Tech News 2026 - Issue 23

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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/2026/23> are
available.

*Updates for editors*

   - The Reader Experience team
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experi=
ence>
is
   conducting an experiment to show the reading lists
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experi=
ence/Reading_lists>
feature,
   which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whet=
her
   it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchsta=
r
   button. The experiment
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experi=
ence/Reading_lists#Experiment_timeline>
was
   launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish,
   Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
   - The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/E=
xplore_Feed_Refresh/Phase_1>
of
   the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed
   includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab
   featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of=
 a
   broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging
   learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
   - View all 18 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 images could fail to load for some suggested
   edits on Special:Homepage
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Homepage>, leaving the thumbnail
   stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. [1]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T424048>

*Updates for technical contributors*

   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.5>

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by Tech News writers
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