Tech News 2026, week 03

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*Weekly highlight*

   - The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the
   July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2026-2027/Product_%26_Technology_OKRs>
    and *Diff
   <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/12/10/shaping-wikimedia-foundations-2026-2027-annual-goals-key-questions-for-the-wikimedia-movement/>*.
   These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better
   support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving
   collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership.
   Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Annual_Plan/2026-2027>
   .

*Updates for editors*

   - As part of the current work of Community Tech team on the Multiple
   watchlists
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/W372>
project,
   the display of EditWatchlist
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EditWatchlist> will be updated
   as a first step towards multiple watchlists. Additionally, the pagination
   on Search <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Search> will be
   updated too, as a part of the work on the Revamp pagination / page
   navigation
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/W186>
    wish. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411596>
   - The Global Watchlist
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalWatchlist> is a MediaWiki
   extension
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Extension:GlobalWatchlist>
that
   lets you see your watchlists from different wikis on the same page. It was
   recently updated to look more like the regular Watchlist
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Watchlist>, such as preparing
   it for temporary accounts in IP masking (including rerouting user links to
   contributions pages), making page titles bold, and opening links in edit
   summaries and tags in new browser tabs. [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T398361>[3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T298919>[4]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273526>[5]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286309>
   - View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>.
   For example, the issue where global blocks did not have the option to
   disable sending emails, has now been fixed, and will be available for use
   in the week of January 13. [6]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T401293>

*Updates for technical contributors*

   - The VisualEditor citation tool
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Citation_tool>
    and Reference Previews
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reference_Previews>
now
   support "map" as a reference type. [7]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411083>
   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.10>/MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.11>

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