Tech News 2026, week 06

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*Updates for editors*

   - The "Page information" feature, which gives validating information
   about a page (example
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tech/News/2026/06&action=info>),
   now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local
   MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header> page created
   by individual users, it can now be removed. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T363726>
   - View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>.
   For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside
   link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed.
   [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T409669>

*Updates for technical contributors*

   - There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps
   will be generated once per month only. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414389>
   - The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform
   endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/API:REST%20API>. All
   API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to
   the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any
   problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team
   board <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/6931/>.
   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.14>

*Weekly highlight*

   - Users are reminded that 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>
   .

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