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Tech News: 2025-51
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
View all 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. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinkstable 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. [2] - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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The Signpost: 17 December 2025
[edit]- Interview: Part 1: Bernadette Meehan
Say hello to the new WMF CEO.
- News and notes: We're gonna have a party!
And a new WMF CEO!
- In the media: The "bigg" bosses: Robertsky and the Pope
Pay up, big guys!
- Traffic report: Death and stranger things
And going for the FIFA prize!
- Gallery: A feast of holidays and carols
Something old and something new!
- Obituary: Michal Lewi (Iwelam) and Alan R. King (A R King)
Rest in peace.
- Concept: List of xxtreme sports (redirected from Electrojousting)
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Please stop
[edit]re-adding the old RFC tag. If for some reason you absolutely insist on listing this as a RFC, generate a new RFCID.—S Marshall T/C
- @S Marshall: Sure, will do. Some1 (talk) 00:20, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. That's cleaner. I'm intrigued: why do you insist on this being an RFC?—S Marshall T/C 00:24, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
- Having it listed on WP:RFC/All will increase the amount of comments the discussion gets. Some1 (talk) 00:30, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
- Ok, as you wish. In my experience it usually does increase the number of comments but decreases their average quality.
- I hope that in future we'll be able to generate a searchable index of closed and current RFCs, and to facilitate that, I'm trying to keep it to one question per RFCID and one RFCID per question.—S Marshall T/C 00:40, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
- To me, an increase in the number of comments gives us a better view of what the "consensus" actually is, since we're requesting input from the "broader community" and not just from those who have the article watchlisted. Regarding RFCIDs, I guess I don't really pay attention to them since I don't close RfCs. Some1 (talk) 01:10, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
- Having it listed on WP:RFC/All will increase the amount of comments the discussion gets. Some1 (talk) 00:30, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. That's cleaner. I'm intrigued: why do you insist on this being an RFC?—S Marshall T/C 00:24, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-52
[edit]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 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. [3]
- 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. [4]
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 withdata-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with otherdata-mwattributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [5] - 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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