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Grumpylawnchair is currently experiencing mental health issues, which may affect her Wikipedia editing in various ways. She may have difficulty with:

altered perception when making editorial judgements, determining consensus, or reading Wikipedia discussions addressed to her;
reduced availability on Wikipedia during times when she experiences issues;
limited capacity to respond to other Wikipedians via talk page or email messages in a timely fashion, to participate in conflict resolution, or to complete her usual workload of Wikipedia tasks.

Thank you for your understanding.

Expectations

Be civil.
Please don't use honorifics while referring to me; I'm not a sir or a ma'am/madam.
Remember that I am watching, always. I happen to be an omnipresent extraterrestrial being that doesn't get much sleep on most nights.

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Guild of Copy Editors 2023 Annual Report

Our 2023 Annual Report is now ready for review.

Highlights:

Introduction
Membership news, obituary and election results
Summary of Drives, Blitzes and the Requests page
Closing words

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The Signpost: 1 May 2025

News and notes: India cut off from Wiki money; WMF annual plan and Wikimedia programs seek comment

In the media: Feds aiming for WMF's nonprofit status

Recent research: How readers use Wikipedia health content; Scholars generally happy with how their papers are cited on Wikipedia

Arbitration report: Sysop Tinucherian removed and admonished by the ArbCom

Discussion report: Latest news from Centralized discussions

Traffic report: Of Wolf and Man

Disinformation report: At WikiCredCon, Wikipedia editors and Internet Archive discuss threats to trust in media

News from the WMF: Product & Tech Progress on the Annual Plan

Humour: Crisis erupts as furious admins, functionaries complain about crappy t-shirts

Comix: By territory

In focus: Using AI on the Russian Wikipedia: opportunities or challenges?

Community view: A deep dive into Wikimedia

Debriefing: Barkeep49's RfB debriefing

Gallery: Meet the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2024

Obituary: JarrahTree, JohnClarknew and Yashthepunisher

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Question from Krenovintz (14:02, 3 May 2025)

How do I upload a image --Krenovintz (talk) 14:02, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Krenovintz, and welcome to Wikipedia! Please see here for a simplified guide on uploading images. Grumpylawnchair (talk) 16:36, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A flower for you!

	A token of appreciation
	Thank you so much for taking the time to review Maria Mandl and for providing critique to improve it. The GA process turned out to be much less intimidating than I had anticipated, and I truly appreciate your kindness throughout. — Staniu lis ✿ 21:51, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-19

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Weekly highlight

The Wikimedia Foundation has shared the latest draft update to their annual plan for next year (July 2025–June 2026). This includes an executive summary (also on Diff), details about the three main goals (Infrastructure, Volunteer Support, and Effectiveness), global trends, and the budget and financial model. Feedback and questions are welcome on the talk page until the end of May.

Updates for editors

For wikis that have the CampaignEvents extension enabled, two new feature improvements have been released:
- Admins can now choose which namespaces are permitted for Event Registration via Community Configuration (documentation). The default setup is for event registration to be permitted in the Event namespace, but other namespaces (such as the project namespace or WikiProject namespace) can now be added. With this change, communities like WikiProjects can now more easily use Event Registration for their collaborative activities.
- Editors can now transclude the Collaboration List on a wiki page (documentation). The Collaboration List is an automated list of events and WikiProjects on the wikis, accessed via Special:AllEvents (example). Now, the Collaboration List can be added to all sorts of wiki pages, such as: a wiki mainpage, a WikiProject page, an affiliate page, an event page, or even a user page.
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

Developers who use the moment library in gadgets and user scripts should revise their code to use alternatives like the Intl library or the new mediawiki.DateFormatter library. The moment library has been deprecated and will begin to log messages in the developer console. You can see a global search for current uses, and ask related questions in this Phabricator task.
Developers who maintain a tool that queries the Wikidata term store tables (wbt_*) need to update their code to connect to a separate database cluster. These tables are being split into a separate database cluster. Tools that query those tables via the wiki replicas must be adapted to connect to the new cluster instead. Documentation and related links are available. [1]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on preparing to expand the deployment to additional wikis as soon as this week (starting May 6) and scaling up over the following weeks, plus exploring filtering and transforming source data.

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