Tech News 2025, week 07

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Weekly highlight

Updates for editors

  • The “Special pages” portlet link will be moved from the “Toolbox” into the “Navigation” section of the main menu’s sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at [1]
  • As part of this year’s work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
  • forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [2]
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Updates for technical contributors

  • Wikidata [4]
  • The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page’s total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [5]
  • As part of the RESTBase deprecation [6]

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the “Contribute” menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
  • The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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