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Tech News: 2025-24

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 Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

• The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [1]

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

• The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). [2][3]
• Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [4]
• This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more 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: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [5]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
• Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [6][7]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:14, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Regarding your close of Talk:Abs district#Requested move 24 January 2025

Full disclosure, I started a thread on WP:AN (Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Close review of Talk:Abs district#Requested move 24 January 2025) because I thought that a lot of time has passed since the discussion. But per WP:MR I come to your talk page first.

You closed the move as moved with the remark "Per consensus, that while district is part of the name, it doesn't make it a proper noun." With all due respect, that is just plain wrong. If a word is part of the name then the whole name is a proper noun. One cannot say that just because a word exists on its own as a common noun that it can never be part of a proper name. This shows a gross misunderstanding of how the English language works. I hope that you will revert your move and if a case can be made for moving individual articles (not based on bending the rules of English orthography) then that should be made on the Talk pages of those individual articles. TurboSuperA+_(connect) 19:07, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

I'd have to agree with Turbo here. If "District" is actually part of the name, it's part of the proper noun and thus correctly captialized. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 21:58, 11 June 2025 (UTC)