Some time ago you activated your bot on our homewiki (SqWiki) to handle citation errors, and it’s been working great ever since. Recently, while fixing some lint errors, I came across your bot’s name again onWP:LINT and thought I’d reach out.
Would you be able to help us — either through your bot or your own experience — with cleaning up some of our lint errors? At least the high priority ones (around 35 in total currently, not counting Duplicate IDs). We have around 150K in total, everything included, but for many years now I’ve mostly been tackling them alone, except for a few rare occasions when editors from EnWiki stepped in — and ironically, their contributions made the biggest difference.
Thank you! Jonesey95 is one of the few EnWiki users I mentioned above who has already helped us solve quite some problems already (the others being WOSlinker and Malnadach). I was hoping not to disturb any of the said users any further. Haha! But maybe I can get some help in just emptying the high priority list. Nonetheless, thank you again! :) -Klein Muçi (talk)16:22, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I fixed a few high-priority errors for you. I recommend ignoring the duplicate IDs and the dark mode issues unless there are a lot of people who are interested in using and fixing dark mode on sq.WP. I didn't see many bot-fixable patterns among the high- and medium-priority errors. –Jonesey95 (talk)21:57, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jonesey95, thank you very much! Would you mind just solving the remaining 3 bogus options errors? I've been unable to fix those 2 related to the country data template for quite some years now, funny as it may seem. -Klein Muçi (talk)23:21, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Done. I fixed the flag templates by adding borders by default to the naval flags. I don't know if that is what editors want, but it fixes the Linter errors. –Jonesey95 (talk)00:49, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
My name is Ali Raza Baig, and I am new to Toptal. I wanted to ask for your guidance on [insert your topic here, e.g., getting my first project, improving my profile, or preparing for the screening test].
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My name is Ali Raza Baig, and I am new to Toptal. I wanted to ask for your guidance on [insert your topic here, e.g., getting my first project, improving my profile, or preparing for the screening test].
Could you please share your advice or tips on how I can succeed and attract clients effectively?
Latesttech 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
Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.
MediaWiki can now display apage indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled bycommunity request.[2]
Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content.[3][4][5]
Wikivoyage wikis can usecolored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed.[6]
The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.[7]
The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis.[8]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed.[9]
TheJWT subject field inOAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from<user id> tomw:<identity type>:<user id>, where<identity type> is typicallyCentralAuth: (forSUL wikis) orlocal:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and thesessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work.[11]
AREL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change.[13]
The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support.[14][15]
How do we stop unethical people from adding untrue and unrelated information on our company's Wikipedia page? We are being harassed by a group of people who disagree with a private matter in Cedarburg, WI, and they are trying to sabotage us. This harassment must stop, and we are afraid it's going to get worse. Please help us keep these off-topic comments off this page. What can we do? Thank you! Brenda Peiffer, Human Resource Manager, Gauthier Biomedical
Hi, I just submitted an article I wrote. I want to know how long until it is published, after review. It should (hopefully) be written properly with the right citations. --Ronaldgoldman (talk)20:20, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ronaldgoldman, it says at the topReview waiting, please be patient. This may take 2 months or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. The main thing reviewers look at is probably citations (specifically, in this case, to see whether it meetsWikipedia:Notability (people)). E.g. references to pr.com, the subject's own website, are useless for this purpose (but can still be used in the article to support the content). — Qwerfjkltalk21:25, 12 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Qwerfjkl, new editor here. Question about editing - I've discovered a page where the information is out of date (source no longer exists and latest info seems to be from 2020 -Homelessness in Seattle). I looked up a few sources that are more recent but they contain less information (i.e. they contain population numbers, but don't show racial disparity). Given this, would it be appropriate to update the population numbers and outright delete the racial percentages or better to update the population numbers and leave the racial percentages as-is even though the supporting source no longer exists? I know the best-case scenario answer is to find a separate up-to-date accurate source that contains information, but (as a more general question) what if this information doesn't exist/can't be found? Thanks. --BeautifulEyes22 (talk)01:01, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
BeautifulEyes22,Homelessness in Seattle#Measuring the growth of homelessness seems to go up to 2024, am I missing something? In terms of if you can't find a source, it does depend on context, but you could state the population figures as of [more recent year] and the racial figures as of [the less recent year]. If it's in a table which has data for multiple years, you can just leave it with a dash if there is no information available. — Qwerfjkltalk08:42, 14 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
LaundryPizza03, hopefullySpecial:Diff/1322370145 does what you want. Note that you will get unexpected behaviour if you have no internet connection when starting the nomination - it will just silently error when fetching the nomination page and the users, and those won't be edited. But if your edit cuts out whilst it's making the edits, it should work just fine. — Qwerfjkltalk21:44, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I see you have been assigned to me as a mentor, I have expertise in math/physics topics, so I am interested in how equations insertion/formatting works. Do you know of any official guides I could check out to learn more about that? --Ajheindel (talk)03:20, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, how do I make lettered efn notes without messing up and getting edits reverted like with Parliament of Pakistan article, please help me, I feel like I have failed as an editor --CharlesNelson1805 (talk)04:32, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Latesttech 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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TheReader Experience team is experimenting withreading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of theAccount Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
As part of theParser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in theExtension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the"Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag theContent Transform Team in Phabricator.
Unsupported Tools: Several issues withVideo2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check thePhabricator board.
Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026.Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please emailhackathon@wikimedia.org.
Hello! Voting in the2025 Arbitration Committee elections is now open until 23:59 (UTC) on Monday, 1 December 2025. Alleligible users are allowed to vote. Users with alternate accounts may only vote once.
TheArbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting theWikipedia arbitration process. It has the authority to impose binding solutions to disputes between editors, primarily for serious conduct disputes the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the authority to imposesite bans,topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. Thearbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail.
hello, is it okay to add people that died but didnt have an english article of them into the deaths in 2025 in the english version? or it needs to add into the deaths in 2025 but another language that the person's article exist. --Skaterlight2013 (talk)12:33, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! I would say this is okay as long as they have an article on another non-English wiki. If they have an article on another non-English wiki which doesn't exist on the English Wikipedia, you can see ourTranslation page for more, and maybe even create their English page in theArticle Wizard.
Skaterlight2013, ArkadenBoden is mostly correct, and you can add entries that exist on other languages with{{Interlanguage link}}. However, if the article was previously deleted on the English Wikipedia, it is likely not notable on enwiki - other languages have different standards for notability. (Though it could also be deleted for reasons unrelated to notability.) — Qwerfjkltalk22:28, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I've been learning for a while about editing articles, and I wanted to try writing an article. I found this not-so-well-known but very prominent? company with divisions all over the world and figured I'll start there. But I'm struggling to find sources other than the company's own website. Help me please? --Steve9990 (talk)12:08, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Steve9990, I assume you mean Centena Group? You can try the find sources links in the box at the top of the draft, but if you simply can't find reliable sources, the company might not be suitable for a Wikipedia article. — Qwerfjkltalk15:38, 19 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are:Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.Thank you!
ProfReader, you don't need to worry about "diff", it's already filled in (fwiw it means difference between revisions, i.e. a page representing the changes in the edit you made). To my knowledge, the standard thing to do is to use a descriptive title if there's no an actual one in the newspaper (e.g. Article about X, News and Courier page 3, etc.). It doesn't matter much what you choose if there's not an actual title in the source. — Qwerfjkltalk19:00, 20 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Question fromIlikecatsSDF (06:04, 22 November 2025)
Hi! I'm a bit new here. I was copyeditingSubstitutions of the Esperanto alphabet, and found some links to sections (e.x. the text "h-system" linked to #H-system). Is this fine, or should it be changed?
Comment/question: Do we really have to put a title if there is nothing identifiable as a title? Your bot called me out for putting the text "no title", but I think that was appropriate forthat page. Have a look and see what you think.Kelisi (talk)17:43, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Latesttech 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
Last week, theWikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching forcxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions forсчастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week.[17]
Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting"beta feature will have syntax highlighting available inDiscussionTools. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set.[18]
Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known asCollaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcominglearning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed.[19]
Updates for technical contributors
Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill therecruitment survey.[20]
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support forformat=xml&xlst={stylesheet} will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026).[21]
The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph orhttps://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review theData Access andRequest a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
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Ask any questions about the process at thetalk page. Later, a user talk message will be sent to official candidates with additional information about the process.
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