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Tech News: 2025-48

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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.

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. [1]
  • Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set. [2]
  • 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.
  • Recurrent item View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. [3]

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. [4]
  • 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). [5]
  • 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.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:54, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections - Call for Candidates

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The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

  • November 25 – December 1 - Call for candidates
  • December 4–8 - Discussion phase
  • December 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

  • The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
  • Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
  • The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
  • The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
  • Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.

If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:49, 25 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:DreamRimmer bot II/Reports/G13 eligible drafts

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Hello, DreamRimmer,

The bot has skipped a few reports today. It seems to be functioning for other purposes but not for the regular G13 reports. Hoping you could check on this for us. Have a great week/holiday! Liz Read! Talk! 03:42, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am aware. I will review the logs today when I have some free time, and I also plan to address the notification issue you mentioned a few days ago. – DreamRimmer ■ 07:52, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's awesome, DreamRimmer. When it's not working correctly, I'm reminded how much time it saves us rather than handling all of these draft deletions individually. Hope you can get to it soon. Take care. Liz Read! Talk! 22:40, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

TenshiBot 6

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Hi DreamRimmer. I would like to ask for permission to change this task from exclusion complaint to non-exclusion compliant, as it is running into pages with lint errors and {{nobots}} templates from Dreamy Jazz Bot's task 6 and elsewhere (see here for a list of nobots templates). — Tenshi! (Talk page) 00:49, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Go for it. – DreamRimmer ■ 10:27, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Editor of the Week

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Editor of the Week
Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:~delta submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I would like to nominate DreamRimmer for EOTW. A Global Sysop and Small Wiki Monitoring Team member, much of his time is spent doing helpful counter-vandalism work across several wikis. Furthermore, he is active in NPP, EFFPR and AfC, as well as operates 3 different bots who do helpful tasks such as automatically patrolling redirects, tagging drafts for G13 and updating various WP:Database reports. He develops user scripts which help make editing significantly easier. He stays motivated no matter what curveballs the wiki throws at him and is always eager to find ways to help out with bots and scripts. This nomination was seconded by Bunnypranav, HouseBlaster, MPGuy2824, TechnoSquirrel69, QuicoleJR, GoldRomean, Perfect4th, AlphaBetaGamma, Sohom Datta and Novem Linguae.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week: 

{{User:UBX/EoTWBox}}
DreamRimmer
 
Editor of the Week
for the week beginning November 30, 2025
A Global Sysop and Small Wiki Monitoring Team member. Does helpful counter-vandalism work across several wikis and is active in NPP, EFFPR and AfC, as well as operates 3 different bots who do helpful tasks such as automatically patrolling redirects, tagging drafts for G13 and updating various WP:Database reports. Develops user scripts making editing significantly easier. Stays motivated no matter what curveballs the wiki throws at him.
Recognized for
always helping out with bots and scripts
Submit a nomination

Thanks again for your efforts! Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 20:03, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! QuicoleJR (talk) 01:23, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you to everyone who took the time to write a comment for me. I truly appreciate it and wish all of you good health :) Bunnypranav, HouseBlaster, MPGuy2824, TechnoSquirrel69, QuicoleJR, GoldRomean, Perfect4th, AlphaBetaGamma, Sohom Datta, Novem Linguae and Buster7 – DreamRimmer ■ 02:06, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Congrats!! Well deserved :D. GoldRomean (talk) 02:09, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You truly deserve all the appreciation—thank you for all you do for Wikipedia :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:30, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
We can't thank you enough! :) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 02:47, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Problem with your nov25 leaderboard

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Hello! It seems like your bot did something strange with the Nov-25 leaderboard. It's removed all of @Cielquiparle's referencing contributions in this edit. What's happened? Thanks, Chorchapu (talk | edits) 22:24, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I also noticed the bot was running a few minutes slower than usual and that the problem doesn't seem to be with counting hashtags. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 22:30, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and the strangest thing is that Cielquiparle hasn't been active between the last update and this one. (sorry for all the replies) Chorchapu (talk | edits) 22:33, 29 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And now it's fixed itself. Weird. Chorchapu (talk | edits) 02:00, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Wikipedia technical issues and templates request for comment

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The Signpost: 1 December 2025

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Tech News: 2025-49

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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.

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).
  • Recurrent item 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. [6]
  • Two new wikis have been created:

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item 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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MediaWiki message delivery 18:55, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hashtag buried

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I sourced Pratt v A-G for Jamaica. However, due to WiFi issues at home, it didn't work. So I cut and pasted the edit into the edit summary here. But my counter didn't recognize it. It's not a big deal, but I think it's a glitch. What can be done? Bearian (talk) 00:21, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done Special:Diff/1325267939 – DreamRimmer ■ 03:06, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Bearian (talk) 03:07, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

reformat a list

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Hello, previously you have made similar corrections to List of World Heritages Sites in Arab states, so could you fulfill my request at WP:AWB/Tasks User:Easternsaharareview this 16:17, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am sorry, but I cannot help with this. It requires manual work, and I don't have enough time to do it. I can only make the first change involving the bold text, as that is the only part that is easy to handle. – DreamRimmer ■ 17:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Alright, thanks anyway. User:Easternsaharareview this 00:31, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections - Discussion Phase

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The discussion phase of the December 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • Dec 4–8 - Discussion phase (we are here)
  • Dec 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Discussion phase.

On December 9, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which typically lasts between a couple days and a week. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate who has not been recalled must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. A candidate that has been recalled must have at least 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:47, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

December 2025

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Hello @DreamRimmer,

I am expressing my interest in learning the process of reviewing new articles. If you still have any student slot available, I would be happy to join your training program. Thank you. Bagwe Neza (talk) 12:01, 5 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2025).

Administrator changes

added
readded Valereee
removed

CheckUser changes

removed Spicy

Technical news

  • Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
  • Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory 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). T382958

Miscellaneous

Sent byMediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:44, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-50

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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. [9]
  • 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. [10]
  • Recurrent item 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. [11]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [12]
  • 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. [13]
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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

Administrator Elections - Voting Phase

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The voting phase of the December 2025 administrator elections has started and will continue until Dec 15 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • Dec 9–15 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:06, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Adjustments for #NOV25 URA backlog drive

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Hi. I wanted to confirm if the adjustments (i.e. deductions) have been made for the WP:NOV25 backlog drive? Just noticed that this page is still a redlink: User:DreamRimmer_bot_III/Nov25DriveLeaderboard/Adjustments/ (Given the vigorousness of the Reviews team in this edition of the drive, I think we need to adjust points accordingly.) Thanks for all your help. @ARandomName123 @SunloungerFrog Cielquiparle (talk) 10:45, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No adjustments have been made so far. That page is intended for the bot to handle point updates, but since the bot is stopped, any changes to points will need to be made manually. Please update the leaderboard accordingly. I have only added one point for Bearian, as per this request. – DreamRimmer ■ 11:06, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]