Tech News 2026 - Issue 30

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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/2026/30> are
available.

*Updates for editors*

   - The Reader Experience team
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Reader/Reader_Experie=
nce>
has
   incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and
   watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Readers/Reader_Experi=
ence/WE3.3.4_Reading_lists>,
   which would allow for saving articles for later reading =E2=80=93 a wish=
list item
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Community_Wishlist/W=
102>
to
   bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta
   feature to test it out and share their thoughts
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T426453>.
   - Suggestion Mode
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/VisualEditor/Suggesti=
on_Mode>
offers
   edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia
articles. All
   suggestions <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EditChecks> are
   community-configurable
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Suggestion_mode#=
For_administrators_%E2%80%93_local_customization>.
   The TextMatch
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/TextMatch>
feature
   is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature
   searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for
   regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and
   flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note:
   Suggestions can be targeted
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Edit_check/Configurat=
ion#:~:text=3DmaximumEditcount>
based
   on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the
   page. You can find examples from other communities
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Suggestion_mode#=
Create_custom_local_types_of_Suggestions>
for
   inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors,
   potential advertisements, clich=C3=A9s, incorrect dash or hyphen usage,
   non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:VisualEditor/Sug=
gestion_Mode>
is
   appreciated.
   - View all 27 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 SVG Translate tool could use an outdated
   version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when =
new
   ones were uploaded, has now been fixed
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430577>. Overall, in the last
   quarter from April =E2=80=93 June 2026 about 337 community tasks were re=
solved by
   the Wikimedia Foundation.

*Updates for technical contributors*

   - On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250
   images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be
   soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, makin=
g
   it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted
   during rendering. See phab:T430854
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430854> for more information and to
   provide feedback.
   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.12>

*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>
=E2=80=A2 Contribute
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute>
=E2=80=A2 Translate
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2026/30> =E2=
=80=A2 Get
help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> =E2=80=A2 Give feedback
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> =E2=80=A2 Subscribe or uns=
ubscribe
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sadors>.*

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org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks" cl=
ass=3D"extiw" title=3D"m:Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently resolved com=
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ed by the Wikimedia Foundation.</li></ul><p style=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 1em;c=
olor:rgb(32,33,34);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><b>Updates for te=
chnical contributors</b></p><ul style=3D"padding:0px;color:rgb(32,33,34);fo=
nt-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px"><li style=3D"margin-bottom:0.1em">On P=
arsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per pag=
e. A new tracking category, &quot;media-limit-reached&quot;, will be soon m=
ade available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easi=
er to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rende=
ring. See=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T430854" class=
=3D"extiw" title=3D"phab:T430854" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(5=
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