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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)[reply]

What happened on 17 October 1725? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:58, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

What do you think I meant by "it's about time to begin"? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:45, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

On Bach's day of death, I decorated my user pages in memory of his music, and my story ends on "peace". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:52, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you today tor Harry Crerar, about "Canada's most senior field commander in the Second World War, who commanded the First Canadian Army in the campaign in North West Europe in 1944–1945."! - Thank you also for more featured content, and the source review for the cantata which made it possible to become FA! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 04:59, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Bugle: Issue 231, July 2025

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at an overview of war history and the biography of a war historian Review essay: Simon Harley critiques a work from Osprey Publishing Timeline: This month in military history

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Tech News: 2025-31

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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.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:23, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Operation Mosaic

Congratulations, Hawkeye7! The article you nominated, Operation Mosaic, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 01:55, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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CS1 error on Neil Armstrong

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Neil Armstrong, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

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List of Saint-Cyr promotions

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)[reply]

That would be great. Go for it! Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:51, 3 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-32

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• Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet. [8]
• Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [9]
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MediaWiki message delivery 03:36, 5 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please don't edit other people's talk page comments just to convert spaces to non-breaking spaces

This kind of thing (special:diff/1304750628) is unnecessary and unhelpful. If I wanted non-breaking spaces there I would put them there myself. –jacobolus (t) 00:13, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't. It is an artefact of the software. See User talk:Cacycle/wikEd#Stop adding  . Hawkeye7 (discuss) 00:50, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Then you need to stop using that software to edit talk pages. –jacobolus (t) 00:52, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you remove the non-breaking spaces from your signature? Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:57, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Signatures says "The use of non-breaking spaces or <span class="nowrap"> to ensure that the signature displays on one line is recommended." But explicitly putting   in the page markup is annoying for anyone reading the page source. –jacobolus (t) 02:23, 8 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Downlink Volume 3, Issue 7

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Volume 3 — Issue 7
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In the News The first launch attempt of an Australian-made rocket, Gilmour Space Technologies' Eris-1, was made on 29/30 July. The launch vehicle crashed 14 seconds after launch due to insufficient thrust. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite launched on 30 July. The first radar imaging that uses dual frequencies, it is a joint project between NASA and ISRO, and believed to cost ~US$1.5 billion, making it one of the most expensive Earth-imaging satellites.
Featured Content The image LVM3 M4 carrying Chaandrayan-3 during lift-off was promoted to Featured Media status on 16 July. It was nominated by UnpetitproleX
Article of the month Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments Artist's conception of AREE on the surface of Venus, showing the wind turbine inside the rover's frame. Automaton Rover for Extreme Environments (AREE) is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts project to design a rover that can operate in the environment of Venus, controlled by a wind-powered mechanical computer. Venus's atmosphere is about 90 times denser than Earth's and the surface temperature is at least 462 °C (864 °F), conditions which would prevent a standard electronic computer from operating for any significant period of time. While AREE is being designed for operation on Venus, the rover's design could be re-purposed for use on Mercury, which has a comparably high surface temperature, on Jovian moons Europa or Io, where high radiation makes use of traditional electronics difficult, or on lava flows or highly radioactive areas on Earth. The project was first proposed in 2015, and funded by the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program with a phase-I study in 2016, and a phase-II study from 2017 to 2018.	Image of the month Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the Moon In July of 1969, Apollo 11 successfully fulfilled John F. Kennedy's goal of a person landing on, and returning from, the moon before the 1970s. Taking off on 16 July, the lunar lander, Eagle, touched down on the evening of the 20th (UTC). Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin exited the lander six hours later, becoming the first men on the moon. The pair stayed on the lunar surface for about 21 hours. This image is actually the second of a pair of images, taken by Aldrin so that the lunar surface's ability to bear weight could be measured.
Members New Members: Abdullah1099 (9 July) Manav2311 (25 July) Space.tracker.nerd (29 July) Number of active members: 213. Total number of members: 439. June Launches All times stated here are in UTC. See a current list: here. Long March 4C — Shiyan 28B-01 (3 Jul. at 09:35) (success) Soyuz-2.1a — Progress MS-31 (3 Jul. at 19:31) (success) Falcon 9 Block 5 — Dror-1 (PR-8000) (13 Jul. at 05:04) (success) Hyperbola-1 — Kunpeng-03 (Enshi Xidou Shanquan/HS-9) (29 Jul. at 04:10) (success) Eris Block 1 — Jar of Vegemite (29 Jul. at 21:30) (launch failure) Long March 8A — 9 Guowang (30 Jul. at 07:49) (success) GSLV Mark II — NISAR (30 Jul. at 12:10) (success)	Article Statistics This data reflects values from 31 July 2025. Spaceflight articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 7 28 15 8 58 FL 3 4 4 11 FM 124 124 A 1 2 1 4 GA 11 26 33 57 2 129 B 15 85 201 224 4 529 C 45 162 588 788 40 1,623 Start 16 140 1,019 2,603 461 4,239 Stub 7 204 2,035 247 2,493 List 10 120 109 236 1 36 512 Category 1,270 1,270 Disambig 47 47 File 222 222 Portal 55 55 Project 109 109 Redirect 2 42 134 1,248 1,426 Template 528 528 NA 1 1 Other 25 25 Assessed 105 573 2,217 6,090 3,630 790 13,405 Unassessed 10 130 140 Total 105 573 2,217 6,100 3,630 920 13,545 Monthly Changes Since June 2025, there are seven fewer high-importance, six new mid-importance, three new low-importance, three new NA-importance, and 29 new unknown-importance articles, for a total of 34 more articles. There is also one GA-class article, three more B-class articles, three more C-class articles, 18 more Start-class articles, two fewer Stub-class articles, and one fewer lists.
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Tech News: 2025-33

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• The WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature. [10]
• The Product and Technology Advisory Council published a set of proposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community. Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22 on this talk page.
• The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text. [11]
• Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for. [12]
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:25, 11 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Arthur J. Ruhlig

On 12 August 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Arthur J. Ruhlig, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Arthur J. Ruhlig was the first person to record observations of deuterium–tritium fusion? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur J. Ruhlig. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Arthur J. Ruhlig), 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 12 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Problems with AussieBot?

Noticed on some recent edits by AussieBot marked as "Automated Stub rating" and "Automated Start" rating that it is also changing B-class assessments erroniously. Examples: [15] changes B1 from "No" to "Yes" (article is not sufficently referenced for a yes); [16] changes B2 from "Yes" to "No" (arguable if it's a Yes or not but a bot should not be changing this); [17] changes B2 from "Yes" to "No" (given the obscurity of the type "Yes" is likely appropriate, and in any event a bot should not be changing any of these). Given I checked three articles' edits and all three had this issue, I suspect it may be much more widespread than this. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 03:11, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Bot only changes the B class assessments for MilHist articles. I will investigate the B1 change; it should be checking to see if each paragraph is referenced and this looks wrong. B2 is based on AI. If you think an article deserves a B rating, you can submit it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Requests. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:16, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see. The bot does not check the lead for references. So it was correct. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:28, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm mostly concerned that it's changing manually-assessed Cs to Starts, and this is not correct - the article is not at all sufficiently referenced to have B1 ticked as 'yes'. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 07:30, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The body of the article, meagre as it is, is indeed fully referenced. The problem is that the lead is not in the body. The bot is not overriding manual assessments, but choosing one where there are multiple, contradictory assessments. In the case of Dornier Do 29 (1934), there were three actually: C, Start and Stub. The Bot has gone with Stub. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:30, 18 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The body and lede of the article, given it's (functionally) a stub, are one and the same. And the problem with 'harmonizing' the assessments is that - if I recall - some WPs don't use C, so it's downgrading manually-assessed C's for MILHIST and turning them into Start. I don't think that's desirable. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 00:09, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

All the WPs accept the C class rating as part of Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 198#Project-independent quality assessments. This effort is aimed at cleaning up the contradictory assessments. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 02:31, 19 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Otto Hahn scheduled for TFA

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Tech News: 2025-34

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AussieBot

Please see this edit at Talk:Ragnall mac Gofraid. One of the projects erroneously listed the article as List class and the bot overrode the other classifications. 12:39, 22 August 2025 (UTC) Ben MacDui 12:39, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the bot guessed wrong in choosing the List class. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 20:12, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The Bugle: Issue 232, August 2025

Your Military History Newsletter Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content Book review: Hawkeye7 looks at four works spanning ancient to modern times Timeline: This month in military history

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• On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [36]
• Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [37]
• Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [38][39]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:) [40]
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Updates for technical contributors

• Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [41]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.

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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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Nomination for WikiProject Military history coordinators is now open!

Nominations for the upcoming Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history coordinator election have opened. A team of up to ten coordinators will be elected for the next coordination year. The project coordinators are the designated points of contact for issues concerning the project, and are responsible for maintaining our internal structure and processes. They do not, however, have any authority over article content or editor conduct, or any other special powers. More information on being a coordinator is available here. If you are interested in running, please sign up here by 23:59 UTC on 14 September! Voting will commence on 15 September. If you have any questions, you can contact any member of the current coord team. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:03, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-36

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 wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. 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. [42]
• The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia. [43]
• On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. [44][45]
• Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter to learn more.
• The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.

Meetings and events

• Spotlight on some Wikimania 2025 Sessions:
  • Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these.
  • La durabilité du mouvement Wikimedia face aux défis actuels et futurs: This session explored how Wikimedia can stay a trusted source of knowledge in the age of generative AI, information overload, and disinformation.

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