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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!
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What role does your bot play, in making help desk edits like this one?
The edit includes a "Special:Diff/" link in the subheading; help desk subheadings should not include links.
The link in ''[[User:Qwerfjkl (bot)|Reference]] help requested.'' is also suboptimal, as the target and purpose are not clear to anyone who might be contemplating using the link. Why is it there at all?
@Pigsonthewing, I'm pretty sure it serves no purpose. Re MOS:NOSECTIONLINKS, I am aware (or the reason is obvious) for every other item there, but I have never heard of a technical reason for not using links in section headers, and it's fairly frequently done (not in mainspace). —Qwerfjkltalk11:06, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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I have been working on the page for the 21st Century Green-Book Project.
I am running into issues editing the page further. It is in good shape, but I have not finished proofing it. What would you recommend for getting pass teh technical issues I am having,
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how do i create a page? because i was planning on making pages for the splinter groups (CVLT, H3LL, court etc) to the 764 organization page --Fords211372 (talk) 21:38, 17 July 2025 (UTC)
Fords211372, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read Help:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out the tutorial; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! —Qwerfjkltalk09:23, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
Fords211372, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works, by making improvements to some of our existing seven million articles before trying it. When you do decide to have a go at a new article, you are highly encouraged to read Help:Your first article. If you haven't already also check out the tutorial; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! —Qwerfjkltalk12:39, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
Regarding Barnstar
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This editor has been spamming multiple user and project talk pages with requests to be awarded barnstars. I've warned them on their talk page about it, so right now it's probably best to ignore this request. - ZLEAT\C16:43, 19 July 2025 (UTC)
Mass CfD stopped working
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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.
@Qwerfjkl. Hey there. I notice this user script introduces some variables into the global namespace such as config. This recently caused a bug in another user script (see here). I think this could be easily fixed if you wrapped your code in an IIFE. That is, just add (function() { to the top and }()); to the bottom. Would you be willing to give that a try? Thanks. –Novem Linguae (talk) 09:22, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
Hi. I'm having some issues with mass renaming things. I've gotten the hang of the general process, but whenever I submit to CFD, the proposal isn't in the format of "propose renaming X to Y", but instead just "propose X" (example). In cases like those, I have to manually add the "to Y" part (example), which can be tedious. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is it a problem on the script's end? Errors aside, thanks for making the script! It's very helpful! - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:58, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
In the voting phase, the candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate's vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for approximately four days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").
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== Question from SBG2025 (14:32, 25 July 2025) == WRONG BIO
Hi! I want to correct a biography that someone wrote bout me. A lot of informations are wrong and also damage my image. How can I fix it? Thanks! --SBG2025 (talk) 14:32, 25 July 2025 (UTC)
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Hi!
I hope this message finds you well.
I am reaching out to kindly request corrections and updates to a biography that has been published about me. This is not the first time I have attempted to address these concerns, and I appreciate your attention to the matter.
There are several inaccuracies and omissions in the current biography:
My correct date of birth is October 10, not October 30.
I was born in Varese, not in Malnate. (There is no hospital in Malnate.)
I respectfully ask that my year of birth be removed. In my profession as an actress, disclosing one's exact age can unintentionally limit casting opportunities and does not accurately reflect one’s range or abilities.
I would also like to request the removal of any information regarding the documentation used for my working visa, as this is personal and sensitive, particularly while I am in the process of applying for a Green Card.
The works listed as my most significant are outdated and do not reflect my recent or most impactful projects, especially those completed since relocating from Italy.
It is also incorrect to state that I worked with Jon Fosse. While I performed in a production of Sonno, a play written by Fosse, the direction was by Valerio Binasco. The production received the Premio della Critica in 2010.
For the most accurate and up-to-date information, I invite you to consult the full biography available on my official website: https://silviabottini.com/bio/
Thank you very much for your time and understanding.
I sincerely appreciate your efforts in ensuring the accuracy and professionalism of the information being shared.
I was born in Varese, not in Malnate.Malnate is in Varese. In any case I have removed it from the article.
I respectfully ask that my year of birth be removed. To my knowledge, the most I can do is remove the day and month - but I'm not entirely sure on this, so you may wish to ask at the Teahouse for further help on this.
I would also like to request the removal of any information regarding the documentation used for my working visa, as this is personal and sensitive, particularly while I am in the process of applying for a Green Card. It is public information, see https://story.californiasunday.com/escape-your-meme/. However, as it's not particularly relevant to the article, I have removed it.
The works listed as my most significant are outdated and do not reflect my recent or most impactful projects, especially those completed since relocating from Italy. - please submit an edit request with what you would like to change it to (and make sure to mention you are the subject of the article in the request).
It is also incorrect to state that I worked with Jon Fosse. While I performed in a production of Sonno, a play written by Fosse, the direction was by Valerio Binasco. - it does not say you worked with Jon Fosse. It says you were cast in Fosse's Sonno (I have now corrected it), i.e. Sonno written by Fosse.
The production received the Premio della Critica in 2010. If you can provide a source for this that is independent of you, I will happily add this to the article.
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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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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.
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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)
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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.
Qwerfjkl (bot): Notifying users of reference errors failure - Fixed
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Qwerfjkl (bot)'s task "Notifying users of reference errors" failed to run per the configuration specified at Wikipedia:Bot activity monitor/Configurations. Detected only 0 edits in the last 1 day, whereas at least 1 was expected. If/when the issue is fixed, please change the section title (e.g. append " - Fixed") or remove this section completely. When that is done, this notice will be reposted if the bot task is still broken or is re-broken. If your bot is behaving as expected, then you may want to modify the task configuration instead. Or to unsubscribe from bot failure notifications, remove the |notify= parameter from the {{/task}} template. Thanks! – SDZeroBot (talk) 19:20, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
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I am a self-published author and I teach my book on evolution in various senior colleges at the under graduate level. I have run across a particular Wiki page on Paul MacLean's triune brain theory that is very biased and it relies on journal articles that I have found to also be suspect.
My main concern is that both the wiki and the articles cited use "straw man" arguments that basically attribute to MacLean concepts that he does not state in his work, and then they attack these arguments. I went in and made some modifications that were then basically just over-ridden. I would like to see the wiki authors actually cite MacLean's work for their arguments, and not use their own opinions or the opinions of journal authors (who also mislead readers) with inaccurate comments on MacLeans - The Triune Brain in Evolution. Is there an impartial arbitrator that can be used to sort this out? Thanks. 71.169.191.235 (talk) 11:26, 28 July 2025 (UTC)
71.169.191.235, can I safely assume that you are the editor User:Mainelyevolution? You have never edited the article on this IP account. In general, Wikipedia articles rely on secondary sources, whereas The Triune Brain in Evolution would be a primary source. If you can find some reliable secondary sources, it would probably be best to first discuss their addition on the talk page. —Qwerfjkltalk16:05, 28 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
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:
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I got a COI tag and AfD nomination for the MobileX page I created. I made some edits and posted responses. Is there anything else you would suggest me to do? --Tbenny (talk) 20:56, 29 July 2025 (UTC)
Tbenny, you appear to have quite an obvious COI (highlighting it as one of the best eSIM-based carriers for value-conscious users seeking flexible plans without contracts or overage fees) - you have denied having a COI. It does not help your case for the article if you are dishonest. —Qwerfjkltalk18:22, 4 August 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for the feedback! I want to clarify again that I have no affiliation with the company and no conflict of interest. I completely understand how the way the PCMag quote was framed could read as overly promotional, and I’ve made further revisions to align more closely with the tone and sourcing style used for similar entries. Would appreciate any additional feedback you may have to share to ensure this article meets Wikipedia's standards. Tbenny (talk) 00:17, 5 August 2025 (UTC)
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Hi! I'm not entirely sure if this counts as a question, but I'm an American urban geographer who recently moved to the Netherlands, and I'm interested in working on adding/expanding articles about Dutch cities and public transportation, at least partly by translating articles from Dutch. So any advice on resources/connections that would be useful for that would be appreciated. I gather I should start by working on copy-editing existing articles first, though? --DWRowlands (talk) 09:14, 31 July 2025 (UTC)
Thanks! I will take a look once I have internet in my new apartment: that is taking painfully long to set up, and until it's set up, my time to do anything online is very limited... DWRowlands (talk) 07:59, 7 August 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2025
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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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hola mi amigo espero estes bien estamos haciendo una colaboracion en Mi pagina del draft:EFootball Wolrd Cup Part 16 Esto es por que queremos mejorar la pagina tu colaboracion se tonara como un a persona Buena y Honesta o igaul sirve como ayuda para que Me ayudes a editar la pagina ¿que dices? 2800:320:4218:1700:3052:8477:B13:F125 (talk) 02:28, 10 August 2025 (UTC)
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Template:Rcat doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Gonnym (talk) 08:42, 18 July 2025 (UTC)
Moved from User talk:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD
Done. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:07, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
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