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Tech News: 2026-18

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

• There is a change in how new users are autoconfirmed that will improve anti-vandalism protection. Currently, users who have had an account for a few days and made a few edits are automatically added to the Autoconfirmed users group. This configuration tends to be exploited by some vandals, who create accounts and start to use them only after some time. To mitigate this, the configuration will be updated next week so that – for the purpose of becoming autoconfirmed – the account age will be counted from their first edit, instead of registration date. The numeric value of the age threshold will remain the same. This change will be deployed only to wikis which require at least one edit as part of the autoconfirmation conditions.
• All Wikipedia users with new accounts and those who activated the "automatically enable most beta features" option in their preference can now use the reading lists beta feature to save articles for later reading. This helps organize reading interests in one place for convenient access.
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where infobox images have huge padding in Firefox, has been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• As a reminder, the global API rate limits will be applied this week to identified API traffic. This is to help ensure fair use of infrastructure. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, including the actual rate limits, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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May 2026 Administrator Election – Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Candidates.

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• April 29 – May 5: Call for candidates
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• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
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May 2026 Administrator Election – Call for Candidates

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The administrator elections process has officially started! Interested editors are encouraged to self-nominate or arrange to be nominated by reviewing the instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

• April 29 – May 5: Call for candidates
• May 8–12: Discussion phase
• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
• Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

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New pages patrol May 2026 Backlog drive

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Question from Aditi.Anand.Is.A.Bear (18:26, 29 April 2026)

My views on edits in total were at 3 million, and now they're at 900000. Why is this? --Aditi.Anand.Is.A.Bear (talk) 18:26, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

Aditi.Anand.Is.A.Bear, I believe they only track the last 30 days (or some similar time frame). — Qwerfjkltalk 11:18, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – JDWylie

Page: Sir_James_Wylie,_1st_Baronet

Diff: Special:Diff/1337531761

Comment/question: I very reluctantly undid the Bot's changes. The sequence of events involved in undoing the bot's wok and my attempts to follow the relevant instructions were as follows: (a) I had little idea what those were saying (b) But I persevered to attempt to insert the relevant cite template (c) But I could find no way of placing it appropriaely (in visual editing it's impossible to place it within any of the Notes and in source editing appears not to show the Notes (d) I placed it as close as possible to the Notes area (e) Within visual editing I then filled out the template (f) this caused every note to displace unuseable remarks in every note (g) there appeared to be no relevant instructions for what to do (h) I reluctantly undid the bot's changes.

It remains totally obscure to me why a standard template can be completed in visual editing, but in some cases it can never be completed to the bot's satisfaction even where all relevant information is included therein, remains so despite an editor's numerous fine-tuning, this causing hugh stress to the editor and loss of many hours of his/her edits. I have now been pushed to the point of publishing my edits after every small handful of them, just to forestall losing 3 hours of work, as happened yesterday. I have reached the pointJDWylie (talk) 05:26, 30 April 2026 (UTC) of abandoning further work on Wikipedia articles.

JDWylie (talk) 05:26, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

JDWylie, the only issue my bot had was that you didn't add a title to the reference. The bot didn't make any edits to the article, only to your talk page. You may be confused with WikiCleanerBot, which did edit the article. You can add the template {{In use}} if you don't want to be interrupted whilst making large changes to an article. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:26, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – GillsBrightblood

Page: Kiritimatiellota

Diff: Special:Diff/1351595395

Comment/question: Hi, Qwerfjkl notified me of a potential date error, I don't see one so I just wanted to let you know of a potential false positive. But then again I'm kinda new at this and may just not see it. Best! GillsBrightblood (talk) 02:26, 29 April 2026 (UTC)Gills

GillsBrightblood (talk) 02:26, 29 April 2026 (UTC)

GillsBrightblood, you missed out the day in the date for both of the references you added. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:20, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Thx! GillsBrightblood (talk) 19:54, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Question from Cvaynerchuck (19:59, 30 April 2026)

Hello. How do I create a Wikipedia page for a writer who I figured does not have one yet --Cvaynerchuck (talk) 19:59, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Cvaynerchuck, 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 11:15, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Hegemoniconline

Page: Kate_Levant

Diff: Special:Diff/1351794606

Comment/question: fixed and got a second notification

Hegemoniconline (talk) 05:22, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Hegemoniconline, the bot only ever left one notification on your talk page. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:16, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Editor retention

How can I continue working on Wikipedia when my dad keeps reminding me how it's not going to make any money (I obviously know that it's true but this bugging just makes me feel that my editing is being more and more worthless, I suppose)? nhals8 (rats in the house of the dead) 03:15, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

.nhals8, instead of looking for extrinsic validation you should do what you enjoy. If you want to help volunteer and edit Wikipedia, then by all means, go for it, and I will be happy to help if you need it. But if you don't want to volunteer, that's also okay. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:07, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Abductive

Page: Battle_of_Tsushima

Diff: Special:Diff/1352144018

Comment/question: I see no error. But more importantly, the bot caused me trouble because I tried to fix what I thought the bot might have flagged as an error while I already had iabot running, causing iabot to overwrite my edit. Please build in a delay that takes into consideration the rather lengthy time iabot takes to analyze pages and add its archives before notifying editors. I suggest 40 minutes. Abductive (reasoning) 10:26, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Abductive (reasoning) 10:26, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

@Abductive, the bot already has a delay (15 minutes). The issue is the reference:

{{cite journal |last=Kowner |first=Rotem |author-link=Rotem Kowner |date=15 June, 2022a |title=Time To Remember, Time To Forget: … In Japanese Collective Memory Since 1905 |journal=Asia Pacific Journal |volume=20 |issue=12-3 |url=https://apjjf.org/2022/12/kowner |issn=1557-4660}}

specifically the |date= value (the comma should be removed). — Qwerfjkltalk 19:16, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Dmadden51

Page: Permethrin

Diff: Special:Diff/1352160260

Comment:The date is formatted per the Visual Editor and Wikipedia Cite tool, of which the link for the page was inserted and the Cite tool created the citation.

Dmadden51 (talk) 15:21, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Dmadden51, for the third reference you added ("Permethrin exposure affects neurobehavior and cellular characterization in rats' brain"), you missed out the day when you added the date. The automatic tools for adding references are not perfect. — Qwerfjkltalk 19:19, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Muffinbutt1985 (19:24, 2 May 2026)

Hi, one of my articles, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmouth_terrorist_cell has been cited as needing improvement. Do you think you could provide some specific examples of what they want so I can improve this? Thanks so much. I just started editing Wikipedia last fall and feel very new and inexperienced. --Muffinbutt1985 (talk) 19:24, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Muffinbutt1985, you could ask User:Thilio, who added the tag. This paragraph:
Choudhury, the oldest of the men, was married with two children[2] and had worked as a racial harassment caseworker and part-time as a development worker in the Muslim community. A member of the Portsmouth City Council later said Choudhury "embellished" both roles.[12] He had trouble in his personal life; he would later be described as a "serial liar". He had once pretended to have stomach cancer, then took the £35,000 his family gave him for medical treatment in Singapore and spent it on prostitutes.[2] He said his failings and his lies had made him "utterly ashamed and embarrassed". He texted his wife in 2013 and suggested they move to Syria, and she replied, "I hate you. You want to die in battlefield, go die. I really mean it, just go." She later said she didn't literally mean that he should go to die in the Syrian civil war, and that she didn't consider his statements about Syria to be serious because she saw him as a fantasist and incapable of fighting.[3]
is almost entirely excessive detail, and should be one or two sentences at most. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:43, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Ok I went and removed the stuff about his job and what his wife said to him, cut it down and merged it into the paragraph above. Thank you. Muffinbutt1985 (talk) 20:50, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

That's good, but a lot of the article suffers from the same problem. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:53, 2 May 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – May 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2026).

Administrator changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

Technical news

• Changes to user permissions made from Meta are now included in the local user permissions log (T6055).
• The autoconfirmed user group will soon be modified such that the four-day account age requirement begins when an account makes its first edit (T418484).

Arbitration

• The arbitration case SchroCat has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 15 April.
• Per a recent motion, appeals of blocks from the conflict-of-interest VRT queue are, by default, appealed on-wiki through the normal unblock process. However, they may be heard by the Committee if COIVRTers disagree on the interpretation of the evidence or believe ArbCom would be better suited to hear the appeal. Administrators are also advised that loosening or lifting such blocks without the consent of someone with access to the queue or ArbCom can be grounds for desysopping.
• Per a recent motion, restrictions issued directly by the Committee may now be enforced with blocks which work exactly like contentious topic blocks.
• The arbitration case Maghreb has been closed.

Miscellaneous

• The May 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from April 29 to May 19. The call for candidates ends May 5.
• The 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is scheduled to run from April 25 to June 1. Candidacy submissions close on May 10.
• A new noticeboard for non-urgent, batch page protection requests has been created, primarily for the enforcement of contentious topic restrictions.

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Question from Minst4tecken (18:14, 4 May 2026)

Hi, I'm thinking of trying to translate some pages as I am fluent in both English and Swedish. I'm asking what to do with English sources, do I keep them when translating to Swedish or should I find sources in Swedish? And does it matter that most Swedish speakers do have at least a basic understanding of English?

Any other recommendations and things to keep while translating (or editing tips in general) would be appreciated. --Minst4tecken (talk) 18:14, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Minst4tecken, if you're translating to Swedish I can't really help you; the Swedish Wikipedia has its own set of policies from the English Wikipedia.
In general, the language of the source shouldn't be an obstacle, so the sources would be kept assuming they are decent sources.
And does it matter that most Swedish speakers do have at least a basic understanding of English? - Matter in what way? I don't think so, but again, that depends on the policies of the Swedish Wikipedia.
I can see there's a page linking to advice on the Sweidsh Wikipedia at w:sv:Wikipedia:Översättning, w:sv:Wikipedia:Översättningsrekommendationer in particular looks relevant. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:55, 4 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-19

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 Article guidance team invites experienced editors of pilot Wikipedias—Arabic, Bangla, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, Turkish, Simple English, Spanish, and French—to help translate and adapt sample outlines. These outlines will guide editors in creating clear, well-structured, and policy-compliant articles when using the feature once it is launched in May 2026. Simple instructions on how to translate and adapt the outlines are available.

Updates for editors

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has published draft recommendations on a model that affiliates can follow when contributing to the technical space. Community members are invited to provide feedback on the recommendation until May 8th on the talk page.
• The number of available thumbnail size preferences in MediaWiki is being reduced to three standardized options—Small (180px), Regular (250px), and Large (400px), as part of ongoing efforts to improve performance and reduce strain on thumbnail services. As a result, existing preferences will be mapped to the nearest new size (for example, smaller selections like 120px or 150px will render at 180px, while larger ones like 300px or 360px will render at 400px). The preferences interface will soon be updated to reflect these changes, and users who wish to opt out or provide feedback can do so.
• From now on, even when a permission expires automatically, users will receive an Echo notification similar to the standard notification for permission changes. There is a difference between this and Global reminder bot in that the latter reminds users a week before the rights are due to expire, so that they can renew the rights.
• View all 32 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the problem where the ULS language selector in Special:Translate would scroll vertically when it shouldn't, has been resolved. Previously, when users opened the "Translate to English" dropdown and typed certain inputs, the dialog would scroll vertically by a few pixels even when there was enough space to display all results. The dropdown no longer shifts unnecessarily when filtering languages.
• The Global Watchlist, which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page, continues to improve. For example, watchlists for Wikibase sites such as Wikidata now support EntitySchema elements for better tracking. The Live Updates mode now refreshes the special page every 60 seconds to comply with the updated global API rate limits for improved real-time responsiveness. Additionally, a directionality bug that displayed links as "changes 3" instead of "3 changes" in mixed-direction lists has been fixed.

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• The second phase of global API rate limits has been rolled out to reduce the impact of AI crawlers and ensure fair, sustainable access to Wikimedia resources, prioritising human and mission-aligned traffic. Limits have been shifted from per-hour to per-minute, producing smoother traffic patterns and more predictable API load. Community users are not expected to be affected, and no action is required. Early indications show some User-Agent-based requestors are adjusting behaviour, and around 64% of automated API traffic has been identified. Monitoring continues, and Wikimedia Enterprise remains available for commercial support.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Question from Itsaliraza (16:52, 5 May 2026)

Hello sir,

How to verify external resources for citation is helpful for wiki ecosystem, not for prompting a particular source. --Itsaliraza (talk) 16:52, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Itsaliraza, if you mean you want to determine if a source is reliable, there is in-depth information at Wikipedia:Reliable sources. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:46, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Syed shamoon (18:58, 5 May 2026)

Hello dear brother I am extremely sorry for disturbing you but I want to add details about a perosn in Wikipedia who has represented Indian bikers in Thailand and is a solo biker who has completed entire India journey in 18 years age and that he’s an inspiration and being featured in news many times --Syed shamoon (talk) 18:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Syed shamoon, is there already an article about this person, or do you want to make an article about them? What is the person's name? — Qwerfjkltalk 20:04, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Krhinestone

Page: Steven_Davidoff_Solomon

Diff: Special:Diff/1351737863

Comment/question: The bot removed a sentence about the subject's work history that was accurate.

Krhinestone (talk) 16:56, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Krhinestone, the bot didn't remove anything; it didn't edit the article. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:15, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

@Krhinestone, the issue is |date=1666-12. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:29, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – TVShowsFan2005

Page: Disney_Club

Diff: Special:Diff/1352853238

Comment/question:

I need help fixing the refs along with the other pages 

TVShowsFan2005 (talk) 17:04, 6 May 2026 (UTC)

@TVShowsFan2005, you didn't add a title. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:30, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Emmycampbell

date issue June 2024 under Recusal and Consequences header 

Page: Recusal

Diff: Special:Diff/1352917639

the change I made was to eliminate this banner, not to introduce an uncited date. the banner flags a lack of citation in the section but previous changes make that comment unapplicable.

Comment/question:

Emmycampbell (talk) 01:33, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@Emmycampbell, you can remove the banner yourself now that you've added sources; but you did introduce errors when you added the references. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:10, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

The discussion phase of the May 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 May, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone 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.

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The discussion phase of the May 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 May, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone 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.

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Question from DustinDeTorres2 (15:06, 7 May 2026)

Hi there! Hope your day is going well! Id like to create a new company page for my company. We have a lot of 3rd party, non promotional sources. I was going to paste the suggested text into my sandbox. Is that something youre able to review and provide feedback on? Is that public to anyone? Any help here will be appreciated! --DustinDeTorres2 (talk) 15:06, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

@DustinDeTorres2, are you being paid for this? You use "we"; is this a shared account? — Qwerfjkltalk 17:12, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

Hey @Qwerfjkl Oh, no sorry. It's just me . DustinDeTorres2 (talk) 17:27, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

DustinDeTorres2, have you declared your COI? I can see you've made a start at User:DustinDeTorres2/sandbox,though truth be told, you'd probably be better off discarding that and starting from scratch. In any case, the main things you need to do is show that the company passes WP:NCOMPANY and that it is written neutrally, which your draft fails on both accounts. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:05, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – 3f45188

Page: Central_Treaty_Organization

Diff: Special:Diff/1353065189

Comment/question:

3f45188 (talk) 23:38, 7 May 2026 (UTC)

3f45188, you added

{{Cite web |last=Policy |first=Middle East |date=2010-07-06 |title=Iran’s Nuclear Decision-Making Calculus - Middle East Policy Council |url=https://mepc.org/essays/irans-nuclear-decision-making-calculus/ |access-date=2026-05-07 |website=mepc.org |language=en-US}}

which has bogus |last= and |first= values; those values are for human authors' first and last names. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:07, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – PhilDaBirdMan

Page: MV_Hondius_hantavirus_outbreak

Diff: Special:Diff/1353195987

Comment/question: Used citation bot for this edit.

- PhilDaBirdMan (Talk | Contribs) 20:48, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

@PhilDaBirdMan, there's no title. It doesn't matter what tool you use to format a reference; if it's on your account, you are responsible for the edits and should check over them to ensure they are correct. Qwerfjkltalk 14:16, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

As far as I’m aware, the citation bot is supposed to fix references, not break them. I also didn’t see an error tag. - PhilDaBirdMan (Talk | Contribs) 14:19, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

PhilDaBirdMan, if you look at Special:Diff/1353195987 and scroll down to the references you will see {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) in red. The reference appears to have been removed since (Special:Diff/1353207897). The title prior to your edit was "DPG Media Privacy Gate", which is probably no more helpful than no title at all. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:25, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from KurdishPAL (14:49, 9 May 2026)

Hi sorry to bother you but I have an important problem it's about this user who redirected my page for his which completely hides the event described surely to hide the opposing exploit, to avoid a conflict I would like your help, this is not the first time the user has done this kind of thing I think we could even make a report for WP:POV pushes. --KurdishPAL (talk) 14:49, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

KurdishPAL, please note the advice at Wikipedia:Redirect#Redirects that replace previous articles: If editors cannot agree, the content issues should be discussed at the relevant talk page, and other methods of dispute resolution should be used, such as restoring the article and nominating the article for Wikipedia:Articles for deletion. You should start a discussion on the article's talk page. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:19, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Zdfret

Page: Politics_of_Tanzania

Diff: Special:Diff/1353434553

Comment/question:

Zdfret (talk) 13:31, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Zdfret,

<ref>{{Cite web |last=Agencies |first=News |title=Tanzania arrests senior opposition figure as hundreds face treason charges |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/8/tanzania-arrests-senior-opposition-figure-charges-over-200-with-treason |access-date=2026-05-10 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>

has incorrect values for |first= and |last=. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:11, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Unforgvn20

Page: Susamam

Diff: Special:Diff/1353578795

Comment/question: The reference already had Title field filled, there was a special character which I removed now, maybe this was the reason for false alert unforgvn20 (talk) 03:13, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

@Unforgvn20 you added <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tr.euronews.com/2019/09/09/ak-parti-den-susamam-tepkisi-provokasyon-ve-siyasi-manipulasyon |access-date=2026-05-11 |website=tr.euronews.com}}</ref> which is missing |title=. Qwerfjkltalk 14:20, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-20

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• 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.

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• 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)

Question from Mom770783 on Wikipedia:User groups (20:44, 11 May 2026)

مرحبا --Mom770783 (talk) 20:44, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot)

Thanks for seeing my errors. Useful bot, whom, I'm sure, will be visiting my talk page again! CambridgeBayWeather (#1 deranged), Uqaqatigijaa (talk), Huliva 04:49, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Jcejhay

Page: Cleis_Press

Diff: Special:Diff/1353529495

Comment/question: The page I'm linking to doesn't really have a title. It's a search-results page at a publisher's website, sorted to show most recent items first, and I needed to use this specific page to document the absence of recent publications. Thanks!

Jcejhay (talk) 20:38, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

@Jcejhay, I'm not sure you can use that source for that per WP:PRIMARY. In any case, you should use a descriptive title like "Search results for 'cleis'". Qwerfjkltalk 14:18, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip! I will add that descriptive title. I certainly understand the concern about primary sources. But in this case, I'm not using the sources as sources of information, per se; I'm pointing to them to document the fact of their current inactivity as promotional outlets. Jcejhay (talk) 11:21, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Michael Raamenta (17:46, 11 May 2026)

Hello, how many citations or references for a Topic or a Biography of a person? --Michael Raamenta (talk) 17:46, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

Michael Raamenta, there's no fixed number. A biography of a living person (BLP) is a special case where there are stricter rules on referencing. In general, you should start from the references you can find and then add information based on that, rather than trying to find a reference for your information. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:23, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Question from Amulpal (06:54, 12 May 2026)

how to make rail line using templates --Amulpal (talk) 06:54, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Amulpal, there is documentation at Template:Rail line; if you have any specific points of confusion, I'm happy to give specific guidance. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:25, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Nef_User

Page: Selective_serotonin_reuptake_inhibitor

Diff: Special:Diff/1353771576

Comment/question:

I'm not sure what this is referencing as the only dates would be in the source document.

Nef User (talk) 07:53, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Nef User, a minor issue; for your reference "Acute and longer-term outcomes in depressed outpatients requiring one or several treatment steps: a STAR*D report", you used the date "2006-11" instead of "November 2006". — Qwerfjkltalk 20:32, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

The voting phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until 19 May 2026 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase (we are here)
• Scrutineering phase

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Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few 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 non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:10, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

May 2026 Administrator Elections – Voting Phase

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The voting phase of the May 2026 administrator elections has started and will continue until 19 May 2026 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/May 2026/Voting phase.

As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• May 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase (we are here)
• Scrutineering phase

In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has 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 a few 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 non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions ("crat chats").

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:11, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

It was told your my new mentor until the time being...

I clicked on a question mark, and it told me that Firefangledfeathers wouldn't be avaliable until January 22 of next year. So, I'm going to ask a question. Can you check if this draft is good to be a full-fledge article?

Thanks TexasOutlawsSoccerFan (talk) 15:03, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

TexasOutlawsSoccerFan, from a quick glance over it looks fine; just make sure you have 3 good sources to show it passes WP:GNG. The first BBC reference and the Phoenix Business Journal one are both good. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:57, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – CanonicalFinalBoy

Page: Curative_(company)A citation error

Diff: Special:Diff/1353631292Was not provided

Comment/question: Citations are correct

CanonicalFinalBoy (talk) 14:59, 11 May 2026 (UTC)

CanonicalFinalBoy, you added

<ref>{{Cite web |last=admin |first=Author |date=2025-06-23 |title=The Cash Pay Revolution Continues |url=http://blog.riskmanagers.us/the-cash-pay-revolution-continues/ |access-date=2026-05-11 |website=Risk Managers |language=en-US}}</ref>

which has incorrect |first= and |last= fields. — Qwerfjkltalk 20:20, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

This was fixed with the proper citation. CanonicalFinalBoy (talk) 20:50, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

CanonicalFinalBoy, good, thank you. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:05, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

CFDlister.js

The "List discussion" dialog box on CFDlister.js suddenly stopped working while processing the discussions on May 5. Closing and reopening the browser and clearing my cache did not fix this. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:28, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

LaundryPizza03, stopped working how? The dialog doesn't show at all? And this only happened today? — Qwerfjkltalk 08:52, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Correct. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:37, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

LaundryPizza03, did the fix above (#CFDlister & 2017 wikitext editor) help? — Qwerfjkltalk 08:55, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

Tes. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:58, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

Hello Qwerfjkl,

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.

May backlog drive

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.

PageTriage

An attempt was made to get the New Pages Feed to sort by date marked as reviewed instead of date created. However we had to revert it due to bugs. We may try again in the future. You can subscribe to the Phabricator ticket if you're interested in following along.

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Qwerfjkl (bot) – PaisleyPup20

Page: Community-supported_agriculture

Diff: Special:Diff/1354039009

Comment/question: Hello, I'm confused about where my exact error was made in this edit. Please clarify the exact changes that need to be made, as I don't see any current issues with the dates.

Thank you!

PaisleyPup20 (talk) 03:23, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

PaisleyPup20, you added

<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Goland |first=Carol |date=2002-03 |title=Community Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment |url=https://doi.org/10.1525/cag.2002.24.1.14 |journal=Culture &amp; Agriculture |volume=24 |issue=1 |pages=14–25 |doi=10.1525/cag.2002.24.1.14 |issn=1048-4876}}</ref>

The date is missing the day; it should be |date=2002-03-01. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:54, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – JiunnJiTan

Page: Susan_Durant

Diff: Special:Diff/1342403547

Comment/question: false positive?

JiunnJiTan (talk) 21:16, 15 May 2026 (UTC)

JiunnJiTan, you added

<ref>{{Cite web |last=Limited |first=Alamy |title=The Faithful Shepherdess.1863. Artist: Susan D Durant Stock Photo - Alamy |url=https://www.alamy.com/the-faithful-shepherdess1863-artist-susan-d-durant-image60087783.html |access-date=2026-03-08 |website=www.alamy.com |language=en}}</ref>

which has invalid |last= and |first= fields. These fields are for the name of the human author. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:55, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – GamesMania

Page: Sydney_Trains

Diff: Special:Diff/1354430338

Comment/question: false positive

GamesMania (talk) 11:32, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

GamesMania, You missed out |title= when you added

<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.opal.com.au/en/opal-fares/airport_station_access_fee/ |access-date=2026-05-16 |website=www.opal.com.au}}</ref>

— Qwerfjkltalk 11:56, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Don_Gavi_dos_Reis_II

Page: History_of_the_Jews_in_Barbados

Diff: Special:Diff/1354510981

Comment/question: My sources are correct and the documentation is sound.

Don Gavi dos Reis II (talk) 23:26, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Don Gavi dos Reis II, you added

{{Cite book |last=Lichtenstein |first=Rachel |url=https://www.barrow-lousada.org/PDFdocs/Speightstown%20[4317].pdf |title=The Lost Synagogue of Speightstown:
New Findings in the Light of
Recent Investigations |publisher=Barbados Museum & Historical Society |year=2018 |isbn=0005-5891 |pages=198-202}}

There should not be newlines in the title, and the isbn is also invalid. — Qwerfjkltalk 11:59, 17 May 2026 (UTC)