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Question from JamesOB12 (20:57, 19 August 2025)

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Hi Robert, I am new to this so have started with a couple of articles where I’ve found a gap on things I know about. One is on native North America - a renowned anthropologist and the other fly fishing - an iconic reel. The one on the fishing reel I published directly but the other on the anthropologist is going through review (it’s been 5 weeks). Would you recommend one route over the other for future articles? Many thanks --JamesOB12 (talk) 20:57, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Question from CookieMonster135 on Igor Rybakov (20:06, 24 August 2025)

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Hi, How do I create a citation? And what are they for? --CookieMonster135 (talk) 20:07, 24 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@CookieMonster135, please see this help page for the instructions on how to create a citation. Citations are to help other editors and readers to verify that the statements you write are supported with sources of information. – robertsky (talk) 20:14, 24 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

thank you! CookieMonster135 (talk) 20:18, 24 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-35

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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

Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]
On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [11]
Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [12]
Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [13][14]
One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [15]
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Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [16]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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Question from Zimbatech6213ports62 (15:21, 26 August 2025)

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Hello how do I create and upload information in Wikipedia --Zimbatech6213ports62 (talk) 15:21, 26 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

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