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Tech News: 2026-18

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

• There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the Autoconfirmed users group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions.
• All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

May 2026 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
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WikiCup 2026 May newsletter

The second round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 28 April. As a reminder for contestants who just joined or are unaware of recent changes to our round-points system, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.

Round 2 was competitive. Three contestants scored more than 1,000 round points; nine scored over 500; and fourteen scored over 300. The top seven contestants had at least one featured article (two of them with two apiece). The following competitors scored more than 800 round points:

• MCE89 (submissions) with 1,333 points, mainly from good and featured articles about Australian people and geography
• Generalissima (submissions) with 1,169 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to shipping ethics controversy in fanfiction, waterways, and Gu Yanwu
• Bgsu98 (submissions) with 1,149 points, mainly from good articles, featured articles, and featured lists about figure skating, along with many article reviews and two good topics
• Olliefant (submissions) with 830 points, mainly from good and featured articles about television shows, episodes and media, along with nearly four dozen good and featured article reviews
• Gommeh (submissions) with 827 points, mainly from good and featured articles related to Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 12 featured articles, 13 featured lists, 2 featured-topic articles, 106 good articles, 22 good-topic articles and more than 40 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 3 In the News articles, and they have conducted over 200 reviews. The tournament points table has been updated.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. 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) 14:49, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Women in Red – May 2026

Women in Red | May 2026, Vol 12, Issue 5, Nos 358, 359, 370, 371, 372 Online events: New: Countries starting with G and H | Women's scientific works | Religion and Spirituality Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports Announcements from other communities: Contest: Destubathon of the Americas Tip of the month: Struggling to find scientific works to write about? Start with review articles or textbooks, which may highlight influential studies, theories or methods by women. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram | Pinterest

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Question from Dogwhispererbo (00:59, 30 April 2026)

hey man. 2 questions. 1: are you a human? 2: I cant find anything to edit that I know about, what should I do? thanks rusty --Dogwhispererbo (talk) 00:59, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

@Dogwhispererbo: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia!

1. Yes, I'm human!
2. I assume you mean that you want to edit articles on topics you know about, and you're struggling to find some? You could check Special:Homepage for some articles that need help; you can even choose topics you're interested in! If that doesn't work, you can also look at the Wikipedia:Task Center (not sorted by topic I don't think, but there might more tasks).
   • If you're interested in article writing, maybe you could expand an existing Stub article in a topic you're interested in. If this interests you, let me know and I can provide more instructions.

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 03:51, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Swiftiesgoldrush2215 (16:07, 2 May 2026)

Hey, is there anyway you can publish my draft? --Swiftiesgoldrush2215 (talk) 16:07, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

@Swiftiesgoldrush2215: I would prefer to have someone else make the final call, but I can take a quick look at it and comment on the article what I notice. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 21:36, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

ok thx Swiftiesgoldrush2215 (talk) 13:53, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

You're welcome! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 14:02, 3 May 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).

Administrator changes

• Deepfriedokra

• EvanProdromou
• Wouterstomp

Interface administrator changes

L235

Chaotic Enby

CheckUser changes

• TheresNoTime
• Versageek

Oversight changes

Moneytrees

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
• The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
• Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
• Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
• A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.

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Tech News: 2026-19

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 Article guidance team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.

Updates for editors

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page.
• The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so.
• From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot in that the latter reminds users a week before the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages.
• The Global Watchlist, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata now support EntitySchema elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The second phase of global API rate limits has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Tech News: 2026-20

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

• Community Tech has published new guidance explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.
• The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.
• View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The ResourceLoader module mediawiki.ui.input, deprecated since September 2023, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Question from Aceinpink (04:11, 7 May 2026)

Hello, I want to create a redirect page for Globalisation and World Cities Research Network to Globalization and World Cities Research Network.

Reading Wikipedia:Redirect, it seems like this should be fine but I would like to get a confirmation since this would technically be my first article created. --Aceinpink (talk) 04:11, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@Aceinpink: Sorry for the late reply! One of Wikipedia's pillars is to be bold, so go for it! You might not have permission yet, in which case you can request at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects.

Happy editing! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:25, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Artspaz

Hi,

I'm hoping you can help me understand some recent feedback on my contributions, as I'm feeling a bit confused by the pattern.

This morning I was reprimanded for several entries that had previously been approved. The concern raised was promotional language — however, those entries were sourced from reliable, internationally recognized outlets (CNN, the LA Times, and El Economista).

I also have a few questions about my sandbox drafts:

1. One of my sandbox drafts — which was a rough working document of notes I was using to organize my thoughts — appears to have been deleted before I moved it anywhere. Is that normal? I wasn't aware sandbox drafts were subject to deletion.

2. A previously approved entry was deleted with a note about promotional language, but no specific examples were given. How can I address the issue if I don't know which parts are problematic?

3. Both of these came shortly after a declined submission for a Mexican cultural art fair that has been running for 75 years and is covered by global sources. I understand that tourism-adjacent topics can sometimes read as promotional, and I did run the text through multiple AI tools to check for non-neutral language — but I'm still not sure what the underlying concern is.

I want to make sure I'm following guidelines correctly. Any guidance you can offer would be really appreciated.

Thank you! ArtSpaz (talk) 15:43, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

@ArtSpaz:

What I would do to address the deleted pages is to reach out to the deleting administrator. When you try to visit the page, you should see a notice "A page with this title has previously been moved or deleted." which lists the date and time that the page was deleted, as well as who deleted it and for what reason.

While sandboxes/drafts can't be deleted under the article speedy deletion criteria (e.g.: no notability, no content), they can still be deleted under the general speedy deletion criteria (including promotional).

The G11 (unambiguous advertising or promotion) deletion criterion is supposed to only be used in cases where the page is entirely promotional (as per the page I linked), but I can't see deleted pages, so I don't know what it looked like.

From your declined draft Draft:Tianguis Turístico, which I assume you're referring to, passages like "develop commercial partnerships by engaging tourism service providers, destination marketing organizations, international buyers, and travel industry representatives", while they aren't non-neutral, I can see how someone would mistake it for promotional content. (sorry--it's a bit hard to explain, but I know it when I see it)

Wikipedia is all about collaboration and discussion, so again, I'd recommend you, as a first step, to reach out to the deleting administrators.

~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:38, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

As a side note, ArtSpaz, it looks to me like other editors think you're trying to promote something. I don't believe you're trying to promote intentionally, but you may want to be more careful when you write in the future--other editors also might be more likely to understand if you apologize now, rather than later. I mean, you have that warning on your talk page now.

Good luck, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:44, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your help. When I reached out to the original editor to ask for advice, that's when I got the warning. His response used unkind words, so I guess he thought I was being disrespectful instead of genuinely asking for guidance. I appreciate you giving an example (one tthat I thought was descriptive) so I can better understand where people are assuming promotional. ArtSpaz (talk) 15:44, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

You're welcome! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 20:18, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Rusty Cat,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

May backlog drive

An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

PageTriage

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Tech News: 2026-21

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 Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.

Updates for editors

• An experiment to show Reading Lists to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.
• To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights.
• Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more.
• The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details.

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The Signpost: 22 May 2026

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• Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
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• Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
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Question from Kraytus (17:16, 24 May 2026)

Hi, nice to meet you. I intend writing some articles here but I thought I should start with improving existing ones that I find interesting and knowledgeable at. I have already did some edits. I was wondering if you can scale through my edits to see if I'm doing it correctly or require some improvements. Thanks. --Kraytus (talk) 17:16, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@Kraytus: Hello, and welcome!

We're glad to have you here; I noticed that some of your edits were reverted by other editors, and in this case I would recommend using a Talk page for discussion if you haven't already. A talk page lets you and other editors discuss edits to the page. For example, the talk page for Cat is Talk:Cat.

Also, I noticed that in one of your early edits you created a header by using bold and underline. This isn't recommended due to accessibility issues. You can create a dedicated header on the mobile visual editor, which it looks like is what you're using, by typing equal signs (=) at the beginning of a line. How many equal signs depends on the level of the header. For example, a heading would have 2 equals signs, while a sub-heading would have 3. Take a look!

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 22:32, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the feedback, reviews and guidance. Kraytus (talk) 22:39, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

You're welcome!! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:15, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Bertinul (13:31, 25 May 2026)

Hello Rusty Cat, I'm trying to edit my professor George Elliott Clarke's Wikipedia page, using information from his records to correct the many inaccuracies and omissions that have plagued the page over the years. I'm doing it as a favour to him, but with much better information than any of the editors seem to have.

However, when I reworked the page yesterday, my edits got reverted because of a "conflict of interest". Naturally, I understand, but the facts currently on the Wikipedia page are false, badly written, and omit many important aspects of GEC's life and work over the last few years, as well as some of his young adulthood.

Please advise as to how I can get these edits through without an overzealous moderator reverting everything!

Best, Bertinul --Bertinul (talk) 13:31, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

As you have been told on your talk page, the best way to proceed is to post on the "Talk" page article, Talk:George Elliott Clarke. This is a page where editors discuss improvements to the article. Be sure to provide sources for your changes!

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 15:21, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-22

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

• Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics.

Updates for editors

• For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules.
• WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
• After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The legacy CSS classes tleft and tright have been replaced with floatleft and floatright as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that floatleft and floatright may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Women in Red - June 2026

Women in Red | June 2026, Vol 12, Issue 6, Nos 358, 359, 373, 374, 375 Online events: New: LGBTQ+ women | Alphabet run: Countries starting with I, J, K and L Article improvement campaign: Orphaned women Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports Announcements, tips, participation... Announcements from other communities: Eiffel women Tip of the month: Consider contributing to two of our monthly events at once, and improve coverage of LGBTQ+ women by de-orphaning their articles. Other ways to participate: Become a member. You can always opt-out of notifications. Join the conversations on our talkpage. Help us plan future events and add any general ideas on developing the project. Follow us on social media: Instagram & Pinterest

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barnstar + question

alexa wants to know what made u rusty too! (she gave u the barnstar too)

		The Username Barnstar
		nice username! oh, and what made u rusty? (oh and sign me guestbook too) AltoHampton (talk here) (le contrebutions) 23:56, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@AltoHampton: Thanks! I used to use a different username that had Rusty in it many years ago, and I guess as I went on, the Rusty part stuck. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 15:10, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

@Rusty Cat ah ok. thx! alexa knows now… AltoHampton t • c • g • s 00:29, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from A123a1 (00:53, 21 May 2026)

Hello, I wrote a draft about the botanical garden of Thutmose III. Could you please take a look at my sandbox I am waiting for your feedback Thanks. A123a1 (talk) 00:53, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@A123a1: In general, I prefer for other editors to review drafts. By the way, are you aware of the already-existing article Botanical garden of Thutmosis III? Do you plant to add the content of your draft directly into the article Thutmose III, or into Botanical garden of Thutmosis III? ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:18, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I appreciate your reply and the feedback. I prefer to add it to Thutmose III article. Is this suitable for it? If it has no issues, I will keep going.

Thanks

A123a1 (talk) 15:38, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

@A123a1:

Since the article Botanical garden of Thutmosis III already exists, I'm thinking you should add it there instead of the Thutmose III article. A section can be created in the Thutmose III article linking to the botanical garden article.

Your second source, from the British Museum, doesn't mention the botanical gardens at all, so it can be removed. Some things in the article are not supported by the first and fourth source, like how there are engraved birds and animals, and how he introduced the pomegranate and iris to Egypt; I would check the 3rd source, but I haven't found it online yet. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 15:03, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

"Hello, thanks for your effort. I updated the article with sources according to your notes. Can you explain what I should do in the Thutmose III article? Thanks

A123a1 (talk) 20:41, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

@A123a1: Sorry for a late reply! You can just add the content you have in your sandbox to Botanical garden of Thutmosis III. I took a look and it looks like Thutmose III already links to the botanical garden article, so no action is needed there. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 21:09, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

I just moved it. I appreciate your help, thanks!

A123a1 (talk) 23:15, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I received a comment from a user who claimed that I used AI tool in our chat and I assure you this didn't happen. so, what should I do?

A123a1 (talk) 19:52, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

@A123a1: You want to reply to them and ask why they think so, and what parts are AI.

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 18:28, 30 May 2026 (UTC)

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2026).

Administrator changes

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• Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.

Technical news

• Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats: Bureaucrats without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119, T423120)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
• The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

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• Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.

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Tech News: 2026-23

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

Updates for editors

• The Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
• The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Hello

iam your new apprentice please look after me thanks for you to taking me as your student RishavPatel12 (talk) 06:58, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

@RishavPatel12: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia! Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 00:51, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Books & Bytes – Issue 74

The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 74, March–April 2026

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Question from Ichbineinekraldöven (16:44, 5 June 2026)

Is there anything I can do about an academic source made about where i am from by a foreigner which i can prove to be false? --Ichbineinekraldöven (talk) 16:44, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ichbineinekraldöven: By "prove to be false" I assume you mean there are sources--Wikipedia requires citations to reliable sources, and so original research (in other words, your own experience) won't be accepted

However, it's not as simple as finding a single source to refute the claim, because we want to avoid giving undue weight to a single viewpoint or source. Depending on what sources say, (whether they show that the viewpoint currently in the article is a minority viewpoint (in other words, your viewpoint is commonly accepted) or not) the article could be revised to either say something among the lines of "Some sources say this, but other sources say that" or "Most sources say this, but some sources say that instead".

Hope this makes sense; feel free to ask further if you have more questions.

Happy editing! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 22:54, 5 June 2026 (UTC)

Does the sources i cite HAVE to be made by academicians?

They are all locked behind paywalls which makes them unable to reach for anyone from my region. Is there really no way original research can be accepted?

Thank you Ichbineinekraldöven (talk) 07:04, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ichbineinekraldöven: Not necessarily, you can feel free to use other sources such as news articles. Also, paywalled articles are accepted as sources; provided an editor with access is able to verify the information, though this is not normally relevant unless there is a dispute regarding the content. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:52, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

What I mean is; is the bar for "credible evidence" in Wikipedia just citing "this dude says it too" as an external viewpoint? Ichbineinekraldöven (talk) 07:21, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

@Ichbineinekraldöven:

Not quite; it's not as simple as finding a source.

In general, we want to be careful if there are opposing viewpoints; as I previously said, we can't necessarily just replace the content with what matches a different source. Also in general, sources that talk about a subject at length rather than a brief, passing mention are preferred.

I took a quick look at your edit history to get an idea of what field this perceived inaccuracy is in; one way you might want to go about it is updated census records, if any exist.

Additionally, Wikipedia users who are extended-confirmed have access to The Wikipedia Library which gives them access to some paywalled source (I believe mostly academic/scholarly resources), so if you want another editor or me to take a look at a paywalled resource you found, that would work too. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 00:04, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your help Ichbineinekraldöven (talk) 21:56, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-24

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

• Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content.

Updates for editors

• The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
• The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
• Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using __HIDDENCAT__ (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848.
• The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
• The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
• The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The function signature for mw.util.addPortletLink() has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); use mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of addPortletLink() and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement.
• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Question from Cats780 (20:25, 14 June 2026)

Hi fellow Cat User Rusty! How do I help clear vandalism and how do I know what’s vandalism or not. Cats780 (talk) 20:25, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

@Cats780: Hey there and welcome!

Wikipedia:Vandalism is a long page but has a good description of what is and isn't vandalism. However, I don't recall reading this at first, when I was just getting to learn editing. I believe the best way to learn is by doing, so I participated in Recent Changes Patrol. At first, I only reverted edits that were obviously vandalism (like maybe an edit just adds "adsfdsaf" to an article), and there were many more I wasn't sure about, so I left them for other users. (But note that now, as an experienced user, I revert more than just vandalism--adding unsourced content about living people, for example, is not necessarily vandalism, but can be reverted)

Also, there are ways to filter the recent changes page, so that only edits that are more likely to be vandalism are displayed. Let me know if you'd like more info on that!

Feel free to ask if you have any more questions! Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 00:29, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-25

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 Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use class=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page.
• Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding data-sort-order="desc" to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.

Updates for editors

• The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
• The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
• The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
• Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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Question from Blabbradley (16:54, 15 June 2026)

Hello! I have been editing some pages on languages and adding interlinear glosses with no issue, but today after putting interlinear glosses in the Khwarshi Language page, the rest of the article below them is in italics and I'm not sure why. Do you know how this could have happened? Thank you! --Blabbradley (talk) 16:54, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@Blabbradley: Looks like there was a stray <i> in the code you inserted, so I removed it. The interlinear gloss is now giving another error, that the gloss doesn't have the same number of words as the original Khwarshi text, however. Could you take a look at that? ~ rusty ^meow ~ 21:36, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks so much, don't know how I missed that. And yes, the interlinear error I know how to fix. Have a great day! Blabbradley (talk) 14:20, 16 June 2026 (UTC)

@Blabbradley: You're welcome, and thank you!! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 00:16, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

Question from Minimac989 (19:11, 18 June 2026)

Note: Minimac989's mentor Jeffrey R. Clark is away.

How do I publish article --Minimac989 (talk) 19:11, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

@Minimac989: If you want to submit a page, you can create a draft at WP:AFC, but please note that promotional content is not allowed and writing about yourself is strongly discouraged. Thanks! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 21:26, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

User Page

Hi again rusty

i just made my user page and it looks a little blah, can you give me some tips on how to make it look interesting? Cats780 (talk) 00:44, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

@Cats780: Hello! Perhaps take a look at some userboxes you could use. ~ rusty ^meow ~ 21:40, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Hi again again rusty, I use Wikipedia on mobile so I can’t input the user box shortcut. Cats780 (talk) 16:03, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

@Cats780: I think there's still a way to do it; I assume you mean the template. You can switch to "source editing" when editing your userpage using the pencil icon, and type in the code. Or, you can type {{ (two brackets) and then a popup will let you to select the templates.

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 22:15, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

Question

Why do Pacific Typhoon Seasons use 10-minute sustained? And also where can I find the star Stephenson 2-18 and VY Canis Majoris (VY CMa)? I'm interested in reading on their possible death of black hole or neutron star, anyway that's all! ケシュラ・ミルマオ (talk) 11:33, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

@ケシュラ・ミルマオ: I'm not sure why Pacific typhoon seasons use a "10-minute sustained" (I think you're talking about wind speed?), but you might want to ask someone that knows. You could use the "Talk" (discussion) page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Weather, located at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Weather.

Also, the article for the star Stephenson 2-18 appears to be at Stephenson 2 DFK 1, and VY Canis Majoris has an article too--next time, you can use the search bar at the top to search for these articles.

Feel free to ask if you need any more help. Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 23:00, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Sorry, late reply, anyways thank you for responding to my question, I appreciate it! Farewell! ケシュラ・ミルマオ (talk) 13:48, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

@ケシュラ・ミルマオ: You're welcome! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 21:27, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

What wikipages can I edit that are that lies in the studies of Meteorology or Astrophysics? I just started high school and thought, 'What if I edit pages in Wikipedia that are synchronized with my fondness of space and weather"?, alas, here I am.

𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 one another, Have 𝗙𝗔𝗜𝗧𝗛 and believe in yourself, Have 𝗛𝗨𝗠𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬 all over you and help people, strengthen your 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗘, Swear your 𝗟𝗢𝗬𝗔𝗟𝗧𝗬 to yourself and others because you are 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗦.

Early thank you for answering! ケシュラ・ミルマオ (talk) 04:29, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

@ケシュラ・ミルマオ: Check out the General meterology task force of WikiProject weather and WikiProject Astrology! ~ rusty ^meow ~ 18:29, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much, you're much of a help! ケシュラ・ミルマオ (talk) 05:54, 20 June 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
  Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
  And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?
  Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
  And other new research publications.

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
  Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
  A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
  Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
  Nice things around the world.

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
  We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
  Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
  WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
  Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
  Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

• Comix: Take your turn
  In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
  It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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Vandalism again

Hi rusty, following up on my vandalism question how do I know what is vandalism and what is not I saw that the keyboard smash example is pretty common so there could be other types of vandalism. How can I point them out and how can I know which is which from actual sincere writing to pure dumb rude stuff Cats780 (talk) 00:11, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

Firstly, as I said before, if you're not sure about something you can always leave it for another editor.

Here's a few edits I picked up from a quick Recent Changes patrol:

• An edit like this one is good to revert, with a removal without explanation; "unexplained content removal" ({{uw-delete1}}) might be better than vandalism, but I'd still revert it nevertheless
• This edit or this one as well I would not be so sure about; best to leave this for other editors, to avoid getting into an edit war or heated debate about something I don't know anything about.
• The ability to tell "sincere writing to pure dumb rude stuff" best depends on your natural intuition; there's no one way to do it, and it's not something I'd be able to teach. But anyways, if you're not sure about it, leave it for another editor!
• Edits like this one or this one might be better considered "Test edits" ({{uw-test1}}) but I would still revert them.

Also, don't forget to warn users after you revert their edits on their talk page. I think you should be autoconfirmed, so Twinkle is a cool little tool that can help with reverting and warning.

Happy editing, ~ rusty ^meow ~ 04:20, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks again rusty!

I actually warned someone about saying that Oliver Tree’s crash was an assassination.’ Cats780 (talk) 14:14, 21 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-26

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

• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

Updates for editors

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
• Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The skipcaptcha right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis.
• Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
• The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.

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