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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-52
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Pin Malakul (24 October 1903 – 5 October 1995) was a Thai professor, educator and writer. His contributions to education in Thailand include the establishment of various institutions of higher education, the introduction of fixed class schedules, and the implementation of teacher-training programmes. In his career he served as Director-General of the Department of General Education, later becoming Permanent Secretary, and Minister, of Education. He was also a member of the executive board of UNESCO. His writings earned him the title of National Artist in 1987, and the 100th anniversary of his birth was celebrated by the UNESCO in 2003 as recognition of his contribution to the advancement of education in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
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Tech News: 2025-52
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- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.
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Happy Holidays, Ferien
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Happy Holidays and also Merry Christmas if you celebrate it! I thought you'd like this festive bus. Best wishes to you and your family too! (★‿★)
From ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 21:44, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you Dream Indigo and Merry Christmas to you too!! The bus is amazing as well :D I myself was lucky enough to board a Christmas-themed bus in the modern day a few weeks ago, though it is not as nice as that one! And yes, I do celebrate Christmas, but I often prefer to wish people a general "Happy Holidays" on-wiki as some people might not celebrate Christmas and it's general good wishes for the overall period and new year :) --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 22:49, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you :D And wow that bus is so wonderful! Yeah that's true :) ✩ Dream Indigo ✩ 00:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-01
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The Morning of the Magicians: Introduction to Fantastic Realism (French: Le Matin des magiciens: Introduction au réalisme fantastique) is a 1960 book by the journalists Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier. It covers topics like cryptohistory, ufology, occultism in Nazism, alchemy, spiritual philosophy. The second half of the book is entirely dedicated to the Nazi-Occult connections; the book is widely credited with the proliferation of numerous myths related to occultism in Nazism.
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Happy New Year
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Wishing you a very Happy New Year 2026, pal! 😃 HAOREIMA (Khurumjari) 17:29, 31 December 2025 (UTC)
Dr Sunita Dube socks
[change source]Isn’t it quite obvious that they are all socks? See Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Dr Sunita Dube, which shows multiple people trying to vote keep for the article. Also see Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2026/Dr Sunita Dube, which was created by 7Bonfire who themselves voted keep on the article. In addition, both have the habit of threatening people who call them out, . See comment by CountryANDWestern: . Going through RFCU would be unnecessary. PieWriter (talk) 13:21, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
- Never mind, they were just CU blocked by User:BRPever. Thanks, PieWriter (talk) 13:31, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
- PieWriter, they have indeed now been blocked as a sockpuppet, but some of the behaviours are ones that make it likely but not very clear. If I had known about the 2026 RfD creation, I would have blocked on the spot as that is a very clear sign but VIP is for vandals not sockpuppets that require some level of investigation. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 14:33, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- I think the 2026 RFD creation wasn't intentional, but how the RFD template works. I started that in 2025, so that's the RFD page that was created but I didn't add the year parameter to the template. When that param isn't there, the template always assumes the current year. So when the sock tried to add (another) keep comment, it was the first one in 2026 and there was no /2026 RFD discussion page, so it got created. I think they were a WP:DUCK sock but I've been dealing with them for a while. For an admin that doesn't know much about this sock farm, it's not quite as obvious and that's my usual yardstick for taking it to WP:VIP - do I think it's really obvious they are a sock and I can support that with one or two diffs. Probably not in this case. Ravensfire (talk) 18:14, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
- @PieWriter and Ravensfire: Yeah, I don't want to seem too much of a bother to just reject VIP requests for the hell of it and say go to RfCU, if it is genuinely obvious. Though things are more obvious to different people and I will confess I haven't been that on top of it with this sock. This request still probably could have been handled at VIP, and for the record, another admin immediately (privately) questioned my action of a temporary block afterwards, so I will try to be more observant with these ones. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 00:40, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
- I think the 2026 RFD creation wasn't intentional, but how the RFD template works. I started that in 2025, so that's the RFD page that was created but I didn't add the year parameter to the template. When that param isn't there, the template always assumes the current year. So when the sock tried to add (another) keep comment, it was the first one in 2026 and there was no /2026 RFD discussion page, so it got created. I think they were a WP:DUCK sock but I've been dealing with them for a while. For an admin that doesn't know much about this sock farm, it's not quite as obvious and that's my usual yardstick for taking it to WP:VIP - do I think it's really obvious they are a sock and I can support that with one or two diffs. Probably not in this case. Ravensfire (talk) 18:14, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
patroller right issues / the way I write on Wikipedia site, being accountable and responsible on Wikipedia
[change source]Mr, Mrs or Miss Ferien: I take strong responsibility (or accountability) on the manners in which I'm writing / making articles on Wikipedias in general. I don't mean any excuses; I, however, know Wikipedias will not allow just any words, references, writing styles or terminology being included within articles. The primarly (though hardly only) reasons I write and make articles in a way in which copy edits may be required–I'm very cautious and don't always know the proper words which can be used. I'm skeptical, therefore, of making articles with just any style of manner whatsoever. Most Wikipedias (in particular English and Simple English Wikipedias have very strong rules with which everybody has to comply if they are creating articles let alone editing articles, other parts of Wikipedia in general, etcetera). I'm sorry if the patroller rights can't apply with me, though, here. With and without patroller rights, I'm editing here, the English and Spanish Wikipedias for the long term future, Sir, Miss or Ma'am. Angela Kate Maureen Pears 22:34, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Tropical Storm Angela, I just want to make clear that the issues in the articles you make are not major - and your article creations are very much appreciated - but some of them do mean an article needs to be patrolled further, and these are copyediting issues.
- You tend to use idiomatic language where it is not really necessary. A main thing in recent ones is using the term "under" a lot when it could work in natural English but would definitely be more confusing to non-native speakers - like saying Hardman was under the Democratic Party, it is clear what you are saying, but she is not really under it, she is a part or a member of the party. You also used this to say Harris was a deputy speaker under the House of Lords - using in or for would be best here. And as a separate example, in Jillian Jacqueline, you used the phrase
She has been there from then-afterward.
about her moving to Nashville. Even using that phrase just was not necessary, as the reader would just assume she has lived there since she moved. You could even just say, she's lived in Nashville since 2010 and leave it there. - Again, removing patroller is not meant to be a disciplinary action against you, it is simply that your articles need some patrolling. This isn't to say you can't get the patroller right again in the future. As a less important note, I am a man, but you don't have to call me Mr Ferien or Sir, and my gender doesn't matter to me here. If you have any more questions, feel free to ask. --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 00:36, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-02
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The Somaliland War of Independence was a rebellion waged by the Somali National Movement (SNM) against the ruling military junta in Somalia led by General Siad Barre lasting from its founding on 6 April 1981 and ended on 18 May 1991 when the SNM declared what was then northern Somalia independent as the Republic of Somaliland. The conflict served as the main theater of the larger Somali Rebellion that started in 1978. The conflict was in response to the harsh policies enacted by the Barre regime against the main clan family in Somaliland, the Isaaq, including a declaration of economic warfare on the clan-family. These harsh policies were put into effect shortly after the conclusion of the disastrous Ogaden War in 1978.
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Protection
[change source]Hey there's been a sock vandal hitting a bunch of user's talk pages the past couple days (including mine) think we could get protection? TornadoLGS (talk) 17:46, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hey TornadoLGS, I think Lee Vilenski has solved this issue for you, but if you need protection on any other pages, please head to AN for the quickest response. Thanks! --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 21:58, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
You can take off this notice at any time by removing the {{You've got mail}} or {{YGM}} template.
Nothing urgent! CountryANDWestern (talk) 19:40, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
Done --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 21:57, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-03
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Pietro Lauro, conosciuto anche come Pietro Lauro Modonese o Pietro Lauro da Modona (Modena o dintorni, 1510 circa – Venezia, 1568 circa) è stato un traduttore, scrittore e divulgatore scientifico italiano. Nonostante non si conosca gran parte della sua biografia, fu uno dei poligrafi italiani più conosciuti del Cinquecento. La sua produzione raccoglie traduzioni dal latino, dal greco e dallo spagnolo e riguardano opere di autori classici, stranieri e protestanti. Lauro si dimostrò abile nel trattare testi con temi molto diversi, come la filosofia, l'architettura, la medicina, il giardinaggio, l'agronomia, le scienze biologiche, la storia, la teologia e l'astronomia. Si cimentò anche nella scrittura di un poema cavalleresco sullo stile di quelli spagnoli, il Polendo, sua magnum opus in questo senso.
Aderente alla Riforma protestante, sebbene le sue trasposizioni siano state oggetto di critiche già degli autori a lui contemporanei, che le giudicarono troppo letterali, rozze e imparziali, a Lauro si deve il merito di aver ultimato la traduzione in lingua volgare di numerosi testi sia classici, sia scientifici, sia epistolari. I suoi lavori ebbero una notevole diffusione, non solo tra i letterati veneziani della sua epoca, ma in tutta Italia, tanto che alcune sue traduzioni vengono ancora oggi ristampate in nuove edizioni.
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Tech News: 2026-03
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- The Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-04
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Il volto di Palazzo Vecchio (conosciuto anche come L'importuno o L'inopportuno) è un incisione su pietraforte attibuita a Michelangelo Buonarroti, scolpita in una delle pietre di Palazzo Vecchio a Firenze.
Secondo le varie leggende, il profilo sarebbe stato realizzato come graffito dall'artista toscano, con soggetto un suo importunatore, un debitore, un condannato a morte o se stesso. Nel 2020, gli studiosi hanno ipotizzato possa invece trattarsi di un ritratto di Francesco Granacci, pittore amico di Michelangelo.
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- The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications opened mid-December and will close soon or when capacity is reached. It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Hope to see you there!
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Thank you
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Thank you very much! Julius 12345 (talk) 15:35, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- Julius 12345, no worries, happy to help :) --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 15:37, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
- That is very glad to hear! Julius 12345 (talk) 15:38, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
Declination of the American Mexicans QD
[change source]Hello Ferien! I am back to help editing on the Simple English Wikipedia and have made lots of good contributions so far!
I saw however that you declined the Quick Deletion I requested for the American Mexicans page this morning due to how each page covers differently (i.e. one covers Americans that moved to Mexico and the other covers the opposite)
At first, before creating the QD, I was tempted to start a merge for the larger article and but was tempted to do a QD instead since Mexican Americans covers the topic quite fine. After reading the article a bit more, I have thought that it would be better to merge both articles into one instead having two even though both document very different things in a similar matter.
What do you think? SoyokoAnis - talk 16:58, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hi SoyokoAnis, I still think it'd be better for the articles to be separate, as I think they are very different topics. For instance, lots of Mexican Americans faced segregation as a consequence of moving to the United States, whereas this is not really an issue for those who migrated to Mexico from the US. These articles will have to cover very different things - after all, they relate to two separate ethnic groups - so they shouldn't be one single page. Thanks, --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 17:09, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Ferien After further research, I see you are correct. Thank you for your input on the matter. :) SoyokoAnis - talk 17:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
- No problem, no harm in checking with others if you're uncertain on something :D --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 17:56, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Ferien: (A little late and off-topic but @Dr. Prophet Julius Yaw Son Of The Messiah Baafo is requesting that this page be merged into a draft on his user space. I'm asking for the assistance of an administrator, since last time I did it I was told it would leave a messy redirect.) SoyokoAnis - talk 06:10, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- (It's been taken care of.) SoyokoAnis - talk 11:46, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Ferien: (A little late and off-topic but @Dr. Prophet Julius Yaw Son Of The Messiah Baafo is requesting that this page be merged into a draft on his user space. I'm asking for the assistance of an administrator, since last time I did it I was told it would leave a messy redirect.) SoyokoAnis - talk 06:10, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- No problem, no harm in checking with others if you're uncertain on something :D --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 17:56, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Ferien After further research, I see you are correct. Thank you for your input on the matter. :) SoyokoAnis - talk 17:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-05
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Raffaello Kobayashi, nato Raffaele Sanzio (Bari, 14 gennaio 1917 – Yokohama, 1 aprile 2011), è stato un militare italiano naturalizzato giapponese.
Sommergibilista durante la Seconda guerra mondiale, prestò servizio per tutte e tre le principali Potenze dell'Asse: Regno d'Italia, Germania nazista e Impero giapponese. Alla fine della guerra si nascose in Giappone per evitare di subire l'internamento in un campo di prigionia, divenendo poi cittadino nipponico e cambiando il proprio nome.
Prese parte all'affondamento della HMS Calypso nel 1940, primo successo italiano in campo navale nel corso del conflitto mondiale. Con l'abbattimento di un bombardiere statunitense il 22 agosto 1945, otto giorni dopo il discorso di resa del Giappone alle potenze alleate della seconda guerra mondiale, a bordo del Comandante Cappellini, sarebbe stata l'ultima persona in assoluto a mettere fuori combattimento un velivolo degli Alleati nella stessa guerra.
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Tech News: 2026-05
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Request regarding harassment concerns after page deletion of "Sofiane Baddouri"
[change source]Dear Wikipedia Administrator,
I am contacting you regarding a page deletion that concerns a private individual with no public notability.
The remaining public traces of this deletion (such as deletion discussions or logs indexed by search engines) have resulted in harassment, particularly in an educational setting.
Given the lack of public interest and the clear risk of harm, I kindly ask whether privacy protections such as revision deletion or oversight could be applied to prevent further harassment.
I appreciate your attention to this matter and remain available to provide any additional context if needed.
Sincerely,
ScientiaMonde (talk) 21:52, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-06
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Censorship in the Czech Republic had been highly active until 17 November 1989 and the fall of Communism in the former Czechoslovakia. Czech Republic was ranked as the 13th most free country in the World Press Freedom Index in 2014.
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Tech News: 2026-06
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- Users are reminded that the Wikimedia Foundation has shared some guiding questions for the July 2026–June 2027 Annual Plan on Meta and Diff. These focus on global trends, faster and healthier experimentation, better support for newcomers, strengthening editors and advanced users, improving collaboration across projects, and growing and retaining readership. Feedback and ideas are welcome on the talk page.
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2026-07
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The Petites Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry is an illuminated book of hours commissioned by John, Duke of Berry between 1375 and 1385–90. It is known for its ornate miniature leaves and border decorations.
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Tech News: 2026-07
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Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.- A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more.
- When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
- The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function
{{#isbn}}available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. - Two new wikis have been created:
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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Tech News: 2026-08
[change source]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 SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.
Updates for editors
- The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog.
- The Reader Growth team will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
- Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add
#siteNotice { display: none; }to MediaWiki:Minerva.css. - View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.
Updates for technical contributors
- New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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