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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Holy_Trinity_Lock_II "leading" in phrase "leading to/leading from” is not promotional Plutus 💬 mess — Fortune favors the curious 05:39, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Plutus, Polygnotus is currently on a wikibreak; they've also requested to be blocked for a month and, so, can't respond. Salvio giuliano 06:20, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Noted Plutus 💬 mess — Fortune favors the curious 06:24, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

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Genetic representation http://link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-662-44874-8 Naruyoko (talk) 10:55, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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ALM_Flight_980 "massive" in phrase "massive de-acceleration" is not promotional birdn4t0r (talk) 01:24, 21 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sub-referencing: News and request for feedback

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Greetings from WMDE's Technical Wishes team. Today we've deployed sub-referencing to German Wikipedia, our first pilot wiki. A great milestone after so many years of work!

We'll continue to improve the feature based on community feedback and want to deploy to other pilot wikis in the upcoming months, once we've solved a couple of issues affecting many non-dewiki projects. You are invited to try sub-referencing on betawiki in the meantime.

We are currently thinking about how we could improve VisualEditor support for templates in sub-references if that's desired by the community. Read more about it on our talk page and share your feedback!

As always thank you very much for your support!

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Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 16:46, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-39

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • On September 24th at 15:00 UTC, all Wikimedia sites users will experience a brief read-only period due to a scheduled datacenter server switchover. The Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team will redirect all traffic from one primary server to its backup. You can listen to the switchover using the "Listen to Wikipedia" tool, where you will hear edits stop for a few minutes during the read-only phase, then resume. This twice-yearly datacenter server switchover ensures reliability by testing the backup datacenter, so that our sites can stay online even if the primary datacenter fails. You can read more about the process on the Diff blog.

Updates for editors

  • Editors of 60 more Wiktionaries will soon be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them into their pages. A function takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, like adding numbers, converting miles to meters, calculating elapsed time, or declining a word into a case. They will join the other 65 Wiktionary language editions, which already have access to embedded Wikifunctions calls. Later this year, plans are in place to expand to more Wiktionaries and the Incubator.
  • A new parser function has been added: {{#contentmodel}}. Template editors and admins can use it to get the localized or canonical name of the content model of a specific page. The function makes it easier to create and edit system messages, such as MediaWiki:editinginterface, even when you switch types of pages, like wiki, JavaScript, CSS or JSON page. [1]
  • Adding or editing a DISPLAYTITLE for an article using VisualEditor will no longer be broken. Editors who use VisualEditor mode to modify the {{DISPLAYTITLE}} would no longer have the literal text "DISPLAYTITLE" or its localized variant added to their articles. A list of pages that may have been affected and might need cleanup is documented in this ticket.
  • Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesigned Activity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
  • Recurrent item View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • Wikifunctions users can now import many essential facts involving geo-coordinates, quantities and time values from Wikidata. This is made possible by the creation of Wikifunctions types for these values, which makes them available for use by functions in Wikifunctions. Learn more about how this works in this video and Wikifunctions' August 1 newsletter (for quantities) and August 22 newsletter (for geo-coordinates).

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:52, 22 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Block

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Hi Polygnotus, I thought you were indef blocked and couldn't see the standard message. Got a fright, but everything is ok. See you in a month. scope_creepTalk 06:17, 27 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Scope creep No worries, I just had to do some things in real life so I asked User:Salvio giuliano to block me for a bit so I could focus on 'em. Taking a break once in a while is good for my health. Polygnotus (talk) 18:57, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome back and happy editing! Salvio giuliano 19:09, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Polygnotus (talk) 19:39, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-40

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

  • A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [2]

Updates for editors

  • The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
  • As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
  • The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
  • Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
  • On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [3]
  • The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone 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 Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
  • The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
  • There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [4]
  • One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:) [5]
  • Recurrent item View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [6]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
  • A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:48, 29 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A cat for you!

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 This cat likes goats.

NekoKatsun (nyaa) 13:11, 10 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 19

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on September 26. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

Dark Mode will soon be available on all Wikimedia sites.
  • Mobile Editing: Insights on mobile web editing on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.
  • Dark Mode: Dark Mode user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.
  • Community wishlist extension: The new Community Wishlist extension has been released. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.
  • Paste Check: 22 Wikis are now testing a new Edit Check feature, Paste Check, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.
  • Tone Check: The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.
  • Search Suggestions: Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.
  • Unsupported Tools Working Group: A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosen Video2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.
  • Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 40 and 41 including about Sub-referencing – a new feature to re-use references with different details.
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase: Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place on October 15 at 16:30 UTC.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

Foundation statements

Other Movement curated newsletters & news
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MediaWiki message delivery 14:50, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Barnstar and Questions

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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For talk page stalking on User talk:Oshwah and helping me write an entire script! HwyNerd Mike (tokk) 17:09, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You deserve a fat barnstar. Also, is there any way to, like, invoke the script, or is it automatically invoked? HwyNerd Mike (tokk) 17:09, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@HwyNerd Mike Thanks! JavaScript runs when the page is loaded. https://claude.ai/ is an LLM that can help with JavaScript.
You should add
importScript('User:HwyNerd Mike/Polygnotus.js');
to
User:HwyNerd Mike/common.js
to actually load the file.
Note that the output (HwyNerd Mike has edited in last 3 days: true) will be put in the browser console. To open it press F12, then click Console.
If you can't find the browser console, you can change
console.log(`${username} has edited in last ${days} days: ${result}`);
to
alert(`${username} has edited in last ${days} days: ${result}`);
in User:HwyNerd Mike/Polygnotus.js. Polygnotus (talk) 19:15, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Some more links that may be useful:
Polygnotus (talk) 01:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! HwyNerd Mike (tokk) 01:49, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #702

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-20. Missed the previous one? See issue #701.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • WikiLokal - The tool uses your device location to find Wikidata Items and Wikipedia articles within a 3 kilometre radius of your location. Created by User:Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing: We made progress on support for more datatypes for editing.
  • Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co:
    • We are investigating an issue with infoboxes using data from Wikidata after some recent changes to usage tracking (phab:T407684)
    • We are working on more improvements to the Databox module
  • Ontology federation: We are starting to work on making it possible for other Wikibase instances to use Wikidata's Items as values in their statements. This expands on previous work around federated properties.
  • Dumps: We have worked on fixing issues with the dumps that were failing recently. They should now be generated again and we continue to look into the cause.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-43

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • To optimize how user data is stored in our databases, the saved preferences of users who haven't logged in for over five years and have fewer than 100 edits will be cleared. When those users return, default settings will apply. [7]
  • Recurrent item View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a broken link from the GlobalContributions interface message to the XTools GlobalContributions page which has now been fixed. [8]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The work to reroute all traffic to API endpoints under the rest.php route through a common API gateway is now complete. If any issues are observed, please file a phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
  • Edits to Wikidata references or qualifiers will now be shown in RecentChanges and Watchlist entries on other wikis less often, reducing unnecessary notifications. This will reduce the overall quantity of 'noisy' entries. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. [9]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:32, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 20 October 2025

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And the "Global Resource Distribution Committee" emerges.
Two shortlisted WMF Board candidates removed from the ballot.
Who was bumped and why?
...while Musk prepares to launch "Grokipedia".
Serial-killer miniseries, deceased scientist, government shutdowns and Sandalwood hit "Kantara" crowd the tubes.
Don't get too excited before you read this.
* Read this Signpost in full * Single-page * Unsubscribe * MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 22:43, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comparing thoughts on WMF issues

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Hello! I wanted to pick your brain about the Board election issue, specifically about how it compares to the censorship issue from a couple months ago where we disagreed. I have to conclude that I'm misunderstanding or missing something on my end. At that time, you were one of the main proponents of supporting the WMF's decision to accept the ruling and you said I am also not a lawyer, and I only have access to the publicly available information linked on this page. Which is why I find it difficult to judge if the WMF is doing the right thing. And since they have a legal department, and hire external lawyers, it seems reasonable to give them the benefit of the doubt, right? and a few other statements to this effect. In my mind, the concerns of non-public information and institutional and legal expertise would also apply to the WMF's selection of Board members. But you're one of the main people standing against their removal from the ballot. I was wondering if you see this as applying to one and not the other on a fundamental level, or if it's a more practical matter like weighing pros and cons. For reference, your reaction to the Board issue is how I see both situations, except that I consider the censorship issue to be more existential in the long-term.

I was originally going to leave this as a comment under the Signpost article, but I worried it would cause drama or derail the conversation. I also get it if you don't want to drudge this up again. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 22:08, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Thebiguglyalien: Hi!
In general I try to give everyone, including the WMF, the benefit of the doubt. Sometimes I fail, but that is because I am a flawed human and not a perfect alien like you. Most people, generally speaking, are trying to do the right thing. I hope.
I think these cases are quite different (although I of course happily accept that I am a hypocrite, which in my view is not a bad thing to be). Which of my many hypocritical actions and statements confused you?
To give an example of the differences: Lane asked the WMF to publicly post their reasoning, and the WMF asked Lane to not disclose what they had told Lane. Which puts Lane in an awkward position; how can Lane refuse?
In the case of that office action we don't want the WMF to openly discuss their legal strategy (which could harm them and us in the future). We also want them to keep a bunch of secrets for privacy reasons. Being transparent is cool, but loose lips sink ships.
In that Office action case I felt a lot of the more extreme criticism of the WMF was unfair and based upon faulty reasoning, incorrect assumptions and a lack of understanding how the real world works (even if you are right you don't always get your way on this planet).
But you're one of the main people standing against their removal from the ballot. I objected to the removal of one of them (Lane), because the grounds upon which that decision was made were incomprehensible and/or incorrect. On the other hand I also wrote that I would've accepted "we don't like him, we don't want to work with him" as a valid reason, so the bar is REALLY low and they failed to clear even that.
In the other case I find it weird that they hadn't discovered these alleged social media posts (if they exist) because that is a normal part of due diligence and they probably could've handled it better, but I don't think they did enough wrong to be really mad about it, you know? It is just sad that we live in a world where such things happen.
I don't think the board of trustees thing has much to do with legal, as far as I know. I think its more about reducing the attack surface; the far right is gonna far right anyway.
So in my mind these are 2 rather different situations with little in common. I strongly believe the WMF was attempting to do the right thing in both cases.
As an alien, you have observed humans for a long time. You know how much we suck.
Hope that helps, if you give more specific examples of contradictory statements I can try to explain how my alleged brain works. Polygnotus (talk) 22:41, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Cool! I just wanted to get your thoughts since we agreed on one issue but not the other. I don't think it's hypocritical, more that I was wondering where the divergence was. It helps to see the more specific aspects you're considering, so thanks for taking the time to reply. I do get that legal strategy can't be disclosed (that was the part I was okay with at the time), and I also believe that most people see themselves as trying to do the right thing. And trust me, Martian society isn't much better... they're the ones who stranded me on Earth after all! Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 23:50, 22 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ha! Stranded! We both know you can leave any time you want. And you will once you've synthesized the tyridiam crystals, leaving chaos and destruction in your wake. Polygnotus (talk) 00:01, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If the WMF does the right thing I will defend them, even if we don't get the result we want. If the WMF does something stupid I might criticize it.
I think that in both cases I criticized faulty reasoning, and I don't really care if the source is the WMF or the alleged community.
We desperately need the WMF to be on our team, and they don't really need us as much. Polygnotus (talk) 00:50, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Editsummaries

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Information icon Hello. I have noticed that you often edit without using an edit summary. Please do your best to always fill in the summary field. This helps your fellow editors use their time more productively, rather than spending it unnecessarily scrutinizing and verifying your work. Even a short summary is better than no summary, and summaries are particularly important for large, complex, or potentially controversial edits. To help yourself remember, you may wish to check the "prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" box in your preferences. Thanks! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:56, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08 I was actually thinking of making a script that autogenerates editsummaries based on context clues. E.g. if someone is on a talkpage or noticeboard they are usually adding or revising a comment, and a script could handle that automatically. Polygnotus (talk) 22:47, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I 100% support that! I have a number of scripts that autogenerate edit summaries when coming from a category page (see User:Zackmann08/category-links.js).
I have reverted a few of your edits because you didn't provide ANY indication of why content was removed... It looks like you are bulk removing Award sections... Is there a specific reason? To be clear, I'm not saying that material belongs on the page... Honestly I'm indifferent to that... But with I see a large red number in the edit history with zero explanation, it is a definite red flag. If you can link to some WP:MOS doc or something in your edit summary or at least say removing awards section that is purely WP:PROMO that would be very helpful. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:52, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Zackmann08 I used to have this canned editsummary script thing but I lost it. Have to look in to that again.
I assume you do that manually? Modern vandalfighting scripts use ORES so people don't really have to deal with that.
Yeah companies can pay to be part of an award program, and then they get an award. See for example https://bestinbizawards.com/entry-fees/ and https://wcwawards.com/registration/ and https://stevieawards.com/sales/entry-fees?from=mobile In the case of the Best in Biz thing its founded by someone with a background in "corporate communications". Its a win-win, the company pays a couple hundred dollar and then you can claim you are the exemplary best super person of the year, which might impress some people.
Gimme a sec I may be able to find it. Polygnotus (talk) 22:55, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Again to be clear, I'm not objecting to WHAT you removed, but the way in which you are removing it. The process maters which is why edit summaries are so important. I use WP:JWB a LOT and do thousands of tiny edits that are clearly uncontroversial. But I still need to provide an edit summary.
I'm not going to go through your edit history and revert any more, but moving forward, PLEASE put an edit summary. Whether you are editing manually, using a tool like WP:AWB/WP:JWB or whatever the case may be. Please put a summary, especially when your edits are thousands of bytes. Even just saying copyvio as you did here is better than nothing. I see that and I assume you are removing WP:COPYVIO. If I see 8,000+ bytes removed from an article on my watchlist with ZERO edit summary, that is going to get reverted with a summary of unexplained content removal. I'm not alone in this camp (it's why {{uw-delete1}} through {{uw-delete4}} exist). And to be clear, I would do that if it was an Admin with 2 million edits to their name... This absolutely is not personal. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:07, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah I need to find a way to conveniently automate that. I am not a big fan of editsummaries because they slow me down and I always forget, but this is a problem that is fixable with a script. I wish we could add editsummaries in retrospect, via the API. And yes that edit was a little too close for comfort. Polygnotus (talk) 23:09, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Have you considered using WP:JWB or WP:AWB?? If you are removing awards sections from multiple pages, you can just load a list of pages, enter a single edit summary and then edit away... It is MUCH faster.... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:17, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I considered making my own. So for example User:Polygnotus/Scripts/ListGenerator.js and User:Polygnotus/Scripts/ListGenerator2.js are me exploring in that direction. I am on Linux, and AWB has some weird WINE bugs. Someone should port that now that Micro$oft is dying. I should look into JWB, but I am not so sure it fits my workflow. Maybe I can tweak it a bit. In this case I started specifically with the Best in Biz awards, because its just a promotional tool, and then I discovered that those others are also promotional tools and not real awards. Capitalism is making me communist. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 23:23, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey I'm on a freaking iPad and JWB works really well. I highly encourage you to give it a try... And yes, capitalism SUCKS. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:25, 23 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
AI editsummary
@Zackmann08 Perhaps User:Polygnotus/Scripts/AI Editsummary.js is a step in the right direction. Not a finished product ofcourse, just an experiment. Polygnotus (talk) 10:46, 26 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Samsung Electronics discussed a wide-ranging deal to invest in [[Perplexity AI|Perplexity AI Inc.]] and put search technology from the artificial intelligence startup. The two companies are in talks to preload Perplexity’s app and assistant on upcoming Samsung devices and integrate the startup’s search features into the Samsung web browser.
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Wikidata weekly summary #703

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-10-27. Missed the previous one? See issue #702.

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • 🎉 Wikidata's 13th Birthday! Join us online, October 29 17:00 UTC (in your timezone) for presents, birthday messages, games...and a 📣surprise announcement (don't miss it!). 🎁 Add your own gifts to the list - anything that celebrates Wikidata and its amazing community... a script you’ve written, tool improvement, visual, poem...the sky's the limit. Get the call link here: 13th Birthday Presents & Messages call.
    • WikidataCon 2025, October 31 - November 2, make sure to register at the event page.
    • SPARQL workshop (in German): "From Zero to SPARQL. Eine Einführung in die Abfrage von Wissensgraphen (Schwerpunkt Wikidata)", 4 Nov 2025, 10-13, free and open to all, online via Zoom. more information and registration
    • The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2026 is approaching fast: 31st of October. Apply today if you want to attend on a scholarship.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Nemo is a new Wikidata query tool by User:Markus Krötzsch the tool can answer queries, extracts subsets, and perform analyses in ways that SPARQL alone can't. It also lets you combine Wikidata with other data sources.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Wikidata in Wikipedia and co:
    • We worked on making Wikidata change summaries in recent changes and watchlist on the other Wikimedia projects more understandable by adding icons. This will be rolled out soon (phab:T397258)
    • We continued the improvements to the Databox module (phab:T400322, phab:T400318)
  • Mobile statement editing: We continued working on editing references (phab:T405236) and did clean-ups for the beta release (phab:T405743)
  • GraphQL: We continued work on including labels of linked entities in responses
  • Dumps: We are looking into why dump generation is slower than it should be recently

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-44

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • The Wikipedia iOS app has launched an A/B/C test of improvements made to the tabbed browsing feature for select regions and languages. The test, named “More dynamic tabs”, explores new tab experiences and includes “Did you know” and “Because you read” article recommendations. You can read more on the project page.
  • Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue of flashing colors when holding or pressing the arrow keys under the dark mode settings in Vector 2022 has been fixed. [10]

Updates for technical contributors

  • The CampaignEvents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities. Visit the deployment page to learn more.
  • The SwaggerUI-based REST sandbox experience is now live on all wiki projects. The sandbox can be accessed through the Special:RestSandbox page. Please report any issues to the MediaWiki Interfaces team board, or join the discussion on the project launch page. [11]
  • Transform endpoints with a trailing slash path in the MediaWiki REST API are now marked as deprecated. They will remain functional during this time, but removal is expected by the end of January 2026. All API users currently calling them are encouraged to transition to the non-trailing slash versions. Both endpoint variations can be found and tested using the REST Sandbox. See the MediaWiki REST API Deprecation page for more detailed information about the API deprecation policies and procedures.
  • A dedicated changelog now exists for the MediaWiki REST API. The changelog provides an overview of these changes, making it easier for developers to keep track of improvements and iterations. Announcements will also continue to flow through the standard communication channels, including Tech News and email distribution lists, but can now be more easily referenced from a central location. If you have feedback about the style, structure, or content of this changelog, please join the discussion.
  • Administrators can delete the tracking category which was previously added by the JsonConfig extension, as it is no longer used. See the categories linked from Q130635582. It is OK if there are still pages listed in the category as that is just a caching issue, and they will be automatically cleared out the next time each page is edited. [12]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:28, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 20

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on October 11. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues


Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing.
  • Making it easier to say thanks: Users on most wikis will now have the ability to thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.
  • Account security: Improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access at Special:AccountSecurity.
  • Abstract Wikipedia: The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing. Voting is now open until November 3.
  • Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week 42 and 43 including the community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
  • Wikimedia apps: The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to the Tabbed browsing feature into Beta for select regions & languages. Called “More dynamic tabs”, the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.
  • CampaignEvents extension: Campaignevents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout, Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.
  • Event registration tool: Autoconfirmed users on small and medium wikis with the extension can now use Event Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.


Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · list of movement events

  • Digital safety: Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course, Safety for Young Wikimedians.
  • Wikimedia Core Curriculum: The Wikimedia Foundation has developed seven online video learning modules covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.
  • Advocacy: The Wikimedia Foundation has signed onto a statement that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as the Global Digital Compact campaign and WSIS+20 deliberations.
  • GLAM: The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto the Open Heritage Statement, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.


Foundation statements


Other Movement curated newsletters & news
See also: Diff blog · Goings-on · Planet Wikimedia · Signpost (en) · Kurier (de) · Actualités du Wiktionnaire (fr) · Regards sur l’actualité de la Wikimedia (fr) · Wikimag (fr) · Education · GLAM · The Wikipedia Library · Milestones · Wikidata · Central and Eastern Europe · other newsletters

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For information about the Bulletin and to read previous editions, see the project page on Meta-Wiki. Let askcac(_AT_)wikimedia.org know if you have any feedback or suggestions for improvement!


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Wikidata weekly summary #704

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-11-03. Missed the previous one? See issue #703.

Discussions

  • Closed request for adminship: Samoasambia
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: langCodesBot - Task(s): Python script to automate the cleanup of deprecated language codes (e.g., kr) from Wikidata items. Delete or move labels, descriptions, and aliases based on comparisons with fallback and related languages. The script uses the Pywikibot framework to process each item and logs cases it skips due to data inconsistencies or ambiguity to a CSV file for manual review.
  • New request for comments: Exhibition models by Hexatekin - This proposal focuses on standardizing models for art exhibitions. There is not a consistent data model used for art exhibitions that factors in parent-child relationships for traveling exhibitions, show series, or biennials, despite these being important and common types of events in international art history.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week The Wikidata Reference Validator by User:JosefAnthony helps check and replace broken or outdated references — keeping Wikidata’s knowledge verifiable and trustworthy. It checks whether external references are still accessible or offline, so we can ensure that every statement on Wikidata shows how we know what we know.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile editing of statements: We are continuing the work on qualifiers and reference editing
  • GraphQL: We are continuing the work on making labels of linked entities available in GraphQL (phab:T404692)
  • Dumps: We are continuing to look into improvements for the dump process

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-45

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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

  • Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). [13]
  • For users with "Automatically subscribe to topics" enabled in their preferences, starting a new topic or adding a reply to an existing topic will now subscribe them to replies to that topic. Previously, this would only happen if the DiscussionTools "Add topic" or "Reply" widgets were used. When DiscussionTools was originally launched existing accounts were not opted in to automatic topic subscriptions, so this change should primarily affect newer accounts and users who have deliberately changed their preferences since that time. [14]
  • Scribunto modules can now be used to generate SVG images. This can be used to build charts, graphics and other visualizations dynamically through Lua, reducing the need to compose them externally and upload them as files. [15]
  • Wikimedia sites now provide all anonymous users with the option to enable a dark mode color scheme, featuring light-colored text on a dark background. This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. [16]
  • Users with large watchlists have long faced timeouts when editing Special:EditWatchlist. The page now loads entries in smaller sections instead of all at once due to a paging update, allowing everyone to edit their watchlists smoothly. As part of the database update, sorting by expiry has been removed because it was over 100× slower than sorting by title. A community wish has been created to explore alternative ways to restore sort-by-expiry. If this feature is important to you, please support the wish! [17]
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the fixing of the persisting highlighting when using VisualEditor find and replace during a query. [18]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Since 2019 the Wikimedia URL Shortener at https://w.wiki is available for all Wikimedia wikis to create short links to articles, permalinks, diffs, etc. It is available in the sidebar as "Get shortened URL". There are 30 wikis that also install an older "ShortUrl" extension. The old extension will soon be removed. This means /s/ URLs will not be advertised under article titles via HTML class="title-shortlink". The /s/ URLs will keep working. [19]
  • On Thursday, October 30, the MediaWiki Interfaces and SRE Service Operations teams began rerouting Action API traffic through a common API gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board.
  • MediaWiki Train deployments will pause for the final two weeks of 2025: 22 December and 29 December. Backport windows will also pause between Monday, 22 December 2025 and Thursday, 2 January 2026. A backport window is a scheduled time to add things like bug fixes and configuration changes. There are seven deployment trains remaining for 2025. [20]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • In 2025, the Wikimedia Foundation reported that AI systems and search engines increasingly use Wikipedia content without driving users to the site, contributing to an 8% drop in human pageviews compared to 2024. After detecting bots disguised as humans, Wikimedia updated its traffic data to reflect this shift. Read more about current user trends on Wikipedia in a Diff blog post.

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:31, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – November 2025

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

Administrator changes

added Toadspike
removed

CheckUser changes

added asilvering

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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