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*Updates for editors* - The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Wikipedia_Year_in_Review/Updates> . - The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T396155>. - Add a link <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Growth/Tools/Add_a_link> will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF) <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/user:Trizek_(WMF)>. - View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [1] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T399476> - Two new wikis have been created: - a Wikipedia in Toki Pona <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36846> ( w:tok: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/tok:>) [2] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T404457> - a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33655> (q:pcm: <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/pcm:>) [3] <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T408318> *Updates for technical contributors* - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.46/wmf.5> *In depth* - The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Article_guidance> about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Talk:Article_guidance> . *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> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2025/49> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.*
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