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I received an excerpt from a Mexican paper (photo cut out of the paper with the caption) that gives me the source I needed. It's a photo of the person who I wrote about with a caption that references the act of protest in her youth. This is the one area where I don't have a detailed source because she was a minor. Unfortunately, the source does not cite her by name (though the picture is clearly her compared to compaign photos at the same time and she is wearing a shirt for her father's presidential campaign). The caption lists her as "young juvenile...".
I've tried searching by the caption in spanish but did not get anywhere. This is complicated by the fact that it's from the 1980's and from another country in another language. Do you have any recommendations on how to get to the source? I have 5 potential papers to start researching from but none of their archives sort by caption. I'm assuing it can't be referenced if I can't locate the source but want to make sure. ArtSpaz (talk) 15:09, 11 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@ArtSpaz: Sorry for the late reply. I unfortunately don't have any recommendations, but once your account is 30 days old and has 500 edits, you can access The Wikipedia Library, which provides free access to paywalled resources like databases. ~ Rustymeow ~ 15:40, 12 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
@ケシュラ・ミルマオ: Hello Kesh and welcome to the English Wikipedia!
If you believe that the change is not controversial, feel free to go ahead and make the edit. It's okay if discussion is raised later, because being bold is one of Wikipedia's guidelines.
For controversial changes, I'd recommend discussing the edit on the talk page if you're not sure.
By the way, I noticed your username is in Japanese. If you speak Japanese, I recommend that you check out the Japanese Wikipedia.
Actually I'm not Japanese, I'm Filipino that's why I always edit 2025 Pacific typhoon season, By the way, if you edit something but it's actually wrong but no one noticed, could you still get banned even if someone didn't notice ケシュラ・ミルマオ (talk) 22:20, 23 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
@ケシュラ・ミルマオ: No, you won't get blocked (our equivalent of being banned) if no one notices. Even if people do notice, they will understand if it's an accident, but you might be blocked if you intentionally add incorrect information, so please try your best. ~ Rustymeow ~ 09:22, 29 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
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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
The Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter. [1]
Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration feature.
For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
The Beta Cluster wikis have been moved from beta.wmflabs.org to beta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task.
WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon. [2]
Hello, my name is Zachary Boyington. I would like to know if you are interested in writing my story here on Wikipedia. Please let me know or call me at (Redacted).
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Hi Rusty, I uploaded an article/a page on Mick Morris English Musician and Author at 14:45 on 15-Feb-25. I'm not a very experienced Wikipedia user and I wonder if there are any edits or anything else I need to do to the article? Look forward to hearing from you. Nick --NickyC123 (talk) 09:48, 26 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
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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.
Weekly highlight
The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. [3]
On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [4]
Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily. Aaron Liu (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
WikiTextExpander by Polygnotus, is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.
CanonNi: AlertAssistant has been fixed and rewritten using OOUI instead of Twinkle's Morebits. Such modern, very tool. (Do note that the maintainer has since become inactive.)
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader has been updated to use modern JS APIs that replace the browser's URL bar with the link you clicked on to load in place. The "back" (and "forward") buttons also work now. Cool, innit?
andrybak: Unsigned helper no longer shows an error when the message to sign was added in the earliest 50 revisions of a page's history. This is especially relevant to pages with short histories.
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
In breaking m:Tech/News, Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons are now also available. The documentation has examples.
Appo/Globstory integrates OpenHistoryMap, updating the map whenever hovering/clicking on a ___location or year, the latter of which changes the map to be (hopefully) accurate to the year selected. It's pretty interesting.
linkinfo Somewhat similar to WP:NavPops, Awesome Aasim/linkinfo(pictured) provides a collection of links to replace the right-click context menu, presented beautifully.
PreviousDiscussions provides a link to search for your username on subpages of another user's userpage and talkpage conveniently.
Twineeea/noRedLinks brings you to the "read" instead of the "create" tab when you visit a red link. Contemplate life's mysteries as you stare into the blank! Deeply.
No, this is not going to be the enduring tradition of S++ for the future. This was meant to be a joke for the special occasion on the first day of the fourth month but was delayed by four months because I'm lazy.
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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
Editors can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences. [5]
Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page. [6]
Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available. [7]
Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module now exists to load Codex icons. [8][9]
Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. [10]
Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [11]
Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.
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hello ! just a formal greeting may be like ,first(ly) I would like to know where are You from and what do You do for living and How much do You earn in a month ~___$ and can i create m own topic like i want to write about something that feels illogical like What if i say there is nothing like matter do exist in this Universe because at the quantum level they are just vibrating quantum fields and string theory ! Quarks i know this feels like i also learnt from AI and Wikipedia and overall Internet but i want to write things like i want in my own way that even a 1111Days kid can understand !> --ROCKY RANJAN (talk) 20:45, 7 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
First of all, I prefer not to share too much information about myself, other than that I live in the United States and am a student.
Yes, you can create articles on Wikipedia, but I wouldn't recommend creating an article about how matter doesn't exist in the Universe. That would violate our policies and guidelines such as that Wikipedia is not a publisher of original thought, and that all content must be verifiable.
If you want to contribute factual information to our physics articles, however, you are more than welcome to do that.
I recommend checking out the Introduction and Task Center to get an understanding of Wikipedia.
I've added back the decline message, which includes a submit button. For future reference, don't remove the decline message. ~ Rustymeow ~ 13:31, 16 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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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
The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [12]
The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [13]
Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [14]
The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage. [15]
Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the mw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected. [16]
No, I am not a "mod" in that sense (you are likely referring to admins), but I do have access to some advanced tools like one-click rollback and new page review.
Latest comment: 10 days ago2 comments2 people in discussion
Hello! I have a tricky situation on my hands. You see, the name Hiram is attested to mean "high born" and yet nobody has given a single source for this. In hunting for a source I've only found a published attestation that Hiram Abiff is "the trusty counsellor
of King Solomon, for the house of YHWH".
My theory is that someone saw that Hiram I was a king, thought that Hiram was a kingly name for that, and then went on to profess that Hiram meant "kingly" in baby name websites. I posit that Hiram could have meant something entirely different in his time. This would be like the titles Caesar or Augustus to those after.
I think, meditating on this further, that I should erase any attestation that Hiram means anything. Surely Hiram's mother didn't mean "trusty counsellor to Solomon" when naming him, but it's the only meaning anyone with a paper has ever proposed. I'm tremendously confused by all of this.
If you could help me find a paper stating that Hiram means "high born", or "exalted one" then I would be greatly appreciative. This whole thing is tremendously confusing and I don't even know where to begin. --Hirom With A Mom (talk) 18:50, 17 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Hey Rusty, I hope you are doing well. I have a question regarding article creation. I usually read about new and well-known companies, and I have good knowledge in this ___domain. I would like to contribute to Wikipedia on this topic. I also have two or three company article ideas in mind. Could you guide me on how I can start writing about it? --IamSandyy (talk) 11:35, 18 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
You can start an article draft through the Articles for Creation process; once the draft is ready, you can submit it for review, and if the review is accepted, then the article will be published.
Before starting an article, I recommend you read on our notability guidelines, particularly our notability guideline on companies and general notability guideline. These guidelines determine what article subjects are deemed notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia.
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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
Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature. [17]
An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September. [18]
An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August. [19]
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hello , i want to report a user who is disruptively erasing my edits where I have cited sources in 2 wiki pages and is using casteist slurs and quoting another wikipedia page to cite in an article. How can i report. --Minakshi Pillai (talk) 18:52, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
It looks like you're engaged in a content dispute with another editor. Before reporting the user, have you considered discussing with the editor, either on their talk page, or the article's talk page?
Yes I have reported to two editors as of now.I have also put forth my concerns on the talk page as well. Technically quoting another wikipedia article to edit a wiki article is illegal right ? but the user is precisely doing that only and that person has erased the article and book link sources that I had provided. Minakshi Pillai (talk) 19:16, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Minakshi Pillai: It's not illegal, but it is discouraged to cite Wikipedia itself within Wikipedia. You should let the editor know that you have put your concerns on the talk page, if you haven't done so already. ~ Rustymeow ~ 19:22, 19 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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Hello, I hope you are doing well. I read the document (Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)) that you provided in our last conversation. I am still confused about reference links. Whatever reference links I use, how can I be sure they will be acceptable on Wikipedia and not deleted by reviewers? Can you help me figure this out? --IamSandyy (talk) 11:45, 20 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
@IamSandyy: What do you mean by "deleted by reviewers"? Articles for Creation reviewers will not delete your references, nor your draft article.
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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. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]
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. [35]
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. [37][38]
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. [40]
The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.
Meetings and events
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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Hello, Rusty Cat. Per your request, your account has been grantedtemporary-account-viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:
Access must not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).
It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:
When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with an IP address or CIDR range.
Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. You may also voluntarily give up access at any time by visiting Special:Preferences. Happy editing! --Ahecht (TALK PAGE)14:56, 27 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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