Tech News 2026 - Issue 34

Latest *tech news
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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/2026/34> are
available.

*Weekly highlight*

   - The Worklist feature
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents/Registration/Worklist>
for
   the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With
   Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on
   directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:CampaignEvents/Registration/Worklist#How_Event_Pathways_uses_the_worklist>
which
   notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an
   article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable
   version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try
   the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Event:Worklist_Setup_Workshop:_Get_Your_Event_Ready>
will
   take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.

*Updates for editors*

   - Special:ShortPages
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortPages> displays
   short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with
   disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short
   articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not
   to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word
   __EXPECTSHORTPAGE__. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T433203>
   - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole
   <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3436680> (w:bol:
   <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bol:>) [2]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429921>
   - Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two
   lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This
   is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T429518> which aims to reduce
   crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar that may occur on some language
   Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
   - View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week
   <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>.
   For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more
   stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could
   not acquire lock” upload error. [3]
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T386640>

*Updates for technical contributors*

   - Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31
   August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects
   <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T434103> still have instances running
   Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to
   Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide
   <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_VPS_instance_operating_system_migration>
is
   available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider
   whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or
   cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS
   admins as soon as possible. Read more
   <https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/RVIPQSYLKMSL5M46JP6NEJVGVE6I2RXQ/>
   .
   - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
   <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.47/wmf.16>

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