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Quality Image Promotion (31 January 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Martinho (Madeira, Portugal), Cais do Carvão -- 2025 -- 1943.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Aciarium 07:28, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Martinho (Madeira, Portugal), Miradouro do Lido -- 2025 -- 0569.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Milseburg 11:30, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Martinho (Madeira, Portugal), Praia do Gorgulho - Gavinas -- 2025 -- 1942.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Poco a poco 09:11, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Martinho (Madeira, Portugal), Poças do Governador -- 2025 -- 2002.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Poco a poco 09:11, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 101 -- 2025 -- 0878.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:29, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Jorge (Madeira, Portugal), Calhau de São Jorge -- 2025 -- 1411.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Екатерина Борисова 04:08, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (01 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 200A -- 2025 -- 0948.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:26, 29 January 2026 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --Ermell 06:27, 29 January 2026 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 07:01, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Jorge (Madeira, Portugal), Lagoa do Calhau de São Jorge, Brücke -- 2025 -- 1409.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:26, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Dülmen, Dernekamp, Seifenblase -- 2026 -- 082100.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 06:17, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Porto Moniz (Madeira, Portugal), Felsenküste -- 2025 -- 1670.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 06:17, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Münster, Prinzipalmarkt -- 2025 -- 2014.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 06:17, 29 January 2026 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 07:01, 29 January 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (02 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Martinho (Madeira, Portugal), Miradouro do Lido -- 2025 -- 0520.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality.--Famberhorst 07:15, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 105 -- 2025 -- 0879.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality.--Famberhorst 07:13, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Martinho (Madeira, Portugal), Túnel das Poças do Gomes -- 2025 -- 0216.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Poco a poco 08:15, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Caniçal (Madeira, Portugal), Ponta de São Lourenço -- 2025 -- 1340.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality --Michielverbeek 06:21, 30 January 2026 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2026-06

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 "Page information" feature, which gives validating information about a page (example), now automatically includes a table of contents. If there is a local MediaWiki:Pageinfo-header page created by individual users, it can now be removed. [1]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, VisualEditor previously added bold or italic formatting inside link descriptions, making the wikicode complex. This has now been fixed. [2]

Updates for technical contributors

• There was no XML dump on 20 January. Additionally, from now on, dumps will be generated once per month only. [3]
• The MediaWiki Interfaces team removed support for all transform endpoints containing a trailing slash from the MediaWiki REST API. All API users currently calling those endpoints are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. If you have questions or encounter any problems, please file a ticket in phabricator to the #MW-Interfaces-Team board.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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• Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.

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Quality Image Promotion (03 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Porto Moniz (Madeira, Portugal), Felsenküste -- 2025 -- 1788.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:31, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Hamburg, Hafen, Frachtschiff "Great Cotonou" -- 2025 -- 2844.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality --Michielverbeek 06:26, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! A artE de pORtas abERtas -- 2025.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:30, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Münster, Spiekerhof, Kiepenkerl -- 2026 -- 0020.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 08:35, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Dülmen, Dernekamp, Seifenblase -- 2026 -- 0038.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --ArildV 08:01, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Münster, Giebelhüüskesmarkt -- 2025 -- 2022.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments The light area of the lamp is grey-ish/strangely dark --Aciarium 09:12, 29 January 2026 (UTC)  Done Thank you. It's fixed. --XRay 08:24, 30 January 2026 (UTC)  Support Thanks, it looks more natural now! --Aciarium 17:16, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:42, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2026

Dear XRay,

You are receiving this message because you are listed as a member of the Commons Photographers User Group.

The Election Committee is pleased to announce that the Board Elections 2026 have officially commenced.

Election timeline

• February 1–15: Nomination phase
• February 21–25: Community Q&A and candidate engagement
• February 26 – March 7: Voting period
• March 15: Results announced

Full details are available at: Commons Photographers User Group/Board Elections 2026

All eligible members are encouraged to participate in the election, including standing as candidates.

If you wish to run, please add your name and candidate statement on the nomination page during the nomination period.

For questions or discussion, please use the election talk page.

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We look forward to your participation.

—CPUG Election Committee 04:58, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

(This message was sent to User talk:Dietmar Rabich and is being posted here due to a redirect.)

Quality Image Promotion (04 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Ribeiro Frio (Madeira, Portugal), Levada zur Forellenzucht -- 2025 -- 1515.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 09:19, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Mercado dos Lavradores -- 2025 -- 0974.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 09:19, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 136 -- 2025 -- 0903.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 09:19, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Praça do Povo -- 2025 -- 1148.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 09:19, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 170 -- 2025 -- 0916.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Igor123121 09:19, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! São Martinho (Madeira, Portugal), Jardins do Lido -- 2025 -- 1963.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Clipped highlights on the red petals. Leading edge of flower is in focus, but focus falls off quickly. CA visible green/purple fringing in the background. --E bailey 13:41, 30 January 2026 (UTC)  Done I made some improvements. I can't see CAs, but I improved CA reduction too. --XRay 09:40, 31 January 2026 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --E bailey 14:53, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (05 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua Dom Carlos I 64 -- 2025 -- 1178.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:27, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Porto Moniz (Madeira, Portugal), Felsenküste -- 2025 -- 1726.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 06:23, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Hamburg, Hafen -- 2025 -- 2814.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality while it is not the most beautifuil weather --Michielverbeek 06:22, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (06 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Museu CR7, Estátua de Cristiano Ronaldo -- 2025 -- 1320.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality --Michielverbeek 06:18, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Mercado dos Lavradores -- 2025 -- 0999.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:24, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Sé Catedral do Funchal -- 2025 -- 1060.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Augustgeyler 09:03, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Travessa das Torres 2A -- 2025 -- 0925.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 06:24, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (07 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua Dom Carlos I 62B -- 2025 -- 1180.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Benjism89 07:03, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Porto Moniz (Madeira, Portugal), Felsenküste -- 2025 -- 1736.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Benjism89 07:03, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Hamburg, Hafen, Schiff -Rickmer Rickmers- und St.-Michaelis-Kirche -- 2025 -- 2816.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 11:35, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Ribeiro Frio (Madeira, Portugal), Levada zur Forellenzucht -- 2025 -- 1488.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 11:34, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Dülmen, Hausdülmen, Heubach -- 2026 -- 0180.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 11:34, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (08 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 176 -- 2025 -- 0935.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 11:22, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Machico (Madeira, Portugal), Ortsansicht -- 2025 -- 1369.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --MB-one 08:28, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Machico (Madeira, Portugal), Rua da Estacada 29 -- 2025 -- 1366.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality --Michielverbeek 06:21, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Santana (Madeira, Portugal), Casas Típicas de Santana -- 2025 -- 1378.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Velvet 07:24, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (09 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Monumento ao Emigrante Madeirense -- 2025 -- 1105.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Tagooty 06:10, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Mercado dos Lavradores -- 2025 -- 0976.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Екатерина Борисова 04:12, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 58 -- 2025 -- 1163.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments GHood quality --Michielverbeek 06:22, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Travessa dos Escaleres 2 -- 2025 -- 0918.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Tagooty 06:10, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2026-07

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

• Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
• A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more. [4]
• When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes. [5]
• The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages. [6][7]
• The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function {{#isbn}} available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. [8]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Jju (w:kaj:) [9]
  • a Wikipedia in Nawat (w:ppl:) [10]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has. [11]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend. [12]

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Quality Image Promotion (10 February 2026)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Funchal (Madeira, Portugal), Rua de Santa Maria 182 -- 2025 -- 0937.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Velvet 10:18, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Machico (Madeira, Portugal), Capela dos Milagres -- 2025 -- 1375.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 10:44, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Santana (Madeira, Portugal), Casas Típicas de Santana -- 2025 -- 1381.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Velvet 10:19, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Santana (Madeira, Portugal), Câmara Municipal de Santana -- 2025 -- 1383.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Velvet 10:19, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Münster, Fürstbischöfliches Schloss, Mittelbau -- 2026 -- 0073.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 10:44, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion (11 February 2026)

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Quality Image Promotion (12 February 2026)

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Quality Image Promotion (14 February 2026)

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Hallo. Meinst Du, es macht wirklich Sinn Romanesque statues of lions wirklich noch in Bundesländer aufzulösen. Es wäre schon gut, wenn man bei der Etablierung so einer weiteren Unterscheidung wenigstens zwei Unterkategorien bereit hat. Ansonsten ist es sinn- und zwecklos. Und in diesem Falle glaube ich auch nicht, daß es in den nächsten 10 Jahren 100 weitere roman. Löwen in D gibt, auch wenn ich demnächst selbst mind. zwei einstelle (aus NRW). Nur ein Gedanke. Gruß aus Köln, MenkinAlRire (talk) 20:29, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Deiner gewagten Prognose für die nächsten 10 Jahre fehlt mir die sachliche Grundlage. Woher hast du die Zahlen? Kennst du den Grundsatz, dass man von guten Absichten ausgehen sollte? Dein Text hört sich ehrlich gesagt nach einem Vorwurf an, vielleicht sogar einem persönlichen Angriff. Aber sei es drum. Die Kategorie mit dem Bundesland habe ich zuletzt bearbeitet, aber nicht angelegt. --XRay 💬 20:38, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Ein Link macht vieles leichter: Schau mal in die Versionsgeschichte von Category:Romanesque statues of lions in Rhineland-Palatinate. --XRay 💬 20:42, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

@AnRo0002: FYI - mit bestem Gruß aus dem Münsterland. -- XRay 💬 20:51, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Oh, da habicht mich wohl schwer verguckt, sorry. Und es sollte sicher kein Angriff sein, höchstens als ein Angriff auf die Vefnunft empfunden und dargestellt. Oftmals scheint mir, was zunächst ok und möglichst genau zu sein scheint, am Ende nur die Dateien zu begraben, wenn die Suche danach nicht exakt ist; mir kommt es manches Mal kafkaesk vor. - Anyway, die Kategorie ist also schon fünf Jahre alt, warten wir mal ab.

@MenkinAlRire: Auch dann solltest du vielleicht erwägen, dass es einen Grund für die Kategorie geben könnte. Die Kategorie Category:Romanesque statues of lions in Rhineland-Palatinate ist mehreren Kategorien - auch aus Rheinland-Pfalz - zugeordnet und aus Sicht der anderen Kategorien durchaus eine Bereicherung. Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass AnRo sie einfach so angelegt hat. Ich zumindest gehe erst einmal von guten Absichten aus. Denkwürdige Änderungen finde ich bei meinen Fotos öfter, aber selten ist es wirklich falsch. Ich versuche, die Beweggründe zu ermitteln und gebe dann vielleicht eine konstruktive Kritik zurück. Ich wünsche noch einen schönen Sonntag! --XRay 💬 06:59, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion (15 February 2026)

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