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Updates for editors

• From now on, interface admins and centralnotice admins are technically required to enable two-factor authentication before they can use their privileges. In the future this might be expanded to more groups with advanced user-rights. [1]
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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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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Question from Suleymaan baare on Moqokori District (21:48, 9 April 2025)

I live in Moqokori district, one of the neighborhoods. The neighborhood I live in Moqokori district has an estimated population of 8k people. How many people do you estimate live in the other four neighborhoods? --Suleymaan baare (talk) 21:48, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi @Suleymaan baare:. I would have no way of knowing as I have no familiarity with those neighbourhoods. Until just now I had never heard of Moqokori in Somalia, sorry. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 00:12, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Suleymaan baare on Moqokori District (22:25, 9 April 2025)

Waxaan ahay gadomiyeha ururka dhalinyarada --Suleymaan baare (talk) 22:25, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Dragon Teddy on Draft:FNAF Security Breach Lore (18:26, 13 April 2025)

How do I rename an article that I am making that is still a draft? --Dragon Teddy (talk) 18:26, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi Dragon Teddy! Please see Wikipedia:Moving a page. Please let me know if you have any questions! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 00:11, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

April 2025

This is absolutely enraging. I am not using multiple accounts or coordinating anything with anyone. Can you please explain to me how this decision was reached? Is there some kind of appeal process for someone else to reinvestigate this situation? Epenkimi (talk) 23:26, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

For record completeness, I have responded to the thread about this on Epenkimi's talk page. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 13:58, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

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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. [2]
• 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. [3][4]

Updates for editors

• 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. [5]
• "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.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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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.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Question from Bigbodykweeng (06:12, 15 April 2025)

I am trying to create a page for my artist. Do you know how to accomplish this ? --Bigbodykweeng (talk) 06:12, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

@Bigbodykweeng: Please see WP:PAID and follow its directions carefully and read WP:COI. Should you choose to proceed, then read this guide to creating your first article. WP:NARTIST would be the notability guideline that needs to be met. Please let me know if you have any questions. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 14:00, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Tracy at WYC (15:14, 15 April 2025)

Hi. How do I create an article? Thanks! --Tracy at WYC (talk) 15:14, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

@Tracy at WYC: Please see this guide to creating your first article. Are you paid by WYC (or anyone else) for editing? If so, please see WP:PAID and follow its directions very carefully. Undisclosed paid editing is a Terms of Use violation and can result in being blocked/banned. I notice from your username that you have read and are following the username policy and thank you for that. Please let me know if you have any questions! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 14:02, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Soraluna (06:40, 17 April 2025)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vx32

I was unable to add a citation in this article. As I could find a citation option in the menu, and when I tried to add from the template, it is not showing the complete title and not the [1] number. Please guide me. Source link: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/vx32:usenix08/ --Soraluna (talk) 06:40, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

@Soraluna: It looks like you did add the citation with this edit. What's the problem? What did you see vs what did you expect to see? TheSandDoctor ^Talk 16:23, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Due to some technical issue from my end may be the option was glitching. But when I refreshed I was able to add. Thanks for the reply. Soraluna (talk) 13:18, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

@Soraluna: I am glad that it started working for you! Please do let me know if you ever have any questions. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 06:15, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from Mohammad Faisal BD (06:25, 19 April 2025)

My name is Mohammad Faisal --Mohammad Faisal BD (talk) 06:25, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

Mohammad Faisal BD

My name is Mohammad F@aisal @ Mohammad Faisal BD (talk) 06:31, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

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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. [6]
• 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. [7]
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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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.

Meetings and events

• 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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Question from Christian Maoudis BOM (11:24, 22 April 2025)

Hi is it posable to set up a private wiki space for use in a small team to track information, if so could you link me to any documentation there is on the subject --Christian Maoudis BOM (talk) 11:24, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

@Christian Maoudis BOM: That is certainly possible. You'd be looking at setting up the underlying software that runs Wikipedia, MediaWiki, on your own computer/server that is serving it either to your local area network or the internet more broadly. Here is the official guide for Manual:installing MediaWiki. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 12:07, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from ShyGuy230 (19:50, 22 April 2025)

Hello, what are some of the basics of editing? --ShyGuy230 (talk) 19:50, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi ShyGuy230! Please see this interactive guide that will walk you through some editing/contributing basics and please let me know if you have any questions. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 23:26, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from I am sturzy on Yao Ramesar (01:45, 24 April 2025)

Hello, how can I edit --I am sturzy (talk) 01:45, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

@I am sturzy: Please see this interactive guide to help you learn how to contribute. Please let me know if you have any questions! TheSandDoctor ^Talk 05:32, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from I am sturzy (07:01, 24 April 2025)

If I'm true creating a page when is the page going to be out --I am sturzy (talk) 07:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

@I am sturzy: Please see WP:YFA and also see WP:AUTOBIO. Creating an article about yourself is highly discouraged and based on the content that you've attempted to create so far, would be considered spam. Please also don't thank users for multiple edits at a time like you did me for ~10 edits across many pages, especially seemingly random edits. It is annoying. I am not saying to not "thank" users for edits, but please use it more sparingly and in contexts where it makes sense. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 21:54, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Question from I am sturzy (07:02, 24 April 2025)

I'm not going to see the page on Google --I am sturzy (talk) 07:02, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

@I am sturzy: That would be because drafts are not indexed by most search engines on purpose. Please see my reply in the above section. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 21:55, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

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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.
• View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• 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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• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes an overview of the improved Content Translation Dashboard Tool, support for new languages, highlights from the Wiki Loves Ramadan campaign, results from the Language Onboarding Experiment, an analysis of topic diversity in articles, and information on upcoming community meetings and events.

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• The Let's Connect Learning Clinic will take place on April 29 at 14:30 UTC. This edition will focus on "Understanding and Navigating Conflict in Wikimedia Projects". You can register now to attend.
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Hello,

I know this might not be your primary area, but since you were involved in the sockpuppet investigation you have some background in the broader dispute. After the main dispute in the Copts article calmed down, with consensus reached for the roadmap introduced on the talk page, it recently spilled over into the Coptic identity article where the user @Epenkimi had been introducing the exact same content and narrative. When I addressed this on the basis of the consensus reached in the other article he went around referring to my edits as vandalism (1, 2 and 3). I then proceeded to list the dispute on WP:NPOVN for broader input on the general issue, and after facing objections from multiple other editors the user threw a tantrum on the talk page and the noticeboard, and then went into self-imposed Wiki-exile, but not without implicating me in his victimhood narrative on his user page. I don't appreciate this mischaracterization of my effort to improve these articles, and frankly I'm just generally frustrated at this point with this user's tone and childish conduct. Turnopoems 𓋹 ✎ 11:47, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

I will CC @Rosguill as well, as they have also been participating in the discussion. Turnopoems 𓋹 ✎ 14:47, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

I don't think I have much to add here as I'm now involved in the dispute, but I second Turnopoems' characterization of the general situation. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 16:24, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

@Turnopoems: I am torn here. I see this as a potential aspersion-ish thing but not enough to necessarily block under WP:NPA and they do state that they've quit/left Wikipedia already. I haven't had much time for Wiki this month but I am flip-flopping enough here in my draft of a response to you/how I want to proceed that I am going to think on this a bit further and come back here, either with an action plan or recommendation/referral to WP:ANI. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 22:04, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

If this is going to ANI, I think based on what they've already said and their edits a topic ban from either Copts or Christianity is warranted. If this had been a WP:CTOP I would have probably just tbanned them rather than intervene as an editor following the NPOVN post. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 23:00, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Thank you both, @Rosguill and @TheSandDoctor, for your input. Please let me know what you consider to be the most appropriate course of action once you’ve reached a conclusion. This aspect of Wikipedia is the one I’m least familiar with, fortunately, so I will comply with whatever resolution you determine is most suitable for the situation. Turnopoems 𓋹 ✎ 07:28, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

@Turnopoems: Sorry for my delay in replying. I do think that ANI is an appropriate place to take this. Thanks to @Rosguill: for confirming that that isn't an insane instinct. WP:ANI is a good choice to get a broader subset of administrators to see it than who watch here and to come to more of a consensus than a talk page can usually deliver. Generally ANI is something to use sparingly, but this issue has gone on long enough. There is a definite behaviour issue here but I would like to see more input from other admins. Please link here when/if it is posted there. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 13:35, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor: No worries, and thank you for your suggestion. I’ve now submitted a report at ANI, including some additional background context that may or may not prove useful. We’ll see how the discussion unfolds from here. Turnopoems 𓋹 ✎ 16:32, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

@Turnopoems: I've commented there. Thanks for the link and you're most welcome. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 19:04, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Question from Ma89eo1 (10:46, 1 May 2025)

I do not understand a thing about wikipedia editing, help --Ma89eo1 (talk) 10:46, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

@Ma89eo1: Please see the Wikipedia Adventure interactive tutorial. It should help show you the basics. Please let me know if you have any further questions. TheSandDoctor ^Talk 13:36, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

@TheSandDoctor Thanks, what should i do now? Ma89eo1 (talk) 17:56, 1 May 2025 (UTC)