Tech News 2025, week 48

Latest *tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News>* from the
Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes.
Not all changes will affect you. Translations
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/48> are
available.

*Updates for editors*

   - Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Search_Platform>
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. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408734>
   - Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta
   feature
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures>
will
   have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:DiscussionTools>.
   This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be
   set. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T407918>
   - Campaign events extension
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents>
–
   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
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents/Collaborative_contributions>
to
   help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been
   added. Join the upcoming learning session
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Connection_learning_session_3>
to
   see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
   - View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>.
   For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been
   fixed. [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T410417>

*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
   <https://wikimediafoundation.limesurvey.net/487662>. [4]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/IREJRRWTZTGCYWQHDMSNJFTQAEPOOAE3/>
   - 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).
   [5]
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/5AX7UWAVVUNUSBOIRHMNOKWOZ5EZI3JX/>
   - 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
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikidata:Data_access>
    and Request a Query
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Request_a_query> pages for
   details and assistance on alternative access methods.
   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.4>

*Tech news
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared
by Tech News writers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and
posted by bot
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery>
• Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
• Translate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/48> • Get
help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*

_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/