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Tech News: 2026-45
[edit]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
- Many Wikimedia tools were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This affected many websites worldwide. Toolforge and Cloud VPS have been back up since October 22. Many important tools have been gradually restored. Some tools need the respective volunteer maintainers to restart them. Others still need to upgrade to a patched PHP version. Some tools were using older versions of PHP which are not supported by the recent security patches. They will require maintainers to upgrade to a more recent version. This might require additional effort. You can follow the work on Wikitech.
Updates for editors
- A new optional search experiment is running in the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps for Arabic, French, and Japanese Wikipedias. Participating readers can search inside articles and open quoted passages directly in their source articles, no answers or summaries are generated. This is the first of four experiments in Phase 2 of Semantic Search. It began on October 22 and runs for 20 days. Feedback is welcome on the project’s discussion page.
- The Future Audiences team is planning to bring Share Cards to Wikipedia on mobile. This feature gives users the option to share a visually appealing card with friends, based on the article they are reading. The card contains the article’s title, image, opening text, and related attribution, and links back to the article for full reading. Editors are invited to try out this feature by adding
?useformat=mobile&sharecard=1to any article URL from October 29 to November 8. Share any thoughts on the project talk page and report any bugs on Phabricator. - The default renderer for math formulas will change on November 2. After the change, the server sends the formula as MathML, and your browser uses MathJax to show it. This is the last step towards the Mathoid/RESTBase deprecation process, for sustainability and security reasons. You can ask questions or report problems.
- Do you have an idea for a new feature, or a bug that needs fixing? Submit your suggestion for the community wish list by November 8!
View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Bi-twin chain table: open edit request
[edit]Hello. You last updated the record table at Bi-twin chain, so I thought you might be interested in an open edit request on its talk page: Talk:Bi-twin chain#Edit request: update the k = 3 row (conflict of interest disclosed).
It proposes updating the k = 3 row using Lifchitz's BiTwin records page as the source, and lists some differences in other rows. I have a conflict of interest, because the proposed k = 3 entry is my own find, so I am not editing the article myself. Please feel free to decline or change anything, and there is no obligation to look at it.
Thank you. Gargarnav2007 (talk) 19:35, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
- Okay, I will look at this, I think requesting edit as AOI is still a good idea. Just a random Wikipedian(talk) 21:01, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-46
[edit]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 Wikipedia Apps team is preparing to launch Year in Review in early December. Year in Review gives app users a personalized recap of how they read and engaged with Wikipedia throughout the year. The team is looking for volunteers to help make it available in as many languages as possible. Translators can contribute through translatewiki.net. For Android, search for
yirunder the "Untranslated" tab, and for iOS, search foryear-in-reviewunder the "Untranslated" tab. - The Article guidance feature that helps editors create articles that follow a Wikipedia’s policies, is now available on all Wikipedias. Administrators and interface admins can configure and expose it for editors to use via Special:CommunityConfiguration/ArticleGuidance. A configuration guide is available. Visit the project talk page to ask any questions.
Updates for editors
- Following the release of Reading Lists to all Wikipedias in September, logged-in users will soon be able to organize articles saved in their lists into customizable categories. This will enable readers to create collections and revisit saved articles based on their interests, potentially encouraging frequent visits to Wikipedia. The update will roll out to all Wikipedia users between November 9 and 16.
- The Wikipedia Apps team is preparing to launch the first of two notification experiments for English Wikipedia readers on Android who have opted in to notifications. The three-week experiment will send notifications suggesting personalized Discover reading lists which are collections of Wikipedia articles recommended based on articles the reader has previously viewed. The goal is to understand whether these recommendations help readers discover relevant content and encourage them to return to the app. No action is required, and users can manage their notification preferences in the app settings. Learn more and share feedback.
- A bug in the Global Watchlist was causing the page to fail to load for users who have unseen changes on Wikimedia Commons. The bug has now been fixed. If you temporarily removed
commons.wikimedia.orgfrom your personal Global Watchlist settings due to the bug, you can restore it there. - A new Beta feature called "Home" will be deployed to 10 Wikipedias for a limited test. This new feature aims to replace
Special:Homepagefor newcomers, with additional modules planned for the future to improve upon the current experience. If you want to participate in the test, please sign up. "Home" will be released to all users later this month. - On English and Russian Wikipedias, Source Verification is now available as an experimental Suggestion for experienced editors within Suggestion Mode. It uses an LLM hosted on LiftWing to try to check whether a cited source supports the claim it’s attached to. To try it out, please see these testing instructions. If you are at another language Wikipedia and your community is interested in trying it out, please express your interest.
- View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where dates passed as blank parameters to functions in wikitext were incorrectly interpreted using the month-day-year format instead of the day-month-year format, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting on 1 December 2026, hCaptcha will be required for edits made via the API by non-autoconfirmed users. If your tool, gadget, or user script makes edits on behalf of newcomer users, see how to update it.
- 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 close on 22 November 2026.
- Toolforge has introduced two new beta features. "Toolforge alerts" send email notifications when a tool becomes unavailable, returns errors, or restarts frequently. "Extended logging" makes it easier to investigate problems by providing logs for events such as job creation, deletion, and deployment failures through the
toolforge logscommand. Both features are opt-in and help tool maintainers become aware of and resolve problems with their tools more quickly. Maintainers can enable alerts and learn how to access extended logs. They are also encouraged to try the features and provide feedback. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- A proposal to change how we currently organize the Wikimedia Hackathon has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page; the deadline has been extended to November 13th.
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MediaWiki message delivery 10:32, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
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Wikidata weekly summary #757
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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-11-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #756.
week leading up to 2026-11-09. Missed the previous one? See issue #756.
Discussions
- New requests for permissions/Bot:
- Dragons Bot - Task/s: fetch labels and descriptions for rare languages on 10s or 100s of thousands items.
- CWTSIDsBot - Task/s: Adding ASJC, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from CWTS dataset ( Leiden University's Centre for Science and Technology Studies, from https://www.journalindicators.com/) where they are missing in Wikidata.
- PubMedIDsBot - Task/s: Adding NLM, Print ISSN, and Online ISSN from PubMed dataset where they are missing in Wikidata.
- CRMEDRBot - Task/s: Add missing Latin, Italian and English labels to items for saints and blessed of the Roman Martyrology, using the name under which the Martyrology commemorates them.
- Closed request for permissions/Bot: All closed as successful - AuntuBot, OKA bot 3, Karlb42Bot, AcervoFilmicoBot,
- New mass-editing proposals: Public office holders and state bodies – A proposal to improve Wikidata records about public office holders and government institutions using Wikipedia articles.
- New request for comments: Add property: schema:dateCreated as Item's creation date to rdf-Export - new property proposal for schema:dateCreated to the entity data block in the Wikidata RDF export, exposing creation date of an Item (first revision timestamp). Complements existing schema:dateModified property and enable longitudinal 'item creation' analyses directly in SPARQL, without API round-trips.
Press, articles, blog posts, videos
- Blogs:
- One Fact, Seven Languages: Bringing Abstract Wikipedia to Life (From Wikidata to Abstract Wikipedia : Exploring a data-driven and test-driven approach to multilingual knowledge generation.)
- Celebrating Wikidata’s 14th Birthday in Zanzibar
- From Skills to Action: Expanding How We Contribute to Wikimedia
- (Deutsch) DigAMus 2026 on Wikidata - visit the DigAMus WikiProject.
- Papers: LC-QuAD 2.0: A Large Dataset for Complex Question Answering over Wikidata and DBpedia - by Dubey et al., (2026).
- Videos:
- (Español) Latin America in Wikidata 2026: Presentation on how to model data in Wikidata – with EPorto (WMB)
- (zh-TW) Taiwan OpenStreetMap and Wikidata Workshop - from the Taiwan OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia meeting, August 23, 2026.
- Playlist: Wikibase Cloud Sandbox - Crystal Yragui demonstrates how to create an account, navigate and use the sandbox.
- The Wikimedians (ep. 2): Andy Mabbett/Pigsonthewing - a conversation with User:CloverMoss.
- Games: Geo-Master - is a suite of geographically-themed Wikidata-powered games. Guess the Capital, Neighbours, Mystery Country, collect regions of the World Map to show off your skill and progress. Daily Challenges, multiplayer, leaderboards.
Tool of the week
- Wikipindai - by User:Affandy Murad - a Chrome browser extension. When installed, right-click on any text to retrieve what the Wikimedia projects knows about it...acts as a great discovery tool to see what articles and pages exist about the highlighted text/concept.
- DinoData (DinoData (Q141746631)) ‒ a web tool for viewing and editing Wikidata items in a more compact interface built with Vue and Codex. Edits are collected locally, shown as a diff, and then saved in one revision or exported as QuickStatements. A user script adds a "DinoData" tab to item pages. More at Wikidata:DinoData.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- WMF is finishing the rollout of hCaptcha on December 1, which will affect edits made via the API by non-autoconfirmed users. Those edits will need to include an hCaptcha "token" to be accepted by the API. If you have a tool that is used by non-autoconfirmed users, users who don’t have skipcaptcha, that you think might be affected see more on meta:Product_Safety_and_Integrity/hCaptcha#November_2026:_Completing_hCaptcha_rollout.
- Baltic and Finnish architecture: reconciling an editorial base with Wikidata led to 23 new building items, 17 new architect items and more than 100 sourced architect (P84) statements, plus Lithuanian heritage register codes (P10040); every change is dated in a public corrections log.
- Human Lineage, a free public genealogical graph of historical people, published an open data dump on Zenodo (CC BY-SA 4.0): 2.7 million deceased persons with Wikidata, VIAF and GND identifiers, parent-child and couple relationships and dated life facts. (Disclosure: added by the project maintainer.)
- Wikidata has a new page for easy navigation to your favourite Wikidata:Games
Newest properties and property proposals to review
- Newest properties:
- General datatypes: none
- External identifiers: MEMO ID, Baidu Baike ID
- New property proposals to review:
- General datatypes:
- collection category (Wikimedia category for the collection corresponding to this item)
- External identifiers: Wallonie-Bruxelles Architectures ID, spielregeln-spielanleitungen.de ID, Kiwifruit Atlas taxon ID, OSCR paper ID, Plattmakers person ID, NIFS Person ID, NIFS stadium ID, NIFS team ID, NIFS match ID, Street Art Cities marker id, Tieteen termipankki ID, Identifiant Livre-Mémorial de la Déportation, Parfumo parent companies ID, m3db.com lyric ID, identifiant Dataparl, identifiant Le Guide du pouvoir, CA Perfume Ingredient Guide ID
- General datatypes:
You can comment on all open property proposals!
Did you know?
- Query examples: Tennis tournament start and end date - (source)
- Schema examples: EntitySchema Directory - see here for the list of EntitySchema's available.
- Newest WikiProjects:
- Project: European Universities Alliances - coordinate the creation, curation, and enrichment of items related to the European Universities initiative (EUI)
- Project: NOM
- Project: Italien in Berlin
- Newest database reports: Humans with missing claims - This report sorts Items about humans missing a claim: sex or gender (P21), place of birth (P19), date of birth (P569), family name (P734) and given name (P735). Table rows by other human-related claims help break these columns down further.
Development
You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.
Weekly Tasks
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
- Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
- Govdirectory weekly focus country: Zambia
- Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
- Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Help write the next summary!
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