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Jpearson Jpearson 6 October 2023
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Technical Updates: October 6, 2023


Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since September 22nd. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 3.2 Traffic team


  • Editors can now access the tilesheet extension’s createsheet!
  • If editors included a forward slash in the template name on Special:InfoboxBuilder, they couldn’t save the page. Instead, editors received an error message when clicking publish. We’re happy to share that this has been fixed and now editors can save their changes.


  • Some editors are experiencing a 500 error when accessing Post History on wikis.
  • Template pages created by the new InfoboxBuilder do not ha…





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Jpearson Jpearson 23 September 2023
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Technical Updates: September 22, 2023


Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since September 8th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 3.2 Traffic team


  • When viewing the blogs on a wiki on Blog:Recent posts, the blog posts would show up embedded within each other. Each blog will now show up in its own box rather than embedded within each other.
  • The tag worked in the desktop skin, but users experienced an error in the mobile skin. We’re happy to announce it has been fixed!


  • When editing on mobile, two related issues occur for users: some text that is on the page is lost when saving, and some text that was delete…





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Jpearson Jpearson 11 September 2023
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Technical Updates: September 8, 2023


Hey everyone!

Check out the latest Technical Updates since August 25th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 3.2 Traffic team
    • 3.3 Platform team


  • Admins had issues with deleting replies in Discussions, where removing large numbers of replies led to an error message saying they were unable to delete more. We’re happy to share that this has been fixed and admins can delete replies!
  • When viewing the blogs on a wiki on Blog:Recent posts, the blog posts would show up embedded within each other. Each blog will now show up in its own box rather than embedded within each other.


  • When editing on mobil…





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Brandon Rhea Brandon Rhea 25 August 2023
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Technical Updates: August 25, 2023

Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since August 11th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!

In this update, we go into a couple of deep dives – the first one is about an upcoming change to the global navigation colors, and the second is about a feature we’ve been working on called Quick Answers. Be sure to check them out!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 3.2 User Experience (UX) team
    • 3.3 Traffic team
    • 3.4 Performance Task Force


  • In the edit window, when a wiki editor tried to add or remove text at the cursor position, text that was added or removed shifted at least one character to the left or right. This i…



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Jpearson Jpearson 12 August 2023
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Technical Updates: August 11, 2023


Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since July 28th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 3.2 User Experience (UX) team
    • 3.3 Traffic team
    • 3.4 Platform team


  • When editors created an infobox and set row labels, it failed to update the source variable name. We’re happy to share that this has been fixed!
  • Users will no longer experience issues when they open the mobile editor on pages where tabber is present. When using source editor mode and trying to switch between VisualEditor and SourceEditor pages, editors won’t be stuck on a loading state on the page as they edit.
  • Trying to …




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Jpearson Jpearson 29 July 2023
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Technical Updates: July 28, 2023


Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since July 14th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team


  • Some wikis experienced issues as the “Special:BrowseData” Page no longer functioned and only returned a white screen after going to the page. We’re happy to share that this issue has been resolved!
  • There was an issue with the Light Theme background not appearing properly for some users after uploading a new version through the Theme Designer. The Light Theme background now appears in the Theme Designer.
  • When infobox CodeEditor is enabled, editors can now access the TemplateData! …




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Jpearson Jpearson 15 July 2023
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Technical Updates: July 14, 2023

Hey everyone!

Check out the latest Technical Updates since June 30th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 3.2 User Experience (UX) team


  • Template editor popup no longer overlaps with a warning when one or more required fields are not entered, making the entire VisualEditor responsive again.
  • Under Other special pages in Special:SpecialPages and on AdminDashboard, four items were showing raw strings instead of proper labels. All items listed on Special:SpecialPages should be localized and show proper labels!
  • LinkSuggestions left a blank box after selecting a suggestion and when scrolling o…



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Jpearson Jpearson 19 May 2023
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Technical Updates: May 19, 2023

Hey everyone! Check out the latest Technical Updates since May 5th. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates on a bi-weekly basis!


  • 1 Known Issues
  • 2 Platform Development
    • 2.1 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 2.2 User Experience (UX) team
    • 2.3 Platform team
    • 2.4 Other


  • Mobile Editor. When editing on mobile, users are experiencing a few challenges: text that is on the page is lost when saving in the editor, or text that was deleted from the page is restored after saving. We are currently working to resolve this issue.
  • Fandom Mobile. As users switch from Visual mode to Source mode in the mobile editor, all pending changes are lost. We are working to resolve this issue and will provide an update soon.
  • Visual Editor…



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Jpearson Jpearson 5 May 2023
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Technical Updates: May 5, 2023

Hey everyone!

We’re back in full force with Technical Updates. From user experience to development updates, we’re sure you’ll find something that piques your interest. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes, and product development updates bi-weekly!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 Community Connect recap
    • 3.2 User-Generated Content (UGC) team
    • 3.3 User Experience (UX) team
    • 3.4 Traffic/Return Visits team
    • 3.5 Platform team
    • 3.6 Other


  • Theme Designer. Adding a background image in ThemeDesigner with “Use on mobile” checkbox wasn’t reflected in the preview window. Now, the background image shows up in a preview window for the mobile page.
  • MediaWiki1.39. Portable infobox "Example" output was incorrectly overriding "default"…



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Jpearson Jpearson 11 March 2023
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Technical Update: March 10, 2023

Hey everyone! We have a few updates since February 24, 2023. We’ll continue to update the editor community on bug fixes and product development updates bi-weekly!


  • 1 Notable Changes
  • 2 Known Issues
  • 3 Development Updates
    • 3.1 Mobile
    • 3.2 Discussions/Feeds
    • 3.3 Platform
    • 3.4 Other


  • Hide Math Rendering Preference. Wikimedia is phasing out png support for math formulas. Because of this update, we want to ensure we’re up to date as we provide proper support for math formulas. We will be switching the rendering mode of mathematical formulas in wiki pages from PNG images to SVG+MathML. You can expect to see the switch early next week and there is no action to take on your end!
  • Post History issues for international wikis. Post History pages failed to load on internationa…



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