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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Reform_UK "leader in" in phrase "Farage stepped down as leader in March 2021" is not promotional GothicGolem29 (Talk) 02:38, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #708

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-01. Missed the previous one? See issue #707.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

  • Nov 27: The Wikibase Community User Group met for a Wikibase Live Session and to discuss the Federated Values demonstration.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile editing of statements:
    • We have added editing support for more data types (entity IDs, geographical shapes and tabular data).
    • It is now available as a beta feature on test.wikidata.org. You can enable it here.
  • Wikidata integration in Wikipedia and co: We are rolling out improvements to the Databox Lua module to a number of Wikipedias to make it easier to have out-of-the-box Wikidata-powered infoboxes
  • Ontology federation: We are making progress with making it possible to use Wikidata Item's as statement values in other Wikibase instances
  • GraphQL: We are continuing the work on the prototype, focusing on getting data from a batch of Items
  • Wikidata Query Service: The Wikidata Platform team is working on benchmarking of different replacement options for Blazegraph, the software powering the Wikidata Query Service

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

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Tech News: 2025-49

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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

  • The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
  • The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
  • Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. 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. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
  • Recurrent item View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [1]
  • Two new wikis have been created:

Updates for technical contributors

  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I see you are active at the Teahouse, so I put you in as a featured host (see Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host/Featured/10). Feel free to customize the picture to your liking. Interstellarity (talk) 15:39, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Interstellarity Thank you! I have added an image. Polygnotus (talk) 15:54, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Translated

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Information icon Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you translated text from nl:Graf met de handjes to Grave with the Hands. While you are welcome to translate Wikipedia content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the contributor(s) of the original article. When translating from a foreign-language Wikipedia article, this is supplied at a minimum in an edit summary on the page where you add translated content, identifying it as a translation and linking it to the source page. Sample wording for this is given here. If you forgot, or were not aware of this requirement, attribution must be given retroactively, for example:

NOTE: Content in the edit of 01:25, January 25, 2023 was translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Exact name of French article]]; see its history for attribution.

Retroactive attribution may be added using a dummy edit; see Repairing insufficient attribution. It is good practice, especially if translation is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{translated page}} template on the talk page of the destination article. If you have added translated content previously which was not attributed at the time it was added, you must add attribution retrospectively, even if it was a long time ago. You can read more about author attribution and the reasons for it at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 07:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenLipstickLesbian I started the article, but as far as I can remember I didn't actually use the Dutch article. I don't see Wikipedia as a reliable source so I am more likely to just use the sources themselves. I can add a null edit tho if you like. Polygnotus (talk) 07:23, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There's no need, I did that for you.
Meaning no disrespect to your memory (mine's rubbish), I'd find it hard to believe that you didn't draw from the Dutch article: compare this revision[4] with [5], and if you'd like a particular example them look at the paragraphs:

The cemetery Nabij Kapel in ’t Zand, colloquially known as "Oude Kerkhof" (the 'Old Cemetery'), originally served as a Jewish burial ground. By the late 18th century, it was expanded to accommodate other residents of Roermond. Architect Pierre Cuypers undertook a redesign of the cemetery in 1858, creating separate sections for Catholic and Protestant burials, divided by a wall.

(from the former)
and

The cemetery "Nabij de Kapel in 't Zand," popularly known as the "Oude Kerkhof," was originally a Jewish cemetery. At the end of the 18th century, it was expanded to include burial space for other residents of Roermond. Architect Pierre Cuypers redesigned the cemetery in 1858. Among other things, a Catholic and a Reformed section were established, separated by a wall.

(from the latter)
GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 07:28, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@GreenLipstickLesbian Thanks. It is certainly possible, but I can't really give a definitive answer so I go with a politicians "can't confirm or deny".
It is also possible this comes from the same source. I probably still have the backup in cold storage somewhere, so I could probably look it up if you want, but I do not remember so far back. Polygnotus (talk) 07:33, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Never believe anything until it's been officially denied", that's my motto!
Possible, but I hope not. I translate articles from other Wikipedias sometimes (though not for a while - Lee Dong-hwan (diplomat) is my last, I believe). It's fine. You have to check and source everything, but it's free content so you can pretty much do what you like with it. Unless your same source happens to be public domain, learning that you both took closely from a 3rd party source would be very scary. GreenLipstickLesbian💌🧸 07:40, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@GreenLipstickLesbian My wife wins every discussion because she just sounds so confident and I have no clue if what she is claiming (but you said...) is true or not so I just fold in every debate. If she wanted to she could take advantage of my terrible memory so I just have to hope she doesn't. Polygnotus (talk) 07:52, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #709

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236)
    • We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069)
    • We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (phab:T400676)
    • We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928)
    • We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247)
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
  • GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Administrators' newsletter – December 2025

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

Administrator changes

added
readded Valereee
removed

CheckUser changes

removed Spicy

Technical news

  • Starting on November 4, the IP addresses of logged-out editors are no longer being publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account associated with their edits.
  • Administrators will now find that Special:MergeHistory is now significantly more flexible about what it can merge. It can now merge sections taken from the middle of the history of the source (rather than only the start) and insert revisions anywhere in the history of the destination page (rather than only the start). T382958

Miscellaneous

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Tech News: 2025-50

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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

  • Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

  • Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
  • Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
  • Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
  • Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [6]
  • The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
  • A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [7]
  • Recurrent item View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [8]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [9]
  • Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [10]
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DuplicateReferences false-positive

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Gregory Retallack https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995Pbio...21..393W — GreenC 18:16, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Claude vs Gemini

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Thanks for the info. I haven't tried Gemini, will do so soon. Do you think Claude is better? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 15:31, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus Less bad. I strongly prefer Claude. Polygnotus (talk) 15:40, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In that case, I would gladly take the key if you have working ones to share. Best email me at my name at gmail. TIA. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:03, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Piotrus Take what you received by email and add this to it -7Iw3jtUTRRTeDG5ktvNPczCD6w-uEXo1QAA and then you have a working Claude key. Autoreload is disabled and you got a couple bucks. Polygnotus (talk) 01:17, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. Any estimate what is the cost of a single article run? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Piotrus 2 or 3 USD cents maybe? Depends a bit on the length of the article. You can do about 160 articles with what is left in the account I think. Polygnotus (talk) 10:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2025 Issue 23

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Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on November 21. This will be the final bulletin for 2025 and we'll be back in late January 2026 with the next issue. Please help translate.

Upcoming and current events and conversations
Let's Talk continues

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.
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Pilot deviation

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Hello. About 16 days ago, you reached out to me saying that you wanted me to "take a look for errors and omissions" in Pilot deviation. And you later said, "I find it difficult writing about a topic I am no expert in." which, I think, casually means that you're calling me an expert in that subject of article.... no? So I was just curious as to why you reached out to me and how you knew I basically existed since we never interacted before. I'm not saying that "Why in the world did you reach out to me?", I'm just saying, "Huh, I'm curious why you reached out to me, very interesting". No offense given here, just purely curiosity. Thank you. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 19:35, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, yes, we technically did interact before. I use your duplicate ref detector script and it's really great and helpful. Thank you for that. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 19:36, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Ivebeenhacked Hi! Hm, I don't really remember and I don't store my browser history that long. Possibly because you were listed on WikiProject Aviation and I liked your username? I am not sure. Polygnotus (talk) 22:55, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, I understand. I was just being curious. Thank you. Hacked (Talk|Contribs) 22:58, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #710

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
    • We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602, phab:T400676)
  • GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576)
  • REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-51

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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

  • Recurrent item View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [11]

Updates for technical contributors

  • To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [12]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Test

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This is a test. PolygnotusTest (talk) 21:11, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is also a test. PolygnotusTest (talk) 12:17, 16 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Passwords

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I'm curious about your comment "The kind of people who need help when they forget their password should use Bitwarden not KeePass. And most people who use KeePass should probably use KeePassXC". Why do you think Bitwarden and KeePassXC are better than Keepass? And p.s. I don’t use any browser plugins for passwords; Keepass can do autotype and of course copy/paste is easy enough. David10244 (talk) 04:15, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@David10244 Relevant Teahouse link.
  • The KeePassXC website explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePass (They may or may not be a bit biased. Possibly.) and mentions one of the problems with KeePass. It also explains why KeePassXC is better than KeePassX.
  • I think that most KeePass users don't need help when they lost their password (being relatively nerdy and more educated on the topic, on average, in my estimation), and Bitwarden is more userfriendly for a wider range of people.
Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Polygnotus I'm a bit late, but thanks for the info. The supposed disadvantage that KeePass only works on Windows, and requires the .NET runtime, is not a disadvantage to me -- because I also only work in Windows, and I write code that uses .NET. 🙂 I don't use any KP plugins, and I have not considered KeePassX.
But I am now experimenting with KeePassXC, based on your comment. I think it looks slightly better than KeePass -- although not by a huge margin. I haven't decided whether to switch yet.
(Your link labeled "problems" goes to the FAQ page. The FAQ page doesn't really explain why KPXC is better than KP except for that one cross-platform thing. The other Q&A's apply to KP and KPXC both, or apply to all password managers... And yeah, I am nerdy enough to not need something that might be great for a wider audience. But now I understand what you meant by "the kind of people...")
I appreciate you taking the time to answer. I'll keep experimenting with KPXC and see how it goes! Thanks. David10244 (talk) 05:37, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 17 December 2025

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About Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-12-17/Interview

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If you want the section hatted, please hat it. Don't just undo me without actually hatting things. I've made the a similar request to PresN on their user talk as well. Right now both of you are reverting me, which means both of yall's extended bickering is on the page in a format that negatively affects the actual discussion of the topics. Soni (talk) 05:42, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Soni Yeah I saw you hatted it but that was undone unfortunately. Generally speaking I prefer hatting over cutting and pasting because hatting ensures the timeline is still easy to follow. Often but not always it is best if someone uninvolved does the hatting. I did make a script for that at some point but it is far from production ready:
User:Polygnotus/Scripts/Timeline.js
It shows a slider under the section headers. If you click it and move your mouse to the left and right you can travel through time. It only appears on talkpages when there are 10 or more messages in a discussion. This can be helpful when many people participate in a multi-threaded discussion. Polygnotus (talk) 05:48, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A Very Merry Christmas to you!

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Hello there. 'Tis the season again, believe it or not, the years pass so quickly now! Your contributions to Wikipedia in 2025 are greatly appreciated! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas, and here's to a happy and productive 2026! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:12, 18 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Dr. Blofeld Thank you! Merry Christmas to you and yours and various others. Polygnotus (talk) 10:32, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your archives

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Hello, Polygnotus! Not here to get on your case or anything, just curious: is there a reason your last twenty or so archive pages have only one topic each? Or is it perhaps an incorrect bot-instructions configuration? (As a manual archiver myself, I have little idea how those work.)—Odysseus1479 21:31, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Odysseus1479 Yeah its because I messed up with some script or bot setting and then instead of dealing with it I just shrugged and ignored it. Polygnotus (talk) 21:36, 19 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Fixed Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 07:03, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #711

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-22. Missed the previous one? See issue #710.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Vitaly Zdanevich
  • New requests for permissions/Bot: Title markup bot - Task(s): There is a variety of HTML markup found in , violating various constraints on the property. The following task description is for a bot that can start the required cleanup process. I would like to request permission to implement the functionality outlined here as a first iteration, on the understanding that it will be extended and refined to cover more cases. It will operate within the limitation that it will only modify values, add qualifiers and update labels to keep them in-line with altered titles.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Timetrail - is a website that visualizes the movement of Wikidata items over time by mapping their associated events and locations.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We added an indicator showing which Properties are not yet supported when creating new statements in mobile editing (T412719)
    • We continued working on showing constraint violations on mobile (T411602, T411608)
    • We are working on musical notation statements on mobile (T407247)
    • We are improving error handling for incorrectly filled and unfilled fields in mobile editing (T408928)

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Tech News: 2025-52

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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

  • From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [13]
  • The next issue of Tech News will be sent out on 12 January 2026 because of the end of year holidays. Thank you to all of the translators, and people who submitted content or feedback, this year.
  • Recurrent item View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [14]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [15]
  • Recurrent item There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

  • The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:43, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yo Ho Ho!

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ϢereSpielChequers is wishing a foaming mug of Seasons Greetings! Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's Solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus or even the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for almost everyone!

Spread the holiday cheer by adding {{subst:User:WereSpielChequers/Dec25}} to your friends' talk pages.

@WereSpielChequers Thank you! Merry Christmas and happy holidays and all that! I recommend picking a handful of holidays and celebrating them all at the same time! Polygnotus (talk) 03:07, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I tried SectionLinks but uninstalled it because the icons were too big. Adding a class would let users customize to their preference. How about, |class="sect-link", |class="sect-link-perm", and |class="sect-link-oldid", or you pick. Also, I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script, but I'd rather have the icons after the section name (and also superscripted and small, but I can do that with the classes). Thanks! Mathglot (talk) 02:57, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mathglot Good idea, thanks!  Done Merry Christmas and happy holidays! Polygnotus (talk) 03:05, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mathglot Please test User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js and let me know what you think.
I don't know if there is a way to offer options in a script Kinda sorta, it can store settings in localStorage. Not ideal but better than nothing. Polygnotus (talk) 03:28, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also I think you can db-g7 User:Mathglot/Foo.js at this point. Polygnotus (talk) 04:17, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Working on it; not doing what I expected; not seeing any icons (with ...2) but maybe something's up with my css. With the main script, I get the icons for H2 headers, but not H3, or H4. Currently installed is SectionLinks2.js; test bed at User:Mathglot/sandbox7. Feel free to add more tests there, or copy to jump-start your own. May not get back to it tonight, not sure yet. Mathglot (talk) 04:38, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mathglot I should probably add h2/h3/h4 as a setting. Snævar's comment here led to Quarry 100236 and then I posted the output and Wikipedia:User scripts/Most imported scripts to Claude and it spit out:
  • Position 143: User:Quarl/util.js - 161 total users, 16 active users, inactive for 7,256 days (~19.9 years)
  • Position 212: User:Topaz/comm.js - 101 total users, 1 active user, inactive for 7,276 days (~19.9 years)
It isn't correct, but its worth further investigation.
I have to do some things but will probably return to this soonish.
Note that the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js contains a typo.
Compare:
importScript( 'User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js // assisting testing...
importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // assisting testing...
Your common.js also imports User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/generatedoi.js which won't work since that url is a 404.
Polygnotus (talk) 04:49, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note to self look at [16] test here User:Polygnotus/tmp/testsectionlinks
Oh, thanks for the tips! If I'm not around later, I'll be back tomorrow. Happy holidays! Mathglot (talk) 05:45, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ran into a more serious problem that is a dealbreaker for me, though perhaps not for others. I use script User:BrandonXLF/ShowRevisionID which adds revision ids to history and contrib pages. This is like a killer app for me, and I depend on it. The SectionLinks script somehow interacts with it, so that when both are installed, ShowRevisionID stops working. Not sure what is going on, or which one should be changed, but maybe you could look into it. If the locus of the problem is in his script, Brandon is around, but not a lot, and if you feel like forking his script instead of waiting and adjusting it so it plays nice with SectionLinks, I'll install both; otherwise, I'll just keep his, as I can't do without it, now. (Sort of like mobile phones, that none of us knew we needed until we had one.) Anyway, happy Holiday, and talk when you get back! Mathglot (talk) 01:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mathglot The SectionLinks script does not and cannot interfere with the ShowRevisionID script.
The reason you experienced problems is because part of the last line of User:Mathglot/common.js is missing.
Remove the last line and use this instead:
importScript('User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js'); // Backlink: [[User:Polygnotus/tmp/SectionLinks2.js]]
Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Season's Greetings

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Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2026!

Hello Polygnotus, may you be surrounded by peace, success and happiness on this seasonal occasion. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Sending you heartfelt and warm greetings for Christmas and New Year 2026.
Happy editing,
Abishe (talk) 16:32, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the love by adding {{subst:Seasonal Greetings}} to other user talk pages.

Abishe (talk) 16:32, 26 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Merry Christmas! Polygnotus (talk) 07:53, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #712

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-29. Missed the previous one? See issue #711.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

  • Videos:
    • (Indonesian) Introduction to Wikifunctions presented by NikolasKHF (Niko). In this session, Niko introduced Wikifunctions project, how to edit a function, how to add an implementation and test, and demonstrated them. This is the first Wikifunctions training in Indonesian. Slides are available on Commons.
    • (Indonesian) Wikidata for Academician presented by Wikimedia Indonesia's Data and Technology team. They introduced Wikimedia Indonesia, and then explained Wikidata, its underlying concepts and a glance to its history, how to add statements and references, how to query with Wikidata Query Services, Wikidata and its potential in research fields, Wikiprojects and Wikidata:For development resources. Slides are available on Commons.

Tool of the week

  • WD-NearbyItems : browse Wikidata Items nearby
  • Quizicle is a daily quiz/puzzle game that's not really a quiz and not really a puzzle. Deduce the answer from crossword-style clues with hot/cold feedback.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • No development happened in the past week as the team are on holidays. Happy new year everyone!

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Exomoon "massive" in phrase "signature, massive" is not promotional Chronos.Zx (talk) 04:50, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Do you have login problem by PAWS?

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Hi, Polygnotus. I see you uses the tool PAWS. I cann't login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ since last Saturday. I reported that at [17], but I cann't still login. I have not access to Phabricator to see of somebody is working about it or not. But my first question is maybe I'm the solely who have problem to login. I ask you, can you login to https://hub-paws.wmcloud.org/ nowadays? If you have too problem, do you know somebody who can help us? Thank you and sorry for my English. Leonprimer (talk) 19:28, 30 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Leonprimer Hello! There was a problem, see T413510. It is fixed now. Polygnotus (talk) 15:13, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback request: All RFCs request for comment

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Happy New Year, Polygnotus!

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Happy New Year!

Polygnotus,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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   Send New Year cheer by adding {{subst:Happy New Year fireworks}} to user talk pages.

Volten001 ☎ 05:17, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Happy new year! Polygnotus (talk) 18:59, 1 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikidata weekly summary #713

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2026-01-05. Missed the previous one? See issue #712.

Discussions

  • Open request for adminship: Morne06 - RfP scheduled to end after 8 January 2026 20:35 (UTC)
  • Closed request for adminship: Ppolar bear - general consensus is to reapply after gaining more experience.
  • New request for comments: Notability policy reform: first drafted in 2013, Wikidata has grown vastly since the original Notability policy was created. This first-round discussion is intended to collect ideas, comments, and reflections on how to improve the Notability Policy for what Wikidata currently is and will become.

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Broomstick is a tool by Wikicollabs it uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.
  • Explore your Wikimedia activity year in review with Wiki Year in Review
  • Wikilokal (Android version): explore the world within a 3 km radius by Affandy Murad

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • No development happened in the past week as the team are just returning from the holidays.

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Rock_wren "leading" in phrase "leading up to" is not promotional(cool script btw) monkeysmashingkeyboards (talk) 20:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]