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This week's article for improvement (week 6, 2025)

Ice cream social held in a U.S. community college Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Ice cream social Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Gastropub • Medical prescription Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 3 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2025-06

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 who use the "Special characters" editing-toolbar menu can now see the 32 special characters you have used most recently, across editing sessions on that wiki. This change should help make it easier to find the characters you use most often. The feature is in both the 2010 wikitext editor and VisualEditor. [1]
• Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor can now create sublists with correct indentation by selecting the line(s) you want to indent and then clicking the toolbar buttons.[2] You can now also insert <code> tags using a new toolbar button.[3] Thanks to user stjn for these improvements.
• Help is needed to ensure the citation generator works properly on each wiki.
  • (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json to include entries for preprint, standard, and dataset; Here are example diffs to replicate for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'.
  • (2.1) If the citoid map in the citation template used for these types of references is missing, one will need to be added. (2.2) If the citoid map does exist, the TemplateData will need to be updated to include new field names. Here are example updates for 'preprint' and for 'standard' and 'dataset'. The new fields that may need to be supported are archiveID, identifier, repository, organization, repositoryLocation, committee, and versionNumber. [4]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (w:knc:) [5]
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the OCR (optical character recognition) tool used for Wikisource now supports a new language, Church Slavonic. [6]

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Administrators' newsletter – February 2025

News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).

Administrator changes

• Arcticocean
• Wugapodes

Euryalus

CheckUser changes

• Firefly
• L235

Oversighter changes

• Firefly
• Guerillero
• L235
• Moneytrees

Technical news

• Administrators can now nuke pages created by a user or IP address from the last 90 days, up from the initial 30 days. T380846
• A 'Recreated' tag will now be added to pages that were created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted and it can be used as a filter in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. T56145

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Palestine-Israel articles 5 has been closed.

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This week's article for improvement (week 7, 2025)

Scandinavian Peninsula Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Peninsula Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Ice cream social • Gastropub Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 10 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2025-07

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 Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.

Updates for editors

• The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [7]
• As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
• Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [8]
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [9]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [10]
• The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [11]
• As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [12]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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This week's article for improvement (week 8, 2025)

Cheesecake recipe from a family cookbook Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Family cookbooks Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Peninsula • Ice cream social Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 17 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

Tech News: 2025-08

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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• Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Special:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

Highlighted talk pages improvements

• Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [13]
• You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [14]
• When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
• The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [15]
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [16]
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [17]

Updates for technical contributors

• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [18][19]
• Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [20]

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This week's article for improvement (week 9, 2025)

Katz's Delicatessen, a popular Jewish deli on the Lower East Side in New York City Hello, K6ka. The article for improvement of the week is: Jewish deli Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Family cookbooks • Peninsula Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI •

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• Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using Special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [21]
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• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:) [25]
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. [26]

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• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.

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Would you mind...

The IP you just blocked is, I think, an open proxy. Would you mind extending the block a bit? I think admins have been going with 3-6 months for this group of vandals, who have been hounding us lately. Joyous! Noise! 17:21, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

@Joyous!: Of course :) —k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 17:22, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

african plate edit

yes that was me and it was an accident i was only trying to get to the page i misclicked thank you for restoring the page 38.108.34.122 (talk) 17:27, 26 February 2025 (UTC)

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Move This Page

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Citizen_Party_(Bangladesh) move this page to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Citizen_Party Dasdwsds (talk) 16:31, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

Allen Onyema Edit

Hello K6ka,

The edit replaced the Indictment Section with Humanitarian and Recognition Updates which is a more balanced and updated biography section highlighting the subject’s humanitarian efforts and recognitions. The previous section is outdated and lacks neutrality, while the subject's recent contributions to humanitarian causes and aviation have been widely reported by reliable sources. Apologies the edit summary didn't quite capture a lot other than the replacement section title. Would amend that. 102.89.45.95 (talk) 17:24, 27 February 2025 (UTC)

User:150.107.175.54

Thank you for blocking the LTA IP vandal at User:85.115.108.110. They have returned at the IP noted above, just thought I'd let you know. JeffSpaceman (talk) 14:05, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

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Hung Cao

Hello,

I am currently updating the Hung Cao page with up to date information and I am only moving information to a new section that is more appropriate (not removing). I also have a list of new citations I will be adding. If you wouldn't mind, please do not delete anything else as I am taking time today to update this. Thank you. JacobGKay (talk) 17:33, 28 February 2025 (UTC)

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