Monile mose, nkhupempha kuti nilutizgekukhala mlongozgi pa Wikipediya yino. Nkhukhumba kupitilizga kuonelela Wikipediya yino ngati nkhudikizga awo ŵakusokoneza, nkhukhumbaso kuponoska mapeji agho ngakuzilwa, kudilita mapeji gha vyambula kwenelela na vya kusaska malonda, na ntchito zinyake zinandi. Pa Wikipediya yino nachitapo vinthu vinandi viwemi ivo ningafiska chala kulongosola. Antheura, nkhukhumba kupitilizga ntchito yane. Imwe mukususkana navo, chonde yowoyani pasi apa maganizo ghinu.--Tumbuka Arch★★★16:05, 22 Julayi 2025 (UTC)[zgolo]
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Hello, I would like to request for the permanent adminship here. I would like to continue protecting the wiki, fight against vandalism and spam, protect and move protected pages, among other duties that require advanced rights. I have been a sysop here for more than 3-4 times. I am always on Wikipedia, and if I am not on my PC, then I am on mobile. I joined this wiki in early 2010s when it didn't have its own logo and was editing anonymously. After creating this account, I requested a translated wiki logo, translated entire wiki interface into language of this wiki (including system messages), created hundreds of templates, protected important pages, deleted ads, etc. If anyone doesn't agree with this, please say so in the comment section below. Thank you. --Tumbuka Arch★★★16:05, 22 Julayi 2025 (UTC)[zgolo]
If this Wikipedia has arrived to its current state is just because of Tumbuka Arch's hard work. I totally support him as an administrator. He is a native speaker of Tumbuka and is clearly willing to put the work to develop a high-quality Wikipedia in Tumbuka. --Caro de Segeda (pakuchezgela)18:32, 22 Julayi 2025 (UTC)[zgolo]
Tumbuka Arch is one of if not the hardest working person on this Wikipedia. He helped translate and create most of the pages on this Wikipedia, and was great in assigning jobs and acting as a leader on this Wikipedia for other users/admins. He should have permanent adminship in my opinion due to the fact that he has brought this wiki into only stubs, into having a lot of great educational content and knowledge for the Tumbuka people.CubanoBoi19:42, 22 Julayi 2025 (UTC)[zgolo]
I am working with a Malawian academic to launch a project named Motokazi to improve the coverage of Malawian women in English, Chichewa and Tumbuka. Dozens of new articles in English and two in Tumbuka... written by Tumbuka Arch. Surprised to see this debate, I assumed he was an admin, I regard him as such.Victuallers (pakuchezgela)07:34, 28 Julayi 2025 (UTC)[zgolo]
Strong support . I fully endorse Tumbuka Arch’s request for permanent adminship. He has demonstrated long-term commitment to this wiki, dating back to the early 2010s—even before the project had its own logo. His efforts in translating the interface, creating and protecting core templates, handling spam, and maintaining page integrity have been crucial to the growth and safety of the platform. With multiple successful admin terms already served, he has shown both competence and consistency. Granting him permanent adminship is a logical and necessary step to ensure the continued stability and security of this wiki.Thank you for your service, Arch. You have my full confidence.Icem4k (pakuchezgela)
Temporary accounts are successfully live on 30 wikis, including many large ones like German, Japanese, and French. The change they bring is especially relevant to logged-out editors, who this feature is designed to protect. But it is also relevant to community members like mentors, patrollers, and admins – anyone who reverts edits, blocks users, or otherwise interacts with logged-out editors as part of keeping the wikis safe and accurate.
Why we are building temporary accounts
Our wikis should be safer to edit by default for logged-out editors. Temporary accounts allow people to continue editing the wikis without creating an account, while avoiding publicly tying their edits to their IP address. We believe this is in the best interest of our logged-out editors, who make valuable contributions to the wikis and who may later create accounts and grow our community of editors, admins, and other roles. Even though the wikis do warn logged-out editors that their IP address will be associated with their edit, many people may not understand what an IP address is, or that it could be used to connect them to other information about them in ways they might not expect.
Additionally, our moderation software and tools rely too heavily on network origin (IP addresses) to identify users and patterns of activity, especially as IP addresses themselves are becoming less stable as identifiers. Temporary accounts allow for more precise interactions with logged-out editors, including more precise blocks, and can help limit how often we unintentionally end up blocking good-faith users who use the same IP addresses as bad-faith users.
How temporary accounts work
Any time a logged-out user publishes an edit on this wiki, a cookie will be set in this user's browser, and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created. This account's name will follow the pattern:~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, current year, a number). On pages like Recent Changes or page history, this name will be displayed. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser. A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. However, only some logged-in users will be able to see it.
What does this mean for different groups of users?
For logged-out editors
This increases privacy: currently, if you do not use a registered account to edit, then everybody can see the IP address for the edits you made, even after 90 days. That will no longer be possible on this wiki.
If you use a temporary account to edit from different locations in the last 90 days (for example at home and at a coffee shop), the edit history and the IP addresses for all those locations will now be recorded together, for the same temporary account. Users whomeet the relevant requirements will be able to view this data. If this creates any personal security concerns for you, please contact talktohumanrights at wikimedia.org for advice.
For community members interacting with logged-out editors
A temporary account is uniquely linked to a device. In comparison, an IP address can be shared with different devices and people (for example, different people at school or at work might have the same IP address).
Compared to the current situation, it will be safer to assume that a temporary user's talk page belongs to only one person, and messages left there will be read by them. As you can see in the screenshot, temporary account users will receive notifications. It will also be possible to thank them for their edits, ping them in discussions, and invite them to get more involved in the community.
For users who use IP address data to moderate and maintain the wiki
For patrollers who track persistent abusers, investigate violations of policies, etc.: Users whomeet the requirements will be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range (Special:IPContributions). They will also have access to useful information about the IP addresses thanks to theIP Info feature. Many other pieces of software have been built or adjusted to work with temporary accounts, including AbuseFilter, global blocks, Global User Contributions, and more. (For information for volunteer developers on how to update the code of your tools – see the last part of the message.)
For admins blocking logged-out editors:
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects theautoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this.
If you want to test the temporary account experience, for example just to check what it feels like, go to testwiki or test2wiki and edit without logging in.
Tell us if you know of any difficulties that need to be addressed. We will try to help, and if we are not able, we will consider the available options.
Look at ourprevious message about requirements for users without extended rights who may need access to IP addresses.
To learn more about the project, check outour FAQ – you will find many useful answers there. You may alsolook at the updates (we have just posted one) andsubscribe to our new newsletter. If you'd like to talk to me (Szymon) off-wiki, you will find me on Discord and Telegram. Thank you!
TheWikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on24 September. The switch will start at15:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations inMediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation. You can contribute to thetranslation or proofreading of this banner text.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 24 September 2025.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions fromWikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).
There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, thenplease learn more and vote now at meta-wiki.Thank you!
Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply byvisiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cstwikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
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!
