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== Nomination for merger of multiple redirect comics templates ==
[[File:Information.svg|25px|alt=Information icon]]&nbsp;[[Template:R comics with possibilities]], [[Template:R comics from alternative name]], [[Template:R comics to list entry]], [[Template:R comics from merge]], [[Template:R comics from related word]] and [[Template:R comics to section]] have been [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion|nominated for merging]] with [[Template:R with possibilities]], [[Template:R from alternative name]], [[Template:R to list entry]], [[Template:R from merge]], [[Template:R from related word]] and [[Template:R to section]]. You are invited to comment on the discussion at [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2025 November 6#Redirect comics templates|'''the template's entries''']] on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. [[User:PK2|PK2]] ([[User talk:PK2|talk]]; [[Special:Contributions/PK2|contributions]]) 01:05, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

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2025

Things to unarchive

Space discussion.

"Template:Use Birtish English" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Template:Use Birtish English has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 October 22 § Template:Use Birtish English until a consensus is reached. from Piperium (chit-chat, i did that) at 06:30, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #703

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
    • WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
    • SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
    • The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
    • We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
    • We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
  • Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
  • GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
  • Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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Updates for editors

  • The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
  • Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [18]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
  • The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Special:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [19]
  • Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
  • A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
  • Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [20]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:28, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your signature

Please remove <br /> from your signature. It breaks the page every time someone replies to your comment, as in here and here. Nardog (talk) 13:50, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In what way does it break the page? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:12, 28 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Can you see the :<br /> and ::::<br /> in the diffs provided? It looks broken to me — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:15, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh so there's a bug in the Discussion Tool? And it showed up in a conversation about a bug in the Discussion Tool? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:30, 28 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]
That should take care of it. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:35, 28 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Lets test to see if it has. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:36, 28 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]
And do a regression test. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:36, 28 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]
What do you need the <br /> for? Nardog (talk) 23:14, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If there is a comment on one line like this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 15:36, 28 October 2025 (UTC). And a reply on the next line like this. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 16:51, 29 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]

How often does that occur? Replies normally get indented by one colon relative to the previous comment. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:56, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Occasionally. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 08:57, 31 October 2025 (UTC).[reply]
That's when you should simply fix the code. Nardog (talk) 15:25, 1 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Sure, if I'm watching the page, and see it. Or alternatively I can code smart and the problem will NEVER occur. I prefer a once-for-all fix to having to look out for people making what is actually a very easy mistake to make on - what - every talk page on the project? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 17:26, 1 November 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #704

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
  • New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
  • GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
  • Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - October 2025 Newsletter

This is our forty eighth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 4, 5, 10 and 13.

Tech News: 2025-45

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 will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). [21]
  • For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Add topic" or "Reply" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. [22]
  • Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. [23]
  • Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. [24]
  • Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! [25]
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [26]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working. [27]
  • On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
  • MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. [28]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for merger of multiple redirect comics templates

Information icon Template:R comics with possibilities, Template:R comics from alternative name, Template:R comics to list entry, Template:R comics from merge, Template:R comics from related word and Template:R comics to section have been nominated for merging with Template:R with possibilities, Template:R from alternative name, Template:R to list entry, Template:R from merge, Template:R from related word and Template:R to section. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entries on the Templates for discussion page. Thank you. PK2 (talk; contributions) 01:05, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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