:Hi there! The idea is based around what is at [[WP:JOKE]]. I’ve seen some funny things before but it can sometimes be strange. It’s just another part of Wikipedia. [[User:ScrabbleTiles|ScrabbleTiles]] ([[User talk:ScrabbleTiles#top|talk]]) 18:31, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
:Hi there! The idea is based around what is at [[WP:JOKE]]. I’ve seen some funny things before but it can sometimes be strange. It’s just another part of Wikipedia. [[User:ScrabbleTiles|ScrabbleTiles]] ([[User talk:ScrabbleTiles#top|talk]]) 18:31, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
::I absolutely cannot forget [[Wikipedia:Don’t stuff beans up your nose/Uh-huh|this]]. Also, sorry if I sounded a bit mean in that message, I wasn’t in the greatest of moods then. [[User:Max the plain text|Max the plain text]] ([[User talk:Max the plain text|talk]]) 20:29, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
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Hello my mentor .how can I create a page —Prince Adebayo Ibrahim Osungbade (talk) 20:47, 30 November 2025 (UTC)
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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).
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:
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- 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)
my previous request to update the image was declind. i am resubmitting the update photo and kindly requsteng a review . the new image are more recent. clear and i am copyright holder and the artist, Thank you! Dilodoxan (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2025 (UTC)
How do I hire someone to do my wiki page? —Shanetheaussie (talk) 08:35, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hi there! I wouldn’t recommend hiring someone to make you a Wikipedia page, see WP:SCAM. Also, if you are thinking about an autobiography, see WP:AUTO. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 18:19, 3 December 2025 (UTC)
The discussion phase of the December 2025 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- Dec 4–8 – Discussion phase (we are here)
- Dec 9–15 – SecurePoll voting phase
- Scrutineering phase
We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Discussion phase.
On December 9, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate’s totals during the election. You must be extended confirmed to vote.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which typically lasts between a couple days and a week. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (you may want to watchlist this page) and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a candidate who has not been recalled must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and must also have received a minimum of 20 support votes. A candidate that has been recalled must have at least 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions (“crat chats”).
Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:47, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
News and updates for administrators from the past month (November 2025).
Administrator changes
CheckUser changes
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
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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. [4]
- 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. [5]
- 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. [6]
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. [7]
- 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. [8]
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
The voting phase of the December 2025 administrator elections has started and will continue until Dec 15 at 23:59 UTC. You can participate in the voting phase at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/December 2025/Voting phase.
As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:
- Dec 9–15 – SecurePoll voting phase
- Scrutineering phase
In the voting phase, the candidate subpages close to public questions and discussion, and everyone who qualifies to vote has a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for. Please note that the vote totals cannot be made public until after voting has ended and as such, it will not be possible for you to see an individual candidate’s vote total during the election. The suffrage requirements are similar to those at RFA.
Once voting concludes, we will begin the scrutineering phase, which will last for a few days, perhaps longer. Once everything is certified, the results will be posted on the results page (this is a good page to watchlist), and transcluded to the main election page. In order to be granted adminship, a non-recall candidate must have received at least 70.0% support, calculated as Support / (Support + Oppose), and a minimum of 20 support votes. Recall candidates must achieve 55.0% support. Because this is a vote and not a consensus, there are no bureaucrat discussions (“crat chats”).
Any questions or issues can be asked on the election talk page. Thank you for your participation. Happy electing.
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:06, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
Hi ScrabbleTiles, thanks for the message regarding the edit I made on the Ryan Caidic (poet) page. My apologies for missing an edit summary. That was an oversight on my part. The removals were intentional, since categories like Philippine literature refer to works rather than individual authors, so they shouldn’t be applied to a person’s page. The other categories I removed were for similar reasons. Thank you for the reminder, and I’ll make sure to provide clear edit summaries moving forward. ~2025-39689-01 (talk) 10:55, 10 December 2025 (UTC)
Hi Scrabble Tiles, I’ve written a Wikipedia entry on the company I work for and it was rejected due to sources and citations. Would you be able to review my draft and help me determine which sources the reviewer may have rejected? Thanks, Hillary —H is for Horticulture (talk) 20:51, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hi there! The reviewer didn’t reject any particular sources, just the article as a whole as they believe the sources you have don’t prove notability of the product. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 17:37, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
Follow-up question, I see company products listed on other company pages, in the box on the right. However, I cannot find the field to enter products. Do you know where to enter a products? —H is for Horticulture (talk) 20:57, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
- I assume you are referring to an infobox here. Could you tell me where you saw this and I can then try an help you out. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 17:38, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
Hey- I added a few things to the medical racism wiki after having done research on it in a course. There’s a pop up saying that there’s possible AI- which there most definitely was not. I think it’s because I write in dashes a lot. Should I go back in and edit it so there’s less dashes ? —Cateriely (talk) 17:45, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hi there! The article in general is tagged as being possibly being AI generated and has been since August. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 18:10, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
- Oh phew! Thanks ! Cateriely (talk) 18:31, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
Hello ScrabbleTiles!
I recently went ahead and edited the article for the Western Climate Initiative. Among my changes was updating the board of directors and removing Nova Scotia as an active member.
However, that would also mean changing the image of the map to reflect the withdrawal of Nova Scotia. I went ahead and made some note on the talk pages for the article and the file, but is there anything else I can do to get this image changes? (I saw something about requesting and image in another forum, but I am not sure how this is done.)
Please let me know your thoughts when you can!
Thank you,
Knowthebacon —Knowthebacon (talk) 22:38, 12 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hi there! The edits you made look fine. I don’t know where you ask for images to be changed, but I assume it would be somewhere like the Commons Graphics lab. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 18:13, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
Hello, ScrabbleTiles. I hope you don’t mind if I ask this, and I don’t mind if you can’t come up with a good response, but: why are there some parts of Wikipedia that are informal and weird? I thought this when I looked at the page User:Pythoncoder, where it brought me to the Department of Fun and other strange pages. —Max the plain text (talk) 20:50, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hi there! The idea is based around what is at WP:JOKE. I’ve seen some funny things before but it can sometimes be strange. It’s just another part of Wikipedia. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 18:31, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- I absolutely cannot forget this. Also, sorry if I sounded a bit mean in that message, I wasn’t in the greatest of moods then. Max the plain text (talk) 20:29, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
I think you should have left the article as reviewed so if it does not later pass AFD it gets deleted, so I do not get the need for marking it as unreviewed. Johnnstar (talk) 18:29, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- I marked it as unreviewed as I believe it needs checking further. ScrabbleTiles (talk) 18:33, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- well if AFD later results in Keep what then happens, would it be marked again as reviewed Johnnstar (talk) 18:35, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- If a reviewer thinks the article is acceptable, then yes ScrabbleTiles (talk) 18:54, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- well if AFD later results in Keep what then happens, would it be marked again as reviewed Johnnstar (talk) 18:35, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
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
- 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. [9]
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
externallinkstable 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. [10] - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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