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Naturalmente un benvenuto anche da parte mia! Se avessi bisogno di qualcosa non esitare a contattarmi. pegasovagante (la mi dica) 09:32, 7 gen 2016 (CET)

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come archiviare

ia.wikibooks

Ciao, ho visto che sei amministratore su ia.wikibooks. Volevo segnalarti che si è accumulato un po' di spam. --Hippias ^{Dica dica...} 21:51, 27 lug 2017 (CEST)

Mistero apparente

Sono rimasto a bocca aperta di fronte all'affermazione "Quasta pagina non deve essere cancellata nemmeno se vuota" nella bozza di template-avviso per le pagine transcluse, poi ho capito che vuota è diverso da inesistente. Sarò l'unico a restare peroplesso di fronte a quella sottigliezza?

Un'osservazione banale: tutto l'accrocchio in realtà già esiste per tutti i progwetti wiki in un caso particolare, il nsFile, in cui viene visualizzata, in pratica, una pagina transclusa da Commons, fra l'altro il relativo avviso potrebbe ispirare un template analogo. --Alex brollo (discussioni) 15:13, 9 ago 2017 (CEST)

Tech News

Sarà il caso di archiviare? --pegasovagante (la mi dica) 17:57, 18 set 2017 (CEST)

Fatto. --pegasovagante (la mi dica) 09:40, 15 ott 2017 (CEST)

Template:Bar10/LinkDisc

Per favore puoi mettere la casella di ricerca accanto a "cerca nel bar", che non ci riesco. Grazie--Pierpao (discussioni) 23:02, 15 set 2017 (CEST)

[@ Pierpao] Ciao grazie per interessarti al nuovo bar. ;) Ho provato ma non si può perché la casella di ricerca ha bisogno di spazio e lo sfondo di "cerca nel bar" è comunque un'immagine. Quelle pagine del bar le ho importate su richiesta perché avevamo deciso di rinnovare il bar. Poi è stato è stata proposta una suddivisione per argomenti e quindi ho ripreso il lavoro... ora è a buon punto però è difficile dedicarsi con costanza per i vari impegni... comunque se vuoi dare una mano al bar le pagine sono Utente:Samuele2002/archivi/Nuovo bar/Parte nuova e realtive sottopagine sono tante perché sono diverse per ognuno degli argomenti che ci sono però hanno la struttura abbastanza uguale però cambiano i testi, all'inizio può essere difficile orientarsi però sevuoi dare una mano sei il benvenuto :) --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 09:09, 16 set 2017 (CEST)

Education Program

Grazie, ma credo che ci sia stata confusione con le scuole. La 3B del 2016-2017 di Mattruffoni è I.C. Ledro. --ProfValeria (discussioni) 09:02, 29 ott 2017 (CET)

r: Cinque pilastri

In realtà la cosa era rimasta in sospeso. Ho ripreso ora la discussione, ma sono ancora piú o meno in wikipausa e potrei non partecipare colla necessaria solerzia; per questo non la segnalo ancora al bar. --pegasovagante (la mi dica) 09:05, 1 nov 2017 (CET)

r: Candidature ad amministratore

Se è disponibile, ben venga! --pegasovagante (la mi dica) 13:56, 7 gen 2018 (CET)

Samuele chiedeva se sono disponibile. Si certo, le mie competenze tecniche non sono moltissime, ma imparerò, e le funzioni che mi elenchi sono necessarie.--Mattruffoni (discussioni) 17:40, 7 gen 2018 (CET)

sezione esercizi di matematica

Ciao, per quanto riguarda gli esercizi io sarei alla fine per organizzare questi piccoli problemi in quiz, che vanno benissimo, e li inserirei direttamente in coda alla lezione, ma ho due questioni da sottoporti:

• non ho capito come faccio a nascondere il procedimento svolto del problema (mi faresti vedere come fare, ho consultato la pagina di Aiuto: quiz ma non ho capito/trovato); mi piacerebbe che i miei alunni motivassero con un testo il loro procedimento, non solo operazioni per intendersi: potrebbe andare bene?
• più avanti faremo testi di problemi sulla geometria solida, con un testo più lungo; credi che comunque un quiz possa andare bene oppure dove potremmo metterli? tempo fa sul gruppo telegram, ne avevo accennato e mi avevano parlato di creare un link alla pagina degli esercizi.

La materia Esercizi di matematica della scuola media 3 la cancello. Grazie e buona rientro a scuola. --ProfValeria (discussioni) 15:49, 7 gen 2018 (CET)

Vetrina

Ciao Samuele, ieri ho provato a inserire una richiesta per vetrina, in considerazione del fatto che non c'è nessuna voce di medicina;). Ho seguito le poche indicazioni, ma , se dai uno sguardo alla cronologia della pagina, ho desistito per non pasticciare, non essendo sicura di dover "creare" proprio quella pagina. Potresti spiegarmi un po' meglio? Grazie. --Geoide (discussioni) 14:02, 4 mar 2018 (CET)

Buona Pasqua 2018

auguronissimi, caro/a wikicollega!! --SurdusVII [@email@] 12:16, 2 apr 2018 (CEST)

Cancellazione

Ciao Samuele, la prossima volta annullerò il link prima di eliminare la pagina. Alcuni progetti non si importano di questa eliminazione ma se questo lo preferisce seguo le regole. DARIO SEVERI (Discussione) 12:11, 27 apr 2020 (CEST)

Ritorno

Un caloroso Bentornato! Come ti avevo scritto, i casi della vita hanno fatto si che io sia stato eletto membro del direttivo di Wikimedia Italia. Possiamo riprendere i vecchi progetti rimasti incompiuti.Mizardellorsa (Discussione) 12:16, 28 apr 2020 (CEST)

utenza vandal-only

Speciale:Contributi/Lellociao: Non credo sarà una grande perdita --Wim b 18:41, 17 mag 2020 (CEST)

[@ Wim b] Fatto grazie. --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 00:17, 18 mag 2020 (CEST)

Replacement filing cabinet

ciao, come stai, wikicollega?? ho visto che hai tolto qualcosa dalla mia DPtalk.. ma cos'era la parte del Replacement filing cabinet?? cioè è obsoleto?? --SurdusVII [@email@] 12:47, 26 mag 2020 (CEST)

[@ SurdusVII] Ciao spero di non averti disturbato sto tentando di ripulire Speciale:LintErrors e tra essi c'è usa sezione dei parametri dei file che non esistono (e che non vengono nemmeno visualizzati come testo) Speciale:LintErrors/bogus-image-options e che andrebbero rimossi. --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 12:52, 26 mag 2020 (CEST)

no nessun disturbo.. hai fatto bene.. erano anni che non aggiorno le mie PU in diversi wikiprogetti.. quindi il problema qua è anche per questo che dallo schermo che ogni volta per controllare dalle mie OOSS mi spunta dallo schermo una specie di finestrella che mi avvisa questo: "[CatWatch] Errore in User:SurdusVII/CategorieOsservate.js".. è questo il problema che stai lavorando?? --SurdusVII [@email@] 12:59, 26 mag 2020 (CEST)

[@ SurdusVII] No sinceramento non ci avevo fatto caso (in particolare qui uso poco gli ooss guardo direttamente le ultime modifiche) probabilmente andrà aggiornato il gadget: MediaWiki:Gadget-CatWatch.js (ma al momento non posso farci nulla serve essere amministratori dell'interfaccia e da meta vogliono una "votazione" di due settimane Wikiversità:Richieste_di_permessi#Samuele2002) --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 13:06, 26 mag 2020 (CEST)

non mi fa votare.. vorrei dare il voto a te per migliorare questo sito.. --SurdusVII [@email@] 16:15, 26 mag 2020 (CEST)

[@ SurdusVII] che strano ho provato a fare dei controlli ma non mi risultano blocchi alla pagina o filtri antiabusi impazziti. Per caso stai usando WikEd? Perché a volte sta dando dei problemi nel salvare le modifiche. --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 14:51, 29 mag 2020 (CEST)

no, mai usato WikiEd.. --SurdusVII [@email@] 14:54, 29 mag 2020 (CEST)

email

Ti ho scritto una email da Wikisource in lingua latina.--Mizardellorsa (Discussione) 05:27, 29 mag 2020 (CEST)

[@ Mizardellorsa] Ho appena risposto. Grazie :) --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 11:37, 29 mag 2020 (CEST)

Vandalo

Ciao, segnalo il vandalo 79.37.213.100--ValeJappo (Discussione) 16:23, 29 mag 2020 (CEST)

[@ ValeJappo] grazie --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 16:31, 29 mag 2020 (CEST)

Mia pagina utente

Per favore sproteggila così elimino la categoria--Pierpao (Discussione) 18:08, 17 ago 2020 (CEST)

Da spostare

Utente:Pierpao/MediaWiki:Oathauth-ui-general-help--Pierpao (Discussione) 13:48, 30 ago 2020 (CEST)

Amministratore

Adesso sei solo, mi dispiace. Mi sono candidato ma sono stato ignorato. Mi dispiace molto che forse la cosa sia stata interpretata come se fossi alla caccia di flag, oppure perchè non sono stato particolarmente presente? Non so ma almeno, come hanno fatto tanti non me ne sono andato mai--Pierpao (Discussione) 13:51, 30 ago 2020 (CEST)

Due cose (diciamo una e mezza)

Ciao,

tanto tempo fa, avevo proposto la una mia lezione (Modulazioni analogiche) per la vetrina. Mi ha detto Pierpa che dovresti provvedere (o non provvedere) tu. Quando hai un minuto, se lo fai, faresti di me una persona felice.

Vediamo al resto. Vedo che sei l'unico amministratore qui. Se vuoi posso candidarmi e aiutarti in quello che posso. Competenze tecniche (anche di sviluppo web) ne ho, per il resto - se prometti di darmi una mano nei primi passi - mi faccio avanti.

Grazie e ciao, Galessandroni (Discussione) 19:49, 28 ott 2020 (CET)

E niente, l'ho fatto.

Mi sono candidato. Sentiti colpevole.

Giacomo Alessandroni ^{Parliamone! asd} 22:24, 25 gen 2021 (CET)

PS Ora che succede? :-O

[@ Galessandroni] Ottimo ;) Ora aspettiamo 24 ore poi apro la procedura di votazione. (ps ho spostato la candidatura in una sottopagina) --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 22:48, 25 gen 2021 (CET)

Auguri!

Con colpevole ritardo (anche se di poche ore) ti faccio i più cari auguri di buon compleanno :P --Superpes15 (Discussione) 02:47, 8 feb 2021 (CET)

Ops... siamo in due, allora. Auguri!!! Giacomo Alessandroni ^{Parliamone! asd} 09:58, 8 feb 2021 (CET)

[@ Superpes15, Galessandroni] Grazie mille --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 22:13, 8 feb 2021 (CET)

[@ Galessandroni] Come promesso, ho richiesto la rimozione del flag, dal momento che il parco admin è nuovamente operativo :P È stato un piacere darvi una mano :) Vi sarei grato se mi poteste lasciare il flag di patroller (non si sa mai! Anche se sono GR può essere sempre in futuro)! Ciao :D --Superpes15 (Discussione) 16:48, 11 feb 2021 (CET)

[@ Superpes15] Grazie a te per il servizio svolto ;) Se vorrai tornare a dare una mano sarai sempre il benvenuto! :) (ps. ti ho assegnato il flag di Patrollatore) --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 23:47, 11 feb 2021 (CET)

Grazie a te :D --Superpes15 (Discussione) 23:49, 11 feb 2021 (CET)

E adesso?

Nel senso... sono scaduto come lo yogurt. Devo ricandidarmi o c'è un'altra procedura?

A presto, Giacomo Alessandroni ^{Parliamone! asd} 00:38, 5 ago 2021 (CEST)

Ritorno alle origini

Giovane ma se invece di richiedere a terzi le immediate tornassi a occupartene tu stesso facendo richiesta nelle sedi opportune? Dai, che servono sempre "nuove" leve! Assicurati solo di rispettare i requisiti :P --Leofbrj (Zì?) 23:17, 19 mag 2022 (CEST)

[@ Leofbrj] Hai ragione :P Diciamo che aspettavo prima di fare subito richiesta ma hai ragione è giunta l'ora. :D --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 23:22, 19 mag 2022 (CEST)

[@ Leofbrj, Galessandroni] Che ne dite di un altro (o altri 2) admin dell'interfaccia oltre a Samuele tra voi due? Non che ci sia nulla di male ad averne solo uno, eh, poi i GS che lo sarebbero già di base... Però la policy dice "Small wikis might also want to make sure they have at least two people who can read JavaScript so they can vet each other's edits (a bit like checkusers)." Che ne pensate? Ricordate, nel caso, che è obbligatorio l'uso della 2FA se si è admin dell'interfaccia per questioni di sicurezza! Superpes15 (Discussione) 21:53, 25 mag 2022 (CEST)

[@ Superpes15] credo che Jack viste le sue conoscenze tecniche in materia informatica dovrebbe avere la precedenza, ovviamente se se la sente. Io qualche conoscenza base di CSS e JS ce l'ho, ed eventualmente potrei approfondire ulteriormente, ma rispetto a lui mi ritengo un rincalzo.--Leofbrj (Zì?) 23:57, 25 mag 2022 (CEST)

[@ Leofbrj, Samuele2002, Superpes15] Per l'account a due fattori nessun problema. Per quel che mi riguarda continuerò a usare Wikiversità per schiavizzare i miei alunni. E - tornando a noi - qualche occhio in più può farci solo bene. Per me, è sì.
Giacomo Alessandroni ^{Parliamone! asd} 08:50, 26 mag 2022 (CEST)

Benissimo, su su, proponetevi entrambi [@ Leofbrj, Galessandroni]! Non sono ammesse candidature da parte di terzi :P Direi per ora di non dare automaticamente i flag a chi diventa sysop, perché potrebbe accadere in futuro che aumenti il numero dei sysop, quindi per ora lasciamo su richiesta :) Superpes15 (Discussione) 12:36, 26 mag 2022 (CEST)

Appena arrivo a casa. Da cellulare non è il caso. 😅 --Giacomo Alessandroni ^{Parliamone! asd} 13:22, 26 mag 2022 (CEST)

[@ Superpes15] Grazie per averlo proposto :) [@ Leofbrj, Galessandroni] concordo con quanto detto da Superpes forza fate entrambi richiesta che può servire e almeno non mi sento solo :P --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 15:45, 26 mag 2022 (CEST)

[@ Leofbrj, Samuele2002, Superpes15] Richiesta fatta. Ora tocca a voi. :-) --Giacomo Alessandroni ^{Parliamone! asd} 18:35, 26 mag 2022 (CEST)

Template risorsa

Aloha! Visto che molti utenti (soprattutto i neofiti) tendono a dimenticarsi di apporre il template, pensavo che potesse essere utile un template di avviso come questo da inserire nella talk dell'utente per avvisarlo della cosa. Fammi sapere cosa ne pensi, eventualmente si può fare lo stesso per i template Materia e Corso. Buona giornata :D--Leofbrj (Zì?) 13:49, 6 giu 2022 (CEST)

[@ Leofbrj] Ottima idea! Effettivamente sarebbe molto utile così da poter avvisare gli utenti in modo veloce e completo e allo stesso tempo istruendoli sull'uso :D L'avviso mi piace è chiaro e conciso, per quanto riguarda lo sfondo pensavi di tenerlo bianco oppure hai già un'idea su un altro colore da usare come sfondo?

Invece per quanto riguarda Materia e Corso può essere una buona idea anche se io per ovviare al problema della mancata formattazione con il giusto tl stavo pensando e creando un sistema che consenta direttamente il precaricamento della struttura del template. Ultimati gli ultimi dettagli scriverò al bar su questo. Grazie e buona giornata anche a te :) --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 14:18, 6 giu 2022 (CEST)

Ottimo! Si tratta ancora di una bozza tutta provvisoria, per cui fai tutte le modifiche che vuoi a testo e sfondo, poi lo spostiamo in ns 10. Per la questione materia e corso: ottimo lavoro, ancora meglio! :) Leofbrj (Zì?) 14:32, 6 giu 2022 (CEST)

Quiz

Ciao, nella pagina linkatami esce "Modifica Per sviluppare un quiz potete prendere come modello il quiz Esercizi del nuovo secolo e la società di massa (scuola media) se avete bisogno di aiuto chiedete a Samuele2002 (discussioni)". Ecco, quale quiz mi consiglieresti di inserire in nuove risorse da creare?--Potenza2021 (Discussione) 12:33, 6 ott 2022 (CEST)

https://it.wikiversity.org/wiki/Aiuto:Esempio_di_lezione

Ciao, ci sarebbe da sistemare questa pagina, grammaticalmente. Ho trovato errori gravi: https://it.wikiversity.org/wiki/Aiuto:Esempio_di_lezione 151.34.233.173 13:02, 10 nov 2022 (CET)

Fatto Dovrebbe essere sistemata e aggiornata. Grazie per la segnalazione Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 22:25, 2 dic 2022 (CET)

Auguroni

Tanti cari auguri (almeno secondo il calendario di itwiki) :D Mi raccomando, sempre in bocca al lupo per tutto, ma ogni tanto torna fare un salto per questi lidi :P Un abbraccio! Superpes15 (Discussione) 12:20, 7 feb 2023 (CET)

[@ Superpes15] Sì è esatto. Grazie mille :) Vero devo assolutamente riuscire a tornare... E congratulazioni per la nomina a Steward! Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 22:50, 7 mar 2023 (CET)

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• 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.

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• 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. [6]
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• 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.

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• 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 Speciale:UltimeModifiche and Speciale:PaginePiùRecenti. [9]
• 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. [10]
• 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. [11]
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• 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. [13]
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  • (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. [16]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [17]
• 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. [18]

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This Month in Education: January 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 1 • January 2025

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In This Issue

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

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Tech News: 2025-07

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [19]
• 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. [20]
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Speciale:UtenzaGlobale page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [21]

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. [22]
• 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. [23]
• 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. [24]

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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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 Speciale:PaginaIniziale 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 Speciale: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. [25]
• 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. [26]
• 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 Speciale:CancellazioneMassiva 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. [27]
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Speciale:CancellazioneMassiva tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [28]
• 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. [29]

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. [30][31]
• 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. [32]

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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 Speciale:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [33]
• 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. [34][35][36]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:) [37]
• 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. [38]

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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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 "Modifica pagina intera" link is accessible from the "Altro" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [39]
• Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
• When editors embed a file (e.g. [[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[40] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[41]
• 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,[42] and respects cascading protection.[43]
• 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. [44]
• 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. [45]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti (w:syl:) [46]
• 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. [47]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-11

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

Updates for editors

• Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [48][49]
• 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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This Month in Education: February 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 2 • February 2025

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In This Issue

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

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Tech News: 2025-12

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
• On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
• The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
• Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [50]
• 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. [51]
• 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. [52]

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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Importazioni da Wikipedia

Ciao, la pagina w:it:Wikipedia:Proposte di trasferimento#Wikiversità contiene delle voci da trasferire su questo wiki. Sono in attesa da qualche anno (per ragioni meramente tecniche. Puoi occupartene tu? --Ethn23 (Discussione) 19:14, 24 mar 2025 (CET)

@Ethn23 Fatto Grazie per la segnalazione e scusa il ritardo Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 22:47, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

Buon wikilavoro anche a voi --Ethn23 (Discussione) 07:46, 23 mag 2025 (CEST)

Tech News: 2025-13

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
• Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
• Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Pagine speciali 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. [53]
• 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. [54]
• 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. [55][56]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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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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. [57]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

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

Meetings and events

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

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This Month in Education: March 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 3 • March 2025

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In This Issue

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

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Notizie tecniche: 2025-16

Ultimo bollettino tecnico della comunità tecnica di Wikimedia. Per favore informa gli altri utenti di queste modifiche. Non tutte le modifiche produrranno effetti per te. Traduzioni disponibili.

Rilevamento settimanale

• Entro la fine della settimana la dimensione predefinita delle miniature verrà aumentata da 220px a 250px. Ciò modificherà il modo in cui le pagine vengono visualizzate in tutti i progetti, come richiesto per molti anni da alcune community, ma, a causa di limitazioni tecniche, non era stato possibile farlo precedentemente. [58]
• 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. [59][60]

Aggiornamenti per gli editori

• 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.
• Per migliorare la sicurezza degli utenti, una piccola percentuale di login adesso richiede l'inserimento da parte del possessore dell'account di un codice usa e getta inviato all'indirizzo e-mail collegato al proprio account. Si raccomanda di verificare che l'indirizzo e-mail del proprio account sia configurato correttamente, che sia stato confermato, e che sia stato impostato un indirizzo e-mail per tale scopo. [61]
• "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.
• Vedi tutta 30 community-submitted tasks che era risolta la settimana scorsa.

Aggiornamenti per i contribuenti tecnici

• 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.
• Aggiornamenti dettagliati del codice entro la fine di questa settimana: MediaWiki

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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. [62]
• A new type of lint error has been created: Intestazioni vuote (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. [63]
• 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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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 21:31, 28 apr 2025 (CEST)

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 Speciale: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. [64]
• 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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This Month in Education: April 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 4 • April 2025

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In This Issue

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

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Tech News: 2025-20

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

Weekly highlight

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

Updates for editors

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

Updates for technical contributors

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

In depth

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

Meetings and events

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

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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 Speciale:Blocca?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. [65]
• Later this week, the Speciale:PagineSpeciali 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. [66]
• 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. [67]

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Speciale:Blocca 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. [68]
• 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. [69]
• 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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Bentornato

Non ti ho mai visto quindi probabilmente (anzi sicuramente) non mi conosci, però bentornato in questa comunità :-) Smatteo499 (Discussione) 14:20, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

[@ Smatteo499] Ciao, grazie e piacere! Mi sto aggiornando di quanto successo negli ultimi periodi, nel frattempo grazie per aver aiutato a portato avanti Wikiversità in questi mesi :) --Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 14:25, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

Ma grazie a te per quanto hai fatto in passato (anche come amministratore) e spero per quanto farai in futuro! Smatteo499 (Discussione) 14:27, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

PS a quanto vedo sei stato un grande admin, io lo sono da poco: ha senso sbloccare gli IP bloccati da moltissimo tempo, a volte all'infinito? Grazie :) Smatteo499 (Discussione) 15:53, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

[@ Smatteo499] Ciao, si ha senso perché sarebbe da evitare di avere ip bloccati all'infinito. Se ne parlò un po' di anni fa qua Discussioni_Wikiversità:Politiche_di_blocco_degli_utenti#Sblocco_IP_bloccati, iniziai il lavolo sbloccandone un po' credo anche usando uno strumento grezzo di blocco massivo al contrario (ora non funziona più) ma non ho mai completato tale cosa. Ps. è una cosa utile ma non urgente da fare a tempo perso. Con l'occasione un consiglio su una cosa che notavo relativa alla protezione dalla creazione per "Titolo sicuramente errato". Anche per velocizzare le cancellazioni il blocco è preferibile farlo solo in quei casi di creazioni recidive a titoli vandalici (o pagine di spam) e in altri casi particolari. Non è necessario farlo in caso di titoli contenenti refusi o lievi errori. Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 16:19, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

Ok, quello strumento non funziona più quindi? Peccato... Magari quando ho poco tempo lo faccio assegnandomi il flag di pseudobot! Per quanto riguarda le protezioni, grazie per il consiglio, non è necessario ma io sono abituato a richiederla (su Wikipedia) :) Comunque ci farò più attenzione (anche se ormai quelle che ho protetto le lascio così). Un saluto :D Smatteo499 (Discussione) 16:22, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

Le talk di questi IP contengono l'avviso di blocco, va lasciato così o le pagine cancellate? Smatteo499 (Discussione) 16:36, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

Potrebbe essere utile sostituire l'avviso con {{BenvenutoIP}}. Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 16:45, 22 mag 2025 (CEST)

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 Speciale:PagineRichieste, 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. [70]
• 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. [71]
• 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 22:04, 26 mag 2025 (CEST)

This Month in Education: May 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 5 • May 2025

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In This Issue

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

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Guerra fredda (scuola media)

Ciao! Sto pensando di applicare una protezione parziale temporanea (tipo 1/2 settimane) a questa pagina per ridurre alcuni vandalismi sporadici che si verificano di tanto in tanto, con l’intento di mantenere la pagina più stabile senza bloccare troppo la partecipazione. Vorrei avere anche il tuo parere prima di procedere. Cosa ne pensi? Grazie! Smatteo499 (Discussione) 15:14, 28 mag 2025 (CEST)

@Smatteo499 ciao! Si mi trovi d'accordo ad una semiprotezione. Quella è una delle pochissime pagine che ciclicamente è soggetta a vandalismi. Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 17:17, 28 mag 2025 (CEST)

Ok. Pensavo 2 settimane, per te va bene? Chiedo sono alle prime armi :) Smatteo499 (Discussione) 18:18, 28 mag 2025 (CEST)

@Smatteo499 ciao sì 2 settimane vanno bene data la peculiarità della pagina. Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 11:27, 29 mag 2025 (CEST)

Fatto 2 settimane. Tengo d'occhio la voce per vedere cosa le succede dopo la protezione (dopo si può riproteggere se necessario). Ciao Smatteo499 (Discussione) 12:51, 29 mag 2025 (CEST)

Ottimo :) Samuele2002 (Chiedi pure!) 16:21, 2 giu 2025 (CEST)

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. [72]
• 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. [73]
• 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. [74]
• 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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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. [75]

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 ("Mostra attività nelle discussioni"). [76][77]
• 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. [78]
• 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. [79]
• 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. [80][81]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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