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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2025)

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Ice cream social held in a U.S. community college
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Ice cream social

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Tech News: 2025-06

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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

  • Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [1]
  • Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[2] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[3] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
  • Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
    • (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.
    • (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber. [4]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [5]
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [6]

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Question from Flux oino (16:47, 4 February 2025)

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How do I create a sitation?? --Flux oino (talk) 16:47, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

readded
removed Euryalus

CheckUser changes

removed

Oversighter changes

removed

Technical news

  • Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
  • A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

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This Month in Education: January 2025

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This Month in Education

Volume 14 • Issue 1 • January 2025

In This Issue

Availability?

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Hey (is for horses!), are you still here? You might want to change your mentorship status to Inactive, if you're not still here. Also, you might want to change your archive setting to a lower frequency, so questions are answered before archived. Hope you're doing well. Myrealnamm (💬Let's talk · 📜My work) 21:08, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

February 19: WikiWednesday Salon

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February 19: WikiWednesday @ Prime Produce
Prime Produce on W 54th St

WikiWednesday is back! You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our WikiWednesday Salon at Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, with an online-based participation option also available. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome!

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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Question from Kkumarii komal (07:57, 7 February 2025)

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Hi,

I want to delete an article page from Wikipedia at the earliest, how do I do that? --Kkumarii komal (talk) 07:57, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Cristian150 (18:28, 7 February 2025)

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how i edit my page on wikipedia --Cristian150 (talk) 18:28, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from The Creativity Guy (09:02, 8 February 2025)

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Hi; How do I add a song to

List of songs about the San Francisco Bay Area

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_San_Francisco_Bay_Area


A recent great song titled "San Francisco Blues" by Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway is not listed. Here is more information about the song:

https://genius.com/Molly-tuttle-and-golden-highway-san-francisco-blues-lyrics --The Creativity Guy (talk) 09:02, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2025)

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Scandinavian Peninsula
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Peninsula

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Tech News: 2025-07

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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

Updates for editors

  • The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [7]
  • As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
  • Advanced item Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [8]
  • Recurrent item View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [9]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [10]
  • The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [11]
  • As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [12]

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
  • The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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Question from Zizisisi (06:21, 12 February 2025)

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Can I prepare a wiki page with basic information about me? --Zizisisi (talk) 06:21, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment

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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Question from IncidentalHire on Meta-religion (05:29, 16 February 2025)

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Will meta hire me ? --IncidentalHire (talk) 05:29, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Mymbleq (07:49, 16 February 2025)

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I’m not looking to do any editing in the near future. I mainly created the account to keep track of my viewing history, and maybe see other people’s edits. --Mymbleq (talk) 07:49, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2025)

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Cheesecake recipe from a family cookbook
Hello, I dream of horses. The article for improvement of the week is:

Family cookbooks

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Previous selections: Peninsula • Ice cream social

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Feedback request: Wikipedia proposals request for comment

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Tech News: 2025-08

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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

  • Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Special:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

Highlighted talk pages improvements
  • Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [13]
  • You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [14]
  • When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
  • The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
  • A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [15]
  • Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [16]
  • Recurrent item View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [17]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [18][19]
  • Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [20]

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Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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Question from Smorrismlbco (01:48, 20 February 2025)

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I attempted to update a Wikipedia page: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shield_AI_MQ-35A_V-BAT

and user BilCat deleted them claiming I have a conflict of interest because I am the associated with the subject material. I would like to change the first paragraph in the article and I have references to back up the claims in my changes. What should I do next or is it not allowed for me to make any changes? Steve --Smorrismlbco (talk) 01:48, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/2024 review/Phase III/Administrator elections

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Administrator Elections | Renewal RFC phase
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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2025)

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Katz's Delicatessen, a popular Jewish deli on the Lower East Side in New York City
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Jewish deli

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Tech News: 2025-09

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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

  • Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using Special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [21]
  • The wikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as wikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting. [22][23][24]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:) [25]
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. [26]

Meetings and events

  • The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.

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Women in Red March 2025

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Women in Red | March 2025, Vol 11, Issue 3, Nos. 326, 327, 332, 333, 334


Online events:

Announcements from other communities:

Tip of the month:

  • You can access the Wikipedia Library if you have made 500+ edits, and 6+ months editing,
    and 10+ edits in the last 30 days, and No active blocks

Moving the needle:[1]

  • 27 Jan 2025: 20.031% of biographies on EN-WP are about women (2,047,793 bios, 410,200 women)
  • 23 Dec 2024: 20.009% (2,041,741 bios, 408,531 women)

Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,669 articles during this period!

Other ways to participate:

Instagram | Pinterest | Twitter/X

--Lajmmoore (talk 08:54, 25 February 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Question from Camelaru35 (15:05, 26 February 2025)

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Hello,

I have an issue. I started recently editing on Wikipedia and I want to have suggested edits recommend me only articles in my native language. I configured the preferred language to be my native one but it only changed the language of the Wikipedia interface. I searched online and looked into the settings but couldn't find an answer.

Thank you in advance --Camelaru35 (talk) 15:05, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 February 2025

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Question from ArvinoDash (21:27, 28 February 2025)

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Hello mentor! I have a quick question. How do you add pictures and text that describes the person --ArvinoDash (talk) 21:27, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  1. ^ "Humaniki".
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