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Tech News: 2025-47

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Updates for editors

The Reader Experience team is experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau (s:min:) [1]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.

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Books & Bytes – Issue 71

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 71, September–October 2025

Spotlight: 1Lib1Ref 2025 in Nigeria
Frankfurt Book Fair
Tech tip: Wikipedia Library access template

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Nomination for discussion of Template:IDRConvert

Template:IDRConvert has been nominated for discussion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:24, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Hringhorni101 (21:04, 19 November 2025)

hello i made this page can you see if everything looks right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Vulture --Hringhorni101 (talk) 21:05, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Hringhorni101 I am not into metal, but in general, there is a lack of independent third party sources. The only source of note is the album review. The rest cannot be use to sustain the notability of the subject. A quick search online does not reveal much about the band as well. You may see WP:NMUSIC for guidance. The article is not ready for the mainspace. I will have the article move to draftspace where you can take the time to develop the article further (as long as you make at least 1 edit every six months). As time progresses, hopefully there are more coverage of the band to establish their notability. – robertsky (talk) 21:21, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Shecallsmeback (21:29, 19 November 2025)

Note: Shecallsmeback's mentor Dudhhr is away.

When is it appropriate to delete something? How much evidence do you need that it isn't real? --Shecallsmeback (talk) 21:29, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]