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Question from Guavas111vh (03:08, 15 December 2025)
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Trouted X2!
Whack!
You've been whacked with a wet trout.
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.Whack!
You've been whacked with a wet trout.
Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.Filing SPIs
Hi Tankishguy. I noticed that most of the SPIs you have recently filed were declined for one reason or another. SPI is a fairly complex corner of the administrative section of the encyclopaedia; I'd suggest steering clear of it until you naturally gather some more experience through the course of editing. If you insist, I'd recommend at the very least reading various SPI instructionals, such as User:Blablubbs/How to file a good SPI. Thank you. DatGuyTalkContribs 12:32, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
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Question from Khronostasis (Timeless Innovation) on User:Khronostasis (Timeless Innovation) (04:51, 19 December 2025)
Hello ,I want to ask before i publish,it can be approved by Wikipedia
Khronostasis
Khronostasis is an independent innovation-focused brand centered on the exploration of timeless systems, future-oriented thinking, and long-term technological vision. The brand explores how concepts of time, continuity, and progress influence innovation, strategic design, and emerging technologies.
Founded in the United States, Khronostasis positions itself at the intersection of futurism, systems thinking, and innovation philosophy, emphasizing durability, foresight, and relevance beyond short-term trends.
Overview
Khronostasis is built around the concept of timeless innovation, a framework that prioritizes sustainable ideas, forward-looking structures, and long-range impact. Rather than focusing on short-lived technological trends, the brand emphasizes principles intended to remain relevant across generations of technological change.
The name “Khronostasis” derives from the Greek words khrónos (time) and stásis (state or balance), reflecting the brand’s focus on continuity and equilibrium within innovation processes.
Philosophy and Approach
The brand’s philosophy centers on the belief that meaningful innovation requires a long-term perspective. Khronostasis promotes strategic thinking that integrates technological evolution, human systems, and future readiness.
Its conceptual approach combines elements of futurism, innovation strategy, and systems design, often addressing themes such as permanence, adaptability, and technological legacy.
Brand Identity
Khronostasis maintains a minimalist and futuristic identity, frequently associated with abstract representations of time, balance, and progress. Its visual and conceptual language is designed to avoid direct association with short-term design trends, reinforcing its emphasis on longevity and conceptual clarity.
Activities
Khronostasis engages in conceptual development, brand research, and innovation-oriented --Khronostasis (Timeless Innovation) (talk) 04:51, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
- this is WP:PROMOTION. Tankishguy 13:14, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
Question from Think big 001 (13:10, 19 December 2025)
i made an article on sandbox draft i have made tow changes after i publish on draft what should i do again --Think big 001 (talk) 13:10, 19 December 2025 (UTC)
Question from Iberian-colchian on User:Iberianlover (07:19, 22 December 2025)
I want change name top of --Iberian-colchian (talk) 07:19, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
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Question from Ziotheo (09:59, 24 December 2025)
Why do people don't like my edits when im telling the truth --Ziotheo (talk) 09:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
Question from Invangelist (15:33, 24 December 2025)
Hi. I was wondering if it's possible for me to create a page about in-house creative agencies. I write and speak extensively on this topic, and noticed that there isn't a page dedicated to this topic.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated! --Invangelist (talk) 15:33, 24 December 2025 (UTC)
Happy holidays!




Hello Tankishguy: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, – LuniZunie(talk) 02:28, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Question from Jason Valkyri (16:14, 26 December 2025)
Hello Tankishguy!
Thank you for being my mentor. As I start editing, I'm very curious about the "behind-the-scenes" quality control.
Could you explain what an entry or a major revision typically goes through? For instance, once I publish an edit, does it undergo a formal internal review process by a group of editors, or is it more of a decentralized peer-monitoring system? I often see notices about articles being "checked" or "refined" multiple times—is there a specific lifecycle for an entry to be considered "verified"?
I'm eager to learn how to better collaborate with the community to ensure my contributions meet Wikipedia's high standards. Thanks again for your time! --Jason Valkyri (talk) 16:14, 26 December 2025 (UTC)
- The answer to your first question is that it's a peer monitoring system. The answer to your second question is That new articles are checked through review processes such as Articles for Creation Or New Page Patrol. Past that there is some further content review, being, in order of quality, Peer Review, Did you know, And Good or Featured articles. Featured articles and Did you know are on the main page. Tankishguy 04:43, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for getting back to you after so long. Tankishguy 04:44, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hello Tankishguy,
- Thank you so much for the detailed insights! Your explanation of the "peer monitoring system" and the different quality tiers really helped me understand the decentralized nature of Wikipedia.
- I am planning to focus my contributions on Richard Wagner. Given your expertise in AV work, I would love to ask: Does Wikipedia generally support embedding audio or video files directly within an entry, or are there specific technical hurdles I should be aware of?
- Furthermore, I’m curious about the community's efforts in restoring classical music archives. Are there ongoing AV restoration projects for historical recordings by masters like Furtwängler, Toscanini, or Karajan? I’d love to know how Wikipedia manages the copyright and technical restoration for such significant cultural heritages.
- Looking forward to your professional perspective!
- Best regards, Jason Valkyri Jason Valkyri (talk) 09:14, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Jason Valkyri Please do not use LLMs to write your responses. Many editors who prefer to talk to humans view it as disrespectful. See WP:LLMTALK. HurricaneZetaC 20:12, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- Exactly. Tankishguy 21:15, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry,Tankishguy.I was not farmiliar with the rules,and I am afraid to make misunderstanding.So would you please teach me about the problems?I am a real people. Jason Valkyri (talk) 01:35, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- I didnt realize it was a LLM. Scary Wikiman2230 00:47, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- sorry for that,frankly speaking,I am not a English native speaker,and I am a freshman to Wiki.I heard the famous wiki since I was a child,also I really respect the Big Shot like Tankishguy and HurricaneZeta.So I just want to be more polite and serious through gemini'polishment.Really sorry for that and I promise I would not use AI anymore.Thanks for everyone's notice! Jason Valkyri (talk) 01:28, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- I'm glad your apologizing for your misuse of Artificial Intelligence on the English Wikipedia. By any chance, what language do you speak? Wikiman2230 01:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks,well,my native language is Chinese.And I realize that the big problem of Chinese Wikipedia named Baidu.Propaganda and misleading buried countless truth,Baidu is not reliable at all.So I really appreciate Wikipedia repect the truth,freedom and equality!So Wikipedia means very important to me.I especially admire the quality of Wikipedia-objectivity and rigor,and I also want to spread it. Jason Valkyri (talk) 05:15, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Jason Valkyri so, you know that little en prefix on the website domain? replace the en with zh, and that's how you get to the chinese wikipedia. you do have to use a vpn, though. Tankishguy 05:18, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for your suggestion,I will do this! Jason Valkyri (talk) 05:30, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Jason Valkyri so, you know that little en prefix on the website domain? replace the en with zh, and that's how you get to the chinese wikipedia. you do have to use a vpn, though. Tankishguy 05:18, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks,well,my native language is Chinese.And I realize that the big problem of Chinese Wikipedia named Baidu.Propaganda and misleading buried countless truth,Baidu is not reliable at all.So I really appreciate Wikipedia repect the truth,freedom and equality!So Wikipedia means very important to me.I especially admire the quality of Wikipedia-objectivity and rigor,and I also want to spread it. Jason Valkyri (talk) 05:15, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Jason Valkyri That's good that you won't use AI, but there are other language Wikipedias. You can find the Wikipedia in your native language and contribute there - while this is the highest viewed version of Wikipedia, there are active communities and readers of other language Wikipedias that will appreciate your work, especially if your version of Wikipedia isn't completely fleshed out and needs some help.
- None of us here are "big shots" or anything, we try to promote equality and don't have any extra say in discussions regarding various things around here. HurricaneZetaC 01:42, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for your suggestion,HurricaneZeta!I will help to build English and Chinese Wiki,and I am very eager to learn from you all,please give me more guidance in the future. Jason Valkyri (talk) 05:26, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Jason Valkyri quick sidenote, we do not call wikipedia "wiki", instead we usually attach the ISO language code if we're talking about wikipedia, as a wiki is a type of website. Tankishguy 05:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- OK,I understand,Tankishguy,I know it should called en.wikipedia and ch.wikipedia.Thanks for the teaching. Jason Valkyri (talk) 05:35, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Jason Valkyri quick sidenote, we do not call wikipedia "wiki", instead we usually attach the ISO language code if we're talking about wikipedia, as a wiki is a type of website. Tankishguy 05:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for your suggestion,HurricaneZeta!I will help to build English and Chinese Wiki,and I am very eager to learn from you all,please give me more guidance in the future. Jason Valkyri (talk) 05:26, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- I'm glad your apologizing for your misuse of Artificial Intelligence on the English Wikipedia. By any chance, what language do you speak? Wikiman2230 01:29, 30 December 2025 (UTC)
- Exactly. Tankishguy 21:15, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) Jason Valkyri Please do not use LLMs to write your responses. Many editors who prefer to talk to humans view it as disrespectful. See WP:LLMTALK. HurricaneZetaC 20:12, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
- Sorry for getting back to you after so long. Tankishguy 04:44, 28 December 2025 (UTC)
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Question from GrampsDrew (20:28, 14 January 2026)
I was looking to add sources to the page for "Objective Media Group" (link attached), and the history section starts with the date of the founding of the company, and that seemed simple enough to verify. My immediate thought was to look up business records for the incorporation of the company, and I found them. Is that a good source? If so, how would that be cited?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective_Media_Group --GrampsDrew (talk) 20:28, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Artemis343 (21:50, 16 January 2026)
Hi, sorry but I have a question regarding the image editting. I found a wrong (or at least very confusing) image. Some ppl already noticed that before me and wrote about it in the comments, but eventhough that was almost a year ago now, the picture is still there. I would like to replace it with a correct scheme picture, but I am not sure whether I can do that or if someone with more seniority has to do that, especially since it on a rather big and important page (it is the first scheme picture on the Atomic number page). --Artemis343 (talk) 21:50, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
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I would like to create a page for myself --Dannymanic (talk) 23:13, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Rebecca.seloi (08:57, 27 January 2026)
Hello Can you help compile the following in to a report People were gathered from all corners of the country to come and discuss issues concerning tourism in our country. And to come up with solutions as to how we can improve tourism in our country. Promoting private public partnership. A lot of issues were raised from both the public and private entities, including community beneficiation from the natural resources around them, how the investors are associating with the community, and improving transportation around the tourism areas. Several examples were sited like providing employment to the locals, helping in the community at large such as ploughing for them and building general dealership. Engaging the community as partners in the management of the natural resources and corporate governance within the community-based projects. Setting principles like accountability, transparency and responsibility. Providing education to the people and getting the process right, protocols are being observed and providing resources. They also came up with models that can make the tourism succeed like community uplifting, secure community rights, strong governance structures, professional management, markets, infrastructure, skill diversification and making sure that the skills we put on the market is what the market needs. Providing technical advisory, border efficiency, regulation changes in terms of tariffs, Collaborations through competitions, and strengthening the Botswana Tourism Organization through the tourism levy. One of the models that was highlighted was connectivity both locally and internationally. Providing airstrip infrastructures Encouraging private sector to engage local artists in the marketing and branding of their businesses. Financing the private sector. Developing, sustaining and facilitating tourism projects we had organizations like CEDA, LEA, World Bank and the National Development Bank. --Rebecca.seloi (talk) 08:57, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
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Question from ALankowicz (23:30, 28 January 2026)
How do I change an image upload I made into Wikicommons? --ALankowicz (talk) 23:30, 28 January 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Enura (10:06, 2 February 2026)
Hi, I'm new here, and I want to publish two articles. One regarding a company and another regarding its owner. I have sources from local newspapers to back the information I'm going to write about. How must I proceed? --Enura (talk) 10:06, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
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What I can I do in order to become a legal employee in Wikipedia-site --Yct Jenaiyha (talk) 22:17, 5 February 2026 (UTC)
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Question from McAzul on RTVE (17:13, 6 February 2026)
Everytime I click on edit I can't get to the History section. I'm on mobile btw. Thx =D --McAzul (talk) 17:13, 6 February 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-07
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Updates for editors
Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.- A new feature available on Special:Contributions shows temporary accounts that are likely operated by the same person, and so makes patrolling less time-consuming. Upon checking contributions of a temporary account, users with access to temporary account IP addresses can now see a view of contributions from the related temporary accounts. The feature looks up all the IPs associated with a given temporary account within the data retention period and shows all the contributions of all temporary accounts that have used these IPs. Learn more.
- When editors preview a wikitext edit, the reminder box that they are only seeing a preview (which is shown at the top), now has a grey/neutral background instead of a yellow/warning background. This makes it easier to distinguish preview notes from actual warnings (for example, edit conflicts or problematic redirect targets), which will now be shown in separate warning or error boxes.
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension continues to improve — it now properly supports more than one Wikibase site, for example both Wikidata and testwikidata. In addition, issues regarding text direction have been fixed for users who prefer Wikidata or other Wikibase sites in right-to-left (RTL) languages.
- The automatic "magic links" for ISBN, RFC, and PMID numbers have been deprecated in wikitext since 2021 due to inflexibility and difficulties with localization. Several wikis have successfully replaced RFC and PMID magic links with equivalent external links, but a template was often required to replace the functionality of the ISBN magic link. There is now a new built-in parser function
{{#isbn}}available to replace the basic functionality of the ISBN magic link. This makes it easier for wikis who wish to migrate off of the deprecated magic link functionality to do so. - Two new wikis have been created:
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- A new global user group has been created: Local bots. It will be used internally by the software to allow community bots to bypass rate limits that are applied to abusive web scrapers. Accounts that are approved as bots on at least one Wikimedia wiki will be automatically added to this group. It will not change what user permissions the bot has.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
Meetings and events
- The MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference, Spring 2026 will be held March 25–27 in Salt Lake City, USA. This event is organized by and for the third-party MediaWiki community. You can propose sessions and register to attend.
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MediaWiki message delivery 23:28, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from مروةالثابت on German Red Cross (17:51, 12 February 2026)
سلام عليكم انا مروة من ليبيا مريضة تصلب اللويحي حقيقة وضع مادي مسمحليش انا نعالج وياريت تكالفوا بعالجي ليه خمسة سنوات مقعده ع كراسي متحرك عمري 28سنه معاي اولاد ثلاثة متزوجه ارجوكم ساعدوني ارجوكم --مروةالثابت (talk) 17:51, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
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Dealership of games stones and golds Escoba Moremoney (talk) 09:42, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Joshuaatag (19:20, 15 February 2026)
- Note: Joshuaatag's mentor Lectonar is away.
Hello is it okay and safe for me to use my real name in my Wikipedia account? --Joshuaatag (talk) 19:20, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-08
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Weekly highlight
- The SRE Team will be performing a cleanup of Wikimedia's Etherpad instance, the web-based editor for real-time collaborative document editing. All pads will be permanently deleted after 30 April, 2026 – if there are still migration projects in progress at that point the team can revisit the date on a case by case basis. Please create local backups of any content you wish to keep, as deleted data cannot be recovered. This cleanup helps reduce database size and minimize infrastructure footprint. Etherpad will continue to support real-time collaboration, but long-term storage should not be expected. Additional cleanups may occur in the future without prior notice.
Updates for editors
- The Information Retrieval team will be launching an Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The improvement of on-platform search will enable readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily. The experiment will first be launched on Greek Wikipedia in late February, followed by English, French, and Portuguese in March. Read more on Diff blog.
- The Reader Growth team 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.
- Previously, site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) would only render on the desktop site. Now, they will render on all platforms. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed. Site administrators should be prepared to test and fix notices on mobile devices to avoid interference with articles. To opt out, interface admins can add
#siteNotice { display: none; }to MediaWiki:Minerva.css.
View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue on Special:RecentChanges has been fixed. Previously, clicking hide in the active filters caused the "view new changes since…" button to disappear, though it should have remained visible. The button now behaves as expected.
Updates for technical contributors
- New documentation is now available to help editors debug on-site search features. It supports troubleshooting when pages do not appear in results, when ranking seems unexpected, and when you need to inspect what content is being indexed, helping make search behavior easier to understand and analyze. Learn more.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:15, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
The Signpost: 17 February 2026
- In the media: Global powers see Wikipedia as fundamental target for manipulation
Attempted Wikipedia shenanigans apparent from Epstein, AI, various governments.
- News and notes: Discussions open for the next WMF Annual Plan
Plus, WikiFlix going places, steady progress on older FAs and other news from the Wikimedia world.
- Serendipity: Maintenance crews continue to slog through Wikipedia's oldest Featured Articles
Hundreds of old FAs have been triaged since project began, but thousands remain — and they need reviewers.
- Disinformation report: Epstein's obsessions
The sex offender's attempts to whitewash Wikipedia run deeper than we first thought.
- Technology report: Wikidata Graph Split and how we address major challenges
A personal perspective on a major update to the Wikimedia social machine.
- Traffic report: Deaths, killings, films, and the Olympics
I'll have the usual!
- Opinion: Incoming Incurables
A poem for Wikipedia Day 2026.
- Crossword: Pop quiz
Sharpen your pencil. How well do you really know Wikipedia?
- Comix: herculean
efforts.
Question from Weijfrr (07:17, 18 February 2026)
How do I open a page for an artist / producer ? --Weijfrr (talk) 07:17, 18 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Eyhiiteaa on User:Eyhiiteaa (22:15, 20 February 2026)
Hello i have many questions and i feel confused so much How can i test my personal user --Eyhiiteaa (talk) 22:15, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
- see WP:Helpdesk and WP:Teahouse Tankishguy 22:35, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Joeymeanslove (04:52, 21 February 2026)
How do I find where errors are located? --Joeymeanslove (talk) 04:52, 21 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Keylux (15:42, 21 February 2026)
Question from Musiilamu6 on European Parliament (11:07, 22 February 2026)
On Google --Musiilamu6 (talk) 11:07, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-09
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
- Reference Check has been deployed to English Wikipedia, completing its rollout across all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers to add a citation before publishing new content, helping reduce common citation-related reverts and improve verifiability. 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 and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
Updates for editors
- The InterwikiSorting extension, which allowed for the sorting of interwiki links, has been undeployed from Wikipedia. As a result, editors who had enabled interwiki link sorting in non-compact mode (full list format) will now see links reordered. The links moving forward will be listed in the alphabetical order of language code.
- Later this week, people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor, will notice a new "Edit full page" button. When tapped, you will be able to edit the entire article. This helps when the change you want to make is outside the section you initially opened.
- The Reader Experience team is inviting editors to assess whether dark mode should still be considered "beta" on their wiki, based on their experience of how well it functions on desktop and mobile. If the feature is deemed mature, editors can update the interface messages in
MediaWiki:skin-theme-descriptionandMediaWiki:Vector-night-mode-beta-tagto indicate that dark mode is ready and no longer considered beta. - The improved Activity tab which displays user-insights is now available to all users of the Wikipedia iOS app (version 7.9.0 and later). Following earlier A/B testing that showed higher account creation among users with access to the feature, it has been rolled out to 100% of users along with some updates. The Activity tab now shows your edited articles in the timeline, offers editing impact insights like contribution counts and article view trends, and customization options to improve in-app experience for users.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug that prevented DiscussionTools from working on mobile has now been fixed, restoring full functionality.
Updates for technical contributors
- The Global Watchlist lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on one page. The extension that makes this possible continues to improve. The latest upgrade is the inclusion of a new hook,
ext.globalwatchlist.rebuild, which fires after each watchlist rebuild. This allows you to run gadgets and user scripts for the Special page.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 19:02, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Okas12 on Nigerian Tobacco Company (16:35, 24 February 2026)
Question from Rezkfood (09:48, 25 February 2026)
ahmed rezk --Rezkfood (talk) 09:48, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
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Question from ااسعيدي (03:50, 27 February 2026)
مرحبا ماذا سأفعل هنا --ااسعيدي (talk) 03:50, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Mahmmodh (07:39, 27 February 2026)
Welcome --Mahmmodh (talk) 07:39, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-10
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
- Wikipedia 25 Birthday mode is now live on Betawi, Breton, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, English, French, Gorontalo, Indonesian, Italian, Luxembourgish, Madurese, Sicilian, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese Wikipedias! 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. Communities can choose to turn Birthday mode on by getting consensus from their community and asking an admin to enable the feature and customize it via community configuration on the local wiki.
Updates for editors
- Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to Swedish Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia and a couple of other wikis. You can try the feature on these projects or on testwiki and betawiki. Learnings from the first pilot wiki German Wikipedia have been published in a report. Reach out to the Wikimedia Deutschland team if you are interested in becoming a pilot wiki.
- Paste Check will become available at all Wikipedias this week. 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. Paste Check tags all edits where it is shown for potential review. Local administrators can configure various aspects of the feature via Special:EditChecks. Research across 22 wikis found that Paste Check resulted in an 18% decrease in relative reverted-edits compared to the control group. Translators can help to localize this and related features.
- The Reader Experience team will be standardizing the user menu in the top right for all mobile users so that it is closer to the desktop experience. Currently this user menu is only visible to users with Advanced Mobile Controls (AMC) turned on. The only change is that a couple buttons previously in the left-side menu will move to the top right for users who do not have AMC turned on. This change is expected to go out March 9 and seeks to improve the user interface.
- Starting in the week of March 2, the emails sent out when an email address was added, removed, or changed for an account will switch to a substantially nicer and clearer HTML email from the prior plaintext one.
- Notifications are currently limited to 2,000 historic entries per user, and extend back to 2013 when the feature was released. This is going to be changed to only store Notifications from the last 5 years, but up to 10,000 of them. This will help with long-term infrastructure health and help to prevent more recent notifications from disappearing too soon.
- The Global Watchlist which lets you view your watchlists from multiple wikis on a single page continues to see improvements. The latest update improves label usage experience. The extension now allows activating the language fallback system for Wikidata items without labels in the viewed language, and showing those labels in the user’s preferred Wikidata language if no
uselang=URL parameter is provided. - The Wikipedia Android team has started a beta test of hybrid search on Greek Wikipedia. Hybrid search capabilities can handle both semantic and keyword queries enabling readers to find what they’re looking for directly on Wikipedia more easily.
- 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. Members of these groups will be unable to disable last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the second half of March, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. This applies to: CentralNotice administrators, checkusers, interface administrators, suppressors, Wikidata staff, Wikifunctions staff, WMF Office IT and WMF Trust & Safety. Nothing will change for other users. See the linked task for deployment schedule.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue preventing users from creating an instance in Wikibase.cloud has now been fixed.
Updates for technical contributors
- To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, over the next month the Wikimedia Foundation will implement global API rate limits across our APIs. In early March, stricter limits will be applied to unidentified requests from outside Toolforge/WMCS and API requests that are made from web browsers. In April, higher limits will be applied to identified traffic. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
- The Wikidata Query Service Linked Data Fragment (LDF) endpoint will be decommissioned in February. This endpoint served limited traffic, which was successfully migrated to other data access methods that were better suited to support existing use cases. The hardware used to support the LDF endpoint will be reallocated to support the ongoing backend migration efforts.
- The new Parsoid parser continues to be deployed to additional wikis, improving platform sustainability and making it easier to introduce new reading and editing features. Parsoid is now the default parser on 488 WMF wikis (268 Wikipedias), now covering more than 10% of all Wikipedia page views.
- The process and criteria for requesting exceptional access to the high volume feed of the Wikimedia Enterprise APIs (at no cost for mission-aligned usecases), have now been published. This is to provide more thorough and clearer documentation for users.
- Tech Blog, the blog dedicated to the Wikimedia technical community will be migrating to Diff, the community news and event blog. The migration should be complete in April 2026, after which new posts will be accepted for publishing. Readers will be able to access posts – old and new – on the landing page at https://diff.wikimedia.org/techblog.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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MediaWiki message delivery 17:50, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from Noxajatsocad on Taliah Fuimaono (14:42, 3 March 2026)
Hi, I'm new to Wikipedia. How can I make an article more neutral? --Noxajatsocad (talk) 14:42, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from Tjr6325 (15:52, 3 March 2026)
How can i get better at r3ecognizing mistakes_ --Tjr6325 (talk) 15:52, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from RentalMatics (11:57, 5 March 2026)
Question from Cameronmanurewa on 1949 Kangaroo tour of New Zealand (21:38, 6 March 2026)
Can I add a photo to wikipedia? --Cameronmanurewa (talk) 21:38, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
Question from MarkAurel2026 (14:48, 9 March 2026)
Hi @Tankishguy, thank you in advance for your support. I am a new editor to the AURELIUS Group page. I am what Wikipedia calls a 'paid editor', ie, I am an employee of the company. Happy to declare this officially, but not sure whether there is a box I have to tick somewhere, or whether this is enough? --MarkAurel2026 (talk) 14:48, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
- Sorry for responding late, I can't really Be here as long as I used to for now. Anyways, that page should be enough. Tankishguy 03:17, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- ok thank you @Tankishguy. I will assume I have met my obligation to declare my position then. MarkAurel2026 (talk) 11:01, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
Tech News: 2026-11
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
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 25 March 2026 at 15:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.
- Last week, all wikis had 2 hours of read-only time, and extended unavailability for user-scripts and gadgets. This was due to a security incident which has since been resolved. Work is ongoing to prevent re-occurrences. For current information please see the post on the Stewards' noticeboard (translations).
Updates for editors
- Users facing multiple blocks on mobile will now see the reasons for each block separately, instead of a generic message. This helps them understand why they are blocked and what steps they can take to resolve the issue. For example, users affected for using common VPNs (such as iCloud Private Relay) will receive clearer guidance on what they need to do to start editing again.
- Later this week, Suggestion Mode will become 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. The feature is locally configurable, and can also be locally expanded with custom Suggestions. Current settings can be seen at Special:EditChecks and there are instructions for how administrators can customize the links to point to local guidelines. The feature is connected to Edit check which suggests improvements while someone is writing new content. In the future, the Editing team plans to evaluate the feature's impact with newcomers through a controlled experiment.
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where the cursor became misaligned during the use of CodeMirror’s syntax highlighting, which makes wikitext and code easier to read, has now been fixed. This problem specifically affected users who defined a font rule in a custom stylesheet while creating a new topic with DiscussionTools.
Updates for technical contributors
- API rate limiting update: To help ensure fair use of infrastructure, global API rate limits will be applied this week to requests without a compliant User-Agent that originate from outside Toolforge/WMCS and to unauthenticated requests made from web browsers. Higher limits will be applied to identified traffic in April. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits.
- The new GraphQL API has been released. The API was developed as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), to improve developer experience and foster adaptability, and efficient data access. Try it out and give feedback. You can also sign up for usability tests.
- 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. Read this update to learn more.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
- The Article Guidance team invites experienced Wikipedia editors from selected pilot wikis and interested contributors from other Wikipedias to fill out this questionnaire which is available in English, Arabic, Bengali, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian, and Turkish. Your answers will help the team customize guidance for less experienced editors and help them learn community policies and practices while creating an article. Learn more on the project page.
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The Signpost: 10 March 2026
- Interview: Bernadette Meehan, new Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Part 2.
- News and notes: Security testing unleashes computer worm on Meta-wiki
Dormant worm awakes; a sketchy archiving site struck; ether burns.
- Special report: What actually happened during the Wikimedia security incident?
A horrifying exploit took place, which could have had catastrophic and far-reaching consequences if used maliciously; instead, it seems to have happened by accident and was used for childish vandalism. How did this happen, and what did the script actually do?
- In the media: Indonesian government blocks Wikimedia logins; archive site scoured from Wikipedia after owner runs malware
As well as controversy over LLM translations.
- Recent research: To wiki, perchance to groki
Comparisons continue.
- Obituary: Madhav Gadgil, Fredrick Brennan, Mark Miller, Chip Berlet
Rest in peace.
- Opinion: Interface administrators and trusting trust
Potential attacks are the logical consequence of giving a group of users unlimited control over JavaScript.
- Technology report: English Wikipedia deprecates archive.today after DDoS against blog, altered content
After the archive site launched a DDoS campaign against a small blog in January 2026, a request for comment was started, with consensus to deprecate the site used almost 700 thousand times.
- Op-ed: Why is "Trypsin-sensitive photosynthetic activities in chloroplast membranes" cited in "List of tallest buildings in Chicago"?
The answer is slop.
- Essay: The pursuit of a button click
Volunteering for Wikipedia has its rewards. The thank-button, for example.
- In focus: Short descriptions: One year later
A discussion of the challenge set forth to the Wikipedia community one year ago!
- WikiProject report: Unreferenced articles backlog drive
Unreferenced articles in English Wikipedia - help us in the backlog drive!
- Community view: Speaking of planning ...
The WMF planning process is underway.
- Traffic report: Over the mountain, kissing silver inlaid clouds
Death and the Winter Olympics.
- Crossword: "It will never happen"
Want to take a break?
- Comix: BRIEn't
Or is it.