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* This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of [[<tvar name="1">mw:Special:MyLanguage/2025 RecentChanges Language Agnostic Revert Risk Filtering</tvar>|a new filter to Recent Changes]], releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted, helping Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include [[mw:2025 RecentChanges Language Agnostic Revert Risk Filtering|the rest of the Wikipedias in this project]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964] |
* This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of [[<tvar name="1">mw:Special:MyLanguage/2025 RecentChanges Language Agnostic Revert Risk Filtering</tvar>|a new filter to Recent Changes]], releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted, helping Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include [[mw:2025 RecentChanges Language Agnostic Revert Risk Filtering|the rest of the Wikipedias in this project]]. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T391964] |
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* [[File:Octicons-gift.svg|12px|link=|class=skin-invert|{{safesubst:Tech news text/{{TRANSLATIONLANGUAGE}}|wishlist item}}]] The [[mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:Watchlist expiry|watchlist expiry]] feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The [[Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-watchlist-pageswatchlist|preferences]] also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T265716] |
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Tech News: 2025-24
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
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Updates for editors
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- This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted, helping Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [1]
The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [2]
View all NNN community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Lua modules now have access to WikiProject assessment information and the names of the page thumbnail images. This is exposed via two new properties on mw.title objects –
pageAssessmentsandpageImage, respectively. [3] [4] - …
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
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Meetings and events
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