About 10 hrs ago, we enabled Visual Editor by default on English Wikipedia for first time mobile editors. We’re now seeing a dramatic jump in edit attempts! Successful Edits are also increasing (but at a smaller rate)- a first step toward engaging a lot more editors on mobile! this is in alignment and support of a recommendation from our Product and Technology Advisory Council to engage the global south and mobile editors! thank you to all the English Wikipedians who advocated for this change.

1/3 of attendees are attending Wikimania for the first time and 1/3 are under the age of 35 (of more than 3000 in person and online attendees - about 1250 are in person!) # Wikimania

Also Wikara was demoed — A Flutter based mobile app for browsing and editing Wikidata, with gamified learning #wikimania

Now seeing CiteFix https://citefix.wmcloud.org/ #wikimania

Music notation extension hacking - got it on wikisource and got it working better in dark mode. This hacker was attending their first Wikimania. #wikimania

Retention checker!! https://retention-checker.toolforge.org/ Useful for checking the retention of users you’ve recruited for events and programs. #wikimania

Code coverage for special: pages. Only 33% of pages have test coverage. Achieved about 2% increase #wikimania

Most edited en.wikimedia.org pages - https://wikinewsie.toolforge.org #wikimania

Dealing with AI slop on Commons - From User:Kevin Payravi - a user script that injects a link in the toolbar that says “check for AI generation” #wikimania

Demo of #commonswall https://daanvr.github.io/Wikimedia-Commons-Pinterest/#/file/M97113512 #wikimania

OsmAnd - fixed a bug to add air conditioning to OSM :)

Asking tools to add a license and open source their work!

Trying to implement form draft saving in Phorge #wikimania

https://dicotheque.org for searching across many Wikisource language projects #wikimania

A ton of improvements offered by User:TheDJ to commons around video controls and playback #wikimania

Open street map representing! panoCommons connects data from Commins and OSM #wikimania

Many more Moroccan Arabic lexemes added for WikiData #wikimania

Fun idea for a personal CRM for wiki people you meet — but I’ll just not link this one because it’s a prototype of a personal relationship graph

And now: https//wikimania-2026-linto.wmcloud.org tracking live transcription for the conference sessions #wikimania

Constraint violation visibility on WikiData from User:SuperRaptor123 https://interaction-timeline.toolforge.org #wikimania

Next up https://wise.wmcloud.org - better search for Common with multi lingual support #wikmania

In the #wikimania hackathon close. User:Chlod is presenting changes to https://techcontribs.toolforge.org