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March thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in March! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 23:16, 20 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Nice to see you around. I'm probably gonna take a break for a while (say a month) to focus on getting IRL life sorted before summer break. Sohom (talk) 17:47, 22 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for explaining! - Today, 300 years of Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1! We sang works for (mostly) double choir by Pachelbel, Johann Christoph Bach, Kuhnau/Bach, Gounod and Rheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:10, 25 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
That is very good سمیه راسل (talk) 04:54, 2 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

DYK nomination of Soumen Mitra

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  Hello! Your submission of Soumen Mitra at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Flibirigit (talk) 18:58, 5 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

This nomination still needs some attention if you are willing. The nominator has not responded. Flibirigit (talk) 02:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request

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Hi there, can you please indef-extend-protect User:Abhiimanyu7 as per WP:UPROT. I not need to edit my userpage regularly, I feel happy if you protect my userpage if possible and protection help to secure pages from vandals and other types of bad edits. --Regards,  KB~Abhiimanyu7  talk  07:06, 19 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't see a specific reason to do that. No need to protect it imo unless you are being specifically targetted. Sohom (talk) 16:53, 19 April 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for you're response, I've understand. --Regards,  KB~Abhiimanyu7  talk  17:08, 19 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

April music

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in April! - My story is about music that Bach and Picander gave the world 300 years (and 19 days) ago, - listen (on the conductor's birthday) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:32, 20 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

I finally managed to upload the pics I meant for Easter, see places. - Also finally, I managed a FAC, Easter Oratorio. I wanted that on the main page for Easter Sunday, but no, twice. You are invited to join a discussion about what "On this day" means, day or date. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:43, 25 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-18

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The second round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 April at 23:59 UTC. To reiterate what we said in the previous newsletter, we are no longer disqualifying contestants based on how many points (now known as round points) they received. Instead, the contestants with the highest round-point totals now receive tournament points at the end of each round. These tournament points are carried over between rounds, and can only be earned if a competitor is among the top 16 round-point scorers at the end of each round. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far. Everyone who competed in round 2 will advance to round 3 unless they have withdrawn or been banned.

Round 2 was quite competitive. Four contestants scored more than 1,000 round points, and eight scored more than 500 points (including one who has withdrawn). The following competitors scored at least 800 points:

In addition, we would like to recognize   Generalissima (submissions) for her efforts; she scored 801 round points but withdrew before the end of the round.

The full scores for round 2 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 13 featured articles, 20 featured lists, 4 featured-topic articles, 138 good articles, 7 good-topic articles, and more than 100 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 19 In the News articles, and they have conducted nearly 300 reviews.

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A barnstar for you!

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  The Technical Barnstar
For User:Sohom Datta/fastreview, which has been saving my sanity and also my ability to move my fingers. Rusalkii (talk) 07:05, 30 April 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! Hope you liked it! Sohom (talk) 15:28, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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About your userboxes

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Hi Sodium—hope all is well :) As the guy who started the RfC for WP:STICKYDECO, the intention was not to allow opting-out of CSS float, but things which "float" on top of content (I'm glad that class was renamed to avoid confusion).

The intention was to hide the stuff which follows you down the screen as you scroll. You are, of course, welcome to curate your page as you wish, but I would be very surprised if someone complained about your userboxes being visible. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:52, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@HouseBlaster, I initially wanted to hide the {{Special:Impact}} template using WP:STICKYDECO since it leads to a fair bit of FOUC when the page is loaded. (There is a fair bit of the page jumping around which might become a issue for some folks) However, if I specifically remove only that, the userpage looks really unbalanced, (with the userbox extending beyond the content), necessitating the removal of the userboxes to make the page more balanced.
This is more a bandaid fix, the correct fix would be figure out how Special:Impact works and remove the initial scaffolding FOUC on loading the page. (Which I intend to get to at some point  ) Sohom (talk) 14:44, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Actually I fixed it with a bit of CSS, and the sticky-deco tags have been removed! Sohom (talk) 14:56, 3 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-19

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Drafts

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Hello. You can remove the drafts, because they're not even auto-confirmed and anonim people will just create vandalism pages in the drafts, and even if they don't create a page about the article, they'll write vandalism in the drafts and no one will check it. Skittle-chan1986 (talk) 12:01, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

It's like on my draft;Guf rapper. I'm write that draft at Jan 2024 and he will deleted only at Aug 2024 Skittle-chan1986 (talk) 12:02, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Draft:Guf(rapper) has already been deleted, there isn't much to do here. Sohom (talk) 14:42, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
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The article Cookie syncing you nominated as a good article has passed  ; see Talk:Cookie syncing for comments about the article, and Talk:Cookie syncing/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Vanamonde93 -- Vanamonde93 (talk) 17:01, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

This is ridiculous

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Being partially banned from editing for 3 months because of your own dang talk page.

Freeness doesn’t exist on Wikipedia. 199.192.122.199 (talk) 19:43, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

You are free to edit other pages, shit posting on your own talk pages is not productive to Wikipedia, you can start a blog or something to do whatever you are doing on Wikipedia at the moment. Sohom (talk) 19:52, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
What do you mean crap posting? 199.192.122.199 (talk) 19:59, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Nothing on that talk page is related in any way to encyclopedic work. That is Wikipedia's primary intent, not to be a forum. (Again, a small bit of fun is fine, but a talk page filled with nothing related your own musings is toeing the line). Sohom (talk) 20:07, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Where did I even cross the line? I was tryna get internet screamer it’s own page! 199.192.122.199 (talk) 20:31, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Again, the only page you cannot edit at the moment is your own talk page, you should be able to edit other articles, to add sources or such similar encyclopedic tasks. Feel free to improve other articles or write a reliably sourced draft for Internet screamer if you can find all the sources. Posting on your own talk page about whatever that is does not help us much. Sohom (talk) 20:54, 10 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Then ask the jumpscares page monitor/idiot that is Soetermans on me editing articles. 199.192.122.199 (talk) 01:34, 11 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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abracadabra_LA

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Why did you delete the draft I was working on and asking for help with. This is really not helpful and not in the spirit of sharing information with the world? I am first time writer/editor and am trying to ge things correct and this is a very heavy handed move that prevents important information being shared with the public HHSILVER (talk) 15:24, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@HHSILVER, Your page was clearly advertising and eulogizing a specific entity. Per our policy, we do not allow any form of advertising on Wikipedia. Please survey this page before creating more articles. Sohom (talk) 15:32, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
This page was the opposite of the advertising. There is no product. There is nothing for sale. It is also the opposite of eulogizing . Eulogizing refers to death and this project is about restoring life. Also and very specifically there is also no entity. So politely you are incorrect on all 3 counts. This page describes an important historical opportunity for the city. I am fine to fine tune this until it meets community standards and this is my first time posting to Wiki but this is not helpful. Can you please restore the draft that I spend hours working on so I can copy it and also continue working on it. Thank you, Harris HHSILVER (talk) 15:40, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
@HHSILVER, Promotion does not necessarily have to lead to a sale or have a product attached to it. Promoting a idea or opportunity (as you said in your own words) is still promotion. Also, in this context, eulogizing refers to the act of talking about a entity in superlative terms, which your writing did do. To quote your own writing, Abracadabra_La is a vessel for manifesting a desirable urban vision for Los Angeles, this is clearly promotion, cut and dry.
Regarding returning your draft, I first need confirmation that you do understand our policies on promotional material (linked above) AND the fact that you have read through and complied with the conflict of interest disclosure policies outlined in the last message Theroadislong left you. Once you have done so, can I consider returning the draft. (Though honestly, looking further the draft needs to be completely rewritten from scratch anyway to fit into our policies, I would encourage you to do that instead of asking for it back) Sohom (talk) 15:58, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hi, You used the word advertising not promotion when you first wrote and what I responded to. Also this is not promotion. It's my attempt to accurately provide information about an important civic proposal at a historical time for Los Angeles.
What you say is cut and dry is also not as I quote Michael Sorkin's definition of desirability which is an urbanist theory and that seems to have been misunderstood.
I would like the draft so I can at least copy it and place it outside of wiki.
I didn't realize that people who aren't subject matter experts are able to delete my work.
Again I am new to this but I find this to be not productive.
Can you please restore my draft without your opinion of why it needs to be completely re-written which is not my writing process and also not productive or collegial.
Thank you, --Harris HHSILVER (talk) 16:15, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
@HHSILVER I quote Michael Sorkin, I quoted the first sentence of your draft, which does not quote anyone. Wikipedia articles are meant to be objective and not use flowery/eulogizing/promotional language.
Regarding the rest, please actually read my message above, the conditions for providing you with a copy of the text are simple, actually read through our policies that you have disregarded and show that you are committing to following them going forward. If you do not do that, there is really no point of this exchange happening. Regarding the comment about "experts", I would add Wikipedia:Expert editors to your reading list, TLDR, Wikipedia does not treat edits by experts in a particular topic as "special", rather you are treated as a regular editor alongside everyone else. Sohom (talk) 16:54, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'm just reading this now. This is so unnecessary unfriendly and unhelpful and accusatory. I actually quote the urban theory of the desireablt. This is an unkown but relevant academic theory. Instead of discussing ideas we are discussing style in an orthographic sense. My writing is never flowery, or promotional. While that may be tool to dismiss the writing it's not accurate statement. Nor was the text that came up that said my writing was generated by Large Language Model. HHSILVER (talk) 00:07, 16 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
@HHSILVER All I wanted was an affirmation that you would follow have followed our policies going forward if I did restore the page. I am not accusing you of anything here, I was stating that to me the writing was advertising oriented (and explaining why it seemed that way). In any case, that is water under the bridge. Draft:Abracadabra LA is a good step in the right direction of trying to follow our policies and writing in a tone that is inline with the way Wikipedia tends to represent things. Sohom (talk) 00:59, 16 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
words have meanings. Advertising has a very specific meaning. My writing is the opposite of advertising. Between this and being (falsely) accused of using large language models it's impossible to address what I have been asked to address. I get that my style isn't dialed in. But the information was interesting relevant and addition to human culture and it was just knee capped thoughtlessly. HHSILVER (talk) 01:29, 16 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Draft Abracadabra LA

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Hi,

I'm new to Wikipedia writing. I was working on a draft that someone told me you deleted. I don't have another copy of it. Can you please undelete it so I can make a copy of work and keep it off line. Thank you. I'm trying to find my seal legs here but feel that everyone is cutting them off. I had no idea that my work in draft form could be deleted. again thank you. --Harris HHSILVER (talk) 17:42, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I've copied the content to https://pastebin.com/dwyvzeys purely so that you can reffer to it offwiki, I am not restoring it onwiki. Sohom (talk) 18:13, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks. This is really been horrific experience. This is my first wiki so there is a learning curve for me but this is not collegial. My sense is that there may be some style issues but no one actually contemplated the project that I was writing anbiur about and it’s cultural implications in this historic moment in the city. The accusations of it being written by a large language model, and that its advertising are also ridiculous. I can work on my encyclopedia style but the editors seem happier to chop something down than to help a writer contribute. Again thanks for giving me access to my work. I think this is the first time I’ve ever had my work taken from me and it was really off putting. I expected help and some back and forth not a delete of an important urban project based on nonsense that it had been written by ai when I never use ai for any writing ever. HHSILVER (talk) 23:53, 15 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

AFC submission changes

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Uh... what are you tracking with all of your changes to {{AfC submission}} and its subpages? (please do not ping on reply) Primefac (talk) 21:46, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

The idea was to check for cases where {{Afc submission}} was used in the format |ts=21:50, 17 May 2025 (UTC), which (a) breaks the template and (b) appears to be somewhat popular due to the proliferation of AI writing drafts. Sohom (talk) 21:50, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
I don't think my current logic is there yet, and I did not test it for all cases :( Sohom (talk) 21:51, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Are there any malformed |ts= uses? I feel like Category:AfC pending submissions by age would show pages in the "without an age" subcat if things weren't reading right. Primefac (talk) 00:28, 18 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
I don't know if there is one currently around. The uses typically look like [2], based on the categories there the empty date category does not get included in that case. Sohom (talk) 00:34, 18 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Malformed AFC submissions

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A tag has been placed on Category:Malformed AFC submissions indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 21:48, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Liz, See above. Sohom (talk) 21:51, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Your submission at Articles for creation: sandbox (May 17)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Timtrent was:
This submission seems to be a test edit and not an article worthy of an encyclopedia. Please use the sandbox for any editing tests, but do not submit for review until you have an article that you want reviewed for inclusion in Wikipedia. Thank you.
 The comment the reviewer left was:
what is this even meant to be?
Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.
🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 22:02, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
 
Hello, Sohom Datta! Having an article draft declined at Articles for Creation can be disappointing. If you are wondering why your article submission was declined, please post a question at the Articles for creation help desk. If you have any other questions about your editing experience, we'd love to help you at the Teahouse, a friendly space on Wikipedia where experienced editors lend a hand to help new editors like yourself! See you there! 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 22:02, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Timtrent, see two sections, above, I was mostly testing some changes to the template. Sohom (talk) 22:04, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Perhaps you need to test them differently. The malformed template appears to be caused by AI generation, though that is by no means certain. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 22:07, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
I'll use a deactivated/your declined template for testing (since I don't actually need it to be active). My idea was to add them to a category. Sohom (talk) 22:12, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Speedy deletion nomination of User:Sohom Datta/sandbox

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. A tag has been placed on User:Sohom Datta/sandbox requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here. 🇵🇸‍🇺🇦 FiddleTimtrent FaddleTalk to me 🇺🇦‍🇵🇸 22:03, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Declined by me, I don't think I'm violating any WEBHOSTING by testing Wikipedia-related stuff in my sandbox. Yes, the page looks a bit mad, but that's just experiments/tests building up over time. Sohom (talk) 22:22, 17 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-21

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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 Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Peacock check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Peacock language model for the following languages: Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Japanese. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on May 23, which will be the start date of the test.

Updates for editors

  • From May 20, 2025, oversighters and checkusers will need to have their accounts secured with two-factor authentication (2FA) to be able to use their advanced rights. All users who belong to these two groups and do not have 2FA enabled have been informed. In the future, this requirement may be extended to other users with advanced rights. Learn more.
  •   Multiblocks will begin mass deployment by the end of the month: all non-Wikipedia projects plus Catalan Wikipedia will adopt Multiblocks in the week of May 26, while all other Wikipedias will adopt it in the week of June 2. Please contact the team if you have concerns. Administrators can test the new user interface now on your own wiki by browsing to Special:Block?usecodex=1, and can test the full multiblocks functionality on testwiki. Multiblocks is the feature that makes it possible for administrators to impose different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. See the help page for more information. [3]
  • Later this week, the Special:SpecialPages listing of almost all special pages will be updated with a new design. This page has been redesigned to improve the user experience in a few ways, including: The ability to search for names and aliases of the special pages, sorting, more visible marking of restricted special pages, and a more mobile-friendly look. The new version can be previewed at Beta Cluster now, and feedback shared in the task. [4]
  • The Chart extension is being enabled on more wikis. For a detailed list of when the extension will be enabled on your wiki, please read the deployment timeline.
  • Wikifunctions will be deployed on May 27 on five Wiktionaries: Hausa, Igbo, Bengali, Malayalam, and Dhivehi/Maldivian. This is the second batch of deployment planned for the project. After deployment, the projects will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in their pages. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template.
  • Later this week, the Wikimedia Foundation will publish a hub for experiments. This is to showcase and get user feedback on product experiments. The experiments help the Wikimedia movement understand new users, how they interact with the internet and how it could affect the Wikimedia movement. Some examples are generated video, the Wikipedia Roblox speedrun game and the Discord bot.
  •   View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with creating an account using the API, which has now been fixed. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Gadgets and user scripts that interact with Special:Block may need to be updated to work with the new manage blocks interface. Please review the developer guide for more information. If you need help or are unable to adapt your script to the new interface, please let the team know on the talk page. [6]
  • The mw.title object allows you to get information about a specific wiki page in the Lua programming language. Starting this week, a new property will be added to the object, named isDisambiguationPage. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [7]
  •   User script developers can use a new reverse proxy tool to load javascript and css from gitlab.wikimedia.org with mw.loader.load. The tool's author hopes this will enable collaborative development workflows for user scripts including linting, unit tests, code generation, and code review on gitlab.wikimedia.org without a separate copy-and-paste step to publish scripts to a Wikimedia wiki for integration and acceptance testing. See Tool:Gitlab-content on Wikitech for more information.
  •   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • The 12th edition of Wiki Workshop 2025, a forum that brings together researchers that explore all aspects of Wikimedia projects, will be held virtually on 21-22 May. Researchers can register now.

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Articles for Creation backlog drive

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Hello Sohom Datta:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in June!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than 1 month of outstanding reviews from the current 3+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 June 2025 through 30 June 2025.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 3200 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:25, 20 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

BAGBot: Your bot request SodiumBot 2

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Someone has marked Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/SodiumBot 2 as needing your input. Please visit that page to reply to the requests. Thanks! AnomieBOT⚡ 16:09, 20 May 2025 (UTC) To opt out of these notifications, place {{bots|optout=operatorassistanceneeded}} anywhere on this page.Reply

DYK for Soumen Mitra

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On 22 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Soumen Mitra, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Soumen Mitra helped restore a building which had housed one of India's first mental asylums? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Soumen Mitra. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Soumen Mitra), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 22 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Deletion review for List of birds of Lakshadweep

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An editor has asked for a deletion review of List of birds of Lakshadweep. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 23:31, 23 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Responded and restored. Sohom (talk) 01:26, 24 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Please consider editing that closing statement?
Newer users are often reluctant to approach the sysop who deleted their content, because they see that sysop as a hostile authority figure. DRV's rules do specifically allow users to come directly to DRV if they don't want to speak to the deleter.
In the circumstances, I think putting criticism of that user in a box that they aren't supposed to edit or reply to is not very fair.—S Marshall T/C 08:32, 24 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
cc @S Marshall, my closing comments there were very much in a "please do these things next time" tone rather than anything else more combative and I think it is clear that my restoration was unconditional and I bear no ill will here.
While, I do understand that DRV rules allow a user come straight to the forum that is not how I, you or in most cases other new editors would have typically handled such a disagreement. As a non-admin, my first instinct would have been a simple "Hey, so and so page is actually a copy of a different page" which would have probably resulted in the restoration and is less work than a WP:DRV (and that was basically what I said in the closing statement).
cc @Mitsingh feel free to use this section to reply to my closing statement on DRV if you want, or ask any questions you might have regarding it (or any other aspect of Wikipedia). If you do feel that the feedback given was unfair and should be removed, I will strike it. Sohom (talk) 15:11, 24 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

May thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in May. One of mine was Jadwiga Rappé. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:52, 24 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

DYK for CSS fingerprinting

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On 25 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article CSS fingerprinting, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that CSS can be used to track and identify you? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/CSS fingerprinting. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, CSS fingerprinting), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 25 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Re: CSS fingerprinting

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  Mass Surveillance Barnstar
This is a good article, and it's a pretty important topic for browser tracking that I heard of for the first time, and probably a good few more people will hear about for the first time, in this article. Anyway, it was an interesting read. So, I'd like to award you the Mass Surveillance barnstar, from WikiProject Mass Surveillance. As I just had the idea after seeing the CSS fingerprinting article, you're its first recipient. Mrfoogles (talk) 17:14, 25 May 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! Nice to know you liked the article, it was a super interesting rabbit hole to dive into. I'm looking at improving a bunch of web privacy articles (like say Zombie cookie) over the next few weeks/months. :) Sohom (talk) 04:42, 26 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-22

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Weekly highlight

  • A community-wide discussion about a very delicate issue for the development of Abstract Wikipedia is now open on Meta: where to store the abstract content that will be developed through functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata. The discussion is open until June 12 at Abstract Wikipedia/Location of Abstract Content, and every opinion is welcomed. The decision will be made and communicated after the consultation period by the Foundation.

Updates for editors

  • Since last week, on all wikis except the largest 20, people using the mobile visual editor will have additional tools in the menu bar, accessed using the new + toolbar button. To start, the new menu will include options to add: citations, hieroglyphs, and code blocks. Deployment to the remaining wikis is scheduled to happen in June.
  •   The #ifexist parser function will no longer register a link to its target page. This will improve the usefulness of Special:WantedPages, which will eventually only list pages that are the target of an actual red link. This change will happen gradually as the source pages are updated. [8]
  • This week, the Moderator Tools team will launch a new filter to Recent Changes, starting at Indonesian Wikipedia. This new filter highlights edits that are likely to be reverted. The goal is to help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic edits. Other wikis will benefit from this filter in the future.
  • Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. Readers of Catalan, Hebrew, and Italian Wikipedias and some sister projects will receive the change between May 21 and mid-June. Readers of other wikis will receive the change later. The goal is to encourage users to read the wikis more. Learn more.
  • Some users of the Wikipedia Android app can use a new feature for readers, WikiGames, a daily trivia game based on real historical events. The release has started as an A/B test, available to 50% of users in the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish.
  • The Newsletter extension that is available on MediaWiki.org allows the creation of various newsletters for global users. The extension can now publish new issues as section links on an existing page, instead of requiring a new page for each issue. [9]
  •   View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Meetings and events

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Revert https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tidal_wave_gd

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it is the 7 millon article Jhoncena1234 (talk) 02:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Really doesn't matter. Article on Wikipedia need to be articles, not placeholders. Also this literally isn't a race. Sohom (talk) 02:36, 28 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

hello

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hi sohom datta, im memer(i came from wikikids), you became my mentor or somthing, so, hi i geus. Memer(fromwikikids) (talk) 10:48, 1 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi Hi, feel free to ask any questions about Wikipedia to me :) Sohom (talk) 17:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-23

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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 Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.

Updates for editors

  • It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [10]
  •   View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [11]
  • From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [12]
  •   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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Tech News: 2025-24

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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 Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

Updates for editors

  •   The watchlist expiry feature allows editors to watch pages for a limited period of time. After that period, the page is automatically removed from your watchlist. Starting this week, you can set a preference for the default period of time to watch pages. The preferences also allow you to set different default watch periods for editing existing pages, pages you create, and when using rollback. [13]
 
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
  • The appearance of talk pages will change at almost all Wikipedias (some have already received this design change, a few will get these changes later). You can read details about the changes on Diff. It is possible to opt out of these changes in user preferences ("Show discussion activity"). [14][15]
  • Users with specific extended rights (including administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters, and stewards) can now have IP addresses of all temporary accounts revealed automatically during time-limited periods where they need to combat high-speed account-hopping vandalism. This feature was requested by stewards. [16]
  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [17]
  •   View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
  • Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [18][19]
  •   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Page deletion issue

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Hello, I hope you are going. You have recently deleted my page. I wonder why. Please could yoy help me to restore it? Djornele MPIERE (talk) 07:01, 11 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

You've already written over the page, so I cannot restore it. Sohom (talk) 16:09, 11 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

?

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AI Source Verification script screenshot

This confused me quite a bit. Please move the script to User:Polygnotus/Scripts/GeminiProofreaderOld.js. Thank you, Polygnotus (talk) 08:01, 12 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done, this was just me trying to save/adopt a script of a locked sockpuppet cause I thought it was genuinely useful. Sohom (talk) 11:27, 12 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you, it is combined into User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI Proofreader which can use Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude. I am working on User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI Source Verification.js as well. Maybe I should stick these things on Github because MediaWiki is not intended for this kinda stuff. Polygnotus (talk) 11:29, 12 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ooh, that looks interesting,I wonder if it could be used to detect hallucinated references ? Sohom (talk) 11:53, 12 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Sohom Datta Among many other uses, yes. It was inspired by User:Phlsph7/SourceVerificationAIAssistant.js. Polygnotus (talk) 11:55, 12 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tone Check

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Another question, because one can never ask enough questions: if the ToneCheck model hasn't been trained yet, and it will be trained by using some basic tf–idf techniques, I would expect there to be either a wordlist of promotional words/phrases or a dataset from which a wordlist could be derived. That could be super useful for User:Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable and User:Novem Linguae/Scripts/DetectPromo.js and User:Polygnotus/Scripts/DetectPromo and other similar scripts. Would it be possible for the person who trains that thing to share the dataset or list? Polygnotus (talk) 11:24, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

The last time I checked it was a BERT into a classifier, tho @PPelberg (WMF) might find these links useful (especially considering they contain words that could point to promotional content). Sohom (talk) 15:09, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Indeed, but the idea was to train the model based on articles tagged with {{advert}} or {{promo}} tags IIRC. And if you have that dataset, might as well use it for more than one purpose. Polygnotus (talk) 15:13, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
I think the announcement of the intent to collect the dataset was what triggered Tamzin's statement at the big AI RFC, (which explicitly calls for the destruction of datasets), I assume folks are waiting for a verdict there before proceeding/more widely publicizing the intent to collect datasets. Sohom (talk) 15:22, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Hm, maybe I misunderstood? Here someone says they have peacock, fanpov, advert, autobiography(?) and weasel datasets. Dataset destruction sounds too much like book burning for my taste. Polygnotus (talk) 15:25, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ah, it looks like they wrote: If the code exists somewhere out there, created by the WMF and fully available to anyone under an open-source license, it will be used against us. but the code is just some JavaScript that shows a popup and makes an API call; it is the model they worry about. Polygnotus (talk) 15:33, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
All wikis should have the option to opt out of being used to develop an AI tool; to disable or decline to enable an AI tool; or, based on credible concerns of facilitating abuse, to compel the destruction of machine-learning data that has been gathered without local consensus. I think Tamzin's proposal is very clear and explicit about it's intentions here.
I think the datasets being referred to in the task are the initial "proof-of-concept" testing datasets. They sent out a call asking for folks to help out in labeling data shortly afterwards. (like so [20]) Sohom (talk) 16:25, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
GDPR for AI   Thanks; I'll just make my own dataset. I use Deep Java Library for sentiment analysis which uses a DistilBERT model. I am curious if it can figure out the difference between a neutral description of negative events vs a POV description of neutral events. One time I tried it with a set of newspaper headlines and it was pretty interesting. People think the problem is that the WMF simply does not understand the community because they are not a part of it, but Trizek has 70k edits on fr.wiki since 2009. Polygnotus (talk) 16:36, 13 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

A Barnstar for You!

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  The Special Barnstar
Thank you for assisting me regarding my username. I value your feedback and appreciate that you took time our of your day to assist me. MWFwiki (talk) 02:33, 14 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

A cup of coffee for you!

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  For your clean up of Brave (web browser), -- JackFromWisconsin (talk | contribs) 04:49, 15 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Ooh, thank you :) Sohom (talk) 05:34, 15 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-25

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Updates for editors

Updates for technical contributors

  •   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • Foundation staff and technical volunteers use Wikimedia APIs to build the tools, applications, features, and integrations that enhance user experiences. Over the coming years, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will be investing in Wikimedia web (HTTP) APIs to better serve technical volunteer needs and protect Wikimedia infrastructure from potential abuse. You can read more about their plans to evolve the APIs in this Techblog post.

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The DCWC is back!

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The Developing Countries WikiContest Gold Belt Buckle

Hey Sohom Datta, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.

In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher, Arconning (talk · contribs)! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks to Ixtal (talk · contribs), who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to the contest talk page shortly.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or contact one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 09:33, 17 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Is 123telugu.com is Unrelaible source Farjana837 (talk) 14:59, 20 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Farjana837 To my understanding, yes. Looks like a WP:TABLOID Sohom (talk) 16:17, 20 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

June thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in June! - I heard this music, yesterday, - streamed a day before at a different ___location. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:52, 23 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hi hi! This month I worked on Liquid Glass (at DYKN) and cleaned up Brave (web browser) (which I've now nommed for GAN!) Sohom (talk) 15:28, 23 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Feel free to leave feedback/suggest improvements. Sohom (talk) 15:29, 23 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
I want to but was absorbed by more who died, such as Lalo Schifrin. - While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:46, 28 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-26

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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

  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [21]

Updates for editors

  • Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [22]
  • Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [23]
  • A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
  •   View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [24]

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  • The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [26]
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Back up

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Can you back me up here? Maybe reach out to them? The reaction "they don't respond enthusiastically so we'll test elsewhere" is understandable, but as the largest wiki this is the best test environment. And there is a careful balance, the WMF shouldn't just ignore all feedback, but they also shouldn't overreact to negative feedback. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 06:25, 27 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

I think the ship has sailed there, but I've put my agreement in the thread. I'll try to reach out internally as well and see what I can do (I happen to know Samwilson, one of the folks who worked on the project, they were also my first mentor when I got into MediaWiki development). Though, I think Community Tech as a whole cares a lot about community feedback and as such we did just WP:BITE them for incorrectly asking to test on enwiki so I don't have high hopes at the moment. Sohom (talk) 12:02, 27 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thanks! I have emailed @Sannita (WMF):. I wish they would've contacted us before posting on WP:VPT. We could've told them that that was the wrong page to post on, and we could help them tweak their message a bit so that the reception would be uniformly positive. Polygnotus (talk) 15:42, 27 June 2025 (UTC)Reply
Jack said we'll just have to be patient for 1 extra week. I was kinda worried the negative reception would lead to more serious consequences.
Weird that my "club of people who praise the WMF when they do something good and criticize the WMF when they do something bad" is such a tiny minority. Polygnotus (talk) 19:25, 27 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

WikiCup 2025 July newsletter

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The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:

Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed in Round 4. 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 June 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-27

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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.

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Updates for editors

  • AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [27]
  • Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers. [28][29]
  •   A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
  •   View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [30]

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The DCWC is open!

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See a    "developing" or    "least developed" country? Write about it to earn points!

Sohom Datta, for the second running of the Developing Countries WikiContest, it is now open for submissions. The coordinators have addressed some of the queries at the last contest and we are hopeful that it'll turn out great! If you haven't done so already, please review the following:

On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you the best of luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 03:52, 1 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

DYK for Liquid Glass

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On 2 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Liquid Glass, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Liquid Glass was criticised for being too transparent? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Liquid Glass. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Liquid Glass), 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 suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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  Hook update
Your hook reached 10,082 views (840.1 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of July 2025 – nice work!

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Tech News: 2025-28

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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

  • Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.

Updates for editors

  • Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game and let the team know what you think on the talk page.
  • Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers. [31]
  • Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.
  • Bureaucrats on Wikimedia wikis can now use Special:VerifyOATHForUser to check if users have enabled two-factor authentication. [32]
  •   A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
  • It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed. [33]
  •   View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • As part of MediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications, information about migration in T388663 and details on deprecated hooks in T389624.
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Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

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Administrator Elections | Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

  • July 9–15 - Call for candidates
  • July 18–22 - Discussion phase
  • July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

  • The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
  • Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for RfA candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
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The spinner never stops spinning. It gets to 136 out of 137 urls, iirc, and then spins forever, until the error page comes up with the link to your UTP. Try: https://link-dispenser.toolforge.org/analyze/Regency%20of%20Algiers .

Also: an enhancement request: there is a jitter issue in the display while it is still working on the list of urls. Do you by any chance re-sort the list on the fly while it is still running? Because the display is a bit jittery, and prevented me from focusing on a single citation that interested me, from which I wanted to select and copy some info, but before I could complete the operation, the screen jittered, the citation jumped out of view to some nearby ___location beyond the window borders, and I had to search for it again, and try to select again, and...oops!—there it goes again. It would be nice to set a timer of maybe 30 seconds or whatever is needed to find/select/copy some info. (A checkbox option not to re-sort until done, or only at user-selected intervals, would be nice.) Thanks for a great tool! Mathglot (talk) 04:04, 9 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Additional info: I ran it again, and even when it reaches 136/137, it keeps swapping the urls around (at least the top ones, the ones I can see above the fold), with the top one rotating among these three titles:
  • Correspondance des deys d'Alger avec la cour de France 1579 — 1833
  • Rubrique : Articles N° 5
  • Traités de la France Avec les pays De l'Afrique du Nord Algérie, Tunisie, Tripolitaine, Maroc
For what it's worth, all three have the tag 'Detected issue: URL might be down', so I am guessing that maybe the tool keeps a list of urls that 404'd, and tries them again in a loop, is that right? If that is so, imho there is no need to place the one on top that is currently being regrabbed; what I would do, is just leave all the 404s in whatever order (alphabetical?) and maybe add an unobtrusive icon that would represent 'retrying this url' in front of the one you are retrying, without shifting the position of that one and all the others. Maybe something like 🔁 – (U+1F501: Clockwise Rightwards Open Circle Arrow), or ↻ (U+21BB: Clockwise Open Circle Arrow) which looks like a refresh icon, or an animated image that looks like that and gently pulses or rotates.
Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 19:51, 9 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
The 136/137 issue should be a worker that is erroring due to a DOI that returns a 404. The jitter problem is a VueJS problem which reorders elements on re-render, it might be a bit of a mess to fix, but I'll see what I can do. Sohom (talk) 20:05, 9 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Extended confirmed User

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This is not a good this for new user.how to get Extended confirmed user group tell me.you are indian people.Nation first. Olitun (talk) 10:48, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ic you are indian Please reply me. Olitun (talk) 11:08, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Appealing to nationalistic sentiment will get you nowhere. I still stand by my actions to revoke WP:XC, you are clearly not a new user, having already submitted a WP:AELECT candidacy and a board election nomination that is completely AI generated and definitely partially fabricated. You may get back your extended confirmed user-right after making 500 substantial edits to the encyclopedia and engaging with our content properly instead of just doing edits to hat collect. Sohom (talk) 12:51, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
From the previous account I have been working for 5 years now but this is my new account.Thank you Olitun (talk) 13:30, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Care to disclose what that account is ? -- You've also claimed to be a Wikimedia Foundation employee until yesterday, I think I have the right to be more than a bit skeptical here. Sohom (talk) 13:36, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
I request to remove my gaming to reach tag because this is effect my account. Olitun (talk) 13:46, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
ᱟᱢᱮᱢ ᱵᱟᱰᱟᱭ ᱜᱮᱭᱟ ᱱᱚᱣᱟ ᱫᱚ ᱞᱟᱹᱜᱤᱫ ᱟᱱ ᱠᱟᱛᱷᱟ ᱫᱚ ᱵᱟᱝ ᱠᱟᱱᱟ Olitun (talk) 13:47, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Besides your ability to edit extended-confirmed pages, almost nothing is affected. Almost every page you previously edited is still accessible to you (yes you cannot submit a WP:AELECT nomination but that is a feature not a bug) It is within my admin discretion to remove WP:XC and I do not intend to reverse the decision outside of community consensus, if you want to appeal it feel free to take me to WP:ANI to do so. Sohom (talk) 14:05, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

LLM Editfilter

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Can you add utm_source=chatgpt.com to Special:AbuseFilter/1325? Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 12:05, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Polygnotus, Special:AbuseFilter/1346 already has that, maybe it should be merged ? Sohom (talk) 12:44, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply
Yeah that would make sense. Polygnotus (talk) 12:54, 10 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Your GA nomination of Brave (web browser)

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Brave (web browser) you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria.   This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GalStar -- GalStar (talk) 03:43, 11 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

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  You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Edit filter noticeboard § Edit filters related to logging and blocking AI edits. –Novem Linguae (talk) 05:34, 11 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Request for review: Kocaeli Health and Technology University

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  • Subject:* University article review
  • Description:* This article covers a newly established university with an infobox, logo, and cited sources. Requesting a quality assessment and suggestions for improvement.

Hi everyone,

I recently created the article Kocaeli Health and Technology University and would appreciate a review or quality rating. Thank you in advance!

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@Newinwiki8 It will reviewed by other volunteers, that area is typically not my speciality. Sohom (talk) 15:49, 13 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-29

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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

  • Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist. [34][35]
  •   View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate. [36]

Updates for technical contributors

  •   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

Meetings and events

  • WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application and program proposal now!
  • WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!

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Your nomination of Brave (web browser) has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Brave (web browser) has   passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of GalStar -- GalStar (talk) 18:03, 16 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Why is this not an article?

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Should exist. 125.48.50.55 (talk) 13:13, 17 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

What is not a article ? Sohom (talk) 18:15, 17 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

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Administrator Elections | Discussion phase

The discussion phase of the July 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • July 18–22 - Discussion phase (we are here)
  • July 23–29 - SecurePoll voting phase
  • July 30–c. Aug 3 - Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Discussion phase.

On July 23, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close again to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last approximately four days, or perhaps a little longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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The Signpost: 18 July 2025

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Endowment tax form, Wikimania, elections, U4C, fundraising and a duck!
And how do we know?
Five-year journey comes to healthy fruition.
Wikimedians from around the world will gather in person and online at the twentieth annual meeting of Wikimania.
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The report covers the Foundation's operations from July 2023 - June 2024
A step towards objective and comprehensive coverage of a project nearly too big to follow.
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How data from the Wikipedia "necessary articles" lists can shed new light on the gender gap
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PageTriageUserspaceLogger and PRODs

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For some reason PTUL logged my PROD of Joseph Friebert (disambiguation) as an AfD nomination... maybe you should look into this? mwwv converse∫edits 18:18, 18 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

July thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 20 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:54, 28 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-30

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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. [37]
  • 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.
  •   View all 29 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • 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.
  •   Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • 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. [38]

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Administrator Elections | Voting phase

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Administrator Elections | Voting phase

The voting phase of the July 2025 administrator elections has started and continues until July 29 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/July 2025/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

  • July 23–29 – Voting phase
  • July 30–c. Aug 3 – Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.

Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for approximately four days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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Thank you for the message and for reverting it. — Sadko (words are wind) 15:42, 26 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

No issues! Sohom (talk) 15:47, 26 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Tech News: 2025-31

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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.

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Godot Wild Jam

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Can you indicate what the claim to notability was on Godot Wild Jam, as I sure don't see it. At all. Fram (talk) 12:07, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

The claim of significance was that it was one of the oldest Godot game engine game jams. Note that WP:A7 does not require demonstrating notability, just a claim to significance. WP:A7 should be considered a mechanism for backdoor deletion. Sohom (talk) 12:18, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
This "claim to significance" is not even mentioned in the article. So there was no claim to significance (and even then, being "one of the oldest" is not a claim to significance anyway). Fram (talk) 12:35, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
Yes, I did a cursory Google search to understand the article subject, but that is because I happen to work on open-source software and programming and tend towards finding ways of documenting and (potentially) saving articles about cool programming projects/initiatives. Sohom (talk) 12:58, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
So you ignored A7 and the actual article because you like the subject. That's awfully close to WP:INVOLVED. Perhaps stick to things you can neutrally assess and not ones you like. Fram (talk) 13:10, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
WP:A7 requires significance, I went out of my way to look for significance. Yes, that is more work than what WP:A7 requires, but I think it still adheres to the spirit of the law rather than the exact letter. I don't think my assessment after doing a cursory Google search was necessarily wrong. Also, I did not ignore deletion policy here and I for the most part have agreed with your overall assessment that the article should be deleted (and voted as such in the deletion discussion). I do not think I did anything wrong from the POV of WP:INVOLVED. Just because I work in programming does not suddenly disqualify me from adminning on everything programming related. I generally defer to other folks (from a administration POV) in areas that I'm actually involved in IRL (particularly web security, privacy and web browsers in general etc). Sohom (talk) 13:30, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
But you didn't find any significance anyway. And you claimed those things were in the article, which wasn't true. Being "one of the oldest" nor getting a nod of approval from someone from the actual engine (not an independent source, and not really a reliable one either) is indicating any significance. I don't get why you want to waste community time on this when you could have either deleted it or let it to someone less a priori enthusiastic to deal with it. I sure don't get why you would suggest merging something without any reliable independent source about it. We don't just include things because we like them or we think they are cool, and we shouldn't go around suggesting to newbies that this is an acceptable thing to do. Fram (talk) 13:39, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
"Significance" is potential for notability. A project could have been notable because it is "one of the oldest". If this was any event but a game jam being "one of the oldest" would typically have encountered some coverage in tech RS (imo?). The way I interpreted that source in the moment was "oh wait Godot talks about this in their blog and I've heard about it, maybe this has some promise/potential in terms of notability". On a further evaluation, that intuition turn out to be wrong and I have since said that this should be deleted.
As I said in the AFD, what I meant when I said "merge" was to include a section about game jams in general on the page about Godot game engine and include a mention about the wild game jam (through the source I pointed to). I agree that "merge" was probably the wrong word to use in that context (in my defense, it was 8 o'clock in the morning and my first few admin actions in a hot second) but it was still a semi-accurate description of what I wanted the person to do. I did not see that they were a relatively new user and would have worded my response differently if I had realized that.
We don't just include things because we like them or we think they are cool, agreed! I have no intention of platforming non-notable stuff on Wikipedia even if they are stuff that I find cool. (I've written about notable stuff I find cool at Cross-site leaks or Site isolation and I do intend to continue doing that though) In this case, I justed wanted to give a event the benefit of doubt/second chance in a area where I know mainstream coverage is kinda hard to come by. Hope that clears up my intentions here and where my head was at. I'll take care to be more through with my evaluations and more descriptive in my communications with newbies going forward. Sohom (talk) 14:20, 1 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

DCWC August update

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We're a month into the 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest, with stiff competition at the top of the leaderboard already! Our current top five contestants are:

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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.

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  • 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. [41]
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  • 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. [46]
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CSD tag

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Are you testing with this tag? Because it's showing up at CAT:SD.-- Ponyobons mots 21:04, 5 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Yep, my bad, removed. Sohom (talk) 21:13, 5 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
It was a head scratcher. All good.-- Ponyobons mots 21:24, 5 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Administrators' newsletter – August 2025

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).

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  • Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
  • 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.

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Hi since you are a knowledgeable developer weighing in on various matters on the village pump, I thought you might have an answer to this. Is there a tool or gadget or request system to surface some inbound referrer data for external links to an article? e.g. in https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=all-agents&redirects=0&start=2025-07-22&end=2025-08-06&pages=Odessa_pogroms, I can see a spike in the page views in the last week or two. Is there a way to find out where they are coming from? Andre🚐 17:54, 7 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@AndreJustAndre There is toolforge:wikinav which gives you click-stream data, but it looks like it is stuck on June 2025 data. That being said, we have anonymized click stream data across a month at [48] so you could possibly write a script to check the anonymized referrer data across July to August. That being said, I don't think it can be used to find the exact referrers used in the spike, since the data is anonymized and aggregated over a month and we don't have any (non-NDA) tools that provides that data at the granularity or a day (or even a couple of days) at the moment. Sohom (talk) 20:42, 7 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

The Signpost: 9 August 2025

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Plus a mysterious CheckUser incident, and the news with Wikinews.
A review of June, July and August.
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Threads since June.
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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.

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  • The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [49]
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SodiumBot

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Hi, has something recently changed with the configuration of SodiumBot? My watchlist is set to exclude bot edits, but this morning edits by SodiumBot (FRS notifications) are displaying. Thanks. Schazjmd (talk) 14:05, 12 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

I don't think SodiumBot has the bot flag set yet. Will probably need to ping a friendly/active crat for that. See Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/Approved :( Sohom (talk) 14:09, 12 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.

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  • 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. [54]
  • 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. [55]
  • 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. [56]
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Your nomination of Liquid Glass has passed

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Your good article nomination of the article Liquid Glass has   passed; congratulations! See the review page for more information. If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Crispybeatle -- Crispybeatle (talk) 12:47, 20 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

 
story · music · places

Congratulations to more quality content, with a story about a singer --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:09, 21 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Check out my talk for an Independence day, or: the pic of Oksana Lyniv was taken on 24 August. There's listening and reading in today's story, and I like both. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:19, 24 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

ooh, I'll check it out! Sohom (talk) 16:55, 25 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Fixing unwanted redirects in PD2

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Hello, @Sohom Datta... Please fix any redirect issues in PD2 because there is a unwanted redirects into The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement. Thanks.... 158.140.164.22 (talk) 09:51, 23 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

This not a area I typically look at, I'll let some other volunteer handle this. Sohom (talk) 16:04, 23 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

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Tech News: 2025-35

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  •     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. [62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]
  • 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. [72]
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BAGBot: Your bot request SodiumBot 2

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Brain

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Screenshot of the UserWatchlist script

Lemme steal your brain for a little bit. There is obviously a reason why this hasn't been implemented (right? it is such an obvious feature that its omission means they don't want stalkers, right?). Do you think the world will explode if I release it? Is there something similar out there? There must be, right? But I don't see anything on Wikipedia:User_scripts/List#Watchlist_and_recent_changes.

So basically it takes the most recent diffid, stores it in localStorage, compares it. I have something similar in Java which can send me push notifications. It is probably possible to send a push notification from a Tampermonkey script but I was too lazy to google it. Polygnotus (talk) 06:44, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

@Polygnotus, There isn't anything similar out there to best of my knowledge. I don't think the world would explode, but you might get folks who would ask you to gate it behind specific permissions (admin for example) or in a worst case scenario MFD it if there is evidence of clear abuse using the script. Things won't explode, but they might get messy fast and the WMF does not want to get into the mess. Sohom (talk) 13:32, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
How do I gate a javascript behind specific permissions? Is there a snippet somewhere I can steal? Also, wouldn't it be real easy to strip out whatever code I put in to restrict it? mw.config.get('wgUserGroups').includes('sysop'); is pretty unsophisticated and easy to remove. Polygnotus (talk) 13:34, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Polygnotus Gate it behind a if statement like so,
if ( mw.config.get( 'wgUserGroups' ).indexOf( 'sysop' ) !== -1 ) {
  // do something
} else {
  // you are not a admin, don't do the admin-only thing
}
Sohom (talk) 13:39, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
@Polygnotus Yes, it is easy to remove, but so will almost everything else (outside of obfuscating the JS code). The real reason folks won't be removing the check is peer pressure/fear of being blocked (case to the point, the AWB check is trivial to bypass if you know a bit of game hacking, but the reason folks don't do it is because they would be blocked if they did. Sohom (talk) 14:29, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply


Also, can we stick a link to Help:INTERWIKI in MediaWiki talk:Interwiki intro? I have never understood why special pages don't link to the relevant explanation. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 09:21, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Regarding this, MediaWiki:Interwiki intro already has a link to that page (on the word interwiki linking). Sohom (talk) 13:35, 29 August 2025 (UTC)Reply
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