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Tasks that volunteers could work on. These should be tasks that are actionable and thus already confirmed bugs and/or proposed changes approved by a project owner.

This list is composed of tickets that are suitable for volunteers who have some prior experience in Wikimedia technical spaces.

For tasks that could be a contributor's first software patch, see good first task.

Recent Activity

Today

srishakatux updated the task description for T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel.
Wed, May 21, 12:11 AM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux added a comment to T394873: Fix redirects for az and azb languages.

Draft PR From @Nemoralis: https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/pull/431

Wed, May 21, 12:09 AM · good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux changed the status of T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel from In Progress to Open.
Wed, May 21, 12:04 AM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux updated the task description for T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel.
Wed, May 21, 12:04 AM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux triaged T394873: Fix redirects for az and azb languages as Medium priority.
Wed, May 21, 12:00 AM · good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector

Yesterday

srishakatux moved T394873: Fix redirects for az and azb languages from Backlog to In Progress on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Tue, May 20, 11:59 PM · good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux created T394873: Fix redirects for az and azb languages.

Thank you for tagging this task with good first task for Wikimedia newcomers!

Tue, May 20, 11:59 PM · good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux placed T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel up for grabs.
Tue, May 20, 11:49 PM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux moved T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel from Quarter Backlog to Backlog on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Tue, May 20, 11:47 PM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux moved T391725: Add missing $namespaceNames to MessagesXX.php files for language Wikipedias from Quarter Backlog to Backlog on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Tue, May 20, 11:47 PM · patch-welcome, good first task, LPL Onboarding and Development, Epic
srishakatux updated the task description for T391725: Add missing $namespaceNames to MessagesXX.php files for language Wikipedias.
Tue, May 20, 11:43 PM · patch-welcome, good first task, LPL Onboarding and Development, Epic
srishakatux removed a project from T391725: Add missing $namespaceNames to MessagesXX.php files for language Wikipedias: Patch-For-Review.
Tue, May 20, 11:42 PM · patch-welcome, good first task, LPL Onboarding and Development, Epic
srishakatux moved T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option from Backlog to Waiting for Deployment on the LPL Onboarding and Development board.
Tue, May 20, 4:41 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development
Jdlrobson-WMF moved T381058: Enable dark mode for logged-out users on the English Wiktionary from Ready for development to Sign-off on the Web-Team (Q4 Sprint 3 (May 7 2025 - 21 May)) board.
Tue, May 20, 4:03 PM · Web-Team (Q4 Sprint 3 (May 7 2025 - 21 May)), dark-mode, patch-welcome, Web Team Essential Work 2025 (Dark mode everywhere), Wikimedia-Site-requests
PatchDemoBot added a comment to T352626: "Recent changes" in the advanced Mobile Frontend menu may show unnecessarily escaped characters .

Test wiki on Patch demo by Gerges using patch(es) linked to this task was deleted:

Tue, May 20, 12:14 PM · Verified, Web-Team-Backlog-Archived (FY2024-25 Q1 Sprint 2), Unplanned-Sprint-Work, MW-1.43-notes (1.43.0-wmf.12; 2024-07-02), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, I18n, MobileFrontend

Mon, May 19

Nemoralis added a comment to T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel.

Opened draft PR: https://github.com/wikimedia/language-data/pull/431

Mon, May 19, 11:45 PM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
Jdlrobson-WMF added a comment to T385811: Vector should not direct third-party wikis to report dark mode issues to MW.o.

@ParvC are you still interested in helping us get this fixed? Would be great to get this addressed and your patch was close! No worries if not, just let us know so we can let somebody else work on it. Thanks in advance!

Mon, May 19, 9:50 PM · MW-1.44-release, Patch-For-Review, affects-Miraheze, good first task, patch-welcome, WikimediaMessages, Web-Team, MW-1.43-release, Vector 2022 (Desktop improvements)
ReleaseTaggerBot added a project to T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20).
Mon, May 19, 9:00 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development
simon04 updated subscribers of T393638: As a chart creator, I want to edit .tab using VE, so that I do not have to write JSON myself.
Mon, May 19, 8:26 PM · patch-welcome, VisualEditor, Charts
gerritbot added a project to T391725: Add missing $namespaceNames to MessagesXX.php files for language Wikipedias: Patch-For-Review.
Mon, May 19, 8:22 PM · patch-welcome, good first task, LPL Onboarding and Development, Epic
gerritbot added a comment to T391725: Add missing $namespaceNames to MessagesXX.php files for language Wikipedias.

Change #1147872 had a related patch set uploaded (by Srishakatux; author: Srishakatux):

[mediawiki/core@master] Add namespace translations for Fulfulde

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1147872

Mon, May 19, 8:22 PM · patch-welcome, good first task, LPL Onboarding and Development, Epic
srishakatux added a comment to T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option.

@Bennylin Although the new updates will take some time to appear in the ULS, do you think the proposed changes will help solve part of the problem, which is to display all three Javanese keyboards for both the Latin and Javanese script options?

Mon, May 19, 8:10 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development
gerritbot added a comment to T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option.

Change #1147858 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Update jquery.ime from upstream

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1147858

Mon, May 19, 8:07 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development
srishakatux added a comment to T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option.

Thanks a lot @Adithyak1997 for this patch submission! :)

Mon, May 19, 7:21 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development
gerritbot added a project to T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option: Patch-For-Review.
Mon, May 19, 7:20 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development
gerritbot added a comment to T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option.

Change #1147858 had a related patch set uploaded (by Srishakatux; author: Srishakatux):

[mediawiki/extensions/UniversalLanguageSelector@master] Update jquery.ime from upstream

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1147858

Mon, May 19, 7:20 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development
simon04 added a comment to T393638: As a chart creator, I want to edit .tab using VE, so that I do not have to write JSON myself.

@CCiufo-WMF, cool, I did not know that this function exists. However, the functionality is very limited:

Mon, May 19, 6:28 PM · patch-welcome, VisualEditor, Charts
srishakatux added a comment to T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel.

Thanks for claiming this task, @Nemoralis!

Mon, May 19, 6:19 PM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
Jdlrobson-WMF triaged T393638: As a chart creator, I want to edit .tab using VE, so that I do not have to write JSON myself as Low priority.
Mon, May 19, 6:17 PM · patch-welcome, VisualEditor, Charts
Jdlrobson-WMF closed T381058: Enable dark mode for logged-out users on the English Wiktionary as Resolved.

Done in T393386.

Mon, May 19, 5:52 PM · Web-Team (Q4 Sprint 3 (May 7 2025 - 21 May)), dark-mode, patch-welcome, Web Team Essential Work 2025 (Dark mode everywhere), Wikimedia-Site-requests
Jdlrobson-WMF moved T381058: Enable dark mode for logged-out users on the English Wiktionary from Q4 to Sprint Backlog on the Web-Team board.
Mon, May 19, 5:48 PM · Web-Team (Q4 Sprint 3 (May 7 2025 - 21 May)), dark-mode, patch-welcome, Web Team Essential Work 2025 (Dark mode everywhere), Wikimedia-Site-requests
Jdlrobson-WMF triaged T394490: Scope CSS styles loaded from mediawiki.diff.styles dependencies on Minerva as Low priority.
Mon, May 19, 5:36 PM · patch-welcome, Web-Team, MobileFrontend, MinervaNeue
A_smart_kitten added a project to T385811: Vector should not direct third-party wikis to report dark mode issues to MW.o: MW-1.44-release.
Mon, May 19, 12:53 PM · MW-1.44-release, Patch-For-Review, affects-Miraheze, good first task, patch-welcome, WikimediaMessages, Web-Team, MW-1.43-release, Vector 2022 (Desktop improvements)
Aklapper closed T390448: Display actor information, a subtask of T390444: Implement Actor Detail Page, as Declined.
Mon, May 19, 9:36 AM · patch-welcome, WMA-Hackathon-2025
Aklapper closed T390448: Display actor information as Declined.

No reply; declining. (It also remains unclear which software project this task is about. For future reference, please see the recommendations - thanks!)

Mon, May 19, 9:36 AM · patch-welcome, WMA-Hackathon-2025
Aklapper closed T390446: Add pagination & Implement filtering options as Declined.

No reply; declining. (It also remains unclear which software project this task is about. For future reference, please see the recommendations - thanks!)

Mon, May 19, 9:36 AM · patch-welcome, WMA-Hackathon-2025
Aklapper closed T390446: Add pagination & Implement filtering options, a subtask of T390444: Implement Actor Detail Page, as Declined.
Mon, May 19, 9:36 AM · patch-welcome, WMA-Hackathon-2025
Aklapper closed T390445: Show filmography as Declined.

No reply; declining. (It also remains unclear which software project this task is about. For future reference, please see the recommendations - thanks!)

Mon, May 19, 9:35 AM · patch-welcome, WMA-Hackathon-2025
Aklapper closed T390445: Show filmography, a subtask of T390444: Implement Actor Detail Page, as Declined.
Mon, May 19, 9:35 AM · patch-welcome, WMA-Hackathon-2025
Aklapper removed a project from T391725: Add missing $namespaceNames to MessagesXX.php files for language Wikipedias: Wikimedia-Hackathon-2025.
Mon, May 19, 8:05 AM · patch-welcome, good first task, LPL Onboarding and Development, Epic

Sun, May 18

Od1n added a comment to T387143: Minerva footer hides new items by default.

As a side effect of removing the troublesome hack, the bug in T387797 surfaced.

Sun, May 18, 9:52 PM · MW-1.44-notes (1.44.0-wmf.19; 2025-03-04), patch-welcome, MinervaNeue
Od1n added a comment to T387797: Stray dot in footer when page previews enabled.

Just for fun:

Sun, May 18, 9:47 PM · Web-Team, patch-welcome, Page-Previews
Od1n added a comment to T387797: Stray dot in footer when page previews enabled.

I've just reviewed the patch code, and it looks pretty much ready. Maybe we could reactivate the patch, as it seems almost ready to be merged?

Sun, May 18, 8:39 PM · Web-Team, patch-welcome, Page-Previews

Sat, May 17

Adithyak1997 claimed T393745: Restore combined Javanese keyboard option.

I have tried doing this. Currently a PR has been submitted.

Sat, May 17, 2:43 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), Patch-For-Review, good first task, patch-welcome, LPL Onboarding and Development

Fri, May 16

Nemoralis claimed T195342: Languages with redirects appear duplicated in the ULS panel.
Fri, May 16, 7:09 PM · good first task, patch-welcome, Epic, LPL Onboarding and Development, UniversalLanguageSelector
srishakatux updated the task description for T391725: Add missing $namespaceNames to MessagesXX.php files for language Wikipedias.
Fri, May 16, 6:19 PM · patch-welcome, good first task, LPL Onboarding and Development, Epic
MSantos added a project to T383563: mw.track: support for histogram metrics: patch-welcome.

Hi @Michael, thank you for asking this question. This has been moved to 'needs input', and a meeting between observability and MediaWiki-Engineering has been scheduled to discuss ownership questions.

Fri, May 16, 12:06 PM · patch-welcome, MediaWiki-Engineering, Observability-Metrics, Data-Engineering-Radar, MediaWiki-Platform-Team (Radar), Data-Engineering, MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaEvents, Grafana, Growth-Team, GrowthExperiments

Thu, May 15

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project to T348691: $textarea is undefined: MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20).
Thu, May 15, 7:00 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), User-Jdlrobson, patch-welcome, JavaScript, MediaWiki-extensions-Disambiguator, Wikimedia-production-error
Maintenance_bot removed a project from T348691: $textarea is undefined: Patch-For-Review.
Thu, May 15, 6:30 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), User-Jdlrobson, patch-welcome, JavaScript, MediaWiki-extensions-Disambiguator, Wikimedia-production-error
gerritbot added a comment to T348691: $textarea is undefined.

Change #1145381 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/Disambiguator@master] Inject $textarea into the handler functions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1145381

Thu, May 15, 6:23 PM · MW-1.45-notes (1.45.0-wmf.2; 2025-05-20), User-Jdlrobson, patch-welcome, JavaScript, MediaWiki-extensions-Disambiguator, Wikimedia-production-error