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Thank you for helping with this project. Can you please update the progress for the past two days? We're still cleaning up sourced articles that are mislabeled. Bearian (talk) 11:04, 4 July 2025 (UTC)
DreamRimmer bot II
[edit]Hello, DreamRimmer,
The bot didn't make it's regularly scheduled User:DreamRimmer bot II/Reports/G13 eligible drafts report at 04:26 UTC that it typically makes every hour. This is not that unusual but since I see you are editing, I thought I'd mention it in case it meant you needed to check it out. It usually reports even when there is nothing to report but just a blank report! I hope you are well and having a good summer. Liz Read! Talk! 04:30, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for reporting. I see it issued the report a few minutes ago. – DreamRimmer ■ 04:37, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry about that premature warning. I usually wait until a bot has missed 2 or 3 reports before contacting the bot operator but I saw you were editing so I came here. Looks like everything is okay! Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 05:28, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- No problem. Please feel free to message anytime you see any issue with the bot or its report. It runs at the 22nd minute of every hour and usually takes 3 to 4 minutes to send notifications, tag pages, and update the final report. It can sometimes take longer, around 10 to 15 minutes, if there are many drafts to tag and notify. At times, its job gets stuck on Toolforge, so it may miss a few reports. – DreamRimmer ■ 06:03, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- Hello, DreamRimmer,
- Sorry to keep bothering you about this but sometimes, like tonight, this bot just skips issuing reports. And this is a bot that issues a report even when there are no pages to report. Is it stuck on Toolforge? I have another issue with a different Toolforge link that maybe you can assist me with after this gets resolved. Thanks, in advance. Liz Read! Talk! 06:36, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
- Could you check on this? It hasn't run in over 12 hours. Liz Read! Talk! 17:39, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
- This was our CSD G13 list today. We had 393 expiring drafts and we typically have around 150 per day. It would have been a great day to have your tool working so that each draft didn't have to be individually and manually tagged. I hope you can get to this soon. We won't have another day with this many expiring drafts but your tool just helps us move quicker through them. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 20:58, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay. I have restarted it. Please let me know if I can help with anything else. – DreamRimmer ■ 03:10, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you so much, DreamRimmer! I could have really used it earlier today but better now than never!
- I had another problem I was wondering whether you could help on. There is an Empty Categories link at Toolforge (see here) that Legoktm set up. It allows us to click the link and it does a search for empty categories in the system. The alternative is a database report (Wikipedia:Database reports/Empty categories) but that only comes out once a day rather than asking it to search whenever I want to know what empty categories there are. Well, if you click on the Toolforge link now, it runs and runs and doesn't complete the process. I get a message that says "500 Internal Server Error Input/output error: Input/output error: connection closed". Try it and you will see.
- And so I've been trying to contact Legoktm, on his user talk page, through email and after a week, he responded but said he can't get to it until the end of July! See our discussion at User talk:Legoktm#Toolforge Empty Categories link. Any way, if you look at the discussion, you can see that his latest suggestion is to find someone else to remake this tool. I have no idea how hard this would be. It seems easier to fix his tool but I'm not sure how folks feel about other editors working on their editing tools. Could you check this out and see what you think? Since I can't expect his fix until the end of July, anything sooner would be a God's send. Thanks for considering this request. Liz Read! Talk! 03:48, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- I can make a tool for this, but since Legoktm already has one and plans to fix it, it would not be worth making a new one. You can use this SQL query in the meantime. – DreamRimmer ■ 12:58, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for the delay. I have restarted it. Please let me know if I can help with anything else. – DreamRimmer ■ 03:10, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- This was our CSD G13 list today. We had 393 expiring drafts and we typically have around 150 per day. It would have been a great day to have your tool working so that each draft didn't have to be individually and manually tagged. I hope you can get to this soon. We won't have another day with this many expiring drafts but your tool just helps us move quicker through them. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 20:58, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
- Could you check on this? It hasn't run in over 12 hours. Liz Read! Talk! 17:39, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry about that premature warning. I usually wait until a bot has missed 2 or 3 reports before contacting the bot operator but I saw you were editing so I came here. Looks like everything is okay! Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 05:28, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).
Administrator changes
Interface administrator changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following a talk page discussion, speedy deletion criterion G13 has been amended to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text."
- WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion.
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
- Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
Tech News: 2025-28
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.
Updates for editors
- Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game and let the team know what you think on the talk page.
- Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. [1]
- Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.
- Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use Special:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [2]
A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.- It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. [3]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- As part of MediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications, information about migration in T388663 and details on deprecated hooks in T389624.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates
[edit]The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Candidates.
Here is the schedule:
- July 9–15 - Call for candidates
- July 18–22 - Discussion phase
- July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase
Please note the following:
- The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
- Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
- The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
- The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
- Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.
Ask any questions about the process at the talk page. A separate user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.
If you are interested in the process, please make sure to watchlist the appropriate pages. A watchlist notice will be added when the discussion phase opens, and again when the voting phase opens.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:11, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-29
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist. [4][5]
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [6]
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post for more details.
Meetings and events
- WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application and program proposal now!
- WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:05, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Hello, DR. Thanks for your work in giving out barnstars for the backlog drive (and giving me this amazing username). I just realized I didn't get a level badge for finishing above 750 points. Wondering if you'd forgotten or if it's a new rule. Frost 10:27, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Frost: My mistake. I completely forgot about it. Thank you for reminding. – DreamRimmer ■ 11:50, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
Administrator Elections | Discussion phase
[edit]The discussion phase of the July 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- July 18–22 - Discussion phase (we are here)
- July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase
- uly 30–c. Aug 3 - Scrutineering phase
We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Discussion phase.
On July 23, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last approximately four days, or perhaps a little longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:52, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 July 2025
[edit]- News and notes: Is no WikiNews good WikiNews? — Election season returns!
- In the media: How bad (or good) is Wikipedia?
- WikiProject report: WikiProject Medicine reaches milestone of zero unreferenced articles
- Recent research: Knowledge manipulation on Russia's Wikipedia fork; Marxist critique of Wikidata license; call to analyze power relations of Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Form 990 released for the Wikimedia Foundation’s fiscal year 2023-2024
- Discussion report: Six thousand noticeboard discussions in 2025 electrically winnowed down to a hundred
- Comix: Divorce
- Traffic report: God only knows
July thanks
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Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:12, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-30
[edit]Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
- The Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter. [7]
- Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration feature.
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
- The Beta Cluster wikis have been moved from
beta.wmflabs.orgtobeta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task. - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon. [8]
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