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Wikipedia Day 2024 - January 19

Hello! Luiysia again :) Let's get together to celebrate Wikipedia Day 2025.

The meetup will be at the Wicker Park-Bucktown Library meeting room, and starts at 1:30 pm.

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kittens for you!! ^^

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thank you for all your hard work!! it is greatly appreciated ^_^ Ame ★ (talk) 22:44, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Congratulations on creating and bringing Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season to GA! IAWW (talk) 11:29, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season

The article Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season for comments about the article, and Talk:Misinformation about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season/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 It is a wonderful world -- It is a wonderful world (talk) 11:43, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On translation of Draft:Ballad of Osman the Young

I did all the translations myself; the American Studies graduates here can legally be translators from Turkish to English and English to Turkish especially in academic matters.

Therefore, I own the copyright of the translations, and I grant you use them however you like. 𝙲𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚞𝚜 𝚁𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚗 (talk) 01:27, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cactus Ronin: since the original document you translated is from the Turkish Wikisource, can you first add your translation to the English Wikisource using this link: https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=User:Cactus_Ronin/Translation:Ballad_of_Osman_the_Young&action=edit&preload=Template:Translation_header/preload Once you've contributed your translation there, I can use Wikidata to link the translations together and to the Wikipedia article. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 01:58, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago Meetup for March 15

Hello! This is Luiysia again. Welcome to everyone who joined the mailing list from our Wikipedia Day meetup! Here are the details for our March bimonthly meetup.

The meetup will start at Sipping Turtle Cafe, in the Logan Sqaure neighborhood, at 11 AM.

Here is the official meetup page, where you can add yourself as an attendee. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:53, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good article reassessment for Transgender health care misinformation

Transgender health care misinformation has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Launchballer 11:57, 1 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Invitation to participate in research

Hello,

The Wikimedia Foundation is conducting a survey of a group of Wikipedians to better understand their experiences! We are also looking to interview some survey respondents in more detail, and you will be eligible to receive a thank-you gift for the completion of an interview. The outcomes of this research will shape future work designed to improve on-wiki experiences.

We have identified you as a good candidate for this research, and would greatly appreciate your participation in this survey, which shouldn’t take more than 2-3 minutes. You may view its privacy statement here. Please contact me if you have any questions or concerns. Kind regards, Sam Walton (talk) 16:34, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for 2025 US federal deferred resignation program

On 11 March 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 2025 US federal deferred resignation program, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the first-ever mass message to the U.S. government's two million employees was an enticement for them to resign? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fork in the Road (Office of Personnel Management memo). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 2025 US federal deferred resignation program), 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) 12:03, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 8,761 views (730.1 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of March 2025 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:29, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Sheetz–Wawa rivalry

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Sheetz–Wawa rivalry 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 Pbritti -- Pbritti (talk) 20:42, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I noticed that you've been inactive for quite a while. I plan to add some additional comments and then place the review on hold. Pending your comment, I was planning to do a procedural close a week from today. Hope you are doing well! ~ Pbritti (talk) 20:32, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the reminder, I missed the original notification of the review starting. Been a bit busy but catching up on things now. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 21:58, 9 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome back. Hope you're doing well! ~ Pbritti (talk) 13:03, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your GA nomination of Sheetz–Wawa rivalry

The article Sheetz–Wawa rivalry you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Sheetz–Wawa rivalry for comments about the article, and Talk:Sheetz–Wawa rivalry/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 Pbritti -- Pbritti (talk) 01:41, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

May 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
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WikiCup 2025 May newsletter

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:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,233 round points from 24 good articles, 28 Did you know articles, and one In the news nomination, mainly about athletes and politicians
• Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 1,127 round points, almost entirely from two high-multiplier featured articles on Black Widow (Natasha Romanova) and Grace Coolidge, in addition to two GAs and two reviews
• History6042 (submissions) with 1,088 round points from four featured lists about Michelin-starred restaurants, nine good articles and a good topic mostly on Olympic-related subjects, seven ITN articles, and dozens of reviews
• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,085 round points from three FAs, one GA, and four DYKs on military history, as well as 18 reviews
• Arconning (submissions) with 887 round points, mostly from four FLs, six GAs, and seven DYKs on Olympic topics, along with more than two dozen reviews

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.

Remember that any content promoted after 28 April but before the start of Round 3 can be claimed in Round 3. 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) 01:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago Meetup for May 24

Hello! This is Luiysia again. Hope everyone has been enjoying the warm weather! Here are the details for our May bimonthly meetup. The meetup will start at Botanical Cafe, in the North Center neighborhood, at 11 AM.

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"Delta Flight 4813" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Delta Flight 4813 has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 May 15 § Delta Flight 4813 until a consensus is reached. guninvalid (talk) 06:51, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Concern regarding Draft:Testosterone in culture

Hello, Dan Leonard. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Testosterone in culture, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

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Chicago Meetup for July 13

Hello! This is Luiysia again. Hope everyone has been having a great summer! Here are the details for our July bimonthly meetup, which will be a Wiknic.

The meetup will start at Welles Park, in the Ravenswood neighborhood, at 2 PM on July 13.

Here is the official meetup page, where you can add yourself as an attendee.

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See you soon!

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WikiCup 2025 July newsletter

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:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,314 round points, mostly from articles about athletes and politicians, including 20 good articles and 48 did you know articles
• Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,197 round points, mostly from military history articles, including 9 featured topic articles, two featured articles, and four good articles
• Sammi Brie (submissions) with 1,055 round points, mostly from television station articles, including 27 good articles and 9 good topic articles

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]

Concern regarding Draft:Executive Order 12898

Hello, Dan Leonard. This is a bot-delivered message letting you know that Draft:Executive Order 12898, a page you created, has not been edited in at least 5 months. Drafts that have not been edited for six months may be deleted, so if you wish to retain the page, please edit it again or request that it be moved to your userspace.

If the page has already been deleted, you can request it be undeleted so you can continue working on it.

Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia. FireflyBot (talk) 05:08, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

welles park

hi dan, great to meet you at the wiknic in chicago recently. as mentioned, i've been beefing up the Welles Park article and published the edits and pics today if you're interested! Shotgunheist ^💬 18:15, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh wow, you worked fast! I think the connection to the Globetrotters might be worth a DYK nomination. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 18:30, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Image at Great Seal of the United States

Could you please engage on the talk page… I am confused as to why you are reverting. Thanks. Blueboar (talk) 19:47, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary account IP viewer granted

Hello, Dan Leonard. Per your request, your account has been granted temporary account IP viewer rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:

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Nomination of Don Bleu for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Don Bleu is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Don Bleu until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.

Epsilon.Prota ^talk 16:31, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Postnom AN

Just wanted to express some appreciation for the thoughtful comments you've made on the appeal. Both have come at the topic from angles I hadn't dug into or really thought much about. We obviously agree on the overall content question, but I'd like to believe I'd think similarly highly even if I was on the other side. Cheers, and apologies for missing that Chicago meetup due to the intrusion of family, Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 02:48, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I was a pretty strong anti-postnominal voter in the original RFC but always thought the proposal had some pretty big flaws to begin with. I'm not surprised it's getting rehashed at AN. If it ever gets revisited I hope a clearer RFC question gets presented to the community. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 03:00, 14 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Event coordinator granted

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If you no longer require the right, let me know, or ask any other administrator. Drop a note on my talk page if you run into troubles or have any questions about appropriate/inappropriate use of the event coordinator right. Happy editing! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 18:29, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol September 2025 Backlog drive

September 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
On 1 September 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Page Patrol will begin. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Each review will earn 1 point. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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Chicago Edit-a-thon for September 18

Hello! This is Luiysia again. Hope everyone had been having a great summer! Here are the details for our September bimonthly meetup.

We will be hosting this month's meetup at UIC's Wiki Week, at the September 18th edit-a-thon. It will take place at the Institute of Humanities from noon to 4 pm.

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WikiCup 2025 September newsletter

The fourth round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 29 August. The penultimate round saw three contestants score more than 800 points:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,175 round points, mainly from sports-related articles, including 17 good articles, 27 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles
• Arconning (submissions) with 1,090 round points, mainly from articles about athletes and politicians, including a featured article on Philippines at the 1924 Summer Olympics, 9 good articles, 28 did you know articles, and a wide assortment of featured and good article reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 854 round points, mostly from a high-scoring featured article on the Indian leader Rani of Jhansi and two good articles, in addition to 13 featured and good article reviews

Everyone who competed in Round 4 will advance to Round 5 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for Round 4 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 9 featured articles, 12 featured lists, 98 good articles, 9 good topic articles, more than 150 reviews, nearly 100 did you know articles, and 18 in the news articles.

In advance of the fifth and final round, the judges would like to thank every contestant for their hard work. As a reminder, any content promoted after 29 August but before the start of Round 5 can be claimed in Round 5. In addition, note that Round 5 will end on 31 October at 23:59 UTC. Awards at the end of Round 5 will be distributed based on who has the most tournament points over all five rounds, and special awards will be distributed based on high performance in particular areas of content creation (e.g., most featured articles in a single round).

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 – Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), Frostly (talk · contribs), Guerillero (talk · contribs) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs) – are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck!

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Reflist formatting

Hi Dan Leonard, concerning this archived discussion about replacing {{reflist|refs= with <references>, do you know if there was any progress? The discussion summary by Beland seemed to suggest writing a bot and following the procedure at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval. You have no obligation to get personally involved if you don't have time for it, but I wanted to reopen the topic, because since it is a large-scale change, it could be very useful. I also have some programming experience if it can help (although not in the context of Wikipedia), and may try to write a bot myself if needed. Alenoach (talk) 00:27, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd love to see it done but I have no experience with bots and am apprehensive about my first bot being one that affects possibly hundreds of thousands of pages. I think Wikipedia:Bot requests might be the best venue. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 01:11, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good suggestion! I opened this request. Alenoach (talk) 04:20, 3 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DUE Question

Hey Dan Leonard! I saw removal of the Congressional hearings from the lead due to WP:UNDUE issues. I have also fixed the issued you pointed out regarding citations and clarification. Since the sources have it now, along with the split article, would you believe the following addition to the lead would be DUE or still an UNDUE issue?: The White House and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued statements in response to these claims, and the United States Congress conducted conducted investigative hearings that involved efforts to combat this misinformation. Note, italic emphasis is the addition I am proposing. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 06:00, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That seems fine, if the information is in the article body and adequately supported by reliable sources. Information should never be in the lead if it is not supported in the body. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 06:08, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP:BEFORE Reminder

Myself and another editor pointed out on your recent AFD that there are clear alternatives to a deletion. So, please remember to always check for and consider alternatives to deletion before starting a seven-day-long deletion discussion. Thank you! The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 15:26, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I feel the topic is not notable, which is why I felt a deletion discussion is necessary. You are free to propose alternatives. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 16:03, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wait...seriously???? Since alternatives to deletion include draftification/merge into Draft:Influence of severe weather on American politics and/or a merge into the respective hurricane articles, you actually believe the hearing are not notable for mentioning anywhere on Wikipedia? I take back my BEFORE repremand then. I will fight you heavily on this. Also, since you believe they are not notable for mention anywhere on Wikipedia, do you even support Draft:Influence of severe weather on American politics being an article? I'm trying to judge if you are an editor I should consider contacting for splits once the article inevitably reaches 25,000+ words. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 16:12, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Had I known of the existence of a draft, I might have proposed draftification. But draftspace is inherently opaque by design, so there is no way I could have known of your draft's existence. Generally, however, I don't draftify articles and especially don't consider merges to drafts, as I worry about use of draftification as a backdoor to deletion. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 16:18, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I commented in the AFD regarding the draft's existance prior to you adding the Ian hearing article into the AFD. Also, with the amount of searching you did, I do find it hard to actually believe you did not see the draft, since I have it in big bold text at the top of my userpage, and, you knew about Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Influence of severe weather during 2020 on American politics, which closed as delete with the caveat that a weather-politics article is probably notable for Wikipedia. But I digress and will assume good faith and accept that you did not know about the draft's existence.

Anyway, I have merged the two articles into the draft, which is now about 5% completed and is at 94,000 bytes and 5,400 words, which is 1/3 of the way to "SPLIT" guidelines at WP:SIZERULE. So, please feel free to help out at the draft! Since pre-emptive WP:SIZERULE splits aren't notable, I am presuming the article will reach somewhere in the ballpark of 1 million bytes and probably 50,000 words. So I need a lot of help. 😅. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 16:36, 11 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RfC follow-up

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T404784
Open

Congrats on this RfC passing! Are you planning to follow up on the implementation? I'd be interested in being pointed to the implementation discussion so that I can follow along. Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 00:41, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On Test Wiki, I've prepared a few pages where the assessment is FA/FL/GA and my sandbox there correctly displays the expected taglines in the same manner as the RFC. I've requested permissions so I can (or if denied, have an interface admin) insert the switch statement into testwiki:MediaWiki:Tagline to see if it works. If it does, I'll toss an {{edit interface-protected}} on MediaWiki talk:Tagline and ping the interface admins who participated in the RFC, then let them handle it or move to Phabricator if needed. If it doesn't work on Test Wiki, I'll open a new ticket on Phabricator effectively saying "the enwiki community wants this, any developers want to make it work?" or similar. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 03:25, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

October 2025 United States federal government shutdown: Revision history

Thank you for your work improving and merging this draft. I was going to request help to do. My one question is, looking at previous shutdowns, shouldn't the title in main space just be 2025 United States federal government shutdown. It looks like previous shutdowns with a month in front of them (2018) had two shutdowns in the same year. Esolo5002 (talk) 15:19, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that's the correct reading of Wikipedia:Naming conventions (events), but I didn't choose the name of the draft. Fixing it can be handled during the move to mainspace. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 15:31, 30 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Survey

Hi and thanks for your recent participation in AfD. I would like to hear your thoughts about the process. Please check this survey if you are willing to respond.Czarking0 (talk) 02:08, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wife guy

Hi Dan, thank you for your revisions and corrections on the Wife guy page. If I'm understanding correctly, it seems like I somehow messed up the citations on the page. I can't quite understand how or why I did that, but I'm sorry about it, and I appreciate you fixing it. It certainly was not my intention to break them! I like your trout slapping thing, and you are welcome to slap me with one!

Thank you! Veggiegalaxy (talk) 20:52, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nah it just looks like a classic VisualEditor bug, you didn't do anything wrong. Dan Leonard (talk • contribs) 20:53, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh let's go!!! Even better :) Thanks anyway! Veggiegalaxy (talk) 21:03, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Chicago Meetup for November 22

Hello! This is Luiysia again. This will be our final meetup for the year! Here are the details for our November bimonthly meetup.

We will be hosting this month's meetup at Cafe Jumping Bean in Pilsen, starting at 3 pm. Here is the official meetup page, where you can add yourself as an attendee.

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Guide to temporary accounts

Hello, Dan Leonard. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

Editing from a temporary account

• When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
• All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
• A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
• As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
  • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
  • There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

How to enable IP Reveal

• Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
• Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

• It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
• It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
• Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

• Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
• See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

• It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
  • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
• Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
• Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
• The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

• How to use Special:IPContributions
• How automatic IP reveal works
• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 November newsletter

The 2025 WikiCup has come to an end. Our top scorers, based on the tournament point rankings (which can be seen here), are:

1. BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,604 tournament points, will receive the 1st place award.
2. Gog the Mild (submissions) with 1,075 tournament points, will receive the 2nd place award.
3. Arconning (submissions) with 860 tournament points, will receive the 3rd place award.
4. History6042 (submissions) with 804 tournament points
5. Sammi Brie (submissions) with 635 tournament points
6. TheDoctorWho (submissions) with 386 tournament points
7. AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) with 373 tournament points
8. Thebiguglyalien (submissions) with 362 tournament points

Our high scorers in the final round were:

• BeanieFan11 (submissions) with 1,035 round points, mostly from 19 good articles and 21 did you know articles about athletes
• vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) with 819 round points, mostly from 13 good articles and 11 did you know articles about a wide range of topics from abortion topics to African cities
• TheNuggeteer (submissions) with 508 round points from 9 good articles, 4 good topic articles and 6 did you know articles mainly about Philippines topics, along with 19 good article reviews

The final round was very productive, and contestants had 2 featured articles, 4 featured lists, 106 good articles, 5 good topic articles, 178 article reviews, 76 did you know articles, and 9 in the news articles. Altogether, Wikipedia has benefited greatly from the activities of WikiCup competitors all through the contest. Well done everyone!

The top eight scorers will receive awards shortly. The following special awards will be made, based on high performance in particular areas of content creation. These prizes are awarded to the competitor who scored the highest in any particular field during the competition.

• Gog the Mild (submissions) wins the featured article prize, with 12 featured articles total, and the featured topic prize, with 9 featured topic articles in total
• Hey man im josh (submissions) wins the featured list prize, with 10 featured lists total
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) wins the featured picture prize, submitting the only featured picture in the entire contest during round 3
• History6042 (submissions) wins the featured content reviewer prize, with 127 featured content reviews. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
• BeanieFan11 (submissions) wins the good article prize, with 100 good articles total, and the DYK prize, with 147 did you know articles in total. He will also share the ITN prize, with 20 in the news articles in total.
• TheDoctorWho (submissions) wins the good topic prize, with 16 good topic entries in total
• Arconning (submissions) wins the good article reviewer prize, with 68 good article reviews in total

A special mention also goes to these users who scored the highest in a particular category in a single round:

• Sammi Brie (submissions), with 27 good articles in round 3, and 45 good article reviews in round 1
• Tails Wx (submissions), with 10 in the news articles in round 3

Next year's competition will begin on 1 January. You are invited to sign up to participate. The WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors, and we hope to see you all in the 2026 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement!

On behalf of the judges, Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email):

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