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Testing the waters: Overturning USPLACE Rate-limiting new PRODs and AfDs? Should WP:Demonstrate good faith include mention of AI-generated comments?

Village Pump (technical) (21 threads)

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Village Pump (miscellaneous) (11 threads) Most recent: I boldly put LLM-generated summary suggestions on the talk pages of the 68 most popular articles with Technical templates No more charts in articles? What if it all just ended…
Awesome job on the front page today Welcome templates Edit count of users blocked as LLMs increasing 10x per year CAPTCHA File:Liverpool FC.svg More than 29,000 accounts compromised Feedback wanted on Wikidata in Watchlist and Recent Changes An improved dashboard for the Content Translation tool

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Question from Blessed to Bless Life Ministries (01:16, 3 March 2025)

How can I edit my profile please? --Blessed to Bless Life Ministries (talk) 01:16, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Blessed to Bless Life Ministries, your username seems to violate our policy on usernames, specifically that The following types of usernames are not permitted because they are considered promotional: ... Usernames that unambiguously represent the name of a company, ... I would recommend you make a new account with a more appropriate username. If you only created an account to promote your company, please see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not. — Qwerfjkl talk 18:04, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, thanks

that's fine

what if I use Blessed Blessed to Bless Life Ministries (talk) 07:43, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blessed to Bless Life Ministries, that would not convince me that you are not only here to promote your company. — Qwerfjkl talk 10:28, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Follow up on task request

Hey Qwerfjkl, hope you're well. No pressure, but I wanted to follow up on this request to tag relevant player articles with the NFL WikiProject tag, and possibly to assess articles as stubs if ORES rates them as such. The 2025 NFL Draft begins on April 24, at which point 259 players will enter the league. In addition, there will be a number of undrafted rookies that are signed by teams. I believe there will be some ~500 articles to be tagged and it'd be awesome if I didn't have to do this manually with AWB. Understandable if you don't have time or have other things you're focused on instead :) Hey man im josh (talk) 16:20, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey man im josh,

BRFA filed— Qwerfjkl talk 19:34, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

And sorry for forgetting about this! — Qwerfjkl talk 19:34, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No apologies necessary! I'm just grateful for the help and was happy to wait because of it :) Hey man im josh (talk) 19:37, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just let me know when you need me to run the bot again. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:40, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from HopalongHobgood (13:57, 15 March 2025)

Let's tell the true story of Pocahontas and Johnnie Appleseed --HopalongHobgood (talk) 13:57, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Bot sending the same message over and over again

See Special:Log/massmessage - your bot is spamming the logs. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:59, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Pppery, I have no idea how to fix this (it looks like some bug with EventStreams, because it shouldn't be possible for it to trigger the same message more than once). I've added a timeout to the job to force it to restart daily - hopefully that will stop this from happening again. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:28, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That would be T388290. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:29, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, typical. — Qwerfjkl talk 16:34, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-12

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

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Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

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. [1]
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. [2]
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. [3]

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Question from Gkiiim (08:46, 18 March 2025)

want to create a new page --Gkiiim (talk) 08:46, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gkiiim, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! Qwerfjkl talk 08:51, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from DarkMoonstruck (19:29, 18 March 2025)

I edited an article pertaining to the Far Western Tavern - correcting where it says that it is under renovation by the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center. I work for the Dunes Center, and the building is NOT being renovated, nor is it going to be anytime in the near future. It is currently used for storage and due to the amount of money that it would require to restore it - easily into the tens of millions - and the safety issues relating to it, it is either going to be sold or possibly torn down in the future, as renovating it is not something that we can afford. Joyous removed my edit and asked for citation, but I cannot provide a citation or link to a news article or anything like that - just the fact that I literally work here and have been in the building and seen it for myself. --DarkMoonstruck (talk) 19:29, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DarkMoonstruck, I'm afraid Wikipedia can't just take your word for it. See WP:VERIFIABILITY for more information on this, and why we have this policy. — Qwerfjkl talk 20:18, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	For WP:MASSXFD, which makes my life as a redirect NPP so so much easier. Rusalkii (talk) 19:49, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Inspired by Wikipedia:Redirects_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_18#0.99999..... Trying to do this kind of nom manually features in my nightmares.) Rusalkii (talk) 19:53, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! — Qwerfjkl talk 20:13, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Charles_Matthews

Page: Stephen_Murray_(local_politician)

Diff: Special:Diff/1280229083

Comment/question: No bare URL introduced. Charles Matthews (talk) 05:36, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Charles Matthews, you added

<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The Mountaineer |date=1963 |issue=1 |page=6 |url=https://www.mumc.org.au/files/mountaineer/mountaineer_1963_03.pdf}}</ref>

which is missing |title=— Qwerfjkl talk 20:01, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So there is no article title, and the URL is not bare. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:14, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Charles Matthews, I see your point. However, this seems to be a problem with the CS1 template - Category:CS1 errors: missing title and Category:CS1 errors: bare URL are added to the page after your edit, and that's what the bot uses. — Qwerfjkl talk 18:40, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I would call it a problem with mission creep. I scanned about 60 references looking for a bare URL. Not helpful. Charles Matthews (talk) 22:14, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Charles Matthews, okay, but I rely on the CS1 to actually detect the errors. If it's detecting it incorrectly, there's nothing I can do. — Qwerfjkl talk 11:35, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There are real objections to bare URLs, namely that if a hyperlink breaks it may be hard to mend it without metadata. The system of red error messages for missing or faulty template fields is better, however, than pinging people when your system generates false positives. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:26, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Charles Matthews, but this is a problem with the CS1 template, which generates the categories Qwerfjkl talk 19:49, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, so you have no personal responsibility for this bot? My mistake. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:56, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Charles Matthews, I'm curious as to what exactly you're suggesting I do. There is no way I can fix this short of rewriting how the bot works, which I am not willing to do. — Qwerfjkl talk 10:47, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm suggesting, normally enough for people doing automated editing here, that if the software is not correct, you should be willing to rewrite it. I'm suggesting also that you should comply with WP:BOTREQUIRE, in particular point #6 on "uses appropriate, informative wording in all edit summaries and messages left for users". With reference to the bot's Task 17, if there is an issue (as there clearly is) with Category:CS1 errors: bare URL being misleading, then you should not refer to a bare URL in the edit summary but to a missing title. Overall bot policy is there so that automated editing is a help rather than a hindrance. Charles Matthews (talk) 17:39, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Charles Matthews, this is borderline WP:ICANTHEARYOU. I have told you that the categorisation of your edit as a bare URL error is not by my bot - my bot merely acts on the categorisation provided by the CS1 template. you should not refer to a bare URL in the edit summary but to a missing title - the edit summary (User talk:Charles Matthews (Diff ~1280230371)) does not in fact refer to either. I don't understand what your reference to WP:BOTREQUIRE is trying to prove - yes, this is clearly an error, but we've already been over this - I can't fix it on my end.
I am more than willing to respond to issues I can fix myself, but if you continue to ignore what I say, I will in turn ignore your comments. — Qwerfjkl talk 19:02, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your bot wrote * A [[:Category:CS1 errors: bare URL|bare URL]] error. on my talk page. And said I could report it as a false positive. So doing has led to a completely fruitless conversation. Wasting more of my time. I suggest you undo the mission creep of reporting a "bare URL" where none exists. Just don't create these false positives. Too much to ask? Charles Matthews (talk) 21:01, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I acknowledge I have read your comment. I do not intend to respond (more than this comment). — Qwerfjkl talk 21:50, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Abhishek KumarCharlie (14:35, 20 March 2025)

hello, how can I find the Draft box for creating new article? --Abhishek KumarCharlie (talk) 14:35, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Abhishek KumarCharlie, try Wikipedia:Article wizard. — Qwerfjkl talk 19:59, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Niki-VanStudios (22:52, 20 March 2025)

Hi!

Need help! I'm new to adding content to Wikipedia. I recently contributed information to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Bishop_(mountaineer), but my edits were flagged. I'm adding this content on behalf of my client, Adam S, who isn't technically savvy. The content/info is correct. Please advise.

I've put in a request to change username.

Thanks Niki --Niki-VanStudios (talk) 22:52, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) @Niki-VanStudios, @NV03202025nv, please see the text in the paid editing warning placed at User talk:NV03202025nv#March 2025 where it says "Paid advocates are strongly discouraged from direct article editing, and should instead propose changes on the talk page of the article in question if an article exists. If the article does not exist, paid advocates are strongly discouraged from attempting to write an article at all. At best, any proposed article creation should be submitted through the articles for creation process, rather than directly."

Note, please, that the technical skills of your client are not relevant to us. 'Strong discouragement' means precisely what it says. My own view on paid editors is expressed here. That is congruent with the views of many here. 🇺🇦 Fiddle^Timtrent Faddle^Talk to me 🇺🇦 10:10, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from AmirulfirdausHSE (08:27, 21 March 2025)

hello, how do i start creating articles? --AmirulfirdausHSE (talk) 08:27, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AmirulfirdausHSE, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkl talk 18:38, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Question from Anghuwo (14:39, 22 March 2025)

Hello? How can I add a profile for one of the prominent person in namibian government --Anghuwo (talk) 14:39, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Anghuwo, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read WP:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out WP:TUTORIAL; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkl talk 17:35, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Qwerfjkl (bot): Notifying users of reference errors failure - fixed

Qwerfjkl (bot)'s task "Notifying users of reference errors" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 day, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 12:20, 23 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Primerose2020 (05:42, 24 March 2025)

Hi , I m a reader and a big fan of wiki since 2 decades, However I am new to editing . I need your guidance . I would like to know how will we add images to an article . Thanks in advance. --Primerose2020 (talk) 05:42, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Primerose2020, see Help:Images. If you have any more information, I can give more detailed advice, but the page I linked should have all the information you need. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:13, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Nomanshar0786 (12:51, 24 March 2025)

Muhammad Noman shar is Future star of Earth Which collect information of All world about political parties --Nomanshar0786 (talk) 12:51, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-13

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

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The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

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. [4]
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. [5]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

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. [6][7]
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Question from Lesedi Mofokeng (11:38, 25 March 2025)

Hi how do I add a photo on someone else's article --Lesedi Mofokeng (talk) 11:38, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lesedi Mofokeng, see Help:Images. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:06, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from KMRand (13:46, 25 March 2025)

Hey! I created an article but I cannot find it anymore to edit it. I created the article before I created my account. --KMRand (talk) 13:46, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

KMRand, is it Draft:Waybiller (company)? Otherwise, you're going to have to give me more to go off. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:06, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Zensonesbien (18:00, 25 March 2025)

why is your name qwerfjkl --Zensonesbien (talk) 18:00, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Zensonesbien (18:07, 25 March 2025)

are you British cus I don't want u to be my mentor if you're British, I'm britishphobic and I really dislike them, thanks gang u a real one (unless if ur british, cus then ur not and I hate you) --Zensonesbien (talk) 18:07, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Zensonesbien, if you are not here to build an encyclopedia, per WP:NOTHERE, you will be blocked. — Qwerfjkl talk 18:13, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from AndrealaarART (21:41, 25 March 2025)

Hi! How should I start Wikipedia page for myself? --AndrealaarART (talk) 21:41, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AndrealaarART, per WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY, you shouldn't (read the page I linked for more information). — Qwerfjkl talk 21:51, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Sky on pawz XD (22:47, 25 March 2025)

hiya what do you recommend for editing stuff --Sky on pawz XD (talk) 22:47, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sky on pawz XD, if you mean looking for things to do, see Wikipedia:Task centre. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:07, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from AndrealaarART (02:10, 26 March 2025)

Is there something I could translate to Estonian wikipedia about Frida Kahlo? --AndrealaarART (talk) 02:10, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

AndrealaarART, yes, you can translate content from Frida Kahlo to et:Frida Kahlo. You will need to provide proper attribution, see Help:Translation and Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia # Translating from other language Wikimedia projects. — Qwerfjkl talk 17:07, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Thabiso Komako (11:33, 27 March 2025)

How can you put my article on wikipedia --Thabiso Komako (talk) 11:33, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thabiso Komako, I can only assume from your username that you are writing about yourself. Per Wikipedia:Autobiography, this is strongly discouraged. — Qwerfjkl talk 18:30, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Gladile on Help:Introduction to referencing with VisualEditor/1 (14:59, 27 March 2025)

Hey --Gladile (talk) 14:59, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gladile, hello! Any questions? — Qwerfjkl talk 18:30, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

D. P. Atapattu content assessment

Hi, the D. P. Atapattu article has been a Stub since 2013. I have added some more information to it, can you use your bot to assess it again? Toffee Dude (talk) 12:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Toffee Dude, you are free to assess the article however you want. — Qwerfjkl talk 15:26, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from RBWiringa (18:17, 31 March 2025)

I want to correct an error in a figure caption in the page on Fortran --RBWiringa (talk) 18:17, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RBWiringa, and where are you having difficulty with that? — Qwerfjkl talk 20:27, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've never edited an article before, and instructions seemed to suggest asking how to do it RBWiringa (talk) 22:40, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RBWiringa, it should be as simple as clicking the edit button at the top of the page, then just changing the caption and pressing "Publish changes". — Qwerfjkl talk 07:55, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-14

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

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.
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

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.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

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.

Meetings and events

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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