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Question from Writer-from-ps (11:42, 13 May 2025)

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كيف أنشر اول مقال لي ؟ --Writer-from-ps (talk) 11:42, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Writer-from-ps: Sorry, but I do not speak Arabic. If you wish to write in Arabic, please go to the Arabic Wikipedia. Thank you. ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:15, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Favour asuka on Jean-Christophe Spinosi (22:44, 13 May 2025)

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How can I edit --Favour asuka (talk) 22:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Favour asuka: You can simply press the "edit" button. Are you having problems finding it? ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:15, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Favour asuka (22:57, 13 May 2025)

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I want to post my picture --Favour asuka (talk) 22:57, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Favour asuka: It is not recommended for users to post articles about themselves and goes against Wikipedia guidelines, such as the conflict of interest guideline. If you wish to otherwise upload images, you can do so at Wikimedia Commons.
Happy editing, ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:17, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 14 May 2025

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Question from NickTucker1741 (22:53, 14 May 2025)

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Hi Rusty, I'd like to create a page. How would I go about doing that? --NickTucker1741 (talk) 22:53, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@NickTucker1741: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! You may create a new article by first starting a draft through our Articles for Creation process which you can then submit for review when you believe it is ready for publication.
Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:01, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Wzgoldman (22:50, 17 May 2025)

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I am the subject of the short bio. I would like to correct the text to read: Wendy Z. Goldman, Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, is a social and political historian of Russia. Her early work, Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge University Press, 1993) (awarded the Berkshire Conference Book Award) and Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin’s Russia Women (Cambridge University Press, 2002) focused on family policy, women's emancipation, and industrialization. She wrote about Stalinist repression in Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2011) (awarded Honorable Mention, Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History.) She published (with Dr. Joe William Trotter Jr., co-editor) The Ghetto in Global History. 1500 to the Present (Routledge, 2018.) She focused on World War II in Hunger and War: Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union During World War II (Indiana University Press, 2015) (Donald Filtzer, co-editor). Her most recent work (with Donald Filtzer), Fortress Dark and Stern. The Soviet Home Front during World War II (Oxford University Press, 2021) (winner of the Society for Military History prize) is the first comprehensive study of the contribution of the Soviet home front to the victory in World War II. Her articles and books have been translated into Russian, Czech, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, and Japanese. She received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, and National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. She heads the Socialist Studies Seminar at CMU, and is the Director of the CMU Prison Education Project How can I substitute this text for the one that exists? --Wzgoldman (talk) 22:50, 17 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Wzgoldman:
Please read my reply below carefully.
While you could just click the "edit" tab to edit the page and paste that in, by doing so you will be violating the conflict of interest guideline among others. We strongly discourage article subjects from directly editing their articles, and this is one of the reasons. Instead, the correct course of action is to suggest a change on the article's discussion page ("Talk" tab on the top left) and start a new discussion with the text you propose adding, along with citations to back up your changes.
Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 00:04, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Chacapu (01:27, 18 May 2025)

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¿Cómo se puede hacer una bandera en Wikipedia? --Chacapu (talk) 01:27, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hola, estás en Wikipedia en inglés, no en Wikipedia en español. Aquí, normalmente no hablamos español. Sí quieres contribuir en español, puedes visitar Wikipedia en español (https://es.wikipedia.org).
En la Wikipedia en español, y también aquí, hay "templates" (es como se llaman en inglés -- no sé el nombre español) para hacer las banderas, por ejemplo Template:Flag aquí. Creo que puedes encontrar algún similar en la Wikipedia en español también.
¡Gracias! ~ Rusty meow ~ 01:58, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Adityanair99 (01:42, 19 May 2025)

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Hello I want to create an for Aditya G Nair who is a singer and has many songs in different languages to his Credits. --Adityanair99 (talk) 01:42, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Adityanair99: Hello, welcome to Wikipedia!
You can create a draft article through the Wikipedia:Articles for Creation process, and submit it for review when you are ready.
Please note that writing about yourself is prohibited on Wikipedia.
Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 02:23, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-21

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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 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.

Updates for editors

  • 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. [1]
  • 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. [2]
  • 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. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

  • 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. [4]
  • 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. [5]
  • 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.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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Question from Babyforest (12:06, 21 May 2025)

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How can i create a company profile --Babyforest (talk) 12:06, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Babyforest: Welcome to Wikipedia!
You can create a draft article at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation. However, keep in mind creating or directly editing about a company you work for is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia.
Happy editing, ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:52, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Andrewc728 (12:43, 21 May 2025)

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How do I create a page for the company I work for? --Andrewc728 (talk) 12:43, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrewc728: Creating or directly editing an article on the company you work for is strongly discouraged on Wikipedia, as it is an example of conflict-of-interest editing. If a subject were to meet our notability guidelines (inclusion criteria), an editor would have most likely written an article on it already.
You are welcome, however, to edit other articles, or to start an article about something that you do not have a conflict of interest with at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation.
Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:55, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Delgrade181 on Alex O'Connor (17:28, 23 May 2025)

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Hey, I want to edit this page and fix something I see is wrong, but he only mentions it in his videos. Can I just link the videos as citations? --Delgrade181 (talk) 17:28, 23 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Delgrade181: You could definitely do so; I might further evaluate the source for reliability, but there's no rule saying you can't add it! One of our foundational pillars is to be bold! ~ Rusty meow ~ 14:13, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Махмудов Равшанбек Махмуджон ўғли on Doppa (17:01, 25 May 2025)

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Ўзбекча ёзсам бўладими --Махмудов Равшанбек Махмуджон ўғли (talk) 17:01, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Махмудов Равшанбек Махмуджон ўғли: This is the Wikipedia in English, so we only use English here. But there are other versions of Wikipedia in other languages. You can find a list at Wikipedia:List of Wikipedias (Look under "Language (local)" in the table). ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:07, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Duneblazer (19:03, 26 May 2025)

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Hello, I have posted a picture in the Wikimedia Commons where the author is using a Cc-by-nc-4 to my knowledge. Is a Wikipedia post considered commercial in this instance? Am I not allowed to use this type of licensing? I credited the author. Thanks! --Duneblazer (talk) 19:03, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Duneblazer:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC) is not permitted on Commons because it is not compatible with Wikimedia Commons' license of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC-BY-SA). If you wish to use the image in a Wikipedia article, you can upload it here under fair use (Wikipedia is also licensed under CC-BY-SA, so again, not compatible).
Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 00:53, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Kaushikkumar.dc (19:14, 26 May 2025)

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Hello I just created a page and I don't know how to move it to main page and submit for review --Kaushikkumar.dc (talk) 19:14, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kaushikkumar.dc: You can put {{subst:submit}} on the top of the page. Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 00:54, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-22

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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

  • 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. [6]
  • 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. [7]
  • Recurrent item View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Meetings and events

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Women in Red June 2025

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Women in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340


Online events:

Announcements:

  • Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea,
    but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red.
    We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania.
    We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider?
    Can you suggest a DYK style hook?
    If you are shy about editing that page, you are welcome to add ideas and comments on the talk page.
  • The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025

Progress ("moving the needle"):

  • Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period!
  • 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women)
  • 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women)

Tip of the month:

  • Every language Wikipedia has its own policies regarding notability and reliable sources.
    Before translating an article from one language Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, research
    the subject and verify that the translated article will meet English Wikipedia's policy requirements.

Other ways to participate:

--Lajmmoore (talk 06:05, 29 May 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Question from Progress Umor Daniel (09:48, 29 May 2025)

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Thank you How do you help me with historical knowledge about Abua/Odual with facets --Progress Umor Daniel (talk) 09:48, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Progress Umor Daniel: I am not sure what you mean by "historical knowledge about Abua/Odual with facts". I am here to help you read and edit Wikipedia, not assist you in research. Is there something I can help you with? ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:41, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-23

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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 Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.

Updates for editors

  • It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [8]
  • Recurrent item View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [9]
  • From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [10]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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Question from Dinesh mehara (01:30, 4 June 2025)

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Hello how are you --Dinesh mehara (talk) 01:30, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dinesh mehara: Hello! I am well. Is there something I can help you with about Wikipedia? ~ Rusty meow ~ 01:41, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Aqrasee (06:46, 4 June 2025)

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Hi, I am new to editing. Initially I just want to remove a hyperlink between person A and person B. They are not the same person. Firstly, how do I remove the link - probably easy; secondly do I need any kind of note to show that I have done that or that the previous link is incorrect (in case someone wants to re-establish it)? Thank you --Aqrasee (talk) 06:46, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Aqrasee: When you edit the page, you're mostly likely going to be in the "Visual Editor". In that mode you can just click on the link, and then click the red icon to remove the link.
When you publish changes, it'll ask for an edit summary, where you can add an explanation for your changes, like "removed a link to incorrect person".
Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:06, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Lirress 3 on User:Lirress 3 (09:43, 4 June 2025)

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I want to remove the Efn I wrote for my father because it has "was" he is died but I'm still need him by my side --Lirress 3 (talk) 09:43, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lirress 3: Sorry, but Wikipedia is not a personal website. Even though you miss your father, Wikipedia still has to report the truth, that he has passed. Hope you understand. ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:08, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Stephano-sabadomingo (12:04, 5 June 2025)

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Hello, appreciate you providing this mentor service. In the middle of an edit and two things arose: first, prior GNU licensing before v4 of Creative Commons, regarding how the two may relate to copyright or, in the case of the edit, conflict potentials. How secure are our edits, is it safer to leave just the IP potential for a user who is not wanting to associate with the topic? Next, the edit took more time than I originally planned for but I am not comfortable publishing yet. I saved it to a Libre text doc but wondering if there were a better and easier path inside the Wiki platform? Finally, is there a review option prior publishing? Thank you, --Stephano-sabadomingo (talk) 12:04, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Stephano-sabadomingo: To answer your questions:
  1. By publishing an edit, it is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 and the GNU Free Documentation License at the same time. The two licenses are compatible with each other in this use case.
  2. When you make an edit, other users can see what edits a specific account or IP address has made on Wikipedia (for example you can see all of my edits here). This includes page edits, as well as comments and posts. Editing as an IP does not mean that you cannot be identified, because IPs might stay the same for some time before changing, or not change at all. Also keep in mind that IPs can be traced to your real-life location.
  3. There is an experimental feature called "Edit Recovery" which you can enable in your Preferences (top right corner, click on the person icon, Preferences) -> "Editing" section, but otherwise, no, there is not a built-in way to save edits. Saving it to a text editor is the way I would go.
  4. There is a review process for creating new articles at Articles for Creation. For individual edits, there is usually no review process, but if someone disagrees with your edit, they might revert it and let you know. Do not be afraid of making a mistake; one of our principles is to be bold, and I can definitely tell you that I have learned a lot from people telling me I did something wrong!
Happy editing, ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:00, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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

Administrator changes

removed

Interface administrator changes

added 0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

readded L235

Oversight changes

readded L235

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

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Question from Lirress 3 (14:18, 8 June 2025)

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When I'm editing all pages says the Request Was Aborted please fix this --Lirress 3 (talk) 14:18, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lirress 3: I'm sorry, I can't help with technical issues. Since you posted a question, you might want to try the edit again. ~ Rusty meow ~ 14:32, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Long comment

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We no longer need to long comment any pages at or above 246 bytes now that long comment was updated back in late April. The code for the script just doesn't reflect the recent changes, and I've already reported this to its developer. Jalen Barks (Woof) 17:35, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JalenBarks: Understood. Thanks! ~ Rusty meow ~ 20:18, 8 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Raphaelmarkus001 (05:55, 9 June 2025)

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Hello when I start posting my articles and Wiki pages --Raphaelmarkus001 (talk) 05:55, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Raphaelmarkus001: You can create new articles whenever you like! Just go to WP:Articles for Creation. ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:44, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-24

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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 Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

  • Wishlist item The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [11]
Screenshot of the visual improvements made on talk pages
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
  • The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). [12][13]
  • Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [14]
  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [15]
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
  • Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [16][17]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Question from Romeo's daughter Sarah Wilson Cebīsôvá (20:23, 10 June 2025)

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Hello how are you I'm new to technology lol my name is Sarah dawn Cebīsôvá my father is Romeo tony Cebīsôvá or cebis born in marienzke lazne Czechoslovakia my mother Australia and grandparents Ireland Scotland Brittan my grandparents have all passed away I have a an older sister Natalie Bennett we both are Romeo's actual daughters biological I have my birth certificate and I'd Julian is and Elon musk normally invests with me as I'm trying to figure out how to who to contact about celebratity pages I'm not all all tech savvy lol are uncles of ours are Sloan Wilson my mother Margaret Watson or William Wilson aka captain dixy Wilson and William Sloan both my great grandfathersl and the producer of lord of the rings --Romeo's daughter Sarah Wilson Cebīsôvá (talk) 20:23, 10 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Romeo's daughter Sarah Wilson Cebīsôvá: You can discuss a page's content on the "Talk" tab at the top of the page. ~ Rusty meow ~ 14:52, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Lirress 3 (12:06, 11 June 2025)

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How can I becomes extended confirmed users please answer this I'm trying ~~ --Lirress 3 (talk) 12:06, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lirress 3: Once your account is 30 days old and has 500 edits, you will be extended confirmed. ~ Rusty meow ~ 14:53, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rusty Cat I love you

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Rusty Cat I love you Lirress 3 (talk) 12:25, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lirress 3: I'm not going to respond to that. ~ Rusty meow ~ 14:53, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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