In T439940#12393259, @Chimaifeanyi29 wrote:

Would you say that this is happening because we do not have translations for those elements ready yet ? @Pharos

Maybe this could be done as a more generalized "Refresh article card" button? Similar issues occur when a Wikipedia article has been moved/renamed recently, and Wikinewsie is stuck on the old name for awhile.

It's interesting that ITN and Current events seem to differ wildly in implementation across Wikipedia language editions.

This is now complete, with the ceremonial alpha release on September 26, 2026, as part of my WikiConference North America presentation! The latest improvements before the release were I think T436419, T434467, and T439301.

In T437765#12338480, @Chimaifeanyi29 wrote:

So @Pharos is my commit or work no longer needed ?

I believe this is the sane issue as T437765, so it should be on its way to being resolved now.

I was also thinking of where the "Generate AI recap" button should go, as it's recently been moved from the top of the article card to the bottom. That's a reasonable accommodation for our AI-skeptic friends, but I was thinking the most natural spot might be above 'Recent edits' and below 'Live headlines', since it's connected to both of these.

It occurs to me that all of the remaining weird images are SVGs with transparent backgrounds. So as a simple step, it would be good if SVGs were treated differently from other image types, and just given white at the margins rather than the average-blur thing. I think this would look reasonably good for both the SVGs with transparent backgrounds and those without.

I think I actually overestimated how many Wikipedia languages lack 2026 categories. In fact uzwiki does have such a category, but something like aswiki does not. It's still a problem that needs fixing, just not as widespread an issue as seemed apparent at first.

In T431879#12296075, @Pharos wrote:

Given that much of this has been handled by T434836 now, I think a good marker of new-article status could just be a seedling icon , alongside a metric on how many days old the article is, though maybe that number could just be displayed in a tooltip or similar.

Given that much of this has been handled by T434836 now, I think a good marker of new-article status could just be a seedling icon , alongside a metric on how many days old the article is, though maybe that number could just be displayed in a tooltip or similar.

In T434467#12291550, @waldyrious wrote:

It seems to me that the main issue is with images that have a transparent background, right?

Update: The current behavior on mobile appears to be that the "View article on Wikipedia" blue button usually appears at the top of the article card on loading, with the header initially in the non-visible space above that.

Also, something like Gloria Steinem's death is definitely New York City news, but it's not inferable from the current categories on her Wikipedia article. I guess there could be something like an nyc-news-in-2026 (or maybe nyc-news-in-sep-2026, and it's also active for a month or two after) user-contributed tag that could be applied.

The new default fallback works really well for photos, but sometimes produces strange results for illustrations like logos and flags and maps{F101815407}. So a manual crop tool may still be useful, or even just an option to use whitespace instead of the blur background on non-photos.

Another approach to adapt might be that of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Cradle - see for example https://cradle.toolforge.org/#/subject/demonstration_or_protest which I started back in 2019.

I think the DYK feed should probably be turned off for the time being as well, though I certainly appreciate the sentiment behind it. It's a bit too algorithmically creative, maybe moreso than is appropriate for our current AI tech.

I guess the simplest initial way to implement this would be adapting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:In_the_news content as a (collapsed?) header for the front page, perhaps with some additional contextual information.

In T434608#12223355, @Pharos wrote:

I've suggested a more vertsatile future system at T434980

I was thinking, maybe we should just call this the "Snapshot" feature, as a multimedia+caption element that's more personalized / original to an individual trusted Wikimedia contributor.

I guess the easiest way to do this might be to exclude (T435710) this category: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_deaths_in_2026

In T435018#12248658, @Akash_A wrote:

Got it, thank you. I am interested in working on this, could you provide the repo link please?

No, we are referring to the new tool hosted at https://wikinewsie.toolforge.org/

If it's too slow to do universally, maybe this could be set on a case-by-case basis by a user (via an 'adjust crop' button on the article card), and then the result is saved for other users.

This tool has been recommended to me, looks very suitable for this purpose: https://reframe.toolforge.org/

This should probably interface with or borrow from Internet Archive's Citation Explorer

I vouch for this user.

In T434608#12222342, @waldyrious wrote:

This sounds very useful but I'm not sure a fixed list would be the best approach. For example, that split of European regions isn't particularly interesting to me — I'd much rather have news related to the EU, for instance, or the Iberian peninsula, or Portugal specifically, or even a particular region or city within.

Perhaps a dynamic search box with autocomplete, allowing any geographic entity (maybe based on it inspired by Nominatim, the named entity search engine associated with OpenStreetMap) would be more flexible.

It's also unclear to me how these geographic scopes would be connected to individual articles. Is the current behaviour based on things like categories, or is it actually using geographic coordinates?

A rather more ambitious version of this idea would more resemble Commons:CropTool

I guess one implementation could be a single (very long) dropdown, with all of the continents and subregions. Another might be might be five separate continent-based dropdown menus, and being able to select subregions for each,

In T433528#12198879, @ZhaoFJx wrote:

@Pharos A machine-readable rated list of the references... Perhaps a list like this, but in a more structured way?

In T434374#12198870, @ZhaoFJx wrote:

Might have to be divided into subtasks, since its quite big and epic-alike.