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Tech News: 2026-05
[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
- Wikimedia Foundation invites comments on proposed future of the Product and Technology Advisory Council until 28 February.
- All users with registered accounts can now use passkeys for two-factor authentication (2FA). Passkeys are a simple way to log in without using a second device. They verify the user's identity using a fingerprint, face scan, or a PIN code. To set up a passkey, first set up a regular 2FA method. Currently, to log in with a passkey, users must also use a password. Later this quarter, passwordless login will allow users to log in with a single click and a passkey. Users with advanced rights will also be required to have 2FA enabled. This is part of the Account Security project.
- Unregistered contributors on blocked IPs or blocked IP ranges can now interact on-wiki to appeal a block by creating a temporary account to appeal a block on the user talk page, unless the "prevent this user from editing their own talk page" is enabled. This solves the problem of logged-out users unable to use the default unblock process via user talk page. [1]
View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) methods description on the management page has been updated. It is now clearer and easier for users to understand and make use of. [2]
Updates for technical contributors
- A new AbuseFilter variable,
account_type, has been added to provide a reliable way to determine the account type being created in thecreateaccountandautocreateaccountactions. As part of this change, the variableaccountnamehas been renamed toaccount_name, andaccountnameis now deprecated. Edit filter managers should update any filters that use hardcoded account type checks or the deprecated variable. [3] - Image thumbnails that are requested in non-standard sizes, and using non-standard methods such as direct requests to
upload.wikimedia.org/…will stop working in the near future. This change is to prevent ongoing external abuse by web-scrapers and bots. Some users with custom CSS/JS, Interface Admins who can fix gadgets and local skins, and Tool-authors, will need to update their code to use standard thumbnail sizes. Details, search-links, and examples of how to fix them, are available in the task. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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This Month in Education: January 2026
[edit]This Month in Education
Volume 15 • Issue 1 • January 2026
In This Issue
- Strengthening Wikimedia Education and Digital Literacy in 2026
- Dzongkha Wikipedia Education Program in Bhutan
- Wikipedia Education Program – Train The Trainer in Nepal
- Wikipedia 25 celebration in the Igbo Wiki Fan Club Alvan and IMSU
- CBSUA boosts Open Knowledge and Local Culture through expanded Wiki Education Program
- WikiChallenge African Schools: Young voices, real impact, and continued (reasonable) growth
- Updates on Auckland Museum Summer Student Programme
- Stronger and bolder Wikiforhumanrights 2025 in Anambra Network
- Official Opening of IFAK Secondary School Wiki Club: Engaging Youth in Learning Through Open Knowledge
- Greetings from the Jeronim de Rada WikiClub in Elbasan, Albania, for Christmas 2025
- Great and productive final activities of 2025 Wikimedia MKD education programme
- Envisioning an Open Future together – WikiForAll
- A look back: reviewing the main education activities in Brazil in 2025
- A 147-Year-Old Institution Celebrates 25 Years of Wikipedia: St Aloysius University and the Spirit of Open Knowledge
- Celebrating 25 years of free knowledge! The '25x25' Project reaches the classrooms of Córdoba, Argentina
- The collaborative efforts of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora for the dissemination of free knowledge on Wikipedia
The Signpost: 29 January 2026
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- News from Diff: Solving puzzles together
- In the media: Every view on the 25th anniversary of everything
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Tech News: 2026-06
[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 "Page information" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [4]
- View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [5]
Updates for technical contributors
- There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [6]
- The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Weekly highlight
- Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
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See vs do?
[edit]- Is a beach a "see" or a "do"?
- Is there a page anywhere that explains what's a "see" and what's a "do" ? Purplebackpack89 21:09, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Hey Purplebackpack89, for your first question I would say it all depends on what the beach is known for. If the beach is known for its natural beauty, then I'd put it in see; if it's for recreation / swimming, then I'd put it in do. There's no hard and fast rule on this, though, so whatever you think works will work. :)
- For the second one, I think you'd be looking at WV:ABC. //shb (t | c | m) 21:25, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Yes. If some beaches are useful to take a look at the sea and others for spending an afternoon, you may still want to have them in the same section. It's a judgement call. There are short discussions in the article templates (Wikivoyage:Big city article template & co) and I believe a more thorough one somewhere – I don't find it now. –LPfi (talk) 21:33, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- I don't remember there being any thorough discussion on this (though I might be forgetting) – the topic of beaches hasn't really come up much on this site. //shb (t | c | m) 21:41, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- No, but we have discussed other POIs, and I believe we have written guidance on some page. –LPfi (talk) 21:47, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, right, I get what you mean now. //shb (t | c | m) 21:51, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Maybe it's just me, but I'm as confused as before lol. My apologies. Purplebackpack89 01:12, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
- tldr really is just trust your instinct and judgment – there's no hard and fast rule on this site. :) //shb (t | c | m) 02:51, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
- Maybe it's just me, but I'm as confused as before lol. My apologies. Purplebackpack89 01:12, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, right, I get what you mean now. //shb (t | c | m) 21:51, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- No, but we have discussed other POIs, and I believe we have written guidance on some page. –LPfi (talk) 21:47, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- I don't remember there being any thorough discussion on this (though I might be forgetting) – the topic of beaches hasn't really come up much on this site. //shb (t | c | m) 21:41, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Yes. If some beaches are useful to take a look at the sea and others for spending an afternoon, you may still want to have them in the same section. It's a judgement call. There are short discussions in the article templates (Wikivoyage:Big city article template & co) and I believe a more thorough one somewhere – I don't find it now. –LPfi (talk) 21:33, 8 February 2026 (UTC)