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Hello! You are receiving this message as you have attended a small wiki toolkit workshop this year. If you missed attending our last feedback session on the small wiki toolkits workshops, here is a short survey that you could fill out to let us know your technical learning needs and ideas and suggestions for improving the workshop format for the next year. If you attended the feedback session, you can still fill out the survey to share ideas that you couldn't do so more anonymously during our meeting last week. We look forward to learning from your suggestions and including them in the planning for next year. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeVhqgZYXQG8Fgw25xRS0n7eKMleOKy5i1tM5Ty3mGACtcTag/viewform. Cheers, Srishti - via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 19:10, 2 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hey there! Thank you for participating in the Small Wiki Toolkits workshops this year - it was pretty cool having you around :) We have a small token of appreciation for you in the form of a badge that you can add to your user page! We are still going over the workshops organized this year, so we'll update you early next year with our future plans. See you in 2023! Cheers, Srishti (on behalf of the SWT organizing team) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 20:00, 16 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

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heartsAinali ^talk_{contributions} 21:36, 27 December 2022 (UTC)Reply

		Movement Charter Ambassador Program 2022 - First round of community consultations
		A big thank you again, Ali, for helping mobilize your community to understand the work of the MCDC and providing valuable input on the Movement Charter drafts. Your work and the feedback from your community help us write a better Charter for the whole Wikimedia Movement! Many thanks!

Ciell (talk) 20:22, 22 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Hello!

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Have a nice day! Egezort (talk) 23:10, 14 December 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hello, Alli Khalil. Check your email--you've got mail! You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.

--Alaa :)..! 17:56, 22 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello, and welcome to the second newsletter of 2025! In this edition, we'll walk you through exciting experiments, features, and improvements that took place in the Wikipedia mobile apps during March, April, and May.

Tabbed Browsing Work Begins

Tabbed browsing is one of the most requested features, and we've made major progress this quarter:

• We finalized the designs for tabs and released the feature to Beta.
• An A/B test is planned in select languages and regions before a broader release.
• Usability testing results helped shape the experience. See our full testing analysis and interface feedback recommendations.

Activity Tab Experiment

We launched a 30-day experiment on Chinese, French, Spanish, and Turkish Wikipedias to explore whether a centralized "Activity" space could increase user engagement.

The experiment shows the Suggested Edit "Add an image" feature to newcomers, and we hope to learn if it helps them activate and begin editing. We also hope to learn what users think about an early "Activity tab" prototype that summarizes their weekly editing, reading, and saving activity.

We'll evaluate outcomes after 30 days.

Personalized Wikipedia Year in Review

We began backend improvements to support the next version of the Year in Review:

• The 2024 version showed strong engagement. We're planning to integrate improved stats, collective movement insights, and recognition for donors.
• We added support for insights about reading time, link follows, and categories.

Navigation Refresh & Article Search A/B Test

We completed our test of a more prominent article search bar on four Wikipedias--French, Arabic, German, and Japanese.

• The A/B test showed a +23.8% increase in article-view search usage.
• While retention didn't shift significantly, the test gave us confidence to scale this UI improvement to all languages.

Temporary Accounts Support

We released support for Temporary Accounts to Wikipedias where the feature is currently enabled. This helps protect IP addresses of unregistered editors.

Bug Fixes & Enhancements

Thanks to internal and volunteer efforts, we resolved:

• Incorrect date formats on Talk pages
• Alt Text keyboard overlap
• Inactive cursor on search
• Broken insert-link suggestions

WikiGames & WikiTrivia Expansion

We expanded WikiGames and continued work on WikiTrivia:

• New enhancements: game archive, calendar view, score sharing, sound control to the game.
• 81.5% of players complete the game, and over half replay it on another day.
• Bug fixes include language mismatches and game crashes.

Jetpack Compose Migration

We continued migrating our UI to Jetpack Compose, including:

• MessageCardView
• LangLinksActivity
• SearchEmptyView
• WikiCardView and more

This helps modernize the app and improves long-term performance.

Rabbit Holes & Personalized Reading Lists

We completed our Rabbit Holes experiment, and began work on a permanent version of Personalized Reading Lists, tracked in this Epic ticket.

Early designs aim to make suggested reading lists more useful, personalizable, and persistent.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

We addressed:

• Talk page crashes
• Search-related language issues
• OATHAuth hyperlink bug
• On This Day incorrect year
• Samsung Galaxy S25 editing toolbar bug
• UI bugs with Picture of the Day
• Language display issues

Other Updates

• A 50-edit requirement was added to use Article Descriptions on English Wikipedia.
• We fixed pageview analytics and updated reading list icons.

Looking Ahead

From long-requested features like tabbed browsing to smarter personalization and more engaging games, this quarter was packed with progress. Your feedback continues to guide our path forward.

Make sure you're subscribed to this newsletter to stay in the loop -- and thank you for being part of the journey!

~~ARamadan-WMF15:34, 14 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Greetings!

The Language and Product Localization team has developed a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation in the MetaWiki platform. This means that module developers can now use the new Lua interface to load translatable strings, and the translators can translate them in the same translation interface that is used for templates and wiki pages.

This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation.

We invite you to watch our demo video and read more about translatable modules to understand how it works. Please give us your feedback on this talk page on how well the Lua interface addresses the challenges in your workflow and how useful it is in module localization tasks. You can also refer to Module:User Wikimedia project, which was recently converted to utilize these messages, for example usage.

Your feedback is important as it will help us evaluate and decide how to continue developing and improving this interface, extend it to other wikis, or change our approach.

Thank you, and we anticipate your honest feedback.

UOzurumba (WMF) 06:40, 28 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello! I'm Yuriko Kadokura (User:Wadakuramon) from Japan.

I'm currently hosting the Yokohama Editathon. Please feel free to join us. The project page is here: https://w.wiki/Ehib

The Diff article is here: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/09/10/yokohama-editathon-to-be-held-in-october/

Thank you! Wadakuramon (talk) 00:12, 6 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

In this edition, we'll walk you through the major updates, experiments, and improvements that took place in the Wikipedia mobile apps during July, August, and September.

• In July, we released the first iteration of Tabbed Browsing to all users.
• Our 30-day A/B test showed mixed but promising results: while logged-out user retention gains were modest compared to Android, survey feedback was overwhelmingly positive (93% rated the feature "Neutral to Very Satisfactory").
• We continued improvements throughout August and September, including a design review for "More Dynamic Tabs," a new tab controller, and bug fixes such as inconsistent tab sizing on iPad mini and tooltip issues.

• Work continued on Year in Review upgrades, with spikes exploring features such as sharing entire reviews, custom app icons, and showing which geographies users read about the most.
• We also began preparing overall app data to share richer collective insights.

• We improved code behind the History tab and recent searches to prepare for future navigational changes.

• Released several app versions (7.8.1 through 7.8.3), with smoke tests completed.
• Resolved numerous bugs including crashes (tooltips, gestures, search), iPad layout issues, and visual problems with captions, Quick Facts, and images in Dark Mode.
• Added a new REST endpoint for remote configuration and upgraded fundraising configurations to support A/B testing.
• Verified continued compatibility with multi-factor authentication (MFA).

• In August, we launched the Customizable Donation Reminder experiment in Italy. The reminder will allow users to decide if they want to be reminded to donate, and how often.

• By September, we finalized core modules, onboarding, instrumentation, and validation tasks needed for the A/B test of the new Activity Tab against the Edit Tab.
• This marks a major step toward testing whether an Activity space can improve multi-day engagement and retention.

• Fixed crashes with image gallery long-press, saved article syncing for Chinese, edit previews, and special links.
• Addressed rendering and Dark Mode issues affecting math tags, GIFs, and citation numbers.

• We released a new beta and conducted multiple regression tests to ensure stability.
• We added a general-purpose remote configuration REST endpoint, aligned with iOS.
• Continued technical debt cleanup, including removing allowMainThreadQueries and adding suspend to DAO functions.
• Upgraded fundraising configuration to support A/B testing.

• Both apps upgraded fundraising A/B test support and created a shared remote configuration REST endpoint.
• We began tracking Account Vanish events on iOS and Android for privacy features.

This quarter marked a big step forward on Tabbed Browsing, Activity Tab, and Year in Review -- three projects aimed at making Wikipedia more personal, navigable, and engaging. We also advanced donation experiments and backend improvements to support future flexibility.

Make sure you're subscribed to this newsletter to stay in the loop -- and thank you for being part of the journey!

ARamadan-WMF 02:12, 14 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello Alli Khalil,

We're excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

• Date: December 6, 2025
• Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
• Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

If you can't join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.

We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.

CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.

Whether you're an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.

- Explore the CapX platform: capx.toolforge.org
- Read: User Guide & FAQ
- Watch: Meet the Capacity Exchange video
- Join our Telegram community chat: CapX Telegram Group

If your community, usergroup or affiliate would like to have a CapX organization profile, please reach out at capx@wmnobrasil.org, and we'd be delighted to support you.

With warm regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project - Wikimedia Brasil

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello, and welcome to the final newsletter of 2025!

In this edition, we'll walk you through the major updates, experiments, and improvements in the Wikipedia mobile apps during October, November, and early December.

Throughout October and November, the team made final updates to the Year in Review feature, preparing it for its early December release.

Key improvements included:

• Updating the Total Edits slide to represent global edits across all Wikimedia projects.
• Running usability tests, which showed strong user interest in personalized slides--especially reading patterns, top articles, categories, and geo insights.
• Preparing the A/B test that will allow some logged-out users to view personalized content.

We also added fundraising banner suppression for users who donated in the past 250 days, so that users who may have donated from the Year in Review do not see a banner.

We continued work on the New Tab Experience and ran the A/B/C test for recommendations within the tabs overview.

The experiment concluded on November 18 and showed:

• Recommendations increased pageviews and new tab openings. However, they did not improve multi-day usage or overall retention.
• "Because you read" recommendations performed better than "Did you know."
• Group C had slightly higher satisfaction and lower dissatisfaction.

Next steps:

• Scale the new tab experience, including "close all tabs," to all users.
• Do not scale recommendations yet until after further investigation.

Work continued on Activity Tab V2, preparing to test it against the existing History tab. Updates included:

• Integrating learnings from Android's successful Activity Tab experiment.
• Building new onboarding, instrumentation, and module behavior.
• A first version was released in early December.

• We ran a survey on the Explore tab launched to gather user feedback.
• OAuth adoption was explored by engineering and design.
• Bug fixes for login with 2FA, search in Saved, and other regressions.
• Compatibility testing completed for m. subdomain removal.

By October, the Activity Tab experiment delivered strong results:

• Return rate for logged-in users increased by 11.6% compared to the previous Edit tab.
• Experiment had no negative impact on overall retention.
• Only 0.7% of users turned the feature off.

In November, we made several improvements, and then scaled the Activity Tab to all logged-in users.

The team finalized core implementation, prepared for the December release, and:

• Updated the Total Edits slide to reflect global edits across projects.
• Prepared the A/B test for the Year in Review Reading List, which will offer a personalized reading list to some users.
• Conducted final usability reviews.

We began development of the second donation reminder experiment, planned for December-March.

This experiment:

• Targets users who click "Maybe later" on fundraising banners.
• Tests a fully customizable reminder flow versus the current "Maybe later" behavior.
• Allows users to adjust reminder frequency, article-count triggers, and manage their reminder settings.

• We ran a survey on the Explore tab launched to gather user feedback.
• OAuth adoption was explored by engineering and design.
• Fixed issues with "Forgot your password" in Chinese, dark-mode rendering problems, punctuation-based errors, and navigation bugs.
• Added ISO currency codes to donation forms.
• Updated several settings and entry points to prepare for the fundraising season.

• Both Android and iOS teams released their Year in Review features on December 2, 2025!
• They were met with positive interactions on social media, and from the press.
• There were 2 articles written about the feature by The Verge and by Vice.

This quarter brought major progress across Tabs, Activity, Year in Review, and Donation Reminder work.

As we close 2025, both apps now support a richer set of personalization features, clearer navigation paths, and more user-controlled donation experiences.

Thank you for following along, and stay tuned for our next newsletter in early 2026!

~~ARamadan-WMF16:17, 17 December 2025 (UTC)Reply

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