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This Month in Education: November 2025
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Volume 14 • Issue 11 • November 2025
In This Issue
- Auckland Museum's Wiki Summer Student Programme is back for 2025 & 2026
- Edu Wiki camp 2025 in Belgrade, Serbia
- Wikidata na Escola: estudantes da zona rural de Minas Gerais contribuem com dados sobre mulheres negras brasileiras
- 190 students from Oteitza Lizeoa create 48 articles on the history of the Basque Country for Txikipedia in one day
- 2nd International Congress Wikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures – WECUDI
- Africa and Proud Leads Wiki Classroom Project Across Three Nigerian States
- November 2025November 2025/Annual Czech Wiki Conference took place on Saturday, Nov 8th
- EduWiki Meetup at GLAM Wiki Conference 2025
- Highly productive autumn education activities in Macedonia
- Kannada Wikipedia Asian Month 2025: Edit-a-thon & Workshop Highlights from Loyola College, Karnataka
- Kosovo Wikivoyage Editathons in Gjakova and Krusha e Madhe
- Ukrainian educators create open lesson plans based on the «Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom» course
- United Architects of the Philippines Student Auxiliary – University of Nueva Caceres joins Wikisource Training
- Videos on Teaching Experiences with Wikipedia, Wikidata, Commons, and OSM
- Wiki as a tool for technological empowerment of indigenous knowledge
- Wiki Science Competition in Albania and Kosovo
- Wiki Workshop 2026 Call for Contributions
- Wikipedia Contribution with Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Students in Kosovo
- Impact of Wikimedia Rwanda Wiki Clubs in Growth of Wikimedia User Group Rwanda Community
The Signpost: 1 December 2025
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- News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
- Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
- Traffic report: It's a family affair
- Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
- From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
- Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
- Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
- Comix: Madness
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Tech News: 2025-49
[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.
Updates for editors
- The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
- The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
- Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [1]- Two new wikis have been created:
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.
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MediaWiki message delivery 18:58, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
Mass message
[edit]I am puzzled by your (?) sending messages to hundreds (?) of users who might be eligible for the TAIV permission. Do we have people who need the right and don't follow discussions in the Pub? Don't we know them, so that messages could be sent just to those few who we'd encourage to apply for the permission? I don't like mass messages, especially uninvited mass messages, and I think encouraging people who don't do patrolling on a regular bases to get the right defies the intention of hiding IP addresses in the first place. I am open for other views, though. –LPfi (talk) 14:58, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- @LPfi: I've basically followed the entire procedure that Commons has followed from the get go. I am with you on unsolicited mass messages, but I had thought this one through for at least a few days: one, a lot of people do not actively follow what happens with technical spaces, and this is a major change worth notifying; two, this includes myself on some wikis, and if I didn't have global temporary account IP viewer permissions already (from global sysop perms), the mass message definitely would have resulted in me applying on Commons. shb (t | c | m) 22:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- As for those who "don't do patrolling on a regular bases to get the right defies the intention of hiding IP addresses in the first place", this is also why I only sent it to users who already have some sort of local perm (autopatroller, patroller, template editor) on this wiki and not just everyone who met the 6-month 300-edit criteria. Those users are far more likely to engage with anti-vandalism/anti-abuse, but also unlike sysops, likely users who don't check the pub regularly. //shb (t | c | m) 22:31, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think the intention is to hide IP addresses from experienced editors. I think it's more about not having IP addresses be visible to the general public forever. We want editors to notice the vandals and maybe even to notice that the vandal is editing from the same country as a past vandal. We don't want someone looking at a page history and thinking, "Huh, several years ago, someone from that city wrote something about a politician who lives in this destination. Hmm, I wonder if the political campaign can find out who did that..." WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:28, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- This was my impression, too. //shb (t | c | m) 07:49, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- I don't think the intention is to hide IP addresses from experienced editors. I think it's more about not having IP addresses be visible to the general public forever. We want editors to notice the vandals and maybe even to notice that the vandal is editing from the same country as a past vandal. We don't want someone looking at a page history and thinking, "Huh, several years ago, someone from that city wrote something about a politician who lives in this destination. Hmm, I wonder if the political campaign can find out who did that..." WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:28, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- As for those who "don't do patrolling on a regular bases to get the right defies the intention of hiding IP addresses in the first place", this is also why I only sent it to users who already have some sort of local perm (autopatroller, patroller, template editor) on this wiki and not just everyone who met the 6-month 300-edit criteria. Those users are far more likely to engage with anti-vandalism/anti-abuse, but also unlike sysops, likely users who don't check the pub regularly. //shb (t | c | m) 22:31, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- If something like this comes up in the future, I suggest filtering out editors who haven't made any edits for, say, a year or two. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:23, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah not a bad idea, honestly – not sure if such a mass message will ever need to be sent, but 2 years is a good timeframe I hadn't thought about. //shb (t | c | m) 07:49, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- OK, I didn't think too much about the restrictions to get on that list, which actually made sense. I only noticed that the number of recipients hinted at too broad distribution, probably because of the lack of last edit restriction. –LPfi (talk) 14:35, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah not a bad idea, honestly – not sure if such a mass message will ever need to be sent, but 2 years is a good timeframe I hadn't thought about. //shb (t | c | m) 07:49, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-50
[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
- Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
- Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
- Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
- Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
- Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [4]
- The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
- A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [5]
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [6]
Updates for technical contributors
- Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [7]
- Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [8]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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