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

Administrator changes

• Brendanconway
• Calmer Waters
• Hut 8.5
• Joe Roe
• VersedFenrir

CheckUser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the web archival service archive.today has been deprecated; links to the site should be removed.
• A request for comment is open to discuss retiring CSD criterion R3 in favour of handling such redirects through RfD.

Arbitration

• Following a motion, remedy 9.1 of the Conduct in deletion-related editing case has been amended to limit TenPoundHammer to one XfD nomination or PROD per 24-hour period.
• Following a motion, the Iskandar323 further POV pushing motion has been rescinded.
• The Arbitration Committee has passed a housekeeping motion rescinding a number of outdated remedies and enforcement provisions across multiple legacy cases. In most instances, existing sanctions remain in force and continue to be appealable through the usual processes, while some case-specific remedies were amended or clarified.

Miscellaneous

• Following the 2026 Steward Elections, the following editors have been appointed as stewards: A09, AmandaNP, Barras, Count Count, M7, SHB2000, Teles and VIGNERON.
• An Unreferenced articles backlog drive is taking place in March 2026 to reduce the backlog of articles tagged with {{Unreferenced}}. You can help reduce the backlog by adding citations to these articles. Sign up to participate!

Qué dicha por fin Mira Necesito hacer un artículo o una o una posible traducción al código voynich --Yeancarlos Ruiz Moya (talk) 21:44, 1 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Yeancarlos Ruiz Moya. I ran your message through a translation app, and maybe you're inquiring about the Voynich manuscript, but I could be wrong. While people whose first language is not English are very welcome to edit English Wikipedia, I wondered if you might be looking to edit Spanish Wikipedia? In the meantime, I left a message on your talkpage with tutorial links and basic editing tips. --Rosiestep (talk) 01:12, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello! I was just wondering about how to properly add references/citations to websites. So far, the extent of my editing is just unorphaning articles, so I'd like to make bigger contributions to the website. --Gustavs586 (talk) 12:18, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Gustavs586 and welcome to Wikipedia. I'm happy to see that you've been de-orphaniing articles; that's a very useful action. Regarding how to add a reference, start here. When you're through with that, check out the many citation templates (cite web, cite news, cite book, cite journal, etc.) available here. By way of example, I created this article yesterday and it uses at least three different citation templates. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:06, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

How do I submit a draft? --Emeraldsportwriter (talk) 12:32, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Emeraldsportwriter and welcome to Wikipedia. To submit a draft, start here; scroll towards the bottom; find the blue button that says Create your draft with the Article Wizard!; click it; and follow its instructions to submit a draft. In the meantime, I left a message on your talkpage with tutorial links and basic editing tips. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:21, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Emeraldsportwriter, I see that you drafted an article regarding Alessandro Heaney. in your userpage; that's not the right place for it. Please move it here: User:Emeraldsportwriter/Alessandro Heaney. More info about "draft" space here; and how to move it to draft space here. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:32, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

In the meantime, Minorax moved your draft from your userpage to Draft:Alessandro Heaney, where you can continue to work on it. When you are ready to submit it, click the blue button: Submit the draft for review!. --Rosiestep (talk) 14:43, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on Feb 13. Please help translate.

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Highlights
Let's Talk continues

• Birthday mode: This limited-time campaign feature celebrates 25 years of Wikipedia with a birthday mascot, Baby Globe. When turned on, Baby Globe is shown on ~2,500 articles, waiting to be discovered by readers. The feature is available for all Wikipedias to customise through Community Configuration until 6 April 2026. So far 17 Wikipedias have joined in the fun.
• Wikipedia's 25th birthday party celebrated on Commons: Content from the January 15th global birthday party selected as Media of the day.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Etherpad cleanup: For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.
• Activity tab: Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.
• Reference Check: The feature Reference Check has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
• Semantic search: The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.
• Navigation experience: The Foundation will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.

• Site notices: Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.
• Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 08 and 09 include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
• Wikifunctions: Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• Gender gap: The Celebrate Women 2026 is coming! The Wikimedia Foundation will host a kick-off celebration that will work as a welcome session for both organizers and participants on March 5 at 13:00 UTC.
• Language: New edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter highlights new feature developments and improvements in various language-related technical projects.
• Let’s Connect Learning Clinic: Watch the recordings of past learning clinics about Wikipedia’s 25th Birthday Tool and Strengthening Local-Language Admin Communities.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: You can watch the recording of this month research showcase whose theme is about "AI and Communities".
• Hubs: Lessons from hub pilots.
• Banners & logo policies: Wikimedia Foundation has adopted new and updated policies regarding the use of banners, logo changes, and blackouts on the projects, particularly for advocacy purposes.
• Digital Safety: The next edition of Digital Safety Office Hours will be on Mar 27 at 9:00 UTC and 19:00 UTC. The session will explore practical threat modelling: a structured way to think about risks, assess your exposure, and make informed choices.

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

• Wikimedia Enterprise: Ecosia Enriches Search Results and AI Answers with Wikimedia Enterprise.
• Human centered AI: Members of the Wikimedia Enterprise team presented on "Wikipedia in the Age of AI and Bots" at the seminar of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
• Inclusive AI: Advancing Open, Inclusive AI with Free and Open Knowledge at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.

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where is the article about vivek j ramakrishnan --Subirnp (talk) 22:55, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Read your own talk page. It was deleted because it was AI-generated. If you add paste AI-generated text into Wikipedia, you may be blocked from editing. Go and check your talk page. --Gurkubondinn (talk) 22:59, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

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Aribert Reimann's 90th birthday, with a hook mentioning his 80ths, the opera played by Oper Frankfurt after he died, see video, and I was there. - Ruta de los Volcanes is among the latest places. - I see you are away, so am I, on an island full of cats, - on one pic I stopped counting at 10. - I like one of two cats, but patience please, the Ruta was on 3 Feb, not 3 Mar, as those two. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:28, 4 March 2026 (UTC)

I hope you are staying safe during your travels. (P.S. Sounds like a lot of cats!) Will look at your photos, etc. when I return home from AWP. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:08, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for thinking of safety, - a conference was cancelled, flights were cancelled, UK territory travelled the first day was then closed ... - now at the western end, - we'll see and hope. Great hike today, and three cats waiting for leftover super-fresh fish, but no good pic. - Believe it or not: I finally managed to upload pics of 5 Feb. I called the main pic File:Los Lomadas, three cats above Los Sauces.jpg. If you look at the last image of that day, the place where the cats were could be one of the small houses on the right, looking down to Los Sauces and further down to the sea. I wasn't too inventive with the other pic names: File:Los Lomadas, two of three cats.jpg, File:Los Lomadas, one of three cats.jpg, File:Los Lomadas, other one of three cats.jpg. The looks of the latter two told me they really had enough of me taking pics ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:43, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Back home, and I finally uploaded a few pics from the first evening there, with a black cat, and a look at Frankfurt from high above (flight from Cologne). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:18, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Uploaded another cat. - Of the four topics I helped to bring to the main page, I'm most proud of a woman's work, so made it my story. As it happens, last year's story OTD was about the woman. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:37, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Four topics on today's main page; I congratulate you.

I hope you enjoy the woman's work! DYK rejected the topic as not interesting, - it's not without triumph OTD, I must say. The cat is also on the previous pic, I believe. That little white something around the chapel may not even be a wall, but sometimes I miss words. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:23, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey there! I am here to ask a question again. How do you or other wikipedians find sources? I am just curious --Diminished Triad (talk) 23:07, 5 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Diminished Triad. Start here. Beyond that, it depends on the type of article, but commonly, I use Google. Also, as I'm a Visiting Scholar at Northeastern University, I have access to its library holdings, so I run searches there. Also, Internet Archive and Newspapers.com. As for "tips & tricks", commonly, I look at 10-20 articles within the same subcategory on Wikipedia as the article that I want to create and I check out the sources of those 10-20 articles, as they'll give me info on where to find sources for the article I want to write, which will be the 11th article within the same subcategory. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:19, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

I would like to edit the simple english wiki as well. I got into trouble under another account (same email) two months ago when I tried to do this, so understand if it may take a while (I got confused and paranoid, whoops) But generally, how can I get recommendations for the simple english wiki? do I need to set up another username? --Igtal2dmafy (talk) 00:08, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Igtal2dmafy and welcome to Wikipedia. Each person has one account (one username), which is used on all wikis (e.g., to edit English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Simple Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, etc.); more info about that here. If someone tries to skirt around that by establishing multiple, undisclosed accounts, it's referred to as sockpuppetry and can lead to a block. Some people do have multiple disclosed accounts, e.g., while I served on the Wikimedia Board of Trustees, I had a second account (m:User:RStephenson (WMF)) for edits I made in that capacity. P.S. I don't know what this refers to, "I got into trouble under another account", but we're creating an encyclopedia here, so best not to edit when you feel "confused and paranoid". --Rosiestep (talk) 10:31, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't need to get into the "confused and paranoid" details but safe to say we're past that now. Thank you for your quick reply! Igtal2dmafy (talk) 19:17, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for uploading File:Effie Mona Mack (Nevada Women’s History Project).png. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of non-free use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in section F5 of the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. tjd (he) ^T/C 21:58, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Thejiujiangdragon, regarding Effie Mona Mack: I see your edit summary, "upload lower resolution file". Did you find this version somewhere else? --Rosiestep (talk) 12:58, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

I manually resized the original image to just under 100,000 pixels (0.1 MP), the maximum resolution recommended by the non-free content criteria, specifically 3b and the section "Image resolution." I tried to use this user script to resize the image to 0.1 MP, but I couldn't reupload the file because when I tried to do so, due to the curly mark which this page does not allow. tjd (he) ^T/C 19:32, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for doing that, tjd. I'm clueless how to do it myself. I uploaded a bunch of others in the last 24 hours, which may (or may not) need the same alteration, if you're up for it.

File:Lee Tai-young.png

File:Mary Hill Fulstone.png

File:Margaret Bryan Davis.png

File:Marguerite H. Gosse Stoddard Clark.png

File:Hazel Bell Wines.png

File:Helen Rulison Shipley.png

File:Lucile Saunders McDonald (1922).png

File:Susan Morgan (The Telegraph).png

File:Barbara T. Bowman (Erikson Institute).png

No worries if you're busy with other things. --Rosiestep (talk) 21:35, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello, I just created a draft page for a video game in my sandbox, I want to make this my first article, and I was wondering if I could get someone more experienced to look at it and give me feedback? --StickyMan1982 (talk) 23:29, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi StickyMan1982. You've done a nice job creating Jumanji: Wild Adventures here. I think it is quite ready for review and feedback. To do so, follow these instructions: Wikipedia:Articles for creation#Submitting for review. As I don't participate in the WP:AfC process, nor have any experience reviewing video games, it won't be me who does the review, but there are lots of volunteers who work in that area, so just watch for their comment(s). Good luck! --Rosiestep (talk) 13:06, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello Rosie, I had a doubt lingering in my mind. If i am a student at a particular university, does that mean that i cannot edit the respective universitites WIki pages or the WIki pages of any of its Professors or its Vice-Chancellor/Dean, or the group of Universities where it belongs because of Conflict of Interest (COI)? --LeviathanShinobi (talk) 05:49, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi LeviathanShinobi and welcome to Wikipedia. Great question. The answer is: it is not a COI and it is okay for you to edit the university's wiki page, also the pages of its professors, vice-chancellor, and dean, and the group of universities to which it belongs. Go for it! If you wish to create a new article about a professor, vice-chancellor, or dean, you'll want to familiarize yourself with the academics notability guidelines. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:15, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey Rosie, Many thanks for helping! LeviathanShinobi (talk) 14:44, 11 March 2026 (UTC)

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Hey! I wanted to ask some questions about what would be acceptable in editing pages that have wording that makes it harder for the reader to understand, especially when it comes to more niche or complex topics.

As an example I find this pages writing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llanquihue_glaciation) to be more than abysmal in writing. Here is an excerpt from a really difficult to understand part that I am not used to seeing on Wikipedia, and part of the reason I created this account.

"Maximum glaciers advances were not synchronous across the whole latitudinal gradient as they were triggered by north and southward shifts in the moisture-bringing Westerlies and its storm tracks."

Would simplifying these statements be productive or against wiki culture? How would you go about making simplifying edits? I will stick to smaller edits and don't want to rewrite this niche page but want guidance in how I can make these pages easier to read without ruining others works. Thanks! CroshBash --Croshbash (talk) 01:16, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Croshbash and welcome to Wikipedia. Great question!

1. Just like every editor has a unique talkpage (this one is mine), every article does, too, so addressing the issue on the talkpage, e.g., here, is the best option for heavily-edited or contentious articles/subjects. Ditto for "Good articles" and "Featured articles" as they have gone through review processes.
2. Another option is to check the editing history, and then connect with the editor who created the article and/or the main editor (if that's someone else). In this case, User:Sietecolores and User:Mamayuco are both blocked indef, so that's a dead end.

Ergo, IMO, go for it! Improving the wording of Llanquihue glaciation (and other articles) would be welcome. Twenty-five editors have edited it already; you would be #26. When you do edit it, do so incrementally, e.g., 1 sentence or 1 paragraph at a time. This way, if someone wants to contest an edit of yours, they would point out which edit (e.g., like this), and it wouldn't be an entire rewrite, it would be 1 sentence, or 1 paragraph. If you introduce new material, do so in a separate edit and remember to add an inline citation for a new fact.

P.S. In my early editing days, I spent countless hours adding commas to articles that lacked them. You learn a lot about editing (you start noticing other things) by making small edits (1 comma, 1 sentence, etc.) so be bold, be brave, and go for it. --Rosiestep (talk) 13:12, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Dear Rosie,

I would like to edit the Joint undertakings of the EU on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agencies_of_the_European_Union. I noticed that it is very outdated (eg: ECSEL was known as KDT for a few years, and now as CHIPS). For the same reason (name change of the JUs), I would also like to edit the page https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clean_Sky. This one would even need a new title for the page. In brief, I am wondering how I should approach such large edits. Should I open a talk on the pages I am planning on editing to get the opinion of other contributors? Can titles even be edited?

Best regards, --Pierlo19 (talk) 11:31, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Pierlo19 and welcome to Wikipedia. Great question!

Regarding editing articles:

1. Just like every editor has a unique talkpage (this one is mine), every article does, too, so addressing the issue on the talkpage, e.g., here Talk:Agencies of the European Union and here Talk:Clean Sky, is the best option for heavily-edited or contentious articles/subjects. Ditto for "Good articles" and "Featured articles" as they have gone through review processes.
2. When leaving comments/recommendations on the article's talkpage, include pinging the article creator and/or main editor (if that's someone else) as they may not have watchlisted the article. To figure out who the article creator and main editors are, check the page history, e.g., like this one.
3. If your edit is relatively minor (fix a typo, add a comma, add a category, etc.), just go for it.
4. If you edit adds new information, do it incrementaly, and add an inline citation for every new fact.

Regarding title changes. Yes, titles can be edited by moving the page from one title to another. (Mechanically, it's quite simple.) First, though, start a discussion on the talkpage and wait for at least 7 days. If there's consensus to make the change and you have only a relatively small number of edits (e.g., less than 500) over a relatively short period of time (e.g., less than 6 months as a Wikipedian), and no one who participated on the talkpage wants to do it, ping me again and I'll be happy to help. (I'm an admin with >322K edits.) --Rosiestep (talk) 13:50, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Hey how do I make a wikipage for someone? I want to make one for Ricky from Zb1 since he doesn't have one. --Haobinmpregisreal (talk) 08:49, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Haobinmpregisreal and welcome to Wikipedia. (a) Make sure that the subject meets Wikipedia's notability guidelines. (b) Collect your reliable sources in a bunch of open tabs, and then read up about how to cite the sources. (c) Use existing similar articles as your guide for layout, e.g., Kim Ji-woong, Zhang Hao (singer), and Sung Han-bin. Then (d) read this and (e) click the blue button that says Click here to start a new article.

In the meantime, I left a message on your talkpage with information for new editors, which should help you get started. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:40, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

من اين انت --Samir djeddi (talk) 10:47, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello Samir djeddi and apologies, I don't speak Arabic! While people whose first language is not English are very welcome to edit English Wikipedia, I wondered if you might be looking to edit Arabic Wikipedia? In the meantime, I left a message on your talkpage with information for new editors, which should help you get started. --Rosiestep (talk) 10:52, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

How can i get this draft approved?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:MetaDAO SrMessi (talk) 00:00, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi SrMessi and welcome to Wikipedia. To get the draft of MetaDAO approved, you and/or other editors must deal successfully with the issues identified by the reviewers: (a) significant coverage of the topic in (b) independent, (c) reliable sources. To understand this better, review similar articles that exist in the Category:Decentralized autonomous organizations.

While the reviewers didn't mention it, I will: be mindful of formatting errors. I fixed them with this edit.

If you have an affiliation with the subject you're writing about, read up about and disclose your conflict of interest.

To help you along, I left a message on your talkpage with tutorial links and basic editing tips. --Rosiestep (talk) 16:49, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Than you very much Rosiestep! This is so helpful. Already researching on all the links you provided me and going to make the edit with the draf you edited and disclosing that I'm currently working with the company. SrMessi (talk) 22:04, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

SrMessi, if you're working on the article on your own time because you feel like it, then, just the conflict of interest guideline applies. If, however, you're working on the article because your company wants you to do so, e.g., during working hours, then the paid-contribution disclosure also applies, so familiarize yourself with that one, too, if applicable. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:27, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Thanks Rosiestep. I currently work with MetaDAO and therefore have a financial and professional conflict of interest with this article. I am editing in accordance with WP:COI and WP:PAID. All edits are made on my own time and follow Wikipedia's neutral-point-of-view policy. --SrMessi (talk) 23:54, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

Hello how about this account --Ndayiragije Richard (talk) 07:47, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Ndayiragije Richard and welcome to Wikipedia. I encourage you to start editing while logged in with your new account. To help you along, I left a message on your talkpage with tutorial links and basic editing tips. --Rosiestep (talk) 11:20, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi. I have to admit the entry about Port-Menier in Canafa. It ‘ primary activity is not a fishing town. It is an area where people live of eco-tourism. Because they are UNESCO world Heritage site (known for an abundance of fossils). --Anticostitours (talk) 20:07, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi Anticostitours and welcome to Wikipedia. While that may be true, readers must be able to verify that. So you need to add an inline citation to support the information you added to the Port-Menier article with this edit. If you don't add a reliable source, your edit may be reverted.

FYI: there's a typo in your edit (hare/here).

To help you along, I left a message on your talkpage with tutorial links and basic editing tips. --Rosiestep (talk) 22:57, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on February 27. Please help translate.

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Highlights

• Supporting readers: For most of its history, Wikipedia did not have to worry about attracting readers. But with the way people search for information changing, there is a drop in the number of readers which is impacting the number of accounts created and contributions to our sites. Have a look at some of the ongoing and planned work to support reader experience.
• Server switch: All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year.
• Tools improvement: The PTAC Unsupported Tools Working Group continued improvements to Video2Commons in February, with fixes addressing authentication errors, large-file handling, task queue visibility, and clearer upload behavior. Work is still ongoing in some areas, including changes related to deprecated server-side uploads.
• Wikipedia 25 Grants: The celebration continues! The Wikimedia Foundation offers Wikipedia 25 Birthday Funds to communities planning Wikipedia’s 25th birthday events with funding between USD 1,000–2,000. Apply before March 31.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

• Experiments: The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.
• Article guidance: Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article.
• Wikifunctions: You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output.
• Editing feature: Suggestion Mode is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.
• Paste Check: Paste Check is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.
• Mobile experience: The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.
• Two-factor authentication: For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March.
• Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 10 and 11 include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

• WikiCelebrate: Celebrating Mervat, one of the most experienced and dedicated contributors to Arabic Wikipedia.
• Wikimedia ecosystem: The pilot on the ecosystem of Wikimedia organizations has published a draft proposal for a Future Affiliate Landscape. It welcomes your review and feedback.
• Fundraising: The Fundraising Report 2024–2025 has now been published on meta.
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