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Review and publish for Draft:Heavy Serenade

Hi @Paper9oll, can you help to review and publish Draft:Heavy Serenade to mainspace if it's alright? Thank you! — Chyx1095 (🗣️ • 📜) 13:03, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

@Chyx1095  Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 13:31, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-20

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

• Community Tech has published new guidance explaining how wishes on Community Wishlist are triaged and prioritized. The documentation is intended to help contributors write stronger proposals by clarifying the factors that influence prioritization decisions. Beyond vote counts, the guidance highlights considerations such as potential impact on the community when determining which wishes move forward.

Updates for editors

• The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment to test a new Share Card feature that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles or selected article sections and share them online, with each card linking back to the original article to help expand readership and article discovery. The mobile-only A/B test will be available to a portion of readers on Arabic, Chinese, French, Vietnamese, and English Wikipedia to better understand reading and sharing habits, and is scheduled to begin the week of May 18 and run for four weeks.
• The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps recently released the 25-day reading challenge into Beta, as part of efforts to drive reader engagement by encouraging users to complete reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, App users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen. The challenge officially begins May 11.
• View all 17 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the global preference for enabling syntax highlighting in wikitext could unexpectedly disable itself after being turned on, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The ResourceLoader module mediawiki.ui.input, deprecated since September 2023, will be removed this week. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it.
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:19, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Paper9oll,

New Page Review queue November 2025 - May 2026

Backlog update

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

2024 and 2025 NPP Awards

JTtheOG was selected as the NPP reviewer of the year for both 2024 and 2025, for reviewing the most articles amongst all reviewers.

Hey man im josh and MPGuy2824 won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

BoyTheKingCanDance, Rosiestep, SunDawn, and Vanderwaalforces were inducted into the NPP Hall of Fame for having two separate years of 2,000+ article reviews.

January–February backlog drive

The experimental two-month long backlog drive concluded with 183 reviewers patrolling over 27,761 articles and 35,309 redirects, earning over 36,836 points. Congratulations to JTtheOG, who achieved first place with 6,484.6 points in this drive.

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An article-only backlog drive is currently underway. We are hoping to make a big dent in the backlog. You can read more about it or join at Wikipedia:New pages patrol/Backlog drives/May 2026.

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Response

Hello, I saw your reply on my talk page regarding the article Heeseung. I wanted to add the Hanja name, and its source could be found in this Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSNEoRcakUE, but I'm not sure how to add it. Thank you. Mydeeresthamster (talk) 05:49, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I have now added the citation, thank you. Mydeeresthamster (talk) 05:56, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

Resident Playbook Accolades

Hello, I recently added two nominations for one of the actress in Resident Playbook and made sure to include source title and URL from a website with a legitimate article. Why are these being removed? The color prompts for "Won" is also in a different shade of color. Please kindly explain why this was adjusted. 고슴도치0112 (talk) 20:07, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

@고슴도치0112 You need to provide reliable sources that explicitly verify the content being added. Including a source does not mean it is reliable or that it passes verification. For "Won", the formatting is simply incorrect; there is a template for that purpose. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 20:28, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

@Paper9oll 1) For "Won", is this format specific to just that Wikipedia page or is this just in general? The following is in bold is what I used: | style="background:#CCFFCC; text-align:center;" | Won. It is not trivial but I just wanted to confirm. 2) For the two nominations, the citations that I included were articles from direct news outlet (e.g. https://kpoppost.com/fundex-awards-2025-nominees-vote/). It references the message from the award program's direct social media and there is a writer who published it. Why was this not deemed as a reliable source? 3) Isn't this a reliable source? https://www.soompi.com/article/1801829wpp/2025-apan-star-awards-announces-nominees?utm_source=chatgpt.com 고슴도치0112 (talk) 21:59, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

@고슴도치0112 No, as mentioned earlier, we do not use that formatting here; we use the relevant template. Please check the surrounding entries before making such changes in the future. For sourcing, both sources are unreliable for this purpose under WP:KO/RS. For broader source guidance, see WP:RSPSS. Please note that both WP:KO/RS and WP:RSPSS are useful reference lists, but they are not exhaustive. Also, please avoid using LLMs in talk-page discussions or article writing beyond the limited cases allowed by WP:AITALK and WP:NOLLM. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 09:18, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-21

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 Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. The feedback period will be open until May 22. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta.

Updates for editors

• An experiment to show Reading Lists to logged-out readers on mobile web will launch on May 18 across German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu Wikipedias, and will run for one month. The effort supports broader goals of helping readers save and organize articles for later reading, while encouraging habits that could lead to future Wikipedia contributions.
• To support a bookmark button in the Reading List beta feature, the "Tools > Action" menu has been updated to display icons, including the watch star indicator that helps editors identify temporarily watched articles. The icons now also match those used on mobile, improving consistency across platforms. The change is currently limited to the actions menu and mainly affects editors with privileged user rights.
• Suggestion Mode was released as an A/B test for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias. The experiment will measure the impact that Suggestion Mode has on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. The experiment will also evaluate the feature's impact on editor retention, and monitor changes in revert and block rates.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue in the Wikipedia Android app where images could sometimes fail to load after opening a recommended reading list notification, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The Wikidata Platform team has published its backend replacement recommendation and accompanying technical architecture for the migration of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) away from Blazegraph. Feedback is invited until May 25th 2026, especially on potential gaps and impacts on advanced use cases. Wikidata community members and WDQS users are also encouraged to help identify high-impact tools and workflows that may need attention on this page. Feedback can be shared on the Migration talk page or during the next office hour. See the WDP team newsletter for more details.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• On English, French, Japanese, and a few other Wikipedias, there was a trial of hCaptcha, a third-party bot detection service. The trial showed that hCaptcha effectively detects and deters some bad-faith automated activity, on its own and by giving checkusers and stewards signals to look into. Because the results were positive, hCaptcha will be rolled out across all wikis over the next few weeks. See the hCaptcha project page for technical information about the implementation and privacy protections. Learn more.
• The latest Community Tech update is now available, with progress across several Community Wishlist initiatives, including Reading Lists expansion from the mobile app to the website, new language support for "Who Wrote That" and the Personal Dashboard, improvements to 3D rendering and Charts, and upcoming work on talk page sorting, audio playback, and editing workflows. The update also shares current priorities, wishlist status trends, and opportunities for community feedback on future focus areas and the Wikimedia Foundation’s 2026–2027 Annual Plan. Read the full newsletter for details.

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Review and publish for Draft:Heavy Serenade (song)

Hi @Paper9oll, Draft:Heavy Serenade (song) should be ready for mainspace. Can you help to review and publish if it's alright? Thanks! — Chyx1095 (🗣️ • 📜) 16:02, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Chyx1095  Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 17:03, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

Date formatting

Hi @Paper9oll,

I noticed you have made formatting changes to several recent South Korean film articles regarding the date columns to reduce to year-only (YYYY) formats and omitting the month and day. Why was this exception made for No Other Choice? Just wanted to gain an understanding to the extent to which it applies. Wheezythewave (talk) 20:59, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

@Wheezythewave No exception was intended for No Other Choice. The fact that are inconsistencies should not be taken to mean that a different standard was being applied. It is not realistic to expect every single comparable article to be identified and addressed all at once. Data tables are meant to summarize relevant information rather than reproduce every possible detail. Where the relevant award ceremony and its edition meet notability for its own article, readers can access fuller details there, and where it does not, that should not determine the level of detail used in the film article's table. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 09:52, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

I just wanted to understand whether No Other Choice being left unchanged was simply a coincidence, perhaps because it has a more international profile. I have noticed that many American film articles tend to use the full date format in their tables instead. Wheezythewave (talk) 14:03, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

@Wheezythewave Not exactly sure why intent or a relationship is being inferred here. Regardless, this was already answered above. FWIW, I have now taken a closer look at the table while considering an update, whereas earlier it was only a quick glance, and the formatting is a bit of a trainwreck. It is visually organized by award ceremony, but the date column is effectively the chronological sort key. The sort-key column should ideally have come first, which makes updating the table consistently less straightforward than it may appear and leaves the overall presentation non-intuitive from a reader's perspective. I do not currently have the time or bandwidth to untangle it. If the fact that this table remains inconsistent is a concern in relation to your question, you are welcome to address it. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 17:32, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

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Elixir script

Hi Paper9oll, I don't know if it's only me but after you updated your script, I can't find it when editing any article. ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 13:28, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@D.18th Hi, when did it stop working for you? There were updates on 17 May, 19 May, and 23 May. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 14:10, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

After my Elixir.json updated on the 18th then I uninstall and re-install the script the next day but still not working. The last update of my json was on the 20th. ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 16:09, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@D.18th Just pushed an update, not sure if working for you. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 16:12, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

It is now working thanks alot. ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 16:13, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi again. Would it be possible to include a configuration option for the script to generate citations in either a spaced or compact format? Just like how this script works. ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 17:51, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

@D.18th Spaced formatting was explored earlier in the development phase, but it was scrapped due to multiple issues and interference with other script functions. By "compact format", do you mean the "short version" described in WP:NAMEDREFS? — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 18:02, 24 May 2026 (UTC)

Ah I see. What I mean in compact is there's no white spaces in the citation template (e.g. <ref>{{cite web|title=|url=...}}</ref>) ꕥ 𝙳.𝟷𝟾𝚝𝚑 ꕥ ^{→𝙼𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎 𝚖𝚎←} 05:55, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Ah okay — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 15:59, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Paper9oll, I can't find it as well currently under Tools, whether or not I'm in the edit mode. I'm on "26.05" now according to my configuration. — Chyx1095 (🗣️ • 📜) 01:18, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

@Chyx1095 It's no longer under Tools > Actions. You should be seeing it floating on the bottom right of the screen as blue "Elixir Console" button. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 01:20, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

@Paper9oll Oh yes, I see it. Thanks for the update! — Chyx1095 (🗣️ • 📜) 01:27, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-22

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• Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics.

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• For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules.
• WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
• After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article's images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article's carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed.

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• The legacy CSS classes tleft and tright have been replaced with floatleft and floatright as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that floatleft and floatright may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:50, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

hi

I'd like if you could leave my article alone, I am trying to fix it. Oreoiscool99 (talk) 14:06, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

@Oreoiscool99 Asking others to leave the article(s) alone is contrary to ownership. No editor needs your permission to edit any article, whether you created it or someone else did. Also, as a reminder, WP:NOLLM says not to use large language models to generate or rewrite article content. Your recent contributions, such as Draft:Kazuha (singer) and Draft:Queenz Eye, appear to be LLM-style mass rewrites/creations that rely on generic and/or non-verifying sources, weaken verification, and do not resolve the sourcing and/or notability issues. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 17:06, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Your the only person who is saying all of these things i'm starting to get suspicious. also the sources may appear as weak but these are the only sources that are independent and i can use. if deleting all my articles makes u happy then so be it.Oreoiscool99 (talk) 17:49, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

@Oreoiscool99 If the only available sources are weak, routine, generic, or do not directly verify the claims, then the article(s) or draft(s) does not meet WP:GNG, WP:V, or the relevant subject-specific notability guideline. If your creation does not meet the notability guidelines, any editor may nominate it for deletion under WP:AFD or another applicable deletion process, regardless of whether the draft was accepted through AfC. Your suspicion about me is irrelevant and unsupported; casting aspersions does not answer the sourcing, verification, or notability problems. FWIW, I am not here to debate your feelings or emotions, nor are they relevant to the content discussion. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 18:11, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Regarding the 5M sales of Gee and the source...

The source I used is the same one used on 2NE1's discography page, where "I Don't Care" has 4.5 million sales on Gaon, and "Gee" is from the same year and uses the same font as their page. Why is it allowed there and not here? ~2026-31906-93 (talk) 22:16, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-31906-93 Per WP:BLOGS, blogs are not unreliable sources. What you just referenced is essentially WP:OTHERCONTENT. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 04:52, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – June 2026

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Tech News: 2026-23

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 Reader Experience team is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment was launched on May 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
• The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed.

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• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:07, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

Review and publish for Draft:Bite Now and Draft:Imperfect-I'mperfect

Hi @Paper9oll, I believe Draft:Bite Now and Draft:Imperfect-I'mperfect are ready for mainspace. Can you help to review and publish if they're alright? Thank you! — Chyx1095 (🗣️ • 📜) 14:06, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

@Chyx1095  Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 16:52, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

June 2026

Hello @Paper9oll. In this edit, your script removed the OSEN links, but the newspaper has an article at OSEN (newspaper). Was this intentional? I also noticed it removed News1 (South Korean company), which makes sense to me since it's a red link. ~2026-33008-28 (talk) 13:06, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

  Bug fixed — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 15:12, 4 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-24

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

• Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content.

Updates for editors

• The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
• The Which came first? daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia's "On This Day" content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
• Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using __HIDDENCAT__ (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848.
• The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
• The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
• The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The function signature for mw.util.addPortletLink() has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); use mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of addPortletLink() and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement.
• Community Wishlist discussion: Product & Technology introduced changes meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions about a proposed direction for the wishlist from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-25

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 Reader Growth team has launched an Image Browsing beta feature on the mobile web version of all Wikipedias. The feature shows an image carousel at the top of articles with 3 or more images. Editors can configure this feature with the following controls: to hide a specific image from a page, either use class=notpageimage excluding it from thumbnail previews, or class=noviewer excluding it from MediaViewer. The carousel can also be disabled from a page entirely, with the magic word __NOMEDIAVIEWERCAROUSEL__. To submit feedback or flag bugs, please visit the project page.
• Wikitables can now be sorted in descending order on the first click by adding data-sort-order="desc" to the header cell. Previously, by default, clicking a column header for the first time sorts it in ascending order. This addition to a Wikitable gives it more control and flexibility, while the default behavior for subsequent clicks remains unchanged.

Updates for editors

• The Article guidance feature is currently being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. This feature gives editors community-curated guidance to help them create articles that follow community standards. Experienced editors can continue creating or adapting outlines for specific article types that are commonly created by less experienced contributors. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page. Example outlines that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section of the project page.
• Wikis that wish to replace the "indefinitely" button in Special:Block for temporary accounts (for example, wikis that block temporary users only until account expiration) will be able to do so by creating MediaWiki:ipb-indefinite-expiry-temporary-account with the block duration they want.
• View all 41 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• By the end of June, a valid user-agent string will be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement of the long standing user-agent policy. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.
• The roll out of global API rate limits is now complete, with limits enforced across all APIs and at the documented levels for all groups. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki remain exempt. All bots should continue to follow the documented best practices to avoid being rate limited.
• The API Portal wiki will be read only starting this week (June 15-18). The following week (June 22-25), all API Portal wiki URLs will redirect to Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. Learn more on the project page.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• On June 17th at 6pm UTC the WMF will be holding Discord call focused on a code review. We've heard through the Developer Satisfaction Survey that volunteers are struggling with code review and we'd like to discuss these experiences with the goal of surfacing workable solutions. You can join the call via the Wikimedia Community Discord server.
• The Latin American Wikimedia Conference will host a regional hackathon that will bring together the Wikimedia movement’s technical community including developers, system administrators, data scientists, and users with extended rights. Interested technical contributors can apply for a scholarship to participate until June 21 at midnight (Bolivia time, UTC-4).
• Sign up for Wikimania Team Challenges to join this special event. The Team challenges will take place online and in person from July 21 to 22, before Wikimania conference. Everyone is welcome, regardless of skills or Wikimania registration. Teams will work on 10 important challenges supporting the Wikimedia community. For details, visit the Team Challenges page and register there. Registration closes on June 20th at 11pm UTC.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:47, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

Help with moving an article

Hi Paper9oll!

I was wondering if you could help move the article Kim Min-seo (singer, born 2004) to Minseo (singer, born 2004). The reason being that she usually just goes by the mononym "Minseo" instead of her birth name.

Thank you so much for your help! Wooahitzy (talk) 21:24, 18 June 2026 (UTC)

@Wooahitzy  Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 03:27, 19 June 2026 (UTC)

The Signpost: 21 June 2026

• From the editors: Ways for beginners to support The Signpost community journalism
  Pointing the way to your contribution to The Signpost!

• News and notes: Community Tech development team disbanded
  And English Wikipedia reaches a milestone in number of highly active editors.

• Disinformation report: PR for the people?
  Or, "PR using PR for PR"?

• Recent research: Proposed tagging system for AI involvement; successful and unsuccessful AI tools for contributors
  And other new research publications.

• In the media: Who won a 14th century battle and who won the 2026 Iran war?
  Media take issue with portrayals of recent and medieval history on Wikipedia. Plus a team supporting Wikipedians gets dissolved, and a few other things.

• Community view: Putting the Wish into the Wishlist
  A history of the Wikimedia community's request process to Foundation developers.

• In focus: A global standard for Neutral Point of View
  Wikipedians are commenting on a proposed global standard for neutral point of view.

• On the bright side: Flowers, blue helmets, reefs, pride, and Juneteenth
  Nice things around the world.

• Op-ed: Breathe, Don’t Panic, there is a different story about Wikimedia + AI futures
  We can build a strategy about AI that doesn't just center on readers; there are still plenty of humans to write the encyclopedia and work on diverse global knowledge.

• Opinion: Wikimedia Foundation staff develop union and Wikimedia user community reacts
  Why should editors support the Wiki Workers United union drive? Lessons the Wikimedia movement can learn from other labor struggles.

• Technology report: Community Tech team is disbanded, controversy erupts
  WMF disbands Community Tech, sparking community backlash over the future of the Wishlist and concerns about unionization.

• Traffic report: 'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
  Horror movies and Michael Jackson dominate theaters in the lead-up to the World Cup.

• WikiConference report: Report of Volunteer Supporters Network Annual Meeting 2026
  Outreach staff of Wikimedia chapters host a global discussion.

• Comix: Take your turn
  In a maze of twisty little edits, all alike.

• Humour: Group of banned T-shirt makers comes out of hiding to sell new Wikipedia-themed merchandise
  It ain't WikiProject United Nations, but you will find some PUNs.

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Tech News: 2026-26

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

• Growth features are now available at Wikidata. This update enables access to Mentorship (if configured), Impact module, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits). Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration.

Updates for editors

• The special page Special:RangeCalculator has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.
• Sub-referencing is a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details. It will be deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions on June 23. The FAQ lists possible actions to take on your wiki to support the deployment. Check the rollout plan for the next deployment steps.
• Starting next week, users will get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting next week, abuse filters that are set to "require CAPTCHA verification" will begin to also affect users with the skipcaptcha right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter. The skipcaptcha right will continue to exempt users from having to solve CAPTCHAs in the ordinary course of using the wikis.
• Reference documentation for the Lift Wing API has moved from the API Portal to the interactive REST Sandbox.
• The API Portal wiki is now closed. For API documentation, see Wikimedia APIs on mediawiki.org. All API Portal wiki URLs (https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/) will redirect to the mediawiki.org page starting June 22.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• Join an online call on 25 June at 2:30pm UTC to meet the current Wikimedia interns for Google Summer of Code and Outreachy. Interns will provide an overview of their projects and a brief demo of their work so far. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and connections in their community.

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MediaWiki message delivery 13:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)

Regarding changes to the article Sunghoon (singer, born 2002)

Thank you for reviewing my message and the edit.

I understand that reliable sources are required for all content on Wikipedia.

For the relevant statement, I used a Weverse LIVE video in which Sunghoon appears to directly speak about his birthplace and where he grew up.

https://weverse.io/enhypen/live/2-134121234

From around 31:31 in the video, he talks about his place of birth and upbringing.

The English subtitles include the following statement:

“My family originally lived in Daejeon, but I was born in Suwon.”

Since subtitles can be switched, this content is accessible to viewers worldwide.

This video was published on January 27, 2024.

In comparison, the current citation used for the “Born” information in the article lists Cheonan as the birthplace, which is sourced from an article dated May 22, 2023:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/05/22/enhypen-members-music-kpop-profile/70220608007/

Since the Weverse LIVE is a direct statement from the person concerned and is more recent, I believe it may be a more accurate primary source for this information, and I would like to use it as a citation for updating the birthplace information if appropriate under Wikipedia’s sourcing guidelines.

I am a Japanese user and not very experienced with editing English Wikipedia pages.

Could you please advise on how I should properly cite this video and whether it can be used as a reliable source for updating the birthplace information?

Thank you very much for your time and assistance. D.penguin002 (talk) 08:27, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

@D.penguin002 As WP:SPS WP:PRIMARY only. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 08:36, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Could it be possible to note somewhere, as a supplement, that there was a statement from the person himself until a secondary source article is published? D.penguin002 (talk) 08:58, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

@D.penguin002 You do not need to include a note. You may use that self published primary source, "self" refers to the subject who published the source, not to you, only for the narrow claim about his place of birth. It should not be used to support other claims. That said, the edit may still be reverted by other editors who disagree with using it, particularly because you're replacing secondary source with a self published primary source. Citing both sources together would be contradictory and potentially misleading. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 09:25, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

I usually search for information in Japanese and Korean, but it is likely that that 2023 English article contains incorrect information. In Korean primary sources and in the subject’s own statements within content, Daejeon is described as his hometown, where he lived with his family, while the place of birth is clearly mentioned as Suwon in a Weverse Live. However, I cannot find any information about Cheonan in Korean sources. There are no articles that consolidate his place of birth, so I am unsure whether it is appropriate to leave it as it is. It is likely that in Wikipedia pages of other countries, Daejeon is often listed as his hometown. D.penguin002 (talk) 09:48, 26 June 2026 (UTC)

Regarding Sunghoon's birthplace, I have not been able to find any official statement from his agency, nor have I found Korean-language news articles that clearly identify his birthplace.

I also could not find any media source discussing Cheonan as his birthplace. However, I was able to confirm through the edit history of Namuwiki that there was a period when Cheonan was listed in Sunghoon's article. That entry, however, did not provide a source.

성훈(엔하이픈) - 나무위키

After Sunghoon's statement during a Weverse Live broadcast, the Namuwiki article was changed to Suwon. The current article no longer uses the place of birth as the basis for the entry and instead lists Daejeon, which Sunghoon himself has described as his hometown.

Looking at the USA Today article, most of the information appears to be material that can be found through online searches. Therefore, it is difficult to completely rule out the possibility that the author may have relied on Namuwiki or similar online sources. If the information was not independently verified through the agency or direct reporting, there is also a contradiction with Sunghoon's own statement. Considering the unclear source history and the changing birthplace information on Namuwiki, I have some reservations about relying solely on the USA Today article as the reference for this claim.

Because it is unclear what source USA Today used when stating Cheonan as his birthplace, I am considering contacting the author of the article to ask what information was used. If successful, this may lead either to a clarification or correction of the article, or perhaps verification during a future interview with ENHYPEN.

In the meantime, unless there is a policy-based concern, I would prefer to retain Sunghoon's own statement from the Weverse Live as evidence for the place he stated he was born.

If the information is reverted again in the future, I would like to reopen discussion on how contradictory sources should be handled in this case.

Additionally, the USA Today article is currently cited as a source for his date of birth as well. I am planning to replace that citation with ENHYPEN's official profile page, which appears to be a more direct source for that information.

If more reliable and verifiable sources become available in the future, I fully support updating the article accordingly so that it reflects the best available information. D.penguin002 (talk) 00:59, 27 June 2026 (UTC)