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Welcome to the 2025 WikiCup!
[edit]Happy New Year and Happy New WikiCup! The 2025 competition has just begun and all article creators, expanders, improvers and reviewers are welcome to take part. Even if you are a novice editor, we hope the WikiCup will give you a chance to improve your editing skills as you go. If you have already signed up, your submissions page can be found here. If you have not yet signed up, you can add your name here and the judges will set up your submissions page ready for you to take part. Any questions on the scoring, rules or anything else should be directed to one of the judges, or posted to the WikiCup talk page.
For the 2025 WikiCup, we've implemented several changes to the scoring system. The highest-ranking contestants will now receive tournament points at the end of each round, and final rankings are decided by the number of tournament points each contestant has. If you're busy and can't sign up in January, don't worry: Signups are now open throughout the year. To make things fairer for latecomers, the lowest-scoring contestants will no longer be eliminated at the end of each round.
The first round will end on 26 February. The judges for the WikiCup this year are: Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs · email), Epicgenius (talk · contribs · email), Frostly (talk · contribs · email), Guerillero (talk · contribs · email) and Lee Vilenski (talk · contribs · email). Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:14, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – January 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (December 2024).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Guideline and policy news
- Following an RFC, Wikipedia:Notability (species) was adopted as a subject-specific notability guideline.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether admins should be advised to warn users rather than issue no-warning blocks to those who have posted promotional content outside of article space.
Technical news
- The Nuke feature also now provides links to the userpage of the user whose pages were deleted, and to the pages which were not selected for deletion, after page deletions are queued. This enables easier follow-up admin-actions.
Arbitration
- Following the 2024 Arbitration Committee elections, the following editors have been elected to the Arbitration Committee: CaptainEek, Daniel, Elli, KrakatoaKatie, Liz, Primefac, ScottishFinnishRadish, Theleekycauldron, Worm That Turned.
Miscellaneous
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in January 2025 to reduce the number of unreviewed articles and redirects in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
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The New Page Reviewer's Bronze Award | |
| This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for conducting 1,170 article reviews in 2024. Thank you so much for all your excellent work. Keep it up! Hey man im josh (talk) 18:06, 8 January 2025 (UTC) |
Question from KyaniteAl2SiO5 on LENA Foundation (21:17, 11 January 2025)
[edit]Hi Tails! I'm learning how to edit Wikipedia, and am completing some copyediting tasks. The title of the page I'm working on is currently "LENA Foundation", but the third paragraph in the History section indicates that the word "Foundation" is no longer part of the organization's name. Would it be appropriate for me to change the title of the page, and if so, to what? Maybe "Language Environment Analysis"? --KyaniteAl2SiO5 (talk) 21:17, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @KyaniteAl2SiO5! In this case, I believe there's somewhere in Wikipedia's Manual of Style that would have to deal with the title of the page – I don't think "Language Environment Analysis" would be a title that could be used here. I'm not familiar with pages similar to that, though, so it wouldn't hurt to ask others who've contributed significantly to that article or other similar articles for their opinion of the page's title name. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 04:19, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-03
[edit]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 Single User Login system is being updated over the next few months. This is the system which allows users to fill out the login form on one Wikimedia site and get logged in on all others at the same time. It needs to be updated because of the ways that browsers are increasingly restricting cross-domain cookies. To accommodate these restrictions, login and account creation pages will move to a central domain, but it will still appear to the user as if they are on the originating wiki. The updated code will be enabled this week for users on test wikis. This change is planned to roll out to all users during February and March. See the SUL3 project page for more details and a timeline.
Updates for editors
- On wikis with PageAssessments installed, you can now filter search results to pages in a given WikiProject by using the
inproject:keyword. (These wikis: Arabic Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, English Wikivoyage, French Wikipedia, Hungarian Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia) [1] - One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Tigre (
w:tig:) [2] 
View all 35 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a bug with updating a user's edit-count after making a rollback edit, which is now fixed. [3]
Updates for technical contributors
Wikimedia REST API users, such as bot operators and tool maintainers, may be affected by ongoing upgrades. Starting the week of January 13, we will begin rerouting some page content endpoints from RESTbase to the newer MediaWiki REST API endpoints for all wiki projects. This change was previously available on testwiki and should not affect existing functionality, but active users of the impacted endpoints may raise issues directly to the MediaWiki Interfaces Team in Phabricator if they arise.- Toolforge tool maintainers can now share their feedback on Toolforge UI, an initiative to provide a web platform that allows creating and managing Toolforge tools through a graphic interface, in addition to existing command-line workflows. This project aims to streamline active maintainers’ tasks, as well as make registration and deployment processes more accessible for new tool creators. The initiative is still at a very early stage, and the Cloud Services team is in the process of collecting feedback from the Toolforge community to help shape the solution to their needs. Read more and share your thoughts about Toolforge UI.
- For tool and library developers who use the OAuth system: The identity endpoint used for OAuth 1 and OAuth 2 returned a JSON object with an integer in its
subfield, which was incorrect (the field must always be a string). This has been fixed; the fix will be deployed to Wikimedia wikis on the week of January 13. [4] - Many wikis currently use Cite CSS to render custom footnote markers in Parsoid output. Starting January 20 these rules will be disabled, but the developers ask you to not clean up your MediaWiki:Common.css until February 20 to avoid issues during the migration. Your wikis might experience some small changes to footnote markers in Visual Editor and when using experimental Parsoid read mode, but if there are changes these are expected to bring the rendering in line with the legacy parser output. [5]
Meetings and events
- The next meeting in the series of Wikimedia Foundation Community Conversations with the Wikimedia Commons community will take place on January 15 at 8:00 UTC and at 16:00 UTC. The topic of this call is defining the priorities in tool investment for Commons. Contributors from all wikis, especially users who are maintaining tools for Commons, are welcome to attend.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
January music
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Happy new year 2025! Today, pictured on the Main page, Tosca, in memory of her first appearance on stage OTD in 1900, and of principal author Brian Boulton. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:33, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Today I had a composer (trumpeter, conductor) on the main page who worked closely with another who just became GA, - small world! To celebrate: mostly flowers pics from vacation ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:29, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
The Signpost: 15 January 2025
[edit]- From the editors: Looking back, looking forward
- Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2024
- In the media: Will you be targeted?
- Technology report: New Calculator template brings interactivity at last
- Opinion: Reflections one score hence
- Serendipity: What we've left behind, and where we want to go next
- Arbitration report: Analyzing commonalities of some contentious topics
- Humour: How to make friends on Wikipedia
Courtesy notice - WP:ANI - User:CoastRedwood
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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you. Jeraxmoira🐉 (talk) 13:35, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Speed Me Up
[edit]Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Speed Me Up you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jonathan Deamer -- Jonathan Deamer (talk) 16:26, 17 January 2025 (UTC)
A barnstar!
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The Teamwork Barnstar | |
| Hey Tails! For the last many hours, you've been a massive help in patrolling the back end of the NPP queue! When we started editing like, 7 hours ago at this point, I don't think either of us realized how much of a mammoth it might be. Sure, there were only 65 total unreviewed articles from 2023 and earlier (which was a number that continued to grow), but these were some of the toughest reviews I've ever had to make as they've sat at the end for so long, well over a year old for many of them. Your help over Discord to bounce ideas back and forth, figuring out solutions, saving pages from dire straits and verifying notability in cases where it seemed all hope was lost, this was some powerful and effective editing, and your teamwork was beyond appreciated to me. By the time I'm leaving this message now, there's only four remaining pages left from pre-2024! And after this hurdle, we as an NPP team are able to take a big leap forward with more modern articles, which is a lifesaver for the backlog drive and anyone carrying the rear. So to your efforts, thank you immensely for your help these last several hours in figuring things out together! Utopes (talk / cont) 01:26, 19 January 2025 (UTC) |
- Hi again @Utopes! I didn't even know we'd accomplish this much in that hours-long stretch and never would've happened should I not have taken up your request to work through the backlog! Thanks so much for your input and help through all this as well. I've definitely learned a few things along the way from you and problematic pages, and I love how we coordinated with each other very well. Like I said, we make a fantastic duo! If you ever want to start another one of these, feel free to contact me and I'll do it again! (well, I've got a lot of business off-Wiki sometimes but I'll try to at least get something done.) :) ~ Tails Wx 16:28, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Sigmaboy9191 on Blackjack (04:30, 19 January 2025)
[edit]hey bruh what the sigmer is visual editor --Sigmaboy9191 (talk) 04:30, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @Sigmaboy9191! Visual editor is an editing tool which can make editing, y'know, more simple than just editing in source code. More information can be found over on WP:Visual editor. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 22:29, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-04
[edit]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
- Administrators can mass-delete multiple pages created by a user or IP address using Extension:Nuke. It previously only allowed deletion of pages created in the last 30 days. It can now delete pages from the last 90 days, provided it is targeting a specific user or IP address. [6]
- On wikis that use the Patrolled edits feature, when the rollback feature is used to revert an unpatrolled page revision, that revision will now be marked as "manually patrolled" instead of "autopatrolled", which is more accurate. Some editors that use filters on Recent Changes may need to update their filter settings. [7]
- View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Visual Editor's "Insert link" feature did not always suggest existing pages properly when an editor started typing, which has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is being progressively removed from the wikis. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. The last group of wikis (Catalan Wikiquote, Wikimedia Finland, Goan Konkani Wikipedia, Kabyle Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikibooks, Wikimedia Sweden) will soon be contacted. If you have questions about this process, please ping Trizek (WMF) at your wiki. [8]
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: updates about services from the Data Platform Engineering teams, information about Codex from the Design System team, and more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 01:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
DYK for Speed Me Up
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On 23 January 2025, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Speed Me Up, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the music video of "Speed Me Up" was described as "incredibly dumb" and a "cornucopia of hilarious imagery"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Speed Me Up. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Speed Me Up), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
—Kusma (talk) 00:03, 23 January 2025 (UTC)
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Your GA nomination of Speed Me Up
[edit]The article Speed Me Up you nominated as a good article has passed 
; see Talk:Speed Me Up for comments about the article, and Talk:Speed Me Up/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Jonathan Deamer -- Jonathan Deamer (talk) 16:42, 24 January 2025 (UTC)
Question from Verilycanfly (13:25, 25 January 2025)
[edit]how do I edit wikipedia articles? --Verilycanfly (talk) 13:25, 25 January 2025 (UTC)
Women in Red February 2025
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Tech News: 2025-05
[edit]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
- Patrollers and admins - what information or context about edits or users could help you to make patroller or admin decisions more quickly or easily? The Wikimedia Foundation wants to hear from you to help guide its upcoming annual plan. Please consider sharing your thoughts on this and 13 other questions to shape the technical direction for next year.
Updates for editors
- iOS Wikipedia App users worldwide can now access a personalized Year in Review feature, which provides insights based on their reading and editing history on Wikipedia. This project is part of a broader effort to help welcome new readers as they discover and interact with encyclopedic content.
Edit patrollers now have a new feature available that can highlight potentially problematic new pages. When a page is created with the same title as a page which was previously deleted, a tag ('Recreated') will now be added, which users can filter for in Special:RecentChanges and Special:NewPages. [9]- Later this week, there will be a new warning for editors if they attempt to create a redirect that links to another redirect (a double redirect). The feature will recommend that they link directly to the second redirect's target page. Thanks to the user SomeRandomDeveloper for this improvement. [10]
- Wikimedia wikis allow WebAuthn-based second factor checks (such as hardware tokens) during login, but the feature is fragile and has very few users. The MediaWiki Platform team is temporarily disabling adding new WebAuthn keys, to avoid interfering with the rollout of SUL3 (single user login version 3). Existing keys are unaffected. [11]
- View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- For developers that use the MediaWiki History dumps: The Data Platform Engineering team has added a couple of new fields to these dumps, to support the Temporary Accounts initiative. If you maintain software that reads those dumps, please review your code and the updated documentation, since the order of the fields in the row will change. There will also be one field rename: in the
mediawiki_user_historydump, theanonymousfield will be renamed tois_anonymous. The changes will take effect with the next release of the dumps in February. [12]
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Question from Scottsdesk (08:54, 30 January 2025)
[edit]Hello is there a way to contact the creator of Wikipedia? --Scottsdesk (talk) 08:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)
Feedback request: Maths, science, and technology request for comment
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Tech News: 2025-06
[edit]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. [13]
- 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.[14] You can now also insert
<code>tags using a new toolbar button.[15] 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.jsonto include entries forpreprint,standard, anddataset; 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, andversionNumber. [16]
- (1) Administrators should update the local versions of the page
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Central Kanuri (
w:knc:) [17] - 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. [18]
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:07, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Stars in the Sky
[edit]The article Stars in the Sky you nominated as a good article has failed 
; see Talk:Stars in the Sky for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Shoot for the Stars -- Shoot for the Stars (talk) 06:24, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
Good article reassessment for Speed Me Up
[edit]Speed Me Up has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Shoot for the Stars (talk) 06:52, 4 February 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – February 2025
[edit]News and updates for administrators from the past month (January 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
Oversighter changes
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.
January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award
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The Order of the Superior Scribe of Wikipedia | |
| This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for accumulating at least 500 points during the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:26, 6 February 2025 (UTC) |
January 2025 NPP backlog drive – Streak award
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Rack and pinion Award | |
| This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for accumulating at least 15 points during each week of the January 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 16,000+ articles and 14,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 19,791.2 points) during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:47, 6 February 2025 (UTC) |
The Signpost: 7 February 2025
[edit]- Recent research: GPT-4 writes better edit summaries than human Wikipedians
- News and notes: Let's talk!
- Opinion: Fathoms Below, but over the moon
- Community view: 24th Wikipedia Day in New York City
- Arbitration report: Palestine-Israel articles 5 has closed
- Traffic report: A wild drive
Feedback request: Society, sports, and culture request for comment
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Question from GuiltySaviour (00:33, 8 February 2025)
[edit]Hi there, I made this account to update the "Battles in Time" page which was a Dr Who partworks. I have also tried to add information about the site using my website. Due to it being pretty much the only backed-up source online (as I scanned everything on), there is not much available online. Every time I attempt to make an edit it gets reverted. There are currently only four references on there, 1 of which is credible, and the rest of the article is entirely unreferenced. Any help would be amazing; however, if I am unable due to owning the website, I'll take it on the chin and delete the account. All the best, James --GuiltySaviour (talk) 00:33, 8 February 2025 (UTC)