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  "textContent": "Community Tech development team disbanded: And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.\n\n← Back to Contents\n\nView Latest Issue\n\n21 June 2026\n\n\n\n\n\nFile:Packing Luggage into the Car for a Holiday.jpg\n\nFamilydestinationsguide.com\n\ncc-by-2.0\n\n450\n\nNews and notes\n\n## Community Tech development team disbanded\n\nContribute —\n\nShare this\n\n  * PDF\ndownload\n  * E-mail\n  * Mastodon\n  * LinkedIn\n  * Facebook\n  * X (Twitter)\n  * Bluesky\n  * Reddit\n\n\n\nBy Bluerasberry, Bri, Mitchsavl, and Robertsky\n\nExample inline image and caption.\n\n**Optional** : write a lede — not necessarily a WP:LEAD. Interesting > encyclopedic.\n\n###  Community Tech development team disbanded, engineering roles eliminated\n\nOn May 20, Wikimedia Foundation announced the disbandment of the Community Tech team at meta:Community Wishlist#May 20,\n2026: Community Tech becomes a program:\n\n    \"After noticing that having a centralized team was leading to frequent bottlenecks and delays ... we've decided to shift Community Tech into a program that multiple teams are officially responsible for supporting ... **disbanding the Community Tech team and the roles of five engineers and one manager**.\" (emphasis added by _The Signpost_)\n\nThe community reacted strongly to the announcement (see this issue's Technology report and other sections).\n\nUpon reaching its 763rd signature, the Wiki Workers United solidarity petition became the **2nd-most supported proposal or petition ever** on the English-language Wikipedia, behind only the 2024 open letter about _Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation_, which has 1374 signatures.[1]\n\nmeta:Talk:Community\nWishlist#Proposed direction for Wishlist; Chief Product and Technology Officer S. Deckelmann has stated they are \n\"in listening mode\" to the feedback.\n\nFootnotes\n\n  1. **^** See Wikipedia:Times that 300 or more Wikipedians supported something, sections \"Regarding policy\" and \"Miscellaneous\". All entries outside those sections either concern an individual user (permissions requests and elections) or took place on other wikis.\n\n\n\n### Wikimedia Café\n\nWikimedia Café\n\nTwo upcoming Wikimedia Café sessions will focus on the editor reflections project, featuring well established editor Clovermoss. If you would like to attend the session, please see these instructions.\n\nThe dates of the sessions are:\n\n  * **Saturday 27 June 2026 15:00UTC**\n    * equivalent to 8:00 A.M. in Los Angeles (UTC-7)\n  * **Sunday 28 June 2026 03:00UTC**\n    * equivalent to 13:00 in Sydney (UTC+10)\n\n\n\n– M\n\n### Brief notes\n\n[[File:|center|300px|class=]]\n\nExample filler image and caption.\n\n  * **WikiProject Feminism revival** : Several editors have been revitalizing WikiProject Feminism, and are welcoming editors interested in the topic.\n  * **WikiProject Computer security revival** : Other editors are reviving WikiProject Computer security, and invite editors to help tackle the todo list.\n  * **Milestones** : The following Wikimedia projects have reached milestones:\n    * English Wikipedia reaches 1,000 editors who have made more than 100,000 edits, according to this list.[a] Edit counts can be affected by the type of edits a user makes, such as copyediting, script assisted editing, and the size of each edit, and very high edit counts can also be calculated innaccurately as a result of a software bug.\n  * **Articles for Improvement** : This week's Article for Improvement is Khoekhoe, followed by Injury (beginning 22 June). Please be bold in helping improve these articles!\n  * **Chinese Wikipedia** There is an ongoing RfC on formalisation of Arbitration Committee and possible return of local CheckUsers. Loop back in the old news about the previous mass admin defrock?\n  * **New account creation flow** : Wikimedia Foundation \nannounced a new account-creation user experience to address what they described as a \"broken\" process.\n\n\n\n#### Footnotes\n\n  1. **^** 1,002 at the time of publication\n\n\n\n← Previous \"News and notes\"\n\nIn this issue\n\n21 June 2026 (all comments)\n\n\n  * From the editors\n  * News and notes\n  * Disinformation report\n  * Recent research\n  * In the media\n  * Community view\n  * In focus\n  * On the bright side\n  * Op-ed\n  * Opinion\n  * Technology report\n  * Traffic report\n  * WikiConference report\n  * Comix\n  * Humour\n\n\n\n\n+ Add a comment\n\n## Discuss this story\n\nTo follow comments, \nadd the page to your watchlist. If your comment has not appeared here, you can try \npurging the\ncache.\n\nNo comments yet. Yours could be the first!\n\n\n+ Add a comment\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n_The Signpost_ needs your help putting together the next issue.\n\nHome\n\nAbout\n\nArchives\n\nNewsroom\n\nSubscribe\n\n\nSuggestions",
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