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Weekly highlight
Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.
Updates for editors
Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [21]
The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [22]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [23]
Updates for technical contributors
Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [24]
Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [25]
The Resilient Barnstar For remaining tactically neutral even after mistakenly pissing off a meticulous bitch. (staying cool while in the line of fire) Ste4k 00:20, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
The Random-Acts-of-Kindness Barnstar CJC47 05:15, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The Spamstar of Glory Presented to A. B. for diligence in fighting spam on Wikipedia -- ReyBrujo
The Working Man's Barnstar For your ongoing willingness to take on the laborious tasks involved in fighting spam, and for being a driving force at WikiProject Spam, I award you the Working Man's Barnstar. Keep up the excellent work! --AbsolutDan(talk) 17:44, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence Presented to A. B. For extraordinary diligence combating spam! Hu12 07:07, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar No one more deserving of the Defender of the Wiki Barnstar for fighting Spam on Wikipedia, is you. Thank You! Hu12 05:49, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
The Spamstar of Glory Presented to A. B. for extraordinary effort and diligence fighting spam on Wikipedia. That was some nest you uncovered there. Fantastic work! -- SiobhanHansa 13:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Smile For stepping in with such sensible suggestions to calm down the heat in the maritime quest discussion - and for the nice comments about valued long term contributor and good faith editor Viv Hamilton 17:14, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Defender of the Wiki Ribbon as always, great work!--Hu12 23:39, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Anti-Spam Super Sleuth! Your thorough investigation of spammers is critical to our anti-spam efforts. Your hard work is greatly appreciated. --Versageek 04:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar Thanks for cleaning up all the modelsobserver.com spam! -- Ed (Edgar181) 15:13, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
The Random-Acts-of-Kindness Barnstar Thank you for removing a personal attack from my userpage, as well as blocking the user who made that attack for a week! Johnny Au (talk) 15:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
The Defender of the Wiki Barnstar To A.B., for protecting "Mesothelioma" from spam. Axl (talk) 23:00, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy I just saw how you stood by me to ensure that the pages I created on Nigerian topics don’t get deleted. You’re appreciated. Amaekuma (talk) 09:18, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
The Special Barnstar Thank you for addressing an unfounded personal attack, both in the AfD and on the ANI page. You spoke up against injustice and went on and beyond expectations! gidonb (talk) 00:01, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Thank you for all of the time you spend checking, rechecking and tracking down references in AFD discussions. You indeed seem tireless! LizRead!Talk! 02:57, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diplomacy For doing the right thing in multiple places after an initially unpleasant misunderstanding, and for calling me out when you suspected wrongdoing. Actualcpscm (talk) 19:27, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
A tiny token of recognition that you are one of the most conscientious editors around. The project is very fortunate to have you. — Athaenara ? 09:55, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
A kitten for you! Hi! The meta:Steward request/username change wasn't the right place for this, so I brought you a kitten. I just wanted to let you know that we genuinely appreciate your volunteer efforts. Keep up the awesome work; we see it and value it! – DreamRimmer (talk) 15:48, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
Google News searches don't necessarily return results from foreign country. Search Google in the country related to the article. Examples: Google.co.au (Australia) or Google.gt (Guatemala)
If the subject has it's own website, see if it has a page with a list of press articles or journal articles.
Tweak searches.
Narrow overly broad searches:
If the subject is Bob Jones, a Winnipeg pioneer, a "Bob Jones" search will turn up thousands of irrelevant results. Add "Winnipeg". Then add "Pioneer" … or "settler".
