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Tech News: 2026-17
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Human sa duha ka tuig nga pag-develop, ang ⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽, nailhan usab nga CodeMirror 6, i-promote gikan sa beta sa Martes, Abril 21. Kini magdala og mas maayong code ug wikitext readability, pagkunhod sa mga sayop sa pag-type, ug uban pang mga benepisyo sa tanang tiggamit sa standard syntax highlighter. Daghang salamat sa boluntaryong si Bhsd nga nag-develop sa daghang bag-ong mga feature, lakip ang code folding, autocompletion, ug linting. [1]
- Usa ka dakong update sa Wikipedya app para sa iOS ang gilunsad karon, nga nag-usab sa disenyo sa interface aron mohaom sa pinakabag-o nga "Liquid Glass" nga biswal nga disenyo sa Apple. I-download ang pinakabag-ong bersyon ug susiha ang update.
Updates for editors
- Ang mga lista sa pagbasa usa ka bahin nga nagtugot sa mga magbabasa sa pagtipig sa mga artikulo sa usa ka lista para sa pagbasa sa ulahi. Kini nga bahin anaa na karon sa beta sa Arabiko, Pranses, Indones, Vietnamese, ug Intsik Wikipedyas ug pinaagi sa default para sa tanang bag-ong mga account sa tanang Wikipedya.
- 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. [2]
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. [3]
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. [4]
- 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. [5] - The
imageandoldimagetable will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries accessimageoroldimagedirectly, please update them to use thefileandfilerevisiontable before 28 May. [6] - 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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