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Been thinking recently about how much Wikipediadoes act as a social network, and how valuable that can be. Articles aren't social media, of course, but Wikipedia is an encyclopediaand a community, and healthy volunteer communities need to foster forms of communication that aren't strictly "talking shop". In that spirit, how about some music talk. Might just be me sharing, but who knows.

Occasionally sharing songs/albums that I find myself listening to repeatedly. Starting this at the end of 2022, so here's what I've been listening to this year. And yeah, it's all over the place.

• Punk Rock Loser byViagra Boys (spotifyyoutube). Filed under "they still make this kind of music?" Swedish post-punk band that seems to really enjoy making fun of manosphere-like themes, singing about sports and cowboys and being dumb and trying to be cool with all the blasé and irony of the best Williamsburg barista.
• This Town byThe Go-Go's (spotify). I'm very, very late to the Go-Go's train. Been humming this one on and off for a month.
• Cool Jerk byThe Capitols (spotify), which I've recently discovered is the best karaoke song.
• Money Folder byMadvillain remixed byFour Tet (spotify).Madvillainy is an excellent album, but I find that I only ever listen to Four Tet's remixes anymore, which just ramp up the energy and musical weirdness.
• Power! To the People byThe Make-Up (spotify). When I first came across The Make-Up circa 2003, they just seemed like they were trying too hard to be 70s-cool to the point it all came off as affectation rather than inspiration. Couldn't say what happened, but it works for me 20 years later.
• Mnemophobia by Brainstory (spotify). Smooth, catchy r&b falsetto + electric guitar + harmonies.
• Nobody Speak (youtube) & Blockbuster Night, Pt. 1 (spotify) byRun the Jewels. Run the Jewels go hard -- the music, the often hilarious insults and braggadocio, and social commentary. Nobody Speak was my introduction, with an excellent video.
• Fingerbib by Alarm Will Sound (spotify), just a great orchestral cover ofAphex Twin.
• Such a Lovely Thing byDeVotchKa (spotify). I don't remember who they opened for, but I saw DeVotchKa at some live show back in ~2005 and they were clearly the most memorable thing about that concert. Most ofHow It Ends is excellent. The fun instrumentation could easily slip into saccharine indie pop, but Nick Urata's absolutely-always-earnest-and-passionate vocals keep it grounded. —Rhododendrites^talk \\18:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Rebel Girl byBikini Kill (spotifyyoutube).Kathleen Hanna is the coolest. Bikini Kill is a band that makes it into my regular rotation every few years. This time it was because Hanna did an interview with Marc Maron. One thing I remember from the interview: when she formed Bikini Kill there were a lot of really macho, kind of misogynistic hardcore bands (assuming maybeCro-Mags?Agnostic Front?). As she started getting booked (or doing the booking), she'd talk about the various bands playing a show and, if one of those hardcore bands were in there, just refer to them as "stand-up comedy".
• I Keep Forgettin' byMichael McDonald (spotifyyoutube). Smooth.
• Damaged Goods byGang of Four (spotifyyoutube). I remember giving Gang of Four a shot a long time ago, and it just didn't work for me, but when I came across this track recentl, something about their [kind of simple] funk-punk was just super infectious -- hard not to move around a bit.
• Cirice byGhost (spotifyyoutube). Ghost is basically what would happen if you took a metal band straight out of the late-80s/early-90s and put a theater kid in front. This particular track leans a little more metal than e.g.Mary on a Cross, but the theater is still there.
• Never Fight a Man with a Perm byIdles (spotifyyoutube). If you took an angry, violentPeaky Blinders villain, gave him a punk band, and caught him in a moment of loud, slightly drunk criticism of the hypermasculine culture he's part of... you'd have this track.
• Sweetest Kill byBroken Social Scene (spotifyyoutube). We're a long ways from the days when I felt like I *should* like Broken Social Scene, so this one snuck up on me. Don't remember how I came across it, but the melody is just so catchy and patient and satisfying.

Open to anyone.

• US Navy Band. I never would have thought this would be for me, but I findtheir Jersey Boys medley strangely compelling. --RoySmith(talk)20:36, 8 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Mikayla McVey - folk singer & song writer, check out new album: Time Turns Everything
• Gangsta Boo - Recently deceased Memphis rapper, check out album:Enquiring Minds
• Photay - DJ and electronic music producer, pick any album
• Evolfo - Brooklyn based garage soul/rock band, check out song:Moon Eclipsed The Sun and 2021 album Site Out of Mind
• J. Cole - mainstream-ish, but if you did not listen to his "The Off-Season" album (2021), it's worth a listen --Wil540 art (talk)16:07, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • @RoySmith andWil540 art: Could've sworn I replied to these a long time ago, sorry! "Strangely compelling" is a good description for that Jersey Boys medley. We both wound up watching the whole thing here, and were both surprised by that. :)
  • Photay is up my alley (one of them, anyway). Adding some to my "working" Spotify playlist. I think I know J. Cole from his early material. Listened to the popular tracks onThe Off-Season and will explore some more later. Currently listening to Evolfo and digging it... Thanks for the recs. —Rhododendrites^talk \\13:24, 12 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Death Note, Brodsky. A bit niche, but I personally enjoyed how it builds throughout. Also, because I'm 99% sure you'll have already listened toMe&Youphoria byRöyksopp.Domeditrix (talk)22:27, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Domeditrix: The name Brodsky rings a bell, but I can't say I know this. Doing some googling and spotifying indicates we're probably not talking about e.g.Stephen Brodsky. It would be pretty different fromthe sort of stuff I know him from.It's interesting, though. Kind ofSufjan Stevensy with an almostAnohni affectation. How did you come across it, I wonder (looking at numbers of YT views/spotify plays). And yeah Ishould know that Royksopp song because Royksopp is one of my favorites, but I haven't paid attention in a few years I guess. Thanks. —Rhododendrites^talk \\01:07, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    I came across his music through a music blog a bit over ten years ago. The blog has since died, but I found a good number of artists through it.Domeditrix (talk)15:32, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you're still looking for things,a unique rendition ofThe Lion Sleeps TonightRoySmith(talk)00:24, 21 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Always. ThanksRoySmith. Can't get over how absolutely straight faced everyone is while making crazy animal sounds. Maybe endless practice beats that out of you. —Rhododendrites^talk \\03:31, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Well congrats!This proves that you are just as certifiable as the rest of us! And I thought thatI was nerdy when I saw that one articlehad a totally needless fair use image and another one had a reallycrappy image. So I spent some quality camera time with my old LP collection and made new Commons:Categories for these two rather uninteresting and rarely viewed subjects. (No, I don't stalk your edits, and I rarely visit Twitter now, but when TFG gets indicted you have to take a look at what the site makes of it. ;-) Just in time for your announcement there.)cart-Talk21:28, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And I thought thatI was nerdy - No argument from me. :) Nice job illustrating cataloging systems there! RegardingSatanCon, I was more excited than I'd like to admit when I realized the milestone was coming and found a fitting topic. Woke up early (before my alarm, even), and wound up refreshing{{numberofarticles}} for ... a while, before publishing. —Rhododendrites^talk \\22:53, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I was thinking of something you said when we talked last? An idea has kind of been bouncing around my head the past few days... maybe I could go around interviewing people around my age and seeing what we have in common and what we don't. Asking questions like

• When did you start editing Wikipedia?
• Why did you start editing Wikipedia?
• If you could go back in time, what do you think would've helped you be a better editor?
• Did you have help as a new editor? What worked and what didn't?
• As a new editor, were you aware that there was a community behind the scenes?
• Do you think you'll keep editing for the foreseeable future?
• Were you involved with WikiEd? If so, what was that like?
• Have you ever edited on mobile? Why or why not?

I think the cumulative effect of asking these questions might be useful. What do you think?Clovermoss🍀(talk)19:11, 17 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Clovermoss: -cumulative effect of asking these questions might be useful - Could be. Something I've found interesting is how wikiphilosophies seem to evolve with each "generation" of Wikipedians. If we think of Wikipedia's 22 years as being four generations, I guess I'm in the second generation. When I got here, my take on things like deletion, blocking, immediatism, etc. was a bit different from some of the old timers. These days I find that the newer generations make me feel like one of those old-timers (and I guess I am?). To reduce what I mean to a single example, back in 2013 I was most often called a deletionist. These days, though I don't feel like my take on deletion has changed that much, I find myself lumped in more often with the inclusionists (to the extent those sides even exist at all, of course). To your questions, there's one in there about Wiki Ed, which sure seems like it's intended for me, but I don't think I'd be included in the "people around my age" that you started with. :) Happy to answer if it would be helpful, though. —Rhododendrites^talk \\17:54, 18 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, the WikiEd question was directed at you :) Since I've never really interacted with that side of the community, I was curious about the similarities and differences we face. Ever since you said something about how people can struggle even with a ton of resources at their disposal... I just went on to this whole train of thought full of ideas. Is it possible that you might have some idea of how I could connect with some students working with WikiEd? I really think it'd be insightful to interview some if they're open to that but I have no idea where to start. I like to plan things out a bit before I actually go about doing things.Clovermoss🍀(talk)00:52, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It's okay if you don't really know if that's possible, though. Even if you could point me in the direction of someone who might be able to that'd be useful. Regardless, it was nice to meet you and I appreciate everything we've talked about.Clovermoss🍀(talk)01:49, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Clovermoss: Late reply, sorry.

Is it possible that you might have some idea of how I could connect with some students working with WikiEd? - You can always head over to dashboard.wikiedu.org, where you can find all the classes active in a given semester (and all of the courses Wiki Ed has supported since ~2015). You might have more luck reaching out to the professors, though, who can then connect you with interested students.

Some brief other answers:

When did you start editing Wikipedia? - 2007. A professor had us edit Wikipedia. I was fascinating by how much of a garbage fire it wasn't, and set out to study it. Highly active editing came a few years later.

If you could go back in time, what do you think would've helped you be a better editor? - I don't think I'd change anything, now that I think about it. There were times that I had different ideas of "what a Good Wikipedia ought to do" but in hindsight that's mostly nonsense. I did exactly what I wanted to do on Wikipedia at each stage, I suppose. If the question were "what advice would I give myself" it would probably be to think about anonymity a little more.

Did you have help as a new editor? What worked and what didn't? - I was an atypical newbie in that I spent a long time reading and researching before diving into editing, so I didn't need too much help. I learned from some veterans when I was researching, and when I solicited feedback on my first article. The names FT2, Dana Boomer, Wikid77, and DGG come to mind as early, helpful interactions (sadly now one is deceased, one long-inactive, and one banned).

Do you think you'll keep editing for the foreseeable future? - Yes. There have been a few discussions and trends over the past few years that I've found discouraging/demotivating, but there's just too much that I like about this place.

Were you involved with WikiEd? If so, what was that like? - It was overall a very positive experience. I was already teaching with Wikipedia and they needed an interim program manager shortly after my last semester teaching... then I stuck around for five years. Generally positive. It reframed my relationship to Wikipedia a bit as it meant I was no longer purely a volunteer (even if I separated my work and volunteer accounts), but I didn't let it affect my editing all that much. There were a bunch of layoffs early in the pandemic, which included me. The upside is it gave me time to finish my dissertation. :)

Have you ever edited on mobile? Why or why not? - Almost never. It's just too hard with a tiny screen. —Rhododendrites^talk \\18:50, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't mind the late reply. Thanks for your input :) I will check out the dashboard. Do you mind if I mention your answers to my interview questions in a userspace essay?Clovermoss🍀(talk)19:42, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Clovermoss: No I don't mind (thanks for asking). —Rhododendrites^talk \\20:01, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

And thank you for humouring me with the answers. :) If you want to check out the future progress of all this, it's atUser:Clovermoss/Editor reflections.Clovermoss🍀(talk)20:31, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

	The Editor's Barnstar
	Thank you for your edits on the page 2024 New York Proposal 1!CGP05 (talk)21:22, 2 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia owes its existence to the dedication of volunteers who contribute encyclopedic content according tofundamental principles, often with as much commitment as one would give a full time job. These volunteers make personal sacrifices to ensure that what the world sees when it visits Wikipedia is as comprehensive and reliable as possible. These individuals are not paid for their work, but driven by the conviction that free access to knowledge has the power to improve lives.

Unfortunately, as we've become more popular, we have attracted not just those who want to influence Wikipedia for personal gain, but those who see our editorial policies as a threat to their own power. That means the labor we donate to pursue ideals likeneutral point of view comes with vulnerabilities. The anonymity or pseudonymity of many contributors is essential to maintaining our integrity and diversity of voices. But it is fragile. Sometimes, members of our community find themselves navigating complex, hostile political and legal landscapes just for the audacity of upholding our policies. Protecting volunteers like these is not merely an act of gratitude; it isabsolutely necessary for the future of our project.

Many people, companies, and governments look at articles that meet our standards for neutrality and sourcing and want to replace them with their own preferred narratives. If they can effectively use their money, influence, and power to pierce anonymity and threaten, intimidate, sue, or arrest volunteers simply for making edits in accordance with our basic policies, it threatens the neutrality and accuracy of those articles. More importantly, it signals that these are effective strategies for silencing voices one doesn't like and creates a pernicious chilling effect for all contributors.

For an anonymous or pseudonymous contributor here, there is exactly one organization with the capacity--and the responsibility--to defend Wikipedians against powerful entities: the Wikimedia Foundation. We, the undersigned, appreciate the complexities of international legal disputes over release of personally identifying information and commend the foundation for both routinely resisting disclosure and assisting editors who find themselves in legal jeopardy. However, in light of cases around the world whereby powerful people seek to influence Wikipedia by attacking its users, we call upon the foundation to:

(1) prioritize the safety and well-being of volunteers even if it comes with a risk of legal action against the foundation;
(2) create a dedicated team of staff and advisorsfocused on procedural, technical, and legal assessment, strategies, and tools to preserve the pseudonymity or anonymity of contributors who need it. While this statement comes during a high-profile case, these are principles which apply broadly, and this team should be prepared to address censorship threats both in places where they exist now and where they may arise in the future as political landscapes evolve.

We, the volunteers, must be able to contribute with the assurity that the Wikimedia Foundation will defend those of us whose guilt is in upholding our shared principles, and will hold that defense even if it comes at a cost. Because the cost of failing is even greater. The choice to stand firm for our most vulnerable contributors in the face of censorship is an ethical one--it's existential. It is a fundamental decision to preserve the independence, credibility, and mission of the world's largest free encyclopedia.

[putting this here because it's a very rough draft and I don't want to dump more text over at VPW] —Rhododendrites^talk \\04:54, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Just a quick note to say that I hope you don't feel that I stepped on your toes here, Rhododendrites. I saw a consensus emerging for a concise letter and was encouraged by Ipigott (albeit based on what turned out to be an incorrect assumption) to write a shorter draft, and felt like time was pressing. Regards,Espresso Addict(talk)02:48, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No, no worries at all. I'm not worried about credit, if that's what you mean. As I just wrote at VPW, I'm just not sure I want to sign on to something that's explicitly about one ongoing case rather than a broader statement of principles. —Rhododendrites^talk \\14:25, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Rhododendrites, and obviously everyone can only support whatever wording they feel personally works for them. We're all on the same page here. I'd encourage you to work up a broader general statement of principles that doesn't mention the case to collect signatures in parallel, because in the current (US) climate, it is clear that this is just going to be the tip of a very big iceberg, and I'd like more clarity from WMF about what they are going to do about it. Cheers,Espresso Addict(talk)00:52, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

		The Socratic Barnstar
		Nice job craftingWikipedia:2024 open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation. It's well-written, concise, and presents a balanced perspective. Cheers,Sdkb talk16:17, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks,Sdkb, although I had floated a [decidedly less concise]version that didn't name the ANI case and was written more broadly to apply to future situations, too. I commend Espresso Addict and Airshipjungleman for cutting through the wall of text to actually get something concrete started, but I haven't signed the current letter (and haven't made up my mind whether I will). i.e.this. —Rhododendrites^talk \\16:24, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

	Happy New Year!
	Hello Rhododendrites: Did you know ... that back in 1885, Wikipedia editors wrote Good Articles withaxes,hammers andchisels? Thank you for your contributions to this encyclopedia using 21st century technology. I hope you don't get any unnecessaryblisters. Wil540 art (talk)14:55, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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@Rhododendrites Thank you so much for your time! Have a great weekend =)Phoebezz22 (talk)12:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You've been a great editor for a very long time and have really made some pages I care about much better, but I just realised what a talented contributor you are over at Commons as well. You are a real asset to this community, and I don't think that is said often enough. Cheers,Last1in (talk)16:09, 13 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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story ·music ·places

Congratulations! - Thank you for coming to my talk, and happy new year 2025, which opened withtrumpet fanfares that first sounded OTD in 1725 (as the Main page had)! Near the end of the month, I have vacation pics to offer and the story ofWerner Bardenhewer. I took the pic, and it was my DYK on his 90th birthday, in both English and German. He spent the day in Africa, and after his return said - chatting after a mass of thanks he celebrated atMariä Heimsuchung - that we'd have to talk about these articles. --Gerda Arendt (talk)19:54, 30 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: You're always working on interesting music content. With those photos, I have to ask (if you don't mind), do you work in music? I seem to recall learning you were a musician some time ago, but can't recall. No problem if you'd prefer not to say, of course! —Rhododendrites^talk \\18:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Check out the infobox on my user page ;) - just returning from a trip, so brief, - I will be back --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:18, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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On the main page today, 300 years after its first performance, Bach's cantataBWV 125, - a lovely very intimate piece, with peace and joy in the title.Enjoy listening with score - I discovered that only now! - Today is also the birthday ofJames Joyce, who has an article by many authors. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:47, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today's story is aboutEdith Mathis, who portrayed young women byMozart. The video of a 1993 interview has videos of her performances. --Gerda Arendt (talk)15:13, 13 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I point ata composer today, as the main page does. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:44, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks -- November Steps was the soundtrack to my afternoon the other day -- enjoyed it! —Rhododendrites^talk \\20:22, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks for the review,Jon698! I'm curious what you think of the big results table at the bottom (apart from the GA review). It's a big block on the page, but at the same time I like being able to sort the numbers. Couldn't come up with a cleaner way to do so. Maybe a collapsed table somewhere, but I don't know. In looking around, I found some other articles that include full results like that, and some that don't. —Rhododendrites^talk \\15:39, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The results table is fine and is a common for pages like this.Jon698 (talk)16:17, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks,Jon698. Also, I only just realized the numbers in that table changed and no longer reflect the numbers atthe official elections site. Where did those come from? —Rhododendrites^talk \\18:53, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jon698: Just bumping this -- could you tell me where you got the different vote counts? —Rhododendrites^talk \\19:14, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I got those numbers from the Proposition 1 page ofthe official elections site. Blank votes are not valid and should not be factored into the final result percentages.Jon698 (talk)21:45, 11 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, that's the discrepancy, then. Blank votes are valid -- invalid votes are counted separately. Blanks are a quantification of confusion, ambivalence, lack of information, etc. —Rhododendrites^talk \\01:29, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

story ·music ·places

OnRavel'sbirthday, we also think of a conductor and five more composers ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk)20:27, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today I could have written five storiesoff the main page, and choseSofia Gubaidulina. I find the TFA also interesting, and two DYK, and a birthday OTD. How about you? --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:23, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Still Ravel:today his opera, 100 years old OTD, on Bach's birthday, - I saw it, see music. --Gerda Arendt (talk)21:58, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Today, 300 years ofWie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1!We sang works for (mostly) double choir byPachelbel,Johann Christoph Bach,Kuhnau/Bach,Gounod andRheinberger! --Gerda Arendt (talk)12:38, 25 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there. You recently made some edits to this page:Misinformation related to abortion. I wanted to let you know, that I personally agree with you. I personally believe that it should be presented as fact, as you did in your edit that "it is not possible for the fetus to experience pain before 24 weeks of gestation" instead of "The prevailing viewpoint among most medical organizations..." I also agree with you that we should not be including a minority viewpoint most present in the Linacre Quarterly - a Catholic Medical journal.

Unfortunately, there is an anti-abortion advocate who's extremely active on the talk page and trying to come to consensus on certain things has made things clunky. The way the section is phrased now is what was begrudgingly agreed to on the talk page. So, unfortunately, I have tentatively reverted your edit in favor of the one that was technically reached by consensus since that just happened today.

That being said, if you feel strongly, and prepared to wade into the talk page of that article, feel free to keep the conversation going as to why that part should potentially be changed. (I definitely would be in favor of that paragraph being more definitive toward the current medical literature.)InquisitiveWikipedian (talk)01:31, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Doesn't seem ideal when the best sources don't appear to equivocate. Posted over atWikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Medicine#Misinformation_related_to_abortion_could_use_some_additional_eyes_from_this_project to get additional opinions. Looks like the talk page was mostly a back-and-forth between the two of you. —Rhododendrites^talk \\03:14, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. Thank you for saying so. And yeah, it's mainly me and him and I think two other editors have chimed in now and again on some of the topics. I'm trying to be as collaborative as possible without completely threatening the integrity of the page. So, I appreciate you trying to get more people in the conversation. Thank youInquisitiveWikipedian (talk)03:25, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm currently writing the article for theOfficial White House Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama that were comissioned by the White House Historical Association. I've previously written the official portraits of theReagans, theClintons and theBushes. Your incredible research of Michelle's portrait would be vital to and most welcome in the article - would you like to add it once I have launched the article or could I interpolate it and main article a link on theSharon Sprung page? I'm not sure how to proceed! RegardsNo Swan So Fine (talk)22:25, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HiNo Swan So Fine - glad you'll be working on that article. Probably what makes sense is to expand the summary in the Sprung article and add a{{main}} template, and add a brief summary of Sprung to the article you're working on? I'm pretty overwhelmed with real-life projects at the moment, but happy to take a look at the article when it's available. —Rhododendrites^talk \\20:19, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Special Wikimania issueThis is a special Wikimania issue of the Bulletin. We'll be back to our regular format in the next issue

• Wikimania Nairobi: Catch up on missed sessions of Wikimania 2025 bychecking session pages in the program. These links will be replaced by Commons links when the uploads are finished.
• Meet the Wikimedians of the Year 2025:The Wikimedian of the Year awards give us an opportunity to pause, taking a moment to recognize people who make our mission possible. Learn about all ofthis year's winners.
• Highlights: Daily highlights from Wikimania:
  • Day 1 - Celebrating 20 years of Wikimania,
  • Day 2 - Technology in a changing world,
  • Day 3 - Connecting with communities in Africa,
  • Day 4 - Bringing generations together.
• Product and Tech:Wikimania 2025 sessions about Product and Tech you can watch, with links to the recordings.
• Affiliate Strategy:Wikimania 2025 Brings Affiliate Strategy Recommendations into Focus.
• Twentieth edition of Wikimania:Celebrating humans who make Wikipedia possible.

Annual Goals Progress onInfrastructure
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• Tech News: Some of the latest update from Tech News week31,32, and33: The Wikimedia Commons community has decided to blockcross-wiki uploads to Wikimedia Commons, for all users without autoconfirmed rights on that wiki, starting on August 16; The WikiEditor toolbar now includesits keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips for its buttons. This will help to improve the discoverability of this feature.
• Collaborative Contributions:Share your comments onCollaborative Contributions. This project aims to create a new way to display the impact of collaborative editing activities (such as edit-a-thons, backlog drives, and WikiProjects) on the wikis.
• PTAC: TheProduct and Technology Advisory Council published a set ofproposed experiments the Wikimedia Foundation can try to improve communication with community.Feedback on the proposals are welcomed until August 22.
• Watchlists and Recent Changes: The Foundation will be focusing on wishes related to Watchlists and Recent Changes pages over the next few months. Pleaseread the latest update, and if you have ideas, pleasesubmit a wish on the topic.
• Wikifunctions: The Foundation is working ondemonstrating functions that generate sentences and fragments in several languages. This is a considerable step towards creating text for Abstract Wikipedia.

Annual Goals Progress onVolunteer Support
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• Wikimedia Futures Lab:The Wikimedia Futures Lab is a process and convening co-designed by the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Deutschland that will help us all learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.You can apply now to join the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts.
• Don't Blink:The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Language and Internationalization: Read about language support for new languages and other highlights from the July 2025 edition ofthe Language and internationalization newsletter.
• Language Community: The next language community meeting will be held onAugust 29 at 15:00 UTC.
• UK Online Safety Act: The High Court of Justice has dismissed theWikimedia Foundation's challenge to the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations. While the decision does not provide the immediate legal protections for Wikipedia that we hoped for,the Court’s ruling emphasized the responsibility of Ofcom and the UK government to ensure Wikipedia is protected as the OSA is implemented.

Board and Board committee updates
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• Affcom News: Readthe latest issue of AffCom News (April-June 2025), the newsletter that distributes relevant news and events about the work of Wikimedia'sAffiliations Committee.

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TheAmerican avocet (Recurvirostra americana) is a largewader in the avocet andstilt family,Recurvirostridae, found in North America. It spends much of its time foraging in shallow water or on mud flats, often sweeping its bill from side to side in water as it seekscrustacean andinsect prey. The bird is around 40–51 cm (16–20 in) in length and has a bill which is black, pointed, and curved slightly upwards towards the tip. Its breeding habitat consists of marshes, beaches, prairie ponds, and shallow lakes in theMidwestern United States and southern Canada. This American avocet was photographed inJamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge East Pond, New York City, United States. Photograph credit:Rhododendrites Recently featured: "I Have a Dream" Pardachirus marmoratus Willistead Manor Archive More featured pictures

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It was lovely to see "your" bird yesterday! - see my talk for music --Gerda Arendt (talk)06:55, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ThanksGerda Arendt. Listening to Bach now. I know little about Bach, and this makes me recall a question I have. Maybe you can help. :) About 20 years ago I was interviewing an indie rock musician,John Vanderslice, for my little radio program. At some point he went on a tear, gettingvery nerdy about music, and got me way out of my depth. At one point he said he was exploring "Bachic dissonance". I just smiled and acted like I knew what I was talking about, because I was not a good interviewer. :) But I remember it because afterwards I went to my friend outside the studio and said something like "what am I supposed to say about 'Bachic dissonance'??" Does that mean anything to you? Perhaps you can help me now, two decades later! —Rhododendrites^talk \\22:36, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what he meant but Bach is known for using dissonance - more than others - to express tension, sadness, suffering ... Perhaps listen tothis Crucifixus. - I had to singa funeral service for a friend today, but the music chosen was intentionally on the uplifting side and for consolation, which Bach could do also better than others. --Gerda Arendt (talk)22:50, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello there. I was wondering if you had timeto give feedback on theworkshop text for the understandability guideline (comparison with the existing text). Always tough to write guidelines for a wide variety of topic areas, and would love to hear if the new text works for articles related to law. The goal is to make the understandability guideline more useable and concrete. If we could get an example in from the field, that would be even better :). More general feedback is also very welcome. I'm happy to trade for a review at GAN if you'd like!—Femke 🐦 (talk)09:04, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HiFemke and thanks for the invitation. I have to say, I don't think I've ever seen that guideline before! Before I give it a review, to be clear are you looking for feedback on thenew guideline or on thechanges? Also, I should say I'm not a lawyer and don't have much legal expertise. I get a little bit into tech policy as an internet researcher, so wound up with a couple law articles at GAN, but I don't know if I'd be much help on best practices for presenting the technical side of the law. Regardless, happy to review with or without a GAN review (at some point I'll probably have to trade someone in order to getUnited Nations Convention on Cybercrime up to GA before it's in the news for the signing ceremony in October -- if theAmerican Privacy Rights Act article is any indication, the UN article won't likely get reviewed in 2025 :/ :/ -- I presume my kvetching about that in Discord is what led to this invitation). —Rhododendrites^talk \\22:29, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I looked at the open GANs and FACs to try and get at least one person per major technical topic area to look at it before it's RfC time. In terms of familiarity, the guideline's most-cited part is probablyWP:EXPLAINLEAD. It's an undervalued part of our P&Gs, possibly because it's not that practical?

I'm mostly interested in feedback on changes, even though I'm also keen on hearing if there's stuff unnecessary or missing. One of the interesting bits I found in the research for the rewrite: assuming prior knowledge starts when you become familiar with a topic, not when you're an expert.—Femke 🐦 (talk)06:26, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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A tag has been placed onFoolproof Brewing Company requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done undersection A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person, a group of people, an individual animal, an organization (band, club, company, etc.), web content, or an organized event that does notcredibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under thecriteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more aboutwhat is generally accepted as notable.

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@OldPalChummus: Please review the documentation about A7. Credible claim of significance is satisfied by citations to reliable sources discussing the subject. You're welcome to take it to AfD if you wish. —Rhododendrites^talk \\18:08, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Rhododendrites: Thank you. Please refer to theAfD discussion.OldPalChummus (talk)18:56, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Upcoming and current events and conversations
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• Wikimedia Futures Lab:Apply before Sep 4 to joinThe Wikimedia Futures Lab, the in-person convening hosted on January 30 – February 1, 2026 in Frankfurt, Germany with participants from affiliates, contributors and external experts, to learn more about global trends and discuss potential movement-wide responses.
• Wikimania 2026: The theme and date forWikimania 2026 have been decided: Liberté, Équité, Fiabilité (Freedom, Equity, Reliability). This edition will take place in Paris, from July 21 to July 25, 2026.

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• Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week34 and35: An A/B test comparing two versions of the desktop donate link launched on testwiki and English Wikipedia for 0.1% of logged out users on the desktop site. The experiment will run for three weeks, ending on 12 September; Administrators can now access theSpecial:BlockedExternalDomains page from theSpecial:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find.
• Spread Wikilove, thank comments: A new improvement was added to the "Discussion tools"Beta feature; it is now possible tothank a user for their comment. This new feature is released for a 3-months long test.
• Community Wishlist: Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used byTemplateStyles was updated. These improvements are aCommunity Wishlist wish.
• Wikipedia Mobile Apps: The Android app team has launched a newexperiment in Italy that lets logged-out readers of Italian and English Wikipedia set their own donation reminders based on how often they read. This new approach responds to feedback from donors who say their motivation to give is tied to their reading habits. Instead of one-size-fits-all banners, readers can now choose reminders that fit their own usage, all while keeping their privacy intact.

Annual Goals Progress onVolunteer Support
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• Wikipedia 25:To celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday, the Wikimedia Foundation is adding several resources to theWikipedia 25 Meta-Wiki hub.
• The Wikipedia Library: Collections fromDow Jones & Company, including theThe Wall Street Journal, are now available to editors who are eligible forThe Wikipedia Library.
• Don't Blink:The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.

Board and Board committee updates
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• Affiliate recognition:The recognition of new User Groups, Chapters, and Thematic Organizations is paused until March 31, 2026.
• Board of Trustees selection:The voting period for the upcoming Board selection process will now open on October 8 and close October 23.
• New Board member:Wikimedia Foundation welcomes incoming Board Trustee Mayree Clark.

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Arenal Volcano is astratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica, in the province ofAlajuela. It is within theArenal Volcano National Park. The volcano is conically shaped with a height of 1,633 metres (5,358 ft) and a crater with a diameter of 140 metres (460 ft). Arenal is a young volcano, estimated to be less than 7,500 years old. The volcano was dormant for hundreds of years and exhibited two craters at its summit, with minor fumaroles activity, covered by dense vegetation. In 1968 it erupted unexpectedly, destroying the small town of Tabacón. Due to the eruption three more craters were created on the western flanks but only one of them exists today. By duration, Arenal's eruption from 1968 to 2010 is the tenth longest volcanic eruption on Earth since 1750. Since 2010, Arenal has been dormant. Photograph credit:Rhododendrites Recently featured: Galah John Cage Lady Peak Archive More featured pictures

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• Wikipedia 25:Help us find inspiring stories to share during birthday celebrations by September 23.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: "Readers and Readership Research" will be the featured theme for the next research showcase taking place onSeptember 24 at 16:30 UTC.
• Update to banner and logo policies: Feedback is requested onproposed policy and documentation updates regarding the use of banners and logos for advocacy purposes.
• GLAM Wiki 2025:The registration for GLAM Wiki Conference is open until September 30.

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• Better bot detection:How we are improving bot detection and replacing our CAPTCHA.
• Temporary Accounts:Temporary accounts are now deployed to almost all wikis except the last 11.
• User Info: Thisnew feature displays data related to a user account when you tap or click on the "user avatar" icon button next to a username. It's meant to be useful for different users with extended rights as well as newcomers.
• Newsletter highlights: The latestReaders Newsletter is now available. It includes considerations about Wikipedia's declining pageviews in the recent years, how the Foundation and communities may work on addressing this together, and the formation of two new teams — Reader Growth and Reader Experience.
• Activity Tab Experiment: The Foundation launched anexperiment testing a new Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app to our beta testers. Instead of only showing editing activity, this tab also surfaces insights about reading and donation behavior.
• Search Suggestions: To make it easier for users to find articles, logged-out users on both desktop and mobile will seesuggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. All non-English wikis received this update in June and July.
• Paste Check: The Foundation is working on a new check:Paste check. This check informs newcomers who paste text into Wikipedia that the content might not be accepted to ensure it is aligned with the Movement's values. This check will soon be tested at a few wikis.
• CampaignEvents extension: TheCampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. To request the extension for your wiki, visit theinformation page.
• Structured Task: TheAdd a Link Structured Task has been fully released at English Wikipedia. This release is an important step in making editing more accessible for new contributors, especially on mobile.
• Tech News: Read more updates from Tech News week36 and37.
• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is nowavailable on 65 Wiktionaries and has a new capability tocopy function calls from one Wikipedia to another.
• Multilingual Contributors: TheLanguage and Product Localisation team is launching aCentralNotice campaign to attract multilingual contributors to specific Wikipedias. The campaign will feature regionally targeted banners to reach potential native speakers.

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• Global Resources:Introducing the interim Global Resource Distribution Committee (GRDC).
• Funding the Movement:Key Takeaways, Trends, and Lessons from FY 2024-2025 Community Fund Grants.
• Open Indonesia: Reflections onOpen Indonesia, an event in Bandung gathering communities dedicated to advancing open knowledge to build the country's Open Knowledge Roadmap.
• WikiWomen*:Reflections from the WikiWomen* Summit 2025.
• Gender & AI: Is Gendering AI Possible?Reflections from the 2025 Gendering AI Conference.
• Wikipedia 25:What one centenarian can teach us about 25 years of Wikipedia.
• Knowledge Equity Fund:Wikimedia Ghana User Group receives Knowledge Equity Fund Connected Grant.
• Wikimania 2025:ESEAP First Timers at Wikimania Nairobi.
• César do Paço Lawsuit:Update about a lawsuit in Portugal and the Foundation's appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.
• UK Online Safety Act:The Wikimedia Foundation will not appeal the UK High Court’s decision to dismiss our challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations.

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• August board meeting:Updates on board appointments and selection, CEO search, work to strengthen Wikipedia's approach to neutral point of view and updates on three pilots around more shared decision-making and shared accountability across the movement.
• New Endowment board members:Welcoming New Wikimedia Endowment Board Members, Kevin Bonebrake and Ike Kier.

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• Learning Clinic: The nextLet's Connect Learning Clinic will talk about "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool" and will take place on September 30 at 13:00 UTC.
• Big Fat Brussels Meeting: The tenth in-person gathering of Wikimedians enthusiastic in free knowledge advocacy,Big Fat Brussels Meeting, will take place on October 3-4.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata’s Role in Learning and Culture" will be the featured theme for thenext research showcase taking place onOctober 15 at 16:30 UTC.

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• Wikifunctions: Wikifunctions is now available on123 Wiktionary languages and havemore than 3,000 functions available.
• Collaborative Contributions: A new feature, called Collaborative Contributions, allows editors to see the impact of their collaborative editing activities. It waslive demoed earlier and you canfollow instructions to test it out.
• CampaignEvents extension: The CampaignEvents extension wasdeployed to Wikimedia Commons and all Wikisources -80+ wikis.
• Event registration: Starting the week of October 6, onsmall andmedium wikis that have theCampaignEvents extension enabled, all autoconfirmed users will be able to useEvent Registration as an organizer. No changes will be made forlarge wikis unless requested in Phabricator.More information on Meta.
• Search Suggestions: Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users now seesuggestions of articles for further reading on all Wikipedias, in order to make it easier for users to find articles.
• Datacenter server switchover: A successfuldatacenter server switchover backup test took place on September 24.
• Activity Tab now on Android: Beta users of the Wikipedia Android app can now try the redesignedActivity tab, which replaces the Edits tab. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging.

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• Banners & Logos policies: The Wikimedia Foundation has publisheddraft proposals for policies related to the use of banners and logo changes for advocacy purposes.
• Wikipedia 25: Wikimedia Foundation is creatingplayful, celebratory interventions on theWikipedia portal page, the Wikipedia app, and potentially any interested Wikipedias to celebrate Wikipedia’s 25th birthday. Pleaseshare your inputs and add your username on theTalk page if you think your community would be interested in participating.
• Regional Funds:Welcoming new ESEAP Regional Funds Committee Members.
• Peer Learning:Reflections from Let’s Connect at Wikimania Nairobi 2025.

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• Enterprise:Structured Contents now supports Wikipedia tables as structured JSON.

Board and Board committee updates
SeeWikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ·Affiliations Committee Newsletter

• Wikimedia Georgia:Wikimedia Georgia becomes the newest Wikimedia Chapter.

Foundation statements

• Knowledge integrity: The Wikimedia Foundation launchesa new series that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

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• National award: Wikipedian and current chair of Wikimedia Deutschland, Alice Wiegand, receives theOrder of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her voluntary commitment to Wikipedia and the global Wikimedia movement.
• Supporting admins and patrollers: Motivating, training and networking – Wikimedia Ukraine’s plan to support Wikipedia admins and patrollers.
• Wikimania roundup: Aroundup of Wikimania and this year's Wikimedians of the year by the French-speaking community's newsletter,Regards sur l’actualité du mouvement Wikimédia (Views on Wikimedia movement's events, or RAW).

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• Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Selection:Announcement of the final ballot for the 2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election andmore answers about the decision. Eligible voters canvote between October 8 – October 23.
• Wikipedia 25: Are you planning to organize events to celebrateWikipedia's 25th birthday? The Wikimedia Foundation offers grants to support active Wikimedia groups in organizing short-term, low-cost projects to celebrate this milestone.Applications are open until November 1.
• WikiConference North America 2025:WikiConference North America will take place from October 16–19 in New York City, USA.

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• Mobile Editing:Insights on mobile web editing on Wikipedia in 2025 are now available. This report highlights that ~95% of IP mobile users editing via wikitext open the editor but make no changes at all, a vast untapped potential. It also pinpoints where contributors most often drop off.
• Dark Mode:Dark Mode user interface will be rolled out on all Wikimedia sites on October 29. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations.
• Community wishlist extension:The new Community Wishlist extension has been released. This will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances.
• Paste Check:22 Wikis are now testing a new Edit Check feature,Paste Check, to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content.
• Tone Check: The Wikimedia Foundation is working on a new check for newcomers:Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits.
• Search Suggestions:Search Suggestions was deployed on English Wikipedia. Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users see suggestions of articles for further reading. The feature is available on both desktop and mobile.
• Unsupported Tools Working Group: A newUnsupported Tools Working Group has been formed to help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. The group has chosenVideo2Commons as the first tool for its pilot cycle. The group will explore ways to improve and sustain the tool over the coming months.
• Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week40 and41 including aboutSub-referencing – a new feature to re-use references with different details.
• Wikimedia Research Showcase: Don't miss the next Wikimedia Research Showcase, "Celebrating 13 Years: Wikidata's Role in Learning and Culture" taking place onOctober 15 at 16:30 UTC.

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• Wikimania: Wikimania Nairobi has been featured inmore than 100 stories across community platforms and international media outlets.
• Wikifunctions:Rich text is now available for embedded Wikifunctions calls across the 150 wikis where it’s enabled.
• WikiLearn:New Wikipedia online courses you can join to strengthen your Wikimedia editing skills.
• Human Rights: Making sure AI serves people and knowledge stays human: Wikimedia Foundation publishes aHuman Rights Impact Assessment on the interaction of AI and machine learning with Wikimedia projects.
• Don't blink:The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Digital Safety & Privacy:Frequently Asked Questions about Wikimedia Foundation's Legal Work.
• Transparency Report: Wikimedia Foundation publishes itsLatest Transparency Report.
• Privacy Policy: TheWikimedia Foundation Privacy Policy is gettinga minor update in preparation for Temporary Accounts.
• Learning Clinic: Join the next Let's Connect Learning Clinic on the topic of "Mastering the Capacity Exchange (CapX) Tool (Part 2)" taking place onOctober 20 at 17:00 UTC.

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• Knowledge integrity:Lessons from Wikipedia on the 3 building blocks of trustworthy information. This is part of the new series from the Wikimedia Foundation that explores how Wikipedia can inspire new standards of knowledge integrity for our times.

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• Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees selection:Additional perspectives on current and future board selection processes.
• Global trends: We are seeing 8% declines in human page views on Wikipedia as some users don't directly visit Wikipedia to get information.Learn about this new user trend, how the Wikimedia Foundation anticipate these changes, and how you can help.
• WECUDI 2025: The second conference ofWikimedia, Education, and Digital Cultures will be held from October 29–31 in Mexico City, Mexico.
• GLAM Conference:Wiki GLAM Culture and Heritage Conference (WGCHC) will take place on 30 October – 1 November in Lisbon, Portugal.
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• Making it easier to say thanks: Users on most wikis will now havethe ability to thank a comment directly from the talk page it appears on. Before this change, thanking could only be done by visiting the revision history of the talk page.
• Account security: Improvements toaccount security and two-factor authentication (2FA) features were enabled across all wikis. Another part of the project is making 2FA generally available to all users. Along with editors with advanced privileges, such as administrators and bureaucrats, 40% of editors now have access to 2FA. You can check if you have access atSpecial:AccountSecurity.
• Abstract Wikipedia:The naming contest for the new Wikimedia project, known until now as Abstract Wikipedia, is ongoing.Voting is now open until November 3.
• Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week42 and43 including the community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
• Wikimedia apps: The Wikipedia iOS App launched an A/B/C test of improvements to theTabbed browsing feature into Beta for select regions & languages. Called“More dynamic tabs”, the experiment adds user-requested improvements and introduces article recommendations within the tabs overview, showing “Did you know” or “Because you read” content depending on how many tabs are open.
• CampaignEvents extension:Campaignevents extension will be deployed to all remaining wikis during the week of 17 November 2025. The extension currently includes three features:Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. For this rollout,Invitation List will not be enabled on Wikifunctions and MediaWiki unless requested by those communities.
• Event registration tool: Autoconfirmed users onsmall andmedium wikis with the extension can now useEvent Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.

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• Digital safety: Explore how you can help make Wikimedia safer by taking our new self-paced course,Safety for Young Wikimedians.
• Wikimedia Core Curriculum: The Wikimedia Foundation has developedseven online video learning modules covering the core English Wikipedia policies. You are invited to use, adapt, and translate the course.
• Advocacy: The Wikimedia Foundation has signedonto a statement that calls on governments and UN bodies to keep discussions about the future of internet governance accessible to non-government actors like industry and civil society. This statement is part of ongoing joint advocacy with affiliates to influence UN discussions about the future of internet governance such as theGlobal Digital Compact campaign andWSIS+20 deliberations.
• GLAM: The Wikimedia Foundation and several affiliates have signed onto theOpen Heritage Statement, which supports galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions) to have the legal rights they need to collect, preserve, and provide access to cultural heritage.

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• How Wikipedia works:Wikimedia Foundation responds to questions about how Wikipedia works.

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Thelarge milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) is a medium-sizedhemipteran (true bug) in the familyLygaeidae. It is distributed throughout North America, from Central America through Mexico, the Caribbean and the United States, to southern Canada. It inhabits disturbed areas, roadsides, and open pastures. Due to this widespread geographic distribution, this insect exhibits varying life history trade-offs depending on the population location, including differences in wing length and other traits based on location. Adult large milkweed bugs are around 11–12 mm in length and have a red/orange and black X-shaped pattern on their wings underneath the triangle that is typical to hemipterans. Its diet often consists ofmilkweed seeds, but it has also been observed feeding on aphids, monarch caterpillar eggs, and larvae, displaying opportunistic behavior. The insect is often used as amodel organism and reared for laboratory experiments due to being easy to rear and handle, short developmental time, fewinstars, and highfecundity. This large milkweed bug was photographed in theGreen-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Photograph credit:Rhododendrites Recently featured: Kurt Vonnegut Buddha's hand Kumaon Archive More featured pictures

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I opened a thread on the article talk page with some other options. —Rhododendrites^talk \\21:19, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue X, October 2025 Headlines Belgium report: From a small language to Wikipedia's Biggest, Share Your Story with the Industry Museum and War Diaries Croatia report: Autumn activities Indonesia report: WikiCommon community meet-ups, Wikisource trainings, and the announcement of Grant for GLAM Indonesia Italy report: Open culture on stage Mexico report: How Wikimedia México is training cultural and government institutions as wikimedians. Netherlands report: Open Topstukken project concludes; Network Archives Design and Digital Culture New Zealand report: Granny's Wonderful Chair, Preparing for Auckland Museum Wiki Summer Students and an the ASBS Introductory Wiki Webinar Nigeria report: Report on Participation at the 12th International Youth Conference Poland report: Promoting Open Data and Digital Commons in Culture and Research Portugal report: GLAM Wiki Conference 2025 Wrap-Up Serbia report: October in Wikimedia Serbia Switzerland report: DaSCHcon, 3D, Wiki GLAM conference UK report: A look at Grokipedia USA report: October edit-a-thons & meetings Biodiversity Heritage Library report: LivingData 2025, GLAMWiki and a "collector" Wikidata property proposal Memory of the World report: International outreach Sustainable CultureConnect Project report: Sustainable CultureConnect: Empowering Youth and Preserving Heritage through Open Knowledge and Leadership Calendar: November's GLAM events Read this edition in full •Single-page To assist with preparing the newsletter, please visit thenewsroom. Past editions may be viewedhere.

Hi Rhododendrites, it's nice to meet you. I'm wondering if you could weigh in on some of my proposed updates toRyan Kavanaugh's article. Kavanaugh is a film financier and, as you are a participant inWP:Media, I thought the topic might interest you. Beyond that, because the page is considered acontentious topic, I would appreciate a neutral, level-headed editor reviewing my request, which you'll find here:Talk:Ryan Kavanaugh#Trimming details for NPOV. I'd be happy to discuss further, as well. Thank youFrancine72790 (talk)16:42, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• Wikimania 2027: Santiago, Chile is announced as the location forWikimania 2027. The annual conference returns to Latin America after more than 10 years, following previous editions in Buenos Aires (2009) and Mexico City (2015).
• Wikidata recognized as a Digital Public Good:Wikidata became the second Wikimedia project to be officially recognized as a digital public good by the Digital Public Goods Alliance.

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• Tech News: Read updates from Tech News week44 and45 including the community-submitted tasks that wereresolved last week.
• Activity Tab: The Wikipedia Android app expands the newActivity tab to all users. It offers a complete view of your Wikipedia activity: reading time, saved articles, edits, and donation history (for known donors). This change aims to make Wikipedia a more engaging experience for readers and contributors alike, while keeping all personal data private and stored locally on your device.
• Tabbed browsing:Tabbed browsing is now available on the Wikipedia App for iOS. Tabs will let you keep more than one article open at a time, making it easier to explore complex topics, follow links without losing your place, and pick up where you left off.
• CampaignEvents extension: Autoconfirmed users onsmall andmedium wikis with the CampaignEvents extension can now useEvent Registration without the Event Organizer right. This feature lets organizers enable registration, manage participants, and lets users register with one click instead of signing event pages.
• Image browsing: The Wikimedia Foundation launchedimage browsing, an experiment that puts images on top of your Wikipedia article reading journey, on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• Temporary accounts:Temporary Accounts are now enabled on 1,000+ projects including English Wikipedia.
• Abstract Wikipedia naming contest:The first round of “abstract content wiki” naming vote has ended and the first legal review had begun to determine the 6 names that will make it to the second round on November 17.
• Wikifunctions:Wikifunctions is now deployed across 12 Wiktionaries and 4 Wikipedias.

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• Privacy in Wikipedia research: The Wikimedia Foundation publishedPrivacy in Public: Navigating Research, Personal Data, and Safety on Wikipedia, a whitepaper which guides researchers in navigating privacy of Wikipedia editors in their research.Read the highlights and key takeaways for researchers and Wikipedians.
• Digital Safety: The Wikimedia Foundation is launchingDigital Safety Office Hours to explore how to stay safe digitally, what does digital safety mean, what extra precautions can Wikimedians take. The first session will take place on November 28 at 9 AM and 7 PM UTC. Check out also ourDigital Safety Resources Center to learn practical tips and tools you can use immediately.
• Volunteer roles for movement governance: The Movement governance committees are seeking new volunteers to support essential and high-impact work across the Wikimedia ecosystem. The current appointment cycle is open for theAffCom,Ombuds Commission, andCase Review Committee. Applications for these committees will remain open until December 11. The team will host a community conversation onNovember 26, at 3 AM UTC.
• Don't Blink:The latest developments from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values.
• Wikimedia Core Curriculum: Want to learn how to edit Wikipedia? – Anewfree self-paced course, all in video with subtitles, is available from the Wikimedia Foundation!

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• Transparency builds trust:The latest edition from the series "Lessons from Wikipedia" explores how deep transparency has helped make Wikipedia one of the most trusted sources on the internet.

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TheAmerican robin (Turdus migratorius) is amigratory bird in thethrush family, Turdidae. It is named after theEuropean robin because of its reddish-orange breast, though the two species are not closely related. The American robin is widely distributed throughout North America, wintering from southern Canada to central Mexico and along the Pacific coast. The species is active mostly during the day and assembles in large flocks at night. Its diet consists of invertebrates (such as beetle grubs, earthworms, and caterpillars), fruits, and berries. The robin's nest consists of long coarse grass, twigs, paper, and feathers, and is smeared with mud and often cushioned with grass or other soft materials. It is among the earliest birds to sing at dawn, and its song consists of several discrete units that are repeated. This American robin was photographed inGreen-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York City. Photograph credit:Rhododendrites Recently featured: Hugh McCulloch Till the Clouds Roll By Archive More featured pictures

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• Board election: The2025 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees vote has elected two new trustees,Bobby Shabangu (Bobbyshabangu) andMichał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), who will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2025.
• Wikipedia 25: Wikipedia is turning 25 and it’s time to party! Register now forWikipedia’s 25th virtual birthday bash on 15 January at 16:00 UTC.
• Wikimedia Hackathon: The2026 Wikimedia Hackathon will be taking place in person May 1 - 3, 2026 in Milan, Italy.Scholarship applications are open until November 28.
• Language Community:The next language community meeting will be held on November 28 at 16:00 UTC.

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• Tech News: Some of the latest updates from Tech News week46 and47: Wikimedia Foundation is experimentating withreading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later; One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource inMinangkabau.
• Wikifunctions: The second round of voting for naming the wiki with abstract content is kicking off withsix name proposals to vote for.
• Reference check: The A/B test forreference check has begun on English Wikipedia and will run until December 17. This is a feature which prompts new editors to add citations before they publish an edit adding content to an article.
• Image browsing: Wikimedia Foundation 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, is taking place on on Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting a small number of users.
• CampaignEvents extension:Campaign events extension is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. The extension offers tools for running and coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations. These features includeEvent Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List, plus a new feature,Collaborative contribution, which helps organizers and participants see the impact of their collaborative activities. Join theupcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
• Dark Mode: Dark mode is now available on all Wikimedia projects for all anonymous users! This enhancement aims to deliver a more enjoyable reading experience, especially in dimly lit environments.Learn how to activate this feature.
• Wikimedia Apps: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.
• Usability Improvements:Improvements for talk pages is beingrolled out. Users can opt out of these changesin their user preferences in “Show discussion activity.”

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• Wikipedia 25 Press toolkit: Wikimedia Foundation is providingpress toolkit as guidance and resources to Wikimedia volunteers and affiliates to spread the word about Wikipedia’s 25th birthday to local and regional media.
• Language and Internationalization: Read some key highlights from theOctober 2025 edition of the Language and internationalization newsletter.
• Information integrity:Wikimedia Project from South America Selected by the UNESCO Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change Fund.
• The Wikipedia Library:The Wikipedia Library team attended the CEE Meeting 2025 celebrated a new partnership with Times of Malta.
• Understanding movement organizers: Wikimedia Foundation concluded aliterature review on organizers in the Wikimedia movement focused on capturing their personas, motivations, and impact in order to highlight best practices and opportunities for further support.

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• Wikimedia Enterprise:Reef Media uses Wikimedia Enterprise Snapshot API to Fact Check and Verify Sources.

Board and Board committee updates
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• Affiliations Committee:Draft recommendations on three strategic areas that need continuous consideration to best support Wikimedia affiliates.

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• Lessons from Wikipedia: The latest edition from the series exploresthe art of disagreement and how Wikipedia navigates disputes.
• Artificial Intelligence:In the AI era, Wikipedia has never been more valuable. This explainer shows how human-created knowledge isn’t replaceable.

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