User talk:M7

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it-N Quest'utente può contribuire con un livello madrelingua in italiano. en-3 This user has advanced knowledge of English. es-2 Esta persona tiene un conocimiento intermedio del español. fr-2 Cette personne dispose de connaissances intermédiaires en français. de-1 Dieser Benutzer beherrscht Deutsch auf grundlegendem Niveau. pt-1 Este utilizador tem um conhecimento básico de português.
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please use my talk page. You can write me in any of the languages mentioned in my Babel templates. Usually I'll answer in Italian only if you write in Italian, otherwise I'll use English. Sorry, but my knowledge of other languages is too limited to permit anything more than reading. --M/

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ticket to see

Hello M7, please see ticket:2026032210004141 regarding a recent block of yours. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 21:23, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-13

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

Weekly highlight

• 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. [1]
• 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. [2]
• 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. [3]
• 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. [4]
• 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. [5][6]

• 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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MediaWiki message delivery 16:51, 23 March 2026 (UTC)

Information about the recent security incident

Hello, we are sending this message to inform you that your account was one of 97 registered Wikimedia accounts affected by malicious code as part of a recent security incident. This occurred only because you visited Meta-Wiki at a specific time.

This incident was caused by a malicious user script "worm" that was unintentionally activated during a security review by the Wikimedia Foundation staff. The worm modified MediaWiki:Common.js, causing Meta-Wiki visitors to edit or delete various pages during the approximately 23 minutes that this worm was operational.

We have analyzed the malicious user script and reviewed our internal and public logs. We have found no evidence that your account credentials were compromised, or that your account was used to conduct any other actions on Wikimedia projects besides editing or deleting random pages. We have no reason to believe that Wikipedia was under attack, or that any information about your account was breached as part of this incident.

All edits caused by the script have been reverted, and the deleted pages have been restored.

We apologize for any disruption this incident caused you, and are working to prevent this kind of incident from happening again. You can learn more about that security work, and further details about this incident, on our project page.

Regards, on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Product Safety and Integrity team, SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 17:18, 26 March 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-14

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

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. [7]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:26, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Meta:Administrators/Removal (inactivity)

Hello. Sadly I didn't find the time earlier to point this out, but upon updating User:Krd/inactive admins there was some timeout and likely the entry for User:Martin Urbanec was listed in error. If I check it now, Martin doesn't appear in the list. Please consider to scratch him from the list. Sorry for the trouble. --Krd 06:30, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

@Krd I'm going to do that right now. Sorry, also, for my own part of the mess. --M/ (talk) 06:31, 2 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-15

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

Updates for editors

• 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. [8]

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. [9]
• 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. [10]
• The Special:NamespaceInfo page now includes namespace aliases. For example "WP" for the "Project" ("Wikipedia") namespace on the German Wikipedia. [11]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:19, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Reminder: global rename policy requirement

You are receiving this message because you are either a Steward or a global renamer. If you are steward and don't perform global rename, you can safely ignore this message.

Hello, this is a general reminder that renames or vanish requests should be reserved for someone who knows the language and local wiki affairs on their home wiki or most active wiki for the first 24 hours after the request is placed.

For the first 24 hours after a rename or vanishing request has been placed, it should only be processed by a renamer who has sufficient proficiency in the language of the requester's home or most active wiki, and is active on that wiki.

— Global renamers#Guidelines

Refer to the 2025 RFC adding this rule, and following global-renamers mailing list emails: 1, 2, 3. Thank you.

— regards, Revi delivered by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:11, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

Update regarding my Global Lock Appeal (User: AMAN KUMAR) - Local Unblock Granted

Dear @M7 and fellow Wikimedia Stewards,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to share a very positive update regarding my globally locked account (AMAN KUMAR).

After reviewing my case, Hindi Wikipedia Administrator DreamRimmer has officially unblocked me locally and given me a second chance. He understood the context of my past mistakes and the misunderstanding regarding my old alternate account (@VIKRAM47).

• You can verify my past transparency about closing my old account here: Local Talk Page Archive
• VRT Ticket for reference: Ticket:2026032210004141

To briefly apologize again: the "spam" was a genuine misunderstanding of the NPOV policy while translating, not intentional commercial advertising. My attempt to evade the lock was a foolish panic reaction to finish my pending work, not a malicious attack.

I am a dedicated volunteer with over 2,600 edits across multiple wikis (Hindi, Maithili, Manipuri, Simple English, and Fiji Hindi). You can review my real global contributions here: XTools Global Contributions

Admin DreamRimmer has strictly warned me to be extremely careful with my future edits, and I promise not to disappoint him or the global community.

I humbly request you to consider the local administrator's decision to trust me again and lift the global lock so I can return to making positive contributions.

Thank you for your time, patience, and understanding.

Sincerely,

AMAN KUMAR (talk) 11:39, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@AMAN KUMAR Dear Sir, I indeed trust my fellow sysop DreamRimmer and also I now I can better understand your intention and commitment, so I hereby lift your global block and I hope that you are going to make a good use of your writing ability on any Wikimedia Project. Thank you for your collaboration, --M/ (talk) 16:58, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Dear @M7,

Thank you so much for your kind words, and for trusting both me and sysop DreamRimmer. I deeply appreciate you lifting the global lock, and I promise to make good use of my writing abilities while strictly following Wikimedia policies.

I have one urgent and humble request. During the time my account was globally locked, you had deleted the articles I created on the Simple English Wikipedia and Fiji Hindi Wikipedia.

Since those articles were my submissions for the "Feminism and Folklore 2026" contest, the jury members (Darkfrog24, Ferien, and Haoreima) could not find the pages and have currently marked them as "not accepted" with 0 points.

Could you please undelete/restore those pages? Once they are restored, I can inform the jury that the misunderstanding is cleared so they can re-evaluate my work. I assure you that my very first action upon restoration will be to review and correct the language to strictly follow NPOV guidelines.

Thank you again for giving me this second chance.

Best regards,

AMAN KUMAR (talk) 17:42, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

@AMAN KUMAR, Done --M/ (talk) 18:02, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-16

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. [12]
• 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. [13]

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting later this week, Abuse filter editors 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. [14][15]
• 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. [16]
• 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). [17]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 15:19, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

153.194.181.143

Hi M7, I saw that you have previously globally blocked this IP, however do you mind extending the global block as it appears to be an active open proxy according to IPcheck. Tenshi! (Talk page) 11:31, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

@Tenshi! Done, thanks. --M/ (talk) 12:21, 19 April 2026 (UTC)

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

• 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. [18]
• 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. [19]
• 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. [20]

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. [21]
• The mirrors.wikimedia.org service 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. [22]
• The image and oldimage table will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries access image or oldimage directly, please update them to use the file and filerevision table before 28 May. [23]
• 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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MediaWiki message delivery 15:00, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-18

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

Updates for editors

• 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 Autoconfirmed users 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. [24]
• 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. [25]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 18:06, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-19

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

Weekly highlight

• The 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. [26]
• 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. [27]
• 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. [28][29][30]

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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MediaWiki message delivery 20:43, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Request for Global Block Review

​I’m reaching out to request a review and removal of the global block on my account/IP. The block notice mentions an "Open Proxy," but I believe this might be a misunderstanding or an automated error regarding my connection. ​I have been a dedicated contributor to Central Kurdish Wikipedia (ckbwiki) for over six years, with thousands of edits under my belt. I want to assure you that I have never used a proxy for disruptive purposes, nor do I intend to. My only goal is to continue contributing to the projects I’ve been involved in for so long. ​Could you please look into this and lift the block? If the issue is related to my IP range, I’d appreciate any advice on how I can continue editing without being caught in these automated blocks. ​Thank you for your time and for everything the team does to support the Wikimedia community. ‎‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _ᴛᴀʟᴋ 11:22, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi ‏‎Haryad, I am sorry for the inconvenience, still I am happy and ready to assist and to investigate further on my IP Address block. Could you please tell me the exact IP or the number of the block? If you prefer not to publicy disclose this information, you can e-mail me. Thanks, --M/ (talk) 12:25, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@M7: I sent you the email. Please let me know here once you have unblocked my IP. ‎‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _ᴛᴀʟᴋ 18:05, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@‏‎Haryad, did you use this Special:EmailUser/M7? Please check, since I still haven't got any e-mail. --M/ (talk) 18:14, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@M7: Yes, I have sent the email. Could you please check once more to confirm receipt? ‎‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _ᴛᴀʟᴋ 18:21, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@‏‎Haryad, e-mail received. You should now be able to edit again on your wiki, can you please confirm? I am really sorry for the inconvenience caused. --M/ (talk) 18:28, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

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@M7: Thanks a lot! I can edit now. Just wondering, how did this happen? I want to make sure I’m aware of it for next time. ‎‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _ᴛᴀʟᴋ 18:38, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@‏‎Haryad, Stewards got a request to gblock range due to OP's and X-Wiki vandalism from that range. I've now excluded registered users from that block. Thanks again for bringing this up. --M/ (talk) 19:26, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@M7: I got it. Thank you too for responding so quickly to my request! ‎‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _ᴛᴀʟᴋ 19:55, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi again @M7. Why can't I access Wikibooks in other languages with my account? My IP has been blocked across three different languages. What is the issue? Look, 1, 2, 3. this is what it shows when I try to log into my account in other languages. ‎‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _ᴛᴀʟᴋ 08:34, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi @‏‎Haryad, probably you had never edited these other languages wikies and the account creation was disabled. Would you please try again? --M/ (talk) 09:06, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

@M7: Thank you so much! Now I can log in to my account and edit it. ‎‏‎ʜᴀʀʏᴀᴅ _ᴛᴀʟᴋ 09:19, 18 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-20

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

Weekly highlight

• 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. [31]

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. [32]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:20, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

A little question

Hello, I was wondering is this really a lock? I think it should be a block instead, can you explain? Thanks! MinhVN1863 (talk) 09:18, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

@MinhVN1863, the contributions suggest that it was a lock evasion, thus locking per policy. --M/ (talk) 09:22, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Actually yes, it's an evasion, but probably a block evasion, check out this account too. MinhVN1863 (talk) 09:26, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Thus, being a multi-account, a lock is suitable. --M/ (talk) 09:28, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Oh ok, thanks again, have a nice day! :D MinhVN1863 (talk) 09:30, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Excuse me

Can you help me to globally lock Louischen88888? Thank you. Reason given: Cross-wiki abuse & Using multiple socks. Besides, this account has already blocked on zhwiki and enwiki. ~2026-29430-41 (talk) 00:54, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Also inform @A09 as well. ~2026-29430-41 (talk) 00:55, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

I suggest raising this on SRG talk page since I don't think this user is lock eligible. A09|(pogovor) 08:57, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

@A09, I agree. --M/ (talk) 09:07, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

As a matter of fact, the TA already did this and removed the thread after unsuccessfully pinging some members. I believe this could be an attempt of forum shopping. A09|(pogovor) 09:09, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-21

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

Weekly highlight

• The 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. [33]
• 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. [34]

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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