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Tech News: 2026-43

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 measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for Image Carousel will be pushed to logged-out readers. With the Image Carousel feature, readers browse community-uploaded images, selected by editors as relevant to specific articles. The test starts on November 20.
• An experimental notice will be pushed to 0.5% of logged-out mobile readers who come to English Wikipedia from Google, asking them to add Wikipedia as a Google Preferred Source. The test is to see if this notice increases reader retention and encourages people who use Google Search to visit Wikipedia more often. It will run from October 15–29 and will be assessed for its impact on retention and referrals.
• View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where Quarry returned an “Access denied” error when users tried to run SQL queries, preventing queries from running normally, has now been fixed. [1]

Updates for technical contributors

• Due to a long-standing bug, applications that use the OAuth 2 client credentials flow to act on their owners’ behalf are treated as if they are logged out. This will be fixed for new applications registered on or after Monday, October 19. Some affected applications need to re-register. [2]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• A proposal to hold the Wikimedia Hackathon every three years, with regional hackathons in between, has been shared. It explores making the event more accessible to technical communities in different regions. Share your feedback on the proposal’s talk page before November 6.

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MediaWiki message delivery 14:35, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion (20 October 2026)

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Quality Image Promotion (22 October 2026)

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--Pi bot (talk) 18:08, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion (24 October 2026)

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File:Algund, Technik-Schauplatz -- 2026 -- 3710.jpg

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Algund, Technik-Schauplatz -- 2026 -- 3710.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Екатерина Борисова 02:35, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Regensburg, Wöhrdstraße -- 2026 -- 4415.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments IMO, the shadows are too dark; I’d lighten them a little. Otherwise very good. --Syntaxys 05:45, 18 October 2026 (UTC)  Done Thank you. I made the improvements. --XRay 07:38, 18 October 2026 (UTC)  Support Good quality now. --George Chernilevsky 06:43, 19 October 2026 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --Syntaxys 13:04, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (26 October 2026)

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--QICbot (talk) 05:45, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

FP Promotion: Schenna (IT), Vorlandweg 2 -- 2026 -- 4026

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/Wilfredor (talk) 18:01, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

FP Promotion: Schenna (IT), Abenddämmerung -- 2026 -- 4135

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Tech News: 2026-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• An experiment launched on September 29 is testing article recommendations for new account holders who also identify as readers. By suggesting articles to read, similar to recommendations in the Wikipedia app for logged-in readers, the experiment aims to encourage new account holders to read and return to the website regularly, with the goal of increasing internal referrals by 1%. See the related Community Wishlist proposal.
• Several Wikimedia services were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This is because they need to be updated before they are safe to put back online. This is not a problem just for the Wikimedia movement but affects a lot of websites. You can follow updates on Wikitech. Cloud VPS and Toolforge will take longer to bring back online. This is to make sure that applications which run on Cloud VPS or Toolforge are not affected. Tool developers can see updates and more information on the Cloud-announce mailing list. [3][4]
• Last week we shared that to measure the impact of incorporating some community-requested features on logged-out reader retention, a test for the Image Carousel feature would be pushed to logged-out readers. Due to an issue, we will be restarting the test, but it will be live on October 26, not November 20 as initially announced.

Updates for editors

• A new bot detection system to better identify automated traffic that disguises itself as human visitors, is coming to the Wikimedia wikis. This might cause sudden changes to visitor statistics starting from 26 October, going back to 20 June 2026.
• The Score extension which renders musical notation inside wiki pages, has been temporarily disabled on all wikis due to a security issue. Affected pages will display a notice instead of musical scores, but the underlying code remains intact. No action is needed from editors, and a fix is in progress. A separate announcement will follow when the extension is re-enabled. Read more on Phabricator.
• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where CodeMirror syntax highlighter appears to have been enabled in error for existing editors has been fixed. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, October 28 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies. [6]

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Scholarship and sponsorship applications for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon will close on Friday, October 30th. Submit your application through Pretix before the deadline!

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:53, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion (27 October 2026)

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Quality Image Promotion (28 October 2026)

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--QICbot (talk) 05:56, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion (29 October 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Abensberg, Brauerei Kuchlbauer -- 2026 -- 4230.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Famberhorst 05:40, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Abensberg, Brauerei Kuchlbauer, Kuchlbauerturm -- 2026 -- 4184.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  CommentThe shy needs some de-noise. --NorbertNagel 05:29, 26 October 2026 (UTC)  Done I made a improved noise reduction. Thank you. --XRay 05:37, 26 October 2026 (UTC) OK now --NorbertNagel 18:12, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Abensberg, Brauerei Kuchlbauer -- 2026 -- 4210.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Famberhorst 05:41, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Algund, Etschtalradweg, Serpentinen -- 2026 -- 3754.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good composition with that moving, non-identifiable person, giving an impression of speed. Unfortunately the guardrails are blown out, probably that can be fixed? --Plozessor 03:45, 23 October 2026 (UTC)  Done I made some improvements and hopefully, it's good now. -- XRay 08:57, 25 October 2026 (UTC)  Support The top of the guardrails is still blown out, but it's otherwise a great picture that captures the scene well. --Plozessor 17:04, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:42, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion (30 October 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Meran, Stadtpfarrkiche St. Nikolaus -- 2026 -- 3397.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Syntaxys 07:35, 27 October 2026 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --ArildV 07:35, 27 October 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (31 October 2026)

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Quality Image Promotion (01 November 2026)

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Quality Image Promotion (02 November 2026)

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Quality Image Promotion (03 November 2026)

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Tech News: 2026-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

• Many Wikimedia tools were taken offline last week because of a security vulnerability in PHP. This affected many websites worldwide. Toolforge and Cloud VPS have been back up since October 22. Many important tools have been gradually restored. Some tools need the respective volunteer maintainers to restart them. Others still need to upgrade to a patched PHP version. Some tools were using older versions of PHP which are not supported by the recent security patches. They will require maintainers to upgrade to a more recent version. This might require additional effort. You can follow the work on Wikitech.

Updates for editors

• A new optional search experiment is running in the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps for Arabic, French, and Japanese Wikipedias. Participating readers can search inside articles and open quoted passages directly in their source articles, no answers or summaries are generated. This is the first of four experiments in Phase 2 of Semantic Search. It began on October 22 and runs for 20 days. Feedback is welcome on the project’s discussion page.
• The Future Audiences team is planning to bring Share Cards to Wikipedia on mobile. This feature gives users the option to share a visually appealing card with friends, based on the article they are reading. The card contains the article’s title, image, opening text, and related attribution, and links back to the article for full reading. Editors are invited to try out this feature by adding ?useformat=mobile&sharecard=1 to any article URL from October 29 to November 8. Share any thoughts on the project talk page and report any bugs on Phabricator.
• The default renderer for math formulas will change on November 2. After the change, the server sends the formula as MathML, and your browser uses MathJax to show it. This is the last step towards the Mathoid/RESTBase deprecation process, for sustainability and security reasons. You can ask questions or report problems. [7]
• Do you have an idea for a new feature, or a bug that needs fixing? Submit your suggestion for the community wish list by November 8!
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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