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November 2025 WikiProject Unreferenced articles backlog drive – award
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Question from Ajron Bach (13:18, 1 January 2026)
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How do I create wiki article recording eg. Tectonic Plates article is read? Wikivoice. I hope your faith in can help. Thank You --Ajron Bach (talk) 13:18, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- Edit. I ment I hope you can help. Sorry WeWake, it was autocorrect. Ajron Ajron Bach (talk) 13:20, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @Ajron Bach – please see Help:Your first article for information on how to create your first article. The help page is exhaustive so please take it slow, step-by-step, focusing mainly on gathering references/sources and creating a draft for review. WeWake (talk) 16:38, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
Question from Quadsinker (18:23, 2 January 2026)
Howdy. My name is Chris Wooding & I’m an American singer/songwriter/musician. There is a British author with the same name & this is creating confusion more frequently as I upload my music to the streaming platforms. What would be my best strategy for getting myself a wiki page established? Thank you. --Quadsinker (talk) 18:23, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @Quadsinker! There are a few things to consider before writing an article about yourself as you've indicated – please see Wikipedia:An article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing for more information. Now if you feel it makes sense to write an article about yourself, please see Help:Your_first_article. Most importantly, you need to make sure you're "notable" – several reliable, secondary sources have spoken/written about you (note that blogs, social media, your own websites etc don't count). You can then use the Article Wizard (link on the help page) to write your article and submit for a review. Hope this helps. WeWake (talk) 16:37, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
Question from Seti123suruwu4usx on User:Seti123suruwu4usx (06:40, 8 January 2026)
I want this page to be protected --Seti123suruwu4usx (talk) 06:40, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
- @Seti123suruwu4usx You haven't mentioned which page. WeWake (talk) 18:54, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
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I have sent you a note about a page you started
Hi WeWake. Thank you for your work on Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narain. Another editor, SunDawn, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:
Thank you for taking the time to write this article! Your contributions are greatly appreciated. Have a blessed day!
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Question from ThatTrainGuy1945 (13:17, 15 January 2026)
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Hello WeWake, Do you think this page (Waqf Beneficiaries, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf_Beneficiaries) should be deleted? I wanted to ask you first before adding it to AfD. The page is a orphan, maybe AI generated, created by a user who pushed again and again for different Waqf pages before "disappearing". Thanks, --ThatTrainGuy1945 (talk) 13:17, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- Also, same info found on Waqf page. ThatTrainGuy1945 (talk) 13:18, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hi @ThatTrainGuy1945! It's hard to assess the page given references being in foreign language. However, based on how the content is presented, sourcing, the article does seem suspect. Even if notable, the article isn't ready for mainspace and requires significant rewriting. I'd probably consider moving it to draftspace as an alternative. However, AfD is not a bad option either. Hope this helps. WeWake (talk) 04:36, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
- I also wanted to ask you about this page: Murder of Namrita Chandani. Is it truly notable, per WP:CRIME? No lasting coverage. ThatTrainGuy1945 (talk) 14:04, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Motorik2000 (13:42, 19 January 2026)
Hello, thanks for your help and time! I'd like to create an article for my podcast Unexplained. I've created the page in the sandbox but I can't see a draft review button - how do I put the page forward for review? I also read that I should declare somewhere that I am creating a page for my own show for transparency, where do I write that? Thanks so much again. --Motorik2000 (talk) 13:42, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
- Hello @Motorik2000! You can review Wikipedia:Articles for creation for information on how to submit your article for review! Cheers. WeWake (talk) 23:58, 19 January 2026 (UTC)
- Brilliant, thanks - yes, I went ahead and did it through drafts. I thought you could do it in sandbox and then submit from there but not sure if that's not possible or just wasn't working for me... Motorik2000 (talk) 13:28, 20 January 2026 (UTC)
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Top AfC Editor
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thanks, I really appreciate it! tons to take in! will certainly reach out as I navigate all the SOPs --Darrowreaper (talk) 07:12, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
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Question from MedwoodResearchFacility (08:01, 1 February 2026)
Hello, how can I delete this account? --MedwoodResearchFacility (talk) 08:01, 1 February 2026 (UTC)
- Please see Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing - Wikipedia WeWake (talk) 05:15, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from ThatTrainGuy1945 (02:59, 2 February 2026)
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Hello, WeWake. Hope you are well. I'm trying to AfD Sladkiy Son for being non notable, and adding it to the top of the list (source editing) doesn't work. Do you have any idea why? --ThatTrainGuy1945 (talk) 02:59, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
- Can you share what you're adding? Typically, this should work when added to the top:
{{subst:afd1}}WeWake (talk) 05:17, 2 February 2026 (UTC)- Never mind. I got it. Thank you for your help! ThatTrainGuy1945 (talk) 14:24, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
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Women in Green reviewing drive

Hello WeWake:
This month, February 2026, WikiProject Women in Green is participating in the February 2026 GAN Backlog Drive, in which we're aiming to review as many outstanding Good Article (GA) nominations about women and women's works as possible. If you want to help out, you can check out the project talk page for a list of nominations in need of review (including some WiG originals). If you haven't reviewed a GA nomination before, be sure to check out the reviewing instructions and guidelines and feel free to ask for a mentor to check your work.
We are also working together with a wikithon hosted on 5 February by Wikimedia UK, which will focus on writing and improving articles about women involved in sustainable development. If you want to join the event, feel free to sign up at the eventbrite page; or if you would be interested in providing a 20-minute assessment and/or a full GA review of the submitted articles in the weeks following, put your name down on the project talk page for updates as the event progresses.
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Question from ArizonaBYUBuckeye (15:59, 3 February 2026)
I want to start adding information to topics that I know a great deal about, or that are missing. Do I just keep adding with citations? As an example, I am very familiar with Ted Roosevelt (son of President Roosevelt) expedition to Asia, and I noticed missing information. Do I just add it or do I wait until my first article is approved? --ArizonaBYUBuckeye (talk) 15:59, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Your edits to articles are independent from your first article – however, if you're new, I suggest waiting for your first article to improve as you get important feedback on how to write or edit articles and what the general expectations from a positive edit are. But if you feel that the information you're adding is sourced from reliable and verifiable sources with no original research, and that you can include an inline citation to support them – please do go ahead with your changes. Most changes can be reversed if problemtic, so be cautious but bold. Cheers! WeWake (talk) 20:06, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you! ArizonaBYUBuckeye (talk) 20:10, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- I made a submission, and I cannot tell if it's still in cue, or I need to make more edits or add more citations. Can you see that under my submissions? ArizonaBYUBuckeye (talk) 18:22, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
- Actually, I think I figured it out, looks like it's in cue and takes at least 6 weeks. Sorry to bother you. ArizonaBYUBuckeye (talk) 18:27, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
- I made a submission, and I cannot tell if it's still in cue, or I need to make more edits or add more citations. Can you see that under my submissions? ArizonaBYUBuckeye (talk) 18:22, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
- Thank you! ArizonaBYUBuckeye (talk) 20:10, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Arthur first (19:52, 3 February 2026)
Give me some tips because I have started from today. Also tell me what all I need to know. --Arthur first (talk) 19:52, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Kaymooon (20:23, 7 February 2026)
how to create [lil jeezy biography] biography --Kaymooon (talk) 20:23, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
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Question from Lyrce Lord (16:20, 8 February 2026)
Hi there! Great to e-meet you! My interest in Wiki editing stems from checking a page I have not looked at in some time and noticing that all of the photos are gone and the information is stripped down dramatically. I am a retired NYC journalist and fully understand and respect your requirements for vetting information submitted. So I looked up published content and found the New York Times obituary for the subject of the Wikipedia page that was minimized. Can you help me flesh out this page? Here is the link. Previously the page for this person was informative. Please let me know how to restore published facts/art to this Wiki page if it is possible to properly do so. Thank you kindly in advance for any help Best from me and mine to you and yours (as JLC used to write), Lyrce Link to published NYT obituary: https://www.nytimes.com/1976/04/05/archives/j-lawrence-cook-pianoroll-maker.html --Lyrce Lord (talk) 16:20, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
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- 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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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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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 Ajron Bach (11:14, 17 February 2026)
- Note: Ajron Bach's mentor GraziePrego is away.
Hello, GraziePrego. How do you change a video file from a .mov into the correct format for Wikimedia? --Ajron Bach (talk) 11:14, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Benjamin Lahai Yorpoi on Wikipedia:Sandbox (10:33, 23 February 2026)
Hello can you help me with a pronunciation of English --Benjamin Lahai Yorpoi (talk) 10:33, 23 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.
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Question from Поврзаност (13:03, 25 February 2026)
what to create english version about Karaman maceodonian dog/Караман овчарско куче. --Поврзаност (talk) 13:03, 25 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from EitanKam (14:30, 26 February 2026)
Hello, I am a new editor, i have a topic that has a red thing on the "Lake Nebagomen" page and would be interested, it has a published book on the history. but i have conflict of interest. who should i talk to to help create a article so i don't have coi. (i know this seems like i created an account just to create this article but I want to keep editing) --EitanKam (talk) 14:30, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Markovserg (12:45, 27 February 2026)
Hello, I wrote an article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:GEO_in_Russia and want to check the neutrality and sufficiency of the sources. Best Regards Serg --Markovserg (talk) 12:45, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
Question from Diannasuganat on Character encoding (05:56, 1 March 2026)
Hello anong gagawin ko po para maka pag start? --Diannasuganat (talk) 05:56, 1 March 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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Thanks for becoming my mentor! Mickomicks (talk) 11:48, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
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i visit so many platforms but very where have no something intersting information can you please guide me details to me I m a student --Meet Mahnoor (talk) 17:30, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from Jorge The Junior (11:57, 6 March 2026)
How do I set the title and undo edits --Jorge The Junior (talk) 11:57, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
Question from Katharine.wells (19:16, 6 March 2026)
I am a bit confused on the use of the sandbox and editing - can you help me out a little bit? --Katharine.wells (talk) 19:16, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
- Yes sure. The sandbox is a "scratch" space, sort of like a personal article space, that allows you to experiment with different features, work on your article or edits as drafts, or basically do what you want with the content you add to that page. Other areas of the Wiki are "protected" in some or the other way and any test edits will be reverted as vandalism – limiting your opportunity to build drafts or flesh out ideas over time. Does this help? WeWake (talk) 19:56, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- absolutely! thank you :-) Katharine.wells (talk) 17:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
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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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Question from FYR3BLYD3 (23:56, 9 March 2026)
Yo can u help me edit pls? --FYR3BLYD3 (talk) 23:56, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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.
Question from DevQSsuper (05:18, 15 March 2026)
My article dissapeared in a wi fi short out and I have not made a copy. Can I restore this article somehow? --DevQSsuper (talk) 05:18, 15 March 2026 (UTC)




