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*Weekly highlight* - Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/CampaignEvents> offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CampaignEvents/Deployment_status#How_to_Request_the_CampaignEvents_Extension_for_your_wiki> . *Updates for editors* - Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/iOS/Personalized_Wikipedia_Year_in_Review> with insights based on their reading and editing history. - Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Apps/Team/Android/Rabbit_Holes> feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles. - The global reminder bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Global_reminder_bot> is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_reminder_bot/Technical_details> for more information. - The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year. - [image: Recurrent item] View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Recently_resolved_community_tasks>. For example, a bug was fixed <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T374988> in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped. *Updates for technical contributors* - There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [1] <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments/Yearly_calendar/2025> *Tech news <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News> prepared by Tech News writers <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/Writers> and posted by bot <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/User:MediaWiki_message_delivery> • Contribute <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News#contribute> • Translate <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Tech/News/2024/51> • Get help <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech> • Give feedback <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Tech/News> • Subscribe or unsubscribe <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Tech_ambassadors>.* -- Nick "Quiddity" Wilson (he/him) Movement Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation
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