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Wikimania 2025 Katılım Bursu

6-9 Ağustos 2025’te gerçekleşecek Wikimania Konferansı’na katılım için Wikimedia Vakfı'na burs başvuru süreci tamamlandı, kimi arkadaşlarımız Wikimedia Vakfı’ndan burs aldı; kendilerini tebrik ederiz. WMF bursu almamış olanlara, WMF Topluluk Genel Destek Hibe Programı kapsamında burs imkânı yaratmak üzere başlatılan program hakkında şu sayfada bilgi bulabilir ve başvuru yapabilirsiniz: Wikimania 2025 Katılım --Başak (mesaj) 11.53, 27 Nisan 2025 (UTC)

Sub-referencing: User testing

Apologies for writing in English, please help us by providing a translation below

Hi I’m Johannes from Wikimedia Deutschland's Technical Wishes team. We are making great strides with the new sub-referencing feature and we’d love to invite you to take part in two activities to help us move this work further:

1. Try it out and share your feedback

   Please try the updated wikitext feature on the beta wiki and let us know what you think, either on our talk page or by booking a call with our UX researcher.

2. Get a sneak peak and help shape the Visual Editor user designs

   Help us test the new design prototypes by participating in user sessions – sign up here to receive an invite. We're especially hoping to speak with people from underrepresented and diverse groups. If that's you, please consider signing up! No prior or extensive editing experience is required. User sessions will start May 14th.

We plan to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We’ll reach out to wikis for piloting in time for deployments. Creators and maintainers of reference-related tools and templates will be contacted beforehand as well.

Thank you very much for your support and encouragement so far in helping bring this feature to life!

Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 15.04, 28 Nisan 2025 (UTC)

Vote on proposed modifications to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter

The voting period for the revisions to the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter closes on 1 May 2025 at 23:59 UTC (find in your time zone). Read the information on how to participate and read over the proposal before voting on the UCoC page on Meta-wiki.

The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. This annual review was planned and implemented by the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, you may review the U4C Charter.

Please share this message with members of your community in your language, as appropriate, so they can participate as well.

In cooperation with the U4C --

Keegan (WMF) (talk) 03.41, 29 Nisan 2025 (UTC)

2025 Wikimedia CEE Toplantısı için Delege Belirleme

Merhaba, Orta ve Doğu Avrupa Wikimedia topluluklarından temsilcilerin buluştuğu 2025 Wikimedia CEE Toplantısı bu yıl 26-28 Eylül'de Selanik'te gerçekleşecek. Delege belirleme süreci başladı; adaylık başvurusu şuradan yapılabilir: CEE Toplantısı Delege Belirleme. - Başak (mesaj) 16.07, 5 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

Geçici Hesaplar: IP adreslerine erişim ve sonraki adımlar

Merhaba! Bizler Güven ve Güvenlik Ürün ekibiyiz. Mart ayında, geçici hesaplar açıldığında IP adreslerini kimlerin görmesi gerektiğini önermiştik. Yaklaşık 20 büyük toplulukla görüştük! Konuşmalarınız ve yanıtları gözden geçirirken gösterdiğiniz sabır için teşekkür ederiz. Şimdi, tekrar eden bazı konulara değinmek isteriz. İlk mesajımızda net olarak açıklayamadığımız konuları detaylandırmak ve bir sonraki adımların neler olacağını paylaşmak istiyoruz.

Yaptığımız görüşmelerin sonuçları

Yorumlarınız devriyelik konusundaki risk ve endişeleri daha iyi anlamamıza yardımcı oldu. Bunlar arasında: hizmetliler üzerinde yeni bir yükü nasıl gördüğünüz, eski düzenlemelerin devriyesi ile nasıl başa çıktığınız, vikilerinizde devriyeye kaç (veya az) kişinin katıldığı ve daha fazlası vardı. Bu düşünceler için çok teşekkür ederiz.

Ayrıca geçici hesaplar hakkında genel sorular içeren birçok yorum yazıldı. Nasıl çalıştıklarını, IP adreslerinin nasıl ortaya çıkarılacağını, değişikliğin gerekli olup olmadığını vs.gibi  sorulardı. İlk katılım iletişim kutusu, Special:GlobalContributions, Special:IPContributions, küresel hesap engelleri, toplu küresel hesap engelleri ve daha fazlası gibi gelişmiş haklara sahip kullanıcılar için özellikler üzerinde çalışıyoruz. Tüm bunlar kötüye kullanımla etkin bir şekilde mücadele etmenize yardımcı olmak içindir.

Erişim gereklilikleri hakkında - yöneticilerin (ve gerektiğinde kâhyaların) ihtiyaç duyanlara IP'leri görüntüleme hakkının verilmesi fikriyle devam etmeye karar verildi. Değerlendirebileceğimiz seçenekler sınırlıdır. Geçici Hesap IP Adreslerine Temel Erişim Politikası tüm vikiler için bir tane olmalı, küresel görevliler ve çeşitli topluluklar için ve ayrıca farklı ülkelerdeki editörler ve yasal riskler açısından kabul edilebilir olmalıdır. Bu nedenle yerel konsensüslere sıkı sıkıya bağlı kalamayız veya IP adreslerine çok geniş erişim izni veremeyiz. Bu yılın ilerleyen dönemlerinde, gereklilikler veya politikanın istisnaları gibi konuları tekrar gözden geçirebiliriz. (Yine de yerel politikalar oluşturabilir! - Bu konuda daha fazla bilgi aşağıdadır).

Tüm vikilerde devreye alınması bu yıl gerçekleşmesi gerektiğini hatırlatmak isteriz. Haziran/Temmuz aylarında ve yaklaşık 2-3 ay sonra olmak üzere iki büyük devreye alınma aşaması olacaktır.

Yinelenen temalar, yanıtlarımız ve açıklamalar

Size kolaylık sağlamak için, bu yanıtlardan bazılarını proje SSS bölümünde de belgeleyeceğiz.

IP adreslerine erişim:

• Yeni kullanıcı grubu (checkuser-temporary-account) teknik olarak mevcut herhangi bir gruba (devriye gibi) eklemek yerine, yeni bir grup (Geçici hesap IP görüntüleyicileri) oluşturulmasına karar verildi.
  • IP adreslerine erişim risk taşır. Bu hak checkuser ile benzerlik göstermektedir. IP adresleri kişisel olarak tanımlanabilir bilgiler bir tür kişisel veri olarak kabul edilir. IP adreslerine erişmek isteyen kullanıcıların, bu hakka sahip kullanıcılarla iletişime geçmesi gerekecek. Bu hakka sahip kullanıcılar bunun farkında olmalı ve şüpheli erişim talepleri olasılığına karşı dikkatli olmalıdır.
  • Gizliliğin korunması için iyi uygulamalar. Güvenilen, ancak işlerini sürdürmek için erişime ihtiyaç duymayan kullanıcılara erişim verilmesi, kişisel verilerin işlenmesine yönelik iyi uygulamalarla uyumlu değildir.
  • Hakkın kaldırılması. IP'lere erişim günlüğe kaydedilecektir (örnek). Bu hakkın kötüye kullanımı tespit edilirse, kullanıcının sahip olabileceği diğer izinlerden ayrı olarak kaldırılabilir. IP adreslerine erişimle ilgisi olmayan hakları kaldırmak zor ve bazen de düzgün olmayabilir.
  • Yeni hakkı, mevcut belirli bir gruba ait tüm kullanıcılara ayrı ayrı verebilirsiniz. Ancak bu kullanıcıların Geçici hesap IP görüntüleyicileri kriterlerini karşılaması gerekmektedir.
  • Açıklık getirmek gerekirse – tüm bunlar hizmetlileri, bürokratları, kontrolörleri, stewardları ve küresel politikada bahsedilen diğer grupları etkilemez.
• Faaliyet gereksinimi. Elle erişim izni verilmesi gereken kullanıcılarla ilgili olarak, politikada “365 günlük bir süre içinde en az bir kez yerel projede düzenleme yapmaları veya günlüğe kaydedilmiş bir eylemde bulunmaları gerektiği” belirtilmektedir. Bu gereklilik değişemez.

Hakkın verilme süreci:

• Hakkın verilmesinin formalitesi. Hizmetlilik talebi gibi uzun tartışmalara veya oylamalara gerek yoktur. Gerekli durumlarda, bir hizmetli bireysel değerlendirmesiyle karar alabilir.
• Hak için başvuran kullanıcılar için ek gereklilikler.
  • Hak tanıma sürecinde kendi takdirinizi kullanma esnekliğiniz vardır. Editleri 300 düzenlemeden daha yüksek tutabilir veya “hizmetli+ olmayan” kullanıcıların bu hakka sahip olmasına izin vermeyebilirsiniz. İzin verme süreci uygun gördüğünüz kadar basit veya ayrıntılı olabilir.
  • Hizmetlilerin bu hakkı verip vermemeye karar verirken hangi kriterleri göz önünde bulundurmaları gerektiği - bir kullanıcının IP adreslerine erişime ihtiyacı olup olmadığının nasıl anlaşılacağı - açık değildi. En az 300 düzenleme ve 6 aylık bir hesabın ötesinde zorunlu bir gereklilik yoktur. Kullanıcıya güven (daha önce engelleme veya telif hakkı ihlali olmaması gibi) veya devriye faaliyetlerinde deneyim ile ilgili ek kriterler getirebilirsiniz.
• Hizmetliler üzerinde ek yük. Ek bir hak vermek ve kaldırmak zorunda kalmanın zahmetini anlıyoruz. Bu gerçekten de büyük bir yüktür. Bu hakkın daha fazla sayıda kullanıcıya verilmesinin sadece bir kerelik bir çaba olacağını düşünüyoruz. Bu yükü sınırlandırmanın yollarını bulup bulamayacağınızı merak ediyoruz.

Geçici hesaplar etkinleştirildiğinde devriye nasıl çalışır?

• “Geriye dönük devriye” ve 90 gün. Bazı vikilerde, topluluk üyeleri “geriye dönük devriye” (eski düzenlemelerin devriye gezilmesi) geçici hesap IP'lerine 90 günlük bir sınırlama getirilmesinin bir sorun olabileceğini yazdı. Anladığımız kadarıyla (bu, hizmetlilere danışılmıştır), standart durumlarda, düzenlemeden 90 gün sonra, asıl zorluk temizlik çalışmasıdır ve kullanıcıların kimliğini kapatma ihtiyacı yoktur. Ancak farklı vikilerde farklı durumlar olabileceğini ve bazı vandalların yaratıcı olduğunu anlıyoruz. Her durumda, 90 günlük sınır davranışsal kanıtlar veya düzenleme kalıpları için geçerli değildir - bunlar görünür olmaya devam edecektir. Sayının kendisi değiştirilebilir ve düşüncelerinize ve daha zor soruşturma kanıtlarına dikkat edeceğiz. Uzun süreli kötüye kullanım davranışlarının kanıtlandığı durumlarda, devriye ihtiyaçları için IP adresini kamuya açık olarak belgeleyebileceğimizi unutmamak önemlidir.
• Hesap oluşturma sınırı (“oran sınırı”). Bir IP'den 24 saat içinde yalnızca altı geçici hesap oluşturulabilir. Bu sınırın amacı, bir vandalın kısa sürede çok sayıda hesap oluşturmasını önlemektir. Sınır, kayıtlı hesap oluşturma işlemleri için de aynıdır. Bu çok iyi bir önlem olmaya bilir, ancak hepimizin bilgisi olduğu eski bir mekanizmaya benzer ve temel koruma düzeyini tanımlar.

Sizin tarafınızdan önermek istediğimiz sonraki adımlar

• Zamanı geldiğinde hazırlıklı olabilmeniz için geçici hesaplar açılmadan önce haklarınızı vermeye başlamanızı öneriyoruz.
• Küresel politikaya herhangi bir şey eklemeniz gerektiğini düşünüyorsanız, hak verme ve kaldırma konusunda bir politika benimsemeyi düşünmenizi öneriyoruz.
• Bizim bakış açımızdan viki bürokrasisinin hangi seviyesinin yeterli göründüğünü size göstermek istiyoruz. Deneme tahtasında, bayrak için talepleri içeren bir sayfanın nasıl görünebileceğine dair bir taslak oluşturduk. Elbette sayfanın nihai içeriği topluluğunuza bağlı olacaktır. Bu konuda size talimat verdiğimizi ima etmek istemiyoruz.

İletişimde kalın

Her zaman olduğu gibi, proje hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinmek isterseniz Diff yazısını okuyun, proje sayfamızı ve SSS bölümünü ziyaret edin. İletişimde kalmak için haber bültenine abone olun. Teşekkürler! NKohli (WMF) ve Mehman (WMF) (mesaj) 19.56, 7 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

Registration for the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 is open

Dear all,

The Organising Committee of the Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 is delighted to announce the opening of the registration for this year's conference.

Affiliation and community delegates can register for the meeting until June 15th. All other self-funded participants can register until July 31st.

The registration and scholarship application form which runs on Pretix, a free, open-sourced third-party platform that helps organize and manage events, can be found here.

Details on how to select delegates and the selection process can be found on the registration page.

Please keep in mind that the official language of the conference is English and interpreting services will not be available.

If you encounter any issues while registering, or have questions about the registration process, feel free to contact the coordination team via wmceem2025@wikimedia.gr.

Your swift replies will be appreciated, as they will help us conduct an efficient booking process.

Best regards,

On behalf of

Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2025 Organising Team

--MARKELLOS (mesaj) 19.46, 12 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

Call for Candidates for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C)

The results of voting on the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines and Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) Charter is available on Meta-wiki.

You may now submit your candidacy to serve on the U4C through 29 May 2025 at 12:00 UTC. Information about eligibility, process, and the timeline are on Meta-wiki. Voting on candidates will open on 1 June 2025 and run for two weeks, closing on 15 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.

If you have any questions, you can ask on the discussion page for the election. -- in cooperation with the U4C,

Keegan (WMF) (mesaj) 22.07, 15 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

2025 CEE Toplantısı Delege adayları için görüş

Merhaba !

CEE delege belirleme için adaylara destek belirtmek üzere şu sayfayı ziyaret ediniz lütfen: CEE Toplantısı Delege Belirleme. Başak (mesaj) 05.31, 19 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

RfC ongoing regarding Abstract Wikipedia (and your project)

(Apologies for posting in English, if this is not your first language)

Hello all! We opened a discussion on Meta about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. Since some of the hypothesis involve your project, we wanted to hear your thoughts too.

We want to make the decision process clear: we do not yet know which option we want to use, which is why we are consulting here. We will take the arguments from the Wikimedia communities into account, and we want to consult with the different communities and hear arguments that will help us with the decision. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

You can read the various hypothesis and have your say at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content. Thank you in advance! -- Sannita (WMF) (mesaj) 15.27, 22 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

CEE Meeting 2025: call for session submissions

Hi everyone, The CEE Meeting 2025 programme committee wants to inform you that the deadline to submit a session proposal in the CEE Meeting is 31 May 2025, 23:59 CET. You can read more information about the process here and here.

We hope to see you in Thessaloniki!

Best, Nikos NikosLikomitros (mesaj) 22.59, 27 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

Geçici hesaplar Haziran ayında kullanıma açılıyor

Merhablar. Bizler Wikimedia Vakfı Güven ve Güvenlik Ürün ekibiyiz. Sizinle geçici hesaplar hakkındaki görüşmelere devam etmek istiyoruz. Bu proje, özellikle bu özelliğin korumak için tasarlandığı oturumu açmamış (wikiye giriş yapmamış) editörlerle ilgilidir. Ancak, aynı zamanda mentorlar, devriyeler ve hizmetliler gibi topluluk üyeleriyle de ilgilidir, hangileri projeleri güvenli ve hatasız tutmanın bir parçası olarak düzenlemeleri geri alan, kullanıcıları engelleyen veya oturumu açmamış editörlerle başka şekilde etkileşimde bulunuyorlar.

Geçici hesaplar deneme yaptığımız vikilerde başarılı bir şekilde çalışıyor ve şimdi bunları daha fazla vikiye çalıştırmak istiyoruz. Türkçe Vikipedi’nin  büyüklüğüne bağlı olarak, burada geçici hesapları Haziran ayında etkinleştirmeyi planlıyoruz. Çalışmaları farklı vikilerde sorunsuz bir şekilde gerçekleştirmek için Geçici Hesapları zaman içinde aşamalı olarak tanıtacağız. Planımız, 16 Haziran haftasında burada Geçici Hesapları uygulamaya almaktır.

Neden geçici hesapları Haziran ayında uygulamaya koymamız gerektiğini düşünüyoruz (neden daha sonra değil)

Geçici hesaplar için temel işlevler (devriye iş akışları, araçlar ve s.) beklendiği gibi çalışıyor. Kahyalar ve genişletilmiş haklara sahip diğer kullanıcılarla birlikte, topluluk üyelerinin etkili bir şekilde denetleme ve devriye sağlamak için birçok kullanım işini öngördük ve ele aldık. Bir dizi destekleyici özellik oluşturduk (IP Bilgisi, Otomatik Gösterme, Küresel katkılar ve s.).

Şimdi, büyük topluluklar için de bunun iyi çalıştığından emin olmak istiyoruz. Tahmin edilemeyecek kadar çok ayrıntı ve gelişmiş fonksiyonellik var – geçici hesapların önce büyük vikilerde çalışması gerekiyor. Haziran ayında geçici hesaplar ile çalışmaya başlayacak olan topluluklar, bu yılın sonundaki son dağıtımda bu fonksiyonu alacak olan topluluklara göre iyileştirmeler önermek için daha fazla fırsata ve zamana sahip olacaklar. Bu nedenle, vikinizin bu işe şimdi dahil edilmesi gerektiğine inanıyoruz.

Neden geçici hesapları oluşturuyoruz?

Vikilerimiz, oturum açmamış  editörler için varsayılan olarak düzenlemek için daha güvenli olmalıdır. Geçici hesaplar, insanların bir hesap oluşturmadan vikileri düzenlemeye devam etmelerine izin verirken, düzenlemelerinin IP adreslerine açıkça bağlanmasını önler. Bunun, vikilere değerli katkılarda bulunan ve daha sonra hesap oluşturarak editörler, hizmetliler ve diğer rollerdeki topluluğumuzu büyütebilecek olan oturum açmamış editörlerimizin menfaatine olduğuna inanıyoruz. Vikiler, oturum açmamış editörleri IP adreslerinin yaptıkları değişikliklerle ilişkilendirileceği konusunda uyarsa da, birçok kişi IP adresinin ne olduğunu veya beklemedikleri şekillerde kendileri hakkında başka bilgilere bağlanmak için kullanılabileceğini anlamayabilir.

Buna ek olarak, moderasyon yazılımımız ve araçlarımız, özellikle IP adreslerinin tanımlayıcı olarak daha az dengeli hale gelmesi nedeniyle, kullanıcıları ve etkinlik modellerini tanımlamak için ağ kökenine (IP adresleri) çok fazla güvenmektedir. Geçici hesaplar, daha net engellemeler de dahil olmak üzere oturum açmamış editörlerle daha kesin etkileşimlere olanak tanır ve kötü niyetli kullanıcılarla aynı IP adreslerini kullanan iyi niyetli kullanıcıları istemeden engelleme sıklığımızı sınırlamaya yardımcı olabilir.

Geçici hesaplar nasıl çalışıyor

Oturum açmamış kullanıcı bu vikide bir düzenleme yaptığında, bu kullanıcının tarayıcısında bir çerez ayarlanacak ve bu çerezle bağlantılı geçici bir hesap otomatik olarak oluşturulacaktır. Bu hesabın adı şu düzende olacaktır: ~2025-1234567 (yaklaşık işareti, geçerli yıl, bir sayı). Son değişiklikler veya sayfa geçmişi gibi sayfalarda bu ad görüntülenecektir. Çerezin süresi, hesap oluşturma tarihinden 90 gün sonra dolacaktır. Var olduğu sürece, bu cihazdan yapılan tüm düzenlemeler bu geçici hesapla ilişkilendirilecektir. Kullanıcı tarayıcı çerezlerini temizlemediği veya farklı bir cihaz ya da web tarayıcısı kullanmadığı sürece, IP adresi değişse bile hesap aynı olacaktır. Her düzenleme sırasında kullanılan IP adresinin bir kaydı, düzenlemeden sonra 90 gün boyunca saklanacaktır. Yalnızca oturum açmış bazı kullanıcılar bunu görebilir.

Bu, diğer kullanıcı grupları için ne ifade ediyor?

Oturumunu kapalı editörler için

• Bu, gizliliği artırır: şu anda, düzenleme yapmak için kayıtlı bir hesap kullanmazsanız, 90 gün sonra bile yaptığınız düzenlemelerin IP adresini herkes görebilir. Bu artık Türkçe Vikide mümkün olmayacak.
• Son 90 gün içinde farklı konumlardan (örneğin evde ve bir kafede) düzenleme yapmak için geçici bir hesap kullanırsanız, düzenleme geçmişi ve tüm bu konumların IP adresleri artık aynı geçici hesap için birlikte kaydedilecektir. Gereksinimleri karşılayan kullanıcılar bu verileri görüntüleyebilecek. Bu sizin için herhangi bir kişisel güvenlik endişesi yaratıyorsa, tavsiye için lütfen talktohumanrights at wikimedia dot org ile iletişime geçin.

Oturumu kapalı editörle etkileşimdeki topluluk üyeleri için

• Geçici bir hesap bir cihaza tekil olarak bağlanır. Buna karşılık, bir IP adresi farklı cihazlar ve kişilerle paylaşılabilir (örneğin, okuldaki veya iş yerindeki farklı kişiler aynı IP adresine sahip olabilir).
• Şimdiki durumla karşılaştırıldığında, geçici bir kullanıcının tartışma sayfasının yalnızca bir kişiye ait olduğunu ve oraya bırakılan mesajların o kişi tarafından okunacağını varsaymak daha güvenli olacaktır. Yukarıdaki ekran görüntüsünde de görebileceğiniz gibi, geçici hesap kullanıcıları bildirim alabilecekler. Ayrıca düzenlemeleri için onlara teşekkür etmek, tartışmalarda onlara ping atmak ve onları topluluğa daha fazla dahil olmaya davet etmek de mümkün olacak.

Viki’nin yönetimi ve bakımı için IP adreslerini kullanan kullanıcılar için

• Sistemi sürekli suistimal edenleri izleme, politika ihlallerini araştırma işlerin yapan devriyeler için: Şartları karşılayan kullanıcılar, geçici kullanıcıların IP adreslerini ve belirli bir IP adresinden veya aralığından (Özel:IPContributions) geçici hesaplar tarafından yapılan tüm katkıları ortaya çıkarabilecektir. Ayrıca IP Bilgisi özelliği sayesinde IP adresleri hakkında faydalı bilgilere de erişebilecekler. AbuseFilter, küresel bloklar, Küresel Kullanıcı Katkıları ve daha fazlası dahil olmak üzere birçok başka yazılım parçası geçici hesaplarla çalışmak üzere oluşturulmuş veya ayarlanmıştır. (Gönüllü geliştiriciler – araçlarınızın kodunu nasıl güncelleyeceklerinıze dahil bilgi için bu mesajın son bölümüne bakınız).
• Oturum açmamış editörleri engelleyen hizmetliler için:
  • Sadece geçici hesaplarını engelleyerek birçok suistimalciyi engellemek mümkün olacak. Hizmetli, otomatik engelleme seçeneğini seçerse, engellenen bir kişi hızlı bir şekilde yeni geçici hesaplar oluşturamayacaktır.
  • Bir IP adresini veya IP aralığını engellemek mümkün olamaya devam edecektir.
• Geçici hesaplar, uygulanmaya konmalarından önce yapılan katkılara geriye dönük olarak uygulanmayacaktır. Özel:Katkılar sayfasında, mevcut IP kullanıcı katkılarını görebilirsiniz, ancak bu IP adresindeki geçici hesaplar tarafından yapılan yeni katkıları göremezsiniz. Bunun yerine, gereksinimleri karşılayan kullanıcılar bunun için Özel:IPContributions kullanmalıdır.

Sizden isteğimiz ve sonraki adımlar

• IP adresleri kullanan veya oturum açmamış  kullanıcılar için kullanılabilir olan herhangi bir araç, bot, küçük araç ve s. biliyorsanız, onları testwiki veya test2wiki üzerinde çalışıp çalışmadığını test edebilirsiniz. Gönüllü bir geliştiriciyseniz, geliştiriciler için belgelerimizi ve özellikle kodların nasıl güncellenmesi gerekebileceği ile ilgili bölümü okuyun.
• Geçici hesap deneyimini test etmek istiyorsanız, örneğin mesela nasıl hissettirdiğini kontrol etmek için, testwiki veya test2wiki'ye gidiniz ve oturum açmadan düzenleme yapınız.
• Ele alınması gereken herhangi bir sorun biliyorsanız, bize bildirin. Yardımcı olmaya çalışacağız ve eğer yapamazsak, mevcut seçenekleri değerlendireceğiz.
• IP adreslerine erişmesi gerekebilecek genişletilmiş haklara sahip olmayan kullanıcılar için gereksinimler hakkındaki önceki mesajımıza bakınız.

Proje hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinmek için SSS bölümümüze göz atınız – orada birçok faydalı yanıt bulacaksınız. Ayrıca güncellemelere bakabilir (yeni bir tanesini yayınladık) ve yeni bültenimize abone olabilirsiniz. Benimle (Szymon) viki dışında konuşmak isterseniz, beni Discord ve Telegram'da bulabilirsiniz. Teşekkürler! user:NKohli (WMF) ve SGrabarczuk (WMF) (mesaj) 00.13, 28 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Vakfı Mütevelli Heyeti 2025 Seçimi ve Soru Sormaya Davet

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Değerli İlgililier,

Bu yıl, Topluluklarca ve İştiraklerce seçilmiş 2 (iki) mütevellinin Wikimedia Vakfı Mütevelli Heyeti'ndeki görev süresi sona ermektedir. Heyet, Hareket’teki herkesi bu yılki seçim sürecine katılmaya ve bu koltukları doldurmak için oy kullanmaya davet ediyor.

Bu süreci, Vakıf personelinin desteğiyle Seçim Komitesi yürütecektir [2]. 2025 yılı topluluk ve iştiraklerce seçilen mütevellileri seçim sürecinde aday olmayan mütevellilerden (Raju Narisetti, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, Lorenzo Losa, Kathy Collins, Victoria Doronina ve Esra'a Al Shafei) oluşan Yönetişim Komitesi[3], 2025 mütevelli seçim süreci için Mütevelli Heyeti'nin gözetimini sağlamak ve Mütevelli Heyeti'ni bilgilendirmekle görevlidir. Seçim Komitesi, Mütevelli Heyeti ve personelin rolleri hakkında daha fazla ayrıntı burada bulunmaktadır [4].

Planlanan ana tarihleri aşağıda bulabilirsiniz:

• 22 Mayıs – 5 Haziran: Duyuru (bu mesak) ve soru sorma dönemine davet [6]
• 17 Haziran – 1 Temmuz, 2025: Adaylık çağrısı
• Temmuz 2025: Eğer ihtiyaç olursa, iştirakler 10 veya daha fazla aday başvurusu olması halinde aday kısa listesi için oy kullanacak [5]
• Ağustos 2025: Kampanya dönemi
• Ağustos – Eylül 2025: 2 haftalık topluluk oy kullanma dönemi
• Ekim – Kasım 2025: Seçilen adayların geçmiş kontrolü
• Aralık 2025’teki Heyet Toplantısı: Yeni mütevellilerin yerlerini alması

Detaylı zaman çizelgesi, adaylık süreci, kampanya kuralları ve seçmen kriterleri dahil olmak üzere 2025 seçim süreci hakkında bu Meta-wiki sayfasından daha fazlasını öğreniniz. [link].

Soru Çağrısı

Her seçim sürecinde topluluk, Mütevelli Heyeti adaylarının yanıtlaması için soru gönderme imkânına sahiptir. Seçim Komitesi, adayların yanıtlaması için topluluk tarafından oluşturulan soru listesinden sorular seçer. Adayların seçilebilmeleri için başvuruda istenen tüm soruları yanıtlamaları gerekmektedir; aksi takdirde başvuruları diskalifiye edilecektir. Bu yıl, Seçim Komitesi adayların yanıtlaması için 5 soru seçecektir. Seçilen sorular, benzer veya ilişkili olmaları halinde, topluluktan gönderilen soruların bir kombinasyonu olabilir. [link]

Gönüllü Seçimi

2025'in seçim sürecine dahil olmanın bir diğer yolu da Seçim Gönüllüsü olmaktır. Seçim Gönüllüleri, Seçim Komitesi ile kendi toplulukları arasında bir köprüdür. Topluluklarının temsil edilmesini sağlamaya ve oy kullanmaları için onları harekete geçirmeye yardımcı olurlar. Program ve nasıl katılacağınız hakkında daha fazla bilgiyi bu Meta-wiki sayfasında bulabilirsiniz [link].

Teşekkürler!

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Results

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Committee:Elections_Committee_Charter

[3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Committee_Membership,_December_2024

[4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections_committee/Roles

[5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/FAQ

[6] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Questions_for_candidates

Saygılar,

Victoria Doronina

Seçim Komitesi Kurul İrtibat Kişisi

Yönetişim Komitesi

MediaWiki message delivery (mesaj) 03.08, 28 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

Upcoming Deployment of the CampaignEvents Extension

Hello everyone,

(Apologies for posting in English if English is not your first language. Please help translate to your language.)

The Campaigns Product Team is planning a global deployment of the CampaignEvents extension to all Wikipedias, including this wiki, during the week of June 23rd.

This extension is designed to help organizers plan and manage events, WikiProjects, and other on-wiki collaborations - and to make these efforts more discoverable.

The three main features of this extension are:

• Event Registration: A simple way to sign up for events on the wiki.
• Collaboration List: A global list of events and a local list of WikiProjects, accessible at Special:AllEvents.
• Invitation Lists: A tool to help organizers find editors who might want to join, based on their past contributions.

Note: The extension comes with a new user right called "Event Organizer", which will be managed by administrators on this wiki. Organizer tools like Event Registration and Invitation Lists will only work if someone is granted this right. The Collaboration List is available to everyone immediately after deployment.

The extension is already live on several wikis, including Meta, Wikidata, English Wikipedia, and more ( See the full deployment list)

If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback, please feel free to share them on the extension talkpage. We’d love to hear from you before the rollout.

Thank you!

Udehb-WMF (mesaj) 16.47, 29 Mayıs 2025 (UTC)

Vote now in the 2025 U4C Election

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Eligible voters are asked to participate in the 2025 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee election. More information–including an eligibility check, voting process information, candidate information, and a link to the vote–are available on Meta at the 2025 Election information page. The vote closes on 17 June 2025 at 12:00 UTC.

Please vote if your account is eligible. Results will be available by 1 July 2025. -- In cooperation with the U4C, Keegan (WMF) (talk) 23.01, 13 Haziran 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-25

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

• You can nominate your favorite tools for the sixth edition of the Coolest Tool Award. Nominations are anonymous and will be open until June 25. You can re-use the survey to nominate multiple tools.
• View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23.37, 16 Haziran 2025 (UTC)

Wikimedia Vakfı Mütevelli Heyeti 2025 - Adaylık Çağrısı

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Herkese merhaba,

Wikimedia Vakıf Mütevelli Heyeti seçimleri adaylık çağrısı 17 Haziran 2025 - 2 Temmuz 2025 saat 11:59 UTC boyunca devam edecektir. Mütevelli Heyeti, Wikimedia Vakfı'nın çalışmalarını denetler ve her Mütevelli üç yıllık süreyle için görev yapar [2]. Bu, gönüllü bir pozisyondur.

Bu yıl, Wikimedia topluluğu Ağustos sonundan Eylül 2025'e kadar Vakıf Yönetim Kurulu'ndaki iki (2) koltuğu doldurmak için oy kullanacak. Siz - ya da tanıdığınız biri - Wikimedia Vakfı'nın Mütevelli Heyeti'ne katılmak için uygun olabilir misiniz? [3]

Bu liderlik pozisyonlarına aday olmak için neler gerektiği ve şuradaki Meta-wiki sayfasında adaylığınızı nasıl sunacağınız hakkında daha fazla bilgi edinin veya bir başkasını bu yılki seçimlerde aday olmasıiçin teşvik edin.

Saygılarımızla,

Abhishek Suryawanshi
Seçim Komitesi Başkanı

Seçim Komitesi ve Yönetim Komitesi adına

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Call_for_candidates

[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Legal:Bylaws#(B)_Term.

[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2025/Resources_for_candidates

MediaWiki message delivery (mesaj) 17.44, 17 Haziran 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-26

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

• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [1]

Updates for editors

• Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [2]
• Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [3]
• A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

• Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available. [5]
• The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [6]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23.20, 23 Haziran 2025 (UTC)

Sister Projects Task Force reviews Wikispore and Wikinews

Dear Wikimedia Community,

The Community Affairs Committee (CAC) of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees assigned the Sister Projects Task Force (SPTF) to update and implement a procedure for assessing the lifecycle of Sister Projects – wiki projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).

A vision of relevant, accessible, and impactful free knowledge has always guided the Wikimedia Movement. As the ecosystem of Wikimedia projects continues to evolve, it is crucial that we periodically review existing projects to ensure they still align with our goals and community capacity.

Despite their noble intent, some projects may no longer effectively serve their original purpose. Reviewing such projects is not about giving up – it's about responsible stewardship of shared resources. Volunteer time, staff support, infrastructure, and community attention are finite, and the non-technical costs tend to grow significantly as our ecosystem has entered a different age of the internet than the one we were founded in. Supporting inactive projects or projects that didn't meet our ambitions can unintentionally divert these resources from areas with more potential impact.

Moreover, maintaining projects that no longer reflect the quality and reliability of the Wikimedia name stands for, involves a reputational risk. An abandoned or less reliable project affects trust in the Wikimedia movement.

Lastly, failing to sunset or reimagine projects that are no longer working can make it much harder to start new ones. When the community feels bound to every past decision – no matter how outdated – we risk stagnation. A healthy ecosystem must allow for evolution, adaptation, and, when necessary, letting go. If we create the expectation that every project must exist indefinitely, we limit our ability to experiment and innovate.

Because of this, SPTF reviewed two requests concerning the lifecycle of the Sister Projects to work through and demonstrate the review process. We chose Wikispore as a case study for a possible new Sister Project opening and Wikinews as a case study for a review of an existing project. Preliminary findings were discussed with the CAC, and a community consultation on both proposals was recommended.

Wikispore

The application to consider Wikispore was submitted in 2019. SPTF decided to review this request in more depth because rather than being concentrated on a specific topic, as most of the proposals for the new Sister Projects are, Wikispore has the potential to nurture multiple start-up Sister Projects.

After careful consideration, the SPTF has decided not to recommend Wikispore as a Wikimedia Sister Project. Considering the current activity level, the current arrangement allows better flexibility and experimentation while WMF provides core infrastructural support.

We acknowledge the initiative's potential and seek community input on what would constitute a sufficient level of activity and engagement to reconsider its status in the future.

As part of the process, we shared the decision with the Wikispore community and invited one of its leaders, Pharos, to an SPTF meeting.

Currently, we especially invite feedback on measurable criteria indicating the project's readiness, such as contributor numbers, content volume, and sustained community support. This would clarify the criteria sufficient for opening a new Sister Project, including possible future Wikispore re-application. However, the numbers will always be a guide because any number can be gamed.

Wikinews

We chose to review Wikinews among existing Sister Projects because it is the one for which we have observed the highest level of concern in multiple ways.

Since the SPTF was convened in 2023, its members have asked for the community's opinions during conferences and community calls about Sister Projects that did not fulfil their promise in the Wikimedia movement.[1][2][3] Wikinews was the leading candidate for an evaluation because people from multiple language communities proposed it. Additionally, by most measures, it is the least active Sister Project, with the greatest drop in activity over the years.

While the Language Committee routinely opens and closes language versions of the Sister Projects in small languages, there has never been a valid proposal to close Wikipedia in major languages or any project in English. This is not true for Wikinews, where there was a proposal to close English Wikinews, which gained some traction but did not result in any action[4][5], see section 5 as well as a draft proposal to close all languages of Wikinews[6].

Initial metrics compiled by WMF staff also support the community's concerns about Wikinews.

Based on this report, SPTF recommends a community reevaluation of Wikinews. We conclude that its current structure and activity levels are the lowest among the existing sister projects. SPTF also recommends pausing the opening of new language editions while the consultation runs.

SPTF brings this analysis to a discussion and welcomes discussions of alternative outcomes, including potential restructuring efforts or integration with other Wikimedia initiatives.

Options mentioned so far (which might be applied to just low-activity languages or all languages) include but are not limited to:

• Restructure how Wikinews works and is linked to other current events efforts on the projects,
• Merge the content of Wikinews into the relevant language Wikipedias, possibly in a new namespace,
• Merge content into compatibly licensed external projects,
• Archive Wikinews projects.

Your insights and perspectives are invaluable in shaping the future of these projects. We encourage all interested community members to share their thoughts on the relevant discussion pages or through other designated feedback channels.

Feedback and next steps

We'd be grateful if you want to take part in a conversation on the future of these projects and the review process. We are setting up two different project pages: Public consultation about Wikispore and Public consultation about Wikinews. Please participate between 27 June 2025 and 27 July 2025, after which we will summarize the discussion to move forward. You can write in your own language.

I will also host a community conversation 16th July Wednesday 11.00 UTC and 17th July Thursday 17.00 UTC (call links to follow shortly) and will be around at Wikimania for more discussions.

-- Victoria on behalf of the Sister Project Task Force, 20.57, 27 Haziran 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-27

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 CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.

Updates for editors

• AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [7]
• Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers. [8][9]
• A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [10]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23.40, 30 Haziran 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-28

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

• Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.

Updates for editors

• Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game and let the team know what you think on the talk page.
• Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. [11]
• Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.
• Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use Özel:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [12]
• A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
• It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. [13]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of MediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications, information about migration in T388663 and details on deprecated hooks in T389624.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".

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MediaWiki message delivery 00.04, 8 Temmuz 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-29

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

• Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist. [14][15]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [16]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post for more details.

Meetings and events

• WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application and program proposal now!
• WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!

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MediaWiki message delivery 20.08, 14 Temmuz 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-30

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 Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Bölgeler" filter. [17]
• Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration feature.
• View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
• The Beta Cluster wikis have been moved from beta.wmflabs.org to beta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon. [18]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23.41, 21 Temmuz 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-31

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 Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.

Updates for editors

• The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. [19]
• On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [20]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
  • Temporary Accounts: Enhancing privacy for our unregistered editors
  • Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors
  • A dozen visions for wikitext!
  • Coordinate Across Stakeholders with the Product and Technology Advisory Council
• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00.25, 29 Temmuz 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-32

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

• Editors can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [21]
• Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page. [22]
• Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available. [23]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module now exists to load Codex icons. [24][25]
• Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. [26]
• Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [27]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
  • Wikimedia’s knowledge infrastructure in a changing internet: Establishing sustainable pathways for content reuse
  • Wikifunctions is coming soon to a wiki near you!
  • Shaping the Future of Wikipedia’s Reader Experience
  • Making Wikipedia More Readable: What Comes Next

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MediaWiki message delivery 03.39, 5 Ağustos 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-33

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 WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [28]
• The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
• The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [29]
• Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [30]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage. [31]
• Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the mw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. [32]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23.28, 11 Ağustos 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-34

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

• Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [33]
• An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [34]
• An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [35]
• Five new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikisource in Tagalog (s:tl:) [36]
  • a Wikisource in Madurese (s:mad:) [37]
  • a Wikipedia in Rakhine (w:rki:) [38]
  • a Wikibooks in Minangkabau (b:min:) [39]
  • a Wiktionary in Standard Moroccan Amazigh (wikt:zgh:) [40]
• View all 46 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 00.37, 19 Ağustos 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-35

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

• Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]
• On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [51]
• Administrators can now access the Özel:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Özel:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [52]
• Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [53][54]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [55]
• View all 39 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [56]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00.11, 26 Ağustos 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-36

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 Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page. [57]
• The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia. [58]
• On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. [59][60]
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter to learn more.
• The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.

Meetings and events

• Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
  • Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these.
  • La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20.49, 1 Eylül 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-37

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 Editing team is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please tell us in this task, or contact the team.

Updates for editors

• Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will be able to use a linting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information. [61]
• When browsing a wiki (like en.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out. Learn more. [62]
• When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes. [63]
• Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more. [64][65]
• Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results. [66]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 01.13, 9 Eylül 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-38

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

• References lists that are made using the <references/> tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width. [67]
• Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right. Learn more.
• Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
  • for the intitle: keyword: metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors [68]
  • for both intitle: and insource: keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g. \uHHHH). [69]
• When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results. [70]
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on September 24. This is planned at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests which happen twice a year. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor. [71]

Updates for technical contributors

• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to join an upcoming discovery interview, or leave feedback onwiki. Learn more.
• Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more. [72]
• The new Unicode 17.0 version has been released. The datasets on Commons for the Module:Unicode data have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
• Users of the Wikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
• A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information from Wikimedia Enterprise has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship applications for Wikimania 2026 in Paris, France, are open until October 31.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17.05, 15 Eylül 2025 (UTC)

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CRoslof (WMF) 22.20, 11 Eylül 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-39

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

• On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog.

Updates for editors

• Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
• A new parser function has been added: {{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as MediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. [73]
• Adding or editing a DISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket.
• Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
• View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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MediaWiki message delivery 22.54, 22 Eylül 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-40

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

• A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [74]

Updates for editors

• The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
• As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
• The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
• On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Özel:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [75]
• The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
• The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Özel:Katkılar and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
• There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [76]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:) [77]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [78]

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
• A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20.51, 29 Eylül 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-41

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

• Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.

Updates for editors

• Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. [79]
• New date filters, creationdate: and lasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. >2024) and relative dates (e.g. today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. [80]
• Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team. [81]
• An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog. [82]
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved. [83]

Updates for technical contributors

• The field rev_sha1 in the revision database table is being removed in favor of content_sha1 in the content database table. See the announcement for more information.
• The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement. [84]
• Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the rest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. [85]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 17.22, 6 Ekim 2025 (UTC)

Sözünüzü söyleyin: 2025 Mütevelli Heyeti seçiminde oy kullanın

Herkese merhaba,

2025 yılı Mütevelli Heyeti seçimleri için seçim dönemi başladı. Adaylar Heyetteki 2 (iki) boş koltuk için yarışmakta.

Oy kullanma kriterlerine uygunluğunuzu kontrol etmek için lütfen seçmen kriterleri sayfasını ziyaret edin.

Başvuru beyanlarını okuyarak ve adaylık videolarını izleyerek kendilerini tanıyın.

Hazır olduğunuzda, oy kullanmak için SecurePoll oylama sayfasına gidin. Oylama 8 Ekim 00:00 UTC'den 22 Ekim 23:59 UTC'ye kadar açıktır.

The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.

Saygılarımızla,

Abhishek Suryawanshi
Seçim Komitesi Başkanı

MediaWiki message delivery (mesaj) 04.48, 9 Ekim 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-42

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

• Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.

Updates for editors

• Another part of the Account security project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage. [86]
• This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain the ability to Thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, Thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page. You can learn more about this change. [87]
• Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account. [88][89]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see. [90]

Updates for technical contributors

• The Unsupported Tools Working Group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months. Learn more on Meta.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 18.58, 13 Ekim 2025 (UTC)

Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project

Merhaba. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Teşekkürler!

-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11.43, 20 Ekim 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-43

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

• To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. [91]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. [92]

Updates for technical contributors

• The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the rest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. [93]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19.35, 20 Ekim 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-44

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 iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
• Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [94]

Updates for technical contributors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
• The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Özel:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [95]
• Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
• A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
• Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [96]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19.30, 27 Ekim 2025 (UTC)

Hareket’in çeşitli komitelerine katılacak gönüllüler aranıyor.

Her yıl, genellikle Ekim ayından Aralık ayına kadar, Hareket’in çeşitli komiteleri yeni gönüllüler arar.

Komiteler hakkında daha fazla bilgiyi herbirinin Meta-wiki sayfalarında bulabilirsiniz:

• İştirak Komitesi (AffCom)
• Ombudsman Komitesi (OC)
• Dava İnceleme Komitesi (CRC)

Komiteler için başvurular 30 Ekim 2025 tarihinde başlar. İştirak Komitesi için başvurular 11 Aralık 2025, Ombudsman Komitesi ve Vaka İnceleme Komitesi için başvurular ise 11 Aralık 2025 tarihinde sona erer. Meta-wiki'deki görevlendirme sayfasını ziyaret ederek başvurunun nasıl yapıldığını öğrenin. Sorularınız varsa tartışma sayfasına yazın veya cstwikimedia.org adresine e-posta gönderiniz.

Komite Destek Ekibi adına,

- MKaur (WMF) 14.13, 30 Ekim 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-45

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

• Administrators will now find that Özel:GeçmişBirleştir is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). [97]
• For users with "Konulara otomatik olarak abone olun" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Konu ekle" or "Yanıtla" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. [98]
• Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. [99]
• Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. [100]
• Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! [101]
• View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [102]

Updates for technical contributors

• Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working. [103]
• On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
• MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. [104]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19.33, 3 Kasım 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-46

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

Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

• Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Tartışma etkinliğini göster". [105]
• MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [106]
• Using the "Önizlemeyi göster" or "Değişiklikleri göster" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [107][108][109]
• Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [110]
• The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [111]
• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [112]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [113]

Updates for technical contributors

• 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 will remain open through 2025-11-28.
• The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [114]
• The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from <user id> to mw:<identity type>:<user id>, where <identity type> is typically CentralAuth: (for SUL wikis) or local:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the sessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [115]
• MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page $9 or emailing other users $10. [116]
• A REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [117]
• The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [118][119]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20.37, 10 Kasım 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-47

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 experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
• Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
• One new wiki has been created: a Vikikaynak in Minangkabau (s:min:) [120]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
• Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17.26, 17 Kasım 2025 (UTC)

Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project

Merhaba. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Teşekkürler!

-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14.22, 20 Kasım 2025 (UTC)

Olay Bildirim Sistemi'nin Tanıtımı

Wikimedia Vakfı Ürün Güvenliği ve Bütünlüğü ekibinden merhabalar. Vikiye giriş yapmış ve çok deneyimli olmayan kullanıcıların, vikilerde fark ettikleri istenmeyen davranışları bildirmelerine yardımcı olan bir araç, “Olay Raporlama Sistemi” üzerinde çalışıyoruz.

Her topluluğun kendine özgü olay raporlama yolları vardır, ancak bu yollar vikiyi düzenlemeye yeni başlayanlar için her zaman anlaşılır olmayabilir. Bazı topluluklar merkezi bildirim sayfaları, VRTS e-postası veya hizmetliler ile doğrudan iletişim kullanır ve bu yöntemler arasında bir tutarlılık yoktur. Araç, mevcut uygulamalara uyarlanabilen standart bir bildirim arayüzü sunmayı ve toplulukların iletişim yollarını daha erişilebilir ve tutarlı bir şekilde düzenlemelerine ve listelemelerine yardımcı olmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Olay Raporlama Sistemi'nin eski sürümü 2024'ten beri Portekizce Vikipedi'de çalışmakta. Genişletilmiş sürümün, Türkçe Vikipedi’de dahil olmak üzere birkaç vikide daha çalışmaya geçmesini öneriyoruz. Bunun için geçici tarih Aralık başıdır.

Nasıl çalışacak?

"Rapor et" butonu

Tartışma sayfalarında, yorum yapanların imzalarının yanında, oturum açmış kullanıcıların bir "Rapor et" butonu bulunacaktır. Tıklandığında, Olay Raporlama Sistemi iki seçenek sunacaktır:

• Yakın bir fiziksel zarar tehdidi tespit etmeleri halinde, bir form doldurmaları istenecek ve verdikleri bilgiler doğrudan Wikimedia Vakfı Güven ve Güvenlik ekibine iletilecektir. Bu raporlarda paylaşılan bilgiler gizli kalacak ve Güven ve Güvenlik ekibi dışında paylaşılmaz.
• Başka bir istenmeyen davranış türü fark ederlerse, doldurulması gereken bir form olmayacak ve Vakıf sürece dahil olmayacaktır. Kullanıcının bildirmek istediği davranış türünü seçmesi gerekecektir. Tür listesi Evrensel Davranış Kuralları'na göre tasarlanmıştır. Bir tür seçtikten sonra, kullanıcı bu tür sorunları hangi topluluk üyelerinin çözdüğü ve olayı nereye bildireceği konusunda talimatlar görecektir. Farklı olay türleri için farklı talimatlar olacaktır.

İstenmeyen davranışların diğer türleri ve talimatlar hakkında daha fazla bilgi

Talimatların özelleştirilmiş versiyonları (bu tasarımın aksine, trolleme ve taciz durumunda, tacizciyle iletişime geçerek sorunu çözmeye çalışmak için bilgi olmayacaktır).

Tamamen özelleştirilmiş versiyonlar

Talimatların içeriği sizin kararınıza bağlı olacaktır. Hizmetliler, Topluluk Yapılandırması sayfasından düzenleyebilirler. Maalesef, değiştiremediğimiz teknik nedenlerden dolayı talimatlardaki metin düzenlenmeyecektir. Bunun yerine, hizmetliler yalnızca tercüme edilmiş standart paragrafları etkinleştirebilir veya devre dışı bırakabilir ve orada kullanılan bağlantıları düzenleyebilirler.

Türkçe Vikipedi kullanıcılarının nereye yönlendirilebileceğini kontrol ettik. Bu bizim önerimizdir ve araç çalışmaya başlamadan önce herhangi bir değişiklik yapmamızı istemediğiniz sürece, aracın ilk ayarı böyle kalacaktır. Araç çalışmaya başladıktan sonra, hizmetliler istedikleri zaman düzenleyebilecekler.

• "Zorbalık, yıldırma, tehdit veya tekrarlanan istenmeyen hakaretler" – bizim önerimiz: Vikipedi:Şikâyet
• "Cinsel taciz" – bizim önerimiz: Vikipedi:Şikâyet ve ca@wikimedia.org
• "Özel kişisel bilgilerin ifşası (doxing)" – bizim önerimiz: Vikipedi:Gözetmen isteği
• "Trolleme veya taciz (stalking)" – bizim önerimiz: Vikipedi:Şikâyet
• "Nefret dolu veya ayrımcı içerik" – bizim önerimiz: Vikipedi:Şikâyet
• "Spam veya özendirme içeriği" – bizim önerimiz: Vikipedi:Köy çeşmesi (ilginize)
• "Başka bir şey" – bizim önerimiz: Vikipedi:Köy çeşmesi (ilginize)

Arka plan

• Bu tasarım ve ayarlar yalnızca bir başlangıçtır ve test içindir. Farklı olay türlerinin ne sıklıkta meydana geldiğini ölçeceğiz ve istatistiklere dayanarak aracı geliştireceğiz.
• Neden bu tür olaylar? – Araç, yeni ve ara sıra projelerimizi kullanan kullanıcılara ve nereden yardım alacağını bilmeyen diğer topluluk üyelerine yardımcı olmak için tasarlanmıştır. Testlerimize göre, viki'de işlerin nasıl yürüdüğünü çok iyi bilmeyen kişiler, önerilen tasarımıyla aracı iyi anlıyor. Gelecekte, verilere dayanarak, olay türleri listesini değiştirmeyi düşüneceğiz.
• Uygun yere (bir sayfaya, bir e-postaya) gönderilecek bir formu doldurmak neden mümkün değil? – Bu, çok fazla teknik ve hukuki karmaşıklığa yol açacaktır. Veriler bu yönde destek verirse daha karmaşık bir araç geliştireceğiz.

Sizlerden isteğimiz: Yukarıdaki öneri (kullanıcıların belirli bir türdeki olayı bildirmek için yönlendirileceği yerle ilgili) topluluğunuz için işe yarıyor mu? Politikalarınızı ve uygulamalarınızı kapsıyor mu? Herhangi bir sorunuz var mı?

Olay Raporlama Sistemin yeni sürümünün önizlemesi henüz hiçbir viki'de mevcut değil. Eski sürümün (2024'ten devreye giren) önizlemesini Portekizce Vikipedi'de bulabilirsiniz. Daha fazla bilgi için proje sayfasını inceleyin. Çalışmalarımızı daha yakından takip etmek isterseniz, bültenimize abone olun. Teşekkürler! MAna (WMF) and Mehman (WMF) (mesaj) 12.16, 22 Kasım 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-48

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

• Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for cxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for счастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week. [121]
• Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Düzenleme araçlarını kaynak modunda etkinleştir" preference be set. [122]
• Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
• View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. [123]

Updates for technical contributors

• Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey. [124]
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for format=xml&xlst={stylesheet} will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). [125]
• The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2025-49

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. [126]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Vikipedi in Toki Pona (w:tok:) [127]
  • a Vikisöz in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:) [128]

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 18.57, 1 Aralık 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-50

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. [129]
• 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. [130]
• 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. [131]

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. [132]
• 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. [133]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17.45, 8 Aralık 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-51

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

• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [134]

Updates for technical contributors

• To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Özel:BağArama, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [135]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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