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Hi SilverLocust, not sure if I understand it correctly, but at #Balanced editing restriction it says: "edits in the Article, Talk, Draft, and Draft talk" and on the edit filter you added all 13 talk namespaces, instead of those 4. Is that intended? Nobody (talk) 10:41, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@1AmNobody24: Yes, that was intentional because the restriction also includes that "They are topic banned from the Arab–Israeli conflict, broadly construed, in all namespaces other than these four (except for their own userspace and user talkspace)." My point in flagging edits in those other namespaces is that they would be violations. SilverLocust 💬 10:45, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I see, I assumed only the first point would be done with an edit filter, not the second one too. Nobody (talk) 10:55, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If you find that inefficient, I am open to suggestions. SilverLocust 💬 11:19, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
SilverLocust, I have a suggestion for you to implement, but would it be alright to exclude specific namespaces, or user talk pages? If so, please explain which namespaces to opt out. Should we also exclude administrators and bots as well? Codename Noreste (talk) 15:26, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have edited it to exclude bots, non-extended-confirmed users, and namespaces other than Article, Talk, Draft, and Draft talk. I'd welcome suggestions for improving it, preferably at the arbitration clerks' noticeboard. SilverLocust 💬 05:06, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just a quick fix: Currently the filter is a & (b & c | d) & e which means it looks for b & c or d instead of c or d, this should be changed to a & b & (c | d) & e as I believe that's what you intend to check. Nobody (talk) 06:09, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@1AmNobody24: No, I did intend (b & c) or d rather than b & (c or d). The talk pages of ECR pages generally aren't extended-confirmed protected, so it's not useful to check their protection level (which I included to avoid having to do the new_html check—which to my understanding should be avoided for performance—on an unprotected article/draft). If I were trying to check (c or d)—that is, equals_to_any(page_namespace,0,118) or equals_to_any(page_namespace,1,119)—then those could just be combined into equals_to_any(page_namespace,0,1,118,119). SilverLocust 💬 06:33, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1AmNobody24 and SilverLocust, I went ahead and rearranged the conditions to appear neater, and I added some parentheses after the OR pipe to fix the filter's logic, surrounding the extended confirmed protection requirement and the article/draft namespaces. Thoughts? 

contains_any(user_groups, "extendedconfirmed", "sysop") &
new_html contains "This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict." &
(
    equals_to_any(page_namespace, 1, 119) |
    (
        "extendedconfirmed" in page_restrictions_edit &
        equals_to_any(page_namespace, 0, 118)
    )
)

Codename Noreste (talk) 13:04, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

new_html really is as inefficient as they say, and shouldn't be included as an early check (ie for every edit by any EC user). -- zzuuzz (talk) 18:42, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wouldn't putting new_html at the last line also work as well? Codename Noreste (talk) 19:07, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's how the current filter is written, and the best place for it, so all the other checks are run first, and as many edits as possible are eliminated before it gets to that line. The tracking category (I don't understand how well it's currently implemented) and new_wikitext would be a better option (again as late as possible). -- zzuuzz (talk) 19:48, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Zzuuzz: The tracking category isn't part of the raw wikitext of the page, so I don't believe an edit filter condition can check for it. Am I mistaken about that?
The way it currently works is that the invisible html message is added by {{pp}}/{{pp-extended}}/etc. (on an article or draft) or {{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice base}} (on a talk page) if the subject page is extended-protected and the talk page has a WP:PIA notice. SilverLocust 💬 20:11, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Of course you're right. {Contentious topics/talk notice|a-i} ? You know about that stuff better than me. Anyway, good job, carry on :) -- zzuuzz (talk) 20:21, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't use a new_wikitext check for the talk pages because there are also {{Contentious topics/Arab-Israeli talk notice}}, {{Contentious topics/page restriction talk notice|a-i}}, {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli enforcement}}, various template redirects, and different template parameters sometimes used. Also because the new_html check allows it to exclude talk pages with a PIA notice but whose subject page is unprotected. SilverLocust 💬 20:37, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion of File:RFA candidates by year.png

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I was thinking about declining the CSD before you pulled the trigger because this has been maintained on en-wiki for years by @Oshwah, and likely wasn't added to Commons since it's a project-specific image that doesn't really have cross-wiki purposes. CC @JayCubby. voorts (talk/contributions) 03:17, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Voorts, that's a fair point, but I'd say they are in scope, as Commons has c:Category:Admin statistics for English Wikipedia. Adminstats, I'd say, aren't a niche enwiki issue and could be easily moved to Commons. Cheers! JayCubby 03:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If Oshwah would like it {{Keep local}}'d, that would of course be fine. SilverLocust 💬 03:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oshwah hasn't edited for 3 days, but I suppose he can seek a refund or undelete it himself when he's back. voorts (talk/contributions) 03:21, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm here. I see these statistics as an opportunity to improve the process, and you gotta say this... it's quite interesting to see the pattern. This year will be different due to the addition of the alternative method currently in trial, but I believe that this is good data and worth keeping. ~Oshwah~(talk) (contribs) 03:27, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To be clear, the file is still fully available and not up for deletion, its page history is just now imported to Wikimedia Commons. SilverLocust 💬 03:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Clarity

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Hi, I noticed that you added a CTOP notice to Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy). Modern Palestine and Israel are not referenced on this page except in the infobox in relation to geography, and in one picture caption. Modern politics is not mentioned. Have you tagged the page due to these mentions in the infobox/picture, and mention of Israeli archaeologists in the body, or do you have a broader interpretation of how the CTOP restriction pertains to this archaeology topic? Iskandar323 (talk) 08:43, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Iskandar323: I added the notice to it as a primary article because the protection log states that it protected as a primary article. I was following El C's designation rather than making my own assessment of how to categorize the article. SilverLocust 💬 09:00, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok, thanks. @El C: Any further insight? Your log entry notes "non-modern, but treating as a primary article" Iskandar323 (talk) 09:37, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nothing beyond what the edits in the months leading to the protection don't already clearly reveal. El_C 11:06, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@El C: Ok, yes, I see the localised idiocy /vandalism, but that doesn't make the whole page a CTOP primary article and out of bounds, right? Iskandar323 (talk) 11:13, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Localized is putting it mildly. Anyway, I think that in this instance, it does, but feel free to appeal to the committee if you disagree. El_C 11:18, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@SilverLocust El_C protected Jordan in much the same way, the language of WP:ECR allows it to be implemented liberally, for example including in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 back then. This does not mean the article is a PIA primary topic, ARCA (see Talk:Jordan) determined that Jordan was not one. I appeal the notice to you since you posted it. Kenneth Kho (talk) 15:03, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To reiterate what I said above, El_C stated in the protection log that the protection was "as a primary article". SilverLocust 💬 15:14, 21 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Articles review

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Hi Silver, I would like to invite you to review dozens of my Wikipedia articles of Marriza (singer), Northeastern Regional Military Command (Myanmar), Aung La (singer), Thurein Tun, Khaing Thu Kha, and Tin Maung Win (general), I will provide a example, you only have to mark the articles with a "The page Marriza (singer) has been reviewed." KhantWiki (talk) 18:29, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewing involves quite a few steps before clicking the approval button. There's a considerable backlog of articles in need of reviewing, so reviewers generally don't take requests to review particular pages. In any event, it's not something I'm interested in doing on request, except possibly for articles in topic areas that are familiar to me, which would not include these articles. Sorry, SilverLocust 💬 07:24, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's not a problem Silver, it's not that big of a deal, it's not that important for me, I really understand your honest answer on why you're only gonna take requests in the articles that are really in need of reviewing, which reviewers will not take requests to review particular pages on particular requests, because it may seem unfair to some. But, one thing, most of these articles I provided to you are based off of individuals from Myanmar, a country which I am from, a country currently embroiled in internal and serious military conflict and a civil war, just like Israel and Palestine, like Sudan, perhaps it's the biggest civil war country in history of the world, which is pretty interesting and familiar if you ask me, though it might not have the same effect on you. KhantWiki (talk) 08:21, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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The Working Man's Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to SilverLocust for accumulating at least 10 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:38, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see you logged my ECP, thanks

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But I'll admit to some confusion as what I did was implement the restrictions I saw on the talk page. Do such restrictions need to be logged as well? Doug Weller talk 13:13, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug Weller: Yes, because putting up a talk notice or editnotice can be done by a non-administrator. The relevant procedure is Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Procedures § Logging ("logged by the administrator who applied the sanction or page restriction at Wikipedia:Arbitration enforcement log [...] (including [...] page protections or other restrictions)"). SilverLocust 💬 13:23, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Of course, forgot that anyone can add the talk notice. I'll try to remember next time. Thanks for the explanation. Doug Weller talk 13:28, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Adding editnotice to ARBPIA ECP-protected pages

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Adding the talk page notice and EC protection is fairly straightforward. But adding the editnotice (at least for me) is very awkward, and I know many of those pages do not have the notice. Is there a way to automatically add the editnotice to pages with EC protection and an ARBPIA talk page notice?

Decision was All primary articles will be subject to the ARBPIA General Sanctions. {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli enforcement}} should be added to the talk page of affected pages, and {{ArbCom Arab-Israeli editnotice}} should be added as an editnotice to affected pages. The presence of the templates is required before the General Sanctions can be enforced on primary articles. The templates may be added to primary articles by any user, but may only be removed by an uninvolved administrator. Users who lack the appropriate permissions to create an editnotice should place the talk page template as normal, then make an edit request for someone with permissions to create the edit notice.

Thanks. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 19:26, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Rsjaffe: If you have a list of pages to add the editnotice to, WP:AWB should work to create the editnotices. (I use WP:JWB instead since I use a Mac.)
So long as you log the protection at WP:AELOG, I'll get around the adding the editnotice at some point. (In fact, I'll do that now for articles in the tracking category Category:Wikipedia pages subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict – that is, ECP'd articles with the talk notice.) I don't think it's a big deal to protect the article without adding the editnotice; it just means that the WP:1RR won't generally be enforceable until it's added.
Starting with a list of the articles, I add Template:Editnotices/Page/ to the beginning of each title, then put that list in JWB. Then I leave the "Replace:" field empty and in the "With:" field put {{Contentious topics/Arab-Israeli editnotice}}. Under "Skip" I click the option to skip when "exists". That should do the trick (with an edit summary, of course). SilverLocust 💬 20:29, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Great! Thanks for doing that and double thanks for the AWB instructions. That makes it very simple. — rsjaffe 🗣️ 21:01, 11 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

RFPP PIA backlog

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I tried to start with the voluminous amount of PIA protection requests outstanding but just gave up after six or seven. Since your sig at AELOG indicates that you've handled a lot of these bulk requests lately, maybe you could do the rest (which is to say, a lot). Daniel Case (talk) 09:05, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be happy to take a look at those. SilverLocust 💬 09:17, 14 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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  • A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. T378488
  • Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. T376378

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2025-11

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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

  • Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [40][41]
  • The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
  • All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
  • An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:07, 10 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-12

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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

Updates for editors

  • The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
  • On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
  • The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
  • Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [42]
  • The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
  • The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [43]
  • Recurrent item View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [44]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:45, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-13

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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

Updates for editors

  • The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
  • Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
  • Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [45]
  • The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [46]
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
  • Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [47][48]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:39, 24 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-14

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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 Editing team is working on a new Edit check: Peacock check. This check's goal is to identify non-neutral terms while a user is editing a wikipage, so that they can be informed that their edit should perhaps be changed before they publish it. This project is at the early stages, and the team is looking for communities' input: in this Phabricator task, they are gathering on-wiki policies, templates used to tag non-neutral articles, and the terms (jargon and keywords) used in edit summaries for the languages they are currently researching. You can participate by editing the table on Phabricator, commenting on the task, or directly messaging Trizek (WMF).
  • Single User Login has now been updated on all wikis to move login and account creation to a central domain. This makes user login compatible with browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies, which have prevented users of some browsers from staying logged in.
  • Recurrent item View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting on March 31st, the MediaWiki Interfaces team will begin a limited release of generated OpenAPI specs and a SwaggerUI-based sandbox experience for MediaWiki REST APIs. They invite developers from a limited group of non-English Wikipedia communities (Arabic, German, French, Hebrew, Interlingua, Dutch, Chinese) to review the documentation and experiment with the sandbox in their preferred language. In addition to these specific Wikipedia projects, the sandbox and OpenAPI spec will be available on the on the test wiki REST Sandbox special page for developers with English as their preferred language. During the preview period, the MediaWiki Interfaces Team also invites developers to share feedback about your experience. The preview will last for approximately 2 weeks, after which the sandbox and OpenAPI specs will be made available across all wiki projects.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • Sometimes a small, one line code change can have great significance: in this case, it means that for the first time in years we're able to run all of the stack serving maps.wikimedia.org - a host dedicated to serving our wikis and their multi-lingual maps needs - from a single core datacenter, something we test every time we perform a datacenter switchover. This is important because it means that in case one of our datacenters is affected by a catastrophe, we'll still be able to serve the site. This change is the result of extensive work by two developers on porting the last component of the maps stack over to kubernetes, where we can allocate resources more efficiently than before, thus we're able to withstand more traffic in a single datacenter. This work involved a lot of complicated steps because this software, and the software libraries it uses, required many long overdue upgrades. This type of work makes the Wikimedia infrastructure more sustainable.

Meetings and events

  • MediaWiki Users and Developers Workshop Spring 2025 is happening in Sandusky, USA, and online, from 14–16 May 2025. The workshop will feature discussions around the usage of MediaWiki software by and within companies in different industries and will inspire and onboard new users. Registration and presentation signup is now available at the workshop's website.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:02, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Doncram

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Is that a courtesy-blank-deceased-Wikipedians-arb-pages thing, or a one-off? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:34, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(notes RHaworth blanking) Ah, that answers that question, I guess.... --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:40, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, might it be better to blank under the Casenav, to maintain the clerk/drafter info? --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 16:38, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That was the reason for it, yes, though I think it would be done on a case-by-case basis. Some other examples are in this search result, and see {{subst:courtesy blanked|arb=yes}}. Regarding casenav, I don't think who worked on the case is any more important than the other blanked info in the page history, and other blanked cases I looked at also left that out. – JensonSL (SilverLocust) 16:57, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – April 2025

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

Administrator changes

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readded Dennis Brown
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Bureaucrat changes

added Barkeep49

CheckUser changes

added 0xDeadbeef

Oversighter changes

removed GB fan
readded Moneytrees

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2025-15

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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

Updates for technical contributors

  • The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
  • The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

  • The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:50, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Contributions/116.206.202.38 sock of Kajal1985 srivastav

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Hey @SilverLocust! Came across Special:Contributions/116.206.202.38, a clear sock of the above investigation per Special:Diff/1285170548. Found it from this history and your rm revert. I'm new to SPI, so could you help me report (maybe block?) that IP? Thanks in advance! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:15, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I've been away. That edit was quite clearly by that same person as previously, but they haven't edited again from that same IP address. The difficulty is in blocking a sufficiently wide range of IP addresses to catch future edits while avoiding sweeping in other legitimate editors. It's also a consideration that their edits don't seem to be particularly disruptive. In the past, I have mostly just reverted their RM/TR requests without reporting the address to SPI or AIV (or now blocking). JensonSL (SilverLocust) 00:45, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Understood, thanks for the explanation! ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 05:04, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-16

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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

  • Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [50]
  • File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [51][52]

Updates for editors

  • The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
  • To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [53]
  • "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
  • On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
  • The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
  • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-17

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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

  • Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template. [54]
  • A new type of lint error has been created: Empty headings (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [55]
  • Recurrent item View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Meetings and events

  • The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol May 2025 Backlog drive

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May 2025 Backlog Drive | New pages patrol
  • On 1 May 2025, a one-month backlog drive for New Pages Patrol will begin.
  • Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles patrolled.
  • Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive.
  • Each review will earn 1 point.
  • Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
You're receiving this message because you are a new page patroller. To opt-out of future mailings, please remove yourself here.

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:26, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-18

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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

  • Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
  • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
  • Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

Meetings and events

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FWD: Your GA nomination of Tandon v. Newsom

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The article Tandon v. Newsom you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tandon v. Newsom for comments about the article, and Talk:Tandon v. Newsom/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Generalissima -- Generalissima (talk) 21:07, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Forwarding this on from my talk page :) HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:36, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@HouseBlaster: Apparently 1 May UTC on main page. – JensonSL (SilverLocust) 02:41, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for Tandon v. Newsom

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On 1 May 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tandon v. Newsom, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the midnight shadow docket order in Tandon v. Newsom was called the most important religious free exercise decision in 30 years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tandon v. Newsom. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Tandon v. Newsom), 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.

SL93 (talk) 00:02, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update: New Event-Organizer Tools for You on English Wikipedia!

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Hello,

I hope you're doing well! As an event coordinator on English Wikipedia, I’m happy to share some news with you. You now have the event-organizer right! This gives you access to the CampaignEvents extension, a powerful set of tools to help you organize and promote events and WikiProjects more easily. With the CampaignEvents extension, you can:

  • Manage event registration directly on English Wikipedia.
  • Use the Invitation List tool to find potential participants for your events/WikiProjects
  • Receive automatic promotion of your events via the Collaboration List

Learn more on mw:Help:Extension:CampaignEvents

Now that I have your attention, I’d also like to share some updates to the extension:

  • The Collaboration List can now be transcluded, meaning you can easily embed it on other wiki pages to share event details with more people by adding {{Special:AllEvents}}. Learn more.
  • Admins can now determine which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration on English Wikipedia, via Special:CommunityConfiguration. Right now, the Event namespace is permitted by default for Event Registration. However, other namespaces (such as Wikipedia, WikiProject, etc) can now be added as permitted namespaces by admins too. This can help other types of organized activities, such as WikiProjects, use Event Registration.For details, please visit: Permitted_namespaces

If you need help using these new tools, I’m here to support you. Feel free to reach out for guidance. You can also find some useful video guides on Commons.

We’re excited to see how you use these tools for WikiProjects or events! If you have any questions, please let me know.


Udehb-WMF (talk) 11:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-19

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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

Updates for editors

  • For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
    • Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
    • Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
  • Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [56]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2025

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

Administrator changes

added Rusalkii
readded NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)
removed

Interface administrator changes

removed Galobtter

Guideline and policy news

Miscellaneous

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