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Barry Adeola known by his stage name Barry0, is a Nigerian rapper, songwriter, singer, record producer, recording artist, and stage performer born on July 8, 1998, is a rising Nigerian Afro-fusion and street-pop artist from Ekpoma and the founder of B.M.T Records & ENT. Known for his emotional storytelling, motivational lyrics, and energetic sound, his music blends real-life struggles, hustle, love, pain, and ambition into relatable melodies inspired by Afrobeat and modern street culture.
With songs like “Never Slacc” and “My Life” featuring KKB, alongside his upcoming project “The Last Real One,” Barry0 continues to build a strong identity through consistency, originality, and passion for authentic music. --Barry0bmt (talk) 04:12, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! My talk page isn't meant for requesting the creation of an article. You might want to check out the articles for creation process. From your username and the subject you're describing I assume you might have a conflict of interest with the subject, so I'd encourage you to check our rules about that. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 18:36, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
June 2026 GAN Backlog Drive notice
[edit]Hi there! Thanks for signing up for the June 2026 GAN backlog drive! We have noticed that you have made little to no reviews during the drive. We, the coordinators, would appreciate if you'd pick up at least one GAN to review until the end of the month! Thank you. Vacant0 (talk • contribs) 12:25, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hey! Thanks for the ping, I'm still working on my review of Truth, but some other things have come up. Hopefully finishing that soon. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 18:33, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
Question from GardenStateEditor (19:18, 18 June 2026)
[edit]Hi! I'm new to Wikipedia and I created an article in the sandbox. I was wondering if you could take a look at provide feedback? --GardenStateEditor (talk) 19:18, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi! Welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for disclosing your COI with your draft. I noticed that you submitted it thought the Article for Creation process, so another editor will be along eventually to review the submission. At first glance I would suggest that you take a look at our manual of style, using symbols like "®" in text is generally not appropriate. The tone you use also likely falls afoul of our rules about promotional language. Particularly because you have a COI, the editor reviewing your submission is likely to take a closer look at the sources, I noticed most of them are in Italia, which is fine, but it does mean that it may take longer for it to be reviewed (you probably need to wait for an editor who speaks Italian). Make sure that the sources support the notability of the organization. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 18:28, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you for the feedback! I'll make some adjustments GardenStateEditor (talk) 19:10, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
Question from Justfine59 (19:34, 18 June 2026)
[edit]Hi! I was on the page “CAN-SPAM Act” and I noticed that there were multiple cited claims about the first conviction under that act, probably among other things. How do I do the thing where there is a superscripted note that contests what’s been said, and what is that called? --Justfine59 (talk) 19:34, 18 June 2026 (UTC)
- There are a couple of templates that you might be referring to, for example Disputed inline. There's a whole list of these types of maintenance templates here. Depending on the editor that you're using you can insert a template by, in the visual editor clicking on the insert template button, or in the source editor adding something like
{{disputed inline}}. You should note that the use of the templates does have rules (so for example the disputed tempalte should be used if there is an editorial dispute or you might use {{Dubious}} if the source might not be reliable. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 18:47, 19 June 2026 (UTC)- Thank you! That should be helpful. Justfine59 (talk) 18:48, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
Question from Swapnilsparsh (17:37, 19 June 2026)
[edit]Hello and thank you for welcoming me to Wikipedia community. I want to contribute to edits so can you help me understand how do we find articles that need changes or improvements also if any there is no page made for any topic then how can we make a new one. Thanks --Swapnilsparsh (talk) 17:37, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
- There are a number of ways to find things to do on Wikipedia! On your homepage there should be a module on the left with suggestions of edits you could make and articles to edit based on interests that you tell it. You might also want to look at the task center. If you want to create an article I would encourage you to go though the Articles for creation process. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 18:50, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
Hi Mentor I am finding today's Wikipedia technoogy obfuscatory and need guidance in making additions and corrections to content. Ironically, I created the content myself- but a lifetime ago when I was younger and it was simpler. The page concerns my father, Max Harris, and recent developments. I also want to shore up the questions thrown in about sources. Can you guide? Best Samela --SamelaSH (talk) 05:15, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Samela, welcome to Wikipedia! I'm not sure which Max Harris you're talking about (we have articles about multiple people by that name). Could you specify which article and what questions you have about editing it? Because you're related to the article subject, you have a conflict of interest so the best way to go about making the edits is probably by using the COI edit request wizard which will create a topic on the article talk page for another editor to review. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 10:07, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- That is satisfactory, of course. Who can resist working with a wizard? The Max Harris in whom I am interested is indeed my father, the Angry Penguin and subject of the Ern Malley literary hoax and there is an interesting update relevant. I've always liked how swift Wikipedia is with the news.
- I'm writing about it all and I want to see the facts recorded correctly on Wikipedia which I have supported from its very beginning. (Interviewed Jimmy Wales a lifetime ago and just heard him talking at Sydney Writers' Week.) But I am an elderly journo and not an academic. Mentors and wizards are brilliant. Thanks so much for your prompt attention. Solidarity right back at you! ~2026-35764-81 (talk) 12:47, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
Question from MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY C.I.P on Draft:MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY (14:59, 20 June 2026)
[edit]I want to make a Draft --MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY C.I.P (talk) 14:59, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- The instructions at Wikipedia:Articles for creation § Creating an article should be helpful for you! In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 15:33, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
Question from MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY C.I.P (21:30, 20 June 2026)
[edit]Hello? Can i appeal for Speedy Deletion? --MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY C.I.P (talk) 21:30, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY C.I.P, it was already deleted speedily, and if you publish that again you will likely be blocked. If you do not understand why that was tagged as promotional, then Wikipedia is probably not the place for you. Drmies (talk) 21:32, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- what is my wrong? MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY C.I.P (talk) 21:33, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi Moakker, I didn't see the draft before it was deleted so I'm not sure exactly what the offending content was but I'm sure that Drmies followed our policies on deletion when deleting the page. I would encourage you to read our rules about promotional articles and conflicts of interest. You should also be familiar with our rules about notability before trying write an article again. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 22:18, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
- what is my wrong? MOAKKER AHMED CHOWDHURY C.I.P (talk) 21:33, 20 June 2026 (UTC)
Question from Liwwyyyyyy (23:25, 21 June 2026)
[edit]How can I post or make a brand new wikipedia page --Liwwyyyyyy (talk) 23:25, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
- Hi, welcome to Wikipedia! I would encourage you to check out your first article and go through the articles for creation process if you're trying to publish an article. You should know that writing new articles is hard and I would also encourage you to get some experience editing existing articles and finding reliable sources before trying to write something from scratch. In solidarity, ScrubbedFalcon (talk) 10:17, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-26
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the
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- 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.
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- 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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Nieuwsbrief 152 Wikimedia Nederland
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On 25 June 2026, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fisherman's knot, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Inuit peoples made thread out of baleen connected with fisherman's knots? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fisherman's knot. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Fisherman's knot), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to nominate it.
Hello. How do I create my article? --Daitlwar (talk) 22:37, 27 June 2026 (UTC)
- Daitlwar, see Help:Your first article. And welcome to Wikipedia! Mathglot (talk) 19:56, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
Verify my account --MUGHAL787 (talk) 08:51, 29 June 2026 (UTC)
- MUGHAL787, your account exists, as evidenced in the presence of your comment above, as shown in your contribution history, along with your other edit at Jin Watanabe (architect). Welcome to Wikipedia! Mathglot (talk) 19:54, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-27
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- As part of the Account Creation Experiments, the Growth team tested adding a user account icon in the mobile web header for logged-out users, providing direct access to "Create account" and "Log in" actions. The experiment increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality or constructive edit rates. The feature will now be rolled out to all Wikimedia Foundation wikis on mobile web in the first week of July.
- After a successful experiment, logged-in users who did not confirm their email address when their account was created see a new banner asking them to complete that process. This helps reduce the risk that users get locked out of their account, and makes account email addresses overall more reliable. This is part of the Account Security project.
- An update to Search is refining how the
-prefix:behaves when used to exclude results. Previously, using-prefix:with negation could unintentionally broaden search results by adding the namespaces included in the search scope, leading to confusing behavior for users expecting a straightforward exclusion filter. With the update,-prefix:will now strictly exclude matching page titles as intended and may display a warning if the relevant namespace has not been explicitly selected. The behavior ofprefix:without negation however remains unchanged. - View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where reviewers using the Page Curation toolbar were not automatically subscribed to talk page discussions they started has now been fixed. Reviewers will now receive notifications when someone replies to those discussions.
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- Starting June 29th, automated downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website will be subject to the user-agent policy. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services remains unaffected. This is a follow up to the announcement made in the 2026/25 issue of Tech News.
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Question from Heathertheempress on Microsoft Teams (07:00, 2 July 2026)
[edit]hello so how can i open the chats --Heathertheempress (talk) 07:00, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – July 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2026).
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- A request for comment asks whether the criteria for autoconfirmed and extended confirmed should be modified.
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- The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created for any users to use to find an IP range. (phab:T268429)
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Arbitration
- Following a series of motions, changes to the contentious topics procedure to restructure awareness have been implemented.
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You're invited to the Mentorship noticeboard
[edit]Hi, ScrubbedFalcon. You are cordially invited to the brand new Wikipedia:Mentorship noticeboard! I get the impression that we mentors are each toiling in our own cubbyhole or hamster wheel, as the case may be, quietly answering mentee questions with little to no interaction with other mentors. I think we have a lot to learn from each other, and I know it will make me feel better just having the opportunity to interact with you and other mentors there, and I hope it will for you, too. Look forward to seeing you there! Mathglot (talk) 08:41, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
Hi Please tell me what is wrong in the next paragraph. There are two more principle that should be kept in mind.
- "The Tiger Mouth"; Hands are relaxed, fingers slightly apart. The thumb is away from the others fingers. The opening created by the thumb and the index finger is called "Tiger's Mouth.
- "Roll the Ball"; This is a transition move seen in many parts of the exercise. The arms are cross at the middle of the forearm in front of the chest. The upper palm facing down and the lower palm facing up . The movement is similar to roiling a ball between the forarms.
--BagoutGuy (talk) 13:48, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @BagoutGuy, if this question is in regards to Taoist tai chi, you are likely to get a more informed response at the talk page: Talk:Taoist tai chi. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 15:20, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-28
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- In preparation for Celebrate Women campaign planned for March 2027, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Content Enablement team has launched a 22-question survey to better understand technical contributions by women+ (anyone who identifies as a woman) across Wikimedia projects. The survey takes approximately 15–20 minutes to complete and will remain open until 20 July 2026. The questions are also available on-wiki for review in advance.
- The Score extension now supports rendering music scores as SVG images in addition to PNG, addressing a long-standing feature request and resolving historical image quality issues. Both formats are now provided to clients, with PNG in the
srcattribute and SVG in thesrcsetattribute. - The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. It was enabled on French Wikipedia, bringing total progress to covering 78.9% of Wikipedia page views. Rollout to English Wikipedia desktop will progress through this week.
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In depth
- The Wikimedia Hackathon 2026 recap blog post is now live. It highlights the projects, sessions, and social activities from this year’s event, and shares initial plans for the 2027 Wikimedia Hackathon.
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Question from SoumyajitDas1 (14:14, 6 July 2026)
[edit]Hello sir , I'm very much interested in wikipedia editing and creating custom page. My local area place like school, collage and other areas are not list in the wikipedia so I have few questions regarding topics are : It's is ok? If the place is not popular but it's presense in the internet like google map and custom website but it's not has list in wikipedia page to create?
If I did any mistake can I able to fix it ? If add local information about history and related facts. Lastly if I have biased my any place in my local I can't describe as negative language? --SoumyajitDas1 (talk) 14:14, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @SoumyajitDas1,
- Many articles on Wikipedia are missing information about local schools and businesses because they do not appear in reliable sources. This is normal. If you find a book or other article about local history, you can improve articles using that source, not with anything you know personally. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 16:29, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
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Hello,
Why can't I find a draft that I need to finish editing?
Thanks --Vanetmay (talk) 18:43, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @Vanetmay,
- Your work is only saved on Wikipedia when you click (or tap) the "Publish" button. I do not see any other saved edits in your history so it may have been only on your local computer. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 16:30, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- Then what's the point of "drafts"? Vanetmay (talk) 23:14, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- Drafts are like articles, but are not found through Google or other search engines, as it is assumed they are a work in progress. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 13:43, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
- Then what's the point of "drafts"? Vanetmay (talk) 23:14, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Question from Hyper Wizard (11:48, 9 July 2026)
[edit]hello, can I create any articles? which are personal or not? I need guidance on that --Hyper Wizard (talk) 11:48, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @Hyper Wizard, the best advice I can give you is to read Help:Your first article, if you are truly dedicated to creating a new article. Why not start with small edits? -- Reconrabbit (talk) 16:31, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
how do I create a new page? --Thul3t1d (talk) 16:53, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
Question from RanaBerryTheEsotericMusician (14:42, 10 July 2026)
[edit]hii, There are specific niches where editors specialize, does Wikipedia make this clear through specific roles or personalized recommendations based on topics of interest? If so, are there ways to connect within these niches through discussion groups provided or encouraged by Wikipedia? If possible, could you cite examples, such as spaces focused on music? --RanaBerryTheEsotericMusician (talk) 14:42, 10 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hi @RanaBerryTheEsotericMusician, I'm not aware of personalized recommendation systems besides User:SuggestBot, which will deliver aticles that you might want to edit, but many editors collaborate through what are called WikiProjects. The broadest WikiProject that applies to music is of course WP:WikiProject Music, but there are subgenres within it, like Metal. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 16:34, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Question from Tpope33 on 2021 Major League Baseball draft (21:13, 12 July 2026)
[edit]How can you add a ball players name I. The 2021 mlb draft. He is not listed? --Tpope33 (talk) 21:13, 12 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hi @Tpope33, the list of drafted players only includes names that have Wikipedia articles or are otherwise notable (like Samuel Mendez for being the oldest drafted player). Who is missing? -- Reconrabbit (talk) 18:19, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Question from Jack Coyote (09:52, 13 July 2026)
[edit]Hello! Is there a way to find out why my edits have been reverted? --Jack Coyote (talk) 09:52, 13 July 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @Jack Coyote, if you look at the history of the page you were editing, you can see the edit summary of everyone who contributed. For Economics of the arts and literature, you can see that MrOllie restored an old version of the page because of the addition of "inappropriate company namedrops and promo". If you dispute this characterization of your editing, you could bring it up at the talk page of that article. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:30, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-29
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- Revise Tone helps newcomers identify passages in Wikipedia articles that may contain non-encyclopedic language and encourages them to consider revising the tone. The feature was A/B tested on the Arabic, English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias, where newcomer task completion rates increased by 38.7% compared to the default Copyedit task, with no decrease in edit quality. The test ended on July 9, and the feature is now available for everyone on these wikis, configurable via Community Configuration. The plan is to release Revise Tone to more wikis.
- The community configuration that allows automatic removal of inactive mentors based on configurable criteria will be enabled on Thursday 16, on some wikis to keep mentor lists up to date. Mentors are experienced contributors who opt in to help new users on-wiki through the Growth Features. Administrators can now prepare the settings via Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship; they will take effect starting Thursday.
- View all 38 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some users of the Wikipedia Android app were logged out immediately after signing in, preventing them from staying logged in and editing pages, has now been fixed.
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- Editing a page via user scripts or gadgets was causing watchlist labels that the user had assigned to that page to reset. This has now been fixed.
- To work around a Safari bug (see phab:T425211), on Parsoid-enabled wikis, wikilink hrefs now use absolute urls instead of protocol-relative urls. REST API output remains unchanged and continue to use protocol-relative urls. Gadgets, user scripts, bots, and CSS might need to be adapted if they relied on the presence of protocol-relative urls in wikilink hrefs.
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In depth
- The Wikimedia Foundation’s Experiment Platform Team has published a blog post reflecting on its first year of structured experimentation. It highlights successful experiments such as Paste Check, Reference Check, and Tone Check, which improved editing outcomes and have been rolled out to more users, as well as experiments that did not lead to product changes. Read more.
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Question from Robbery187 (00:29, 14 July 2026)
[edit]fallllllllllll --Robbery187 (talk) 00:29, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
Question from Good human356 (07:46, 15 July 2026)
[edit]I want to change false images on one wikipedia page, where someone has put other unrelated pic --Good human356 (talk) 07:46, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Removal from mentor list + other notes regarding inactivity
[edit]Hello ScrubbedFalcon, I have removed your name from the list of mentors, as you have been inactive for several weeks and a decent number of your assigned mentees have been asking questions. Normally I would set your status as "away", but I have no time frame for when you will return. For the same reason, I have vacated your review of the article Truth and returned it to the queue.
You are free to add your name to the list of mentors again once you return to editing. -- Reconrabbit (talk) 15:18, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
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May 2026 Administrator Elections – RFC Phase
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Tech News: 2026-30
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- The Reader Experience team has incorporated community feedback around the placement of watchstar and watchlist buttons for the Reading Lists beta feature, which would allow for saving articles for later reading – a wishlist item to bring the functionality to web. Editors are invited to enable the beta feature to test it out and share their thoughts.
- Suggestion Mode offers edit suggestions within the VisualEditor for improving Wikipedia articles. All suggestions are community-configurable. The TextMatch feature is a way for volunteers to create custom local suggestions. The feature searches in articles for strings of text, and now includes support for regular expressions. This gives volunteers greater precision and flexibility over the kinds of local suggestions they can create. Note: Suggestions can be targeted based on the edit count of the person editing as well as other aspects of the page. You can find examples from other communities for inspiration, including TextMatches that detect: typos, grammar-errors, potential advertisements, clichés, incorrect dash or hyphen usage, non-specific time keywords, outdated names, and more. Any feedback is appreciated.
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the SVG Translate tool could use an outdated version of a file, causing existing translations to be overwritten when new ones were uploaded, has now been fixed. Overall, in the last quarter from April – June 2026 about 337 community tasks were resolved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
Updates for technical contributors
- On Parsoid-enabled wikis, Parsoid now renders a maximum of 1,250 images per page. A new tracking category, "media-limit-reached", will be soon made available to identify pages where this limit is reached, making it easier to find content whose media output may have been restricted during rendering. See phab:T430854 for more information and to provide feedback.
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Tech News: 2026-31
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Content Translation now supports dark mode, fulfilling a Community Wishlist request. This brings the tool in line with the accessibility features available in the Vector 2022 and Minerva skins, helping reduce visual fatigue for users translating content. - DiscussionTools' source mode and the 2017 wikitext editor will now offer autocomplete for links (
[[), templates ({{), HTML and parser tags (<), and magic words (__), making it quicker and easier to insert links, templates, and other wiki markup while editing. - The Readers Growth team has concluded its experiment with mobile page previews and will not roll out the feature. Page Previews are a pop-up bottom sheet that appears when readers tap a blue link, showing a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and an option to open the article. The experiment showed flat retention and negative indicator metrics, suggesting that mobile web readers preferred navigating directly to linked articles rather than using page previews.
- The Reader Experience team has seen encouraging early results from the Reading Lists feature, with 93% of participating users reporting that it was useful. Reading Lists help active readers save articles for future reading and support their learning goals on Wikimedia projects. The team plans further improvements before expanding the feature to more users.
- The Explore Feed Refresh initiative was tested with new and casual Wikipedia app readers. The refreshed feed helps readers discover new and relevant content. After a 10.5% increase in engagement with the feed, Wikimedia Apps team has decided to scale the Home Feed redesign to iOS with the learnings from the Android release applied.
- View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where subject names in the Article Guidance feature were displayed with incorrect capitalization on French Wikipedia, has now been fixed. Subject names will now follow the correct capitalization rules for the language.
Updates for technical contributors
- After running several Account Creation Experiments to improve registration completion rates, a new version of the username field on Create Account has been rolled out. It includes a popover summarizing the username policy to provide clearer guidance during account creation. As part of this change, the messages
createacct-helpusernameandcreateacct-username-helpthat several communities have configured will no longer be used. If communities want to customize the guidance shown in the new popover, they can instead edit the following messages:createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet1,createacct-username-policy-popover-bullet2, andcreateacct-username-policy-popover-bullet3. - Later this week, the CodeMirror syntax highlighter will offer themes. The themes can be picked from a dropdown menu in the full CodeMirror preferences dialog. For wikitext, available themes are default, colorblind-friendly (previously the colorblind preference option on Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing) and no-highlighting. For code languages (i.e., CSS/JavaScript/JSON/Vue/Lua), there are several themes available. These same themes will eventually be available for wikitext, too.
- From now on, wikis can restrict editing in the "User" namespace to only the page owner and certain user groups. Read the configuration documentation to learn more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Updates for editors
- The Reader Experience team has developed a patch demo that wraps the page toolbar onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, which can occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
- The Reader Experience team is planning to launch Reading Lists, a Community Wishlist item, which is currently available to try in beta, as a full feature in September. Before then, volunteer translator help is needed for string translations into a number of languages. The feature supports reading and learning goals on Wikipedia.
- Next week, the table of contents on Wikimedia Commons file pages will be improved by consolidating the file page table of contents with the page table of contents. This will make it easier to understand a file page’s structure, navigate to specific sections, and share links to individual sections.
- View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where some TIFF images failed to load after clicking their thumbnail, causing a broken image to be displayed instead of the full-size image, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The variable and function selector in AbuseFilter has been updated to support search and autocomplete. It will allow filter maintainers to find the desired variable or function more quickly.
- The MJPEG and VP8 formats are removed from the video player. The MP4 format (MPEG-4 Part 2) is added instead, which provides higher quality videos to older iPhone devices. It may take a few weeks to retroactively update all existing videos. The default format for modern devices stays the same (VP9/WebM).
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Administrators' newsletter – August 2026
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2026).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RfC, the 30-day requirement for extended-confirmed status now begins after an account's first edit instead of its registration (T431060).
Technical news
- Inactive editors can now be removed as mentors at Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship automatically.
- The Suggested Edits' Revise Tone feature is now enabled. It encourages editors to identify and revise non-neutral language in articles.
Miscellaneous
- The Unreferenced articles August 2026 backlog drive is underway. Help to add references to 47,000 articles.
- The Articles for creation August 2026 backlog drive is under way. Help to review 4,500+ drafts.
Tech News: 2026-33
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Updates for editors
- A new ChartWizard is now available on Wikimedia Commons for users interested in creating charts from their own data. The wizard makes the Chart extension more beginner-friendly by allowing editors to create charts, such as bar and pie charts, without needing to use JSON. Users can still switch to the JSON editor if they prefer. Feedback on the new tool is welcome on the wish talk page.
- View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Wikipedia iOS app’s Picture of the Day widget displayed the same image every day instead of updating daily, has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- Math formula SVG images will soon be generated in the browser instead of on the server. MathML continues to be generated on the server and renders in the browser without JavaScript. Wikibooks will see this change on 12 August, Wikisource on 19 August and Wikipedia from 20-27 August. You can try this by selecting "MathML with SVG image (client side MathJax rendering)" in your preferences. This change is part of deprecating RESTBase and deprecating Mathoid.
- Category pages will soon support sorting entries by the time they are added to a category. This will make it easier to find recently or long-standing categorized pages. It will also improve workflows for maintenance categories such as deletion backlogs and other time-based review tasks. You can use
cldsort=timestampURL argument in category view to sort the entries. - Gadgets and user scripts on Wikimedia wikis may now use ES2018 features and ES2019 features in JavaScript code. Previously, the platform only allowed up to ES2017. MediaWiki validates the source code to protect functionality from syntax errors and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Tech News: 2026-34
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Weekly highlight
- The Worklist feature for the Event Registration tool is now live on all Wikimedia wikis. With Worklist, event organizers can add the articles their event will focus on directly to the event page. The Worklist also powers Event Pathways which notifies other editors of the upcoming or ongoing event when they edit an article featured in the event's Worklist. This is the minimum viable version (MVP), and feedback is welcome. Organizers are encouraged to try the feature. A hands-on Worklist Setup Workshop will take place on 18 August at 16:00 UTC and 19 August at 11:00 UTC.
Updates for editors
- Special:ShortPages displays short pages by their size, but in many cases it gets filled with disambiguations and soft redirects, making it harder to find the short articles themselves. Starting this weekend, you will be able to choose not to include an article in the special page by adding the magic word
__EXPECTSHORTPAGE__. - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Bole (
w:bol:) - Starting the week of August 17, the page toolbar will wrap onto two lines when there is not enough horizontal space for all the buttons. This is a fully merged patch from the Reader Experience team which aims to reduce crowding in the Vector 2022 toolbar, that may occur on some language Wikipedias at certain screen widths.
- View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, uploading large files to Wikimedia Commons has become more stable and less prone to failure following some fixes related to the “Could not acquire lock” upload error.
Updates for technical contributors
- Debian Bullseye will reach the end of its Long Term Support on 31 August 2026. Some Cloud VPS projects still have instances running Debian Bullseye. Maintainers of those projects are encouraged to migrate to Debian Bookworm or Debian Trixie. A migration guide is available to help with the process, and users may also want to consider whether their workload is better suited to Toolforge. If you need help or cannot complete the migration by 31 August, please contact the Cloud VPS admins as soon as possible. Read more.
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Organized Labour September Editing Event
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You're invited to join the Organized Labour community editing event, a cross-wiki event taking place throughout September 2026!
The campaign brings together Wikimedians interested in improving coverage of organised labour, workers, trade unions, and labour history. We have confirmed collaborations with Wikipedia language editions in English, Dutch, Persian, Serbo-Croatian and French. If you want to add other language editions or other wiki projects you are strongly encouraged to do so! This event spans geography and languages!
This is a one-time invitation. You're receiving it because you previously signed a petition related to Wiki Workers United (WWU). We hope you'll join us!
Regards ~ Shushugah (talk) 14:19, 19 August 2026 (UTC)