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Question from Kritzerdagoat (17:13, 2 May 2025)
editYOOO! its ya boy, kritzerdagoat, anyways, enough with the jokes, i cant really talk now because i have state testing (which i hate with a passion even though i pass every time) next week tuesday-thursday, also, ive been trying to edit some youth futball/soccer articles, such as the Mali U-17, but i cant figure out how to do they thing where they can make the column gold, sliver, or bronze. if you can, by friday, can you please send me a tutorial (or just tell me) how to do something like that. Thank you, from ya boy-Kritzerdagoat --Kritzerdagoat (talk) 17:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Kritzerdagoat. I believe you're referring to this article as I saw that you edited its talkpage: 2025 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations. You wrote
... column gold, sliver, or bronze ...
, but did you mean the gold, silver, and bronze rows like in this section: 2025 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations#Tournament rankings? If yes, this is a complicated edit and I wouldn't recommend attempting it to someone who, so far, has only made 1 other edit to a Wikipedia article. That said, for reference, the gold/silver/bronze coding is here and the tables tutorial is here. Good luck with your state testing; I hope you do great! --Rosiestep (talk) 13:43, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Hi Rosie, please excuse me, but I have a question. I have been submitting the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Bernhard_Wessling for some time now. It was rejected by a reviewer because the source citation was missing. I submitted all this later, but haven't heard anything since. Is there perhaps a way to move the process forward? Many thanks for your information and best regards Dirk --Buxtobe (talk) 15:00, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Buxtobe. I made some edits (headers, subheader, re-arranging, External links, categories) to the draft; take a look. Other things that I think need doing before submitting for another review:
- Add at least one reliable source as an inline citation to each paragraph (except for the lead paragraph) to address the comment made by HickoryOughtShirt?4 in their review.
- In the lead section/paragraph, add sentences that address Johannes Maximilian's comment:
"I don't see why the subject qualifies for a Wikipedia article. What do you reckon, why is the subject notable?"
. - In the "Career and research" section (this is a common header title for scientist biographies):
- Arrange information in chron order.
- Add additional subheaders (e.g., like the one I did) if applicable.
- Add your comment (disclosure about paid editing) to the talkpage.
- Please note that my edits or suggested edits are meant only to address your request to
... move the process forward
. It shouldn't be construed that my edits or suggested edits guarantee that the draft will eventually be accepted and moved into mainspace. --Rosiestep (talk) 15:45, 3 May 2025 (UTC)- Hi Rosie,
- thank you very much for your tips, which I will take a closer look at again.
- Let's hope that the review for the submission will go faster once the very last errors have been corrected.
- Best regards
- Bux Buxtobe (talk) 17:28, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
May music
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Bach's cantata was performed 300 years ago, by occasion. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Quite the anniversary. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:48, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- I wanted that for Easter ... - Today's main page has again memories of three people who died, for two just the name and for the third an image (great!) coupled with a little bit from her life which seems too little for my taste. What do you think? - A friend of mine sang in Verdi's Requiem at Trinity Church, - you can watch the lifestream (Verdi about 30 minutes into it). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:58, 5 May 2025 (UTC)
- (quite the anniversary, like around 40 others ...) - recommended reading today: Christfried Schmidt, a story about patience. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:28, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- Enjoyed reading Barbara's biog. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:35, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- check my talk today for two pics of Margot Friedländer --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- Read the whole article. Thank you for the link. Glad to have learned about her. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:31, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- I knew you would do that! It was little work for me because the article was already in good shape when it began. More work for the next 2: May Abrahamse (with uncertain licensing of portrait), and Vakhtang Machavariani (nominated) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:18, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- listen to Machavariani's Mariupol --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:50, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- musings on 15 May --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:48, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- Enjoyed learning about Hans Herbert Jöris; thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:30, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Lovely! - birthday of Erik Satie --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:02, 17 May 2025 (UTC)
- Alla Osipenko, too tired for more than a link, - matching your cat a bit. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:29, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
- Enjoyed learning about Hans Herbert Jöris; thanks. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:30, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Read the whole article. Thank you for the link. Glad to have learned about her. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:31, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- check my talk today for two pics of Margot Friedländer --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:47, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- Enjoyed reading Barbara's biog. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:35, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
Added some text, facts. How do I cite? --Goldto (talk) 20:18, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Hi @Goldto. You can take a look at Help:Referencing for beginners for some basic tips on how to cite sources. You may want to use the "Ref Toolbar" built into the edit window to help arrange and insert your citation into the article, while adding certain information such as the author's name. Be sure that the material you are adding is cited to a reliable source such as a reputable newspaper, book, or research journal. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask here on Rosie's talk page, or over at my own (linked next to my signature) with the red "talk" button. Fathoms Below (talk) 20:23, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
NYC: May 7 WikiWed + May 10 WikiCurious
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Question from Elytimandbarrywiki (11:30, 6 May 2025)
edithey, Ely here, I've not actually previously edited any pages or created new ones, but within my organisation ive been tasked with setting up a few relevant wiki accounts as part of our 25th anniversary, outlining some of the prominent historical happenings and cultural moments of interest that have got us where we are today, this isn't promotional but more just a chance to outline and solidify some of these key events in uk music culture in the past 25 years. I have a draft of the first main wiki page if you'd b willing to help out with some details etc... --Elytimandbarrywiki (talk) 11:30, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Elytimandbarrywiki. Lots to unpack in your comment. First, no worries about being a new editor; we're all new at some point. I'm glad you're willing to learn the ropes. Regarding
"... within my organisation ive been tasked with setting up a few relevant wiki accounts ..."
: please do not do that. One account (username) per person. The account needs to be a personal one not related to a company/organization. In so far as your current username incorporates your company name, it probably needs to change. This gives more detail. Regarding"... I have a draft of the first main wiki page ..."
: it is considered a conflict of interest to write about your employer. But there is a process you can follow if you have put together some initial information; this provides details. Hope this info is helpful regarding a proposed Tim & Barry page. Also, I hope you start editing other, unrelated articles; we're glad to have you here. --Rosiestep (talk) 18:36, 6 May 2025 (UTC)- Morning, thanks for the reply, regarding the multiple accounts. that was my bad as that was a typo, I meant more a few relevant pages perhaps on the sub series and wider projects of Tim and Barry (or perhaps the commercial work with Adidas or nike or Jameson for example)? However, learning about the rules and regulations on conflicts of interest maybe ill stick to trying to get the one page approved first before I get stuck into more, furthermore, regarding the username, how would I change It? And is it necessary, I don't specifically wish to keep my ties to the organisation hidden or secret as that doesn't feel genuine of me, and id be more than happy to do anything and everything to get these pages to be fully impartial and unbiased to a point that even though I do work within that organisation, the pages can be approved on the basis that they are filled with valid, reliable information about an organisation that in my opinion, deserves the airtime as a largely influential factor in the documentation and development of the uk underground music scene in the last 25 years. Finally, I also have a question about the impartiality of my proposed page, how do you stay impartial about claims of being some of the first to do something, if it can be verified and proven that the organisation was some of the first to be doing something (multi camera live streams in the early 2000s around the time of YouTubes creation for example). On the topic of editing other pages, as and when I come across them I most definitely will when I have the confidence and certainty that i'm making verified reliable changes! looking forward to becoming part of the wiki family one page at a time! Elytimandbarrywiki (talk) 10:45, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for the double message, I also just remembered that something that may help with the case of my draft being noteworthy and worth creating is Tim and Barrys mention across a few other wiki pages, including the jean Charles de Castelbajac wiki page (long time collaborator with Tim and barry) along with pages about skeptas single 'thats not me' and Tempa T's 'next hype'. sorry that all sounds a bit promotional but I just wanted to explain the pages the organisation is mentioned , in hopes maybe these pages would ultimately maybe be linked? I know wiki doesn't automatically backlink articles but maybe you could explain or direct me to where i could learn about that? Elytimandbarrywiki (talk) 10:52, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Elytimandbarrywiki. Regarding how to request a change in your username, see here. As long as you disclose on your userpage and on the article's talkpage (if its creation gets approved) that you have a conflict of interest, you have met the disclosure requirements, e.g., your username shouldn't reflect your employment. Regarding mentions of Tim and Barry in other Wikipedia articles, such as in Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, you can add a wikilink in the other article. Instructions on how to add a wikilink are here, but basically, it would look like this:
[[Tim and Barry]](or[[Tim & Barry]]) which will produce a "redlink" indicating that the article doesn't exist. Someday, if the article does exist, the redlink automatically turn blue. Wishing you well! --Rosiestep (talk) 07:27, 8 May 2025 (UTC)- morning, @Rosiestep, thanks for the tips, i've sent off to have my name changed and taken your advice to start editing smaller things on wiki pages, adding red links or citations every now and again to get more comfortable with wiki, hope this helps and I haven't made any major mistakes! as far as getting my draft approved, is there any other steps I can take to help make that possible? Elytimandbarrywiki (talk) 10:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- Elytimandbarrywiki, the next step (or maybe I should say, my advice) would be to follow whatever recommendations the reviewer(s) has after you submit the article at Articles For Creation. Wishing you all the best. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:40, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- morning, @Rosiestep, thanks for the tips, i've sent off to have my name changed and taken your advice to start editing smaller things on wiki pages, adding red links or citations every now and again to get more comfortable with wiki, hope this helps and I haven't made any major mistakes! as far as getting my draft approved, is there any other steps I can take to help make that possible? Elytimandbarrywiki (talk) 10:31, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Elytimandbarrywiki. Regarding how to request a change in your username, see here. As long as you disclose on your userpage and on the article's talkpage (if its creation gets approved) that you have a conflict of interest, you have met the disclosure requirements, e.g., your username shouldn't reflect your employment. Regarding mentions of Tim and Barry in other Wikipedia articles, such as in Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, you can add a wikilink in the other article. Instructions on how to add a wikilink are here, but basically, it would look like this:
Question from UKMusicArchivist (10:47, 15 May 2025)
edithey rosie, ive completed some smaller edits in my free time but my draft (that was first declined within a few hours) has had no edits or changes since, is this something ive done or is the wait normal? --UKMusicArchivist (talk) 10:47, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi UKMusicArchivist. Thank you for changing your username.
- Regarding Draft:Tim & Barry:
- (a) The reviewing editor stated,
"This submission is not adequately supported by reliable sources. Reliable sources are required so that information can be verified."
so I would encourage you to continue adding reliable sources to every stated fact. After a quick look at the draft, I noticed that a few sentences/paragraphs have no references. - (b) As for wait time, there's a note at the top of the draft page which states:
"Review waiting, please be patient. This may take 3 months or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 3,221 pending submissions waiting for review."
. The draft was created May 6 (9 days ago) so there could potentially be several weeks before a volunteer editor made a second review of the draft. - (c) I see your conflict of interest message on your userpage and on the draft's talkpage; good. If you are being paid to do this work, you are required to also disclose that; this is a redline requirement. In order to sort out if "paid editing" applies to your edits, please read this. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:40, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2025
editNews and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).
Administrator changes
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Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
- An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
- An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.
Miscellaneous
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 8
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Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues
- Marking a transition at the Wikimedia Foundation: update from CEO Maryana Iskander.
- Annual Planning: We published the draft Annual Plan for the coming fiscal year (2025-2026) which prioritizes work to respond to global trends. Feedback welcome on the talk page and many other places.
- WikiForHumanRights: Join the information session for the 2025 WikiForHumanRights Campaign on May 9 at 16:00 UTC.
- Youth Conference: Wikimedia Youth Conference 2025 will take place on May 16-18 in Prague.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Research · Web · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org
- AI Strategy: Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first.
- Tech News: Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, now have access to the CampaignEvents extension. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. More updates from Tech News week 17 and 18.
- Abstract Wikipedia selected as a grant finalist: Abstract Wikipedia has been selected by the MacArthur Foundation as one of five finalists for their 100&Change competition. The winner will be announced in late 2025.
- Language and Internationalization: Read some key highlights from the April 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
See also: list of movement events · WikiLearn News
- Wikimania: Wikimania 2025 will be held in the Nairobi neighborhood of Gigiri and will host a special one-off preconference day for users with extended rights.
- Learning Clinic: The recent Let's Connect Learning Clinic was about "Exploring Diff Blog: Sharing your story, & understanding Technical Implementation" and took place on May 6 at 12:00 UTC.
Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- Data privacy: Arguing for data privacy and safety of internet users worldwide: Our amicus brief in the Snap v. Pina lawsuit.
- World Press Freedom Day: We will be advocating for Wikimedia's model and speaking about "Information as a Public Good in the Age of AI" for UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day event in Brussels.
Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: quarterly Metrics Reports
- Risk preparedness: We shared the Foundation's approach to risk preparedness as part of the annual plan.
- Financial Report: Takeaways from the Wikimedia Foundation's Form 990 for fiscal year 2023-2024.
- Annual Report: The Foundation published the Annual Reports for both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment. These reports highlight the impact of work done by our global community of volunteers, staff, and donors over the past year.
Board and Board committee updates
See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard · Affiliations Committee Newsletter
- Board and Board committee updates: The Board met in in March to hold its quarterly business meeting and joined other meetings as part of the Wikimedia Foundation's annual strategic planning. See the most recent actions and updates on the Board Noticeboard.
- Wikimedians of Chicago User Group: Recognition of Wikimedians of Chicago User Group.
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- Elections Committee update: Review and comment on the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection rules for the upcoming 2025 selection process. The deadline is May 15 at 23:59 AoE.
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Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #201 is out: Abstract Wikipedia and the Wikimedia AI Strategy
editThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we discuss how Abstract Wikipedia ties in with the newly announced WMF's strategy for AI, we talk about the Wikimedia Hackathon and our community meetings, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:27, 10 May 2025 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: April 2025
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Hello, can I ask you a question. How do I create a citation? --AlfieRosa (talk) 00:39, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi AlfieRosa and thanks for your question. Here is the help page for new editors with instructions on how to add references and it includes citation templates. At the bottom of that help page, there are links to other help pages regarding citations/references, such as different citation styles, etc. The link on the right side is for a 6 minute video housed on Wikimedia Commons regarding how to create citations. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:47, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
A bowl of strawberries for you!
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6,468 articles! Polygnotus (talk) 11:25, 12 May 2025 (UTC) |
- Thank you, Polygnotus! --Rosiestep (talk) 16:29, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- You're very welcome, and thank you for the kind gift AlfieRosa (talk) 15:38, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the gifts of strawberries AlfieRosa (talk) 15:42, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-20
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Weekly highlight
- The "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
- Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
- The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (
w:nup:). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia. 
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
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- Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
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- The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.
Meetings and events
- The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
- The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.
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Hello Rosiestep,
Im having trouble editing my employer company page, im an employee there and i was asked to edit the page.
I tried using the COI page but still couldnt edit the page, can you help please. --Editingr (talk) 09:15, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Editingr and thanks for reaching out. This explains why you shouldn't edit your employer's page; it also recommends an alternate editing option (see #3). Your contributions regarding your employer's company page are welcome -- just following a different course of action. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:42, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 68
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Issue 68, March–April 2025
In this issue we highlight two resource renewals, #EveryBookItsReader, a note about Phabricator, and, as always, a roundup of news and community items related to libraries and digital knowledge.
Read the full newsletterSent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --10:18, 13 May 2025 (UTC)
Suspension of autopatrolled permission due to inactivity
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Hello Rosiestep. Following a request for comment in May 2025, the community has decided to implement an activity requirement for the autopatrolled permission. Because your account has not edited in the last three years, the autopatrolled permission has been removed from your account. This action is purely procedural and does not affect your ability to create articles; if you return to actively creating articles, you may request that the permission be restored through the normal process. When returning, please consider taking some time to re-familiarize yourself with common practices and how they may have changed over the past few years if you wish to request the permission back. Thank you for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and we hope to see you again soon. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:19, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- @JJMC89 and 1AmNobody24 - Yes, I have edited, prolifically, in the last three years. Please revert. --Rosiestep (talk) 09:12, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- Resolved here. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:31, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 May 2025
edit- In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide
- Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
- Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
- Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
- Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
- Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
- Comix: Collection
- From the archives: Humor from the Archives
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #202 is out: Location of Abstract Content
editThere is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!
In this issue, we invite you to a consultation about where should the content of Abstract Wikipedia be stored, we invite you to our next online presentation, and we take a look at the latest software developments.
Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!
Enjoy the reading! -- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 10:56, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from Koolman69420GUY (11:04, 19 May 2025)
editHow many years have you been on wikipedia, and how do you find your information? --Koolman69420GUY (talk) 11:04, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Koolman69420GUY. Next month, I'll have been a Wikipedia editor for 18 years. I find information using various search engines. Also, as a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, I have access to its online library holdings. Also, Internet Archive and Newspapers.com. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:19, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-21
editLatest 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 Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.
Updates for editors
- From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Special:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [1]- Later this week, the Special:SpecialPages listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [2]
- The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
- Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
- Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
- View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
- Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Special:Block may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [4]
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mw.titleobject allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, namedisDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [5] 
User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 9
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Let's Talk continues
- Global Trends Community Workshop: Join Foundation staff and trustees on May 28th from 16:00 UTC for an online community workshop about global trends impacting Wikimedia. This workshop is part of continuous conversations aimed at connecting the movement and collaborating on the Foundation's annual plan.
- Wiki Causerie: Wiki Causerie call with a focus on discussing the global trends to help shape the Foundation's annual plan will be held on May 23.
- ESEAP Summit: The ESEAP Strategy Summit 2025 will take place in Manila, Philippines on May 23–25.
- EduWiki Conference 2025: The EduWiki Conference 2025 will take place in Bogotá, Colombia on May 30–June 1.
- Wiki Workshop 2025: The 12th annual Wiki Workshop will take place online on May 21–22.
- U4C Call for Candidates: The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee 2025 elections are accepting candidates until May 28.
Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
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- Content Translation: A decade of consistent improvements to the Content Translation tool yields over two million Wikipedia articles.
- Charts Extension: After successfully deploying the extension on Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedia, we are moving forward with the next phase of deployment. Please consult our page to discover when the new Charts extension will be deployed on your wiki.
- Abstract Wikipedia: Where Abstract Wikipedia fits into the new Wikimedia AI strategy.
- Tech News: The “Get shortened URL” link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently. More updates from Tech News week 19 and 20.
- Topical Lists: Read about the important role of topical lists in supporting campaigns and editing, as well as strategies for the future development, implementation, and sustainment of list-building support.
- Two-factor Authentication: From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Read the announcement.
- Mobile Apps: The iOS app team is experimenting with an "Activity Tab" on Turkish, Spanish, French, and Chinese Wikipedias to see if inviting new editors to add images through Suggested Edits increases engagement. This insight will guide future improvements to the app experience.
Annual Goals Progress on Knowledge Equity
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- Learning Clinic: The next Let's Connect Learning Clinic will be about "Communication and Cultural Sensitivity in Conflict Resolution - Best practices (Part 2)" and will take place on May 27 at 13:00 UTC.
- The Wikipedia Library: An important milestone for The Wikipedia Library (TWL) has been reached. More than a million links have been added to Wikimedia projects by Library users.
- Wikisource: Watch the video celebrating the global Wikisource community in safeguarding our cultural heritage for future generations.
Annual Goals Progress on Safety & Integrity
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog
- India Legal Update: Good news from our legal team, the Supreme Court of India set aside the Delhi High Court’s order directing the takedown of the Asian News International v. Wikimedia Foundation English Wikipedia article. The Supreme Court’s verdict upholds the right to report and share information on matters of public interest, including legal proceedings in open courts.
- UK Legal Challenge: Wikimedia Foundation brings legal challenge to new UK Online Safety Act requirements.
- UCoC Updates: The Universal Code of Conduct 2025 annual review concluded, with community voting approving the proposed changes to the UCoC Enforcement Guidelines and U4C Charter.
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