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DYK for Miraitowa and Someity

On 3 September 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Miraitowa and Someity, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the 2020 Summer Olympics mascots were chosen by schoolchildren? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Miraitowa and Someity. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Miraitowa and Someity), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Z1720 (talk) 00:02, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

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

Administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.

Technical news

Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. T393240

Arbitration

The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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The Signpost: 9 September 2025

News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation loses a round in court

UK Online Safety Act remains undefeated.

In the media: Congress probes, mayor whitewashed, AI stinks

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Disinformation report: A guide for Congress

The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance.

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Redirect listed at Redirects for discussion

Redirects you have created have been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 September 11 § Logging out until a consensus is reached. 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 02:17, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrator Elections | RFC phase

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:43, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Undelete Request for Joshua Oyeniyi

Hello mate, trust this meets you well. I would like to request review of the deletion of Joshua Oyeniyi. The subject meets WP:GNG as there are multiple independent, reliable sources that provide significant coverage of him. Since the deletion, I have found additional reliable sources that were not considered in the AfD discussion, which includes Newspaper article with in-depth profile/interview. These demonstrate that the subject has received significant coverage in reliable independent publications. I therefore request undeletion so the article can be improved with these sources.Gracia04 (talk) 14:43, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There was a discussion in July which determined that there does not exist sufficient coverage in independent reliable sources to establish the notability of this subject: see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Oyeniyi. The article was previously undeleted, and the creator of the article did not provide any additional sourcing. Because of this, I am not inclined to undelete this article a second time. Mz7 (talk) 18:18, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 2 October 2025

News and notes: Larry Sanger returns with "Nine Theses on Wikipedia"; WMF publishes transparency report

This time "not merely negative".

In the media: Extraordinary eruption of "EVIL" explained

Wickedpedia wrangles post-truth politics.

Disinformation report: Emails from a paid editing client

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And other recent publications.

Opinion: Some disputes aren't worth it

When to walk away.

Obituary: Michael Q. Schmidt

Rest in peace.

Traffic report: Death, hear me call your name

Celebrities, deaths and software.

Comix: A grand spectacle

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Ramy Khodeir

Ramy Khodeir page was deleted. He is famous. Can you restore it or create it? Thanks. 2600:1702:68D0:85B0:1A1:E14C:9492:D546 (talk) 21:20, 3 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look, and I am not inclined to restore that page. It was deleted because it was promotional in tone, and we do not allow the use of Wikipedia for promotional reasons. Mz7 (talk) 07:36, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – October 2025

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

Administrator changes

CheckUser changes

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Arbitration

After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. [[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:57, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:Mz7/sandbox/draft temp account massmessage

Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.

RoySmith told me about the page; from my experience using TA @ kowiki, I can tell you when TA is around, IP's Special:Contribs page will also include new tab to switch over to IPContribs. Just a quality of life stuff, though. Can't prepare you screenshots because mobile :-P — regards, Revi 20:51, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just realized 1.1.1.1 can be used as an quick example… quick example for demonstration. — regards, Revi 21:13, 11 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just thought this one is more useful: File:Legacy IP for 1.1.1.1.png and File:TempIP for 1.1.1.1.png.

When you are looking over 1.1.1.1's Special:Contribs page, with access to temp account's real IP access. Without one, this switch box does not appear, and status quo is maintained.
When you are looking over 1.1.1.1's Special:IPContribs page. Without access to temp account's real IP address, they will permission error.

And yeah, I use English as my interface language. /shrug — regards, Revi 10:17, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Revi C.: This is good to know! Thanks for the tip. Mz7 (talk) 15:31, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

SPI bot question

I added a new report at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Slacker13, but the dashboard still shows the case as "CU completed" instead of "Open". Is that intended behavior? For example, I can currently see two entries listed for Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Abduvaitov Sherzod 2, one with "Open" and one with "Closed". Thanks! Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 03:09, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ChildrenWillListen: For concision, if a case has a “CU completed” report and an “open” report, currently the bot is designed to only show it one time under the CU completed status. The logic for this is somewhat convoluted—you can find a summary of it at Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppet investigations/Archive 25# Problem with the list sorting. Maybe we can change it at some point. Mz7 (talk) 15:34, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, thanks for the info. Cases that are in the checked state are de facto backlogged, sometimes taking months to be closed, so it would be nice if open could override checked. Children Will Listen (🐄 talk, 🫘 contribs) 15:48, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 October 2025

News and notes: Board shuffles, LLM blocks increase, IPs are going away

And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.

Special report: The election that isn't

Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.

Interview: The BoT bump

Who was bumped and why?

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Historical recurrence (again)

Some time ago I tagged this entry for revdel due to copyright infringement. You declined on the basis that the copyvio had been in the entry for a long time and I had already removed the offending material. I've just discovered another on the same page (by the same user), introduced in this diff from this source. I'm assuming that the same logic applies here... however something really should be said, it seems to me, to @Nihil novi: about the rules concerning copyright. -- SashiRolls ^{🌿 · 🍥} 16:37, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Let me take a look later today. Mz7 (talk) 19:07, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@SashiRolls: Sorry for the delay in responding. Yeah, since the content has existed in the article for years, I don't think I can easily redact it per Wikipedia:Revision deletion#Large-scale use. I have left a note for the editor at [1]. Mz7 (talk) 04:01, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Mavricksafs

Mavricksafs made a bunch of sandbox drafts that were copied into mainspace by their sockpuppets. Compare e.g. User:Mavericksafs/sandbox2 to GoGEE8 (created by Loverboy00), or User:Mavericksafs/sandbox4 to Source Travel Group Ltd (created by RazorDeb). This is pretty blatant UPE. Helpful Raccoon (talk) 21:47, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Helpful Raccoon: Thanks so much for pointing that out. I had missed that. I agree this is pretty blatant now and will be blocking them all, especially in light of the lying. Mz7 (talk) 22:00, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Mz7. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account

When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
- There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
- There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
- This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

How to use Special:IPContributions
How automatic IP reveal works
How to use IP Info
How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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	Editing the new Wiki thing about TAIV. Valorrr ^{(lets chat)} 16:29, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]