیش کرنا کہ مواد اور حوالہ جات میں میل نہ ہو، دیے گئے حوالہ جات میں مواد کا اتا پتا ہی نہ چلے؛ تو ایسے کام کی میں تائید نہیں کرتا! خود ساختہ اصطلاحات کی ترویج اور اسی طرح مذکورۂ بالا و سابقہ وجوہات کی بنا پر ان پر پابندی کے سلسلے میں، میں آپ کی تائید کرتا ہوں۔ Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 02:25، 6 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

درخواست برائے اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر مثبت اور تعمیری مکالمے کا فروغ

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یہ گزارشات آپ کی خدمت میں ایک صاف دل کے ساتھ پیش کر رہا ہوں تاکہ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر وہ تعمیری اور علمی ماحول قائم کیا جا سکے جس کا مقصد علم کا فروغ ہے نہ کہ ذاتی حملوں اور پابندیوں کی دھمکیوں سے نئی سوچ اور تحقیق کو دبانا۔

پابندی اور ذاتی نوعیت کی باتوں سے گریز

میری کچھ تحاریر اور موضوعات پر چند صارفین کی جانب سے مسلسل پابندی کی دھمکیاں دی جا رہی ہیں جس میں مواد کی بجائے میرے ذاتی ارادوں پر سوالات اٹھائے جا رہے ہیں۔ اگر کچھ حوالہ جات میں واقعی غلطیاں ہوں تو انھیں درست کیا جا سکتا ہے مگر انھیں بنیاد بنا کر پابندی کی باتیں کرنا محض تعصبات اور ذاتی ترجیحات کو ظاہر کرتا ہے۔ ویکیپیڈیا کا مقصد علم کا فروغ ہے اور تعمیری مباحثے کے بغیر کوئی بھی علمی کام آگے نہیں بڑھ سکتا۔ میرا اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر تعاون اسی مقصد کے لیے ہے اور میں اردو کی ترقی اور معیاری مواد کے فروغ میں کردار ادا کر رہا ہوں جس کا اعتراف بھی کیا جانا چاہیے۔

پرائیویٹ جہاد اور اصل جہاد سے علیحدگی

اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر میری کوشش ہے کہ اصل اسلامی جہاد کو ان غیر ریاستی اور خود ساختہ "پرائیویٹ جہاد" کی کارروائیوں سے الگ پیش کیا جائے۔ کیوں کہ اگر ہم ایسا نہیں کرتے تو اس کا نقصان اصل اسلامی نظریات کو ہو گا اور لوگ اسلامی جہاد کو دہشت گردی کے مترادف سمجھنے لگیں گے۔ مثال کے طور پر ریاست درعیہ کی تاریخ اور وہابی جہادی آئیڈیولوجی جیسے موضوعات میں ایسے نظریات کا پرچار کیا گیا جو اصل اسلامی تعلیمات سے متصادم ہیں اور یہ سبھی کچھ ایک نئی تشریح کے طور پر سامنے آیا جس کو وہابیت اور اس کی جہاد کے متعلق نظریہ کو وہابی جہادی آئیڈیالوجی کہا جاتا ہے۔ یہ کیوں کہا جاتا ہے اس کا جواب اس کے بانی ابن عبدالوہاب نجدی ہی دیں گے۔ جب ہم ان غیر ریاستی کارروائیوں کو ایک علاحدہ اصطلاح میں بیان کرتے ہیں تو یہ اسلامی تعلیمات کی درست نمائندگی میں مددگار ثابت ہوتی ہے۔ میری استدعا ہے کہ مجھے اس مقصد کو آگے بڑھانے دیا جائے اور اگر پرائیویٹ جہاد کو آپ لوگ کسی اور اصطلاح میں بیان کرنا چاہتے ہیں تو براہ کرم اس کا تعین کریں تاکہ تعمیری مکالمہ ممکن ہو۔

پرائیویٹ جہاد کی اصطلاح کی ضرورت کیوں پیش آئی؟

اسلامی تاریخ اور فقہ کی رو سے ہمیشہ سے جہاد ریاست کی ذمہ داری رہا ہے اور تمام فقہا نے غیر ریاستی یا پرائیویٹ سطح پر جہاد کو رد کیا ہے۔ تاہم یہ صورت حال اس وقت تبدیل ہوئی جب 18ویں صدی میں ابن عبد الوہاب نجدی نے ایک نئی جہادی آئیڈیالوجی کا پرچار کیا جس کا مقصد خلافت عثمانیہ کے خلاف مسلح بغاوت تھا۔ اس بغاوت کے نتیجے میں ریاست درعیہ قائم کی گئی جو ایک غیر ریاستی خود مختار ریاست تھی اور جسے خلافت عثمانیہ نے ایک "باغی ریاست" قرار دیا۔ اس واقعے کو سمجھنا ضروری ہے کیوں کہ یہ وہ مقام ہے جہاں سے پرائیویٹ یا غیر ریاستی جہاد کے نظریے کا آغاز ہوتا ہے۔

ابن عبد الوہاب نے اس نظریے کو پروان چڑھایا اور اپنی حمایت کے لیے ایک مسلح گروہ تشکیل دیا جسے سعودی حکمران شاہ سعود نے تقویت فراہم کی۔ اس ریاست کی بنیاد کو بعد میں 19ویں صدی میں ابراہیم پاشا نے ختم کیا لیکن اس نظریے نے اپنی جڑیں قائم کرلی تھیں اور بعد کی صدیوں میں مختلف گروہ اسی آئیڈیالوجی پر عمل پیرا ہوئے۔

سوال یہ پیدا ہوتا ہے کہ جب ابن عبد الوہاب نجدی کے دور میں غیر ریاستی یا پرائیویٹ سطح پر جہاد کو جائز قرار دے دیا گیا تو اس غیر ریاستی مسلح جدوجہد کو کس اصطلاح کے تحت بیان کیا جائے؟ اس سے پہلے ساڑھے سات سو سے زائد فقہا نے جہاد کو ریاست کے ساتھ مشروط کیا تھا اور غیر ریاستی کارروائیوں کو فتنہ اور فساد سے تعبیر کیا تھا۔ ابن عبد الوہاب کی یہ سوچ جو ایک علاحدہ ریاست کی بنیاد پر تھی کیا یہی "وہابی جہادی آئیڈیالوجی" کہلائے گی؟

آج کے دور میں پاکستان سمیت دنیا بھر میں متعدد گروہ اسی نظریے کی پیروی کرتے ہوئے اپنی پرائیویٹ یا غیر ریاستی کارروائیوں کو "جہاد" کا نام دیتے ہیں حالاں کہ ان کی یہ مسلح جدوجہد کسی بھی ریاست کی حمایت یافتہ نہیں ہے۔ اقوام متحدہ اور دنیا بھر کی ریاستیں ان گروہوں کو دہشت گرد تصور کرتی ہیں کیوں کہ ان کی کارروائیاں ریاست کے قوانین اور بین الاقوامی اصولوں کے منافی ہیں۔ سوال یہ ہے کہ ان غیر ریاستی عناصر کو کس زمرے میں رکھا جائے؟ کیا ہم انھیں "پرائیویٹ جہاد" نہیں کہہ سکتے؟

میرا سوال صرف اتنا ہے کہ جب ایک نظریہ واضح طور پر وجود رکھتا ہے اور اس کے اثرات آج کی دنیا میں نمایاں ہیں تو کیا اس کے لیے "پرائیویٹ جہاد" یا "وہابی جہادی آئیڈیالوجی" کا اصطلاحی استعمال غلط ہے؟ اگر آپ کے پاس ان نظریات کو بیان کرنے کے لیے کوئی بہتر اور مؤثر اصطلاح ہے تو براہ کرم اس کی نشان دہی کریں تاکہ اس علمی مواد کو مزید بہتر کیا جا سکے۔ بصورت دیگر براہ کرم ذاتی اختلافات یا پابندی کی دھمکیوں کی بجائے تعمیری مکالمے کو ترجیح دیں تاکہ ویکیپیڈیا ایک مثبت علمی ماحول فراہم کر سکے۔

Wikipedia:Here to Build an Encyclopedia کی اہمیت

اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ابھی تک کچھ بنیادی ہدایت نامے موجود نہیں ہیں جو نئے اور پرانے صارفین کی درست رہنمائی کے لیے لازمی ہیں۔ مثال کے طور پر انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا کا بنیادی ہدایت نامہ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_encyclopedia">“Wikipedia:Here to Build an Encyclopedia”</a> تقریباً 22 زبانوں میں موجود ہے مگر اردو میں اس کی عدم موجودگی حیرت انگیز ہے۔ اس کے برعکس اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر زیادہ تر توجہ پابندیوں اور ذاتی نوعیت کی تنقید پر مرکوز نظر آتی ہے جس سے اس کے علمی معیار اور ترقی میں رکاوٹ پیدا ہو رہی ہے۔

یہ بات افسوس ناک ہے کہ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر منتظمین اور فعال صارفین اکثر تعمیری و بنیادی رہنمائی فراہم کرنے کی بجائے پابندیوں اور انتباہات کے نفاذ پر زیادہ زور دیتے ہیں۔ اس وجہ سے نئے صارفین کی حوصلہ شکنی ہوتی ہے اور اردو ویکیپیڈیا عالمی سطح پر پیچھے رہتا جا رہا ہے۔ میری تجویز ہے کہ یہ اہم ہدایت نامہ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر بھی پیش کیا جائے تاکہ نئے آنے والے صارفین کو تعمیری اور معیاری مواد کی اہمیت سے آگاہ کیا جا سکے اور انھیں ایک مثبت اور رہنمائی پر مبنی ماحول فراہم کیا جائے۔ اس طرح اردو ویکیپیڈیا کو عالمی معیار کے مطابق ترقی دینے میں مدد ملے گی۔

سرخ زمرے اور تحقیق کے فروغ کی حمایت

مجھے حالیہ دنوں میں یہ بتایا گیا کہ سرخ زمرے بنانے میں اعتدال برتنا ضروری ہے تاکہ اگر کسی موضوع پر مستقبل قریب میں مضامین نہ بنیں تو غیر ضروری زمرے ویکیپیڈیا پر بوجھ نہ بنیں۔ میں نے اس رہنمائی کو قبول کیا اور غیر ضروری سرخ زمرے بنانا چھوڑ دیے۔ البتہ سرخ زمرے تحقیق اور نئے موضوعات کی تخلیق کا ذریعہ بھی ہیں اور انھیں مکمل طور پر نظر انداز نہیں کیا جا سکتا۔ ہمیں نئے موضوعات پر مزید تحقیق کے مواقع فراہم کرنے چاہئیں نہ کہ پابندی کے خوف سے صارفین کو روکا جائے۔

ذاتی الزامات سے گریز اور تعمیری ماحول کی ترویج

بعض صارفین اور منتظمین کی جانب سے چیٹ جی پی ٹی کے استعمال اور غیر معیاری مواد کا الزام لگایا جا رہا ہے۔ ایسے الزامات بے بنیاد اور صارف کی نیک نیتی کو مجروح کرتے ہیں۔ ویکیپیڈیا پر آنے والے ہر صارف کو نیک نیتی سے دیکھنا چاہیے اور اس کے مواد پر مثبت مکالمہ کرنا چاہیے۔ میرے مضامین میں اگر اصلاحات کی ضرورت ہو تو اس پر بات کی جا سکتی ہے لیکن میری نیت پر شک کر کے ذاتی حملے کرنا غیر مناسب ہے۔

آخر میں میری آپ سب سے گزارش ہے کہ ہم سب ایک دوسرے کے علمی اور فکری تعاون کو اہمیت دیں اور اردو ویکیپیڈیا کو تعمیری اور دوستانہ ماحول فراہم کریں تاکہ یہاں ہر نئے لکھاری کو اپنی تحقیقی اور علمی محنت کو شیئر کرنے کا موقع ملے۔ اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی ترقی ہم سب کا مشترکہ مقصد ہونا چاہیے اور اسی مقصد کے لیے میری یہ درخواست پیش خدمت ہے۔

آپ کی رہنمائی اور تعاون کا منتظر

ترویج اردوتبادلۂ خیال 06:41، 6 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

یہ سب باتیں یہاں دہرا کر آپ کو کوئی فائدہ نہیں ہوگا۔ آپ کو اصولی طور میں تبادلہ خیال پر سمجھا چکا ہوں کہ ویکیپیڈیا ایسے نہیں چلتا۔ کسی نے ذاتی الزامات نہیں لگائیں ہیں۔ سوال گندم جواب چنا والی حالت بنا رکھی ہے۔ سوال ایک چیز پر ہے اور جواب مشینی مراسلے۔─ عافیؔ ^{(تبادلۂ خیال)} 09:46، 6 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

@ترویج اردو:! آپ کی اوپر لکھی گئی تحریر میں ہی اس بات کا اعتراف موجود ہے کہ آپ ذاتی تحقیق پیش کر رہے ہیں۔ مثلاً ان ذیلی سرخیوں کے تحت لکھی گئیں باتیں: پرائیویٹ جہاد اور اصل جہاد سے علیحدگی، پرائیویٹ جہاد اور اصل جہاد سے علیحدگی اور پرائیویٹ جہاد کی اصطلاح کی ضرورت کیوں پیش آئی؟ آپ کی نیت جو بھی ہو؛ مگر آپ کے زیر بحث صفحات سے ظاہر ہے کہ آپ ایسی معلومات شامل کیے جا رہے ہیں، جن پر دیے گئے حوالہ جات کے مندرجات؛ ان سے میل نہیں کھاتے۔ یہاں تو نئی اصطلاح لکھنے کے لیے فعال صارفین؛ یہاں تک کہ منتظمین بھی آپس میں مشورہ کرتے ہیں اور آپ ڈھڑلے سے خود ساختہ اصطلاحات پر مشتمل صفحات بنائے جا رہے ہیں؛ یہاں تک کہ مطلقاً جہاد والے مضمون میں بھی (بہ قول آپ کے) اپنی نیک نیتی پر مشتمل خود ساختہ اصطلاح پرائیویٹ جہاد کا سانچہ بنا کر لگا دیا ہے۔ کیا آپ کوئی مقالہ لکھ رہے ہیں۔ کیا آپ کو معلوم نہیں کہ ویکیپیڈیا پر ذاتی تحقیق پیش نہیں کی جا سکتی؛ بلکہ یہاں وہی لکھا جا سکتا ہے، جس کے بارے میں پہلے سے مواد شائع ہو چکا ہو؟ تو پھر آپ کے مضامین میں دیے گئے حوالہ جات اور مضامین میں ہم آہنگی کیوں نہیں؟ جہاں تک چیٹ جی پی ٹی کے الزام کی بات ہے تو وہ آپ کے لکھنے کے طریقۂ کار کے جواب میں ہے، جس سے ظاہر ہوتا ہے کہ آپ چیٹ جی پی ٹی یا کسی بھی طرح کے مشینی آلہ کی مدد سے لکھ رہے ہیں؟ چیٹ جی پی ٹی کے ٹول اردو ویکی معاون (ابوذر) اور مطلقاً چیٹ جی پی ٹی کا استعمال ہم میں سے بہتوں نے کرکے دیکھ لیا ہے، وہ اسی طرح کی غلطیاں کرتا ہے جو آپ کی تحریروں میں پائی جاتی ہیں: (1) اس سے پیش کیے گئے مواد پر حوالہ طلب کرو تو بغیر لنک کے بس معلوماتِ کتاب یعنی نام کتاب، نام مصنف، نام ناشر: مقامِ اشاعت اور سنہ اشاعت لکھ دیتا ہے، جا کر یا تو آدمی موازنہ نہ کر سکے اور کرے تو پیش کیا گیا مواد ملے ہی نہیں، (2) چیٹ جی پی ٹی پر لکھے گئے مضامین میں زمرہ جات لگانے کے لیے کہا جائے تو ایسے زمرہ جات کی بھرمار کر دیتا ہے، جو ویکیپیڈیا پر پہلے سے موجود ہوں ہی نہیں۔ مذکورۂ بالا وجوہات تھیں آپ پر چیٹ جی پی ٹی کے استعمال کا؛ یہاں تک کہ آپ کے انوکھے انداز سے جواب دینے پر بھی بعض منتظمین کو شبہ ہے کہ ان میں آپ چیٹ جی پی ٹی کا یا کسی ٹول کا استعمال کر رہے ہیں؛ وہ بھی اس لیے کہ جواب عموماً اس طرح نہیں دیتا ہے آدمی، جوابات میں ذیلی سرخیاں، خلاصہ و نتیجہ اور حوالہ جات کوئی پیش نہیں کرتا۔ ان ساری وجوہات کی بنا پر آپ کے خلاف کارروائی کی جا رہی ہے۔ رہی بات آپ کی نیک نیتی کی، وہ ہم جھانک کر دیکھ نہیں سکتے، آپ کی نیک نیتی یا اس کے برعکس کا پتہ آپ کے کام دیتے ہیں اور آپ کے کاموں سے ہم لوگوں نے وہی نتیجہ اخذ کیا ہے، جو گذشتہ کی گفتگو یا نامزدگی برائے حذف صفحات پر لکھے گئے ہیں۔ آپ اگر چیٹ جی پی ٹی والی بات سمجھا دیں تو ہم لوگ معذرت کے لیے تیار ہیں؛ مگر آپ کے کام نارمل نہیں ہیں؛ بلکہ ماقبل میں بتائی گئی وجوہات پر مشتمل ہونے کی وجہ سے قابلِ تشویش ہیں۔ Khaatir (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 10:11، 6 نومبر 2024ء (م ع و)

اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی ترقی کا تقابلی جائزہ

اردو ویکیپیڈیا کا آغاز 2004ء میں ہوا تھا اور موجودہ (2024ء) میں اس پر تقریباً 214,099 مضامین موجود ہیں۔ یہ تعداد ترقی کی سست رفتاری کو ظاہر کرتی ہے، خصوصاً جب ہم اردو ویکیپیڈیا کا موازنہ ان دیگر ویکیپیڈیاز سے کرتے ہیں جو یا تو اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے آس پاس شروع ہوئیں یا اس کے بعد آئیں مگر آج کہیں زیادہ ترقی کر چکی ہیں۔

مختلف ویکیپیڈیاز کے تقابلی اعداد و شمار

• ویتنامی ویکیپیڈیا
  • آغاز: 2003ء
  • مضامین کی تعداد (2024ء): 1.3 ملین
  • تفوق: اردو سے ایک سال قبل شروع ہوئی اور آج اردو سے 6 گنا زیادہ مضامین رکھتی ہے۔

• تھائی ویکیپیڈیا
  • آغاز: 2003ء
  • مضامین کی تعداد (2024ء): 1.4 ملین
  • تفوق: اردو سے ایک سال پہلے شروع ہوئی اور آج اردو سے کئی گنا آگے ہے۔

• عربی ویکیپیڈیا
  • آغاز: 2003ء
  • مضامین کی تعداد (2024ء): 1.2 ملین
  • تفوق: اردو ویکیپیڈیا سے محض ایک سال قبل شروع ہوئی، مگر اب اردو سے 5 گنا زیادہ مضامین رکھتی ہے۔

• فارسی ویکیپیڈیا
  • آغاز: 2003ء
  • مضامین کی تعداد (2024ء): 900,000+
  • تفوق: اردو ویکیپیڈیا سے ایک سال قبل شروع ہوئی اور 5 گنا زیادہ مواد رکھتی ہے۔

جائزہ

اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی ترقی کی رفتار دیگر ویکیپیڈیاز کے مقابلے میں نہایت سست ہے۔ اگرچہ اس کا آغاز 2004ء میں ہوا، مگر مضامین کی تعداد اور معیار دیگر ویکیپیڈیاز سے پیچھے ہیں، جس سے اردو زبان بولنے والوں کے لیے علمی ترقی میں رکاوٹ پیدا ہوتی ہے۔

منتظمین کے لیے سوال

اگر اردو ویکیپیڈیا کو عالمی معیار پر پہنچانا ہے تو کیا ہم تعمیری مکالمہ، مثبت رہنمائی اور نئے صارفین کو حمایت فراہم کرنے کی بجائے پابندیوں پر زور دے کر اس کا مقصد حاصل کر سکتے ہیں؟

اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی ترقی ہم سب کی مشترکہ ذمہ داری ہے اور ہمیں اس کا ادراک ہونا چاہیے کہ تعمیری ماحول ہی اردو ویکیپیڈیا کو ترقی کی راہ پر لے جائے گا۔

حوالہ جات

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گفتگو کو مقفل کر دیا گیا ہے، براہ کرم اسے تبدیل نہ کریں۔ تبصرے ممکنہ طور پر متعلقہ صفحہ پر رکھے جائیں گے۔ اب اس گفتگو میں مزید کوئی تبدیلی نہیں ہوگی۔

Shakespeare plays in Urdu

Dear all, apologies for writing in English! I would like to ask your kind help. Recently we had a Shakespeare-related edit-a-thon in Hungary, and two of the students were working on missing Shakespeare plays in Urdu: ہیملٹ (Q41567) and میکبتھ (Q130283). You can find the drafted articles here and here. Could you please help reviewing and publishing them? I hope you will find them useful. Thank you in advance! Best regards, Bencemac (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:17، 27 دسمبر 2024ء (م ع و)

رائے درکار : ناروے سے نسبت کے لیے موزوں لفظ

آداب!

سردست میں ناروے میں اردو مضمون کو بہتر بنانے کے لیے کوشاں ہوں۔ اس سلسلے میں ایک سوال یہ آیا کہ ناروے سے نسبت ظاہر کرنے کے لیے کیا لفظ موزوں ہے؟ اردو ویکی پر نارویجن اور نارویجین دونوں رائج ہیں۔ ایک ساتھی نے ناروی لفظ تجویز کیا ہے۔ اس کے علاوہ کچھ کتابوں میں نارویجی لفظ میں پڑھا گیا ہے۔ اس سلسلے میں ویکی پیڈیا کے دیگر معاونین کی رائے چاہوں گا۔ انشاء ایک آدھ ہفتے کے بعد یہاں ابھرتی رائے کو عملی جامہ پہنانے کی کوشش کروں گا۔ شکریہ۔ --ڈاکٹر مزمل (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 04:50، 16 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

•  تبصرہ: بابائے اردو مولوی عبد الحق نے Norwegian کے لیے ناروی لکھا ہے۔

حوالہ جات

— ویری‌تاس ^{تبادلہ خیال} 07:22، 16 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

 تبصرہ: نوح ناروی اس کی عمدہ مثال ہیں۔— ویری‌تاس ^{تبادلہ خیال} 04:24، 17 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

•  تبصرہ: نارویجی کا لفظ بہتر محسوس ہوتا ہے ریختہ ڈکشنری میں مستعمل ہے، عین ممکن ہے یہ شان الحق حقی کی لغت سے لیا گیا ہے کیونکہ ریختہ کے اکثر اندراجات وہیں سے نقل کیے گئے ہیں۔ ناروی لفظ "ناروا" سے زیادہ مشابہت رکھتا ہے اس لیے ٹھیک محسوس نہیں ہو رہا۔--اُردو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 20:02، 17 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

@اُردو: ناروا والا قیاس درست نہیں اس طرح تو بہت سے الفاظ غلط ہوجائیں گے، مولوی عبد الحق ماہر لسانیات ہیں آپ یا میں ماہر لسانیات نہیں ہیں، لہذا ایسی قیاس آرائیوں سے بچیں۔ ناروی بھی درست ہے اور نارویجی بھی درست ہو سکتا بعض کتب میں نارویجی بھی استعمال ہوا ہے۔ اور داغ دہلوی کے شاگرد نوح ناروی کو یہ معلوم نہ ہو سکا؟— ویری‌تاس ^{تبادلہ خیال} 03:32، 18 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

اگر اقتباسات کو چھوڑ کر مضمون میں نارویجن ہی لفظ استعمال کیا جائے تو کیوں کہ عبد الحق صاحب نے کہیں پر اس لفظ کا بھی استعمال کیا ہے؟ --ڈاکٹر مزمل (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:29، 18 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

ریختہ والا لنک پہلے غلط ہو گیا تھا اب درست کیا ہے، ناروی اور نارویجی دونوں لفظ لکھے جا سکتے ہے ایسا کرنا ہی ویکیپیڈیا پر احسن قدم ہے اور ناروی کے بارے میں بطور ذاتی رائے رکھی ہے نہ کہ حقائق کے جیسا کہ اوپر الفاظ سے ظاہر ہے، تاہم ریختہ ڈکشنری کے بارے میں ذاتی تجربہ رہا ہے کہ ان کے کم و بیش تمام اندراج شان الحق حقی کی اوکسفرڈ لغت سے لیے گئے ہیں۔ اس پر مزید تبصرہ کچھ لغات کے مطالعہ کے بعد کیا جائے گا۔ مگر کیا نوح ناروی کا نام کیا ان کی ناروے سے نسبت کی وجہ سے ناروی ہے؟ کیونکہ ان کے بارے میں پہلے لاعلم تھا--اُردو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:37، 18 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

@اُردو: آپ کی رہنمائی اور پُرمغز وضاحت کا بے حد شکریہ۔ یہ جان کر خوشی ہوئی کہ آپ بھی ”ناروی“ اور ”نارویجی“ دونوں صورتوں کو قابلِ قبول سمجھتے ہیں یقیناً یہی رویہ ویکیپیڈیا پر اعتدال و جامعیت کا عکاس ہے۔ اگر اجازت ہو تو ایک چھوٹی سی گزارش عرض کروں: میری گذشتہ معروضات کا محرک یہ تاثر تھا کہ آپ نے ابتدائی طور پر ”ناروی“ کو لفظ ”ناروا“ کی نسبت سے غلط قرار دیا تھا، جس پر وضاحت پیش کی گئی۔ رہا نوح ناروی کا تو قرة العین حیدر کے ایک تبصرے سے یہ تاثر جاتا ہے انھوں نے اس نسبت کی نفی نہیں کی گرچہ نوح ناروی کا تعلق قصبہ نارہ سے تھا۔— ویری‌تاس ^{تبادلہ خیال} 05:54، 18 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

@Hindustanilanguage: مولوی عبد الحق کا ہمارے علم میں نہیں ہے، لیکن ناروی زبان یا ناروی نسبت اردو کتب میں جابجا استعمال کی گئی ہے۔ مثلا سید ہاشمی فریدآبادی کی پنج سالہ تاریخ انجمن اردو میں ناروی زبان استعمال کیا گیا اور مثالیں بہت ہیں۔— ویری‌تاس ^{تبادلہ خیال} 05:54، 18 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

شان الحق حقی کی اوکسفرڈ لغت میں نارویجی درج ہے، ریختہ کا اندراج ہوبہو اُسی سے نقل کیا گیا ہے مزید دستیاب لغات میں norwegian سرے سے موجود ہی نہیں ہے سوائے مولوی عبد الحق کے جہاں ناروی درج ہے (جیسا کہ آپ نے اوپر بیان کیا ہے) مزید چند دستیاب ہندی شبدکوش بھی چھانے وہاں ایک میں نارویجیائی موجود ہے مگر باقی میں ندارد۔ لہذا ہمارے خیال میں نارویجن، ناروی، نارویجی اور نارویجیائی وغیرہ کا استعمال مصنف کی منشا پر چھوڑا جا سکتا ہے۔ یہ تو محض ایک عام اصطلاح تھی جس پر اردو داں طبقے میں واحد متفقہ اصطلاح رائج نہیں ہے تکنیکی مضامین کے لیے اصطلاح کی تلاش کی جائے تو ہر مقالے اور لغت میں ایک نئی ڈیڑھ اینٹ کی مسجد ملے گی۔ ویکیپیڈیا کے مضامین میں ان تمام موجود اصطلاحات کو مضمون کے اندر لکھ دینا چاہیے تاکہ قاری کسی ابہام کا شکار نہ رہے۔--اُردو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:12، 18 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

@اُردو: ناروی اور نارویجی یہ دونوں اکثر استعمال ہوئے ہیں، مضمون میں بھی دونوں کا نام لکھ دینا مناسب ہوگا۔— ویری‌تاس ^{تبادلہ خیال} 16:18، 19 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

ناروی تائید۔ ناروی کا استعمال کیا جائے بہتر رہے گا۔ Sidrat al-Muntaha (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:15، 25 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

تجویز

غزہ کے لوگوں اور مغربی کنارے کے تمام فلسطینیوں کو درپیش مشکل حالات کی روشنی میں، اسرائیلی فوج کے جنگی جرائم سے لے کر وہاں کے زمینداروں کے خلاف تشدد تک، میں فلسطینی عوام کے ساتھ اظہار یکجہتی کے لیے اردو ویکیپیڈیا کا لوگو (File:Arabic Wikipedia Logo Gaza (3).svg) تبدیل کرنے کی تجویز پیش کرتا ہوں۔ یہ متعصبانہ نہیں ہے اور غیر جانبداری کو متاثر نہیں کرے گا، لیکن یہ ان کی مشکل صورت حال پر صرف انسانی رد عمل ہے۔جودت (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 17:14، 24 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

•  تبصرہ:جودت صاحب میرا ذاتی خیال ہے کہ ویکیپیڈیا اس طرح کے کاموں کے لیے مناسب جگہ نہیں ہے لیکن اگر یہاں کی برادری کا اتفاق رائے ہے تو ایسا ممکن بھی ہو سکتا ہے۔اس کے لیے رائے شماری درکار ہے، مگر اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی تاریخ سے معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ یہاں تکنیکی صارفین کی بیحد کمی ہے جن کی وجہ سے یہاں ایسے کام نہ ہونے کے برابر ہوتے ہیں یا سالوں کھٹائی میں پڑے رہتے ہیں، اس کی مثال یہی لوگو کی ہے جسے اب تک اردو کے حقیقی فونٹ نستعلیق میں نہیں کیا جاسکا۔ --اُردو (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 17:24، 25 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)
• تائید بربریت اور جبر کے خلاف انسانیت کا ساتھ دینا ویکیپیڈیا کے کسی اصول کے منافی نہیں۔— ویری‌تاس ^{تبادلہ خیال} 17:41، 25 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)
• تائید۔ گذشتہ سال جب میں عربی ویکیپیڈیا پر ایک پڑھ رہا تھا تو میرے ذہن میں یہی بات آئی کہ جب وہاں پر لوگو تبدیل کیا جا سکتا ہے تو ہم سب کیوں نہیں کر سکتے ہیں۔ Sidrat al-Muntaha (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:21، 25 مئی 2025ء (م ع و)

آنے والے دنوں میں صارف شناختی کارڈ متعارف کرایا جائے گا

آداب! میں آپ سے ویکیمیڈیا فاؤنڈیشن کی مصنوعات کی سلامتی اور تحفظ ٹیم کی جانب سے مخاطب ہوں۔

ہم نے حال میں تمام ویکیوں کے لیے صارف شناختی کارڈ جاری کیے ہیں۔ یہ کارڈ صارف کھاتہ کی معلومات فراہم کرتا ہے، اس کے لیے آپ کو نام صارف کے بعد موجود ”user  avatar“ بٹن آئیکون پر کلک کرنا ہوگا۔ اس کارڈ کا مقصدارکان برادری  کو دوسرے صارفین کے بارے میں مزید آسانی سے معلومات حاصل کرنے میں مدد کرنا ہے۔ (دلچسپ معلومات: معلومات صارف کو عالمی ترجیحات سے فعال کیا جا سکتا ہے۔ اس لے لیے ”پیشرفتہ اختیارات“ سرخی تلاش کریں۔) ہمیں اس کا اچھا رد عمل دیکھنے کو ملا ہے اور ملنے والے تبصروں کی بنیاد پر ہم نے کارڈ پر دکھائی جانے والی معلومات کی فہرست میں اضافہ کیا ہے۔

ہمارا اگلا قدم یہ ہے کہ ہم اسے فیچر کو کچھ ویکیوں پر تمام لاگ ان صارفین کے لیے بطورِ طے شدہ (ڈیفالٹ) مہیا کرانا چاہتے ہیں۔ اور ہمارے مطابق آپ کا پروجیکٹ اس لے لیے بالکل موزوں ہے۔ ہم سمجھتے ہیں کہ ایسا کرنے سے یہ فیچر نگرانوں اور نئے آنے والوں کے لیے زیادہ قابلِ دریافت، قابلِ رسائی اور مفید ہو جائے گا۔ آپ کی آراء اس فیچر کو مزید بہتر اور مؤثر بنانے میں مددگار ثابت ہوں گی۔ بالآخر ہم اس فیچر کو تمام منصوبوں پر بطورِ طے شدہ (ڈیفالٹ) فعال کرنے کا ارادہ رکھتے ہیں۔

ہم ستمبر کے اختتام سے قبل اس جگہ معلومات صارف کو متعارف کرائیں گے۔ ہم اس فیچر کے بارے میں آپ کی رائے جاننے کے بڑے متجسس ہیں۔ شکریہ SGrabarczuk (WMF) (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 21:59، 11 ستمبر 2025ء (م ع و)

پیغامات برائے زیر نظر فہرست

پیغامات برائے زیر نظر فہرست کو فعال کر دیا ہے۔ برادری کے لیے اس کے ذریعے اہم پیغامات میڈیاویکی:Watchlist-messages پر ڈالے جا سکتے ہیں۔ اس پر منتظمی/مامور اداری کی درخواستوں کو پیغام بھی چسپاں کر دیا ہے جو صرف اس صورت نظر آئے گا اگر صارف:Aafi/RfX/RfA count اور صارف:Aafi/RfX/RfB count پر نمبر کی تجدید کی گئی ہو۔ — _{آپ کا خیرخواہ،} عافیؔ 04:35، 11 جنوری 2026ء (م ع و)

صفحہ کی بحالی کی درخواست

السلام علیکم! میں صفحہ رسول شاہسونی کی حذف شدگی کے بارے میں نظرِ ثانی/بحالی کی درخواست کرنا چاہتا/چاہتی ہوں اور اس حذف پر باقاعدہ اعتراض بھی رکھتا/رکھتی ہوں۔

حذف کی گفتگو بہت جلد بند کر دی گئی، حالانکہ میری جانب سے حذف کی پالیسی سے متعلق سوال بھی کیا گیا تھا۔ مزید یہ کہ گفتگو بند کرنے والا منتظم اسی بحث میں پہلے اپنی رائے دے چکا تھا، اس لیے مناسب معلوم ہوتا ہے کہ کوئی غیر جانب دار منتظم اس فیصلے کا دوبارہ جائزہ لے۔

میری درخواست صرف طریقۂ کار سے متعلق نہیں بلکہ معروفیت سے بھی تعلق رکھتی ہے۔ مضمون ویکیپیڈیا کے اصولوں کے مطابق غیر جانب دار انداز میں مرتب کیا گیا تھا اور اس میں آزاد و معتبر ثانوی مآخذ شامل تھے (FAU پر DAAD-Preis، JSPS کی سرکاری فہرست، جرمنی میں رجسٹرڈ پیٹنٹس اور خبررساں اداروں کی رپورٹس) جن کی بنیاد پر موضوع عمومی معیارِ معروفیت پر پورا اترتا ہے۔ یہ مضمون ویکیپیڈیا فارسی میں بھی کئی برسوں سے موجود اور برقرار ہے اور ویکیپیڈیا عربی میں بھی اس کا اندراج موجود ہے۔ براہِ کرم اس حذف کے فیصلے پر غیر جانب دارانہ نظرِ ثانی کر کے صفحہ بحال کرنے پر غور فرمایئے، کیونکہ مضمون کو حذف کرنے کی بجائے برقرار رکھنا زیادہ مناسب معلوم ہوتا ہے اور اس میں مزید بہتری کی گنجائش بھی موجود ہے۔ آپ کی توجہ اور تعاون کا شکریہ۔ -- Parsiangoal (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 08:32، 19 جنوری 2026ء (م ع و)

Parsiangoal، براہ مہربانی صفحہ کا ربط اور نبح گفتگو کا ربط بھی یہاں شامل کریں۔ — _{آپ کا خیرخواہ،} عافیؔ 11:47، 19 جنوری 2026ء (م ع و)

عافیؔ جی ضرور۔ صفحہ: رسول شاهسونی (حذف شدہ)، نبح گفتگو: ویکیپیڈیا:نامزدگی_برائے_حذف/رسول_شاهسونی مزید: یہ مضمون ویکیپیڈیا فارسی اور عربی میں بھی موجود ہے؛ (رابطہ: fa:رسول شاهسونی)۔شکریہ۔ -- Parsiangoal (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:41، 19 جنوری 2026ء (م ع و)