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Question from Kingofguineapigs64 (11:50, 28 January 2025)

Hello how do you make a article? --Kingofguineapigs64 (talk) 11:50, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Kingofguineapigs64! What article do you want to make? Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 17:50, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

one about guinea pigs Kingofguineapigs64 (talk) 12:12, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kingofguineapigs64: There is an article on Guinea pig, and articles on many different species of guinea pig. Any in particular you wanted to contribute to? Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 16:50, 29 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from 獅眠洞 (10:52, 2 February 2025)

How to make article --sleepy🥱 • 10:52, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Py🥱: I'd recommend reviewing this page for some useful guidance on writing articles: Wikipedia:Writing better articles Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:14, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-06

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]
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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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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

Administrator changes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

Oversighter changes

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

The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

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Question from Jimmy swaggart (11:21, 9 February 2025)

Hello mister mentor I want to know When is the first Japanese school

Build up --Jimmy swaggart (talk) 11:21, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jimmy swaggart (12:07, 9 February 2025)

What's wrong with you now🗣️🗣️💤🤑🤑 wake up mister mentor please --Jimmy swaggart (talk) 12:07, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Zinebre (17:50, 9 February 2025)

Hi Rae, I hope you can help me. I added a photo but it sort of repeated itself on my edit. How do I remove the extra double photos please? The page is: Little Portugal in Montreal I added a before and after restoration photos of the fountain but I see several double photos on the right hand column. I actually wanted to put two side by side photos of before and after restoration. Let me know what to do or can you correct this for me? Thanks --Zinebre (talk) 17:50, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Zinebre! It doesn't look to me like there are any duplicate images in the gallery, i.e., images that appear more than once. Is that what you are referring to, or is it another issue? Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:27, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe someone else removed them. I do not see them anymore either. Zinebre (talk) 23:41, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Desertlakedesert (20:51, 9 February 2025)

Thanks. --Desertlakedesert (talk) 20:51, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Gracie0968! (23:03, 10 February 2025)

hello I am here because I thought I was signing up to Lulu publishing. obviously it is part of Wiki but I I don't understand the rest of it. I'm looking for free help to edit my draft and to format to get ready for an ebook publish. can u help with that? --Gracie0968! (talk) 23:03, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gracie0968!: Lulu.com is not affiliated with Wikipedia, we just have an article about it. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:29, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-07

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

The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.

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.
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]
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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The Bugle: Issue 226, February 2025

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at three aspects of World War II
Op-ed: Matarisvan on ways to improve A-class reviewing numbers

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Tech News: 2025-08

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

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]
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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Question from Steven WaIIing (03:03, 20 February 2025)

Hello! How do I add images when I'm editing? --Steven WaIIing (talk) 03:04, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Steven WaIIing! Check out this tutorial, and let me know if you have questions. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:29, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Taureanverse (11:10, 20 February 2025)

Hello Rae,

I'm having issues because I received permission from the owner of an image which is called "Nina Chanel Abney Portrait Photo" and I did all I was supposed to do on Wiki Commons and also sent an email to the permissions attaching the correspondence from the owner stating it was granted and still I had a user say it would be deleted as well as a permissions staff from Wikipedia state I need to attach the photo even though the photo was attached in the initial email. It seems that not many people are doing due diligence but are quick to say a photo should be deleted even though I received professional permission from the owner. --Taureanverse (talk) 11:10, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Taureanverse, thanks for reaching out. It looks like a ticket has been received in the permissions email queue, and is not yet resolved. That template on the file page is normal while the ticket is unresolved.

Wikimedia projects are are stricter on images than most websites, and for a reason: these are free knowledge projects, both in the not-paid sense and in the freely usable sense. Wikimedia Commons, thus, only hosts images which are either in the public domain or released by their copyright holders under a free use license. The permissions email queue is the usual way that we verify an image is released by its copyright holder, and not someone else who does not have the rights to release it.

I hope this is helpful context, and let me know if you have questions or if there are further issues with the image. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:37, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Jaander8 (23:51, 21 February 2025)

Hi Hannah and Vermont, thank you for helping me on here. I've always enjoyed editing, as I've been on Reddit for years. If you need help with any tasks let me know.

Eventually, I'd like to start producing articles here about businesses as I want to transition into corporate writing.

If you have any advice on this please let me know!

Cheers, James --Jaander8 (talk) 23:51, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from LeRoiKingsMfalme (08:25, 22 February 2025)

Hi Rae, my name is Kings, a Kenyan teacher of foreign languages. I am perturbed by the fact that there are very few articles in Swahili language, my mother tongue. I felt the need to contribute but I have never edited nor written any articles on wiki. Any advice? I usually tread articles in English, French, Swahili and Persian. Thank you in advance --LeRoiKingsMfalme (talk) 08:25, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Kings! I can definitely offer help if you have questions about editing the English Wikipedia, though for the Swahili Wikipedia it might be worth reaching out to Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:27, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Taureanverse (12:15, 22 February 2025)

How long does it take for my questions to be answered? Also is there a management email I can send my concerns to? --Taureanverse (talk) 12:15, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Taureanverse: I've sent a reply to your message above - I understand your class may have deadlines, but a 3-day turnaround over a weekend is pretty standard, if not fast for a talk page reply. I'm here as a volunteer, as with nearly everyone else you'll interact with on Wikipedia.

Re: concerns, most are handled by volunteer processes, though some (e.g., threats of harm, some disinformation issues) do go to the Wikimedia Foundation. What type of concerns do you have? I can help route them. Best, Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 23:44, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-09

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]
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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Question from Randomhuman48 (03:59, 25 February 2025)

hello how ti create an article --Randomhuman48 (talk) 03:59, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Wizard is available to walk you through these steps. See the Article Wizard.

Thank you.

Before creating an article, please search Wikipedia first to make sure that an article does not already exist on the subject. Please also review a few of our relevant policies and guidelines with which all articles should comply. As Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, articles must not contain original research, must be written from a neutral point of view, should cite reliable sources which verify their content and must not contain unsourced, negative content about living people.

Articles must also demonstrate the notability of the subject. Please see our subject specific guidelines for people, bands and musicians, companies and organizations and web content and note that if you are closely associated with the subject, our conflict of interest guideline strongly recommends against you creating the article.

If you still think an article is appropriate, see Wikipedia:Your first article. You might also look at Wikipedia:How to write a great article for guidance, and please consider taking a tour through the Wikipedia:Tutorial so that you know how to properly format the article before creation. An Article Wizard is also available to walk you through creating an article. 2601AC47 (talk·contribs·my rights) Isn't a IP anon 13:23, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Devashishedits (10:58, 25 February 2025)

Dear sir/ Ma'am I try to add pictures from credible sources and mention those sources but still it gets deleted. Kindly guide. I add valuable details from credible sources to articles and it has always been accepted but I case of pictures even pictures from wikipedia commons gets deleted. Why ? --Devashishedits (talk) 10:58, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from BayyinahOfficial (11:49, 1 March 2025)

Hi, there was incorrect information on a page that I corrected. I don't see my edit implemented. How long should I give it before seeing any changes? Thanks. --BayyinahOfficial (talk) 11:49, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]