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Using AI in MediaWiki patches

Hello friends. I've created the page Using AI in MediaWiki patches if folks would like to contribute. I thought about making it a userspace essay, but decided 1) we could use a page to centralize discussion/guidance on this, and 2) I'd prefer lots of people to contribute to it so that it reaches a consensus and isn't just my opinion. Thanks.

P.S. Once it's mature enough, perhaps we should try to add links to it from other pages, so that it isn't an orphan. –Novem Linguae (talk) 08:24, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Fatal errors on french translations

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T415725

Happened while editing "https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions/fr#" french translation.

Other french translations seem in error.

Don't know what happened. Someone to repair ?

SGlad (talk) 23:34, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

This seems to happen on many pages. It can be temporarily fixed by purging the page's cache (by appending `?action=purge` to the end of the URL). Xxmarijnw (talk) 11:28, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Added the phab ticket. --Srapoj (talk) 12:48, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

"https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions/fr?action=purge" seems to work ok. Thanks. -- SGlad (talk) 22:38, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Internal error for the pages with translation

Hello,

Many pages on MediaWiki.org are broken, displaying the following message: "Fatal error « TypeError »"

For example: Extension:LinkedWiki

I'm alone to see this error ? Karima Rafes (talk) 17:48, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

No, it's not only you KimKelting (talk) 18:14, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, that's phab:T415725 :/ ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 18:15, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

I subscribed KimKelting (talk) 19:04, 28 January 2026 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2026-73241-1

• ~2026-73241-1 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport ----Ankermast (talk) 21:04, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Mistake in Template:Maintenance_script_legacy

I wanted to report it to the appropriate talk page:

Incorrent link text version

It correctly links to version 1.39 with misleading wrong text 1.43.6 :OOO ,

but wasn't allowed to and instead asked to write here. ~2026-74241-4 (talk) 12:34, 3 February 2026 (UTC)

Move draft in my user page to main namespace

Hello,

I have written User:Diskdance/Overview_of_Language_Converter as an effort to improve the documentation of Language Converter in MediaWiki. Thus, I would like to request these following changes:

1. User:Diskdance/Overview_of_Language_Converter to be merged with Writing_systems/LanguageConverter, then to move to Language Converter;
2. Writing_systems/Syntax to move to Language Converter/Advanced syntax;
3. LanguageConverter to be redirected to Language Converter.

Since I can't do the merge part, to avoid collaboration problems, I would like to ask an admin to do all of these at once, thank you!

cc @Winston Sung, @Lakejason0, @Cscott and @Neil_Shah-Quinn_(WMF). Diskdance (talk) 10:15, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2026-79721-3

• ~2026-79721-3 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --MathXplore (talk) 12:58, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2026-79757-6

• ~2026-79757-6 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Block evasion: ~2026-79721-3 XReport --PieWriter (talk) 13:00, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Report concerning User:~2026-80190-1

• ~2026-80190-1 (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --NDG (talk) 14:07, 5 February 2026 (UTC)

Remove outdated “New” terminology

Hi! I am a new contributor here. While I was working on T416293, I noticed that the page https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:New_filters_for_edit_review still uses old “New filters” wording, even though the feature was introduced in 2017 itself. I suggest updating the text to remove the outdated “New” terminology (e.g., “Filters for edit review” instead of “New filters for edit review”) while keeping the technical content unchanged. Since the page is semi-protected, I’m posting my suggestion here. Complicatedintegral (talk) 15:44, 6 February 2026 (UTC)

The "old" filters still exist (if you use the non-JS interface) so this seems ill-advised. Nardog (talk) 14:54, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A8%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A5%E0%B8%98%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%A1@ ~2026-84631-3 (talk) 21:39, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Varellaofficial

• Varellaofficial (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism. See filterlog XReport --NDG (talk) 23:06, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Blocked. P858snake (talk) 05:17, 8 February 2026 (UTC)

Report concerning User:Solodabah

• Solodabah (talk • local contribs • global contribs • logs • rights • global account) — Reasons: Vandalism XReport --NDG (talk) 23:08, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Blocked & Reported at Meta:SRG as there was crosswiki spam P858snake (talk) 05:17, 8 February 2026 (UTC)