Tech News week #43, 2025

Sandister Tei <[email protected]>
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*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. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406724>
   - View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>.
   For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface
   message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed.
   [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T406415>

*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
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/serviceops/>.
   - 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. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401290>
   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.45/wmf.24>

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