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responsiveContent

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Hi. Not sure if this is still maintained as is shown in the Gadgets section, but for some reason, the text looks very squeezed in. 1989 (talk) 03:04, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[]

I haven’t looked at it for a while. I’ll see if I can make some time to investigate. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 10:26, 8 January 2022 (UTC)[]
I ran into the same issue. Width of the main content is capped so it shows about 35 characters per line. It may be related to the newish vector-2022 skin. I'm not sure if that was enabled automatically or if I did it at some point. Matthias Winkelmann (talk) 05:28, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[]
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Documentation/link box

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Maybe for you?

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Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Sticky table headers not working on iPhone is looking for someone who knows things about iPhones and web development. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 02:43, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[]

Apple styling help

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I see your notifications are disabled. Template talk:COVID-19 pandemic data/styles2.css#Missing borders on sticky row headers could use your help again, especially with the browser issues on Apple products. Jroberson108 (talk) 14:12, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[]

Thanks for your help. Any ideas on the part about some borders missing between random sticky row headers? Jroberson108 (talk) 16:46, 17 February 2022 (UTC)[]

Problem with Template:Unicode blocks

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Hi, TheDJ. I've been having a problem I don't understand getting Template:Unicode blocks to initially appear in collapsed state, and I noticed you recently made some changes to the template.

I've been trying to make Unicode character property a little more readable by having a couple of very large tables come up in collapsed state by adding a |state=mw-collapsed parameter to the templates that generate them. This works fine for the Template:ISO 15924 script codes and related Unicode data invocation [1]. However doing the same to the Unicode blocks template [2] has no apparent effect; the table still appears in expanded form.

I have no idea if my edit would have been equally ineffective with the template version before your edits or not. It could be that the state parameter never worked on this template. Unfortunately I'm not too knowledgeable about template coding, so maybe you could take a look at the issue and tell me if there is a way to get the table to initially appear collapsed. Thanks, -- R. S. Shaw (talk) 00:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[]

That was my bad, I broke something. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 10:16, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[]

Thank you for your years of work on OSMdb and the tiles.wmflabs.org service

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I just happened across the deprecation notice for the tiles.wmflabs.org service that you added back in Jan 2022, and wanted to drop a note of thanks for your long and hard work on that service (and OSMdb), as well as give people looking at this talk page a pointer to some of the other discussions about it. Thanks again. JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:03, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[]

Regarding dataset for image provided in Wikimedia (File:PerrinPlot2.svg from Brownian motion on en.wikipedia.org)

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Hi Derk-Jan, I am a PhD candidate at Columbia looking to use the dataset from Jean Perrin's 1909 paper which is depicted in the .svg file you had originally uploaded to the Brownian motion Wikipedia page.

Would you be able to point me to where this data was originally sourced from as I am looking to analyze it for my work but cannot seem to find it anywhere online. Also, I apologize if this is not the right place to message you, I am new to interacting with users on Wikipedia.

Thank you very much, Kiran KDGauthier (talk) 17:22, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[]

It was an svg that someone had uploaded on top of the original gif file. On that day, this broke the image because an svg file was no longer allowed to have the fileextension gif, so i split it off into a new upload and deleted the offending file revision in the .gif entry. See also the log here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log?type=&user=&page=File%3APerrinPlot2.gif
So there was originally a gif uploaded in 2007 by a user Kraus, who retrieved it from a page on the paper (http://www.matpack.de/Info/images/Thermodynamics/PerrinPlot2.gif ) then in 2009 MiraiWarren created an svg based on that gif, in 2010 i split it off into a separate entry and in 2015 the file was moved to Wikimedia Commons. That is as much as i know of it. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 18:23, 21 June 2022 (UTC)[]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Sort nowrap

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Respect

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(if you've ever seen Last Week Tonight, feel free to imagine John Oliver's voice as you read this.. I think it helps)
I generally respect you. You are a good contributor and knowledgeable. Like any human, I get things wrong sometimes. Misjudge. Phrase an opinion more harshly than necessary. Usually it's deserved, but sometimes in hindsight I could've held back a bit more. It's a thin line to walk, but I don't always err on the side of caution. Those who do are often walked over. Simply dampening criticism across the board always makes things worse. So, and this applies to any situation, humanity has to try and reason with one another, as long as the other party is willing to listen, accept constructive criticism and -when appropriate- apologize.
If you know me at all, you'd know I readily admit my mistakes and poor word choices if I'm made aware of those. Misinterpretation of my words happens every once in a while. If something turns out to be open to interpretation I'll often clarify or adjust them.
I'm not easily offended. Some random anon calling me a cunt (it has happened) doesn't bother me, it makes me laugh. Even if a respected user would say something like "I hate your style, I think you're a cunt." I wouldn't be overly concerned. It's unfortunate, but only an opinion, and you can't always please everyone.
And because I respect you, I'm actually offended by your triple-word order without punctuation. Phrasing it as an order -who are you, my boss?- is already severely disrespectful. Using only three words, not even attempting to engage in any meaningful constructive criticism is, whether you intended that or not, a recipe for escalation. Trolls often do it as a tactic to evoke a response. I'd have thought you knew better than that.
But the icing on the cake is to do it with no punctuation whatsoever. Do you think that little of me? You can't be bothered to press shift or enter a period? If you want to criticize my actions or even my personality, put in the bloody effort. Be creative. Explain in detail how much you hate my guts. So please, if you must, just vent that anger and we'll both feel better. And now, this. Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:05, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[]

I ain't got time to be creative right now (burying a familymember today). I'm often critical of the foundation and there are many ways to do so. Yet these personal attacks are just you pushing people's buttons out of frustration in hopes of triggering a response. It's unnecessary and only further sours the relationship between employees and community without actually fixing problems. If I see this kind of behavior towards ppl who I consider to be friends, I damn sure will call it out and I don't care about you wikilawyering your way around it. My respect goes to people who build others up, and my respect is extremely quickly lost when ppl punch down at ppl who aren't free to respond to their attacks. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 07:45, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[]
(if you feel this is TLDR, at least read the last paragraph)
I'm sorry for your loss.
And, well, not a John Oliver fan I presume. I'm disappointed with your use of "ur", "u" and "r" in that reverted edit summary, but then again, you are saying clearly that you simply don't respect me and since I told you I don't like that sort of thing (outside memes) I guess I gave you free ammunition there so understandably you used it.
I don't need people to respect me to respect them. I still respect your knowledge and contributions to the project. On a more personal level, I respect people who engage in conversation, who try to understand each another, who try to keep an open mind. There's no requirement to agree there, I can completely disagree with someone's opinion while respecting their point of view. Or the opposite: to agree with someone while thinking the way they arrived at their opinion is completely backwards.
You are simply trying to protect friends from what you perceive as attacks. That's completely understandable. Whether they actually need or want your protection is an open question, but regardless, understandable. But even if you'd be right and I am simply the villain who has to be stopped (you wouldn't be unique in that), throwing in triple-word orders without punctuation isn't going to help. Or more accurately: that trick only works once. Because with it, you've largely burned my respect on the personal level.
WMF employees would have to be more careful when responding, but they most assuredly can respond to attacks. Dealing with criticism and even attacks is par for the course if you work for the WMF. And certain responses to such "attacks" can definitely earn my respect. I'll hardly ever say something that should be taken personally anyway.
I suppose that's what disappoints me the most: you took all this personally. Your decisions here may or may not be affected by your loss of a family member. If you even suspect your grief may be affecting your decisions here, I'd recommend staying offline for a few days, or at least away from forums/social media/wikis/etc. Not for me, for you. Talk with family/friends, maybe read a book, take a walk, listen to music that matches how you feel, or just sit in a room quietly. Or if you just feel like punching a pillow.. do it. If the latter is what you feel like, don't hold back. I don't know how you feel right now. But whatever works to process your emotions, you should do. I'm only suggesting, just giving advice. One thing I do know: wiki is rarely a good place to be when you're dealing with emotions. Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 16:05, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[]

Message boxes

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Thanks for that! I've included a brief summary and linked the article, which I think is probably better than quoting it to the point that people don't go and read it. Is it bad that of the "well-known names" I only really recognise half of them? And I was active back then, so you'd think I would. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 8.1% of all FPs 04:36, 30 September 2022 (UTC)[]

Signpost fixes

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I've been trying to put together a basic overview of how the Signpost works on a technical level, and have noticed you in the edit histories of many of the templates, fixing stuff that's broken and removing stuff that doesn't need to be there. Good work! jp×g 06:54, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[]

Thx. I’ve made three distinct changes changes in the past. First, I implemented the new design a couple of years ago (2015?). This is the bigger changes I made to the templates. The interesting part here is that they had to be made in a way which would keep those templates working in older versions of articles. This is why sometimes you’ll see v2 templates in use (because changing the original version would break the old articles. I also made most pages mobile responsive. Things like the headers footers etc were all fixed width for a long long time. And then I’ve converted large parts to templatestyles, which simplifies the templates a lot compared to the earlier inline styles. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 07:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)[]

Wikipedia:Reference desk/header/nav/aux/sandbox is nominated for speedy deletion

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As a follow up to Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Obsolete Reference desk subpages, I've nominated sandbox page that you've created – Wikipedia:Reference desk/header/nav/aux/sandbox – for speedy deletion. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:12, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[]

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Problems with responsiveContent

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Hello, I just wanted to let you know that I had to turn off the responsiveContent gadget. It caused me problems when working on desktop. I had to disable it since when it was enabled, I was unable to correctly select wikisyntax (I'm usually directly editing the code). Blank space was selected and when I tried to delete it, the wikitext was deleted instead. --TadejM my talk 21:01, 17 January 2023 (UTC)[]

Yeah, I'm not using it myself these days, so it's been a while since I checked it over. I'll take a look this weekend. Thx for the report ! —TheDJ ( • contribs) 08:40, 18 January 2023 (UTC)[]

New message from Neveselbert

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Hi DJ, could you please possibly have a look at this? Thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 21:59, 23 January 2023 (UTC)[]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Day/Mar-Dec

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Wikigoat

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Thank you for going the extra miles in your response to my request for review of the relevance of Wikipedia:Article size. You get this goat in reward. I'm sure your time and effort seems more than worth it now 😉

Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 20:05, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[]

Non-free use rationale templates

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Hi there, I know you've been busy lately but I wanted to know if you knew of a way to correct the display of {{Non-free use rationale}} and {{Non-free use rationale 2}} in Vector 2022 in the short term, just until you're able to get round to updating the code? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 19:12, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[]

Was the problem mostly that the caption didn't look like it did before ? —TheDJ ( • contribs) 13:47, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[]
Yes, though there's also the issue of {{Non-free use rationale 2}}. I don't think they should both use the same TemplateStyles as the designs are different. This is how that template appears in Vector legacy; as you can see, the line height is reduced as well as the caption at the top. I would prefer that to be retained in Vector 2022. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:04, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[]
Why are the designs different ? Its generally a bad idea to have multiple styles for something which should essentially be the same. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 15:07, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[]
That may be, but for whatever reason, they're different and I'd rather we be as conservative as possible in preserving the design, in the absence of a talkpage consensus to change it. I personally prefer the design of {{Non-free use rationale 2}} for being more compact. ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:09, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[]
Id rather we not be conservative. We've been conservative for a long time and thats part of why it's difficult to fix problems like this. We should challange past decisions and decide if they make sense. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 15:11, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[]
OK, well I would prefer if we could incorporate {{Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into {{Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}, if that's OK? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 15:13, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[]
Would that be alright, TheDJ? ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 17:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[]

responsiveContent gadget on v22

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Hi. Could you disable User:TheDJ/responsiveContent on V22? It looks rather weird as my wife just shown me 😉 (e.g. on Kathe Koja). You should probably change: MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition. Cheers, Nux (talk) 00:52, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[]

Followup

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Hello again, I'm just following up to check whether you're amenable to incorporating {{Non-free use rationale 2}}'s line height and caption style into {{Non-free use rationale/styles.css}}? Please confirm, thanks, ‑‑Neveselbert (talk · contribs · email) 20:57, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[]

I think its good like this, someone else can do the rest. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 07:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[]

Folded References

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Hi, I was going to install User:TheDJ/Folded_references, but there doesn't seem to that many users. Is it worth a try? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 10:38, 4 March 2023 (UTC)[]

I haven't used it myself in over 6 years, no clue. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 09:47, 6 March 2023 (UTC)[]

Regarding {{sronly}}

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Hello, I'm reaching out to you both because you're the last editor to update Template:Screen reader-only and because I've seen a lot of knowledgeable posts from you on the bowels on Wikipedia's software side. I noticed a bug in that template trying to use it to improve the accessibility for {{tooltip}}. There are several different types of rendering errors when the template is used within a link.[3] I don't know if there is an easy fix for using the template within links, or if maybe it was never to meant to go inside a link and should generate some kind of warning message or category error. Regards, Rjjiii (talk) 18:20, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[]

About Wikipedia:Education program/sandbox, I tried nominating it for deletion for G6, but a reviewing admin actually looked and said they are waiting for you to look at it. But thinking about it again, I wonder if moving it to user space would be a better bet. That way you can work and people won't accidentally stumble on this page. Aasim - Herrscher of Wikis ❄️ 02:49, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[]

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tunnel and OSM

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Hello, do you think maplink support type=tunnel from OSM ? I don't feel it :(

Map

Bouzinac (talk) 12:30, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[]

See mediawikiwiki:Help:Extension:Kartographer/OSM#How_to_get_a_single_object_from_multiple_linesTheDJ ( • contribs) 13:25, 23 August 2023 (UTC)[]

Response at the Teahouse

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Hi - I was just writing a response to the Teahouse question about a page not showing up in search results when I saw your reply, but I was about to say something totally different and wanted to make sure I was correct first. I am under the impression that pages will only index once they have been patrolled through WP:NPP or once 90 days has passed since the creation of the article - the issue for that page is that it hasn't been patrolled, not that Google hasn't gotten around to it yet, no? Tollens (talk) 07:38, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[]

(I suppose it doesn't really matter either way - the editor with the question can't make a review happen any sooner.) Tollens (talk) 08:12, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[]

RfC on the "Airlines and destinations" tables in airport articles

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WLN ids

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Hi TheDJ, if you have a moment do you have any insight in to MediaWiki talk:Watchlist-messages section about the storage handling/purging of the wln ID numbers. — xaosflux Talk 15:16, 7 November 2023 (UTC)[]

responsive Village Pump header layout

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Regarding this comment: perhaps there should be a pool on how long until someone wonders why the image isn't visible on small screens ;-) I appreciate the effort spent to improve the layout (even if I'm unopinionated about having an image that my banner blindness will subsequently ignore). isaacl (talk) 22:17, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[]

escapeRe

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Hi, thank you for your notice: https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Doc_Taxon&diff=prev&oldid=239243041

You say, I should replace escapeRe with a call to mw.util.escapeRegExp(), but I'm not so familiar with JavaScript. That's why I don't know how to do this. Can you help me please? Kind regards, – Doc TaxonTalk18:18, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[]

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Village pump thread on sticky header template update

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From what I can see, this patch should obviate the need for MediaWiki:Minerva.css#L-35, since the selectors no longer apply. Is that a valid statement? Izno (talk) 21:57, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[]

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At this edit, you changed class="nowrap" to class="tpl-para" at {{para}}. What does that class do? and where is it defined?

Trappist the monk (talk) 21:39, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[]

tpl- prefix generally means TemplateStyles, so i probably moved the styling into trmplatestyles. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 14:23, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[]
Ah no, in this case, i just wanted to have it have A class, so that ppl could still target it if they wanted to. Prefixed, to avoid clashes with Classnames from other places, like headings. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 14:26, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[]
Thanks, I wondered about that. I didn't find any use of it in user namespace, likely because no one knows that it exists (it isn't documented anywhere that I could find). Because it isn't used, I'm inclined to remove it.
I wonder if 'user' classes wouldn't be better named as such: user-class-<template name> for example?
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Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines is now white text on a pale green background and is virtually unreadable. Is it related to your changes to Wikipedia:Contents/styles.css regarding dark mode? Nthep (talk) 15:59, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[]

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Regarding VP colour

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Re this comment of yours:

Whatever you do, don't forget about dark mode whenever you pick colors nowadays. it has to be legible in both, or you need additional colors for dark mode.

I wanted to ask you how I should proceed, once the discussion closes in favour of a color. How does dark mode work and how can I make sure not to inadvertently break it? FaviFake (talk) 09:37, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[]

@FaviFake This is all described in Recommendations_for_night_mode_compatibility_on_Wikimedia_wikisTheDJ ( • contribs) 09:56, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[]
But more importantly. You are mostly presenting black text on light colors in the discussion. For larger areas of text, people in dark mode will likely prefer light text on a darker tint color. So you need to decide what color scheme should be used in the night mode. —TheDJ ( • contribs) 10:00, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[]
Thanks. This seems to be covered by this code in {{Village pump page header}}
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  • Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week 46 and 47: Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau.
  • Wikifunctions: The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off with six name proposals to vote for.
  • Reference check: The A/B test for reference check has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.
  • Image browsing: Wikimedia Foundation is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.
  • CampaignEvents extension: Campaign events extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features include Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List, plus a new feature, Collaborative contribution, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
  • Dark Mode: Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments. Learn how to activate this feature.
  • Wikimedia Apps: The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.
  • Usability Improvements: Improvements for talk pages is being rolled out. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in “Show discussion activity.”

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Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23

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  • CEO appointment: The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has appointed Bernadette Meehan as the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. She will be meeting communities around the puzzle globe when she officially joins on January 20, 2026.
  • Wikipedia's 25th birthday party: Join the virtual celebration for games, prizes, musical performances, volunteer spotlights, data visualization, surprise guests and more. January 15 at 16:00 UTC. Register on Meta.
  • Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees: Join the next Conversation with the Trustees on December 11 at 17:30 UTC.

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  • Wishathon: 15 patches were written and 5 merged, as part of a Wishathon for the Community Wishlist. One wish from the community was completed ("Preview page with this template" should not work with pages that do not transclude the template), and three more now have a clearer path forward.
  • Activity Tab on Mobile App: The Wikipedia iOS app is running an experiment that replaces the History tab with a redesigned Activity tab. This new tab surfaces personalized insights about reading, editing, and donations — all stored locally on your device for privacy. The goal is to see whether the new experience increases engagement and retention among logged-in readers.
  • Wikipedia Year in Review in Apps: The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 is now available for the iOS and Android apps. This year introduces new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs.
  • Add a Link: A feature that suggests links to be added to articles based on a prediction model, Add a link, has been deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time.
  • Abstract Wikipedia: The second round of voting on the name of Abstract Wikipedia concluded with Abstract Wikipedia as the top-voted name with 100 votes, followed by Wikigenerator with 91 votes. The name for the wiki project will now remain Abstract Wikipedia.
  • Anti-vandalism tool: Automoderator, now has the option to choose between two machine learning models to power the software on wikis using the tool.
  • Tools to support newcomers: Newcomers failing to add a citation to support added content has been one of the most common mistakes on Wikipedia. Reference Check, a tool that prompts them to add a citation before publishing an edit, has gone live for an A/B test on English Wikipedia.
  • Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 48 and week 49 include the Foundation working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful, and informative; and two new wikis being created: a Wikipedia in Toki Pona and a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin.
  • Infrastructure: Unifying our mobile and desktop domains achieved 20% faster mobile response times, improved SEO, and reduced infrastructure load.

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  • Legal win in France: Wikimedia Foundation secures crucial legal win in France against legal attacks on freedom of speech.
  • CEE Hub: Overview of three years of growth, learning, and regional impact of CEE Hub.
  • Don't Blink: The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
  • Digital Violence: How the Wikimedia movement is responding to digital gender based violence.
  • Wikimedia Research Showcase: The next research showcase will feature a special panel on "Experimentation on Wikipedia" and will take place on December 10 at 17:30 UTC.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 1

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  • Wikipedia turns 25: Time to start the party! Join the virtual celebration featuring musical performances, games, and more on January 15 at 16:00 UTC. and The party will be live interpreted into Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 2

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Highlights
Let's Talk continues

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
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"The Birthday Cake Song" is an original song created for Wikipedia's 25th Birthday, performed by the WikiChoir, featuring Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons content.

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Questions for upcoming signpost piece

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Hello, as a participant in the WMF annual planning discussion, I am hoping you can take some time to answer questions I made for a Signpost piece I am working on. Thanks! Czarking0 (talk) 15:57, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 3

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  • Wikipedia Library: Wikipedia Library gained new content partnerships, restored access to the British Newspaper Archive, and added an Arabic language academic resource with more than 7 million records.
  • Gender gap: The Celebrate Women 2026 campaign will run from March 1–31 to advance the achievements of the women’s rights and gender equity movement globally.
  • Annual Planning: The Annual Plan is the Wikimedia Foundation’s description of what we hope to achieve in the coming year. We invite you to shape this plan together with us. Between now and the end of June 2026, we will have continuous conversations about how global trends may shape our future, how we can experiment, adapt and respond together.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
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  • Patrolling improvements: 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.
  • Wikifunctions: How Abstract Wikipedia articles can be integrated into Wikipedia language editions to enable Wikipedians to write an abstract article once and have it available in many languages.
  • Suggestion Mode: A new Beta Feature for the VisualEditor, Suggestion Mode, is now available on English Wikipedia for experienced editors. This features proactively suggests actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, such as "add citation", "improve tone", or "fix an ambiguous link".
  • WDQS Blazegraph Migration: As part of the migration away from Blazegraph (the current backend of the Wikidata Query Service), an initial evaluation of open-source triple store candidates has been completed. Using the published evaluation methodology, performance, stability, and compatibility was assessed.
  • Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 06 and 07 include the new Watchlist labels feature that allows logged-in contributors to organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows. They also link to the 44 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 4

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Let's Talk continues

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

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

  • Etherpad cleanup: For security and performance reasons, all current pads on Wikimedia’s Etherpad instance, the web-based "ephemeral" editor for real-time collaborative document editing, will be permanently deleted after 30 April. We will continue running this Etherpad instance to support events and other short-term collaboration, but will be periodically deleting data going forward. If you have content in Etherpad you want to keep, please create local backups, as data will be permanently deleted and will not be able to be recovered.
  • Activity tab: Wikipedia iOS app has rolled out the improved Activity tab to all users in version 7.9.0. A/B test results showed increased account creation among users with access to the feature. Updates include enhanced editing impact insights, module customization, and relocation of History into the Search tab.
  • Reference Check: The feature Reference Check has been deployed to all Wikipedias. In A/B testing, the impact was substantial: newcomers shown Reference Check were approximately 2.2 times more likely to include a reference on desktop (or acknowledge/explain why they did not) and about 17.5 times more likely on mobile web.
  • Semantic search: The Foundation has launched a limited Android mobile app experiment that tests hybrid search capabilities which can handle both semantic and keyword queries. The Phase 1 beta is now live on Greek Wikipedia. The goal is to understand whether combining meaning-based retrieval with keyword search helps readers find information more effectively. Testing will expand to English, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias in March.
  • Navigation experience: The Foundation will run an experiment for mobile web users, that adds a table of contents and automatically expands all article sections, to learn more about navigation issues they face. The test will be available on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
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  • Site notices: Site notices (MediaWiki:Sitenotice and MediaWiki:Anonnotice) now will render on all platforms, not just on the desktop site. Users on mobile web will now see these notices and be informed.
  • Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 08 and 09 include the new “Edit full page” button for people who are editing a page-section using the mobile visual editor. They also link to the 40 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
  • Wikifunctions: Abstract Wikipedia is going to have its public preview within the next few weeks, here is the preview.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
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Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 5

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Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
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  • Experiments: The Foundation is frequently conducting experiments to help learn what features will be most effective and valuable to the projects. The list of experiments in Product and Technology, tracks upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments as well as their rationale. For example, the tracker shares that one upcoming experiment, Reader to Contributor Baseline, will measure how many readers create contributor accounts and whether the rate differs depending on how people arrived to the site.
  • Article guidance: Help less experienced editors by filling out a questionnaire on this page (available in 7 languages). The Foundation are looking particularly for experienced Wikipedia editors from these pilot wikis. Your answers will help customize guidance for less experienced editors while creating an article.
  • Wikifunctions: You can now create Functions that will show a citation in their output.
  • Editing feature: Suggestion Mode is available as a beta feature within the visual editor at all Wikipedias. This feature proactively suggests various types of actions that people can consider taking to improve Wikipedia articles, and learn about related guidelines.
  • Paste Check: Paste Check is now available at all Wikipedias. The feature prompts newcomers who are pasting text they are not likely to have written into VisualEditor to consider whether doing so risks a copyright violation.
  • Mobile experience: The user menu in the top corner for all mobile users is standardized so that it is closer to the desktop experience to improve the user interface for readers.
  • Two-factor authentication: For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Currently, 2FA is required to use the group, but not to be a member of it. Given that this model still has some vulnerabilities, the situation will gradually change in March.
  • Tech News: Latest updates from Tech News week 10 and 11 include the new GraphQL API has been released as a flexible alternative to select features of the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS). They also link to the 50 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 6

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  • Supporting the mobile experience: The Foundation is starting conversations with communities to explore how editing should work on the Wikipedia mobile apps. The goal is to understand how to better support both new and experienced editors, and how the app can guide users to the right editing tools. Your input is welcome. Join the discussion!
  • Wikimania 2026: Registration for Wikimania 2026 is opening soon from the end of March to May 1. Like other Wikimedia events this year, we are introducing a "request for invitation" process, with trust and safety checks conducted prior to confirming in-person attendance. Our priority is to create a safe environment for connection, collaboration, and shared learning.
  • Around the Puzzle Globe in the CEE region: On March 23 almost 60 Wikimedians took part in the CEE-Catch up- a meeting for Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. As a part of continuous conversations we have with the communities around the Foundation's annual plan, participants discussed the global trends related to Readers and Contributors in their regional context. The meeting was also an opportunity to connect with the new Foundation CEO, Bernadette Meehan, who is meeting communities around the puzzle globe to listen, learn and engage with the communities.

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

  • Crawlers: The Foundation is now detecting and blocking billions of bot requests that don’t follow our robot policy, such as aggressive scrapers, to make sure our resources go towards serving human readers. In the coming months we’ll be working on better detection of rapidly changing bot behavior and better API infrastructure.
  • Moderator tools for newer editors: Wikipedia editors in Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, and Simple English now have access to an early version of Special:PersonalDashboard. It introduces newer editors to patrolling workflows, making it easier for them to move from making edits to participating in more advanced moderation work on their project.
  • Account creation on mobile: Mobile editors at several wikis are now presented with a simplified logged-out warning message, which encourages them to create an account or log in. This test is part of our ongoing effort to enhance the account creation experience on mobile and increase participation.
  • Verification email redesign: The verification email sent to new accounts that add an email address during signup has been redesigned. When tested on English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikidata, the same-week email verification rate increased from 41.6% to 45.9%.
  • Retaining notification history: Wikimedia site users can export their notifications older than 5 years using a new Toolforge tool. This will ensure that users retain important notifications and avoid losing them based on the planned change to delete notifications older than 5 years, as previously announced.
  • Tech News: Latest highlights from Tech News weeks 12 and 13 include the update that Wikimedia site users can now log in without a password using passkeys as a secure method supported by fingerprint, facial recognition, or PIN. See also the 64 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
  • Experiments: Check out the list of experiments in Product and Technology to see all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments. One new experiment that just went live is the "Improve the logged-out warning message on mobile web," which aims to reduce the sense of friction or alarm when users encounter the logged-out warning upon editing.

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

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


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