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Tech News: 2025-19
[edit]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 Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.
Updates for editors
- For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
- Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
- Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers who use the
moment
library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like theIntl
library or the newmediawiki.DateFormatter
library. Themoment
library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task. - Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (
wbt_*
) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [1] Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.
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Administrators' newsletter – May 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Rusalkii
NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)
Interface administrator changes
- Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
- An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
- An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
Question from Van Oirsouw Cha (19:02, 6 May 2025)
[edit]Good Evening I want to create an artikel about a car that was produced bij The French Manufaturer of Automobile Simca. It is a car for transportation people and was created in a 4 door {called Sedan} and a 5 door (called Stationwagen) bodyworks --Van Oirsouw Cha (talk) 19:02, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from NithanjOn on Draft:Bikram Malati (Musical Artist) (18:31, 7 May 2025)
[edit]Delete --NithanjOn (talk) 18:31, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- @NithanjOn: Are you requesting the draft be deleted? cyberdog958Talk 02:05, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from NithanjOn on Draft:Bikram Malati (Musical Artist) (18:34, 7 May 2025)
[edit]Delete --NithanjOn (talk) 18:34, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
Hello, Cyberdog ... Gave up for a while, now trying again to create an article. The text is ready, but when enter it in Sandbox (where I lost a previous version), and review the result, it doesn't look right. It's about formatting. Are there people who will do the formatting after you've entered the text and references? I don't want to spend the rest of my life trying to figure it out. Also, when you hit publish, does it literally get published, or is there a review process? I know this info would be in the endless descriptions of how to edit, but I'm just wanting the simplest step-by-step instruction, which doesn't seem to exist. Or if it does, I can't find it. Sorry if I seem a little ranty. Thank you! --Cassaph (talk) 19:15, 7 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hello again Cassaph. I don't see any other edits to your account other than to this page, so I'm not able to give any specific advise. You can ask for help with copyediting at WP:GOCE. They can help with formatting any other copyediting. If your article is in the Draft space (it has the prefix Draft: in front of the title), then clicking "publish" will only publish it to the area of Wikipedia you can keep working on articles that aren't yet ready. Once you finish, and you want it reviewed, you can copy an paste this template:
{{subst:submit|Cassaph}}
, to the top and it will be added to the queue to be reviewed. cyberdog958Talk 02:14, 8 May 2025 (UTC)- Thanks again. Didn't know about Draft space. Seems I always wind up in Sandbox, with the only options being "review" and "publish." And I'm not ready to "publish" so it all winds up disappearing. I will look for Draft. Don't suppose you have a link to it...? Cassaph (talk) 18:35, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Cassaph: You can use the Article Wizard and follow the prompts and it will automatically create a draft article for you so you can work on your draft. cyberdog958Talk 18:57, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- This is immensely helpful. Sorry to be such a dunderhead. Will try again, after travel. Cassaph (talk) 17:07, 9 May 2025 (UTC)
- Hello again ... I formatted an article about Shirley Strum, hit publish, then wondered what next. I decided to check Wikipedia for Shirley Strum and -- lo -- someone else had made a page for her, just recently. So I wonder what's become of my effort. I guess I can add to the page that's there, which is labeled "orphan." It's all a little weird, that suddenly some random person decided to create this page about Shirley. Cassaph (talk) 19:48, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Cassaph: Yes, I would combine the information in your page in the page that has been published. The draft you have on your user page seems more detailed, so you should just add those details and references to the other page. cyberdog958Talk 21:37, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Cassaph: You can use the Article Wizard and follow the prompts and it will automatically create a draft article for you so you can work on your draft. cyberdog958Talk 18:57, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks again. Didn't know about Draft space. Seems I always wind up in Sandbox, with the only options being "review" and "publish." And I'm not ready to "publish" so it all winds up disappearing. I will look for Draft. Don't suppose you have a link to it...? Cassaph (talk) 18:35, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-20
[edit]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 "Get shortened URL" link on the sidebar now includes a QR code. Wikimedia site users can now use it by scanning or downloading it to quickly share and access shared content from Wikimedia sites, conveniently.
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a system called Edge Uniques, which will enable A/B testing, help protect against distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is to help more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for. Tech News has previously written about this. The deployment will be gradual. Some might see the Edge Uniques cookie the week of 19 May. You can discuss this on the talk page.
- Starting May 19, 2025, Event organisers in wikis with the CampaignEvents extension enabled can use Event Registration in the project namespace (e.g., Wikipedia namespace, Wikidata namespace). With this change, communities don't need admins to use the feature. However, wikis that don't want this change can remove and add the permitted namespaces at Special:CommunityConfiguration/CampaignEvents.
- The Wikipedia project now has a Wikipedia in Nupe (
w:nup:
). This is a language primarily spoken in the North Central region of Nigeria. Speakers of this language are invited to contribute to new Wikipedia. View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers can now access pre-parsed Dutch Wikipedia, amongst others (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese) through the Structured Contents snapshots (beta). The content includes parsed Wikipedia abstracts, descriptions, main images, infoboxes, article sections, and references.
- The
/page/data-parsoid
REST API endpoint is no longer in use and will be deprecated. It is scheduled to be turned off on June 7, 2025. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The IPv6 support is a newly introduced Cloud virtual network that significantly boosts Wikimedia platforms' scalability, security, and readiness for the future. If you are a technical contributor eager to learn more, check out this blog post for an in-depth look at the journey to IPv6.
Meetings and events
- The 2nd edition of 2025 of Afrika Baraza, a virtual platform for African Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 15 at 17:00 UTC. This edition will focus on discussions regarding Wikimedia Annual planning and progress.
- The MENA Connect Community Call, a virtual meeting for MENA Wikimedians to connect, will take place on May 17 at 17:00 UTC. You can register now to attend.
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MediaWiki message delivery 22:34, 12 May 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 May 2025
[edit]- In the media: Wikimedia Foundation sues over UK government decision that might require identity verification of editors worldwide
- Disinformation report: What does Jay-Z know about Wikipedia?
- Technology report: WMF introduces unique but privacy-preserving browser cookie
- Debriefing: Goldsztajn's RfA debriefing
- Obituary: Max Lum (User:ICOHBuzz)
- Community view: A Deep Dive Into Wikimedia (part 2)
- Comix: Collection
- From the archives: Humor from the Archives
heres the reason why i moved your draft
[edit]cuz i read history and i guess it was in 2023 it was long so i had to free it AAAAAYEHA (talk) 05:39, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- You really shouldn't be moving others drafts without their consent, and that draft dated from only last month. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 07:47, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- And this editor has just been indeffed. Sarsenet•he/they•(talk) 08:14, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
Dear contributor to this site...
[edit]Dear contributor to this site... Oh, please... Regarding the future redirection of "Noche de reyes (Aquí está la Chilindrina)", trust me... The name of the last episode of this spin-off series is called Noche de reyes or Noche de Reyes, according to some research I did on the internet. So, do you have anything else to say about this? Sarah Vilela Anjos Pereira (talk) 19:10, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Sarah Vilela Anjos Pereira: While that may be true, your requested redirect doesn’t seem like a likely search term to require a redirect. Redirects are really only for ease of using the search bar, and your requested redirect doesn’t seem like something someone would type in and try to search. If you still disagree, you can re-request it and I will let another reviewer look at it. cyberdog958Talk 19:32, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
How to add an image in infobox person template. --Ankush93b (talk) 08:58, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Ankush93b: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. You can add an image to the infobox with the
|image=
parameter. If their is already an image available on Wikipedia or on Commons, you can just set the image parameter to the name of the image without the File: prefix. If there isn't an image yet available, you can upload a freely licensed file (as long as it is within the image policy). Then, you can again set the parameter to whatever the name of the file is. If you have any other questions, you can ask me here or over at the Teahouse. cyberdog958Talk 21:14, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-21
[edit]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. [2]
- 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. [3]
- 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. [4]
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. [5]
- 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, namedisDisambiguationPage
. This property allows you to check if a page is a disambiguation page, without the need to write a custom function. [6] 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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:09, 19 May 2025 (UTC)
Articles for Creation backlog drive
[edit]
Hello Cyberdog958:
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)
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Question from Cosmobytes (16:18, 20 May 2025)
[edit]Hello! I was just working on editing an article about John Butcher, an Australian Rules Footballer, and I found a link in a citation that was broken (https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-faces-decision-on-key-forward-john-butcher/story-e6frf9jf-1225760419671) and led to a "page not found" error. Should I remove the citation and related content, or is there a better way to go about this? Thank you! --Cosmobytes (talk) 16:18, 20 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Cosmobytes: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. It is often that links become not accessible anymore. The best course of action is to try and add a link to an archived version of the page, or link to a new URL to a similar page that verifies the same information. You can find out the best ways to do so here. If you are unable to fix it, you can just tag the reference with {{dead}} and it will add it to a category so someone else may be able to find a suitable link. cyberdog958Talk 05:02, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from Adrifabbug (01:26, 23 May 2025)
[edit]how do i make a new page on wikipedia? --Adrifabbug (talk) 01:26, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Adrifabbug: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. If you are trying to find information about starting a new article, you can get information here, but know that writing a new article that is within policy is the hardest thing you can do on Wikipedia, and I recommend you gain more experience first before starting that endeavor. cyberdog958Talk 05:04, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from AppraisalEditor01 (04:57, 25 May 2025)
[edit]Good day, can you please guide me to Create a biography? --AppraisalEditor01 (talk) 04:57, 25 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from StanleyMutualInsuranceCo (18:16, 26 May 2025)
[edit]My article was fast deleted but I want it back so I can review it and see what's spam-ey about it... It was informational and had local context. How do I get it back? --StanleyMutualInsuranceCo (talk) 18:17, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-22
[edit]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
- 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. [7]- 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. [8]
View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The previously deprecated
ipblocks
views in Wiki Replicas will be removed in the beginning of June. Users are encouraged to query the newblock
andblock_target
views instead. Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Wikidata and Sister Projects is a multi-day online event that will focus on how Wikidata is integrated to Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects. The event runs from May 29 – June 1. You can read the Program schedule and register.
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Question from Kirankaur09 (17:20, 27 May 2025)
[edit]Hi I want to create artist profile --Kirankaur09 (talk) 17:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Kirankaur09: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. You can find info about creating a page here, but know it is difficult to create pages as a newcomer here. If you have any other questions, you can ask here or over at the Teahouse. cyberdog958Talk 21:39, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from Tahir Iqbal 1979 (13:37, 28 May 2025)
[edit]I'm a student of comparative religion and history. Rather I wanted to add some information as per my knowledge and study. Please advise. --Tahir Iqbal 1979 (talk) 13:37, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Tahir Iqbal 1979: Hello and welcome to Wikipedia. You can get more info about contributing at this page. Just remember that everything has to be based on a reliable source. cyberdog958Talk 21:47, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, sure will always try to share information based on some reliable source. Tahir Iqbal 1979 (talk) 18:31, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from Ananddigitalpr (18:08, 28 May 2025)
[edit]Hi Cyberdog958,
Thank you for the warm welcome! I’m planning to contribute a new section and wanted to ask about citation guidelines.
To ensure the information I add is verifiable and reliable, could you please let me know what types of sources or websites are considered acceptable for citations on Wikipedia? Are there any specific criteria I should follow when selecting sources?
I appreciate your help as I learn more about editing here.
Best regards, Anand Digital PR --Ananddigitalpr (talk) 18:08, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Ananddigitalpr: Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Everything here on Wikipedia should be based on a reliable source. There are, basically, sources that are reputable for accuracy and fact-checking. They should be independent of the subject and ideally a secondary source. You can look through the links to find more information about suitable sources. If you have any other questions, you can ask them here or over at the Teahouse. cyberdog958Talk 21:56, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-23
[edit]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. [9] 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
oraction=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; usingaction=login
without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [10] - 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. [11] 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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MediaWiki message delivery 23:52, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Allowing time to create redirects
[edit]Hello: I notice you’ve been shuttering redirect creation proposals en-masse less than a day after their creation. In future could you consider waiting maybe a week before doing so, to see whether anyone is willing to create the redirects? Because in the time you shutter them, people are willing to make them (episode titles receiving redirects is normal Wikipedia standard – most people don’t want to spend all that time making them, but lucky for us there are Wikipedians willing to), and many redirect suggestions you would have otherwise shuttered were created in the time before you came back online. I’d agree with you shuttering those that went a week or two without being answered, but that time should be afforded new suggestions as well. Gellianfew (talk) 12:20, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Gellianfew: There is no required time that the requests have to be posted before they are evaluated. I don’t think that mass redirect requests of every possible episode title for relatively unknown television shows with no real likeliness or possibility that they would ever be searched for or turned into actual articles are not necessary or helpful to create. There isn’t any guidelines for reviewers so it is really based on whoever sees it first is the one who reviews it. cyberdog958Talk 00:31, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
Fuckeries is actually a real word
[edit]Look it up on the Wiktionary. Kjjj6uhhhhh (talk) 15:42, 3 June 2025 (UTC)