User talk:Rusty Cat/Archive 13
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The Signpost: 1 May 2025
- News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment
As always, Wikimedia community governance relies on user participation; plus, more updates from the Wikimedia world
- In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status
Scrapers, an Indian lawsuit, and a crash-or-not-crash?
- Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia
And other new research findings.
- Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom
And don't bite those newbies!
- Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions
And don't bite those newbies!
- Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man
Television dramas, televised sports, film, the Pope, and ... bioengineering at the top of the list?
- Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media
Community volunteers network among themselves and use technology to counter attacks on information sharing.
- News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan
A look at some product and tech highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation's Annual Plan (July–December 2024).
- Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts
Hey! At least it is something!
- Comix: By territory
Zounds!
- In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?
Would a billion articles be a good idea?
- Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia
There's a lot more to this than you think.
- Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing
I wonder about having crats, but decided to become one anyway.
- Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024
Just beautiful photos!
- Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher
Rest in Paradise.
Question from AnonymouslyFrench (07:52, 2 May 2025)
Hey, hope you're alright please how do I edit the title of pages. --AnonymouslyFrench (talk) 07:52, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
- @AnonymouslyFrench: Once you have ten edits and your account is at least four days old you will gain the ability to "move" pages. Please note that the use of this tool requires the move to either be uncontroversial or be backed by consensus. If the move may be controversial or requires consensus, you can post at Wikipedia:Requested moves.
- Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:16, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from PaulClementPritchard (15:42, 3 May 2025)
Hello. I want to update the list of recipients of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer_Prize_for_Humanitarianism) I have photos and documentation. What's next? Thanks --PaulClementPritchard (talk) 15:42, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- @PaulClementPritchard: What you'll want to do when updating the list is to cite what we consider Wikipedia:Reliable sources. For example, note how many of the recipients are cited to news sources; this is what I'd prefer using, but if you can't find those, try using other reliable sources, such as the documentation you mention, if it's considered by us to be reliable. Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 17:05, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Question from 1972x (19:30, 3 May 2025)
how do i create my biography --1972x (talk) 19:30, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- @1972x: It is discouraged to create an article on yourself. If you wish, however, you may start a draft at Wikipedia:Articles for Creation. See Help:Your first article for more information. Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 22:54, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-19
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 Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.
Updates for editors
- For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
- Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
- Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers who use the
momentlibrary in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like theIntllibrary or the newmediawiki.DateFormatterlibrary. Themomentlibrary has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task. - Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (
wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 6 May 2025 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – May 2025
News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2025).

Rusalkii
NaomiAmethyst (overlooked last month)
Interface administrator changes
- Following an RfC, administrator elections were permanently authorized on a five-month schedule. The next election will be scheduled soon; see Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections for more information. This is an alternate process to the RfA process and does not replace the latter.
- An RfC was closed with consensus to allow editors to opt-out of seeing "sticky decorative elements". Such elements should now be wrapped in {{sticky decoration wrapper}}. Editors who wish to opt out can follow the instructions at WP:STICKYDECO.
- An RfC has resulted in a broad prohibition on the use of AI-generated images in articles. A few common-sense exceptions are recognized.
- A New Pages Patrol backlog drive is happening in May 2025 to reduce the backlog of articles in the new pages feed. Sign up here to participate!
Question from Maxmacudopa (20:17, 6 May 2025)
Question from MYDEITY (16:09, 8 May 2025)
Hello how can I be the best writer and best editor this world will ever know --MYDEITY (talk) 16:09, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- @MYDEITY:
- To learn how to write Wikipedia articles, I would recommend looking at some articles and improving them; the Task Center has plenty of tasks, from beginner to advanced!
- You may also be interested to look at the Introduction if you haven't already. This guide teaches you about the basics of Wikipedia.
- Happy editing! ~ Rusty meow ~ 23:22, 8 May 2025 (UTC)


