Tech News 2026

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available. Updates for editors - The Special:CreateAccount page has been simplified as part of ongoing work to modernize the account creation experience. The panel showing project statistics no longer appears next to the form on desktop and mobile web. Multiple account creation experiments show that a simpler form helps newcomers complete registration. [1] - In order to improve page performance, images now load when they are viewed. This means images lower down an article will not load if a reader never scrolls to that part of the page, which may affect some image-related metrics. [2] - View all 42 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where image thumbnails in Abstract Wikipedia could fail to display after the corresponding file was moved on Wikimedia Commons, has now been fixed. Thumbnails will now update correctly when files are moved. [3] Updates for technical contributors - User Info card is a feature that helps patrollers see information about user accounts. So far, it has been available only in places such as page history, logs and recent changes. Now, it’s possible to place it in the page content as well, using the {{#uic:}} parser function. It can be particularly useful in templates like{{Userlinks}} (or their specialized variants), as it will make it easier to see the context about a user on various noticeboard pages. The card will be displayed only to users who have it enabled in their preferences. [4] - Due to user security and privacy risks, we have disabled access to Special:MyPage URLs when specifically usingaction=raw . If you are impacted by this, consider whether you can use an alternative approach.Special:MyPage URLs can still be accessed and used withoutaction=raw . Specified user page URLs (e.g.User:Myusername ) can still be used withaction=raw . [5] - Due to an update, the thumbnailing software has been improved. This includes upgrading librsvg to 2.60 andImageMagick to 7, as well as resolving a number of long-standing thumbnailing bugs like rendering errors. [6] - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe. Can you help us translate this article? In order for this article to reach as many people as possible we would like your help. Can you translate this article to get the message out? Start translation