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385		Raw image format (talk)	Add sources
165		Adobe XD (talk)	Add sources
522		IOS 10 (talk)	Add sources
503		High Efficiency Image File Format (talk)	Cleanup
85		Adobe Captivate (talk)	Cleanup
37		St. Petersburg High School (talk)	Cleanup
3,210		Adobe Photoshop (talk)	Expand
534		Demographics of Toronto (talk)	Expand
19		Nexenta OS (talk)	Expand
617		Adobe Acrobat (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
581		Markham, Ontario (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
15		Cumulus (software) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
20		Centaur Counter UAV System (talk)	Merge
4		Tirumalarajanar River (talk)	Merge
4		Valentina Kim (talk)	Merge
11		Libertyville District 70 (talk)	Wikify
7		German Mills (talk)	Wikify
52		Louis Berger Group (talk)	Wikify
12		Infltr (talk)	Orphan
6		Peter Krogh (photographer) (talk)	Orphan
2		Charlie Smethams (talk)	Orphan
42		Wyckoff positions (talk)	Stub
3		Dollar, Ontario (talk)	Stub
13		Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR (talk)	Stub
6		Curious Punishments of Bygone Days (talk)	Stub
48		Robin's Donuts (talk)	Stub
3		Carl Byker (talk)	Stub

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

Administrator changes

• Billinghurst
• Crisco 1492
• DarkFalls
• Spike Wilbury
• Valereee
• Ergo Sum

CheckUser changes

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469		TvOS (talk)	Add sources
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9		Socorro High School (Socorro, Texas) (talk)	Add sources
99		Scarlet tanager (talk)	Cleanup
114		Sigma Corporation (talk)	Cleanup
33		Stanton College Preparatory School (talk)	Cleanup
2,708		App Store (Apple) (talk)	Expand
1,301		Potential enlargement of the European Union (talk)	Expand
741		2 nm process (talk)	Expand
36		Corel Photo-Paint (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
235		Line 3 Scarborough (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
215		Tandy Corporation (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
11		The Princess Diaries, Volume IV and 1/2: Project Princess (talk)	Merge
11		Effects of Hurricane Ivan in the Greater Antilles (talk)	Merge
401		Kaadhalan (talk)	Merge
1,373		Bash (Unix shell) (talk)	Wikify
1,976		Sears (talk)	Wikify
13		Napton on the Hill (talk)	Wikify
25		History of the Petroleum industry in Alberta (talk)	Orphan
56		Artisse AI (talk)	Orphan
7		Wide Angle Software (talk)	Orphan
19		Adobe Story (talk)	Stub
3		Hnutove (talk)	Stub
251		Pixabay (talk)	Stub
116		Cyanocitta (talk)	Stub
10		Johnson High School (Savannah, Georgia) (talk)	Stub
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266		ARM Cortex-A53 (talk)	Add sources
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887		Graphic design (talk)	Add sources
10		Helicon Filter (talk)	Add sources
23		Thanksgiving Point (talk)	Add sources
110		Nikon D300 (talk)	Cleanup
9		Toronto Transit Commission personnel (talk)	Cleanup
544		Hooded crow (talk)	Cleanup
342		ITunes Store (talk)	Expand
436		Scarborough, Ontario (talk)	Expand
330		OS X El Capitan (talk)	Expand
72		RawTherapee (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
296		Green River (band) (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
84		Loja, Ecuador (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
66		New York Declaration (talk)	Merge
17		Engagement bait (talk)	Merge
8		Dutch Student Union (talk)	Merge
81		Yellow warbler (talk)	Wikify
80		Exposing to the right (talk)	Wikify
16		Broken Saints (talk)	Wikify
2		Wilmagate (talk)	Orphan
17		Kleinfelder (talk)	Orphan
3		Data2map (talk)	Orphan
235		Adobe Express (talk)	Stub
6		Howling Hex (talk)	Stub
5		Peatonal Sarandí (talk)	Stub
15		Palm IIIe (talk)	Stub
5		Pomasqui (talk)	Stub
2		1935–36 Western Kentucky State Teachers Hilltoppers basketball team (talk)	Stub

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Hi,

IP 4.17.84.154 is still abusing their talkpage despite a block just now. Would it be appropriate to revoke TPA?

Thanks 13:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC) Filmssssssssssss (talk) 13:44, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

@Filmssssssssssss:  Done —⁠k6ka 🍁 (Talk · Contributions) 13:46, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

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A quarterly update from the Growth team on our work to improve the new editor experience.

New releases

English Wikipedia gets "Add a Link" Structured Task

We released the "Add a Link" Structured Task to 100% of accounts at English Wikipedia on Tuesday, September 2nd (before then it was available to 20% of accounts).

Growth features for Wikidata

After examining if the Growth features and Mentorship could be adapted to Wikidata, we activated the Growth features on Beta Wikidata to allow for testing and discussion (T400937). Although some features, like Suggested Edits, are Wikipedia-specific, the Growth team designed most features to be more wiki-agnostic.

Work in progress

Revise Tone Structured Task

The Growth team is making progress on the technical architecture, onboarding design, and early user testing. We are targeting an A/B test before the end of this year, with constructive edits by newcomers as the primary success metric.

Add a link to more wikis

The machine learning team has been working on a new model that can suggest links to more languages, including Urdu, Chinese, and Japanese Wikipedias. We are starting to release the “Add a Link” feature to Wikipedias that weren’t supported by the previous model.

Add a link, which can be configured by the community locally, increases the chance that a new contributor will make their first edit and then continue to participate in Wikipedia.

Research

The Growth team is involved in several research initiatives to help guide our future work:

Progression System – We have published initial findings from interviews with 10 English and French Wikipedia newcomers. The research examined motivations, challenges, and feedback on a prototype system intended to help editors build confidence, develop skills, and contribute more constructively over time.

Mobile Web Editing Research – This project combines quantitative and qualitative data, community feedback, and user journey analysis to identify possible ways to enhance the mobile editing experience.

Newcomers Survey – This project surveys successful newcomers on English Wikipedia to understand their early editing experiences, tool use, and community interactions.

Community events

The Growth team participated in several community events to listen, share, and collaborate on improving newcomer experiences across Wikimedia projects.

Wikimania - Organizers as key partners to support newcomers' growth in our movement

This session invited organizers to share how they introduce newcomers to Growth features and the challenges they encounter. The discussion focused on common newcomer questions and opportunities to strengthen collaboration in supporting new editors.

Wikimania - Lightning Talk: Structured Tasks

This talk demonstrated how Structured Tasks help newcomers take their first successful steps on Wikipedia. It shared impact data, community configurations, and a demo of “Add a Link,” illustrating how these tasks make editing more accessible and sustainable, particularly for mobile contributors.

Wikimania - Building a Sustainable Future for Wikimedia Contributors

With active editor numbers declining, the Contributors Strategy aims to create a clearer, more engaging path for participation. This session, led by the WMF Contributors group with involvement from the Editing, Growth, Moderator Tools, and Connection (formerly Campaigns) teams, highlighted efforts to streamline contributor experiences, offer structured and mobile-friendly workflows, and foster meaningful engagement. Participants learned about ongoing initiatives and shared feedback to help shape a more inclusive and sustainable future for Wikimedia contributors.

CEE Meeting - Retaining beginners and improving content moderation: an inclusive and sustainable future for Wikipedia contributors

Many communities face a decline in volunteer engagement. Newcomers often leave soon after joining, while experienced editors struggle to manage increasingly complex workflows and overwhelming backlogs. We presented the Contributors Strategy and the different features and workflows that can help communities to address these challenges. We listened to the specific needs of the CEE communities to help guide the Contributors teams' work.

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39		Records of members of the Oireachtas (talk)	Add sources
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137		Bromism (talk)	Cleanup
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152		IBeacon (talk)	Expand
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7		Chasys Photo (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
127		Comparison of vector graphics editors (talk)	Unencyclopaedic
3		33rd Medium Artillery Regiment, RCA (talk)	Merge
51		Koch's triangle (talk)	Merge
8		Cash (unit) (talk)	Merge
59		Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science (talk)	Wikify
350		Burlington, Ontario (talk)	Wikify
37		Image tracing (talk)	Wikify
15		Silver and gold diadem from the tomb of Philip II (talk)	Orphan
3		Ekaterina Kozhevnikova (talk)	Orphan
3		Bratislava-Vinohrady railway stop (talk)	Orphan
3		Microlophus pacificus (talk)	Stub
26		Rūaumoko (talk)	Stub
35		Pimlico, Baltimore (talk)	Stub
58		Fillet (clothing) (talk)	Stub
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Hello, K6ka. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

How do temporary accounts work?

• When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
• All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
• A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
• As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
  • There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
  • There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.

Temporary account IP viewer user right

• Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
• Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.

Impact for administrators

• It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
• It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
• Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).

Rules about IP information disclosure

• Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
• See Wikipedia:Temporary account IP viewer § What can and can't be said for more detailed guidelines.

Useful tools for patrollers

• It is possible to view if a user has opted-in to view temporary account IPs via the User Info card, available in Preferences → Appearance → Advanced options → Enable the user info card
  • This feature also makes it possible for anyone to see the approximate count of temporary accounts active on the same IP address range.
• Special:IPContributions allows viewing all edits and temporary accounts connected to a specific IP address or IP range.
• Similarly, Special:GlobalContributions supports global search for a given temporary account's activity.
• The auto-reveal feature (see video below) allows users with the right permissions to automatically reveal all IP addresses for a limited time window.

Videos

• How to use Special:IPContributions
• How automatic IP reveal works
• How to use IP Info
• How to use User Info

Further information and discussion

• For more information and discussion regarding this change, please see the announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation at Wikipedia:Village pump (WMF) § Temporary accounts rollout.

Most of this message was written by Mz7 (source). Thanks, 🎃 SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 02:48, 31 October 2025 (UTC)