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Ερώτηση από Βασίλης Σαράντης (06:04, 7 Αυγούστου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλημέρα σας. Θέλω να σας ρωτήσω πως μπορώ να δημιουργήσω το πρότυπο για την φάση νοκ άουτ ενός ποδοσφαιρικού πρωταθλήματος, π.χ. του Champions League. --Βασίλης Σαράντης (συζήτηση) 06:04, 7 Αυγούστου 2025 (UTC)
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Ερώτηση από Mhtsaras08 (16:10, 10 Αυγούστου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα! Μπορώ να κάνω μεταφράσεις? --Mhtsaras08 (συζήτηση) 16:10, 10 Αυγούστου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-33
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
- The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.
- Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage.
- Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the
mw.addWarning()function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Ερώτηση από Discografos (20:38, 15 Αυγούστου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πως να φτιάξω ένα λήμμα....;; --Discografos (συζήτηση) 20:38, 15 Αυγούστου 2025 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Discografos (20:39, 15 Αυγούστου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πως θα φτιάξω ένα λήμμα για έναν ανερχόμενο καλλιτέχνη Μάκη Καρρά...; --Discografos (συζήτηση) 20:39, 15 Αυγούστου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-34
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature.
- An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.
- An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.
- Five new wikis have been created:
- a Wikisource in Tagalog (
s:tl:) - a Wikisource in Madurese (
s:mad:) - a Wikipedia in Rakhine (
w:rki:) - a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (
b:min:) - a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (
wikt:zgh:)
- a Wikisource in Tagalog (
- View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 15
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Special Wikimania issue This is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue
- Wikimania Nairobi: Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania 2025 by checking session pages in the program. These links will be replaced by Commons links when the uploads are finished.
- Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2025: The Wikimedian of the Year awards give us an opportunity to pause, taking a moment to recognize people who make our mission possible. Learn about all of this year's winners.
- Highlights: Daily highlights from Wikimania:
- Product and Tech: Wikimania 2025 sessions about Product and Tech you can watch, with links to the recordings.
- Affiliate Strategy: Wikimania 2025 Brings Affiliate Strategy Recommendations into Focus.
- Twentieth edition of Wikimania: Celebrating humans who make Wikipedia possible.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Tech News: Some of the latest update from Tech News week 31, 32, and 33: The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16; The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
- Collaborative Contributions: Share your comments on Collaborative Contributions. This project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis.
- PTAC: The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22.
- Watchlists and Recent Changes: The Foundation will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages over the next few months. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.
- Wikifunctions: The Foundation is working on demonstrating functions that generate sentences and fragments in several languages. This is a considerable step towards creating text for Abstract Wikipedia.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Wikimedia Futures Lab: The Wikimedia Futures Lab is a process and convening co-designed by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland that will help us all learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses. You can apply now to join the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts.
- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Language and Internationalization: Read about language support for new languages and other highlights from the July 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
- Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held on August 29 at 15:00 UTC.
- UK Online Safety Act: The High Court of Justice has dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for, the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA is implemented.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Affcom News: Read the latest issue of AffCom News (April-June 2025), the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Anonymous929839 (15:21, 21 Αυγούστου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεια σας. Επειδή είμαι νέος στη Βικιπαίδεια, θέλω να μάθω πως δημιουργούνται οι παράγραφοι που πατάς πάνω τους και σου εμφανίζει το κείμενο. Μπορεί κάποιος να με βοηθήσει σ' αυτό; --Anonymous929839 (συζήτηση) 15:21, 21 Αυγούστου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-35
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content;ruby-align; relative units such aslh; and custom strings inlist-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish.- On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.
- Administrators can now access the Ειδικό:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Ειδικό:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.
- Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (
wikt:bew:) - View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed.
rc_newandrc_typeare being removed in favor ofrc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should userc_sourceinstead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.
Meetings and events
- The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.
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Tech News: 2025-36
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.
Updates for editors
- The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.
- The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.
- On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the
Special:RecentChanges,Special:Watchlist, andSpecial:RelatedChangespages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. - Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
- View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter to learn more.
- The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.
Meetings and events
- Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
- Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these.
- La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.
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This Month in Education: August 2025
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 8 • August 2025
- Bootcamp Wikipedia in Classroom
- Brazil launches campaign about Open Science on Wiki
- Breaking Barriers: Yoruba Wikipedia Fan Club Offa's Historic Wins
- Emerging Voices in Free Knowledge: The Journey of Wiki Club SATI
- From a Curious Student to a Wikimedia Leader
- From webinars to conferences: Wikimedia Ukraine’s approach to events for educators
- Higher education with Wikipedia in Spain
- Scientific Contribution from Serbia: Wikipedia in Education Research Published in a Prestigious Journal
- Teachers with Wikipedia. What if we create a Spanish-speaking collaboration network
- The brains behind Wikipedia
- Why EduWiki Should Be Considered by Policymakers
- Wikimedia Chile in Visviri: Free knowledge and education at Chile’s starting point
- Wikipedia as a tool presented at Media Education Summer School for Teachers
- Wikipedia vs AI at La Trobe University
- St Aloysius University – Wikipedia training session for newcomers
- Wiki Loves Academics, WUGN Kaduna
- In Just 3 Minutes: The Power of Wiki Education
- Sensing Cebu: Fieldnotes of an Academic as a Wiki Volunteer
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 16
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Wikimedia Futures Lab: Apply before Sep 4 to join The Wikimedia Futures Lab, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.
- Wikimania 2026: The theme and date for Wikimania 2026 have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 34 and 35: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.
- Spread Wikilove, thank comments: A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools" Beta feature; it is now possible to thank a user for their comment. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.
- Community Wishlist: Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish.
- Wikipedia Mobile Apps: The Android app team has launched a new experiment in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Wikipedia 25: To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to the Wikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub.
- The Wikipedia Library: Collections from Dow Jones & Company, including the The Wall Street Journal, are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Affiliate recognition: The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused until March 31, 2026.
- Board of Trustees selection: The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process will now open on October 8 and close October 23.
- New Board member: Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Rena.andonov (13:40, 3 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα, θα ήθελα να ανεβάσω ενα κείμενο οταν βέβαια το ολοκληρώσω σύμφωνα με τα εγκλήματα που έχουμε δει κατά καιρούς , ανθρώπινες συμπεριφορές που πρέπει να προσέχουμε ειδικά εμείς οι γυναίκες και σημάδια που μας δείχνουν ότι ο κίνδυνος παραμονεύει. Πρέπει να απευθυνθώ και στις οικογένειες των ανθρώπων για να εχω την έγκριση; --Rena.andonov (συζήτηση) 13:40, 3 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Thank you!
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Tech News: 2025-37
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The Editing team is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please tell us in this task, or contact the team.
Updates for editors
- Later this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" beta feature will be able to use a linting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information.
- When browsing a wiki (like
en.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out. Learn more. - When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.
- Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more.
- Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results.
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:15, 9 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
=== ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΚΟ ΕΚΑΒ - Κοινωνικό Ελληνικό Κλιμάκιο Άμεσης Βοήθειας ===Computer code
Το Κοινωνικό ΕΚΑΒ (ακρώνυμο για το Κοινωνικό Ελληνικό Κλιμάκιο Άμεσης Βοήθειας), είναι μια ανεξάρτητη κοινωνική οργάνωση με στόχο την καταπολέμηση κάθε μορφής κοινωνικού αποκλεισμού. Η ονομασία «Κοινωνικό ΕΚΑΒ» παραπέμπει στην έννοια της αντιμετώπισης των έκτακτων αναγκών, όπου βρίσκονται άτομα κοινωνικά περιθωριοποιημένα, κυριολεκτικά τραυματισμένα στην κοινωνική τους υπόσταση.
Στόχος του είναι να προσεγγίσει και να βοηθήσει ανθρώπους και ομάδες που έχουν χάσει τη δυνατότητα να ικανοποιήσουν οι ίδιοι τις βασικές τους ανάγκες (στέγαση, σίτιση, υγειονομική φροντίδα κλπ.), με αποτέλεσμα πολλές φορές να αδυνατούν ακόμα και να ζητήσουν βοήθεια, ευρισκόμενοι σε βαθιά απόγνωση. Τέτοιες ομάδες είναι οι άστεγοι, τα παιδιά του δρόμου, οι πρόσφυγες και οι μετανάστες χωρίς χαρτιά. Στην Ελλάδα της παρατεταμένης κρίσης, τα άτομα αυτά πληθαίνουν και η κοινωνική περιθωριοποίηση χτυπάει πλέον πολλαπλές ομάδες του παγκόσμιου πληθυσμού.
Η οργάνωση δρα μέσω κινητών ομάδων, που παρέχουν μια πρώτη φροντίδα, υγειονομική, ψυχολογική, στον τόπο όπου εντοπίζονται οι άνθρωποι που την έχουν ανάγκη. Πρώτος στόχος είναι η δημιουργία μιας ανθρώπινης επικοινωνίας, η οποία αξιοποιείται ώστε να οδηγήσει σταδιακά σε κοινωνική επανένταξη. Επιπλέον οργανώνει χώρους φιλοξενίας, όπου τα απομονωμένα άτομα μπορούν να βρουν φροντίδα, παρέα, να κοινωνικοποιηθούν και να διεκδικήσουν εκ νέου τα δικαιώματά τους. Στους χώρους φιλοξενίας παρέχεται συμβουλευτική υποστήριξη για θέματα ιατρικά, υγειονομικά, ψυχολογικά, νομικά και εκπαιδευτική υποστήριξη.
Το Κοινωνικό ΕΚΑΒ ιδρύθηκε το 2016 στην Ελλάδα από μια ομάδα ιατρών, υγειονομικών, νομικών, δημοσιογράφων, κοινωνικών και πολιτικών επιστημόνων, που είχαν ήδη πλούσια εμπειρία στην κοινωνική δράση και τις εθελοντικές ανθρωπιστικές αποστολές. Βασικό κίνητρο για την ίδρυσή του, υπήρξε η ανάγκη συμβολής στην αντιμετώπιση των κοινωνικών συνεπειών της κρίσης, που μαστίζει παρατεταμένα την χώρα μας, σπρώχνοντας στο περιθώριο της οργανωμένης κοινωνίας όλο και περισσότερους συμπολίτες μας, καθώς και η συμβολή στην περίθαλψη των πιο ευάλωτων ομάδων προσφύγων, όπως είναι τα παιδιά, τα άτομα με αναπηρία και οι απομονωμένες γυναίκες.
Το Κοινωνικό ΕΚΑΒ είναι οργάνωση δράσης, ανεξάρτητη από κάθε πολιτικό, θρησκευτικό, κυβερνητικό ή άλλο φορέα, και με ισχυρή αναφορά στην Οικουμενική Διακήρυξη για τα Ανθρώπινα Δικαιώματα, καθώς και στις αξίες της Ελευθερίας, της Ισότητας και της Αλληλεγγύης, όπως διατυπώνονται στον Χάρτη Αρχών της Οργάνωσης. Περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες στην επίσημη ιστοσελίδα της οργάνωσης - www.kinonikoekav.gr
NIKOS HASSIOTIS (συζήτηση) 09:06, 15 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-38
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- References lists that are made using the
<references/>tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width. - Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right. Learn more.
- Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
- for the
intitle:keyword: metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors - for both
intitle:andinsource:keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g.\uHHHH).
- for the
- When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
- View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor.
Updates for technical contributors
- The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to join an upcoming discovery interview, or leave feedback onwiki. Learn more.
- Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more.
- The new Unicode 17.0 version has been released. The datasets on Commons for the Module:Unicode data have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
- Users of the Wikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
- A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information from Wikimedia Enterprise has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 17
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Wikimania 2026: The scholarship application for Wikimania 2026 is open. Apply now by October 31.
- Wikipedia 25: Help us find inspiring stories to share during birthday celebrations by September 23.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: "Readers and Readership Research" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on September 24 at 16:30 UTC.
- Update to banner and logo policies: Feedback is requested on proposed policy and documentation updates regarding the use of banners and logos for advocacy purposes.
- GLAM Wiki 2025: The registration for GLAM Wiki Conference is open until September 30.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Better bot detection: How we are improving bot detection and replacing our CAPTCHA.
- Temporary Accounts: Temporary accounts are now deployed to almost all wikis except the last 11.
- User Info: This new feature displays data related to a user account when you tap or click on the "user avatar" icon button next to a username. It's meant to be useful for different users with extended rights as well as newcomers.
- Newsletter highlights: The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. It includes considerations about Wikipedia's declining pageviews in the recent years, how the Foundation and communities may work on addressing this together, and the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience.
- Activity Tab Experiment: The Foundation launched an experiment testing a new Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app to our beta testers. Instead of only showing editing activity, this tab also surfaces insights about reading and donation behavior.
- Search Suggestions: To make it easier for users to find articles, logged-out users on both desktop and mobile will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. All non-English wikis received this update in June and July.
- Paste Check: The Foundation is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted to ensure it is aligned with the Movement's values. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis.
- CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the information page.
- Structured Task: The Add a Link Structured Task has been fully released at English Wikipedia. This release is an important step in making editing more accessible for new contributors, especially on mobile.
- Tech News: Read more updates from Tech News week 36 and 37.
- Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is now available on 65 Wiktionaries and has a new capability to copy function calls from one Wikipedia to another.
- Multilingual Contributors: The Language and Product Localisation team is launching a CentralNotice campaign to attract multilingual contributors to specific Wikipedias. The campaign will feature regionally targeted banners to reach potential native speakers.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Global Resources: Introducing the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC).
- Funding the Movement: Key Takeaways, Trends, and Lessons from FY 2024-2025 Community Fund Grants.
- Open Indonesia: Reflections on Open Indonesia, an event in Bandung gathering communities dedicated to advancing open knowledge to build the country's Open Knowledge Roadmap.
- WikiWomen*: Reflections from the WikiWomen* Summit 2025.
- Gender & AI: Is Gendering AI Possible? Reflections from the 2025 Gendering AI Conference.
- Wikipedia 25: What one centenarian can teach us about 25 years of Wikipedia.
- Knowledge Equity Fund: Wikimedia Ghana User Group receives Knowledge Equity Fund Connected Grant.
- Wikimania 2025: ESEAP First Timers at Wikimania Nairobi.
- César do Paço Lawsuit: Update about a lawsuit in Portugal and the Foundation's appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
- UK Online Safety Act: The Wikimedia Foundation will not appeal the UK High Court’s decision to dismiss our challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- August board meeting: Updates on board appointments and selection, CEO search, work to strengthen Wikipedia's approach to neutral point of view and updates on three pilots around more shared decision-making and shared accountability across the movement.
- New Endowment board members: Welcoming New Wikimedia Endowment Board Members, Kevin Bonebrake and Ike Kier.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Books & Bytes – Issue 70
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Issue 70, July–August 2025
- New collections:
- Times of Malta
- Africa Intelligence
- Intelligence Online
- La Lettre
- Glitz
- Spotlight: Wikimania
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Ερώτηση από Artemis1967 (08:48, 22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]ΚΑΛΗΜΕΡΑ, ΘΑ ΗΘΕΛΑ ΝΑ ΜΑΘΩ ΕΑΝ ΟΙ ΚΑΤΑΧΩΡΗΣΕΙΣ ΠΟΥ ΕΧΩ ΚΑΝΕΙ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΠΡΟΣΤΕΘΕΙ ΤΟ ΟΝΟΜΑ ΤΟΥ SOUND MIXER ΕΙΝΑΙ ΣΩΣΤΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΕΑΝ ΝΑΙ ΠΟΤΕ ΘΑ ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΘΟΥΝ --Artemis1967 (συζήτηση) 08:48, 22 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-39
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog.
Updates for editors
- Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
- A new parser function has been added:
{{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as MediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. - Adding or editing a
DISPLAYTITLEfor an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the{{DISPLAYTITLE}}would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket. - Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).
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Ερώτηση από EvriBi (10:41, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας, επειδή είμαι νέα χρήστης και δεν γνωρίζω θα ήθελα την καθοδήγηση σας. Ενώ έχω ήδη ετοιμάσει ένα λήμμα στο πρόχειρο προσπαθώ να το δημοσιεύσω και μου βγάζει σφάλμα άδειας. Πως μπορώ να το αντιμετωπίσω αυτό; Σας ευχαριστώ θερμά --EvriBi (συζήτηση) 10:41, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από XruRous (13:09, 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]ΚΑΛΗΣΠΕΡΑ ΣΑΣ. ΠΡΟΣΠΑΘΩ ΕΝΑ ΠΡΟΧΕΙΡΟ ΠΡΟΣΧΕΔΙΟ ΝΑ ΤΟ ΑΝΕΒΑΣΩ ΣΕ ΛΗΜΜΑ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΝ ΜΕ ΑΦΗΝΕΙ ΛΟΓΩ ΟΤΙ ΔΕΝ ΕΧΩ ΑΔΕΙΑ ΜΕΤΑΦΟΡΑΣ ΛΗΜΜΑΤΟΣ --XruRous (συζήτηση) 13:09, 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- Καλησπέρα δε ξερω γιατι δε σας αφήνει αλλα αμα θελετε εγώ αυτό που κάνω είναι ψαχνω τον τιτλο της σελιδας που θελω να φτιαξω και μετα εκει που λεει «Για να δημιουργησετε το (τιτλο λημματος που ψαξατε με κοκκινο γραμματα)» πατηστε τα κοκκινα γραμματα και μετα παρτε τον κωδικα απτον προχειρο και αντεγραψτε τον εκει Xristis963 (συζήτηση) 15:50, 28 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Vasileios Douros (16:10, 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πώς δημιουργούμε νέο λήμμα; --Vasileios Douros (συζήτηση) 16:10, 29 Σεπτεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-40
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more.
Updates for editors
- The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
- As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
- The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
- Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
- On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Ειδικό:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship.
- The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
- The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Ειδικό:Συνεισφορές and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with
sp-contributions-blocked-noticewill be removed and replaced with those prefixed withblocked-notice-logextractin a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed. - There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as
[ ] |after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (
q:ms:) - View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.
Updates for technical contributors
- Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the
mw.title.newBatchfunction to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once. - A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 18
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- CEE Meeting: Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, September 26-28.
- Learning Clinic: The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will talk about "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool" and will take place on September 30 at 13:00 UTC.
- Big Fat Brussels Meeting: The tenth in-person gathering of Wikimedians enthusiastic in free knowledge advocacy, Big Fat Brussels Meeting, will take place on October 3-4.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 38 and 39.
- Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is now available on 123 Wiktionary languages and have more than 3,000 functions available.
- Collaborative Contributions: A new feature, called Collaborative Contributions, allows editors to see the impact of their collaborative editing activities. It was live demoed earlier and you can follow instructions to test it out.
- CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension was deployed to Wikimedia Commons and all Wikisources -80+ wikis.
- Event registration: Starting the week of October 6, on small and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis unless requested in Phabricator. More information on Meta.
- Search Suggestions: Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users now see suggestions of articles for further reading on all Wikipedias, in order to make it easier for users to find articles.
- Datacenter server switchover: A successful datacenter server switchover backup test took place on September 24.
- Activity Tab now on Android: Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Banners & Logos policies: The Wikimedia Foundation has published draft proposals for policies related to the use of banners and logo changes for advocacy purposes.
- Wikipedia 25: Wikimedia Foundation is creating playful, celebratory interventions on the Wikipedia portal page, the Wikipedia app, and potentially any interested Wikipedias to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday. Please share your inputs and add your username on the Talk page if you think your community would be interested in participating.
- Regional Funds: Welcoming new ESEAP Regional Funds Committee Members.
- Peer Learning: Reflections from Let’s Connect at Wikimania Nairobi 2025.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Wikimedia Georgia: Wikimedia Georgia becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter.
Foundation statements
- Knowledge integrity: The Wikimedia Foundation launches a new series that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.
Highlights from other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
- National award: Wikipedian and current chair of Wikimedia Deutschland, Alice Wiegand, receives the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her voluntary commitment to Wikipedia and the global Wikimedia movement.
- Supporting admins and patrollers: Motivating, training and networking – Wikimedia Ukraine’s plan to support Wikipedia admins and patrollers.
- Wikimania roundup: A roundup of Wikimania and this year's Wikimedians of the year by the French-speaking community's newsletter, Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia (Views on Wikimedia movement's events, or RAW).
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This Month in Education: September 2025
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 9 • September 2025
- Brazil organizes seminar to discuss open science and scientific dissemination
- CBSUA Recognizes Wiki Training Completers, Awards Feminism & Folklore 2025 Winners
- 2nd International Conference on Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures Mexico 2025
- Accredited seminar for teachers in Veliko Gradište
- Breaking Barriers, Why open Knowledge matters
- Cross-Continental Knowledge Exchange: Offa Youth Impact Initiative and St Aloysius University in 3D Education Outreach
- Igbo Language Audio Project in the Igbo Wiki Fan Club IMSU & Alvan
- Let's Read Wikipedia reached teachers of the Weenhayek indigenous nation in Bolivia
- Monograph on Wikipedia in the classroom, Docere Magazine
- The Third Training Course of the “Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom” Program in Jordan
- The Ukrainian Educators’ Wikimedia Conference 2025
- Wikimedia MKD's edit-a-thon: Lakes
- Free culture in the classroom
- Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki clubs
Ερώτηση από Garif.rrapaj (13:28, 6 Οκτωβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γειά πες μ πως μπορώ να βελτιώσω το κείμενο μ για την Ανδρίτσαινα! --Garif.rrapaj (συζήτηση) 13:28, 6 Οκτωβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- @Garif.rrapaj Μη διστάζεις, μπορείς άμεσα να επεξεργαστείς το λήμμα Ανδρίτσαινα Ηλείας πατώντας «Επεξεργασία» στην κορυφή της σελίδας. Ίσως να έριχνες και μια ματία στο Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 14:46, 6 Οκτωβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-41
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
- Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like
en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (likeen.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. - New date filters,
creationdate:andlasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g.>2024) and relative dates (e.g.today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. - Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team.
- An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.
- View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
- The field
rev_sha1in the revision database table is being removed in favor ofcontent_sha1in the content database table. See the announcement for more information. - The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement.
- Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the
rest.phppath will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Ερώτηση από Seabirds1237 στην Θαλασσοπούλια Σκιάθου (21:33, 9 Οκτωβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γτ δεν ανεβαίνει --Seabirds1237 (συζήτηση) 21:33, 9 Οκτωβρίου 2025 (UTC)
A WikiNobel barnstar for you!
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]
Thank you very much, and I hope you will join us next year too!
Jon Harald Søby (WMNO) (συζήτηση) 11:54, 10 Οκτωβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-42
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
- Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.
- This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change.
- Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection: Announcement of the final ballot for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election and more answers about the decision. Eligible voters can vote between October 8 – October 23.
- Wikipedia 25: Are you planning to organize events to celebrate Wikipedia's 25th birthday? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone. Applications are open until November 1.
- WikiConference North America 2025: WikiConference North America will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Mobile Editing: Insights on mobile web editing on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.
- Dark Mode: Dark Mode user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.
- Community wishlist extension: The new Community Wishlist extension has been released. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.
- Paste Check: 22 Wikis are now testing a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.
- Tone Check: The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.
- Search Suggestions: Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.
- Unsupported Tools Working Group: A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.
- Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 40 and 41 including about Sub-referencing – a new feature to re-use references with different details.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Wikimania: Wikimania Nairobi has been featured in more than 100 stories across community platforms and international media outlets.
- Wikifunctions: Rich text is now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls across the 150 wikis where it’s enabled.
- WikiLearn: New Wikipedia online courses you can join to strengthen your Wikimedia editing skills.
- Human Rights: Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes a Human Rights Impact Assessment on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects.
- Don't blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Digital Safety & Privacy: Frequently Asked Questions about Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Work.
- Transparency Report: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Latest Transparency Report.
- Privacy Policy: The Wikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy is getting a minor update in preparation for Temporary Accounts.
- Learning Clinic: Join the next Let's Connect Learning Clinic on the topic of "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool (Part 2)" taking place on October 20 at 17:00 UTC.
Foundation statements
- Knowledge integrity: Lessons from Wikipedia on the 3 building blocks of trustworthy information. This is part of the new series from the Wikimedia Foundation that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Bill Spiliotopoulos (15:10, 14 Οκτωβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Αίτηση για νέο λήμμα: "Βασίλης Ξ. Σπηλιωτόπουλος"
Καλησπέρα σας,
Καθώς υπάρχει σύγκρουση συμφερόντων, δεν μπορώ να δημιουργήσω το λήμμα ο ίδιος, αλλά παρακαλώ θερμά έναν ανεξάρτητο χρήστη να εξετάσει την καταχώρηση. Το βιογραφικό κείμενο με όλες τις απαραίτητες παραπομπές έχει ετοιμαστεί σε wiki markup και βρίσκεται εδώ:
📄 https://pastebin.com/raw/YOUR_LINK_HERE
Ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων για τον χρόνο και την εξέταση. --Bill Spiliotopoulos (συζήτηση) 15:10, 14 Οκτωβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- @Bill Spiliotopoulos Καλημέρα, πολύ καλά κάνετε και αποφεύγετε τη σύγκρουση συμφερόντων. Το link δεν είναι σωστό. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 08:05, 15 Οκτωβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-43
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply.
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the
rest.phproute through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. - Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Growth News #35
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A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.
New releases
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]We released the "Add a Link" Structured Task to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).
Growth features for Wikidata
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata to allow for testing and discussion (T400937). Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.
Work in progress
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Revise Tone Structured Task
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing. We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.
Add a link to more wikis
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.
Add a link, which can be configured by the community locally, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.
Research
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:
Progression System – We have published initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers. The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.
Mobile Web Editing Research – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.
Newcomers Survey – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.
Community events
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.
Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement
This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.
Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks
This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.
Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.
CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors
Many communities face a decline in volunteer engagement. Newcomers often leave soon after joining, while experienced editors struggle to manage increasingly complex workflows and overwhelming backlogs. We presented the Contributors Strategy and the different features and workflows that can help communities to address these challenges. We listened to the specific needs of the CEE communities to help guide the Contributors teams' work.
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10:23, 22 Οκτωβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-44
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
- Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
- The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Ειδικό:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page.
- Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
- A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
- Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 20
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection: Additional perspectives on current and future board selection processes.
- Global trends: We are seeing 8% declines in human page views on Wikipedia as some users don't directly visit Wikipedia to get information. Learn about this new user trend, how the Wikimedia Foundation anticipate these changes, and how you can help.
- WECUDI 2025: The second conference of Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures will be held from October 29–31 in Mexico City, Mexico.
- GLAM Conference: Wiki GLAM Culture and Heritage Conference (WGCHC) will take place on 30 October – 1 November in Lisbon, Portugal.
- WikidataCon 2025: WikidataCon 2025 will take place online from October 31 – November 2.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Making it easier to say thanks: Users on most wikis will now have the ability to thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.
- Account security: Improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity.
- Abstract Wikipedia: The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. Voting is now open until November 3.
- Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 42 and 43 including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Wikimedia apps: The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to the Tabbed browsing feature into Beta for select regions & languages. Called “More dynamic tabs”, the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.
- CampaignEvents extension: Campaignevents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.
- Event registration tool: Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Digital safety: Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course, Safety for Young Wikimedians.
- Wikimedia Core Curriculum: The Wikimedia Foundation has developed seven online video learning modules covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.
- Advocacy: The Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto a statement that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as the Global Digital Compact campaign and WSIS+20 deliberations.
- GLAM: The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto the Open Heritage Statement, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.
Foundation statements
- How Wikipedia works: Wikimedia Foundation responds to questions about how Wikipedia works.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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This Month in Education: October 2025
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 10 • October 2025
- "WikiDonne Internship: Wikimedia Platforms for Open Education and Inclusive Culture!" winner at the Open Education Awards 2025
- A Proud Chapter in My Wikimedia Journey 🇳🇬: From Editor to Organizer
- Debating open science and scientific dissemination in Brazil
- Enhancing Academic Articles on Wikipedia with the State University of Jakarta
- India’s Students and Educators Lead the Way in the Wiki Science Competition 2025
- JDACA & Amman Arab University
- New starting page for Wikipedia users had been launched in September
- Teaching Evidence Synthesis Automation with the Wikipedia–Kaggle Dataset
- Wikimedia MKD’s Education Program activities for October
- Wikimedia Serbia prepares eight annual Edu Wiki camp
- Wikivoyage editathon in Peshkopia, Albania
Ερώτηση από Kostastech (20:21, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεια σας, πώς μπορώ να αλλάξω μια φωτογραφία σε μια ιστοσελίδα της wikipedia? --Kostastech (συζήτηση) 20:21, 2 Νοεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-45
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 will now find that Ειδικό:ΣυγχώνευσηΙστορικού 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).
- For users with "Αυτόματη εγγραφή σε θέματα" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Προσθήκη θέματος" or "Απάντηση" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time.
- Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files.
- Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.
- Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish!
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query.
Updates for technical contributors
- Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means
/s/URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTMLclass="title-shortlink". The/s/URLs will keep working. - On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
- MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.
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Tech News: 2025-46
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
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- Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Εμφάνιση δραστηριότητας συζήτησης".
- MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request.
- Using the "Προεπισκόπηση" or "Εμφάνιση αλλαγών" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content.
- Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed.
- The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
- The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
- The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to
https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. - The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from
<user id>tomw:<identity type>:<user id>, where<identity type>is typicallyCentralAuth:(for SUL wikis) orlocal:<wiki id>(for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and thesessionJwtcookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. - MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page
$9or emailing other users$10. - A
REL1_45branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. - The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 21
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
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- Wikimania 2027: Santiago, Chile is announced as the location for Wikimania 2027. The annual conference returns to Latin America after more than 10 years, following previous editions in Buenos Aires (2009) and Mexico City (2015).
- Wikidata recognized as a Digital Public Good: Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 44 and 45 including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
- Activity Tab: The Wikipedia Android app expands the new Activity tab to all users. It offers a complete view of your Wikipedia activity: reading time, saved articles, edits, and donation history (for known donors). This change aims to make Wikipedia a more engaging experience for readers and contributors alike, while keeping all personal data private and stored locally on your device.
- Tabbed browsing: Tabbed browsing is now available on the Wikipedia App for iOS. Tabs will let you keep more than one article open at a time, making it easier to explore complex topics, follow links without losing your place, and pick up where you left off.
- CampaignEvents extension: Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
- Image browsing: The Wikimedia Foundation launched image browsing, an experiment that puts images on top of your Wikipedia article reading journey, on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- Temporary accounts: Temporary Accounts are now enabled on 1,000+ projects including English Wikipedia.
- Abstract Wikipedia naming contest: The first round of “abstract content wiki” naming vote has ended and the first legal review had begun to determine the 6 names that will make it to the second round on November 17.
- Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is now deployed across 12 Wiktionaries and 4 Wikipedias.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Privacy in Wikipedia research: The Wikimedia Foundation published Privacy in Public: Navigating Research, Personal Data, and Safety on Wikipedia, a whitepaper which guides researchers in navigating privacy of Wikipedia editors in their research. Read the highlights and key takeaways for researchers and Wikipedians.
- Digital Safety: The Wikimedia Foundation is launching Digital Safety Office Hours to explore how to stay safe digitally, what does digital safety mean, what extra precautions can Wikimedians take. The first session will take place on November 28 at 9 AM and 7 PM UTC. Check out also our Digital Safety Resources Center to learn practical tips and tools you can use immediately.
- Volunteer roles for movement governance: The Movement governance committees are seeking new volunteers to support essential and high-impact work across the Wikimedia ecosystem. The current appointment cycle is open for the AffCom, Ombuds Commission, and Case Review Committee. Applications for these committees will remain open until December 11. The team will host a community conversation on November 26, at 3 AM UTC.
- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Wikimedia Core Curriculum: Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? – A new free self-paced course, all in video with subtitles, is available from the Wikimedia Foundation!
Foundation statements
- Transparency builds trust: The latest edition from the series "Lessons from Wikipedia" explores how deep transparency has helped make Wikipedia one of the most trusted sources on the internet.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Calami.lapsius (14:48, 16 Νοεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεια! Θέλοντας να ξεκαθαρίσω την δημόσια ταυτότητά μου στην AI κατάλαβα ότι ένας σίγουρος τρόπος είναι να φτιάξω λήμμα στη Wikipedia με το όνομά μου και δώσω κάποια πραγματικά βιογραφικά μου στοιχεία.Το chatGPT μου έχει φτιάξει ένα προσχέδιο για ανεβάσω στο "Πρόχειρο" της Wikipedia.Από πού αρχίζουμε; --Calami.lapsius (συζήτηση) 14:48, 16 Νοεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-47
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 Reader Experience team is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
- Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
- One new wiki has been created: a Βικιθήκη in Minangkabau (
s:min:) - View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
- Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 71
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Issue 71, September–October 2025
- Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref 2025 in Nigeria
- Frankfurt Book Fair
- Tech tip: Wikipedia Library access template
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team – 15:22, 18 Νοεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
(This message was sent to Χρήστης:Geraki and is being posted here due to a redirect.)
Invitation for a session "Tools and features for Users with Extended Rights"
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Hi, you are receiving this invitation as you are either patroller and/or admin in your community and CEE Hub is preparing a session called Tools and features for Users with Extended Rights, which we think that it will be interesting for you.
The session is organised by the CEE Hub along with Wikimedia Foundation’s Movement Communications regional specialist Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska. Speakers in the session are Product Managers and Software Engineers from Wikimedia Foundation, so you will hear recent updates, new developments, and they will answer questions. So, please think what you want to ask them and come to the session.
The session will be held on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 17:00 CET. Please register yourself here.
If you have any questions, please contact me. --MediaWiki message delivery (συζήτηση) 13:44, 19 Νοεμβρίου 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the CEE Hub)
Ερώτηση από Stsiougkos (13:54, 19 Νοεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα κι ευχαριστώ για το ενδιαφέρον σας να με βοηθήσετε. Θα ήθελα να μάθω να βελτιώνω τις σελίδες μου. Αν μπορούσατε να με βοηθήσετε για το πως να βάζω τα κοινωνικά δίκτυα στα λήμματα μου. Όπως επίσης, πως είναι ο σωστός τρόπος αποτύπωσης των παραπομπών --Stsiougkos (συζήτηση) 13:54, 19 Νοεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Alexandros17061972 (21:48, 20 Νοεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα
Προσπαθώ να αλλάξω το όνομα χρήστη καθώς σε αναζήτησή με το ονοματεπώνυμου δεν θα είναι εύκολη η εύρεση .
Αλλά στο όνομα χρήστη όταν βάζω το όνομα μου , μου βγάζει πως ο χρήστης δεν υπάρχει
Τι πρέπει να κάνω ; -- (συζήτηση) 21:48, 20 Νοεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- Καλημέρα. Για να αλλάξεις όνομα χρήστη θα πρέπει να κάνεις αίτημα σε αυτή τη φόρμα: Ειδικό:GlobalRenameRequest — Geraki (συζήτηση) 08:40, 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-48
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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.
- Later this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Ενεργοποιήστε τα εργαλεία επεξεργασίας στη λειτουργία πηγής" preference be set.
- Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
- View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.
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.
- 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). - The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 22
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]
Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Board election: The 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees vote has elected two new trustees, Bobby Shabangu (Bobbyshabangu) and Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), who will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2025.
- Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia is turning 25 and it’s time to party! Register now for Wikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday bash on 15 January at 16:00 UTC.
- Wikimedia Hackathon: The 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon will be taking place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy. Scholarship applications are open until November 28.
- Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held on November 28 at 16:00 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 46 and 47: Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau.
- Wikifunctions: The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off with six name proposals to vote for.
- Reference check: The A/B test for reference check has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.
- Image browsing: Wikimedia Foundation is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.
- CampaignEvents extension: Campaign events extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features include Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List, plus a new feature, Collaborative contribution, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
- Dark Mode: Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. Learn how to activate this feature.
- Wikimedia Apps: The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
- Usability Improvements: Improvements for talk pages is being rolled out. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in “Show discussion activity.”
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Wikipedia 25 Press toolkit: Wikimedia Foundation is providing press toolkit as guidance and resources to Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates to spread the word about Wikipedia’s 25th birthday to local and regional media.
- Language and Internationalization: Read some key highlights from the October 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
- Information integrity: Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund.
- The Wikipedia Library: The Wikipedia Library team attended the CEE Meeting 2025 celebrated a new partnership with Times of Malta.
- Understanding movement organizers: Wikimedia Foundation concluded a literature review on organizers in the Wikimedia movement focused on capturing their personas, motivations, and impact in order to highlight best practices and opportunities for further support.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Reef Media uses Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API to Fact Check and Verify Sources.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Affiliations Committee: Draft recommendations on three strategic areas that need continuous consideration to best support Wikimedia affiliates.
Foundation statements
- Lessons from Wikipedia: The latest edition from the series explores the art of disagreement and how Wikipedia navigates disputes.
- Artificial Intelligence: In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable. This explainer shows how human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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This Month in Education: November 2025
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 11 • November 2025
- Auckland Museum's Wiki Summer Student Programme is back for 2025 & 2026
- Edu Wiki camp 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia
- Wikidata na Escola: estudantes da zona rural de Minas Gerais contribuem com dados sobre mulheres negras brasileiras
- 190 students from Oteitza Lizeoa create 48 articles on the history of the Basque Country for Txikipedia in one day
- 2nd International Congress Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures – WECUDI
- Africa and Proud Leads Wiki Classroom Project Across Three Nigerian States
- November 2025November 2025/Annual Czech Wiki Conference took place on Saturday, Nov 8th
- EduWiki Meetup at GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
- Highly productive autumn education activities in Macedonia
- Kannada Wikipedia Asian Month 2025: Edit-a-thon & Workshop Highlights from Loyola College, Karnataka
- Kosovo Wikivoyage Editathons in Gjakova and Krusha e Madhe
- Ukrainian educators create open lesson plans based on the «Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom» course
- United Architects of the Philippines Student Auxiliary – University of Nueva Caceres joins Wikisource Training
- Videos on Teaching Experiences with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and OSM
- Wiki as a tool for technological empowerment of indigenous knowledge
- Wiki Science Competition in Albania and Kosovo
- Wiki Workshop 2026 Call for Contributions
- Wikipedia Contribution with Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Students in Kosovo
- Impact of Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki Clubs in Growth of Wikimedia User Group Rwanda Community
Ερώτηση από MondusViventi (20:24, 30 Νοεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεια. Πώς μπορώ να προσθέσω λήμμα;;; --MondusViventi (συζήτηση) 20:24, 30 Νοεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- Γεια σου και καλώς ήρθες! Πριν επιχειρήσεις να δημιουργήσεις λήμμα σου προτείνω να δεις την Ειδικό:Αρχική σελίδα κάνοντας και κάποιες επεξεργασίες σε άλλα λήμματα. Δες επίσης την Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή και όταν έχεις μια μεγαλύτερη ευχέρεια τότε ακολοθύθησε τον Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός δημιουργίας λήμματος. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 08:38, 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Λανθασμένη προτεινόμενη συλλογή σελίδων για το εργαλείο μετάφρασης περιεχομένου (Content Translation)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας,
πρόσφατα προστέθηκε μία καινούργια δυνατότητα στο εργαλείο μετάφρασης περιεχομένου (Content Translation), η οποία επιτρέπει στις κοινότητες να επιλέγουν μία συλλογή σελίδων και να την προσθέτουν ως προτεινόμενη στην αρχική σελίδα του εργαλείου. Η επιλογή αυτή μπορεί να βρεθεί στη σελίδα MediaWiki:ContentTranslation.json, και αυτή τη στιγμή η επιλογή αυτή είναι η "Βικιπαίδεια:Προβεβλημένα λήμματα".
Σας στέλνω λοιπόν αυτό το μήνυμα επειδή όπως είδα, εσείς κάνατε την αρχική τροποποίηση της σελίδας. Το πρόβλημα με την επιλεγμένη συλλογή είναι ότι δεν είναι έγκυρη. Οι έγκυρες επιλογές για τέτοιου είδους συλλογές σελίδων μπορούν να βρεθούν σε αυτή τη λίστα: https://api.wikimedia.org/service/lw/recommendation/api/v1/translation/page-collections. Μπορείτε να διαπιστώσετε εύκολα ότι η τρέχουσα επιλογή δεν είναι έγκυρη, καθώς όταν κάνετε κλικ πάνω της στην αρχική σελίδα του εργαλείου, δεν εμφανίζεται καμία πρόταση για μετάφραση.
Θα ήθελα να σας ζητήσω, αν είναι δυνατόν να επιλεχθεί μία έγκυρη συλλογή σελίδων από τη λίστα που παραθέτω πιο πάνω. Σε περίπτωση που καμία από τις παραπάνω συλλογές δεν κρίνεται κατάλληλη, θα χαρώ να βοηθήσω ωστέ να δημιουργήσουμε μία τέτοια συλλογή. Τέλος, αν ούτε αυτή η επιλογή κριθεί δόκιμη, θα ήταν προτιμότερο να αφήσουμε κενό το πεδίο της προτεινόμενης συλλογής.
Ευχαριστώ πολύ! Παραμένω στη διάθεση σας για οποιοδήποτε επόμενο βήμα θεωρήσετε κατάλληλο! Iiirxs (συζήτηση) 15:00, 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- Παραιτούμαι. Είναι πολύπλοκες και χρονοβόρες οι διαδικασίες για μένα. Κρίμα γιατί είχα ετοιμάσει αρκετά λήμματα... ~2025-37399-54 (συζήτηση) 21:50, 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- @Geraki μπορείτε σας παρακαλώ να επιβεβαιώσετε αν η παραπάνω απάντηση προέρχεται από εσάς; Γιατί έρχεται από ένα μη συνδεμένο λογαριασμό. Ευχαριστώ! Iiirxs (συζήτηση) 14:35, 2 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- @Iiirxs Όχι, δεν είναι δικό, μου δεν καταλαβαίνω καν τι είναι. Με τις λίστες θα ασχοληθώ αργότερα. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 12:31, 3 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- Ευχαριστώ! Παραμένω στη διάθεση σας, για οποιαδήποτε σχετική βοήθεια, όταν ασχοληθείτε με τις λίστες. Iiirxs (συζήτηση) 15:29, 3 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
- @Iiirxs Όχι, δεν είναι δικό, μου δεν καταλαβαίνω καν τι είναι. Με τις λίστες θα ασχοληθώ αργότερα. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 12:31, 3 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-49
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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).
- 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.
- Two new wikis have been created:
- a Βικιπαίδεια in Toki Pona (
w:tok:) - a Βικιφθέγματα in Nigerian Pidgin (
q:pcm:)
- a Βικιπαίδεια in Toki Pona (
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.
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Θαλής Απόστολος Τριανταφύλλου
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεννήθηκε στις 8/6/1962 στην Λεμεσό Κύπρου.
Είναι συνθέτης, πιανίστας, ενορχηστρωτής.
Κατάγεται από την Ρόδο και την Λάρισα.
Στην ηλικία των 5 χρόνων ξεκίνησε τις σπουδές του στο πιάνο
με καθηγητή τον μουσουργό πατέρα του Νικόλαο Τριαντάφυλλου
Σπούδασε αρμονία, αντίστιξη, φούγκα, ενοργάνωση, ενορχήστρωση. Σε ηλικία 17 χρονών πήρε
τριετή υποτροφία στην Ecole Normale Cziffra στο Παρίσι. Σπούδασε κλασική κιθάρα στο Εθνικό
ωδείο με καθηγητή τον Γιάννη Ανδρεόπουλο.
Συνεργάστηκε σε συναυλίες με τους:
Γιάννη Πουλόπουλο, Ρένα Κουμιώτη, Γιάννη Πλούταρχο, Γιάννη Ζουγανέλη,
Λάκη Παπαδόπουλο, Λευτέρη Πανταζή, Στράτο Διονυσίου, Λίτσα Διαμάντη,
Ρίτα Σακελλαρίου, Παντελή Θαλασσινό, Κώστα Μακεδόνα, Κατερίνα Κούκα,
Ζιγκ Ζαγκ, Δημήτρη Κόκκοτα, Τζώρτζια κ.α.
Εμφανίσεις εντός και εκτός Ελλάδας
1988 στο Royal Albert Hall με τον Γιάννη Πουλόπουλο.
1992 στο Carnegie Hall στη Νέα Υόρκη σε συναυλία για την Χαμένη Ατλαντίδα.
1993 στην Αλεξάνδρεια Αιγύπτου στα αποκαλυπτήρια του αγάλματος του μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου με
την συμφωνική του Καΐρου.
2004 στην Ελλάδα με τον Franco Simone και την ορχήστρα της Ιvrea σε έργα του Νίκου
Παπακώστα υπό την διεύθυνση του Antonello Gota.
Μουσική σε ταινίες
2010 Μέρος μουσικής στην ταινία “Επικίνδυνες μαγειρικές” παραγωγής Faliro productions.
Δισκογραφία
2008 cd με τίτλο “Αφιέρωμα” με ορχηστρική μουσική, έκδόση Αυλός.
2009 Σύνθεση 5 κομματιών στο cd “Τα ποτά της Παολίνας”, έκδοση Σείστρον.
2012 Σύνθεση και ενορχήστρωση 7 κομματιών στο πολυσυμμετοχικό cd “Οι στίχοι μου και οι φίλοι
μου”, έκδοση εφημερίδας Ελεύθερος τύπος.
2015 Προσωπικό πολυσυμμετοχικό cd με τίτλο “Δεν έχει μα” με 13 συνθέσεις, έκδοση εφημερίδας
Παρασκήνιο.
Ενορχηστρώσεις
2004 Συνεργασία σαν ενορχηστρωτής στο cd “O χρόνος είναι ενα παιδί που παίζει” σε μουσική
Γιάννη Ζουγανέλη.
2007 Ενορχήστρωση στο cd “Στα παιδιά ο λόγος” σε μουσική Γιάννη Ζουγανέλη, έκδοση Αυλός.
2010 Συμμετοχή στην ενορχήστρωση του cd "Στο δίκυκλο του έρωτα" σε μουσική Γιάννη
Ζουγανέλη, έκδοση Αυλός.
2012 Συμμετοχή στην ενορχήστρωση του cd "Η ζωή φωνάζει" σε μουσική Γιάννη Ζουγανέλη, έκδοση Αυλός.
2019 Συμμετοχή στην ενορχήστρωση του ένθετου cd "Αισώπου μύθοι" σε μουσική Γιάννη
Ζουγανέλη, εκδόσεις Λιβάνη.
2019 Ενορχήστρωση cd με τίτλο “Πάμε να ζήσουμε τ’όνειρο” σε μουσική Γιάννη
Ζουγανέλη, έκσδοση Αυλός.
2020 Συμμετοχή στην ενορχήστρωση του cd "Αρειμανίων βλάχικα" σε μουσική Γιάννη Ζουγανέλη, έκδοση Αυλός.
2023 Συμμετοχή στην ενορχήστρωση του πολυσυμμετοχικού cd "Μαύρος μαρκαδόρος" σε μουσική
Γιάννη Ζουγανέλη, έκδοση Αυλός.
2023 Συμμετοχή στην ενορχήστρωση του ορχηστρικού διπλού cd "Greek figures, Mytho poetry" σε
μουσική Γιάννη Ζουγανέλη, έκδοση για την Αμερική Ιn connections και για την Ελλάδα Αυλός.
Θέατρο
Θέατρο Χορν Αθήνα και Θεσσαλονίκη Ράδιο Σίτυ 2007-2009 "Το τρέντυ θα σφυρίξει τρεις φορές" σε σκηνοθεσία
Σταμάτη Φασουλή.
Πρωταγωνιστές Γ.Ζουγανέλης, Ε.Καστάνη, Μ.Τουμασάτου κ.α.
Θέατρο Αθηνά 2019-2020 “Happy birthday Ελλάς" σε σκηνοθεσία Γ.Ζουγανέλη.
Πρωταγωνιστές Γ.Ζουγανέλης, Ζωζώ Σαπουντζάκη, Άβα Γαλανοπούλου, Ερμόλαος Ματθαίου,
Ανδρέας Κωνσταντινίδης, Σοφία Κουρτίδου, Γιώργος Χατζής, Τάνια Ρόκκα και ο Βασίλης Γιακουμάρος.
Θέατρο Πειραιώς 131 2022-2023 “Ο μπακαλόγατος” σε σκηνοθεσία Γιώργου Βάλαρη.
Πρωταγωνιστές Γ.Ζουγανέλης, Γ.Αρμένης, Ε.Φαναριώτη, Π.Ξεκούκης, Σ.Τζελέπης,
Α.Ράφτης, Α.Κοκόση, Κ.Τσάβαλου.
Επικοινωνία email:thalisapo@gmail.com ~2025-37399-54 (συζήτηση) 21:47, 1 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-50
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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.
- 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.
- 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.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" 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.
- 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.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- CEO appointment: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will be meeting communities around the puzzle globe when she officially joins on January 20, 2026.
- Wikipedia's 25th birthday party: Join the virtual celebration for games, prizes, musical performances, volunteer spotlights, data visualization, surprise guests and more. January 15 at 16:00 UTC. Register on Meta.
- Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Join the next Conversation with the Trustees on December 11 at 17:30 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Wishathon: 15 patches were written and 5 merged, as part of a Wishathon for the Community Wishlist. One wish from the community was completed ("Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template), and three more now have a clearer path forward.
- Activity Tab on Mobile App: The Wikipedia iOS app is running an experiment that replaces the History tab with a redesigned Activity tab. This new tab surfaces personalized insights about reading, editing, and donations — all stored locally on your device for privacy. The goal is to see whether the new experience increases engagement and retention among logged-in readers.
- Wikipedia Year in Review in Apps: The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 is now available for the iOS and Android apps. This year introduces new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs.
- Add a Link: A feature that suggests links to be added to articles based on a prediction model, Add a link, has been deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias. 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.
- Abstract Wikipedia: The second round of voting on the name of Abstract Wikipedia concluded with Abstract Wikipedia as the top-voted name with 100 votes, followed by Wikigenerator with 91 votes. The name for the wiki project will now remain Abstract Wikipedia.
- Anti-vandalism tool: Automoderator, now has the option to choose between two machine learning models to power the software on wikis using the tool.
- Tools to support newcomers: Newcomers failing to add a citation to support added content has been one of the most common mistakes on Wikipedia. Reference Check, a tool that prompts them to add a citation before publishing an edit, has gone live for an A/B test on English Wikipedia.
- Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 48 and week 49 include the Foundation working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful, and informative; and two new wikis being created: a Wikipedia in Toki Pona and a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin.
- Infrastructure: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events
- Legal win in France: Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France against legal attacks on freedom of speech.
- CEE Hub: Overview of three years of growth, learning, and regional impact of CEE Hub.
- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Digital Violence: How the Wikimedia movement is responding to digital gender based violence.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: The next research showcase will feature a special panel on "Experimentation on Wikipedia" and will take place on December 10 at 17:30 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Audit Report: Key takeaways from the Foundation’s audit report for fiscal year 2024-2025.
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise Financial Report for fiscal year 2024-2025.
- Annual Plan Progress: A look back at progress made against the plan during the second half of our fiscal year. Up to date regular updates are included in the Foundation Bulletin.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Sister Projects Task Force: Results of the consultation about Wikispore and Wikinews: No immediate changes should be made to Wikispore's current technical setup and archive all editions of Wikinews, preserving their content.
Foundation statements
- Wikipedia's unique revenue model: How is Wikipedia funded and how does the Wikimedia Foundation use donations to Wikipedia?
- Most read articles: Wikipedia’s most-read articles of 2025.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Jenny Xidia (16:47, 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας! Έχω αρκετό υλικό (και την άδειά της φυσικά) για την Λία Μελετοπούλου - χορογράφο που έφερε την εξέλιξη στον σύγχρονο χορό και το σωματικό θέατρο. Θα ήθελα να κάνω σωστά την αρχή ώστε να ανέβει το λήμμα της σωστά - έχω ήδη κάνει προεργασία --Jenny Xidia (συζήτηση) 16:47, 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-51
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit.
Updates for technical contributors
- To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Ειδικό:ΣυνδέσμουΑναζήτηση, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the
externallinkstable on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Ερώτηση από Παπαντωνίου Λεωνίδας (11:47, 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2025)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα. Στο λήμμα «Παπαντωνίου Σωτήρης» διορθώνοντας την ημερομηνία γέννησης στο δεξιά πλαίσιο βάζει σε παρένθεση την τρέχουσα ηλικία πρότι έχει δηλωθεί ημερομηνία θανάτου. Πώς μπορώ να το διορθώσω αυτό; --Παπαντωνίου Λεωνίδας (συζήτηση) 11:47, 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
This Month in Education: December 2025
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 12 • December 2025
- WikiLatih Wiktionary with the Goethe-Institut: Strengthening the Digital Presence of Indonesia’s Local Languages
- Wiki in schools - Architecture and Open Heritage
- What are the challenges and opportunities in scientific dissemination? Reflecting on the topic in the Brazilian context
- WikipediaxAI: Wikipedia, AI, and the future of knowledge
- Wikipedia at University Another year of working alongside higher education institutions in Argentina
- WAM - Tulu Edit-a-thon & Workshop in St Aloysius University
- Visibilizando memórias negras: estudantes da UFRGS ampliam a Wikipédia com foco na imprensa e no associativismo pós-abolição
- Transforming Education Through Wikimedia in Kosovo: 2025
- New WikiClubs and educational partnership in Albania
- New WikiClub with the Dibra Youth Center in Albania
- Landmark Educational Initiatives and Wikimedia Programs Transform Learning in 2025
- Knowledge in the Digital Age: A WMUK Collaborative Workshop
Ερωτηματολόγιο για διπλωματική εργασία με θέμα την κοινότητα της Βικιπαιδειας
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Ερωτηματολόγιο για διπλωματική εργασία με θέμα την κοινότητα της Βικιπαιδειας
Καλησπέρα σας! στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής μου εργασίας με θέμα τα ψηφιακά κοινά και την ομότιμη παράγωγη, επέλεξα ως υποκείμενο μελέτης την Βικιπαίδεια και την κοινότητα που την στηρίζει. 😊
Παρακάτω σας δίνω τον σύνδεσμο με ένα ερωτηματολόγιο το οποίο κρατάει λίγα λεπτά και το οποίο έχει θεωρώ αρκετές ερωτήσεις πάνω σε μια ευρεία γκάμα θεμάτων και ζητημάτων που αντιμετωπίζουμε όλοι οι βικιπαιδιστές. Θα ήθελα μέχρι την πρωτοχρονιά να έχω κλείσει το ερωτηματολόγιο ώστε να εντάξω τα πορίσματα στην εργασία μου. Φυσικά όταν με το κάλο ολοκληρωθεί η ανάλυση των δεδομένων από τα πορίσματα που θα αντληθούν από το ερωτηματολόγιο, θα το δημοσιεύσω και εδώ στην Αγορά. George Balatsos (συζήτηση) 14:03, 19 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Αγγλικό κείμενο
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα, στις αυτόματες συνόψεις επεξεργασίας όταν επιλέγω να κάνω αναίρεση (ειδικά στις πολλές επεξεργασίες μαζί) το σύστημα μου βγάζει αυτόματα αγγλική λεζάντα. Έχει γίνει κάποια αλλαγή κώδικα ή λάθος χειρισμός κάπου; 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ 14:07, 21 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-52
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material.
- The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
- View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected.
Updates for technical contributors
- Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute
data-mw="interface"to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced withdata-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with otherdata-mwattributes, which are generated by Parsoid. - There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.
Meetings and events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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Message on Wikimedia Commons
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα, έχεις μήνυμα στην σελίδα σου στο Wikimedia Commons. SV1XV (talk) 16:07, 28 Δεκεμβρίου 2025 (UTC)
Αξιολόγηση λήμματος «Μεταρρύθμιση»
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλημέρα ευχαριστω πολυ για τη βοήθεια σας στο λήμμα Μεταρρύθμιση (Χριστιανισμός), δημιούργησα μια σελιδα για τη κριτικη αυτου του λήμματος οπότε αν έχετε κατι να προσθεσετε θα το εκτιμούσα πολύ ευχαριστώ Xristis963 (συζήτηση) 07:35, 5 Ιανουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από ΗΛΙΑΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ (09:49, 7 Ιανουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]καλημέρα πολλά.... γιατί στην αναζήτηση εμφανίζετε με την λέξη χρήστης? ευχαριστώ --ΗΛΙΑΣ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΥ (συζήτηση) 09:49, 7 Ιανουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-03
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
Updates for editors
- As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple watchlists project, the display of EditWatchlist will be updated as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination on Search will be updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page navigation wish.
- The Global Watchlist is a MediaWiki extension that lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist, such as preparing it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit summaries and tags in new browser tabs.
- View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use in the week of January 13.
Updates for technical contributors
- The VisualEditor citation tool and Reference Previews now support "map" as a reference type.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki/MediaWiki
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Affiliations Committee News (July-December 2025)
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Recognition Status Report: Updates of affiliate applications
AffCom Conflict Intervention: Updates on conflict intervention cases
AffCom Movement Contribution: AffCom at WikiConference North America
AffCom Administration: AffCom and EDs Discuss Affiliate Ecosystem
AffCom Events: AffCom at WikimaniaAffiliations Committee News (July-December 2025)
This newsletter is best translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 11:11, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 1
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Highlights
- Wikipedia turns 25: Time to start the party! Join the virtual celebration featuring musical performances, games, and more on January 15 at 16:00 UTC. and The party will be live interpreted into Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Annual planning: Key questions for the Wikimedia movement to shape the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026-2027 annual goals. Join the discussion on-wiki.
- Hackathon:
- Apply to join the Northwestern Europe 2026 Hackathon from March 13-14 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Application will close mid-January 2026 or earlier based on event capacity.
- General Registration for the 2026 Wikimedia Hackathon is now open! The hackathon will take place in Milan, Italy from May 1 - 3, 2026. Event details can be found here and registration will remain open until March 30th or until event capacity is reached.
- Semantic search: Wikimedia Foundation is working on making it easier to find the information readers want.
- Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 50, week 51, and week 52 include that now edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details which will help oversighters to prevent doxxing.
- Wikifunctions: The first Wikifunctions Volunteers' Corner of the next year will take place on February 9.
- Blazegraph Migration: To support the migration away from Blazegraph as the backend of Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), we are hosting regular calls starting on January 27. Wikidata users and tool maintainers are are invited to join, ask questions, and share migration-related concerns.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events · The Wikipedia Library
- Upcoming Conferences: Announcing the six Wikimedia conferences funded for 2026 in the first round.
- Wikimania 2026: A glimpse on what the team is currently working on to prepare for Wikimania 2026 in Paris.
- Public Policy: Explore the resources available for public policy advocacy work, including explainers that describe key policy positions, guides on how to build a campaign or write a policy brief, and examples of open letters submitted to governments.
- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Public-Interest content: The Project Gayatri content expansion program brought 7,656 new articles on Indonesian Wikipedia.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: The research showcase will return on January 22 at 17:30 UTC with the theme "Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia and the Research Behind It".
- Wikimedia Research Report: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its 13th bi-annual Research Report, highlighting the work completed during the first six months of this fiscal year.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Past issues of the bulletin for progress on the annual plan
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Read the full annual wrap-up of 2025 of Wikimedia Enterprise and how the year marked a fundamental shift in open knowledge.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Board of Trustees: Wikimedia Foundation welcomes two new Board Trustees Bobby Shabangu and Michał Buczyński.
- Affcom News: Read the year-end issue of AffCom News (July-December 2025), the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters ·Milestones ·
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Ερώτηση από Χατζηζησης Ζησης στην Citizent's Band (12:46, 19 Ιανουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Τι να κάνω --Χατζηζησης Ζησης (συζήτηση) 12:46, 19 Ιανουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-04
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 tray shown on Special:Diff in mobile view has been redesigned. It is now collapsed by default, and incorporates a link to undo the edit being viewed, making it easier for mobile editors and reviewers to take action while keeping the interface uncluttered.
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now automatically determines the text direction (ensuring correct display of sites with unusual domain names) and shows detailed descriptions for log actions. Later this week, a new permanent link for page creations and CSS classes for each entry element will be added.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the previously observed issue in Vector 2022, where anchor link targets were obscured by the sticky header, has now been addressed.
Updates for technical contributors
- As mentioned in the October 2025 deprecation announcement, MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin sunsetting all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API the week of January 26. Changes are expected to roll out to all wikis on or before January 30th. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found, compared, and tested using the REST Sandbox. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in Phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
- Interactive reference documentation for the Wikimedia REST API has moved. Requests to API docs previously hosted through RESTBase (e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/) are now redirected to the REST Sandbox. - The WMF Wikidata Platform team (WDP) has published its January 2026 newsletter. It includes updates on the legacy full-graph endpoint decommissioning, the User-Agent policy change, the monthly Blazegraph migration office hours, and efforts to reduce regressions caused by the legacy endpoint shutdown. As a reminder, you can subscribe to the WDP newsletter!
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!
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Ερώτηση από Xristina Arhon (20:21, 22 Ιανουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας, έγραψα πριν 2 μέρες ένα λήμμα για τον συνθέτη και στιχουργό Μπενοβία Γιώργο, με όλα τα σχετικά links και τις πληροφορίες. Πώς θα δω αν έχει ανέβει; Πρέπει να κάνω κάτι άλλο; --Xristina Arhon (συζήτηση) 20:21, 22 Ιανουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Έλενα Ναθαναήλ - συζήτηση.
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Καλημέρα! Σας είχα γράψει κάτι σχετικά με τον τόπο γέννησης της Ναθαναήλ που το απορρίψατε. Ωραία. Δεν μου αρέσει όμως να φαίνεται ό,τι σας έγραψα δημόσια. Δεν το ήξερα αυτό. Ή δεν το είχα καταλάβει. Απλά δεν μου αρέσει και σας παρακαλώ να το αφαιρέσετε. Όσο για το αν είναι αλήθεια, εσείς θέλετε να διασταυρώσετε με άλλες διαδικτυακές πηγές που είναι και γεμάτες ανακρίβειες. Ανακρίβειες υπάρχουν και σε σας στις σπουδες της. Διαχειρίζομαι τρεις Σελίδες της ηθοποιού, η μία μάλιστα με 66.000 μέλη. Σας γράφω μόνο και μόνο για να αφαιρέσετε τη συζήτηση σχετικά με τον τόπο γέννησης, τη στιγμή μάλιστα που απορρίπτετε την πληροφορία μου. Σας είπα, δεν το βρίσκω σωστό. Εξάλλου, εγώ το διάβασα. Σε τι άλλο εξυπηρετεί; Ευχαριστώ!
Tech News: 2026-05
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
- All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
- Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page.
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new AbuseFilter variable,
account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in thecreateaccountandautocreateaccountactions. As part of this change, the variableaccountnamehas been renamed toaccount_name, andaccountnameis now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. - Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to
upload.wikimedia.org/…will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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This Month in Education: January 2026
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 1 • January 2026
- Strengthening Wikimedia Education and Digital Literacy in 2026
- Dzongkha Wikipedia Education Program in Bhutan
- Wikipedia Education Program – Train The Trainer in Nepal
- Wikipedia 25 celebration in the Igbo Wiki Fan Club Alvan and IMSU
- CBSUA boosts Open Knowledge and Local Culture through expanded Wiki Education Program
- WikiChallenge African Schools: Young voices, real impact, and continued (reasonable) growth
- Updates on Auckland Museum Summer Student Programme
- Stronger and bolder Wikiforhumanrights 2025 in Anambra Network
- Official Opening of IFAK Secondary School Wiki Club: Engaging Youth in Learning Through Open Knowledge
- Greetings from the Jeronim de Rada WikiClub in Elbasan, Albania, for Christmas 2025
- Great and productive final activities of 2025 Wikimedia MKD education programme
- Envisioning an Open Future together – WikiForAll
- A look back: reviewing the main education activities in Brazil in 2025
- A 147-Year-Old Institution Celebrates 25 Years of Wikipedia: St Aloysius University and the Spirit of Open Knowledge
- Celebrating 25 years of free knowledge! The '25x25' Project reaches the classrooms of Córdoba, Argentina
- The collaborative efforts of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora for the dissemination of free knowledge on Wikipedia
Books & Bytes – Issue 72
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Issue 72, November–December 2025
- Renewed partnerships
- Spotlight: Strengthening Wikimedia Collaborations with and for Open Science
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Ερώτηση από TRAPHOUSE MUSIC (18:13, 29 Ιανουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]HELLO, HOW CAN I ADD OUR LOGO ON OUR WIKI PAGE? --TRAPHOUSE MUSIC (συζήτηση) 18:13, 29 Ιανουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Gregory Christeas στην Χρήστης:Gregory Christeas (22:35, 1 Φεβρουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]How to publish a pagr --Gregory Christeas (συζήτηση) 22:35, 1 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Τί είναι pagr; — Geraki (συζήτηση) 11:07, 4 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-06
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 "Πληροφορίες σελίδας" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed.
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only.
- The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Weekly highlight
- Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
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Ερώτηση από Isaak.ioannidis (10:30, 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]πως μπορώ να δημιουργήσω ένα νέο λήμμα; --Isaak.ioannidis (συζήτηση) 10:30, 3 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλημέρα, Δείτε το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 11:08, 4 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2
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Highlights
Let's Talk continues
- Annual planning: The Annual Plan is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. This is a time of urgency and focus for the Wikimedia projects and we invite you to shape this plan together with us.
- Year 2 of PTAC: As it reached its first year, Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) shared a retrospective and proposed future improvements.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Account security: All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA), providing a simple and secure way to log in.
- Wikifunctions: An overview of the quarterly plan (January–March) and how it connects to the broader goals for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions.
- Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 03, 04 and 05 include unregistered contributors on blocked IPs can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account.
- Collaborative contributions: Wikimedia Foundation is hosting a learning session to share new releases around collaborative contributions and discuss future project ideas.
- Structured task: The Revise Tone Structured Task is now live in A/B testing on pilot wikis: English, Arabic, Portuguese, and French Wikipedia. It helps new editors improve promotional language in existing articles through a quiz style onboarding experience and a guided in article suggestion.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Wikimania 2026: Call for sessions is open until March 1.
- Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best with docuseries, time capsule, and more.
- Virtual celebration: In case you missed it, over 10,000 people have watched the virtual celebration that brought together generations of Wikimedians, featured an ode to the talk page, a dramatic reading of a real talk page, a Magnetikpunk song dedicated to Wikipedia, a passing of the cake baton from Maryana to Bernadette, "The Birthday Cake Song" and more. All of it written and performed by humans of Wikimedia.
- Birthday mascot: Meet the Wikimedian whose casual sketch inspired Wikipedia’s 25th birthday mascot.
- Legal: Learn about two recent submissions advocating the need for proportionality in Brazil’s new online child safety law.
- Policy: The Global Advocacy team shared a report from digital policy organization InternetLab about the intersection between the open knowledge movement and public interest journalism.
- Global Resource Distribution Committee: Refreshed Funding Principles are ready for review.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Solving puzzles together: A final reflection from Maryana Iskander.
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Mistral AI and Wikimedia Enterprise announced a new strategic partnership.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Tech News: 2026-07
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.- A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more.
- When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
- The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function
{{#isbn}}available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. - Two new wikis have been created:
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new global user group has been created: Τοπικά bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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Ερώτηση από Xristina Arhon (19:48, 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας. Το λήμμα που έχω δημιουργήσει δεν έχει δημοσιευτεί ακόμα. Μπορείτε να με καθοδηγήσετε για να επιτευχθεί η δημοσιοποίησή του; --Xristina Arhon (συζήτηση) 19:48, 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Ζέφη Δημαδάμα (21:10, 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]πως ξεκινω να βαλω ενα λημμα --Ζέφη Δημαδάμα (συζήτηση) 21:10, 10 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Δήμοι Μεξικού
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα. Βλέπω ότι γράφεις για δήμους του Μεξικού. Δοκιμάζεις κάποιο ημιαυτόματο σύστημα; Γιατί βλέπω ότι τα λήμματα αυτά περιέχουν πανομοιότυπο περιεχόμενο. Επίσης να ελέγξεις λίγο τους τίτλους γιατί κάποια έχουν λάθος αναγραφή του ονόματος (τα ισπανικά δεν έχουν ζ). NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 17:38, 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ναι, στα ισπανικά του Μεξικού το z προφέρεται κοντά στο σ (και όχι θ όπως στα ισπανικά της Ισπανίας) αλλά συνηθίζεται η γραφή με ζ όπως στον Εμιλιάνο Ζαπάτα και τους Ζαπατίστας. 😎 — Geraki (συζήτηση) 17:54, 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ισχύει, υπάρχουν οι Ζαπατίστας που έχουν λανθασμένα επικρατήσει έτσι στον ελληνικό τύπο (και άρα η πολιτική επιτρέπει να πούμε Ζαπατίστας στο λήμμα), αλλά για έναν οποιονδήποτε οικισμό ακολουθείται η ορθή προφορά. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 17:56, 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ok — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:01, 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Επίσης, σε παρακαλώ πρόσεχε τους τονισμούς στους μεξικάνικους δήμους. Π.χ. είδα σε ένα λήμμα, να γράφει Σαραγοσά. Στα ισπανικά οι τόνοι λειτουργούν όπως στα ελληνικά. Π.χ. Asunción, δίνει Ασουνσιόν, όχι Ασουνσίον. Και το que προφέρεται κε εκτός αν έχει qüe όπου προφέρεται κούε. Στο λέω γιατί βλέπω λάθη σε διαφορες ονομασίες πόλεων. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 16:57, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Εννοώ ότι οι τόνοι στα ισπανικά δείχνουν που τονίζεται μια λέξη. Π.χ. το Zaragoza αν προερχόταν Σαραγοσά θα έλεγε Zaragozá στην ισπανική ονομασία του μεξικάνικου Δήμου που γράφτηκε Σαραγοσά. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 17:00, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Μπορείς να τα διορθώσεις, είμαστε σε wiki. ;) — Geraki (συζήτηση) 17:40, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Το ξέρω, απλά σε ενημερώνω για το πως προφέρονται για να αποφεύγονται τέτοια λάθη και να μην χρειάζονται αλλαγες σε Wikidata και σελίδα.
- Χρησιμοποιείς κάποιο σύστημα ημιαυτόματο; Βλέπω ότι έχουν πανομοιότυπο περιεχόμενο. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 18:16, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ε, όχι και πανομοιότυπο περιεχόμενο... Ένα κουβά πληροφορίες έχουν εντός του κειμένου και όχι από τα Wikidata. Ημιαυτόματα αλλά μου πήρε τρεις μέρες να τα φτιάξω. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:24, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Για το Wikidata εννοώ ότι πρέπει να αλλάξω την ετικέτα στο σχετικό αντικείμενο για να λάβει το προτυπο γεωγραφίας το σωστό όνομα.
- Τα έχω διαβάσει τα λήμματα και όντως έχουν αρκετές βασικες πληροφορίες, όλες προερχόμενες από το λήμμα και όχι από έξω, όταν είπα ότι το περιεχόμενο είναι σχετικα κοινό εννοώ ότι περιεχουν κυρίως στοιχεία πληθυσμού και διοικητικού χαρακτήρα.
- Πώς ακριβώς τα φτιάχνεις αυτά τα λήμματα; Τρέχεις αναζήτηση σε βάση δεδομένων για να βρει τις πληροφορίες από τις απογραφές και τους διοικητικούς καταλόγους και μετά το περνάς χειροκίνητα σε ένα πλήρες λήμμα με όλες τις βασικές πληροφορίες; Θυμάμαι ότι δούλευα και εγώ παλιά με τετοια χωριά στο Αζερμπαϊτζάν, αλλά εντελώς χειροκίνητα. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 19:38, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Κρίμα που δεν μπορώ να βοηθήσω... 🤓 🏺ⲈⲨⲐⲨⲘⲈⲚⲎⲊ🏛️ ⲱⲑⲏⲥⲁⲧⲉ 19:41, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Μάζεψα τα στοιχεία από πολλές πηγές σε δικό μου αρχείο, μετάφρασα τα ονόματα, έγραψα την δομή του λήμματος, έγραψα ένα σκριπτάκι για να βάλω τα ονόματα και περιγραφές στα wikidata, άλλο σκριπτάκι για να τα βάλω και στο OSM, και άλλο σκριτπάκι για να κάνει τα λήμματα στην ΒΠ. Το μάζεμα στο αρχείο και οι μεταφράσεις είχαν πολύ δουλειά με το χέρι. Σημαντικό που μπορεί να προσέξει κανείς, ότι ο πληθυσμός κλπ που βάζω από την απογραφή του 2020 (και περιλαμβάνω και του 2010) είναι νεότερος από αυτό που υπάρχει στα Wikidata (εκτίμηση 2015) και στα ισπανικά λήμματα (απογραφή 2010) και στα αγγλικά λήμματα (2005). Ως προς αυτό, η ελληνική ΒΠ είναι η περισσότερο ενημερωμένη ανάμεσα σε όλες. 😎 — Geraki (συζήτηση) 19:53, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Χαίρομαι που το ακούω. Είναι πολύ ωραίο που είναι ενημερωμένα τα λήμματα, και πολύ καλή δουλειά έκανες με αυτό. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 20:23, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ε, όχι και πανομοιότυπο περιεχόμενο... Ένα κουβά πληροφορίες έχουν εντός του κειμένου και όχι από τα Wikidata. Ημιαυτόματα αλλά μου πήρε τρεις μέρες να τα φτιάξω. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:24, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Μπορείς να τα διορθώσεις, είμαστε σε wiki. ;) — Geraki (συζήτηση) 17:40, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Εννοώ ότι οι τόνοι στα ισπανικά δείχνουν που τονίζεται μια λέξη. Π.χ. το Zaragoza αν προερχόταν Σαραγοσά θα έλεγε Zaragozá στην ισπανική ονομασία του μεξικάνικου Δήμου που γράφτηκε Σαραγοσά. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 17:00, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Επίσης, σε παρακαλώ πρόσεχε τους τονισμούς στους μεξικάνικους δήμους. Π.χ. είδα σε ένα λήμμα, να γράφει Σαραγοσά. Στα ισπανικά οι τόνοι λειτουργούν όπως στα ελληνικά. Π.χ. Asunción, δίνει Ασουνσιόν, όχι Ασουνσίον. Και το que προφέρεται κε εκτός αν έχει qüe όπου προφέρεται κούε. Στο λέω γιατί βλέπω λάθη σε διαφορες ονομασίες πόλεων. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 16:57, 17 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ok — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:01, 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ισχύει, υπάρχουν οι Ζαπατίστας που έχουν λανθασμένα επικρατήσει έτσι στον ελληνικό τύπο (και άρα η πολιτική επιτρέπει να πούμε Ζαπατίστας στο λήμμα), αλλά για έναν οποιονδήποτε οικισμό ακολουθείται η ορθή προφορά. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 17:56, 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-08
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.
Updates for editors
- The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog.
- The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add
#siteNotice { display: none; }to MediaWiki:Minerva.css. - View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.
Updates for technical contributors
- New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3
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Highlights
- Wikipedia Library: Wikipedia Library gained new content partnerships, restored access to the British Newspaper Archive, and added an Arabic language academic resource with more than 7 million records.
- Gender gap: The Celebrate Women 2026 campaign will run from March 1–31 to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally.
- Annual Planning: The Annual Plan is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. We invite you to shape this plan together with us. Between now and the end of June 2026, we will have continuous conversations about how global trends may shape our future, how we can experiment, adapt and respond together.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Patrolling improvements: A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming.
- Wikifunctions: How Abstract Wikipedia articles can be integrated into Wikipedia language editions to enable Wikipedians to write an abstract article once and have it available in many languages.
- Suggestion Mode: A new Beta Feature for the VisualEditor, Suggestion Mode, is now available on English Wikipedia for experienced editors. This features proactively suggests actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, such as "add citation", "improve tone", or "fix an ambiguous link".
- WDQS Blazegraph Migration: As part of the migration away from Blazegraph (the current backend of the Wikidata Query Service), an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates has been completed. Using the published evaluation methodology, performance, stability, and compatibility was assessed.
- Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 06 and 07 include the new Watchlist labels feature that allows logged-in contributors to organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows. They also link to the 44 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Funding Principles: The interim Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC) has published a first version of the Funding Principles which guides the broader grantmaking ecosystem across the Wikimedia Movement. Share your feedback in the Discussion page.
- Wikipedia 25: Celebrating 25 years of Wikipedia in Warsaw.
- Responsible AI: Why the Global Index on Responsible AI matters for Wikimedians.
- Open Knowledge: Why the Open Knowledge Movement and Public Interest Journalism must unite forces. Shared principles and interdependence, points of convergence and the path forward.
- Journalism Awards: Applications for the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards are now open until March 1. Presented by the International Center for Journalists in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, the awards seek to recognize African journalists whose reporting helps close knowledge gaps about Africa on Wikipedia.
- UN General Assembly: Wikimedia Foundation was invited to speak at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) hall about Wikipedia’s role in global digital governance.
- Advocacy: Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes. Specifically, the new "Use of Wikimedia sites for advocacy purposes" policy, and updates to the guidelines for CentralNotice usage and requesting wiki configuration changes. The policies establish clearer processes for advocacy activities, and require notification of Foundation staff for some proposed uses of the Wikimedia sites.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Wikimedia Futures Lab: Reflections from a Wikimedian who attended the Wikimedia Futures Lab.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Tech News: 2026-09
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
Updates for editors
- The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code.
- Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened.
- The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in
MediaWiki:skin-theme-descriptionandMediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tagto indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta. - The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook,
ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Ερώτηση από PrimusCicada (09:46, 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεια σας κύριε Κωνσταντίνε! Είμαι ένας καινούριος χρήστης στη Βικιπαίδεια και θα ήθελα μια βοήθεια σχετικά με τα Wikidata. Προσπάθησα να προσθέσω ένα νέο sitelink (μια νέα γλωσσική έκδοση) στο στοιχείο των Wikidata για το λήμμα «Ηλεκτρολογία» και πήγα στη σελίδα: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43035.. Ωστόσο, το κουμπί για την προσθήκη νέας γλωσσικής έκδοσης δεν εμφανίζεται και δεν είμαι σίγουρος αν κάνω κάτι λάθος ή αν υπάρχει κάποιος περιορισμός. Θα ήθελα επίσης να μάθω ποια είναι η σωστή διαδικασία γενικά, ώστε να μπορώ να το κάνω και για μελλοντικά λήμματα. Ευχαριστώ πολύ για τον χρόνο και τη βοήθειά σας! --Cicada (συζήτηση) 09:46, 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
- Γεια σου και καλώς ήρθε.Για νέο λήμμα στα ελληνικά, θα πρέπει να το δημιουργήσεις επί τόπου: Ηλεκτρολογία. Η διαδικασία σύνδεσής του με τις υπόλοιπες γλώσσες ακολουθεί. Κατά κανόνα θα ζητήσει τη σύνδεση αμέσως μετά την δημιουργία του, αλλά δεν βρεθεί αυτόματα η αντιστοιχία. Οπότε -εφόσον έχει δημιουργηθεί το λήμμα και δεν έχει συνδεθεί ακόμη με τα wikidata - τότε μόνο θα πας στο d:Q43035, στο Βικιπαίδεια -> επεξεργασία -> στο κάτω μέρος στο "βικι" συμπληρώνεις elwiki και δίπλα το όνομα του λήμματος (θα πρέπει να το αντιστοιχίσει). Αν προβληματιστείς ρώτα με ξανά. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 20:25, 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-10
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Wikipedia 25 Birthday mode is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via community configuration on the local wiki.
Updates for editors
- Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and a couple of other wikis. You can try the feature on these projects or on testwiki and betawiki. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been published in a report. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are interested in becoming a pilot wiki.
- Paste Check will become available at all Wikipedias this week. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation. Paste Check tags all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via Ειδικό:EditChecks. Research across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can help to localize this and related features.
- The Reader Experience team will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface.
- Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one.
- Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon.
- The Global Watchlist which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The extension now allows activating the language fallback system for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no
uselang=URL parameter is provided. - The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of hybrid search on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
- For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in Wikibase.cloud has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
- The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts.
- The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
- The process and criteria for requesting exceptional access to the high volume feed of the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), have now been published. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
- Tech Blog, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community will be migrating to Diff, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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This Month in Education: February 2026
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 2 • February 2026
- Cairo University Spanish Language Volunteers document Madrid’s Historic and Contemporary Palaces
- Celebrating 25 Years of Wikipedia in Uzbekistan
- Meeting of the Latin American Network of Feminist Artificial Intelligence: building possible futures
- Farewelling the Auckland Museum Summer Students
- Inclusive Climate Learning with Wikimedia Reaches Special School in Kumasi
- Introducing Wikimedia in Academic curriculum for students of higher education in universities of Telangana
- Learning from Finland: Edit-a-thon on Finnish Education set to take place in Belgrade
- Library of IME-USP Workshop: Edits in History of Mathematics
- LitFest 2026: Room to Dream to amplify local voices across Wikimedia
- New online workshops for the German language Wikipedia
- Road to Wiki Cohort 1: Building India's Next Generation of Wikimedia Technical Contributors
- The history of the Wikimedia movement in a Brazil: a book about stories and projects
- Wiki Club Federal Government Boys College Celebrates Mother Tongue Day
- Wiki Club Minalabac joins Freedom to Read 2026: One World, Many Languages
- Wiki Love Folklore Photowalk at Khajuraho Dance Festival 2026
- Wiki Loves Fish Workshop Empowers Students to Document Coastal Biodiversity
- WikiCendekia 2026: Insights from our training of admins in Indonesia
- Wikimedia MKD's activities- new wiki club and a lots of new training workshops
- WikiPatrimoine Senghor : Valuation of African cultural heritage at the University Senghor
- Wikipedia Turns 25: Young Voices, Big Future
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4
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Highlights
Let's Talk continues
- Birthday mode: This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias have joined in the fun.
- Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons: Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Etherpad cleanup: For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.
- Activity tab: Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.
- Reference Check: The feature Reference Check has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
- Semantic search: The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.
- Navigation experience: The Foundation will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- Site notices: Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.
- Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 08 and 09 include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Wikifunctions: Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Gender gap: The Celebrate Women 2026 is coming! The Wikimedia Foundation will host a kick-off celebration that will work as a welcome session for both organizers and participants on March 5 at 13:00 UTC.
- Language: New edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter highlights new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects.
- Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: Watch the recordings of past learning clinics about Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Tool and Strengthening Local-Language Admin Communities.
- Wikimedia Research Showcase: You can watch the recording of this month research showcase whose theme is about "AI and Communities".
- Hubs: Lessons from hub pilots.
- Banners & logo policies: Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes.
- Digital Safety: The next edition of Digital Safety Office Hours will be on Mar 27 at 9:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The session will explore practical threat modelling: a structured way to think about risks, assess your exposure, and make informed choices.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Ecosia Enriches Search Results and AI Answers with Wikimedia Enterprise.
- Human centered AI: Members of the Wikimedia Enterprise team presented on "Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots" at the seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
- Inclusive AI: Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Δημιουργία σελίδας Τζάσμιν Κρόκετ (αντιπροσώπου ΗΠΑ από το Τέξας)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας, έχω ολοκληρώσει την σύνταξη της σελίδας για την Τζάσμιν Κρόκετ, την αντιπρόσωπο της 30ης Εκλογικής Περιφέρειας του Τέξας στο πρόχειρό μου. Θα μπορούσατε να την ελέγξετε και να μου δώσετε το πράσινο φως για την δημοσίευση; Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ! PoliticsAnalyst (συζήτηση) 16:42, 8 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλησπέρα! Δεν χρειάζεται να σου δίνουμε κάποιο πράσινο φως, μπορείς να το βάλεις άμεσα στο χώρο λημμάτων. Σίγουρα πάντως είναι μια πάρα πολύ καλή αρχή, συγχαρητήρια! Τιπ: οι αυτούσιες αγγλικές φράσεις που άφησες καλό είναι να είναι μεταφρασμένες - αν και αναγνωρίζω ότι είναι ιδιαίτερη slang που δύσκολα μεταφράζεται. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 19:17, 8 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ! PoliticsAnalyst (συζήτηση) 20:16, 8 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από KaterinaVG (01:10, 9 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πώς μπαίνω στο πρόχειρο μου;; --KaterinaVG (συζήτηση) 01:10, 9 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλημέρα και καλώς ήρθες. Για να μπεις στο προσωπικό σου πρόχειρο όταν είσαι σε υπολογιστή, πήγαινε από την πάνω δεξιά γωνία με το προσωπικό μενού, άνοιξέ το και μετά πάτα στην επιλογή "Το πρόχειρό μου".
- Απο κινητό δεν υπάρχει τέτοια επιλογή, αλλά μπορείς να πηγαίνεις στην σελίδα Ειδικό:ΗΣελίδαΜου/πρόχειρο που οδηγεί στο πρόχειρο. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 08:56, 9 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από KaterinaVG (18:33, 9 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πώς μπορώ να προσθέσω παραπάνω παραπομπές στο λήμμα που δημιούργησα --KaterinaVG (συζήτηση) 18:33, 9 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-11
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
- Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the post on the Stewards' noticeboard (translations).
Updates for editors
- Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as iCloud Private Relay) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again.
- Later this week, Suggestion Mode will become available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at Special:EditChecks and there are instructions for how administrators can customize the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to Edit check which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools.
Updates for technical contributors
- API rate limiting update: To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
- The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and give feedback. You can also sign up for usability tests.
- The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads. Read this update to learn more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected pilot wikis and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, and Turkish. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more on the project page.
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Ερώτηση από Aris Arvanitakis (13:14, 10 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Ως μελος της οικογενειας Αρβανιτάκη απο την Ζακυνθο, που υπαρχει αντιστοιχη σελιδα για την οικογενεια και την ιστορια της, εχω στην διαθεση μου απο βιβλια ιστορικα στοιχεια για την προελευση και τα μελη της. πως θα μπορουσα να τα ανεβασω στη wikipedia ? --Aris Arvanitakis (συζήτηση) 13:14, 10 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 73
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Issue 73, January–February 2026
- Four new partnerships
- User survey thanks
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Ερώτηση από Wikipedian365 (19:37, 12 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας. Επιθυμώντας να αλλάξω τον τίτλο ενός λήμματος που μετέφρασα εγώ, ανέβασα νέο στη θέση του. Μπορείτε, σας παρακαλώ, να σβήσετε το παλιό με την ονομασία «Λιμάνι Σουέζ» και να μείνει μόνο το «Λιμάνι του Σουέζ»; Σας ευχαριστώ εκ των προτέρων. --Wikipedian365 (συζήτηση) 19:37, 12 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλησπέρα. Το απλούστερο ήταν να κάνω το παλιό ανακατεύθυνση: Λιμάνι Σουέζ (πηγαίνει στο άλλο). Δες Βικιπαίδεια:Ανακατεύθυνση και Βοήθεια:Ανακατεύθυνση. Επίσης αν στο μέλλον θέλεις να αλλάξεις τον τίτλο ενός λήμματος υπάρχει η Μετακίνηση σελίδας (απλά στον στόχο δεν πρέπει να υπάρχει κάτι άλλο). Καλή συνέχεια! — Geraki (συζήτηση) 20:02, 12 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλή συνέχεια, ευχαριστώ πολύ! Wikipedian365 (συζήτηση) 20:26, 12 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-12
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature, also known as CodeMirror 6, has been used for wikitext syntax highlighting since November 2024. It will be promoted out of beta by May 2026 in order to bring improvements and new features to all editors who use the standard syntax highlighter. If you have any questions or concerns about promoting the feature out of beta, please share.
- Some changes to local user groups are performed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and logged there only. Now, interwiki rights changes will be logged both on Meta-Wiki and the wiki of the target user to make it easier to access a full record of user's rights changes on a local wiki. Past log entries for such changes will be backfilled in the coming weeks.
- On wikis using Flagged Revisions, the number of pending changes shown on Ειδικό:PendingChanges previously counted pages which were no longer pending review, because they have been removed from the system without being reviewed, e.g. due to being deleted, moved to a different namespace, or due to wiki configuration changes. The count will be correct now. On some wikis the number shown will be much smaller than before. There should be no change to the list of pages itself.
- Wikifunctions composition language has been rewritten, resulting in a new version of the language. This change aims to increase service stability by reducing the orchestrator's memory consumption. This rewrite also enables substantial latency reduction, code simplification, and better abstractions, which will open the door to later feature additions. Read more about the changes.
- Users can now sort search results alphabetically by page title. The update gives an additional option to finding pages more easily and quickly. Previously, results could be sorted by Edit date, Creation date, or Relevance. To use the new option, open 'Advanced Search' on the search results page and select 'Alphabetically' under 'Sorting Order'.
- View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented UploadWizard on Wikimedia Commons from importing files from Flickr has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new special page, Ειδικό:LintTemplateErrors, has been created to list transcluded pages that are flagged as containing lint errors to help users discover them easily. The list is sorted by the number of transclusions with errors. For example: Ειδικό:LintTemplateErrors/night-mode-unaware-background-color.
- Users of the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature have been using CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages, for some time now. Along with promoting CodeMirror 6 out of beta, the plan is to replace CodeEditor as the standard editor for these content models by May 2026. Feedback or concerns are welcome.
- The CodeMirror JavaScript modules will soon be upgraded to CodeMirror 6. Leading up to the upgrade, loading the
ext.CodeMirrororext.CodeMirror.libmodules from gadgets and user scripts was deprecated in July 2025. The use of theext.CodeMirror.switchhook was also deprecated in March 2025. Contributors can now make their scripts or gadgets compatible with CodeMirror 6. See the migration guide for more information. - The MediaWiki Interfaces team is expanding coverage of REST API module definitions to include extension APIs. REST API modules are groups of related endpoints that can be independently managed and versioned. Modules now exist for GrowthExperiments and Wikifunctions APIs. As we migrate extension APIs to this structure, documentation will move out of the main MediaWiki OpenAPI spec and REST Sandbox view, and will instead be accessible via module-specific options in the dropdown on the REST Sandbox (i.e., Ειδικό:RestSandbox, available on all wiki projects).
- The Scribunto extension provides different pieces of information about the wiki where the module is being used via the mw.site library. Starting last week, the library also provides a way of accessing the wiki ID that can be used to facilitate cross-wiki module maintenance.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The 2026 Coolest Tool Award celebrating outstanding community tools, is now open for nominations! Nominate your favorite tool using the nomination survey form by 23 March 2026. For more information on privacy and data handling, please see the survey privacy statement.
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Ερώτηση από Βαγγέλης Κόλλιας (17:55, 17 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γιατί αναιρέθηκε περιεχόμενο --Βαγγέλης Κόλλιας (συζήτηση) 17:55, 17 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Γειά σου και καλώς ήρθες! Από ό,τι καταλαβαίνω με ρωτάς για το κείμενο που αφαίρεσα εδώ. Όπως έχω γράψει στη σύνοψη επεξεργασίας αφαιρέθηκε επειδή προερχόταν από την σελίδα https://aristomenismessinios.blogspot.com/2024/05/blog-post_20.html. Όπως και η τελευταία σου προσθήκη προέρχεται από την https://aristomenismessinios.blogspot.com/2024/05/blog-post_20.html. Η αντιγραφή αυτούσιων κειμένων από αλλού δεν επιτρέπεται --ακόμη και αν αναφέρεται η πηγή-- επειδή καλύπτονται με πνευματικά δικαιώματα (εκτός αν στην πηγή γράφει διαφορετικά). Ο μόνος που έχει δικαίωμα να προσθέσει αυτά τα κείμενα στην Βικιπαίδεια είναι ο «Αριστομένης ο Μεσσήνιος». Δες σχετικά στις Βικιπαίδεια:Πνευματικά δικαιώματα#Πληροφορίες για συνεισφέροντες κειμένων σε εγχειρήματα του Wikimedia και Βικιπαίδεια:Προβλήματα πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων και Βικιπαίδεια:Συχνές ερωτήσεις#Μπορώ να χρησιμοποιήσω κείμενα και εικόνες από άλλες ιστοσελίδες;. Είσαι όμως παραπάνω από ευπρόσδεκτος να συνεισφέρεις με δικά σου κείμενα. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:33, 17 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Vivliolover2025 (20:48, 17 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γιατί δεν μπορω να κανω Wikipedia στην συγγραφεα Αθανασία (Σούλα) Μπινετοπούλου --Vivliolover2025 (συζήτηση) 20:48, 17 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Βλέπω ότι το λήμμα που δημιουργήσατε διαγράφηκε ως «μη εγκυκλοπαιδικό». Διαβάστε το, όπως και το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος. Καλή συνέχεια. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 21:01, 17 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5
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Highlights
- Supporting readers: For most of its history, Wikipedia did not have to worry about attracting readers. But with the way people search for information changing, there is a drop in the number of readers which is impacting the number of accounts created and contributions to our sites. Have a look at some of the ongoing and planned work to support reader experience.
- Server switch: All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year.
- Tools improvement: The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads.
- Wikipedia 25 Grants: The celebration continues! The Wikimedia Foundation offers Wikipedia 25 Birthday Funds to communities planning Wikipedia’s 25th birthday events with funding between USD 1,000–2,000. Apply before March 31.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Experiments: The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.
- Article guidance: Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article.
- Wikifunctions: You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output.
- Editing feature: Suggestion Mode is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.
- Paste Check: Paste Check is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.
- Mobile experience: The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.
- Two-factor authentication: For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March.
- Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 10 and 11 include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- WikiCelebrate: Celebrating Mervat, one of the most experienced and dedicated contributors to Arabic Wikipedia.
- Wikimedia ecosystem: The pilot on the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations has published a draft proposal for a Future Affiliate Landscape. It welcomes your review and feedback.
- Fundraising: The Fundraising Report 2024–2025 has now been published on meta.
- International Women's Day 2026: Women, visibility, and the future of trusted knowledge on Wikimedia.
- Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Wiki Loves Earth 2025: See the winners from the 13th annual edition of the globe-trotting photo contest.
- Wikimania 2026: While most Wikimania program submissions are closed, the research track is open until March 31. It accepts proposals from both professional researchers and Wikimedians.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Kostaspls (01:30, 19 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεια σας..ήθελα να ρωτήσω γιατί μου διαγράψατε τη σελίδα?? --Kostaspls (συζήτηση) 01:30, 19 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Γεια σου! Όπως φαίνεται από την καταγραφή, την σελίδα διέγραψε ο @NikosLikomitros. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 10:06, 19 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- @Kostaspls@Geraki Τη διέγραψα γιατί δεν πληρούσε την ΒΠ:ΣΧΡΗ. Είχε καθαρά βιογραφικές-μη σύμφωνος με την πολιτική πληροφορίες. NikosLikomitros (συζήτηση) 10:07, 19 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Συγγνώμη
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Αγαπητέ Geraki, δεν είχα καμία πρόθεση να σε στενοχωρήσω ή να σε φέρω σε δύσκολη θέση. Συγγνώμη. — Dionysusσυζήτηση 09:17, 21 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Anonymous84i3893o2u3 (23:48, 21 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Γεια, θέλω να δημιούργησω μια σελίδα για μια ηθοποιό. Στην σειρά που παίζει στην αντίστοιχη σελίδα της Βικιπαίδειας υπάρχει το όνομα αλλά δεν είναι ουτε με μπλε ουτε με κόκκινα γράμματα. --Anonymous84i3893o2u3 (συζήτηση) 23:48, 21 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Γεια σου και καλώς ήρθες! Πριν επιχειρήσεις να δημιουργήσεις λήμμα σου προτείνω να δεις την Ειδικό:Αρχική σελίδα κάνοντας και κάποιες επεξεργασίες σε άλλα λήμματα. Δες επίσης την Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή και όταν έχεις μια μεγαλύτερη ευχέρεια τότε ακολοθύθησε τον Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός δημιουργίας λήμματος. Σε κάθε περίπτωση, καλό θα είναι ο πρώτος σου στόχος στην Βικιπαίδεια ή έστω το πρώτο σου βήμα δεν θα πρέπει να είναι να δημιουργήσεις ένα νέο λήμμα. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 20:37, 23 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-13
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys. This is a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. With this change, all users who opt for passwordless login will find it easier, faster, and more secure to log in to their accounts using any device. The new passkey login option currently appears as an autofill suggestion in the username field. An additional "Log in with passkey" button will soon be available for users who have already registered a passkey. This update will improve security and user experience. The screen recording demonstrates the passwordless login process step by step.
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
Updates for editors
- Wikimedia site users can now export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain their important notifications and avoid them being lost based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
- Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to Special:PersonalDashboard. This is an early version of an experience that introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
- The Special:Block now has two minor interface changes. Administrators can now easily perform indefinite blocks through a dedicated radio button in the expiry section. Also, choosing an indefinite expiry provides a different set of common reasons to select from, which can be changed at: MediaWiki:Ipbreason-indef-dropdown.
- Mobile editors at several wikis can now see an improved logged-out edit warning, thanks to the recent updates from the Growth team. These changes released last week are part of ongoing efforts and tests to enhance account creation experience on mobile and then increase participation.
- View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug that prevented mobile web users from seeing the block information when affected by multiple blocks has been fixed. They can now see messages of all the blocks currently affecting them when they access Wikipedia.
Updates for technical contributors
- Images built using Toolforge will soon get the upgraded buildpacks version, bringing support for newer language versions and other upstream improvements and fixes. If you use Toolforge Build Service, review the recent cloud-announce email and update your build configuration as necessary to ensure your tools are compatible.
- The API Portal documentation wiki will shut down in June 2026. API keys created on the API Portal will continue to work normally. api.wikimedia.org endpoints will be deprecated gradually starting in July 2026. Documentation on the API Portal is moving to mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- WMDE Technical Wishes is considering improvements to automatically generated reference names in VisualEditor. Please check out the proposed solutions and participate in the request for comment.
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Ερώτηση από Wikipedian365 (12:45, 26 Μαρτίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας. Μετέφρασα το αγγλικό λήμμα «Automatic door» στα ελληνικά, ωστόσο, κατά τη διάρκεια της αναζήτησης στην Ελληνική Βικιπαίδεια του όρου «Αυτόματη πόρτα», δεν εμφανίζεται κατευθείαν το επιθυμητό αποτέλεσμα παρότι υπάρχει σίγουρα. Μπορείτε, σας παρακαλώ, να με βοηθήσετε; --Wikipedian365 (συζήτηση) 12:46, 26 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλησπέρα. Στον τίτλο «Αυτόματη πόρτα» το Α ήταν λατινικό. Το μετακίνησα σε Αυτόματη πόρτα. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 15:23, 26 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ευχαριστώ πολύ. Wikipedian365 (συζήτηση) 15:43, 26 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Αίτημα για επανεξέταση του λήμματος BILERO
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα. Έχω υποβάλει ένα αίτημα στο Σημειωματάριο Διαχειριστών εδώ και 10 ημέρες χωρίς ανταπόκριση. Αφορά την άρση προστασίας (salting) για το λήμμα BILERO. Το προσχέδιο είναι έτοιμο στο πρόχειρό μου (Χρήστης:TOM BILERO/πρόχειρο) και είναι πλήρως τεκμηριωμένο με ανεξάρτητες πηγές. Παρακαλώ για την εξέτασή του ώστε να επιτραπεί η μεταφορά του στον κύριο χώρο, καθώς το τρέχον περιεχόμενο δεν έχει καμία σχέση με το spam του παρελθόντος. Ευχαριστώ. ~~~~ TOM BILERO (συζήτηση) 21:47, 27 Μαρτίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-14
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 Beta version of Abstract Wikipedia a new Wikimedia project which is language-independent, was launched last week. The project allows communities to build Wikipedia articles in their native language, which can be readily accessed by other users in their own languages. The wiki is powered by instructions from Wikifunctions and also based on structured content from Wikidata. Read more.
Updates for editors
- The Growth team is running an A/B test to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. Currently when logged-out mobile users begin editing, they see a jarring warning message that can feel abrupt and discouraging. This also presents temporary account editing as the default rather than encouraging account creation. The test is running on ten Wikipedias, including Arabic, French, Spanish and German. Read more.
- The Wikimedia Apps team is inviting feedback on how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The discussion focuses on improving how users access editing tools when they tap "Edit". This is part of a broader effort to convert readers who develop an interest in editing, to access a more user-friendly pathway to start contributing.
- View all 45 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where citation fetching from the large newspaper archive Newspapers.com was no longer working, due to a block in Citoid requests, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6
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Highlights
- Supporting the mobile experience: The Foundation is starting conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The goal is to understand how to better support both new and experienced editors, and how the app can guide users to the right editing tools. Your input is welcome. Join the discussion!
- Wikimania 2026: Registration for Wikimania 2026 is opening soon from the end of March to May 1. Like other Wikimedia events this year, we are introducing a "request for invitation" process, with trust and safety checks conducted prior to confirming in-person attendance. Our priority is to create a safe environment for connection, collaboration, and shared learning.
- Around the Puzzle Globe in the CEE region: On March 23 almost 60 Wikimedians took part in the CEE-Catch up- a meeting for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As a part of continuous conversations we have with the communities around the Foundation's annual plan, participants discussed the global trends related to Readers and Contributors in their regional context. The meeting was also an opportunity to connect with the new Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan, who is meeting communities around the puzzle globe to listen, learn and engage with the communities.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Crawlers: The Foundation is now detecting and blocking billions of bot requests that don’t follow our robot policy, such as aggressive scrapers, to make sure our resources go towards serving human readers. In the coming months we’ll be working on better detection of rapidly changing bot behavior and better API infrastructure.
- Moderator tools for newer editors: Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to an early version of Special:PersonalDashboard. It introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
- Account creation on mobile: Mobile editors at several wikis are now presented with a simplified logged-out warning message, which encourages them to create an account or log in. This test is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the account creation experience on mobile and increase participation.
- Verification email redesign: The verification email sent to new accounts that add an email address during signup has been redesigned. When tested on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the same-week email verification rate increased from 41.6% to 45.9%.
- Retaining notification history: Wikimedia site users can export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain important notifications and avoid losing them based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
- Tech News: Latest highlights from Tech News weeks 12 and 13 include the update that Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys as a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. See also the 64 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Experiments: Check out the list of experiments in Product and Technology to see all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments. One new experiment that just went live is the "Improve the logged-out warning message on mobile web," which aims to reduce the sense of friction or alarm when users encounter the logged-out warning upon editing.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Digital rights and free knowledge: Wikimedia Foundation staff and Wikimedians from across the movement will contribute to important conversations on AI governance, information integrity, and equitable access to knowledge at RightsCon 2026 from May 5–8. Join the conversation virtually.
- Microtask Generator: Learn more about the Microtask Generator, a tool which identifies content quality gaps in Wikipedia articles and suggests tasks for editors to address within a dashboard. Users can input lists of articles for analysis, or get recommendations based on article categories. Ideal for edit-a-thons and other article improvement drives.
- WikiLearn: Discover the latest edition of WikiLearn News where you can find the latest online learning opportunities to take your editing skills to new heights.
- Diff Event calendar: The event calendar on Diff is now redirected to the list of events on Meta-wiki. This list pulls in all events that are open to all wikis.
- Grantmaking Strategy: The GRDC has identified the key challenges that will inform the design of the new Grantmaking Strategy.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Audit report: Highlights from the Wikimedia Endowment’s fiscal year 2024-2025 audit report.
- Enterprise partnerships: Wikimedia Enterprise announced new partnerships. Together with Firecrawl to reform how AI agents access the world’s largest online repository of human knowledge and with Aligned AI to develop Ethical AI products for families by providing Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Endowment Board: Welcoming Nataliia Tymkiv to the Wikimedia Endowment Board of Directors.
- Affiliate recognition: Affiliations Committee extended the pause on new affiliate recognition to September 1, 2026.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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This Month in Education: March 2026
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 3 • March 2026
- Advancing 21st-Century Education: Proposal to Establish the Yorùbá Wikipedia Fan Club at Arolu College of Education, Ilemona
- Awareness Programme on Language and Culture Protection by KWUG
- Teachers from Various Institutions in Rio de Janeiro Explore Wikipedia as a Means of Preserving Memory and Checking Sources
- Edu Wiki Nigeria Co-Founder Facilitates Textbook Donation to AHAJAS Integrated School, Gombe
- Inside Wikimedia Ukraine's education program
- Karavali Wikimedians at Mangaluru Design Summit 2026
- One School, One Article Campaign Wrap Up
- Seeds of Knowledge: A Wiki Project that Sparked a Community at ADUN
- Student workshops at Serbian Universities: enriching Wikipedia with topics on culture and technology
- The Open Knowledge Alliance: Wikimedia and Libraries
- Wikimedia CR published updated guide for beginners
- Wikimedia goes back to the classroom in Brazil
- Workshop on Feminism and Folklore 2026 by Wiki Club SATI
- “Wikimedia MKD in Action: Teacher Conferences and Education Activities
- Wikipedia & Libraries: Building New Contributors
CEE Newsletter is out now!
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Dear all,
The first CEE Newsletter issue of 2026 is now live, and we are happy to share it with you.
The past few months have been anything but quiet across our region. From Wikimedia CEE Spring and the CEE Women Campaign, to cross-border collaborations, youth initiatives, and new ideas taking shape, there is a lot happening -- and this issue brings together many of those stories in one place.
You will find highlights from community activities, updates from the CEE Hub, international news, and a wide range of contributions from across the region. It is a good snapshot of what we have been working on together at the start of the year.
As always, thank you to everyone who contributed -- by writing, sharing updates, or supporting behind the scenes.
Take a moment to explore the issue and see what is going on across the region: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2026
As always, we have prepared a Russian version of the same issue: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CEE/Newsletter/March_2026/ru
Happy reading!
On behalf of the CEE Newsletter team, Karo
Tech News: 2026-15
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. Similarly, participants can work toward shared targets and see their collective impact as the event unfolds. The feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Learn more in the documentation.
- The new watchlist labels feature (announced in Tech News 2026-07) is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the 'watchstar' (or watch link, for skins that don't have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist. In all three places it is a new field following the expiry field.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where talk pages on mobile with Parsoid are unusable after empty section headers, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The sub-referencing feature, which lets editors add details to an existing reference without duplicating it, will be gradually rolled out to more wikis later this year. Wikis using the Reference Tooltips gadget are encouraged to update their version (typically at MediaWiki:Gadget-ReferenceTooltips.js as shown here) to ensure compatibility. Other reference-related gadgets may also be affected.
- All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on 4 May 2026. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles can be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions. Read more.
- The Action API has had several formats for requested output. One of them,
format=php, is being removed soon. Please ensure your scripts or bots use the JSON format. This removal should affect very few scripts and bots. - The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2026-16
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.
Updates for editors
- On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki.
- The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting later this week, Τροποποιητές φίλτρων καταχρήσεων who have the ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽ beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors.
- Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (
action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. - Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia).
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7
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Highlights
- Community Wishlist update: This monthly update covers how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes here.
- Goal setting for edit-a-thons: The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.
- Collaboration with the United Nations: Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Navigating articles on mobile: The Foundation is launching an experiment to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.
- Editing tools for new editors: Tone Check was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.
- Managing watchlist labels: The new watchlist labels feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist.
- Latest experiments: See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate for logged-in readers.
- Latest Wikifunctions: Check out the partial list of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 and 15 include an ongoing A/B test running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Community discussions on Semantic Search: The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search for members of the CEE Youth Group.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Don't Blink!: This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.
- Digital rights and inclusion: Take a look at the sessions that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2026.
- Manuscript preservation: The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) from the Leiden University Library collection.
- Youth content creators: Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.
- Legal and Safety Contacts: The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.
- Building shared principals for the internet as a public good: The Global Advocacy team published a blog with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Wikidata API: Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available through Wikimedia Enterprise.
- Annual Planning and global trends: Join the America APP call on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki and in community spaces around different regions and projects.
- Futures Lab: The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab.
- Fundraising Hub: The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Ombuds Commission: Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.
- Wikinews closure: All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.
Other Movement-curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Vasiladakostasps (09:59, 15 Απριλίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Θέλω να ανοίξω σελίδα για τον Κωνσταντίνο Ψαρούλη , είναι οινοποιός στη Βασιλάδα Μεσσηνίας έχει την οινοποιία Ψαρουλη. μπερδεύομαι γιατί έκανα όνομα χρήστη κάτι διαφορετικό --Vasiladakostasps (συζήτηση) 10:00, 15 Απριλίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλημέρα. Δείτε παρακαλώ το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος και σίγουρα τα Βικιπαίδεια:Σύγκρουση κινήτρων, Βικιπαίδεια:Σελίδα χρήστη — Geraki (συζήτηση) 10:22, 15 Απριλίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Katerina Ta (10:36, 15 Απριλίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]θελω να ανεβασω ενα λημμα --Katerina Ta (συζήτηση) 10:36, 15 Απριλίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-17
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- After two years of development, ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, also known as CodeMirror 6, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd who developed many of the new features, including code folding, autocompletion, and linting.
- A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.
Updates for editors
- Reading lists is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
- An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others.
- On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more.
- View all 15 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- As part of the promotion of CodeMirror from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages.
- The
mirrors.wikimedia.orgservice for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more. - The
imageandoldimagetable will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries accessimageoroldimagedirectly, please update them to use thefileandfilerevisiontable before 28 May. - Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
- The Attribution API is now available as a beta. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia). Share your feedback on the project talk page.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Please can you delete Κατηγορία:Χρήστης-4. Sorry for trouble. Ясамойла (συζήτηση) 16:05, 23 Απριλίου 2026 (UTC)
This Month in Education: April 2026
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 4 • April 2026
- Empowering Knowledge: Wikimedia MKD Education Update
- WikiScholar: A School-Level Initiative to Promote Free Knowledge in Bangladesh
- Wikipedia for School 2025–2026: A Competition That Continued Despite Frost, Power Outages, and War
- Wikimedia UK and Thoughtful delivery new media literacy teacher training course
- Wikimedia CR supporting SDG's in Czech schools
- University Students’ Mandatory Internships at Wikimedia Armenia
- Third year of collaboration with Aleksandër Xhuvani University in Elbasan, Albania
- Students Discover Open Source and Learn Wikipedia and Wikidata Skills for the First Time in Zarqa, Jordan
- Leveraging on Wikipedia as a tool for curbing Health Misinformation and Disinformation in Akwa Ibom and Rivers State, Nigeria
- Governance and Public Knowledge: Wikipedia as a Learning Tool in Sustainability Education through UNESCO Designated Sites
- A month full of encounters with students in Brazil
Tech News: 2026-18
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the αυτοεπιβεβαιωμένοι χρήστες group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions.
- All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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You may be an eligible candidate for the U4C election
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Greetings,
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) seeks candidates for the 2026 election. The U4C is the global committee responsible for overseeing enforcement of the Universal Code of Conduct. Elections are held annually, if elected a committee member serves for two years.
This year the U4C requires candidates to hold administrator rights on at least one wiki, which is why you are being contacted as you appear to hold this right. There are other requirements, such as candidates must be at least 18 years old and may not be employed by the Wikimedia Foundation or other related chapters and affiliates. You can find more information in the call for candidates on Meta-wiki. Additionally, the committee's working language is English; some ability to communicate in English is required.
The election opens on 18 May, if you are eligible and interested you have until 10 May to submit your candidacy. There will week between for candidates to answer questions from the community. Voting takes place privately in SecurePoll, successful candidates must receive at least 60% support. More information is available on the 2026 Elections page, including timelines and other candidacy information. If you read over the material and consider yourself qualified, please consider submitting your name to run for the committee. If you think someone else in your community might be interested and qualified, please encourage them to run.
In partnership with the U4C -- Keegan (WMF) (talk) 18:32, 28 Απριλίου 2026 (UTC)Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 8
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Highlights
- Annual Planning: The Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan for the coming fiscal year (2026–2027) which will focus on four main goals that directly respond to the external trends. The goals include increasing our reach, deepening engagement, protecting our projects and building speed and resilience to enable the change needed to respond to the internet being at an inflection point. Feedback welcome on the talk page and many other places.
- Global conversation: A global conversation about the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan will take place on May 7 at 5:00 PM UTC.
- Sustainable reuse of Wikimedia content: The Attribution API is now in beta. It makes it easier to credit Wikimedia content fairly wherever it is used. It provides all information required by the Wikimedia Attribution Framework in a single, well-structured and easy-to-use endpoint, simplifying attribution for off-wiki reuse. Share your feedback on the project talk page.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Feedback on Article guidance: Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature. This tool helps less-experienced editors create structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Review the outlines and share your feedback on the project talk page. Check out the step-by-step and video instructions.
- Games Hub available on Android: The Games Hub is live in the Wikipedia app for Android. This new feature offers a space for users to find all available games in one place, explore archives, and get updates on new games. It currently includes Which Came First?, with more games coming soon.
- Update to Wikipedia app for iOS: A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS has rolled out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple’s latest “Liquid Glass” visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.
- Confirming email addresses: On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven’t confirmed their email addresses now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Confirming the email address helps users restore account access if they lose it and receive messages about their accounts. It also provides an easy option to communicate with other users off-wiki if they choose. As of early 2026, about 62.9% of all registered Wikimedia user accounts that have an email set had not confirmed it.
- Testing mobile web page previews: Mobile page previews experiment was launched on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page previews are pop-ups that show a thumbnail, a lead paragraph, and a link to the full article to improve content discovery. It is already available on desktop and in the apps.
- Account creation experiment: Account creation experiment is live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia targeting 10% of logged-out mobile web users. It looks at whether adding a button to create accounts in the mobile web header boosts new registrations and increases mobile users contributing to the wikis.
- Experimenting with Hybrid Search on mobile apps: The Hybrid Search Phase 1 experiment on the Wikipedia Android app has concluded. It tested a combined keyword and meaning-based search methods to meet various information needs. The team is analyzing data and feedback, and will share insights and next steps soon.
- Latest experiments: See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology. One upcoming experiment is testing a refreshed Explore Feed to make it easier for readers to discover interesting content and visit Wikipedia app more often.
- Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions crossed 4,000 functions, with subtracting two complex numbers as the 4,000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles. The article about the famous Indian Brahmin Chanakya marked this milestone.
- Reading lists now a beta feature: New accounts are now opted into Reading lists by default on all Wikipedia wikis. This brings the "Save pages" feature to the web, which has been popular in mobile apps. For users in the beta, a "Save page" (bookmark) button appears in the toolbar on every page. The watch/unwatch (star) option moves to the tools menu. The "Watchlist" button in the top navigation shifts to the user menu. A new "Saved pages" button takes its place. In June, the feature will be available to all users and a user preference will be added to choose between two sets of buttons: Watch + Watchlist or Save + Saved list. The other set will be in the tool and user menus.
- Structured Contents: Article Images and Lists now in Structured Contents payloads.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 16 and 17 include CodeMirror 6 being promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. See also the 45 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Wikimedia Research Fund submissions in review: The submission period for this year's Wikimedia Research Fund is now closed. The technical and internal reviews of the proposals have begun.
- Events and conferences: Take a look at the different community events happening later this year: ESEAP Conference (May 15-17), WikiConference India (Sep 4-6), WikiConference North America (Sep 24-27), Language Diversity Conference (Oct 2 to 4), Queering Wiki (Oct 23-25), WikiArabia (Nov 6-8).
- Around the puzzle globe in the America region: More than 60 people joined America call to discuss the annual plan and the global trends impacting the movement. Participants came from across the region, and the audience included a mix of affiliates from LATAM, online contributors, and users with extended rights.
- Transparency Report: The Wikimedia Foundation published a transparency report covering July to December 2025.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation and share your ideas on the talk page.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Affiliations Committee News (January-March 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]You can find this newsletter translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki. Παρακαλώ βοηθήστε να γίνει μετάφραση στη γλώσσα σας
Quarterly newsletter sharing news and events about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
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Affiliate Recognition and Derecognition: This past quarter, AffCom recognized no new Affiliates due to the pause in recognizing new affiliates.
AffCom Conflict Intervention: AffCom is currently addressing eight ongoing affiliate conflict cases received in previous quarters.
Affiliate Recognition Pause Extension: The Wikimedia Foundation, together with the AffCom, has extended the pause on new affiliate recognition until September 1, 2026.
New Affiliate Model Development Efforts: The Affiliations Committee held collaborative meetings with the Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC) to explore the development of a new affiliations model.
Towards a Healthy Ecosystem of Wikimedia Organizations: Two major pilot initiatives were launched to address long-standing questions about the roles of movement organizations and the future of resource allocation.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:50, 03 May 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-19
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 Article guidance team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.
Updates for editors
- The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page.
- The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so.
- From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot in that the latter reminds users a week before the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages.
- The Global Watchlist, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata now support EntitySchema elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The second phase of global API rate limits has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2026-20
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Community Tech has published new guidance explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.
Updates for editors
- The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.
- The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.
- View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The ResourceLoader module
mediawiki.ui.input, deprecated since September 2023, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9
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Highlights
- Community Protection: Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.
- Stronger protections against bots: Wikimedia Foundation is replacing our CAPTCHA with a new approach to detect bad-faith activities without making things harder for users.
- Transparency Report: The Wikimedia Foundation has published its latest Transparency Report. This provides an overview of the work to protect Wikimedia projects and support the volunteer communities who handle the majority of content requests. Our users trust us to protect their identities against unlawful disclosure, and we take this responsibility seriously, granting only 1 of 30 requests for disclosure we received from July to December 2025.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Reading Challenge: As part of the 25th birthday celebrations, Wikipedia Mobile Apps launched a limited-time feature, the 25-day reading challenge with Baby Globe. This challenge encourages a daily habit of reading one Wikipedia article. The goal is to motivate users to come back to the app regularly.
- Latest experiments: One upcoming experiment is introducing the Incident Reporting System (IRS) to help contributors easily find the right place to seek help when facing harassment or other issues. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Change in how new users are autoconfirmed: The account age for autoconfirmed users will now start from their first edit, not the registration date. This is to avoid exploitation by vandals. This change will only apply to wikis that require at least one edit for autoconfirmation.
- Organized Reading lists: All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the “automatically enable most beta features” option can now use the reading lists beta feature. This lets you save articles for later reading and keep it organized in one place for easy access.
- Thumbnail size preferences: Default thumbnail size preference for article content is now limited to three sizes: Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px). This change aims to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. Current preferences will shift to the nearest new size.
- Wikifunctions: To make the development of Abstract Wikipedia visible, the Foundation is requesting your input: which metrics about Abstract Wikipedia pages do you deem important?
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 and 19 include improvements on Global Watchlist. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Annual Planning: We welcome your feedback on the main talk page for the 2026–2027 draft Annual Plan and many other places for the coming fiscal year.
- Wikimania: Wikimania is a joyful event. It is a chance to celebrate our community and projects, share ideas and information, build connections among Wikimedians, and inspire and develop future projects. If you and your community are interested in hosting Wikimania in 2028 and 2029 submit an expressions of interest.
- Community Conferences: The Foundation is supporting 15 strategic, diverse, and critical convenings taking place in 2026 and 2027, bringing together approximately 1800 Wikimedians across various regions, themes, and language communities.
- Don't blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
- Wiki Loves Monuments: The winners of the 2025 Wiki Loves Monuments photo contest are announced.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Enterprise: How CivicLens Uses Wikidata APIs to Make Civic Data More Accessible.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Wikinews closure: All Wikinews have been closed and switched to read-only mode. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.
- Affcom News: Read the latest issue of AffCom News (January-March 2026) to learn more about the latest news about the work of Wikimedia's Affiliations Committee.
- Model for affiliates to support contributors through tools: The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space.
- Grantmaking: The Global Resource Distribution Committee closed their request for feedback on three initial questions about grantmaking, and published their monthly update for April.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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Ενημέρωση από gvoug
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Ερώτηση από Γιώργος Βουγιουκλής (18:00, 13 Μαΐου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλημέρα σας, θα ήθελα να σας ενημερώσω για ένα θέμα σχετικό με τη Wikipedia που υπέπεσε στην αντίληψή μου. Στο πρόγραμμα χρηματοδότησης της Ε.Ε «Ψηφιακός Μετασχηματισμός» προκηρύσσονται διάφοροι διαγωνισμοί έργων πολλών εκατομμυρίων. Οι προδιαγραφές που ετοιμάζονται ανεπίσημα από εταιρείες, είναι φτιαχτές και περιέχουν υποχρεωτικούς ειδικούς όρους με σκοπό να αποκλείσουν άλλες εταιρίες να λάβουν μέρος στο διαγωνισμό και να υποβάλουν προσφορά. Παρατήρησα ό,τι μία Εταιρία βάζει τον παρακάτω υποχρεωτικό όρο σε ένα τρέχοντα διαγωνισμό αξίας 1.525.200 €
▪ Ένα (1) μέλος, κάτοχο πανεπιστημιακού τίτλου σπουδών με τουλάχιστον 5ετή εμπειρία σε συγγραφή, επεξεργασία και εμπλουτισμό λημμάτων στη Wikipedia.
Να σημειώσω ότι το αντικείμενο του διαγωνισμού δεν έχει καμία σχέση με Wikipedia
Επίσης για να λάβει μέρος κάποιος στο έργο πρέπει να έχει και βεβαίωση (!!) από Wikipedia. Δίνει η Wikipedia τέτοια βεβαίωση ή πιστοποιητικό ???
Πως τη βλέπετε αυτή την περίπτωση; GVOUG (συζήτηση) 14:50, 13 Μαΐου 2026 (UTC)
- Όχι, το σίγουρο είναι ότι η Wikipedia δεν δίνει κανενός είδους βεβαίωση ή πιστοποιητικό. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 10:07, 14 Μαΐου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Katedina tzana (19:58, 13 Μαΐου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]gia --Katedina tzana (συζήτηση) 19:58, 13 Μαΐου 2026 (UTC)
- Γεια χαρά και καλώς ήρθες! — Geraki (συζήτηση) 10:08, 14 Μαΐου 2026 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Eurovision 2026
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Hello everyone!
You are invited to participate in the "Wiki Loves Eurovision" article writing contest, where our goal is to create new Eurovision-related articles in the CEE-language Wikipedia editions and improve existing ones. The contest will take place from May 10 to June 10, 2026, and prizes are available:
- 1st prize: a voucher worth €60
- 2nd prize: a voucher worth €50
- 3rd prize: a voucher worth €40
- 4th–10th prize: a voucher worth €30
To participate in the contest and learn more, please visit this link. --MHeidarzadeh-CEEhub (talk) 14:00, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-21
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
Updates for editors
- An experiment to show Reading Lists to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.
- To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights.
- Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more.
- The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details.
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Μπορεί να έχετε δικαίωμα ψήφου στις εκλογές U4C
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Επικοινωνώ μαζί σας επειδή στο παρελθόν συμμετείχατε σε ψηφοφορίες που σχετίζονται με την Συντονιστική Επιτροπή του Καθολικού Κώδικα Συμπεριφοράς (U4C). Ενδέχεται να έχετε δικαίωμα ψήφου στις τρέχουσες εκλογές της U4C, οι οποίες είναι ήδη ανοιχτές και ολοκληρώνονται την 2 Ιουνίου 2026. Μπορείτε να μάθετε περισσότερα για τους υποψηφίους και τη διαδικασία των εκλογών στη σελίδα των εκλογών στο Meta, όπου θα βρείτε και πρόσβαση στην ίδια την ψηφοφορία.
Η συμμετοχή σας σε αυτές τις εκλογές είναι σημαντική για τη διακυβέρνηση των κοινοτήτων του Wikimedia και εκτιμούμε τον χρόνο που αφιερώνετε για να ενημερωθείτε σχετικά με τους υποψηφίους και να ψηφίσετε.
- Σε συνεργασία με την U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk)
Ερώτηση από Αυθεντικός Φειδιπίδειος Δρόμος (19:45, 21 Μαΐου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας. Θα ήθελα να ανεβάσω το χάρτη με τη διαδρομή του Αυθεντικού Φειδιππίδειου Δρόμου. Πώς μπορώ; --Αυθεντικός Φειδιπίδειος Δρόμος (συζήτηση) 19:45, 21 Μαΐου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-22
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics.
Updates for editors
- For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules.
- WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
- After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The legacy CSS classes
tleftandtrighthave been replaced withfloatleftandfloatrightas the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note thatfloatleftandfloatrightmay also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Ερώτηση από Ελληνογαλλική Σχολή Άγιος Ιωσήφ (15:07, 27 Μαΐου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας, πως μπορώ να βγάλω τη λέξη "Χρήστης" μπροστά από το "Ελληνογαλλική Σχολή Άγιος Ιωσήφ" της σελίδας που έχω χρησιμοποιήσει. Επίσης, μου την εμφανίζει ως "πρόχειρη" ; πως μπορει να γίνει κανονική; Σας ευχαριστώ πολύ --Ελληνογαλλική Σχολή Άγιος Ιωσήφ (συζήτηση) 15:07, 27 Μαΐου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Komninos.Garyfalos (06:37, 1 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα σας.
Είμαι νέος χρήστης στη Βικιπαίδεια και έχω ξεκινήσει ένα πρόχειρο λήμματος για τη Χρύσα Αρχοντούλη, Ελληνίδα παλαίμαχη ποδοσφαιρίστρια.
Θα ήθελα, αν είναι εύκολο, μια καθοδήγηση σχετικά με το αν το θέμα μπορεί να σταθεί εγκυκλοπαιδικά και τι θα πρέπει να προσέξω πριν προχωρήσω περισσότερο.
Δηλώνω ότι η οργάνωση του υλικού γίνεται στο πλαίσιο επαγγελματικής ανάθεσης από τρίτο πρόσωπο, για λογαριασμό της Χρύσας Αρχοντούλη. Για τον λόγο αυτό προσπαθώ να περιοριστώ σε ουδέτερη διατύπωση και σε στοιχεία που μπορούν να τεκμηριωθούν από ανεξάρτητες πηγές.
Μέχρι στιγμής υπάρχουν παλιά αποκόμματα από αθλητικές εφημερίδες, όπως Sportime, όπου αναφέρεται ονομαστικά η Αρχοντούλη, η συμμετοχή της στην Αίγινα και η προηγούμενη ομάδα της, ο Σταυρός Καλυθιών.
Το πρόχειρο βρίσκεται εδώ: Χρήστης:Komninos.Garyfalos/Πρόχειρο/Χρύσα Αρχοντούλη
Θα εκτιμούσα οποιαδήποτε υπόδειξη σχετικά με:
- την εγκυκλοπαιδικότητα,
- τις πηγές που θεωρούνται αποδεκτές,
- τη σωστή δήλωση επαγγελματικής σχέσης,
- και το αν είναι προτιμότερο να παραμείνει το κείμενο σε πρόχειρο μέχρι να προστεθούν περισσότερες παραπομπές.
Ευχαριστώ πολύ. --Komninos.Garyfalos (συζήτηση) 06:37, 1 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
This Month in Education: May 2026
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026
- Teaching innovation with Wikimedia. Shared experiences in Spanish Universities
- Editing Wikipedia with Viktor Hygo High School in Albania
- Debating free license in Brazil
- Microclimatic Explainers: A short-form media approach to build micro-level environmental awareness in India
- Ukraine publishes the first academic collection of papers on Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects
- Wiki Digital Youth Club Launches in Tanzania: Youth Build Digital Skills Through Competitive Quest Challenges
- Wiki Youth Participation in Building Rwanda’s Open Knowledge Ecosystem
- Wikimedia Digi-Youth Club in Nigeria
- Wikimedia MKD's Education News & Activities
- Wikipedia Serbia's interns and Wiki Ambassadors provide crucial support towards end of the school year
Tech News: 2026-23
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
- The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
- View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Books & Bytes – Issue 74
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Issue 74, March–April 2026
- New partnership: Swissdox
- User survey results
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Ερώτηση από Κατερίνα Χάσκα (10:55, 5 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πως μπορω να βαλω το βιογραφικο στο wikipedia. Ειμαι καλλιτεχνης --Κατερίνα Χάσκα (συζήτηση) 10:55, 5 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-24
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content.
Updates for editors
- The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
- The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
- Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using
__HIDDENCAT__(or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848. - The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
- The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
- The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The function signature for
mw.util.addPortletLink()has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of:mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page');usemw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses ofaddPortletLink()and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. - Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10
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Highlights
- Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
- Digital Public Goods: The Wikimedia Foundation has become a member of the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA).
- Better bot detection: A trial of hCaptcha on several Wikipedias, including English, French, and Japanese, showed it can effectively detect and deter bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Based on these results, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis. See the project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- A better way to give credit: The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.
- Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge: The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.
- Account security: The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.
- Incident reporting form: The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.
- Encouraging account creation: Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.
- Wikimedia Android App: The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: Community, featuring refreshed Explore content, and For You, with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The For You feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.
- Better discovery of images: The Image Browsing beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
- Reading Lists feature: The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.
- Testing Suggestion Mode: Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
- Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references: References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.
- Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia: The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20, 21, 22, 23 include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Tech blog moved to Diff: The migration of the Techblog to Diff is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.
- What’s new in the Wikipedia Library: Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library.
- New course on WikiLearn: A free self-paced online course, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.
- Wiki Mentor Africa: The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.
- Let's Connect Learning Clinic: If you missed it, you can now watch the recording of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.
- Community Conferences: Registration for WikiConference North America and Queering Wiki Conference is now opened. Call for Speakers for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Sharing the Form 990s: The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights on Form 990 for the Foundation and Form 990 for the Endowment on Meta-Wiki.
- Wikimedia Enterprise: Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.
- Structured Contents: How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia to Markdown with Python.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Board selection process: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is reviewing and improving how it selects new members. The goal is to ensure that there is the right mix of expertise and community representation on the board. Join the conversation on 16 June at 17:00 UTC, and share your ideas on the talk page.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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Ερώτηση από Jimboy1617 (22:52, 10 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Θα ήθελα να κάνω το πρώτο μου λήμμα --Jimboy1617 (συζήτηση) 22:52, 10 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλώς ήρθες. Για ένα νέο λήμμα ακολούθησε το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:40, 15 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Jimboy1617 (00:56, 11 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Θα ήθελα να ασχοληθώ με την διόρθωση κειμένων αν γίνεται --Jimboy1617 (συζήτηση) 00:56, 11 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
- Οποιοσδήποτε μπορεί να διορθώνει κείμενα, είναι ακριβώς αυτό που κάνει καλύτερη τη Βικιπαίδεια. Συμβουλέψου την Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:41, 15 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Lifestyle191 (11:17, 15 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Καλησπέρα για κάποιον λόγο ο κύριος ευθυμης διέγραψε το λήμμα μου ήταν το πρώτο μου θεωρώ πως ήταν επαρκές δεν καταλαβαίνω τον λόγο που δεν επικοινώνησε μαζί μου και απλώς το διέγραψε --Lifestyle191 (συζήτηση) 11:17, 15 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
- Υπάρχουν κάποιες σελίδες που μπορούν να διαγράφονται άμεσα και άλλες μετά από συζήτηση. Θα πρέπει να ρωτήσεις για τα κριτήρια με βάση τα οποία διαγράφηκε άμεσα. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:45, 15 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από VGA38000 (12:33, 15 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πώς μπορώ να δημιουργήσω το πρώτο μου λήμμα --VGA38000 (συζήτηση) 12:33, 15 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
- Ακολούθησε το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος, αλλά σε παρακαλώ δες και το Βικιπαίδεια:Μαριονέτα... — Geraki (συζήτηση) 18:47, 15 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-25
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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 Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use
class=notpageimageexcluding it from thumbnail previews, orclass=noviewerexcluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word__NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page. - Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding
data-sort-order="desc"to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.
Updates for editors
- The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
- View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
- The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
- The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
- The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
- Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.
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MediaWiki message delivery 16:48, 15 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Galanos Nikos (10:29, 21 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]γεια σας. θελω να γραψω για την ιστορια της ιθακης --Galanos Nikos (συζήτηση) 10:29, 21 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλώς ήρθες! Οποιοσδήποτε μπορεί να διορθώνει ή να γράφει νέα λήμματα, είναι ακριβώς αυτό που κάνει καλύτερη τη Βικιπαίδεια. Μπορείς να ξεκινήσεις άμεσα! Συμβουλέψου την Βοήθεια:Εισαγωγή. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 16:14, 21 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-26
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.
Updates for editors
- The special page Ειδικό:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
- Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
- Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
- View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the
skipcaptcharight, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. Theskipcaptcharight will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis. - Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
- The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11
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Highlights
- Community Wishlist: Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future.
- Simplifying account creation: The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.
- New U4C members elected: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Wikimania conference program: The Wikimania 2026 program is now live! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket here, if you haven't signed up yet.
- Neutral Point of View: A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion open until July 15, 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- App Explore feed: The redesigned App Explore feed, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.
- Wikipedia games: The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.
- Reusing references: Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.
- Article guidance: The Article guidance feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
- Mobile Page Previews: The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.
- Wikifunctions: You can now add images to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.
- Wikidata: The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline.
- Growth features: Growth features are now available at Wikidata! Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).
- Mentors' management: The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.
- Collaborative Contributions: If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more.
- Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 and 25 include how the user interface icon library is being updated. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events
- Digital Safety: Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.
- Don't Blink: Read the latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.
- Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model: Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan
- Enterprise: SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.
Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters
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June 2026 CEE Newsletter is out
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Dear all,
The June 2026 issue of the CEE Newsletter has been published.
After a three years of being an editor of the Newsletter, this will be my last issue. Over the years, I've been putting on multiple hats and now is time to take one off. I would like to share many thanks to everyone I had the honor of collaborating with. Many of you are not only readers, but also authors. It was always a great joy to read all the amazing stories from all around the region, you are the ones making this newsletter special.
Read the full newsletter here. As always, we have prepared a Russian version of the same issue. Happy reading!
Take care,
Jan
This Month in Education: June 2026
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 6 • June 2026
- Wikipedia Editathon at Dinajpur Govt. College: Empowering Graduate Students in the Open Knowledge Movement
- Wikimedia Serbia prepares for Edu Wiki camp 2026
- Wiki Digi-Youth Clubs pilot explores challenge-based learning across three countries
- Why the EduWiki Hub Starter Kit Matters for the Future of Education
- Portuguese Universities adopt free knowledge tools: Wikipedia is the favorite
- Translating on Wikipedia used as extra – credit assignment in University of Prishtina, Kosovo
- Strengthening Wikimedia Education Through Community Learning and Digital Literacy Initiatives
- Small Group, Big Impact: Building Skills Through the Wikimedia Volunteer Focus Group in Botswana
- "25x25 Project – Celebrating Wikipedia" in Córdoba, Argentina
- Mapping and gathering educational activities on Wiki in Brazilian universities
- Growing Wiki Education in the Philippines: Highlights from Bikol WikiConference 2026
- From Mentee to Builder: Six Months in the EduWiki Hub Mentorship Program
- EduWiki Hub publishes its first Community Newsletter
- Click, Capture, and Contribute: Scaling Open Knowledge Through Mobile Photography
- Education in Action: Limkokwing School Adoption Program 2026 and Wikimedia Learning Outcomes
- Impact of Wiki Digi youth Clubs initiative in education of Rwanda
Tech News: 2026-27
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
- After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
- An update to Search is refining how the
-prefix:behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using-prefix:with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update,-prefix:will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior ofprefix:without negation however remains unchanged. - View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Ερώτηση από LenaP2026 στην UserLenaP2026/Sandbox (06:16, 30 Ιουνίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Δεν μπορώ να κάνω paste --LenaP2026 (συζήτηση) 06:16, 30 Ιουνίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλώς ήρθες Λένα! Δεν μπορώ να ξέρω γιατί δεν μπορείς να κάνεις paste, αυτό μάλλον οφείλεται σε κάτι στην δική σου συσκευή. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 09:18, 1 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από CR.VELIS στην Χρήστης:CR.VELIS (01:25, 1 Ιουλίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Πώς αποκτάω ένα link --CR.VELIS (συζήτηση) 01:25, 1 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλώς ήρθες @CR.VELIS! Δεν καταλαβαίνω την ερώτησή σου. Μπορείς να εξηγήσεις τι προσπαθείς να κάνεις; — Geraki (συζήτηση) 09:19, 1 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Απόστολος Γ. Μαντάς (09:04, 2 Ιουλίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Το λήμμα που θέλω να γράψω αφορά στον προ πολλού νεκρό ζωγράφο και αγιογράφο Σταμάτη Παπασταματίου, για τον οποίο δέν έχει γραφεί μέχρι τώρα κάτι. Σε ποια κατηγορία ανήκει? --Απόστολος Γ. Μαντάς (συζήτηση) 09:04, 2 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
Πρόταση λήμματος: Ασημίνα Στασινοπούλου (Συγγραφέας
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]
Καλή σας μέρα. Θα ήθελα να προτείνω τη δημιουργία λήμματος για τη συγγραφέα Ασημίνα Στασινοπούλου, καθώς θεωρώ ότι πληροί τα κριτήρια εγκυκλοπαιδικότητας με πλούσιο συγγραφικό έργο.
Η συγγραφέας έχει εκδώσει τα μυθιστορήματα «Στα μονοπάτια του Έρωτα» (2018), «Παιχνίδια Εξουσίας» (2019), «Η γοητεία της έλξης» (2021), «Η φλόγα του πάθους» και «Απαγορευμένη λάμψη», καθώς και τα παιδικά παραμύθια «Ο Δράκος Πυροσβέστης» (2018) και «Ο Δράκος Γιατρός» (2020) κ.α μέχρι σήμερα.
Επίσης έχει συμμετέχει σε λογοτεχνικά περιοδικά και συλλογικά έργα.
Παραθέτω τις απαραίτητες ανεξάρτητες πηγές και συνεντεύξεις για την τεκμηρίωση:
- https://bookpoint.gr/contributors/1127039#all
- https://www.texnesonline.gr/2023/05/blog-post_99.html
- https://www.grafein.gr/synenteyxi-me-tin-asimina-stasinopoyloy/
- https://vivlio-life.gr/%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%AF%CE%BD%CE%B1-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%B9%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CF%8D%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85-%CF%83%CF%85%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%BE%CE%B7-%CF%83%CF%84/
- https://www.authoring-melodies.gr/mina-stasinopoulou/
Λόγω σύγκρουσης συμφερόντων (καθώς είμαι η ίδια η συγγραφέας), θα εκτιμούσα ιδιαίτερα αν κάποιος εθελοντής της κοινότητας μπορούσε να αναλάβει τη δημιουργία του λήμματος. Ευχαριστώ πολύ. Asimina25 (συζήτηση) 00:39, 4 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από User3161945 (23:18, 4 Ιουλίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Μπορείς να μου εξηγήσεις καλύτερα πως δουλεύουν οι παραπομπές? --User3161945 (συζήτηση) 23:18, 4 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλώς ήρθες! Μπορείς να δεις αρχικά την Βοήθεια:Προσθήκη παραπομπών με τον VisualEditor. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 17:36, 6 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
Ερώτηση από Δημήτρης 1997 (10:59, 6 Ιουλίου 2026)
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Θέλω να κάνω ένα λήμμα καινούργιο. Πώς το κάνω ? --Δημήτρης 1997 (συζήτηση) 10:59, 6 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
- Καλώς ήρθες! Μπορείς να δεις το Βικιπαίδεια:Οδηγός λήμματος. — Geraki (συζήτηση) 17:37, 6 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-28
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the search bar results on Wikidata, showed English results instead of using the correct language fallback for users of language variants, has now been fixed. Search suggestions will now follow the expected language fallback chain.
Updates for technical contributors
- In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
- The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the
srcattribute and SVG in thesrcsetattribute. - The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.
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MediaWiki message delivery 13:57, 6 Ιουλίου 2026 (UTC)
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12
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Highlights
- Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report.
- Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure: A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
- Increasing account creation: The experiment providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis on mobile web.
Annual Goals Progress on Engage
See also: Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
- Add A Link: The Foundation deployed Add A Link as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.
- Reusing references: Sub-referencing, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.
- Wikifunctions: Check out the 71 new functions with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.
- Range calculator: The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
- Captcha verification: Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users with the
skipcaptcharight, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. - Latest experiments: An upcoming experiment is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology.
- Account security on private wikis: Two-factor authentication will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.
- Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 and 27 include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
- Team Challenges: The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.
Annual Goals Progress on Enable
See also: Research newsletter · WikiLearn News · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- Wikimedia Hackathon: A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.
- Wikimedia Hubs: The Hub Fund will pause funding for new pilots in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.
Annual Goals Progress on Protect
See also: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Open Knowledge And Digital Rights: Wikimedians shared their reflections on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.
Annual Goals Progress on Reach
See also: Wikimedia Apps · Readers
- Journalism Award: Wikimedia Foundation announced three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.
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Tech News: 2026-29
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]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
- Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
- The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
- View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
- To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.
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Books & Bytes – Issue 75
[επεξεργασία κώδικα]Issue 75, May–June 2026
- New partnerships: The Telegraph, Marg, The Tribune newspapers
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