Tech News 2026 - Issue 20

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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/2026/20> are
available.

*Weekly highlight*

   - Community Tech has published new guidance
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/H=
ow_to_write_a_good_wish>
explaining
   how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The
   documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals =
by
   clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond v=
ote
   counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact =
on
   the community when determining which wishes move forward.

*Updates for editors*

   - The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share
   Card feature
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Growth=
/Share_Card>
that
   allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles=
 or
   selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking
   back to the original article to help expand readership and article
   discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of
   readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to
   better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin =
the
   week of May 18 and run for four weeks.
   - The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day
   reading challenge
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/2=
5th_Birthday_Reading_Challenge>
into
   Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users=
 to
   complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the
   challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home
   screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.
   - View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_r=
esolved_community_tasks>.
   For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax
   highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being
   turned on, has now been fixed. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425286>

*Updates for technical contributors*

   - The ResourceLoader module mediawiki.ui.input, deprecated since Septemb=
er
   2023
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/39>,
   will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki
   UI to Codex
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Codex/Migrating_from_=
MediaWiki_UI>
for
   any tools that use it. [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420125>
   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.2>

*Tech news
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by Tech News writers
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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div><p style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);=
font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px">Latest=C2=A0<b><a href=3D"https://me=
ta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" class=3D"extiw" title=
=3D"m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb=
(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">tech news</a></b>=C2=A0from=
 the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these cha=
nges. Not all changes will affect you.=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://meta.wikimed=
ia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/20" class=3D"extiw" title=3D"=
m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/20" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color=
:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Translations</a>=C2=A0a=
re available.</p><p style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-=
family:sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b>Weekly highlight</b></p><ul style=3D"p=
adding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li s=
tyle=3D"margin-bottom:0.1em">Community Tech has published=C2=A0<a href=3D"h=
ttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/How_to=
_write_a_good_wish" class=3D"extiw" title=3D"m:Special:MyLanguage/Community=
 Wishlist/How to write a good wish" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb=
(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">new guidance</a>=C2=A0expla=
ining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The doc=
umentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by cla=
rifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote co=
unts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on th=
e community when determining which wishes move forward.</li></ul><p style=
=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-si=
ze:16px"><b>Updates for editors</b></p><ul style=3D"padding:0px;color:rgb(3=
2,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style=3D"margin-bottom:=
0.1em">The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Rea=
der_Growth/Share_Card" class=3D"extiw" title=3D"mw:Special:MyLanguage/Reade=
rs/Reader Growth/Share Card" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102=
,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">Share Card feature</a>=C2=A0that a=
llows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or =
selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking bac=
k to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. =
The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabi=
c, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand =
reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 an=
d run for four weeks.</li><li style=3D"margin-bottom:0.1em">The Android and=
 iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.media=
wiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/25th_Birthday_Reading_=
Challenge" class=3D"extiw" title=3D"mw:Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia Apps/Te=
am/25th Birthday Reading Challenge" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb=
(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">25-day reading challenge</a=
>=C2=A0into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encourag=
ing users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak dur=
ing the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their=
 home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.</li><li style=3D"marg=
in-bottom:0.1em">View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were=C2=A0<a hr=
ef=3D"https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently=
_resolved_community_tasks" class=3D"extiw" title=3D"m:Special:MyLanguage/Te=
ch/News/Recently resolved community tasks" style=3D"text-decoration:none;co=
lor:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">resolved last week</=
a>. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax h=
ighlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turne=
d on, has now been fixed.=C2=A0<a class=3D"external gmail-autonumber" href=
=3D"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T425286" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noo=
pener noreferrer" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);borde=
r-radius:2px;background:none;padding:0px">[1]</a></li></ul><p style=3D"marg=
in:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px"=
><b>Updates for technical contributors</b></p><ul style=3D"padding:0px;colo=
r:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style=3D"margin-=
bottom:0.1em">The ResourceLoader module=C2=A0<code style=3D"font-family:mon=
ospace,monospace;background-color:rgb(248,249,250);color:rgb(16,20,24);bord=
er-color:rgb(218,221,227);border-style:solid;border-width:0.666667px;border=
-radius:2px;padding:1px 4px">mediawiki.ui.input</code>, deprecated since=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/=
2023/39" class=3D"extiw" title=3D"m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2023/39" s=
tyle=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-r=
adius:2px">September 2023</a>, will be removed this week. There is a=C2=A0<=
a href=3D"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Codex/Migrating=
_from_MediaWiki_UI" class=3D"extiw" title=3D"mw:Special:MyLanguage/Codex/Mi=
grating from MediaWiki UI" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(51,102,2=
04);background:none;border-radius:2px">guide for migrating from MediaWiki U=
I to Codex</a>=C2=A0for any tools that use it.=C2=A0<a class=3D"external gm=
ail-autonumber" href=3D"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T420125" target=
=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noopener noreferrer" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color=
:rgb(51,102,204);border-radius:2px;background:none;padding:0px">[2]</a></li=
><li style=3D"margin-bottom:0.1em">Detailed code updates later this week:=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.2" class=
=3D"extiw" title=3D"mw:MediaWiki 1.47/wmf.2" style=3D"text-decoration:none;=
color:rgb(51,102,204);background:none;border-radius:2px">MediaWiki</a></li>=
</ul><p style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 1em;color:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-=
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