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    Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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    Feedback requests from the Feedback Request Service

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    Zillennials

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    Hello! I hope you don’t mind me writing here — I really wish that there were messages on here so I could privately message people - I don’t think you had enough space to write out why the edit at Zillennials was reverted, and I was wondering if you could explain the rule to me. In case I have been accidentally doing it elsewhere lol. Brickto (talk) 10:41, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    I've explained it at Talk:Zillennials, thanks. Some1 (talk) 13:42, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Tech News: 2025-15

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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

    Updates for technical contributors

    • The Design System Team is preparing to release the next major version of Codex (v2.0.0) on April 29. Editors and developers who use CSS from Codex should see the 2.0 overview documentation, which includes guidance related to a few of the breaking changes such as font-size, line-height, and size-icon.
    • The results of the Developer Satisfaction Survey (2025)  are now available. Thank you to all participants. These results help the Foundation decide what to work on next and to review what they recently worked on.
    • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

    Meetings and events

    • The 2025 Wikimedia Hackathon will take place in Istanbul, Turkey, between 2–4 May. Registration for attending the in-person event will close on 13 April. Before registering, please note the potential need for a visa or e-visa to enter the country.

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    The Signpost: 9 April 2025

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    Feedback request: Biographies request for comment

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    Tech News: 2025-16

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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

    • Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [2]
    • File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [3][4]

    Updates for editors

    • The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
    • To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [5]
    • "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
    • On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
    • The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
    • Recurrent item View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

    Updates for technical contributors

    • The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
    • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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    MediaWiki message delivery 00:22, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Feedback request: Society, sports, and culture request for comment

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    Feedback request: Religion and philosophy request for comment

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    Feedback request: Wikipedia policies and guidelines request for comment

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    Tech News: 2025-17

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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

    • Wikifunctions is now integrated with Dagbani Wikipedia since April 15. It is the first project that will be able to call functions from Wikifunctions and integrate them in articles. A function is something that takes one or more inputs and transforms them into a desired output, such as adding up two numbers, converting miles into metres, calculating how much time has passed since an event, or declining a word into a case. Wikifunctions will allow users to do that through a simple call of a stable and global function, rather than via a local template. [6]
    • A new type of lint error has been created: Empty headings (documentation). The Linter extension's purpose is to identify wikitext patterns that must or can be fixed in pages and provide some guidance about what the problems are with those patterns and how to fix them. [7]
    • Recurrent item View all 37 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

    Updates for technical contributors

    • Following its publication on HuggingFace, the "Structured Contents" dataset, developed by Wikimedia Enterprise, is now also available on Kaggle. This Beta initiative is focused on making Wikimedia data more machine-readable for high-volume reusers. They are releasing this beta version in a location that open dataset communities already use, in order to seek feedback, to help improve the product for a future wider release. You can read more about the overall Structured Contents project, and about the first release that's freely usable.
    • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

    Meetings and events

    • The Editing and Machine Learning Teams invite interested volunteers to a video meeting to discuss Peacock check, which is the latest Edit check that will detect "peacock" or "overly-promotional" or "non-neutral" language whilst an editor is typing. Editors who work with newcomers, or help to fix this kind of writing, or are interested in how we use artificial intelligence in our projects are encouraged to attend. The meeting will be on April 28, 2025 at 18:00–19:00 UTC and hosted on Zoom.

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    MediaWiki message delivery 20:58, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Apologies

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    I did not mean to ruffle any feathers by post on BLPN about Taylor Lorenz. I see that it's a very contentious article and was hoping for some guidance, but I see it may have come across as aggressive, so I'm sorry for that.

    Regards, i know you're a dog (talk) 22:12, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Iknowyoureadog No worries and no need to apologize! Some1 (talk) 22:17, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Feedback request: Language and linguistics request for comment

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    Feedback request: Politics, government, and law request for comment

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    Your feedback is requested at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) on a "Politics, government, and law" request for comment. Thank you for helping out!
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    Tech News: 2025-18

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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

    • Event organizers who host collaborative activities on multiple wikis, including Bengali, Japanese, and Korean Wikipedias, will have access to the CampaignEvents extension this week. Also, admins in the Wikipedia where the extension is enabled will automatically be granted the event organizer right soon. They won't have to manually grant themselves the right before they can manage events as requested by a community.
    • Recurrent item View all 19 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

    Updates for technical contributors

    • The release of the next major version of Codex, the design system for Wikimedia, is scheduled for 29 April 2025. Technical editors will have access to the release by the week of 5 May 2025. This update will include a number of breaking changes and minor visual changes. Instructions on handling the breaking and visual changes are documented on this page. Pre-release testing is reported in T386298, with post-release issues tracked in T392379 and T392390.
    • Users of Wiki Replicas will notice that the database views of ipblocks, ipblocks_ipindex, and ipblocks_compat are now deprecated. Users can query the block and block_target new views that mirror the new tables in the production database instead. The deprecated views will be removed entirely from Wiki Replicas in June, 2025.
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    MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Hey Some1

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    I saw this just now and just wanted to say I didn't think the original edit was that bad, but I get that feeling completely. It's the same one I had when the Delphi thing happened and everyone kept pointing back to a almost year and a half old RfC as being some like eternal thing that was set in stone even when the media was having a field day with covering Richard Allen. For what its worth, I am kind of confused on why people want it excluded so bad regarding Lorenz - she wrote an article which was in itself kind of controversial, she went on to defend it and was misquoted, and dragged for it. Having read her substack post on it, she made some fair points. I don't always agree with what she says but she is a good reporter.

    There was an article I ran across recently discussing her Wikipedia recently and how her article seems super biased in favor of her with how we (editors) leave stuff off that is negative but include everything positive and I couldn't help but agree in some cases. It was an interesting forum post some place but it seemed based on facts and evidence more than opinions. I wish I could find it again but it was one of those 3AM binge scroll finds lol. Anyways, I hope you have a good day. Take care! Awshort (talk) 09:52, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

    Thanks, Awshort. Had a headache last night and went to bed early, so apologies for the late response. During my time here, I don't think I've ever seen an editor revert another editor solely because a suspect's name was in the URL (or source headline), so the Delphi murders article holds a bit of a precedent for me. But now that we have an RfC regarding names in the URLs and headlines (two years later, but better late than never), we (or I guess, I) can refer to that rather than bringing up the Delphi murders article in future discussions, lol. And I agree that it's always interesting to see how our casual readers perceive the Wikipedia articles here compared to how we, as editors, view them. Anyway, thanks for your comment and for sharing your perspective on things. Have a great rest of your week and enjoy the nice Spring weather! Some1 (talk) 12:24, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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