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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-49

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Storm Filomena was an extratropical cyclone in early January 2021 that was most notable for bringing unusually heavy snowfall to parts of Spain, with Madrid recording its heaviest snowfall in over a century, and with Portugal being hit less severely. The eighth named storm of the 2020–21 European windstorm season, Filomena formed over the Atlantic Ocean close to the Canary Islands on 7 January, subsequently taking a slow track north-eastwards towards the Iberian Peninsula and then eastwards across the Mediterranean Sea.

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Tech News: 2024-49

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

Updates for editors

  • Two new parser functions were added this week. The {{#interwikilink}} function adds an interwiki link and the {{#interlanguagelink}} function adds an interlanguage link. These parser functions are useful on wikis where namespaces conflict with interwiki prefixes. For example, links beginning with MOS: on English Wikipedia conflict with the mos language code prefix of Mooré Wikipedia.
  • Starting this week, Wikimedia wikis no longer support connections using old RSA-based HTTPS certificates, specifically rsa-2048. This change is to improve security for all users. Some older, unsupported browser or smartphone devices will be unable to connect; Instead, they will display a connectivity error. See the HTTPS Browser Recommendations page for more-detailed information. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [1]
  • Starting December 16, Flow/Structured Discussions pages will be automatically archived and set to read-only at the following wikis: arwiki, cawiki, frwiki, mediawikiwiki, orwiki, wawiki, wawiktionary, wikidatawiki, zhwiki. This is done as part of StructuredDiscussions deprecation work. If you need any assistance to archive your page in advance, please contact Trizek (WMF). [2]
  • This month the Chart extension was deployed to production and is now available on Commons and Testwiki. With the security review complete, pilot wiki deployment is expected to start in the first week of December. You can see a working version on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug with the "Download as PDF" system was fixed. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

  • In late February, temporary accounts will be rolled out on at least 10 large wikis. This deployment will have a significant effect on the community-maintained code. This is about Toolforge tools, bots, gadgets, and user scripts that use IP address data or that are available for logged-out users. The Trust and Safety Product team wants to identify this code, monitor it, and assist in updating it ahead of the deployment to minimize disruption to workflows. The team asks technical editors and volunteer developers to help identify such tools by adding them to this list. In addition, review the updated documentation to learn how to adjust the tools. Join the discussions on the project talk page or in the dedicated thread on the Wikimedia Community Discord server (in English) for support and to share feedback.

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Good article

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Thank you for promoting Kendall Jenner to good article. I believe there are several steps you need to complete, including adding it to Wikipedia:Good articles, Wikipedia:Good articles/by date, and adding the "good article" badge on Wikidata. Depextual (talk) 18:19, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reminding me :), I forgot about most of this stuff.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 18:54, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Barnstar Congratulations: You have been given a Barnstar!

Thank you for you have a Good Article

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Thank you :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:32, 6 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're welcome! Raayaan9911 10:09, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-50

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Syrian literature is modern fiction written or orally performed in Arabic by writers from Syria since the independence of the Syrian Arab Republic in 1946. It is part of the historically and geographically wider Arabic literature. The modern states of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel as well as the Palestinian autonomous areas only came into being in the mid-20th century. Therefore, Syrian literature has since been referred to by literary scholarship as the national literature of the Syrian Arab Republic, as well as the works created in Arabic by Syrian writers in the diaspora. This literature has been influenced by the country's political history, the literature of other Arabic-speaking countries and, especially in its early days, by French literature.

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Tech News: 2024-50

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

Weekly highlight

  • Technical documentation contributors can find updated resources, and new ways to connect with each other and the Wikimedia Technical Documentation Team, at the Documentation hub on MediaWiki.org. This page links to: resources for writing and improving documentation, a new #wikimedia-techdocs IRC channel on libera.chat, a listing of past and upcoming documentation events, and ways to request a documentation consultation or review. If you have any feedback or ideas for improvements to the documentation ecosystem, please contact the Technical Documentation Team.

Updates for editors

Layout change for the Edit Check feature
  • Later this week, Edit Check will be relocated to a sidebar on desktop. Edit check is the feature for new editors to help them follow policies and guidelines. This layout change creates space to present people with new Checks that appear while they are typing. The initial results show newcomers encountering Edit Check are 2.2 times more likely to publish a new content edit that includes a reference and is not reverted.
  • The Chart extension, which enables editors to create data visualizations, was successfully made available on MediaWiki.org and three pilot wikis (Italian, Swedish, and Hebrew Wikipedias). You can see a working examples on Testwiki and read the November project update for more details.
  • Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now discover articles in Wikiproject campaigns of their interest from the "All collection" category in the articles suggestion feature. Wikiproject Campaign organizers can use this feature, to help translators to discover articles of interest, by adding the <page-collection> </page-collection> tag to their campaign article list page on Meta-wiki. This will make those articles discoverable in the Content Translation tool. For more detailed information on how to use the tool and tag, please refer to the step-by-step guide. [4]
  • The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, now has a multiselect filter for namespace selection. This enables users to select multiple specific namespaces, instead of only one or all, when fetching pages for deletion.
  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions. Thanks to Chlod and the Moderator Tools team for both of these improvements. [5]
  • The Editing Team is working on making it easier to populate citations from archive.org using the Citoid tool, the auto-filled citation generator. They are asking communities to add two parameters preemptively, archiveUrl and archiveDate, within the TemplateData for each citation template using Citoid. You can see an example of a change in a template, and a list of all relevant templates. [6]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Indonesian (voy:id:) [7]
  • Last week, all wikis had problems serving pages to logged-in users and some logged-out users for 30–45 minutes. This was caused by a database problem, and investigation is ongoing. [8]
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug in the Add Link feature has been fixed. Previously, the list of sections which are excluded from Add Link was partially ignored in certain cases. [9][10]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, now has an early-stage implementation in PHP. It is available for general use in MediaWiki extensions and Toolforge apps through Composer, with use in MediaWiki core coming soon. More information is available in the documentation. Thanks to Doğu for the inspiration and many contributions to the library. [11]
  • Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. On December 4, the MediaWiki Interfaces team began rerouting page/revision metadata and rendered HTML content endpoints on testwiki from RESTbase to comparable MediaWiki REST API endpoints. The team encourages active users of these endpoints to verify their tool's behavior on testwiki and raise any concerns on the related Phabricator ticket before the end of the year, as they intend to roll out the same change across all Wikimedia projects in early January. These changes are part of the work to replace the outdated RESTBase system.
  • The 2024 Developer Satisfaction Survey is seeking the opinions of the Wikimedia developer community. Please take the survey if you have any role in developing software for the Wikimedia ecosystem. The survey is open until 3 January 2025, and has an associated privacy statement.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week. [12]

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-51

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The Mars ocean theory states that nearly a third of the surface of Mars was covered by an ocean of liquid water early in the planet's geologic history. This primordial ocean, dubbed Paleo-Ocean or Oceanus Borealis (/oʊˈsiːənəs ˌbɒriˈælɪs/ oh-SEE-ə-nəs BORR-ee-AL-iss), would have filled the basin Vastitas Borealis in the northern hemisphere, a region that lies 4–5 km (2.5–3 miles) below the mean planetary elevation, at a time period of approximately 4.1–3.8 billion years ago. Evidence for this ocean includes geographic features resembling ancient shorelines, and the chemical properties of the Martian soil and atmosphere

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Tech News: 2024-51

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

Weekly highlight

  • Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

Updates for editors

  • Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
  • Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
  • The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 13 January 2025 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

Updates for technical contributors

  • There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [13]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:25, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merry Christmas!

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BZPN (talk) is wishing you a Merry Christmas!

This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the Christmas cheer by adding {{subst:Xmas3}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

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Thank you :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 18:47, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2024-52

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In August 2023, major floods occurred in large part of Slovenia and neighbouring areas of Austria and Croatia due to heavy rain. Amongst others, the level of rivers Sava, Mur and Drava was exceptionally high. Several settlements and transport links in Slovene Littoral, Upper Carniola and Slovenian Carinthia were flooded. Due to the amount of rain, the streams in Idrija, Cerkno and Škofja Loka Hills overflowed.

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The Signpost: 24 December 2024

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-01

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The Uganda Railways Corporation (URC) is the parastatal railway of Uganda. It was formed after the breakup of the East African Railways Corporation (EARC) in 1977 when it took over the Ugandan part of the East African railways.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:37, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RFA

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I have made Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/FusionSub 2 for you. Good luck!--BRP ever 13:53, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 13:57, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CopyPatrolBot

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What is this lol Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 08:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm assuming your talking about the account, which to me looks like a regular bot.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:59, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@FusionSub no what it does, it looks new... Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:02, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Seems to communicate with a frontend to create a NC but specifically for possible copyvios. I'm not entirely sure but that's what it seems to be for.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 09:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
okay.. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:08, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request

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Hi, could you please remove the donation message from Wikipedia:Student tutorial/Nav bar? Thanks. 2601:644:907E:A70:39FB:FF96:8D13:FB6D (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Huh, that's interesting. Anyway,  Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 19:11, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk:Protection policy

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I notice the warnings are given twice on Wikipedia talk:Protection policy and some of them only apply to English Wikipedia. 2601:644:907E:A70:813C:75D5:AE3B:72C0 (talk) 18:24, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-02

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From 1942 to 1949, Canada forcibly relocated and incarcerated over 22,000 Japanese Canadians—comprising over 90% of the total Japanese Canadian population—from British Columbia in the name of "national security". The majority were Canadian citizens by birth and were targeted based on their ancestry. This decision followed the events of the Japanese Empire's war in the Pacific against the Western Allies, such as the invasion of Hong Kong, the attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the Fall of Singapore which led to the Canadian declaration of war on Japan during World War II. Similar to the actions taken against Japanese Americans in neighbouring United States, this forced relocation subjected many Japanese Canadians to government-enforced curfews and interrogations, job and property losses, and forced repatriation to Japan

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Adminship

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Congratulations on the successful RfA. You should now see a lot more tabs/buttons in your user interface. Please take a moment to re-familiarise yourself with the respective policies, particularly those that have to do with your newly expanded powers. As always, please feel free to reach out to anyone on the team if you have questions.

Also, I have found your T-shirt. Please don't lose it. ;) Chenzw  Talk  07:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congrats!! (on the t-shirt) Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 08:04, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 09:00, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cactusisme has given you some Hot chocolate with plump marshmallows and foamy cream! Drink it up and spread this delicious drink by putting {{subst:Hot chocolate}} on someone's talk pageǃ

Requesting an edit

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Hi FusionSub, could you please make the following edits on Main Page/Other languages?

  • "română (Romanian)" (ro:) moved from 100,000 to 500,000
  • "తెలుగు (Telugu)" (te:) added to 100,000
  • "shqip (Albanian)" (sq:) added to 100,000

For evidence, see m:List of Wikipedias (or Special:Stats on each wiki if you don't trust that page) 2601:644:907E:A70:9DA2:B986:8C6C:4252 (talk) 19:22, 10 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:23, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you. 2601:644:907E:A70:24AB:8AC7:97C2:188F (talk) 07:00, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Request

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Can you create protect this page? Maga-R3LS War (2024) Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:01, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done salted for 3 days.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 09:04, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-03

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Christmas seals are adhesive labels that are similar in appearance to postage stamps that are sold then affixed to mail during the Christmas season to raise funds and awareness for charitable programs. Christmas seals have become particularly associated with lung diseases such as tuberculosis, and with child welfare in general. They were first issued in Denmark beginning in 1904, with Sweden and Iceland following with issues that same year. Thereafter the use of Christmas seals proved to be popular and spread quickly around the world, with 130 countries producing their own issues.

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Tech News: 2025-03

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

Weekly highlight

  • The Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.

Updates for editors

  • On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the inproject: keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [14]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (w:tig:) [15]
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [16]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Advanced item Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.
  • Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
  • Advanced item For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its sub field, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [17]
  • Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [18]

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:42, 14 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 January 2025

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Curios

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What does MediaWiki:Jsonconfig-use-category do? Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:53, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It essentially defines the category that MediaWiki puts pages that use mw:Extension:JsonConfig in.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 10:57, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
oh, alright Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:57, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah, nothing too interesting.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 10:58, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 15 January 2025

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Wuh?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:02, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-04

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The 2010 Nahorno karabakh war were a series of exchanges of gunfire that took place on February 18 on the line of contact dividing Azerbaijani and the Karabakh Armenian military forces. Azerbaijan accused the Armenian forces of firing on the Azerbaijani positions near Tap Qaraqoyunlu, Qızıloba, Qapanlı, Yusifcanlı and Cavahirli villages, as well as in uplands of Agdam Rayon with small arms fire including snipers. As a result, three Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and one wounded.

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Tech News: 2025-04

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

Updates for editors

  • Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [19]
  • On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [20]
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [21]
  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.

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MediaWiki message delivery 01:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dienoycus

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Regarding Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Dienoycus: I think all the relevant content from Dienoycus is already in Deinonychus, except for some very complex things. Can Dienoycus be deleted? Tuscan Ant (talk) 19:46, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm also noticing that you didn't remove the RfD tag from the articles whose RfD's you closed as keep. Could you please do that? Tuscan Ant (talk) 19:49, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for reminding me about the tags,  Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 19:54, 21 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-05

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Jinnah's Birthday, officially Quaid-e-Azam Day and sometimes known as Quaid Day, is a public holiday in Pakistan observed annually on 25 December to celebrate the birthday of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, known as Quaid-i-Azam ("Great Leader"). A major holiday, commemorations for Jinnah began during his lifetime in 1942, and have continued ever since. The event is primarily observed by the government and the citizens of the country where the national flag is hoisted at major architectural structures such as private and public buildings, particularly at the top of Quaid-e-Azam House in Karachi.

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Tech News: 2025-05

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

Weekly highlight

  • Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.

Updates for editors

  • iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
  • Wishlist item Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [22]
  • Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [23]
  • Advanced item Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [24]
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Category:Pages using the JsonConfig extension

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Hi, FusionSub. We had an RFD for this category, which resulted in a consensus to delete. I see that you deleted it on 15 January. However, there are over 70,000 entries in it so it still needs to be depopulated. That would usually be done by the closing admin: are you working on that? -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:02, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Auntof6 The category should be being depopulated as I type and as you read this. This will likely continue well into February as the pages are only removed after an edit, and I'm not smart enough to find out how to make ~70K null edits in a timely manner.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 16:14, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, OK, thanks for the info. I wouldn't want to have to do that, either! I just happened to notice it on a page I was editing. -- Auntof6 (talk) 16:25, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There's an LTA active

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-06

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The French conquest of Corsica was a successful expedition by French forces of the Kingdom of France under Comte de Vaux, against Corsican forces under Pasquale Paoli of the Corsican Republic. The expedition was launched in May 1768, in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War.

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  • 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. [26]
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  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [30]
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Massdelete

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Please massdelete all this users edit as block evasion. VSOian (talk · contribs) Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:34, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactusisme May I ask what block they are evading?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:34, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The pages he created are similar to en and and he is evading the ip block Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 22:19, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
All the pages were once deleted via rfd on en and recreated as drafts per different ips. They are still not notable, even if the user is not blocked. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 22:40, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 7 February 2025

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Thank you

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Thank you for blocking the user and can you delete the page that was up for deletion? 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 17:05, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello FusionSub, you are the administrator why don't you just delete the pages that are deemed inappropriate, I want to know the reason, here you have the feature to delete, block and so on. but why don't you do that? Todayaad (talk) 19:47, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May I know any specific cases of my actions (or lack thereof) that you are thinking of?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 20:13, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yesterday it was the WP:11 page that sold clothes or promoted clothes, and the Ali Azhar D page too. Todayaad (talk) 09:28, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Bobby Jackson, and anything. Todayaad (talk) 09:34, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Can you please explain why you don't do things that administrators should do such as deleting pages, etc.? Todayaad (talk) 09:38, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The logs disagree with the statement that I don't do what admins should.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 10:10, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Shovon Ahmed

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Hi, @FusionSub trust you're doing good? This article Shovon Ahmed was already on discussion delete, I'm surprised to see that inexperienced editor has removed the tag. Please look into it. Best, Okwanite (talk) 12:19, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-07

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On 11 May 1812, at about 5:15 pm, Spencer Perceval, the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a Liverpool merchant with a grievance against the government. Bellingham was detained; four days after the murder, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged at Newgate Prison on 18 May, one week after the assassination and one month before the start of the War of 1812. Perceval remains the sole British prime minister to have been assassinated.

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Tech News: 2025-07

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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. [32]
  • As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
  • Advanced item Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [33]
  • Recurrent item View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [34]

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  • 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. [35]
  • 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. [36]
  • 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. [37]

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Please undelete the page People's Insight

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I am writing to request the undeletion of the "People's Insight" page. We have added all necessary references and sources to the page, confirming that it pertains to an exit poll and political analysis company.We are committed to adhering to Wikipedia's standards and guidelines. We assure you that we are ready and willing to promptly address any further edits or modifications that you may require to ensure the page's compliance.

Thank you for your time and consideration. We look forward to your positive response and the restoration of the "People's Insight" page. 009dishu (talk) 11:18, 12 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sweets!

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Asteralee has given you a LOLipop! This horrible pun and delicious candy spreads WikiLove and tells the world the low things you can do to be funny. Spread WikiLove by giving someone else a lollipop, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Asteralee's message: Thank you for your work as an admin on this Wikipedia! Enjoy!

Spread the unrelenting joy of lollipops by adding {{subst:Lollipop}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 13:59, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

:D Thank you.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:01, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem :) ⯎ Asteralee ⯎ 14:01, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Warning

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Please refrain from making destructive changes to a wikipedia entry, as you did with calling Ninja (gamer) fatherless. I have reverted the changes. 12.55.225.206 (talk) 16:19, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That never happened? You thinking of someone else?- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 16:57, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unfortunately Fusion you're being trolled, the IP is pretending to be a bot and is vandalising the project, pretty sad really. –Davey2010Talk 17:20, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, that's new to me. I guess I can see it now that you've told me it's a troll.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 17:43, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please block this user

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/2401:E180:8C60:B85:D4AC:BF05:C288:3DD0/64 50.175.193.34 (talk) 17:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please delete

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https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:69.118.230.235&oldid=10079554 please RD Vernacular29293 (talk) 17:14, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 18:06, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-08

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A constitutional referendum was held in Madagascar on 17 November 2010, in which voters approved a proposal for the state's fourth Constitution. The Malagasy people were asked to answer "Yes" or "No" to the proposed new constitution, which was considered to help consolidate Andry Rajoelina's grip on power. At the time of the referendum, Rajoelina headed the governing Highest Transitional Authority (HAT), an interim junta established following the military-backed coup d'état against then President Marc Ravalomanana in March 2009.

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Tech News: 2025-08

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  • 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.

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Highlighted talk pages improvements
  • Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [38]
  • 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. [39]
  • 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. [40]
  • 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. [41]
  • Recurrent item View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [42]

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  • 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. [43][44]
  • 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. [45]

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Reply

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Sorry for the page i made but i saw nothing wrong with the page could you please tell me what was wrong? Also i am just a good faith ip editor anyways good luck with your contribuitions best regards 179.109.143.218 (talk) 15:00, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reaching out to me.
When I reviewed the article I didn't see a claim of notability which is listed under the Deletion policy as a reason to Quick delete.
If you can find a valid claim of notability, the page could be remade, but if the page is recreated with the same content as it did before, it will end up the same way.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 15:20, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
ok i will use some different sentences when i remade the page anyways good luck with your contribuitions best regards. 179.109.143.218 (talk) 15:53, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-09

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The Cooler Heads Coalition is a politically conservative "informal and ad-hoc group" in the United States, financed and operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The group, which rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, made efforts to stop the government from addressing climate change.

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Tech News: 2025-09

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  • 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. [46]
  • 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. [47][48][49]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:) [50]
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. [51]

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  • 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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Re: WP:VIP

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Hi @User:FusionSub! You said on your edit summary before you cleared the VIP list "There was some steps missing when warnings before the report... but anyways, done." What steps was I missing? Thanks! 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 21:49, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I think it was the immediate L3 warning that invoked that response from me, but then again that person should be reported to WP:VIP on-sight so warnings weren't needed to begin with :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 21:53, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ohh Okay that makes sense! I will remember that next time when reporting vandals and reverting vandalism (which is a lot of work keeping the Wiki clean and free of vandalism lol) Anyways, have a good day and happy editing! :) 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 21:55, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi @Adelaideslement8723, Just a heads up; the IP you reported is the same guy that has been doing this crap at Talk:Clyde Bruckman so warnings are just a waste of time, SRG used to global lock on sight but as you've seen he's back on a new IP within minutes so going the SRG route is also a waste of time in some respects, I just report at VIP and revert (or sometimes allow his edit to stand until an admin comes on), Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 23:09, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Davey2010 Thanks for the heads up, it's pretty much pointless to just VIP him. I would go ahead and report him to SRG if I wanted to. 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 (𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼) 04:42, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Adelaideslement8723 No worries, Exactly I agree tbh, Okay no worries :), Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 14:07, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User talk:Erik Johnson-Monroe

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Just a heads up on the block notice you used on the user's talk page. It should be uw-block3. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 05:43, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I know. I think I just forgot to change it when I adjusted the block from 1 week to indef.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 11:36, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Another one, you shouldn't normally review unblock requests for blocks that you have placed yourself, as you're an involved party. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 22:51, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, sorry about that.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 07:57, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 27 February 2025

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Hello, and I would like to thank you for blocking the vandal account. Based on the two other accounts I mentioned on WP:VIP, they might be the same user, so just a heads up! :) Kashingggz (talk) 09:13, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I reviewed the accounts that you linked and the contribs matched the ones of the Griff impersonator.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 09:14, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Kashingggz Also I suggest not talking to LTAs Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:24, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-10

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Transmissor de Ondas é um equipamento precursor do rádio, desenvolvido por Roberto Landell de Moura na década de 1890, capaz de transmitir áudio via ondas eletromagnéticas, com sua primeira demonstração pública documentada tendo ocorrido no dia 16 de julho de 1899.

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Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Ndifreke Ukpong

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Hello, I have an update about this RFD that you closed as kept. Special:Contributions/Okwanite, who voted at the RFD has been marked as LTA (w:Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ndizzy4glo). It is also possible that they abused logout edits at the RFD (Special:Diff/10061429). Ndifreke Ukpong may meet QD G5. Should we still keep Ndifreke Ukpong? I look forward to hearing from you. MathXplore (talk) 03:17, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure, as on one side both the confirmed sock and the IP made a page on the exact same topic, but on the other side Okwanite never edited the local page using their account (Unless the ILoveDublin account is a sock, which I doubt as it probably would've been brought up at the enwiki SPI if it was a sock) and so the only link would be the RfD, which (at least in my opinion) is not enough grounds to say that the IP was a sock.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 09:09, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-10

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

Updates for editors

  • All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "More" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [52]
  • Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
  • When editors embed a file (e.g. [[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[53] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[54]
  • When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,[55] and respects cascading protection.[56]
  • When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards. [57]
  • The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
  • Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week. [58]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti (w:syl:) [59]
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile. [60]

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  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-11

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Smoky (Los Angeles, 1931 o 1932 - Los Angeles, aprile 1934), occasionalmente scritto Smokey, è stato un cane che divenne la mascotte del villaggio olimpico estivo del 1932 e, successivamente, dell'evento generale. Pur non essendo oggi riconosciuto dal CIO, è stato, seppur non in modo ufficiale, la prima mascotte olimpica dei Giochi, oltre che a essere attualmente l'unica a essere stata un animale vero. Le successive edizioni non ebbero mascotte, dovendo aspettare i X Giochi olimpici invernali di Grenoble nel 1968 per ritrovarne una ufficialmente riconosciuta, lo sciatore stilizzato Schuss, allora non considerato ufficiale ma successivamente riconosciuto come tale.

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Tech News: 2025-11

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  • Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [61][62]
  • The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
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  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
  • An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.

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Hello @FusionSub. Post beginner tutorials on my talk page! (WikiV007 (talk) 15:57, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

definition of an inactive admin

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Hi, per your comments here, I used the same rules as Djsasso. Reviewing contribs of the admins in Active, once you see the last 50 edits get to three separate months, you move them down to Semi-active. If you see last 50 edits of the Semi-active admins get to all in the same month, move them back up to Active. And if there are no edits in 90 days they can be moved to the Inactive section. Thanks, --Ferien2 (talk) 12:13, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you, I will keep this in mind :).- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:01, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-12

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Amazonas, o maior rio do mundo (lit. 'Amazon: The Greatest River in the World') is a 1922 Brazilian silent documentary film produced in 1918 by Silvino Santos. It is a black-and-white film that portrays life in the Amazon rainforest. Completed in 1920, it is considered one of the oldest cinematic records of the Amazon. It was presumed lost in 1931 and only rediscovered in 2023 at the Czech Film Archive.

Silvino Santos produced the work over three years using sophisticated cinematic techniques, which led it to be deemed of "immense artistic value" by Le Monde. It has also been described as the "Holy Grail of Brazilian silent cinema" by The Guardian.

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  • The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
  • On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
  • The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
  • Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [63]
  • The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
  • The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [64]
  • Recurrent item View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [65]

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  • Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
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Just a question

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Can you give Raayaan9911 as administrator? He making very good edits and articles! Nassiv64 (talk) 14:10, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Since I am not a bureaucrat (and honestly don't really want to be one) I can't give users administrator rights.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 14:15, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Becuase you are adminstator. Nassiv64 (talk) 14:16, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 March 2025

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-13

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Ala al-Din Ali (January 1353 – August 1380) was the third Sultan of the Eretnids ruling from 1366 until his death. He inherited the throne at a very early age and was removed from administrative matters. He was characterized as particularly keen on personal pleasures, which later discredited his authority. During his rule, emirs under the Eretnids enjoyed considerable autonomy, and the state continued to shrink as neighboring powers captured several towns.

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  • The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
  • Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
  • Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [66]
  • The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [67]
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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  • VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
  • Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [68][69]
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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-14

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The Chilembwe uprising was a rebellion against British colonial rule in Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi) which took place in January 1915. It was led by John Chilembwe, an American-educated Baptist minister. Based around his church in the village of Mbombwe in the south-east of the colony, the leaders of the revolt were mainly from an emerging black middle class. They were motivated by grievances against the British colonial system, which included forced labour, racial discrimination and new demands imposed on the African population following the outbreak of World War I.

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  • The Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
  • Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
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  • Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
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  • Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

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  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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Help

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Hey bro FusionSub, this ip vandalising the pages and block made by you. This ip continuesly vandalising your block. Durjan Singh Jadon (talk) 12:33, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Need to impose a big rang block. Durjan Singh Jadon (talk) 12:35, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Block HistorianAlferedo

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Hey bro, if you have time can you check out the edits made by HistorianAlferedo who is protecting these block evading IP addresses. I have reverted the edits made by these vandalizing IP addresses, but HistorianAlferedo is reverting my edits. I think he is the user who is using these IPs. Durjan Singh Jadon (talk) 17:11, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-15

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An earthquake affected Myanmar on 5 May 1930 with a moment magnitude (Mw ) 7.4. The shock occurred 35 km (22 mi) beneath the surface with a maximum Rossi–Forel intensity of IX (Devastating tremor). The earthquake was the result of rupture along a 131 km (81 mi) segment of the Sagaing Fault—a major strike-slip fault that runs through the country. Extensive damage was reported in the southern part of the country, particularly in Bago and Yangon, where buildings collapsed and fires erupted. At least 550, and possibly up to 7,000 people were killed. A moderate tsunami struck the Burmese coast which caused minor damage to ships and a port. It was felt for over 570,000 km2 (220,000 sq mi) and as far as Shan State and Thailand. The mainshock was followed by many aftershocks; several were damaging. The December earthquake was similarly sized which also occurred along the Sagaing Fault.

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  • The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
  • The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
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  • The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-16

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The Museum of Zoology of the University of São Paulo (Portuguese: Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, abbreviated MZUSP) is a public natural history museum located in the historic Ipiranga district of São Paulo, Brazil. The MZUSP is an educational and research institution that is part of the University of São Paulo. The museum began at the end of the 19th century as part of the Museu Paulista; in 1941, it moved into a dedicated building. In 1969 the museum became a part of the University of São Paulo, receiving its current name.

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  • Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [71]
  • File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [72][73]

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  • The Wikimedia Foundation are 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 so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
  • To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [74]
  • "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
  • On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
  • The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
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  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
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Recent revert

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@FusionSub Thanks for this revert. I already know we should not remove remove comments from others talk pages.[75] in this edit I didn't revert his comment even in a comment he removed drive links in the same edit removing links he added his reply. So when I undo removal of drive links/his comment was also removed. But you've noticed Davey's behavior? How rude/arrogant his behavior is? Thank you. Bensebgli (Talk) 11:37, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also next I'll think about not linking drive links. But you can assist where I can post such screenshorts espeacially script related? Just to show if I'm facing some error with the script? Then such file links I can use in future conversation? Because If I'm not wrong on commons our images will be delete due to personal images or as non-used images (on wiki projects). Bensebgli (Talk) 11:42, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As Davey brought here something old. please you can read our whole conversation at Talk:Ghatotkacha (king)#G12 and User talk:Davey2010#G12 also here I was concerned only his changing mind/ U-turns and talking admin's reviews in his on hands then because of his rude behavior and our long conversation I mistakenly talked about En-wiki which I suddenly clarify that was not related to simple-Wiki in any way. You can check I was good in behavior toward him still, I don't have not any bad intentions for him. My first every Barstar! was also just for Davey but I'm only concerned about his rude behavior. Thank you. Bensebgli (Talk) 11:57, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I took a quick look at the scope policy on commons and from what I can tell as long as it is realistically able to be used to educate people (in this case to educate on our installation of Twinkle) and there are no other issues like copyrighted material in the image (e.g parts of a non-free browser) it should be able to be uploaded there. I'm not entirely confident in my assessment so you may want to ask another editor that is more knowledgeable about commons policy before uploading, but from my interpretation of the policy, it should be ok.
Summary: From what I can tell it would be allowed if it is clearly educational about Twinkle but you should probably check with an editor more confident and knowledgeable about commons before uploading to be safe.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 12:05, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the assistance! Before uploading such screenshots on wp:commons for educational purposes, I'll take advice from a knowledge editor over there. Bensebgli (Talk) 14:27, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not here to further pour more fuel on to the fire, But Bense has had an issue with me since I told someone to "go and f themselves" at the English Wikipedia which resulted in an ANI thread, They brought it up here. Prior to that me and Bense have always been cool so I don't understand why the hostility over that even more so when that comment wasn't made to Bense and it wasn't even made on this project....,
I'm by no means proud of that comment and I'm disappointed an off the cuff comment there has lead to this animosity. I won't reply or comment here further as don't want to make things 10x worse, Thanks, –Davey2010Talk 11:43, 20 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-17

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Fear of crime refers to the fear of being a victim of crime, which is not necessarily reflective of the actual probability of being such a victim.

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  • Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. 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. [76]
  • A new type of lint error has been created: Empty headings (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [77]
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  • Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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  • The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.

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Christopher (name)

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Please you can move Christopher (name) to Christopher? I didn't create directly "Christopher" due to previous delete log. Because this page was deleted under QD:G7 in 2019. Bensebgli (Talk) 10:13, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Bensebgli you can create the page, the deletion is there for easy reference. You can also move pages by yourself. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:16, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks @Cactusisme, I know I can create new pages or move any existing one. But due to previous delete log, I thought it's a better option to ask an admin, if they have any objections. Bensebgli (Talk) 10:22, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
i know, I have no problems with this move. The previous was becuase author wanted deletion, so it shoould be fine. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:24, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Bensebgli (Talk) 09:11, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Considering it was last deleted in 2016 there should be no issues in you creating it.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 15:50, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Bensebgli (Talk) 09:11, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-18

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The heritage preservation system of South Korea is a multi-level program aiming to preserve and cultivate Korean cultural heritage. The program is administered by the Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA), and the legal framework is provided by the Cultural Heritage Protection Act of 1962, last updated in 2012. The program started in 1962 and has gradually been extended and upgraded since then.

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  • Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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  • The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
  • Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
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Regarding articles created by me

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Hello admin @FusionSub this user @AurKestra was registered in wikipedia just before few hours and just keep adding tags to the articles which i have created it seem and shows suspecious activity, please can you warn this user. 1Jukebox (talk) 10:12, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Dear why are u worried , your such an paid creator i know, stop creating deleted pages again and again AurKestra (talk) 10:29, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
hi even his english wikipedia is deleted multiple times with multiple names Shivam Khajuria Reffer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Shivam_Khajurria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Shivam_Khajuria and u tried again to make with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Shivam_Khajuria_1 AurKestra (talk) 10:30, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You dont have any evidence, why are you just targeting my pages, you have already added your comments to talk page of admin, so if admin will think that this page should be deleted then they will delete it, and for this page you tell me the reason why you want to delete the page?. 1Jukebox (talk) 10:32, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
user 1Jukebox is an sock puppet and his 2nd ID has been blocked multiple times ie : ABK12O
kindly block this guy. AurKestra (talk) 10:32, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Fusion, I originally wasn't going to say anything but it's been bugging me all day,

Regarding your RFD closure at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2025/Hank Pym (Marvel Cinematic Universe), I added the next batch 15 minutes after Steven voted[78], If it were an hour or more I could understand but it was 15 minutes, and chances are @Steven1991 would've seen the next batch being added on their watchlist anyway (or if they didn't then I doubt they would've cared to be honest),

This was disruptive and I'm not proud of it one bit but I wasn't prepared to waste my time doing another batch nomination again (which isn't a 5 minute job) just for you or someone else to pick another fault with it and delete less than half the articles (or none at all),

I've now made it a chore for the next closing admin to close all of these and delete them, something I really tried to avoid. I get why you did it but I just feel it was OTT and (I say this with the utmost respect to you) I feel your actions have led to this chore for the next admin which as I said I really tried to avoid in the first place and is something that could've been avoided (but as I said I get why),

Anyway thank you for the hard work and efforts you do here I still certainly appreciate your help everywhere else, Happy editing, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 16:29, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Davey2010 I'll make sure to put on my calendar to deal with those next week to prevent the undeserved suffering that the RfD closing will do for the other admins.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 16:38, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I appreciate that thank you, Have a great day, Thanks, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 16:48, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-19

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Lhamana, in traditional Zuni culture, are biologically male people who take on the social and ceremonial roles usually performed by women in their culture, at least some of the time. They wear a mixture of women's and men's clothing and much of their work is in the areas usually occupied by Zuni women. Some contemporary lhamana participate in the pan-Indian two-spirit community.

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  • For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
    • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
    • Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
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  • Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
  • Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [79]
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  • The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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Mass delete

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Special:Contributions/77.75.148.97 ? Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 08:57, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-20

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Sileno ed Egle con Mnasilo e Cromi, meglio noto come Gruppo del Sileno, è un monumento in marmo di Carrara, realizzato da Jean-Baptiste Boudard nel 1765 per il Giardino Ducale di Parma; sostituito nel 1991 con una copia in polvere di marmo e resina, l'originale si trova provvisoriamente nel chiostro della Fontana del monastero di San Paolo, in attesa della definitiva collocazione prevista all'interno del palazzetto Eucherio Sanvitale nel parco Ducale.

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  • 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.
  • Recurrent item 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.
  • The /page/data-parsoid REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025.
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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.

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flood flag

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Can I continue having flood flag, still have more pages. Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 10:33, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done for 15 minutes.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 10:36, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
need again Cactus🌵 spiky ツ 09:20, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Re: recent block

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FYI: m:User:Hide on Rosé/gaming the autoconfirmed system LTA. Hide on Rosé (talk) 11:21, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So it could be part of a sock farm? lovely.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 12:07, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, you can monitor Wikipedia:Sandbox, which is one of target pages of them. Hide on Rosé (talk) 12:11, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I feel like monitoring RC like normal would be enough, no? This LTA doesn't seem to be particularly difficult to track as the accounts seem to share a common name format.- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 12:27, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-21

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Lorrin Andrews Thurston (July 31, 1858 – May 11, 1931) was a Hawaiian citizen lawyer, politician, and businessman. Thurston played a prominent role in the revolution that overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom to replace Queen Liliʻuokalani with the Republic of Hawaii, with discreet US support for which Congress much later apologized. He published the Pacific Commercial Advertiser (a forerunner of the present-day Honolulu Star-Advertiser), and owned other enterprises. From 1906 to 1916, he and his network lobbied with national politicians to create a national park to preserve the Hawaiian volcanoes.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.
  • Wishlist item 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. [80]
  • 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. [81]
  • 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.
  • Recurrent item 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. [82]

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  • 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. [83]
  • The mw.title object 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, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [84]
  • Advanced item 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.
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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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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-22

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Una lamiera bugnata o mandorlata è una lamiera di metallo ottenuta dalla laminazione di una bramma attraverso rulli che, tramite punzonatura o goffratura, imprimono sulla lamina rilievi a forma di rombo o ellisse, detti bugne. Nel caso questi rilievi siano alternati singolarmente nei due assi, si parla di lamiera diamantata, mentre se le forme sono predisposte in maniera parallela per formare piccoli quadranti tra di loro tangenti, questo pattern viene identificato con il nome di mandorlato.

We tend to ignore the fact that this type of plate is the only reason we don't slip when we walk on steel and wet or frozen surfaces. The Italian article it's short but quite complete, and has just the right amount of citations, unlike other poor languages' versions.

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  • A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

Updates for editors

  • Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June.
  • Advanced item The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Special:WantedPages, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated. [85]
  • This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
  • Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.
  • Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
  • The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue. [86]
  • Recurrent item View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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