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Suggestion for massXFD

Can you add TfD to your massXFD script? Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 18:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)

1isall, I'll have a go at it. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:23, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

Alright. Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 20:07, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

1isall, I've made a start on this. Is there anything that needs changing with the edits to User:Qwerfjkl/sandbox/51? — Qwerfjkltalk 21:13, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Also, WP:TFD doesn't detail how to tag module pages, so how do I do that? — Qwerfjkltalk 21:17, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Looking for that right now. Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 21:21, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Wait, for deletion or merging? Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 21:21, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

1isall, either, I suppose. — Qwerfjkltalk 21:27, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

I couldn't find anything about that. Maybe we could ask the Help desk? Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 21:32, 8 August 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind, I found Template:Template for discussion#Module. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:07, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

1isall, I think I've written the major part of it - please can you try the script at User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD-beta.js (you will need to disable loading MassXFD), and let me know if you spot any glaring problems? It won't actually edit the pages, it just edits my sandbox.
There were a few things that I didn't add:

• Tagging a category if the templates nominated entirely populate a category.
• Adding {{oldtfdlist}} for previous tfds, because I felt it might get confusing if some of the templates were previously nominated for something unrelated, and so probably better done manually.
• Notifying for Twinkle/Ultraviolet/AWB if a related template is nominated.

Let me know if you'd like me to add any of those. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:57, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Okay, I just installed the script. I know it's supposed to work the same as mass RfD and CfD, but are there any template pages that I can use as part of the test? If so, can I have the links to them, please? Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 15:23, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

I am still planning on testing the script. Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 15:39, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

@1isall, any templates will work, given it won't actually make edits to the templates. Qwerfjkltalk 20:26, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

Are you saying that the script will not take the templates to TfD (yet)? Just making sure before I do anything. Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 20:29, 9 August 2025 (UTC)

1isall, correct. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:22, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Alright. Today I will test the script on 5 templates. Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 12:10, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

And I just tested the script. It seems to do everything correctly, except there are some edit conflicts before it successfully edits each page. Thanks, 1isall (talk/contribs) 12:30, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

1isall, that's good. The edit conflicts are because all of the edits are made to the same sandbox page. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:21, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

CS1 error on Thrissacanthias

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Thrissacanthias, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A bare URL and missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 19:37, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

CS1 error on Astropecten latespinosus

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Astropecten latespinosus, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A bare URL and missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 20:03, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

CS1 error on Trophodiscus

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Trophodiscus, may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A missing title error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 20:33, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

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"Planetary Protection Officer" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect Planetary Protection Officer has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 August 12 § Planetary Protection Officer until a consensus is reached. -insert valid name here- (talk) 20:39, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

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Question from XimNerd (05:16, 13 August 2025)

Hello! So I edited a page yesterday, and a more experience editor removed it and directed me to "wikipedia: write the article first" but when I made my edit I referenced to an existing article? I don't really understand what I did wrong... like the link was blue, not red, for me and everything? Is there any way to contact that editor to get clarity?

Edit to add, I just figured out how talk pages work. So sorry, I will direct my question the the relevant party at hand! Have a nice day. --XimNerd (talk) 05:16, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

hola bro

I came to request to create the article for the U-14 World Cup. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rafael1234544367 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

User was blocked as socking. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:48, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Question from Jastry52 (19:36, 15 August 2025)

I found in the Dutch page 'Hommel' a spelling error: flagal, has to be plagal. --Jastry52 (talk) 19:36, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Jastry52, if you find a spelling error, feel free to correct it. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:24, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Question from Samyfit556b (16:16, 17 August 2025)

I want to write a media news page for my own company how do i i am not experienced yet tell me how do i create, --Samyfit556b (talk) 16:16, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Samyfit556b, that would not be a good idea. See Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing (while not exactly the same, generally applicable here). — Qwerfjkltalk 16:59, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

no i mean not for my self i have a media company for that i was asking Samyfit556b (talk) 17:04, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

Samyfit556b, as I said, the principle is the same. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:12, 17 August 2025 (UTC)

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Question from Wikiguyamir (08:25, 19 August 2025)

This is a question for when my articles been accepted, can I change what search terms lead to my article? Like for example I want my article to be linked to when you type in Playhouse Disney TV. --Wikiguyamir (talk) 08:25, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikiguyamir, I would focus on getting your draft accepted first; I don't think it will be in its current state. Don't worry about search results. (Also, see WP:OWN - no one "owns" an article.) — Qwerfjkltalk 10:13, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Question from Wikiguyamir (21:26, 19 August 2025)

Hi, I just want to ask what you think of the draft in current state, because other than length, I'm struggling to see what could be improved. --Wikiguyamir (talk) 21:26, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikiguyamir, the references need a lot of improvement. The majority are YouTube, which is not reliable, and neither are IMDB or Wikipedia (for Wikipedia, use the source in the article you're citing if there is one). The tone of the writing could also do with some work. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:37, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Question from Achanandhi M (07:44, 20 August 2025)

Hey Qwerfjk, I have submitted the article for the review, it was rejected multiple times. --Achanandhi M (talk) 07:44, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Achanandhi M, that's because you're not addressing the reason. You have been rejected three times no for the same reason - I would be tempted to ignore your draft. Crunchbase is not a reliable source, and blog.csdn.net is presumably a blog and so not suitable for showing notability (though I couldn't access the website). — Qwerfjkltalk 16:40, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – JoeWiki1969

Page: List_of_autistic_fictional_characters

Diff: Special:Diff/1306575938

Comment/question: I put a title tag in the entry so I don't know why the bot called me out for not having it. JoeWiki1969 (talk) 16:13, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

JoeWiki1969, you added

<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.glamour.com/story/bones-series-finale|I'm an Autistic Woman, and Bones Is the Only Character Like Me on TV|access-date=August 18, 2025|author=Jennifer Malia|archive-date=March 28, 2017}}</ref>

which is missing |title=. It was fixed 4 hours later by Citation bot. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:42, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Question from Mrnglobal (15:17, 21 August 2025)

How to make articles? --Mrnglobal (talk) 15:17, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Mrnglobal, 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! — Qwerfjkltalk 19:41, 21 August 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_August_8#Category:Honduran_nutritionists

Hi you closed this on 18 August but it hasn't been merged. Do you know how to get it merged? I vaguely remember closed CfDs for merging/deletion need to be listed somewhere. LibStar (talk) 00:34, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

actually I'll ask an admin about this. LibStar (talk) 02:11, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

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Question from Sb shera (21:01, 24 August 2025)

How do I upload my data and photo --Sb shera (talk) 21:01, 24 August 2025 (UTC)

Sb shera, you seem to be writing an article about yourself.This is a bad idea; see WP:AUTOBIOGRAPHY for why. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:45, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Help

Hello. I need your help. I noticed that you edited my draft page for "Tormenta". Thanks, I appreciate the help, but I have a small problem. I'm unable to submit the draft for a review. I'm kindly asking if you may please help me out. Printer3000 (talk) 12:17, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Printer3000, just click on the buttom that looks like this:
Submit the draft for review
on Draft:Tormenta (Gorillaz song). You should also consider adding sources to the draft; see Help:Referencing for beginners - otherwise your submission may be declined. I encourage you to do this before submitting the draft. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:51, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

I have already tried doing that, but unfortunately, it's not working. It says that I need to use a desktop for it to work properly, but I don't own one, which is why I'm using my mobile phone. What should I do? Printer3000 (talk) 15:32, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Printer3000, can you try in desktop view? There should be a link in the page footer to "Desktop". — Qwerfjkltalk 15:34, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

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Question from The fan of science (11:38, 25 August 2025)

Hello Qwerfjkl, Can you help on how can I add a source to an article (Nuclear Reactor Safety Systems). Thank you and have a nice day ! --The fan of science (talk) 11:38, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

The fan of science, I assume this is realting to Wikipedia:Edit filter/False positives/Reports#The fan of science. If you state the change and provided a source (just a link to a reputable site backing up your change will be fine), I can make the edit for you. You can also ask this on the talk page of the article by making an edit request. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:47, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your answer Qwerfjkl. But you but your question leads to another: if I want to modify with my own words part of this page (Nuclear Reactor Safety Systems) to add some details and if I use without paraphrasing it this source:https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1125/ML11258A346.pdf , do I will be able to change this page ?

Thank you for your professionalism,

The Fan of science :D The fan of science (talk) 15:11, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

The fan of science, it's not entirely clear what you are asking. You don't need to paraphrase the source, but everything that you add should be supported by the reference. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:36, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

I answered you question already. Which part did you not understand? OhNoitsJamie ^Talk 15:52, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello,

I just was asking me if I was able to use this source even if there was a copyright. Apparently I can because the changes I made to this page (Nuclear Reactor Safety Systems) have been accepted.

Thank you and have a nice day :) The fan of science (talk) 09:38, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

In most cases it will not be a problem; see Wikipedia:Close paraphrasing for when it might be. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:32, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Question from Darrin Baines (09:47, 26 August 2025)

Pleased to meet you. I think I need some guidance and help. I would like to update wikipgaes in my areas of knowledge, and I am not concerned about citing my work unless really necessary. Can you guide me, please? --Darrin Baines (talk) 09:47, 26 August 2025 (UTC)

Darrin Baines, it is a bad idea to cite your own work in Wikipedia articles. At the very least, you should pose the changes as an edit reqeust on the talk page, disclosing that you are the author of the sources. Ideally, you would not use them at all. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:34, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Question from یاسمین سکندر (07:19, 27 August 2025)

Hello! I want to rewrite the article, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Hameed_(writer). It is within the scope of WikiProject Pakistan. Please guide me to rewrite this article. --یاسمین سکندر (talk) 07:19, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

یاسمین سکندر, it was User:Dajasj who added the tag, so you might be better served asking them. In terms of improvements, the bibliography is poorly formatted - note the advice at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works#Books in languages other than English. I note that large portions of the biography section were written by TalatAfroze, who claimed to be the nephew of the subject, and so the article likely needs to be checked for a promotional tone. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:43, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

When I added the tag over a year ago, the article was more problematic. The tag can be removed now I think. Dajasj (talk) 15:48, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

A Message from a Mentee to My New Mentor

Good Day Mentor,

What are those things you did feel I can do to my my Wikipedia articles stand out Expensive Jesse (talk) 16:48, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Expensive Jesse, you don't seem to have written any articles. Also, please note WP:OWN. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:16, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

New patterns for your Linter bot

It's been a long time since I submitted patterns for your bot, so there is a big pile of them. This is just a selection. If the bot can work on them, that would be great. I can have more in the future. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:01, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

Jonesey95, sorry for taking so long to respond, this slipped my mind. The replacement
''<sup>[[User:LAAFan/Guestbook|sign]]</sup> <sub>[[Wikipedia:Editor review/LAAFan 2|review]]''</sub> →
'<sup>[[User:LAAFan/Guestbook|sign]]</sup> <sub>[[Wikipedia:Editor review/LAAFan 2|review]]</sub>'' looks like it's missing an apostrophe at the start. Same goes for
'''''[[User:Andy M. Wang|Andy W.]]'' <small>([[User talk:Andy M. Wang|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Andy M. Wang|contrib]])'''</small> →
''''[[User:Andy M. Wang|Andy W.]]'' <small>([[User talk:Andy M. Wang|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Andy M. Wang|contrib]])</small>''' and for
<font color="navy">'''[[User:NuclearWarfare|NW]]</font>''' → ''[[User:NuclearWarfare|<font color="navy">NW</font>]]''', and
'''''[[User:TLSuda|<span style="color:#886699">TLSuda]]'''''</span> →
''''[[User:TLSuda|<span style="color:#886699">TLSuda</span>]]'''''.
Can you check these, please? — Qwerfjkltalk 14:00, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for checking them. A 10% error rate is embarrassing. I thought I was using full-spreadsheet-cell copy and paste to avoid problems like this, but it looks like I missed those. Also, my computer crashed after I copied the spreadsheet contents but before I saved the sheet, so I can't even go back to figure out if there was a pattern to my edits. Anyway, these should be correct:

''<sup>[[User:LAAFan/Guestbook|sign]]</sup> <sub>[[Wikipedia:Editor review/LAAFan 2|review]]''</sub> →
''<sup>[[User:LAAFan/Guestbook|sign]]</sup> <sub>[[Wikipedia:Editor review/LAAFan 2|review]]</sub>''

'''''[[User:Andy M. Wang|Andy W.]]'' <small>([[User talk:Andy M. Wang|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Andy M. Wang|contrib]])'''</small> →
'''''[[User:Andy M. Wang|Andy W.]]'' <small>([[User talk:Andy M. Wang|talk]] · [[Special:Contributions/Andy M. Wang|contrib]])</small>'''

<font color="navy">'''[[User:NuclearWarfare|NW]]</font>''' → '''[[User:NuclearWarfare|<font color="navy">NW</font>]]'''

'''''[[User:TLSuda|<span style="color:#886699">TLSuda]]'''''</span> →
'''''[[User:TLSuda|<span style="color:#886699">TLSuda</span>]]'''''

If you want to do one edit for each pattern, I'll be happy to check the diffs. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:11, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Jonesey95, it's just adding an apostrophe for each, right? Also when doing a double check I noticed the one for Basketball110 also was missing an apostrophe, but also it's listed on Wikipedia:Linter/Signature submissions with a fix for the font tags as well - would it be better to use that replacement? I know there's been a lot of contention in the past about de-linter bots making unnecessary edits, so it would presumably be better to fix the font tags at the same time as the misnested tags. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:22, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

It is indeed just adding an apostrophe to each. There must have been something wrong with my copy-paste methods. I'll try to do a better job with the next batch. As for the font tags, I decided to leave them out of these changes because Legobot is excellent at fixing font tags as long as they are the only kind of error on the page. That's why these proposed changes are focused primarily on misnested tags, which Legobot doesn't deal with at all. You are welcome to replace font tags with span tags, but I thought that minimizing the changes I was proposing would minimize my error rate; that effort backfired a bit. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:34, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Legobot was able to follow up on over 900 pages to fix the remaining obsolete tag errors. The last time I checked Legobot saves an edit only if it is able to fix all remaining errors on a page. So your bot, with patterns fed by humans, cleans up the non-obsolete-tag errors, and Legobot follows with powerful obsolete tag logic. It's great teamwork. – Jonesey95 (talk) 23:35, 18 August 2025 (UTC)

Excellent. I'm happy to handle any other batches of patterns. This run matched 21797 pages initially, but one of the searches hit the 10,000 cap so I'm running it again. (). It made around 18,428 edits in the first run. — Qwerfjkltalk 10:30, 19 August 2025 (UTC)

A fresh batch

I have a fresh batch for your bot. One or two of these patterns contain manual line breaks, which you had said at one point was something that the bot could handle. If not, please delete them. As always, let me know if you find anything quirky about the patterns. I adjusted my spreadsheet to be text-only instead of having it try to be smart about removing ' characters at the start of cells. I tried to be VERY careful with my copying and pasting. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:50, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Jonesey95, which of the patterns contain manual line breaks? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:57, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Also, the replacement
'''This user is a [[Wikipedia:Sock puppet|sock puppet]] of [[User:Libertas|Libertas]]''' as established by Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Libertas, and has been [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked indefinitely]].'''<br /> →
''This user is a [[Wikipedia:Sock puppet|sock puppet]] of [[User:Libertas|Libertas]]''' as established by Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/Libertas, and has been [[Wikipedia:Blocking policy|blocked indefinitely]].<br />
seems to be missing the leading apostrophe. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:04, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

The replacement for "Andy M. Wang" has an extraneous quotation mark at the very end (just before the search url for the suceeding one). The replacement for "User:Primate" has a similar extraneous quotation mark, as does the one for "The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)". — Qwerfjkltalk 17:14, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

1. Manual line break: The one with "User:Primate" in it and the one with "Tower of Babel" in it.
2. Missing ' fixed. An copy-paste Excel cell-format error on my part.
3. The extraneous quote marks appear to come from copying the plain text multi-line results (Primate and Tower of Babel) out of Excel and into my sandbox. They are not present in the actual Excel table cells, but they appear when the cells are copied and pasted, which is strange. I'll try to make them go away in my workflow. The new version is here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:55, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

   Jonesey95, I've made the corrections. I'll run the replacements with line breaks separately for now. 14,235 pages. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:09, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

   It looks like Task 31 has stalled after doing about 60% of the batch. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:35, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

   Jonesey95, I've rerun the batch. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:54, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

   That worked well. We were able to remove many entries from our working list of frequently found error patterns. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:49, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

   Jonesey95, I ran the batch with replacements containing newlines. They looked good to me, but please have a look over them. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:15, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

   They look great. Thanks for continuing to run this bot. I will work on a new set of missing end tag patterns. Some of them will require a bit of finesse because I would normally use regexes, but I have a plan. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:16, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-36

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 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.
• View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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• 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.
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  • Identifying AI-generated text by searching for ISBNs whose checksums fail: Mathias Schindler of WMDE shared tools to help communities search for these.
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Question from Kayl.gurtisse (15:59, 2 September 2025)

Hi I am kinda new and I am into a student in journalism and I am trying to put light on a sect and I would like to open à Wikipedia page about them because there is nothing on Wikipedia on them can you help me ? --Kayl.gurtisse (talk) 16:00, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Kayl.gurtisse, 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! — Qwerfjkltalk 16:10, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Tshombe Maurice Asombo (08:47, 3 September 2025)

How can upload my photo profile --Tshombe Maurice Asombo (talk) 08:47, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Tshombe Maurice Asombo, it would be a better idea to contribute to Wikipedia before worrying about your userpage. — Qwerfjkltalk 12:13, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from AFTamayo (01:01, 4 September 2025)

Hi! I would appreciate it very much if you can take a look at my submission Standard Insurance (Philippines) and let me know how I can edit it further. Thank you. --AFTamayo (talk) 01:01, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

AFTamayo, you appear to have made a draft Draft:Standard Insurance which was deleted per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Draft:Standard Insurance for being AI-generated. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:53, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – TheMelidenStar16

Page: Jess_Park

Diff: Special:Diff/1309641687

Comment/question:

I struggle with the citing references, I was trying to do so but I was getting confused. Nevertheless, someone sorted it out. Am not usually the most tech savvy.

TheMelidenStar16 (talk) 18:32, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

TheMelidenStar16, let me know if you need any help with referencing. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:11, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Thetigerdante (15:08, 6 September 2025)

How do i create an article --Thetigerdante (talk) 15:08, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Thetigerdante, 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! — Qwerfjkltalk 15:19, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Is there a button I press? I couldn’t figure out how to actually create an article. I have my info and I just need to know what I press Thetigerdante (talk) 15:21, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Thetigerdante, I can see from your editing history you haven't creat4ed any drafts. There's a form at Wikipedia:Drafts#Creating and editing drafts you can fill out with the subject name, then press the "Publish" button when you're ready to save it. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:26, 6 September 2025 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – September 2025

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• 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.

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• Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. T393240

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Qwerfjkl (bot) – BrunoMeloPE1995

Page: Zimbabwe

Diff: Special:Diff/1309972000 https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/profile/ZWE

Comment/question: I updated the GDP data based on the latest IMF repport published in https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/profile/ZWE

BrunoMeloPE1995 (talk) 00:52, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

BrunoMeloPE1995, the reference that you added:

<ref name="IMFWEO.ZW">{{cite web |url=https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/profile/ZWE |url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2025/april |language=en |access-date=25 July 2025 |archive-date=28 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250428212902/https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2025/April |url-status=live }}</ref>

is malformed. It has two |url= and no |title=. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:04, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Abdul Bawa (10:06, 7 September 2025)

Hello --Abdul Bawa (talk) 10:06, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Hi! — Qwerfjkltalk 15:04, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Question from Thetigerdante (12:46, 7 September 2025)

Can I add a nyt games logo to Wikimedia Commons for me to use in the Pips (NYT Games) page? --Thetigerdante (talk) 12:47, 7 September 2025 (UTC)

Thetigerdante, as far as I can tell there is no article for Pips (NYT Games); just The New York Times Games. Nevertheless, with respect to uploading the logo, it would likely be copyrighted and so should be uploading to Wikipedia instead under WP:Fair use as non-free content. You can upload the logo at Wikipedia:File upload wizard choosing the "Upload a non-free file" option. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:09, 7 September 2025 (UTC)