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Welcome to the 2025 WikiCup!

Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.

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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).

Administrator changes

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CheckUser changes

added
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removed Ferret

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

  • The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.

Arbitration

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Tech News: 2025-03

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Tech News: 2025-04

MediaWiki message delivery 01:35, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

You've got mail

Sent an email your way to both of the emails I have on file for you since I'm not sure which, if either, you're checking these days. I also figure you're more likely checking email than this talk page, but I figured I would try everything. Thanks for your time reading (and hopefully responding) to the email. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 15:41, 16 January 2025 (UTC)

Seen and replied. Wug·a·po·des 07:25, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

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Message regarding Capricorn from QuickQuokka

I think I know how you can fix the dark mode problems in Capricorn, where the background is light green and the text on top of it is white:

.skin-theme-clientpref-night .kephir-sagittarius-editor {
	background: #040;
	border-color: #dfd;
}

I tried adding this in my global.css and it works as expected Thumbs up icon QuickQuokka [⁠talkcontribs] 08:21, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, QuickQuokka. I appreciate the patch and will test it out when I have some time this weekend. Wug·a·po·des 07:32, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Welcome back

Welcome back : ) - jc37 09:59, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

@Jc37 Thanks, it's nice to be back :) Wug·a·po·des 07:35, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Niacin

please fix the disambiguation. David notMD (talk) 03:53, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

David notMD I don't know what you mean, could you be more specific? Unless it's something that needs advanced permissions, it will probably be faster for you to do it instead of waiting for me. Wug·a·po·des 06:16, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
Niacin (disambiguation) does not address the recent name change decision. As the person who had brought the old Niacin to GA, I am too depressed about that decision to be motivated to look at that or look at the Nicotinic acid and Vitamin B3 content to see if any information lost in the post-decision editing. David notMD (talk) 12:00, 28 January 2025 (UTC)
@David notMD Sorry to hear that, and I hope you find your interest again despite the set-back. I took a look at the disambiguation page and it seems to list all the important stuff: Niacin may refer to B3 vitamers, one vitamer specifically, or a band I never heard of. I don't think the RM changed any of that? Wug·a·po·des 08:14, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

January music

story · music · places

Happy new year 2025, opened with trumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had it). My story today is about a composer who influenced music history also by writing. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

... and today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:35, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) - I see I have to write a bit more to connect the message to the image ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:09, 21 January 2025 (UTC)

I'll do my best to write something more. I'm glad you had a nice vacation Gerda. I enjoyed my wikibreak, and I appreciate that you kept updating me. It helped me feel connected even while away. Wug·a·po·des 07:38, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Thank you, makes me feel good ;) - I have more vacation pics to offer, and today's story of Werner Bardenhewer. I took the pic, and it was my DYK on his 90th birthday, in both English and German. He spent the day in Africa, and after his return said - chatting after a mass of thanks he celebrated at Mariä Heimsuchung - that we'd have to talk about these articles. - On Mozart's birthday a few days ago, almost 33k views were counted to his article, - almost as many as an average TFA. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:35, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

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

Administrator changes

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Technical news

  • Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
  • A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

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The Signpost: 7 February 2025

February music

story · music · places

On the main page today, 300 years after its first performance, Bach's cantata BWV 125, - a lovely very intimate piece, with peace and joy in the title. Enjoy listening with score - I discovered that only now! - Today is also the birthday of James Joyce, who has an article by many authors. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:56, 2 February 2025 (UTC)

My story torday is about an actor who played in almost every German TV series and in international cinema. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:18, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

today: a German-born Spanish art collector, - the video in her honour is remarkable, as what she gave the world. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:02, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

I find today's birthday child particularly inspiring, by enthusiasm and determination. That was - believe it or not - a pictured DYK in 2021, without the last line though. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:28, 9 February 2025 (UTC)

Paul Plishka, a bass who sang 88 roles of all kinds at the Met was interviewed before his (first) retirement. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:57, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

Today's story is about Edith Mathis, who portrayed young women by Mozart. The video of a 1993 interview has videos of her performances. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:49, 13 February 2025 (UTC)

I point at a composer today, as the main page does. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:00, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

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WikiCup 2025 March newsletter

The first round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As a reminder, we are no longer disqualifying the lowest-scoring contestants; everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned from Wikipedia. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. Unlike the round points in the main WikiCup table, which are reset at the end of each round, tournament points are carried over between rounds and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far.

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  • A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
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Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, Wugapodes. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee!
Have a great day!
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The Signpost: 22 March 2025

March music

story · music · places

New month: today is the birthday of Chopin and Ricardo Kanji, see my stories of today and yesterday, with dream music by the first and Bach played by the other. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:44, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

Today: Carmen turns 150, as the main page and my story tell you. I chose a 1962 concert of the Habanera, - enjoy! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:41, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

On Ravel's birthday, we also think of a conductor and five more composers ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:08, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Today I could have written five stories off the main page, and chose Sofia Gubaidulina. I find the TFA also interesting, and two DYK, and a birthday OTD. How about you? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:41, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Today: an opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:09, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:55, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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Good working with you on the GAN Report

Hello Wugapodes. It was an honor to work with you on those small but nice, professionally done changes to the GAN Report. All the best on the coming code optimizations.

I am actually volunteering myself to you as a backup person of maintaining the code, if you need me to. I am interested in how it works as well.

All the best, Prhartcom (talk) 21:43, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Update: Ha, I just noticed you reviewed my GAN years ago: Little Annie Fanny. Prhartcom (talk) 21:48, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

@Prhartcom: You're welcome to help with the GAR bot, but there's not much to do honestly. WugBot's tasks are pretty stable. I took a wikibreak for about a year and it kept chugging along without much trouble. The refactor is to make sure it stays that way even if I forget what I was doing in a few years (...like this time). What I could really use some help with is WP:Capricorn since that's a lot of inherited code without CI/CD, an issue tracker (besides a talk page...) or a version control system (besides the page history...). Between figuring out how to migrate it to something like GitHub and the mounting technical debt, I've seriously considered just deprecating it and telling people to migrate to something else. I know some JS Gadgets on here do their development on github (maybe gitlab?) and have a pipeline for on-wiki deployments, but I haven't had the time or energy to research that process. If you're looking for a technical project, I think that's the place to start: figure out how to make it easier and safer to collaborate on JS code.
That was the first GA review I started, in fact. While a good reminder that Wikipedia is not censored, I think the subject matter played a role in why the nomination was 37th oldest when the review was opened. That said, I was impressed by your knowledge of the sources and was surprised by the depth they went into for what I'd thought would be written off as a vice. Wug·a·po·des 07:04, 2 April 2025 (UTC)
Glad to hear the GAN Report code is stable. I don't suppose I would want to get into that Capricorn; thanks for the offer anyway. I would like to see the CAN Report source code, though. Prhartcom (talk) 22:46, 6 April 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

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

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The Signpost: 9 April 2025