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[edit source]Hello! Found your account from the list of admins. I'm an admin of the Albanian Wikipedia and recently one of our users approached me for some help regarding Wikivoyage but I didn't have the necessary information to help them. They asked me about a template that was put in one of the articles they had recently worked during a workshop. In Bulqiza it says the article can be further improved but they are not exactly sure how. What is generally missing on it? Is it formatting, information or something else? Can you give us an Albanian city article which is in a good shape which we can later on use as a model? Thank you in advance! - Klein Muçi (talk) 01:08, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, not SHB2000 here. The Bulqiza article was miscategorised as an 'Outline', when it should have been a 'Usable' article; I have upgraded its WV:Article status. I believe the only Albania article that is higher than a 'Usable' is Tirana, which is a 'Guide' - not sure how useful the capital city is as a model for Bulqiza. Most of the nine Albania#Cities are at 'Usable' status, so they might be helpful. Otherwise, your friend could check out Category:Guide articles and Category:Star articles for inspiration from around the world. All the best --ThunderingTyphoons! (talk) 01:26, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hey @Klein Muçi:, nice to see your name after so long! TT! has said most of what I wanted to say – namely we don't really have a large enough community to have a dedicated process for upgrading article statuses, meaning anyone (including the primary author of the article) is free to do so (except for star, which is a dead process anyway). I know technically not Albania, but Pristina is also another good article that you can use as a model. //shb (t | c | m) 09:13, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hello, @SHB2000 and @ThunderingTyphoons!! Thank you for your fast response!
- I understand. I was thinking it would be something similar to that because we have similar issues on my homewiki regarding article grading. Not enough activity to keep the process running smoothly. I mostly wanted to have some clear models for each status so I know what to show people asking for directions on how to further improve their articles. That's what we usually do on my homewiki.
- And good to hear from you too, SHB2000! Maybe it's intended but just to give an outsider point of view, both your talk pages (SHB2000 and ThunderingTyphoons!) give the impression that you are not that much active here anymore. I first went to TT!'s talk page and the latest discussions were about a lack of activity from many months ago. Then I came to your talk page and only saw non-human messages. It was only after checking your latest contributions that I decided to write anyway. It was surprising when you both replied to me that fast. (I'm glad for that.) - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:19, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- @ATUFAA, FYI regarding Bulqiza. - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:20, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you! ~2026-32527-44 (talk) 11:29, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- @Klein Muçi: haha yeah I don't really get many talk page messages here, and I'm too lazy to move my tech news updates to Meta :P. Anyway, glad I could help! //shb (t | c | m) 11:39, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- @ATUFAA, FYI regarding Bulqiza. - Klein Muçi (talk) 11:20, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hey @Klein Muçi:, nice to see your name after so long! TT! has said most of what I wanted to say – namely we don't really have a large enough community to have a dedicated process for upgrading article statuses, meaning anyone (including the primary author of the article) is free to do so (except for star, which is a dead process anyway). I know technically not Albania, but Pristina is also another good article that you can use as a model. //shb (t | c | m) 09:13, 1 June 2026 (UTC)
This Month in Education: May 2026
[edit source]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 5 • May 2026
In This Issue
- 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
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Tech News: 2026-23
[edit source]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. [1]
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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[edit source]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. [2]
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. [3] - 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. [4]
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. [5] - 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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