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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.
AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts.
Hidden content that is within collapsible parts of wikipages will now be revealed when someone searches the page using the web browser's "Find in page" function (Ctrl+F or ⌘F) in supporting browsers.
A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times.
Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!
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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
Temporary accounts have been rolled out on 18 large and medium-sized Wikipedias, including German, Japanese, French, and Chinese. Now, about 1/3 of all logged-out activity across wikis is coming from temporary accounts. Users involved in patrolling may be interested in two new documentation pages: Access to IP, explaining everything related to access to temporary account IP addresses, and Repository with a list of new gadgets and user scripts.
Updates for editors
Anyone can play an experimental new game, WikiRun, that lets you race through Wikipedia by clicking from one article to another, aiming to reach a target page in as few steps and in as little time as possible. The project's goal is to explore new ways of engaging readers. Try playing the game and let the team know what you think on the talk page.
Users of the Wikipedia Android app in some languages can now play the new trivia game. Which came first? is a simple history game where you guess which of two events happened earlier on today's date. It was previously available as an A/B test. It is now available to all users in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Turkish, and Chinese. The goal of the feature is to help engage with new generations of readers.
Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in some languages may see a new tabbed browsing feature that enables you to open multiple tabs while reading. This feature makes it easier to explore related topics and switch between articles. The A/B test is currently running in Arabic, English, and Japanese in selected regions. More details are available on the Tabbed Browsing project page.
A new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed later this week to all Wikimedia projects: a template category browser will be introduced to assist users in finding templates to put in their “favourite” list. The browser will allow users to browse a list of templates which have been organised into a given category tree. The feature has been requested by the community through the Community Wishlist.
It is now possible to access watchlist preferences from the watchlist page. Also the redundant button to edit the watchlist has been removed.
As part of MediaWiki 1.44 there is now a unified built-in Notifications system that makes it easier for developers to send, manage, and customize notifications. Check out the updated documentation at Manual:Notifications, information about migration in T388663 and details on deprecated hooks in T389624.
WikidataCon 2025, the conference dedicated to Wikidata is now open for session proposals and for registration. This year's event will be held online from October 31 – November 02 and will explore on the theme of "Connecting People through Linked Open Data".
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Hello! If you have time, I hope you can look into these two Wiki Commons photos below. They’re from a video under Creative Commons, but they’re obviously stills from the Netflix show. Is that still copyrighted? Thanks.
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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
Featured templates, a new feature related to Template Recall and Discovery will be deployed this week to all Wikimedia projects: With this feature, editors will be able to quickly access a list of templates that are likely to be useful. These templates will be displayed in a list, under the "featured" tab of the template discovery interface. Administrators can define the list via the Community Configuration interface. The feature fulfills a request by the community through the Community Wishlist.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the request to add Malayalam fonts in the Wikisource Book Export Tool was resolved and now, the rendering of Malayalam letters in exported Wikisource books are accurate.
WikiIndaba 2025 scholarship application and program submission is open until 23:59 GMT on July 20. WikiIndaba is a regional conference for African Wikimedians both on the continent and in the diaspora to unite and grow together. Submit your scholarship application and program proposal now!
WikiCon Brasil 2025 will take place on July 19-20 in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The Brazilian community members are encouraged to register and attend!
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Hello, Paper9oll. I haven’t had enough time to fully understand how automatic archiving of talk pages using bots works. I want to have automatic archiving like yours. Could you create a source code for me that I can place on my own talk page? Something that would automatically archive a section if it hasn’t received a reply for 7 days. Thank you! - Arcrev1 (talk) 06:58, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
@Paper9oll: Thank you very much! What is the maximum number of discussions that can be stored in an archive talk page? Can it be changed? Also, what about the past discussions on my talk page that have already been there for more than 3 days, should I just archive them manually? - Arcrev1 (talk) 08:41, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
@Arcrev1 The maximum number of discussion that can be stored in an archive talk page varies, however the maximum size is according to the value in maxarchivesize which is currently set to 150K (i.e. 150 kilobytes). If you don't want to go by sizing, you can change 150K to like 50T (i.e. 50 threads) or something higher or lower. For those past discussions on your talk page that have already been there for more than 3 days, wait for the bot to run later, normally tonight or midnight. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)10:00, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
Request: Update for Choo Young-Woo’s Awards Section
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Hello, Paper9oll.
I noticed that the “Awards and Nominations” section on actor Choo Young-Woo’s page has not yet been updated.
On May 29, 2025, he won two awards at the Asia Star Entertainer Awards (ASEA): Best Artist (Actor) and Global Rising Artist. This was publicly announced via the official Twitter account for the event.
I’m reaching out instead of editing it myself, just to avoid any possible issues with formatting or sourcing. Thought you might want to take a look.
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Hi @Paper9oll, if you have time, can you help take a look at Kim Hyunjin and see if the article title should instead be just Hyunjin as per most reliable secondary sources, or Kim Hyun-jin if the full name is to be used? It's currently a combination of both which I believe is incorrect. If it's the former, it needs to be disambiguated from Hyunjin. Thank you! — Chyx1095 (🗣️ • 📜)16:51, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
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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 Translation Suggestions feature in the Content Translation tool now has another level of article filters added to the "... More" category. Translators who use the Suggestions feature can now select and receive article suggestions that are customized to geographical locations of their interest using the new "Regions" filter.
Administrators can now limit "Add a Link" to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders start editing, but some communities have requested the ability to restrict it to its intended audience: newcomers. Administrators can configure this setting within the Community Configuration feature.
For AbuseFilter editors on some wikis, it is now possible to filter edits based on the RevertRisk score of the edit being attempted. It is only populated if the action being evaluated is an edit. For more information, please see the ORES/AbuseFilter variables documentation.
The Beta Cluster wikis have been moved from beta.wmflabs.org to beta.wmcloud.org. Users may need to update URLs in any tools, or in their password managers. Any related issues can be reported in the task.
WikiCite 2025 will take place from 29–31 August, both online and in-person in Bern, Switzerland. The event's goals are to reconnect communities, institutions, and individuals working with open citations, bibliographic data, and the Wikidata/Wikibase ecosystem. Registration is open and the call for proposals will be announced soon.
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Hello, Paper9oll. I raised a concern at Template:Infobox musical artist regarding the current_members parameter. According to the description, the order should be based on when the members joined, or alphabetical if they joined concurrently. However, in Wikipedia articles for K-pop groups, the members are listed by age. Even though their ages aren't shown, it's obvious from their respective articles that the order is based on age. What is the reason editors of these pages are following a separate practice? - Arcrev1 (talk) 01:06, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
@Arcrev1 You're right that the template documentation recommends listing members by join date (or alphabetically if they joined at the same time), and K-pop group articles often don't follow that. From what I've seen, it's more about informal consistency. Basically, newer editors copying existing formats across K-pop pages ("monkey see, monkey do"). Since age-based seniority is reflected in South Korean cultural norms, that likely carried over into Wikipedia editing without much scrutiny.
Personally, I don't see the informal status quo as "broken". There's consistent formatting across K-pop group articles, even if it doesn't match others exactly. Plus, the documentation itself allows two different orderings (join date or alphabetical), which already introduces some interpretive leeway. It's already not necessarily obvious to readers why some lists are alphabetical and others aren't. So unless this is indeed causing real confusion or edit warring, I'd lean toward the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach.
This is just my personal opinion. I have subscribed to the discussion at the template's talk page; however, I don't plan to participate in the discussion, and I'd appreciate it if this comment isn't quoted or brought into that discussion on my behalf. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)07:55, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
@Paper9oll: Thank you for your response. I do not intend to quote your comment in the discussion; I was simply seeking an informed opinion on why K-pop group articles often follow an age-based order despite the template documentation recommending listing members by join date or alphabetically. In cases where a particular formatting style becomes a widespread convention within a specific subject area, such as K-pop, I believe it can potentially lead to edit conflicts, even if the likelihood is low, due to differing interpretations of the guideline. This is why I am considering proposing that age-based ordering be explicitly acknowledged as an acceptable option in the documentation. One editor who responded to me expressed agreement with the idea but questioned in what circumstances age order would be appropriate, and I found it difficult to provide a clear answer. I therefore sought additional perspectives to better understand and articulate a reasonable condition under which age-based ordering may be justified. - Arcrev1 (talk) 08:20, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
@Arcrev1 Just to add briefly: personally, I think whether age-based ordering is added or not isn't really a big issue. If it is added, it would just be another optional recommendation, not something editors would be strictly required to follow. It would simply become one of three recommended orderings, and the choice between them would depend on the individual article or, if applicable, on consensus from a relevant article- or project-level discussion. Regardless, thanks for the clarification that you were just gathering different perspectives. Best of luck with that proposal. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)11:51, 27 July 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-31
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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
The Community Tech team will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages, over the next few months. They are looking for feedback. Please read the latest update, and if you have ideas, please submit a wish on the topic.
Updates for editors
The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to block cross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16. This is because of widespread problems related to files that are uploaded by newcomers. Users who are affected by this will get an error message with a link to the less restrictive UploadWizard on Commons. Please help translating the message or give feedback on the message text. Please also update your local help pages to explain this restriction.
On wikis with temporary accounts enabled and Meta-Wiki, administrators may now set up a footer for the Special:Contributions pages of temporary accounts, similar to those which can be shown on IP and user-account pages. They may do it by creating the page named MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-temp.
Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Fall 2025 will be held 28–30 October 2025 in Hanover, Germany. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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I already asked in the Teahouse, but I’m also asking you since you have experience in creating articles. I just want to ask why InternetArchiveBot does not rescue all sources in an article. For example, in the Marc Abaya article, I added sources but not all of them were archived by the bot. If that's really how it works, is there any other way? - Arcrev1 (talk) 03:23, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
@Arcrev1 IABot uses an API to communicate with the Wayback Machine. Without diving deeper into technical details, the issue lies on Wayback Machine's end because it fails to return an archived version, so IABot does not archive it. Unfortunately, to the best of my knowledge, the only workaround is to manually archive the failed URLs on the Wayback Machine (preferably as a registered user on the Wayback Machine to get higher priority in the queue) and add them manually into the article. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)12:23, 30 July 2025 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 27
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Hello everyone, and welcome to the 27th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 2025! Boy, does it feel good to kick off the year with an issue. Yep, it's been a year since we cleared out the 2022-2024 backlog with issues 23 and 24! Good times. Though in this case "a year" just means... 6 months? 😯 The salience of whatever joke I was planning to make here has vanished speedily. Aaron Liu (talk) 21:00, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
Featured script
WikiTextExpander by Polygnotus, is this edition's featured script. At the click of a configurable hotkey, this script will find and replace or link a configurable list of phrases within the selected text in all source editors (even in the comment/reply field!). Besides allowing the quick insertion of templated messages, this script greatly mitigates the WP:WTF? problem by providing both the legibility of familiar words and the convenience of shortcuts. And to those asking, the capitalization of "Wikitext" as "WikiText" was a necessary sacrifice for far-more-memorable acronymy.
Updated scripts
CanonNi: AlertAssistant has been fixed and rewritten using OOUI instead of Twinkle's Morebits. Such modern, very tool. (Do note that the maintainer has since become inactive.)
NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader has been updated to use modern JS APIs that replace the browser's URL bar with the link you clicked on to load in place. The "back" (and "forward") buttons also work now. Cool, innit?
andrybak: Unsigned helper no longer shows an error when the message to sign was added in the earliest 50 revisions of a page's history. This is especially relevant to pages with short histories.
BilledMammal/Move+ needs updating to order list of pages handle lists of pages to move correctly regardless of the discussion's page, so that we may avoid repeating fiasco history.
Requested scripts
We need scripts that...
allow sorting lists of citations such as by URI or other identifier
automatically convert the capitalization of citations' titles
collect a list of discussion participants and generate a ping list
In breaking m:Tech/News, Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons are now also available. The documentation has examples.
New scripts
Appo/Globstory integrates OpenHistoryMap, updating the map whenever hovering/clicking on a location or year, the latter of which changes the map to be (hopefully) accurate to the year selected. It's pretty interesting.
linkinfo Somewhat similar to WP:NavPops, Awesome Aasim/linkinfo(pictured) provides a collection of links to replace the right-click context menu, presented beautifully.
PreviousDiscussions provides a link to search for your username on subpages of another user's userpage and talkpage conveniently.
Twineeea/noRedLinks brings you to the "read" instead of the "create" tab when you visit a red link. Contemplate life's mysteries as you stare into the blank! Deeply.
No, this is not going to be the enduring tradition of S++ for the future. This was meant to be a joke for the special occasion on the first day of the fourth month but was delayed by four months because I'm lazy.
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Hi @Paper9oll, Draft:A Montage of () is ready for mainspace, can you help to review and publish once it's alright? Do take note to publish to A Montage of ( ) instead. There should be a space between the parentheses, but I made a mistake in the initial draft and redirect creation. Thank you! — Chyx1095 (🗣️ • 📜)16:51, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
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Hello, Paper9oll. Per your request, your account has been grantedtemporary account IP viewer(checkuser-temporary-account) rights. You are now able to reveal the IP addresses of individuals using temporary accounts that are not visible to the general public. This is very sensitive information that is only to be used to aid in anti-abuse workflows. Please take a moment to review Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer for more information on this user right. It is important to remember:
Access should not be used for political control, to apply pressure on editors, or as a threat against another editor in a content dispute. There must be a valid reason to investigate a temporary user. Note that using multiple temporary accounts is not forbidden, so long as they are not used in violation of policies (for example, block or ban evasion).
It is also important to note that the following actions are logged for others to see:
When a user accepts the preference that enables or disables IP reveal for their account.
Revealing an IP address of a temporary account.
Listing the temporary accounts that are associated with an IP address or CIDR range.
Remember, even if a user is violating policy, avoid revealing personal information if possible. Use temporary account usernames rather than disclosing IP addresses directly, or give information such as same network/not same network or similar. If you do not want the user right anymore then please ask me or another administrator and it will be removed for you. Happy editing! —Femke 🐦 (talk) 18:53, 3 August 2025 (UTC)
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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 can now enable the User Info card. This feature adds an icon next to usernames on history pages and similar user-contribution log pages. When you tap or click on the icon, it displays data related to that user account such as the number of edits, reverted edits, blocks, and more. It's part of a broader project to make it easier for moderators to evaluate account trustworthiness. The feature can be enabled in your global preferences, and later this week it will be available in local preferences.
Everybody is invited to share comments on Collaborative Contributions, a project recently launched by the Connection team. The project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. Post your comments on the project talk page.
Administrators can now define the default block duration for temporary accounts. To do that, they need to create a page named MediaWiki:Ipb-default-expiry-temporary-account and use a value defined in MediaWiki:Ipboptions. This allows administrators to easily block temporary accounts for 90 days, which is functionally equivalent to an indefinite block. The advantage of this solution is that it does not clutter Special:BlockList. More documentation is available.
Gadgets can now include .vue files. This makes it easier to develop modern user interfaces using Vue.js, in particular using Codex, the official design system of Wikimedia. Codex icons can be loaded through the gadget definition. The documentation has examples. For user scripts that use Vue.js, an API module now exists to load Codex icons.
Module developers can now use a Lua interface to simplify the preparation of Lua modules for translation on Meta-Wiki. This improvement makes it easier for translators to find and edit module strings without dealing with raw Lua code. It helps prevent mistakes that could break the module during translation. Module developers and translators are invited to watch the demo video, read more about translatable modules to understand how it works, refer to Meta-Wiki's Module:User Wikimedia project for example usage, and share their feedback on how well it addresses the challenges in their workflow. The interface still has some performance issues, so it should not be used in widely used modules yet.
Developers of external tools that connect to Wikimedia pages must set a user-agent that complies with the user-agent policy. This policy will start to be more strongly enforced in August because of external crawlers that are overusing Wikimedia's resources. Tools that are hosted on Wikimedia's Toolforge or Cloud VPS will not be affected by this for now, but should still set a user-agent. More technical details are available, and related questions are welcome in that task.
Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to some smaller Wikipedias over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyages and Wiktionaries to Parsoid Read Views. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page.
Wikimania 2025 will run from August 6–9. The program is available for you to plan which sessions you want to attend. Most sessions will be live-streamed, with exceptions for those that show the "no camera" icon. If you are joining online to watch live-streams and use the interactive features, please register for a free virtual ticket. For example, you may be interested in technical sessions such as:
Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.
South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.
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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 WikiEditor toolbar now includes its keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
The search bar on the Minerva skin (mobile) has been updated to use the same type-ahead search component that is used on the Vector 2022 skin. There are no changes in search functionality but there are minor visual changes. Specifically, the close-search button has been changed from an "X" to a back arrow. This helps to distinguish it from the other "X" button that is used to clear any text.
Editors on some wikis will see a new toggle for "Group results by page" on watchlist, related changes, and recent changes pages. This is an A/B experiment that is planned to start on August 11, and will run for 3–6 weeks on the Bengali, Chinese, Czech, French, Greek, Portuguese, and Urdu Wikipedias. The experiment will examine how making this feature more discoverable might affect editors' ability to find the edits they are looking for.
The multiwiki datasets of Unicode data have been moved to Category:Unicode Module Datasets on Wikimedia Commons, to follow the idea of "One common data source, multiple local wikis". Most wikis have been updated to use the Commons version. You can ask questions at the talkpage.
Lua code can add warnings when something is wrong, by using the mw.addWarning() function. It is now possible to add more than one warning, instead of new warnings replacing old ones. If you maintain a Lua module that used warnings, you should check it still works as expected.
Clarification on Presidential Term and Person Numbering in South Korea
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Dear Paper9oll
I'm Korean
Thank you for informing me about that.
It was a wrong decision to make the changes without much thought, but if I hadn’t done so, I wouldn’t have known this fact.
I am writing to provide clarification on the numbering system for presidents in the Republic of Korea, which may differ from other countries such as the United States.
Presidential Term Numbering in South Korea
In South Korea, the presidential term number is based on the sequence of presidential terms, not the individual serving them. Each new term increases the number (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.). If the same individual is re-elected, the term number increases accordingly for each term. For instance, Park Chung-hee served multiple terms and is counted as the 5th–8th president by term number.
Key Examples
Term Number
President Name
Years in Office
Notes
1st
Syngman Rhee
1948–1952
First President of South Korea
2nd
Syngman Rhee
1952–1956
Re-elected
3rd
Yun Bo-seon
1960–1962
4th
Yun Bo-seon
1962–1963
5th
Park Chung-hee
1963–1967
6th
Park Chung-hee
1967–1971
7th
Park Chung-hee
1972–1978
8th
Park Chung-hee
1978–1979
…
…
…
…
21st
Lee Jae-myung
2025–Present
Current president
Important Notes
South Korea uses term-based numbering, meaning a president’s multiple terms are counted separately.
English sources may sometimes use person-based numbering (as in the U.S.), which can cause confusion.
Accordingly, Lee Jae-myung is serving the 21st term in South Korean history but is the 14th individual to hold the presidency.
This distinction is essential when comparing historical records or referencing South Korean presidents in international contexts.
@SEO JEOUNG HWAN Thank you for your reply; however, as this is a controversial topic, previously disputed here on English Wikipedia and therefore not actionable by a single editor, there's no point in trying to convince me. If you have concerns about this topic, please take them to WT:KO to seek WP:CONSENSUS from the community. This topic was previously discussed at this archived discussion (do not reply there; you must start a new discussion) on WT:KO. Please note that WP:CANVASS is not permitted on English Wikipedia. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)15:51, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
Hangul in lead
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Hi, so, there’s no sense in repeating the names in the lead when they’re already in the infobox. They belong in the infobox, not in the lead. Since this is the English Wikipedia, the lead should only include the English name, so there’s no reason to revert my edit. Lililolol (talk) 19:07, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
@Lililolol Those are your opinions; however, the status quo and established convention indicate otherwise, something that should already be apparent enough as evident in many existing articles. Also, read MOS:KO as it already addresses your opinions. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)19:14, 15 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-34
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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
Later this week, people who are logged-in and have the "Discussion tools" Beta Feature enabled will gain the ability to "Thank" individual comments directly from talk pages, rather than needing to navigate to page history. Learn more about this feature.
An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki on 12 August and on English Wikipedia 14 August for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September.
An A/A test to measure the baseline for reader retention was launched 12 August using Experimentation Lab. This measures the percentage of users who revisit a wiki after their initial visit over a 14-day period. No visual changes are expected. The experiment will run through 31 August.
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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
Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content; ruby-align; relative units such as lh; and custom strings in list-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish.
On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis.
Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue.
One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (wikt:bew:)
Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed. rc_new and rc_type are being removed in favor of rc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should use rc_source instead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table.
The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: support for new languages in MediaWiki and translatewiki; the start of the Language Onboarding and Development project to help support the growth of new and small wikis; updates on research projects; and more.
Meetings and events
The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, August 29th at 15:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: the Avro keyboard developers from Wikimedia Bangladesh, who were recently awarded a national award for their contributions to this keyboard; and other topics.
@Wittykitty99Done. As I've already mentioned before, do not add content to articles without a reliable source. It is your responsibility to ensure a reliable source exists before adding content. If no such source can be found, the content must not be included at all. Adding content with unreliable sources and only acting after being reverted, when a reliable source was available from the start, is disruptive and unacceptable. If you are unsure how to edit properly and/or are concerned about making mistakes (and to be clear, adding content with unreliable sources after being warned is not a mistake), you should start a discussion on the article’s talk page and use the {{Edit request}} template there, rather than creating unnecessary cleanup for other editors. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)16:46, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
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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
The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.
Updates for editors
The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page.
The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia.
On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, and Special:RelatedChanges pages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results.
Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
Wikifunctions now has a new capability called "lightweight enumeration types", an enumeration type is simply a fixed set of values that's in the type's definition. This capability makes it quick and easy to define such a type, and allows for the reuse of values that are already present in Wikidata. Here is a newsletter to learn more.
The latest Readers Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience; insights into declining pageviews and account creations; highlights from the Wikimania Nairobi panel on improving the reading experience; upcoming experiments to engage new and existing readers; and more.
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Hello~ I've noticed that you've had helped with several K-pop related articles and appears to be well-versed with Wikipedia policies, rules, and regulations. I am wondering if you could provide some guidance. I started Draft:Cha Woong-ki a while back, and today I found that someone had created the Cha Woong-ki article in the main space. What is the best action to take when it comes to the draft page? Should it be redirected or deleted? I have already moved whatever details I have in the draft article to the main article. Thank you! — Eugh jei(talk)10:19, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
Hi @Eugh jei, since you are the sole major contributor, you can either request deletion by adding {{G7}} to the top of the draft, or simply replace the entire text with #REDIRECT [[Cha Woong-ki]]. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)12:46, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.
An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.
@Btspurplegalaxy, thank you for the request. As the RM was relisted two days ago by another editor (which indicates consensus is not yet clear or stable), it cannot be procedurally closed until one week after that relisting. In addition, I would prefer not to act as closer in this case, since I previously commented in a related (non-official) move discussion on the same article. Thank you for your understanding. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)17:06, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
@Btspurplegalaxy each relisting cycle lasts for one week. After that, if you feel the RM has gone stale or is unlikely to attract additional !votes, you may request for closure at WP:Closure requests, provided the RM has not been relisted again by another editor. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)17:17, 7 September 2025 (UTC)
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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
The Editing team is working on a new check: Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted. This check is an effort to increase the likelihood that the new content people are adding to Wikipedia is aligned with the Movement's commitment to offering information under a free content license. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis. If your community is interested in this test, please tell us in this task, or contact the team.
Updates for editors
Later this week, users of the "⧼codemirror-beta-feature-title⧽" beta feature will be able to use a linting tool to see errors or other potential problems in wikitext in real time. See the help page for more information.
When browsing a wiki (like en.wikipedia.org), the software responds in one of two ways: a desktop page, or a redirect to a mobile version on an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). Over the next three weeks, MediaWiki will start displaying the mobile version to mobile devices directly on the standard domain, without this redirect. This change does not affect existing m-dot URLs, or the "Desktop view" opt-out. Learn more.
When an edit changes the categories of a page, the changes to the category membership counts are now happening asynchronously. This improves the speed of saving edits, especially when moving many pages to or from the same category, and reduces the risk of site outages, but it means that the counts can show outdated information for a few minutes.
Edits on Wikidata to qualifiers (properties and values) and references (properties and values) in a Wikidata item statement will now not add entries to the RecentChanges or Watchlist pages on all other Wikis. This is a temporary change to improve performance while other solutions are created. Wikidata's own pages remain unchanged. Learn more.
Japanese-language wikis have had a major upgrade to the way that search works. The new search should generally give more accurate and more relevant search results.
@Stately2 please read the WP:MOS if you have not already. You made a multitude of changes including but not limited to violating MOS:RETAIN by changing Australian English to US English even though the article is tagged with {{Use Australian English}}, violating MOS:NOPIPE by adding unnecessary piped links, and editing disruptively by restoring long captions that had already been reverted by another editor. In addition, intentionally removing the wording behind "Undid revision" when reverting does not prevent a ping, so if your intention was to avoid notifying the editor, that approach does not work. As your Bold edits were Reverted twice, under WP:BRD, you are required to Discuss to gain WP:CONSENSUS before you are allowed to restore any of the edits that do not violate the MOS. Restoring without discussion is not permitted and will be considered as signs of disruptive editing and edit warring. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)17:55, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
You're not listening. I was keeping Australian English, feel welcome to put that back. You are making wrong edits. Please fix them. Stately2 (talk) 18:05, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
Saying that a caption is overly long when it merely has a few more words is not veracious. If you are changing one word in Australian English, for example one with S instead of the Z, that's one thing. You're disagreeing with how many of the edits? Stately2 (talk) 18:11, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
@Stately2 My position has already been clearly explained above and I will not be repeating it further. I will also not be restoring any of your reverted edits, even if you "believe" they are "correct". On English Wikipedia, you are expected to engage with the policy-based concerns raised rather than rely on personal opinion. If you "believe" that your reverted edits were "correct", the onus is on you to start a discussion at Talk:Rose (singer) and obtain consensus before restoration is allowed. Refusing to do so and continuing to ignore what has been explained falls under WP:IDHT, and restoring edits without discussion falls under WP:DE and WP:EDITWAR. Further conduct along these lines may lead to consequences. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)18:23, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
@Stately2 Your edits as a whole were reverted (3 times by 2 editors in total) because they were not in compliance with English Wikipedia's policies and guidelines, as already explained explicitly above. Regardless of the wording in the edit summary, once your edits were reverted, the entire set of changes is considered disputed under English Wikipedia procedure. This is not a matter of personal objection but of policy. The responsibility is on you to address the policy concerns and obtain WP:CONSENSUS before restoring. As you refused to listen by repeatedly raising personal grievances and/or beliefs that do not address the policies and guidelines here, I will not be entertaining them further. My position above stands and this will be my final reply here. Thanks and regards, —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)19:32, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
It doesn't matter to me if you reply or not. I began a talk page section. If you are truly interested in the merits of Wikipedia which is a project, you will not use the terms you do. I have pointed out that you made errors. In your view should all of the edits I made to the article be reverted? No. Thus you are the one in the wrong by reverting all of them. Stately2 (talk) 20:55, 9 September 2025 (UTC)
Need help in citation
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Hi Paper9oll,
Thank you for the comment about my edit in the the page - Kim Hye Ja. Could you please guide me on how to properly cite the sources there? Sagarika.b05 (talk) 12:24, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
@Sagarika.b05 I've added a welcome guide on your talk page with some helpful links. The guide includes introductions to English Wikipedia's key policies and guidelines, especially on verifiability and reliable sources. For the full list of policies and guidelines, you can refer to WP:P&G. You may also find WP:KO/RS and WP:RSPSS useful, as they explain which sources are generally considered reliable (and which are not) for use on English Wikipedia. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)12:58, 12 September 2025 (UTC)
Clarifying Founder Information after Multiple Rollbacks
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Hi Paper9oll,
About Goldmedalist page, I have clearly stated in the edit summary: "Founder info corrected (FSS disclosure)."
In addition, I have provided both the official FSS disclosure link and a reliable news article on the user talk page for verification.
May I ask if you have reviewed these sources? Is there anything further that you believe is required?
I am wondering whether my contributions are being rollbacked by you even after these references were made available.
@EventuallyAligned you stated "Founder info corrected (FSS disclosure)" on this edit. However, that edit summary was unclear and you also did not provide any source in the summary to verify the change, and the phrase "FSS disclosure" was only meaningful to you at that point. That is why I reverted it. Similarly, in the this restored edit, there was no explanation in the edit summary or any expanded clarification of your earlier note. Now that you have provided a detailed explanation above along with two sources, I reviewed the Chosun Ilbo reference (since you linked only to an FSS search page rather than a direct document, making it unclear what exactly I should be looking at). Based on the Chosun Ilbo source, I have applied the changes accordingly. In the future, please explain your edits clearly and provide specific, verifiable reliable source, rather than vague or incoherent edit summaries. Also note that under WP:BRD, once your Bold edit was Reverted, you're required to Discuss and gain WP:CONSENSUS before restoring your preferred version. Failing to do so may be considered disruptive editing and/or edit warring. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)15:40, 14 September 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for your contribution and advice. On the official disclosure site of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) in Korea, it is possible to verify company information and shareholder registers by directly entering the company name and searching the audit materials. Since this is a government site, the system does not generate a fixed URL for the exact page, so one has to search manually. Please note that such disclosures are not provided for every company, but only for those subject to disclosure obligations (e.g., listed companies or certain unlisted companies designated as externally audited under specific conditions).
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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
References lists that are made using the <references/>tag will now automatically display with columns in Vector 2022 when readers are using its 'standard' settings for text-size and page-width.
Starting in the week of October 6, on small wikis and medium wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to use Event Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made for large wikis unless requested in Phabricator. This change is being made to make it easier for more people to use Event Registration, especially on wikis that are less likely to have policies related to the Event Organizer right. Learn more.
Users that search using regular expressions (regex) can now use additional features including:
for the intitle: keyword: metacharacters for start-of-line (^) and end-of-line ($) anchors
for both intitle: and insource: keywords: shorthand character classes for digits (\d), whitespace (\s), and word characters (\w); and escape codes for line feed (\r), newline (\n), tab (\t), and unicode (e.g. \uHHHH).
When you search for text that looks like an IP, the system will now show search results. It used to take you to the contributions for that IP instead of showing search results.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that affected users who used the page-tabs to switch from wikitext editing of a section into the visualeditor.
Updates for technical contributors
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is redesigning the Wikimedia REST API Sandbox with Codex. If you have feedback on improvements for the API documentation or what makes developer experiences smooth (or frustrating), you’re invited to join an upcoming discovery interview, or leave feedback onwiki. Learn more.
Edits to Wikidata aliases (an alternative name for an item or a property) 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. Learn more.
The new Unicode 17.0 version has been released. The datasets on Commons for the Module:Unicode data have been updated. Wikipedias that do not use the Commons datasets should either update their own data or switch to the Commons datasets.
Users of the Wikimedia Enterprise Structured Contents endpoints can now access Parsed Tables. The new Parsed Tables feature extracts and represents Wikipedia tables in structured JSON. This improves machine accessibility as part of the Structured Contents initiative. Structured Contents output is freely available through the On-demand API, or through Wikimedia Cloud Services.
A dataset of English Wikipedia biographical information from Wikimedia Enterprise has been published on Kaggle, for evaluation and research. This provides structured data from more than 1.5 million biographies, including birth and death dates, education, affiliations, careers, awards, and more (from a June 2024 snapshot).
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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.
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.
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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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:)
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks.
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.
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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.
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Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature 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. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.
Updates for editors
Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more.
New date filters, creationdate: and lasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. >2024) and relative dates (e.g. today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges.
Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team.
An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog.
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved.
Updates for technical contributors
The field rev_sha1 in the revision database table is being removed in favor of content_sha1 in the content database table. See the announcement for more information.
The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. 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. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement.
Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the rest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal 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.
After a motion, arbitration enforcement page protections no longer need to be logged in the AELOG. A bot now automatically posts protections at WP:AELOG/P. To facilitate this bot, protection summaries must include a link to the relevant CT page (e.g. [[WP:CT/BLP]]), and you will receive talk page reminders if you forget to specify the contentious topic but otherwise indicate it is an AE action.
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Hello, I hope you’ve had a nice day. I updates Miyeon’s page on Wikipedia. Miyeon is a member in idle (K-pop group). She is considered to be an official main vocalist and visual in the group. I added ‘visual’ onto it however it was removed. I completely understand but just want to say that ‘visual’ is a term given to K-pop idols. It is completely neutral term. Please can I add it back on again? Thank you very much.
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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.
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Last week, improvements to account security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. These changes include user interface improvements for Special:AccountSecurity, the support of multiple 2FA methods via authenticator apps and portable security keys (previously users could only enable one method), and a new Recovery Codes module which facilitates fewer account lockouts due to lost two-factor apps and devices. As part of the Account Security project, work is continuing through the rest of 2025 on further user experience improvements, and support for passkeys as an alternate second factor.
Updates for editors
Another part of the Account security 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. Instructions for activation are on the linked page. The plan is to continue increasing availability if it is determined that the user support capabilities are able to support global usage.
This week, users at wikis where talk page Usability Improvements are already available by default (everywhere except the 12 wikis listed in T379264) will gain 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. You can learn more about this change.
Users who have not verified their email address will soon be receiving monthly Notification reminders to do so. This is because users who have verified their email can more easily recover their account. These reminders will not be sent if the user is inactive or removes the unverified email from their account.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a fix was made for an occasional error with saving translated paragraphs in the Content Translation tool, and the related error messages are now easier to see.
Updates for technical contributors
The Unsupported Tools Working 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. Learn more on Meta.
@Xp enter49 To clarify further, since you made changes to both Whiplash (EP) and Rich Man (EP), this suggests that you may not have fully understood what the linked talk page and its discussion were addressing. "Dirty Work" remains a single album as per source, is still listed as such on Aespa discography#Single albums, and also charted on the Circle Album Chart, which, as the name indicates, is a chart for albums. The dedicated article for this album redirects to the song article because the content overlapped and/or was nearly identical prior to the requested move discussion, and following WP:CONSENSUS established there, it now redirects to the song article instead, not because the release itself ceased to be a single album. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)15:42, 14 October 2025 (UTC)
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Hi paper9oll,
I noticed that you had reverted my edit from the page Cortis. I am very new to editing around here or Wikipedia in general. I just tried doing that edit as a trial. It would be of great help if you could guide me on the changes or what you thought about my edit in general. I just want to learn:)
@Cortanist your edit added a one-off media appearance (even on a well-known show) which falls under routine coverage and thus violates WP:NOTNEWS. The addition also gives WP:UNDUE weight as it is supported only by a WP:PRIMARY source and lacks multiple WP:INDEPENDENTWP:SECONDARYWP:RELIABLE SOURCEs establishing the appearance's notability. Furthermore, the material was added to the lead section rather than the body, which is inconsistent with MOS:LEAD placement guidelines. Even if the placement were correct and such sourcing were available or initially provided, existing WP:CONSENSUS at WT:KO prohibits inclusion of routine guest appearances ("guesting") in South Korean BLPs, whether in prose, list, or table form. Accordingly, this material does not meet inclusion standards and has been reverted. I have also placed a welcome guide on your talk page. You may look through the various links there to familiarize yourself with English Wikipedia's guidelines and policies. If you're unsure about anything, feel free to ask for advice at the WP:TEAHOUSE. —Paper9oll(🔔 • 📝)08:53, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 17:21, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. —tony 03:50, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. 
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