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May thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in May. One of mine was Jadwiga Rappé. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:43, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

reasons to look at Bach (and listen): it's a recent GA (not by me), he assumed the position of Thomaskantor OTD in 1723, he's up for PR, and several of his cantatas for GA, and his Easter Oratorio for FAC --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:09, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

CVU training

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Hello, I'm Tankishguy. I'm asking that you Train me per WP:CVSCHOOL Even though You're full. Sorry if this is an inconvenience. Tankishguy (talk) 23:19, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red June 2025

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Women in Red | June 2025, Vol 11, Issue 6, Nos. 326, 327, 339, 340


Online events:

Announcements:

  • Who are the most overlooked and interesting Women in Red? We've no idea,
    but we're putting together our list of the 100 most interesting ex-Women in Red.
    We are creating the list to celebrate 10 years of Women in Red and we hope to present it at Wikimania.
    We are ignoring the obvious, so do you have a name or subject we should consider?
    Can you suggest a DYK style hook?
    If you are shy about editing that page, you are welcome to add ideas and comments on the talk page.
  • The World Destubathon, 16 June - 13 July, 2025

Progress ("moving the needle"):

  • Statistics available via Humaniki tool. Thank you if you contributed one or more of the 1,492 articles during this period!
  • 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280; 415,618 women)
  • 21 Apr 2025: 20.090% (2,061,363 bios; 414,126 women)

Tip of the month:

  • Every language Wikipedia has its own policies regarding notability and reliable sources.
    Before translating an article from one language Wikipedia into English Wikipedia, research
    the subject and verify that the translated article will meet English Wikipedia's policy requirements.

Other ways to participate:

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Tech News: 2025-23

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Weekly highlight

  • The Chart extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Editors can use this new extension to create interactive data visualizations like bar, line, area, and pie charts. Charts are designed to replace many of the uses of the legacy Graph extension.

Updates for editors

  • It is now easier to configure automatic citations for your wiki within the visual editor's citation generator. Administrators can now set a default template by using the _default key in the local MediaWiki:Citoid-template-type-map.json page (example diff). Setting this default will also help to future-proof your existing configurations when new item types are added in the future. You can still set templates for individual item types as they will be preferred to the default template. [1]
  • Recurrent item View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

  • Starting the week of June 2, bots logging in using action=login or action=clientlogin will fail more often. This is because of stronger protections against suspicious logins. Bots using bot passwords or using a loginless authentication method such as OAuth are not affected. If your bot is not using one of those, you should update it; using action=login without a bot password was deprecated in 2016. For most bots, this only requires changing what password the bot uses. [2]
  • From this week, Wikimedia wikis will allow ES2017 features in JavaScript code for official code, gadgets, and user scripts. The most visible feature of ES2017 is async/await syntax, allowing for easier-to-read code. Until this week, the platform only allowed up to ES2016, and a few months before that, up to ES2015. [3]
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Meetings and events

  • Scholarship applications to participate in the GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 are now open. The conference will take place from 30 October to 1 November, in Lisbon, Portugal. GLAM contributors who lack the means to support their participation can apply here. Scholarship applications close on June 7th.

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ITN recognition for Jim Marshall (defensive end)

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On 4 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Jim Marshall (defensive end), which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:53, 4 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewed Joshua Shim

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Can you please explain that you reviewed Joshua Shim and that it is backed by viable references and it passes GNG. Some users are trying to delete the article on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joshua Shim. Qb1Coach (talk) 05:46, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm reluctant on keeping the article now, mainly because I didn't look at the references clearly while reviewing and there is non-significant coverage that others argue, which I'm on board with by reviewing the sources. ~ Tails Wx 13:54, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I understand but couldn't we recommend to apply: for the time being. There could be promising turnouts. He has so many connections and links to other articles. Qb1Coach (talk) 14:13, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Even if that tag is added, it still would show that Shim may not meet notability guidelines, including GNG. Since the notability is not being shown at the moment, it's why the article is at AfD. ~ Tails Wx 04:20, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2025

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

Administrator changes

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added 0xDeadbeef

CheckUser changes

readded L235

Oversight changes

readded L235

Guideline and policy news

  • An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

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ITN recognition for Étienne-Émile Baulieu

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On 6 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Étienne-Émile Baulieu, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:47, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for John E. Thrasher

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On 6 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article John E. Thrasher, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:53, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anti-Vandalism Training Request

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I was wondering if you would be available to help me for anti-vandalism training. SabrGamr (talk) 15:20, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Shigeo Nagashima

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On 9 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Shigeo Nagashima, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 21:36, 9 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-24

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  • The Trust and Safety Product team is finalizing work needed to roll out temporary accounts on large Wikipedias later this month. The team has worked with stewards and other users with extended rights to predict and address many use cases that may arise on larger wikis, so that community members can continue to effectively moderate and patrol temporary accounts. This will be the second of three phases of deployment – the last one will take place in September at the earliest. For more information about the recent developments on the project, see this update. If you have any comments or questions, write on the talk page, and join a CEE Catch Up this Tuesday.

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  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to several more Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Afrikaans Wikipedia, Belarusian Wikipedia, Bengali Wikipedia, Welsh Wikipedia, Hawaiian Wikipedia, Icelandic Wikipedia, Kazakh Wikipedia, Simple English Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [8]
  • Recurrent item View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

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  • AbuseFilter editors active on Meta-Wiki and large Wikipedias are kindly asked to update AbuseFilter to make it compatible with temporary accounts. A link to the instructions and the private lists of filters needing verification are available on Phabricator.
  • Lua modules now have access to the name of a page's associated thumbnail image, and on some wikis to the WikiProject assessment information. This is possible using two new properties on mw.title objects, named pageImage and pageAssessments. [9][10]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Your draft article, Draft:Pluragrotta cave dive disaster

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Nomination of Freddy McKinney for deletion

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ITN recognition for Frederick Forsyth

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ITN recognition for Stu Wilson

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On 15 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Stu Wilson, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page.  — Amakuru (talk) 20:18, 15 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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ITN recognition for Sly Stone

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On 16 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Sly Stone, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 23:57, 16 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

rejected updates to Martin Curtis site

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Hi My edits to the wikipedia page for Martin Curtis were rejected, and I don't understand why? I manage Martin's website, and am trying to get the wikipedia page current, as it has very outdated information. 150.107.172.206 (talk) 07:47, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! The reason why I reverted your edits was because you added external links to the body of an article, which is generally not to be done. Also, if you are updating the information on his page, you should make changes with inline, reliable sources, and not external links/websites closely associated with the subject. Thanks! ~ Tails Wx 13:29, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A bowl of strawberries for you!

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Amazing work on Sly Stone!! So glad he made in to RD. Thriley (talk) 21:03, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, @Thriley! Always working to try and get articles to higher quality before they're posted. ~ Tails Wx 15:20, 18 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Globallycz (04:22, 20 June 2025)

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Hi Tails, I do my edits from a mobile phone. I havent tried inserting a photo. Wonder if visual editor funcrion is available using mobile to edit WP. Thanks in advance. --Globallycz (talk) 04:22, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Globallycz! I believe visual editor is available for editing WP through mobile (or through mobile view), but there are some limitations (WP:VELIM). Additionally, based on what I'm seeing, you unfortunately cannot add images through visual editor on mobile, but it is available to do so on desktop. An alternate that I do sometimes is to switch to desktop mode and add images through visual editor that way; another is to switch to source code following the instructions at Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. ~ Tails Wx 23:53, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Ralph J. Lamberti

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On 21 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Ralph J. Lamberti, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. PFHLai (talk) 15:55, 21 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for William Langewiesche

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On 22 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article William Langewiesche, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 10:07, 22 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

June thanks

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story · music · places

Thank you for improving article quality in June! - I heard this music, yesterday, - streamed a day before at a different location. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:42, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

While you are of course invited to check out my recommendations any day, today offers unusually a great writer of novels, music with light and a place with exquisite food. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:50, 28 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your WikiCup submission: ITNs

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Hi Tails, thanks for participating in the WikiCup. You recently submitted nine articles for ITN points in the WikiCup, Six are fine, but unfortunately three of them are ineligible for points per WP:WC/SCO:

I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Epicgenius (talk) 16:45, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh that's on me. Forgot a few of the rules; was basing it off of my ITN list and thought all were eligible. Didn't know there was a 2 week-limit too, thanks for catching that. ~ Tails Wx 17:43, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No problem, and sorry for the inconvenience. I forgot to mention one thing - it's the Main Page appearance, not the nomination, that needs to have occurred no more than 2 weeks before you nominate something for points. – Epicgenius (talk) 20:25, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Ron Taylor (baseball)

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Tech News: 2025-26

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ITN recognition for Frederick W. Smith

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On 23 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Frederick W. Smith, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:59, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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ITN recognition for Anne Burrell

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On 24 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Anne Burrell, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 21:49, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ITN recognition for Lucien Nedzi

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On 24 June 2025, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Lucien Nedzi, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Schwede66 23:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

May 2025 NPP backlog drive – Points award

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The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for accumulating at least 25 points during the May 2025 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions played a part in the 17,000+ articles reviewed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 19:40, 27 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2025 July newsletter

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The third round of the 2025 WikiCup ended on 28 June. This round was again competitive, with three contestants scoring more than 1,000 round points:

Everyone who competed in round 3 will advance to round 4 unless they have withdrawn. This table shows all competitors who have received tournament points so far, while the full scores for round 3 can be seen here. During this round, contestants have claimed 4 featured articles, 16 featured lists, 1 featured picture, 9 featured-topic articles, 149 good articles, 27 good-topic articles, and more than 90 Did You Know articles. In addition, competitors have worked on 18 In the News articles, and they have conducted more than 200 reviews.

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Question from Artem's pages on Concerts of Chembai (08:12, 30 June 2025)

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Hello! I need help making this article less of an advertisement. Here are my changes so far: 1. Removed 'established' from "These performances, described in contemporary accounts and biographies, trace his progression from a young artist to an established figure in Carnatic music." and changed 'an' to 'a' to match. 2. Changed 'noted' to 'known'. What can I do next? --Artem's pages (talk) 08:12, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red July 2025

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Women in Red | July 2025, Vol 11, Issue 7, Nos. 326, 327, 341, 342, 343


Online events:

Announcements:

Progress ("moving the needle"):

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  • 19 May 2025: 20.114% of EN-WP biographies are about women (2,066,280 bios; 415,618 women)
  • 23 Jun 2025: 20.130% (2,072,236 bios; 417,132 women)

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  • A nuanced article is more useful than a shiny pedestal. Readers can find hope in your subject's survival or achievements,
    but they can also learn from your subject's mistakes and limitations.

Other ways to participate:

--Lajmmoore (talk 09:22, 30 June 2025 (UTC) via MassMessaging[reply]

Guild of Copy Editors' June 2025 Newsletter

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Guild of Copy Editors June 2025 Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the June 2025 newsletter, a quarterly-ish digest of Guild activities since April. Don't forget you can unsubscribe at any time; see below.

Hall of Fame: Congratulations to Dhtwiki for their well-deserved addition to the Hall of Fame last month, and thanks to GoldRomean for the nomination.

Election news: Voting in the mid-year coordinator election ends at 23:59 on 30 June. Results will be announced at the election page.

April Blitz: 14 of the 25 editors who signed up for the April 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 92,769 words in 30 articles. Barnstars awarded are available here.

May Drive: 31 of the 54 editors who signed up for the May 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive copy edited 384,392 words in 216 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

June Blitz: 10 of the 12 editors who signed up for the June 2025 Copy Editing Blitz copy edited 26,652 words in 13 articles. Barnstars awarded are here.

July Drive: Our July 2025 Backlog Elimination Drive will begin on 1 July and finish on 31 July. Barnstars awarded will be posted here.

Progress report: As of 02:30, 30 June 2025 (UTC), GOCE copyeditors have completed 148 requests since 1 January, and the backlog stands at 2,270 articles.

Thank you all again for your participation; we wouldn't be able to achieve what we have without you! Cheers from your GOCE coordinators.

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:19, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-27

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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.

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  • AbuseFilter maintainers can now match against IP reputation data in AbuseFilters. IP reputation data is information about the proxies and VPNs associated with the user's IP address. This data is not shown publicly and is not generated for actions performed by registered accounts. [17]
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  • Wishlist item A new feature, called Favourite Templates, will be deployed later this week on all projects (except English Wikipedia, which will receive the feature next week), following a piloting phase on Polish and Arabic Wikipedia, and Italian and English Wikisource. The feature will provide a better way for new and experienced contributors to recall and discover templates via the template dialog, by allowing users to put templates on a special "favourite list". The feature works with both the visual editor and the wikitext editor. The feature is a community wishlist focus area.
  • Recurrent item View all 31 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused some Notifications to be sent multiple times. [20]

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  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:38, 30 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Collaboration question

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Hi Tails! Would you be interested on helping write a (hopefully) FA-class article for the 2024 Lakeview EF3 tornado? I've been drooling over this one for a while and finally think it's about time it gets the recognition it deserves. I've had a draft (Draft:2024 Indian Lake tornado) up for a while but haven't actually worked on it. I've already asked Departure–, who is available to help after working on Edwardsville Amazon warehouse collapse. :)
Also, I've given up on an FA rating for Greensburg tornado; just too much work needed. Looking for another potential tornado FA, so I picked this one as prospective. — EF5 01:22, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah! I'll try adding to the draft in the coming days/weeks. I feel like the Greensburg one also has potential even though there's more work to be done, just tidying up in my opinion. Feel free to ask for a collaboration on that too! ~ Tails Wx 15:31, 2 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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