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TFAs in June
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Thank you today for American logistics in the Northern France campaign, introduced (in 2020): "This article is a sequel to American logistics in the Normandy campaign, but it covers different ground literally and fugitively. This campaign saw a fast-moving pursuit of the German armies back to the German border, which placed the American logistical system under enormous strain."! -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:43, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
Thank you today Scott Carpenter, about "one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts chosen in 1959, back when American rockets always blew up. His name was once a household word, but the glory days of the American space program are but a distant memory, if that, now. He was the second American (after John Glenn) to orbit the Earth and the fourth American to fly in space, after Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn, but only flew in space once."! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:33, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
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) 16:36, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
ITN recognition for John R. Casani
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On 27 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article John R. Casani, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. SpencerT•C 08:16, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Savannah River Site
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On 29 June 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Savannah River Site, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Savannah River Site was where the neutrino was discovered? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Savannah River Site. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Savannah River Site), 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.
Gatoclass (talk) 00:02, 29 June 2025 (UTC)
WikiCup 2025 July newsletter
[edit]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)
Tech News: 2025-27
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- The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled on all Wikipedias. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.
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- 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. [1]
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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. [4]
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- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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Your DYK nom of Prescott Currier
[edit]Hi @Hawkeye7. I see that your DYK nomination for Prescott Currier still needs a reviewer. I made some edits to the article a bit ago. Do you think my edits to the page preclude me from being the reviewer? — ERcheck (talk) 19:55, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- Not sure.
You're not allowed to approve your own hook or article. If you only make minor adjustments to another editor's proposed hook (no new facts requiring verification are introduced), you can still approve it. Substantial changes require a third-party reviewer.
(WP:DYKRR) Best to ask at WT:DYK. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:20, 2 July 2025 (UTC)- Well, I added a few facts, including Bletchley Park, before the nomination. Thus, I think I shouldn't review it. - — ERcheck (talk) 22:30, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Hawkeye7: I see User:Artem.G just approved the DYK nomination. Great! BTW, great job with taking the article to GA. Looks very good! — ERcheck (talk) 22:54, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- The unusual thing about this article is that it was nominated for deletion. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:23, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- I remember. That is what spurred me to make some additions to validate notability. Such a turnaround! — ERcheck (talk) 00:06, 3 July 2025 (UTC)
- The unusual thing about this article is that it was nominated for deletion. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:23, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- @Hawkeye7: I see User:Artem.G just approved the DYK nomination. Great! BTW, great job with taking the article to GA. Looks very good! — ERcheck (talk) 22:54, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
- Well, I added a few facts, including Bletchley Park, before the nomination. Thus, I think I shouldn't review it. - — ERcheck (talk) 22:30, 2 July 2025 (UTC)
Congratulations from the Military History Project
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| On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the The Content Review Medal of Merit (Military history) for participating in 9 reviews between April and June 2025. Donner60 (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:32, 3 July 2025 (UTC) Keep track of upcoming reviews. Just copy and paste |
Missing DYK hooks
[edit]Did you inadvertently remove three DYK hooks with this edit?[5] It looks that way. Gatoclass (talk) 11:29, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- My apologies. I don't know how that happened. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 19:39, 7 July 2025 (UTC)
- I am just checking in to see if you or someone else was able to add these hooks back to the queue/preparation areas? — Strange Orange 21:25, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
- It doesn't look like it, so I have added them to Prep Area 1. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:00, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
- I am just checking in to see if you or someone else was able to add these hooks back to the queue/preparation areas? — Strange Orange 21:25, 12 July 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-28
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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.
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- 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. [6]
- 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. [7]
- 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. [8]
- View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
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- 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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Meetings and events
- WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".
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Good article reassessment for British Army during the First World War
[edit]British Army during the First World War 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. Z1720 (talk) 16:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: June 2025
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DYK nomination of Arthur J. Ruhlig
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Hello! Your submission of Arthur J. Ruhlig 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! Guerillero Parlez Moi 07:12, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
Harry Crerar scheduled for TFA
[edit]This is to let you know that the above article has been scheduled as today's featured article for 28 August 2025. Please check that the article needs no amendments. Feel free to amend the draft blurb, which can be found at Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 2025, or to make comments on other matters concerning the scheduling of this article at Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 2025. Please keep an eye on that page, as notifications of copy edits to or queries about the draft blurb may be left there by user:JennyOz, who assists the coordinators by reviewing the blurbs, or by others. I also suggest that you watchlist Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors from two days before it appears on the Main Page. Thanks, and congratulations on your work! Gog the Mild (talk) 15:27, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-29
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- 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. [9][10]
- 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. [11]
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In depth
- Developers, designers, and all Wikimedians are invited to submit a project idea for the Wikimania Hackathon 2025. Read this Diff blog post for more details.
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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TFA
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Thank you today for Trinity (nuclear test), introduced (in 2014): This article is about the very first nuclear test, and the most famous. I promised last year that I would do my best to get it through FAC in time for the 70th anniversary on 16 July 2015. It has been nearly ten years since its previous nomination."! - I remember a 2016 TFA in today's story, in memory of 16 July 1916, and promise (myself) the next, to remember 31 October 1725, - it's about time to begin. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:10, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- What happened on 17 October 1725? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:58, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- 17? - 31: Bach led the first performance of Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79. I wanted to begin expanding, but now someone died whose article I had wanted to write for years, Claus Peymann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Unfortunate that Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79 is only a GA and not an FA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:43, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- What do you think I meant by "it's about time to begin"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- A song by Imagine Dragons. It can take up to three months for an article to get through FAC, and WP:TFA/R is currently taking bids for September slots. So I would strongly recommend (1) nominating it asap; (2) rounding up the usual suspects for reviews to fast track the process; and asking the TFA coordinators to hold the bus (and don't let the pigeon drive the bus! Good luck! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:12, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- I know, but then - instead - someone dies and I am stuck with a major translation task. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:18, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Three Ukrainian topics were on the main page today, at least at the beginning, RD and DYK, - see my talk. I hope to nominate later today. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:08, 20 July 2025 (UTC)
- 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) 10:52, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
- A song by Imagine Dragons. It can take up to three months for an article to get through FAC, and WP:TFA/R is currently taking bids for September slots. So I would strongly recommend (1) nominating it asap; (2) rounding up the usual suspects for reviews to fast track the process; and asking the TFA coordinators to hold the bus (and don't let the pigeon drive the bus! Good luck! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:12, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- What do you think I meant by "it's about time to begin"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Unfortunate that Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79 is only a GA and not an FA. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:43, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- 17? - 31: Bach led the first performance of Gott der Herr ist Sonn und Schild, BWV 79. I wanted to begin expanding, but now someone died whose article I had wanted to write for years, Claus Peymann. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:16, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
ITN recognition for Bradley John Murdoch
[edit]On 16 July 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Bradley John Murdoch, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 23:51, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 18 July 2025
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DYK for Prescott Currier
[edit]On 19 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Prescott Currier, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Prescott Currier was one of the first Americans to visit the British code-breaking centre at Bletchley Park? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Prescott Currier. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Prescott Currier), 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) 00:03, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Worrall Reed Carter
[edit]On 21 July 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Worrall Reed Carter, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Worrall Reed Carter wrote about beans, bullets and black oil? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Worrall Reed Carter. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Worrall Reed Carter), 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, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-30
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- 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. [12]
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The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 6
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The Bugle: Issue 231, July 2025
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Tech News: 2025-31
[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.
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- The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction. [14]
- On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named
MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp. [15] - View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
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Promotion of Operation Mosaic
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Good work on creating the above. I started pulling something together at User:Dumelow/List of Saint-Cyr classes in 2019 but never got around to finishing it. I'm happy to merge any additional info across if you think it worthwhile? - Dumelow (talk) 20:22, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
- That would be great. Go for it! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:51, 3 August 2025 (UTC)