User talk:Hmlarson

Women in Red - January 2026

Women in Red | January 2026, Vol 12, Issue 1, Nos 357, 358, 359, 360

Online events:

New: Sports (year-long initiative) | Alphabet run - countries starting with A
Continuing: #1day1woman ( year-long initiative) | Women who died in 2025

Announcements from other communities

Wikipedia turns 25! Celebrate Wikipedia Day on Jan 15, 2026.

Tip of the month:

Consider becoming a new page reviewer to help reduce the huge backlog of women's biographies.

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Women in sports

Thanks for all your updates in this connection. Much appreciated. And all the best for 2026!--Ipigott (talk) 14:37, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

AINB discussion

There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/Noticeboard regarding an AI cleanup investigation which may be related to you. NicheSports (talk) 04:45, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Leave me alone Sock. Hmlarson (talk) 04:55, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Any editor with your level of experience should know better than to cast aspersions and assume bad faith, please stop and engage in discussion. fifteen thousand two hundred twenty four (talk) 05:01, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hmlarson, do you use an LLM at all for editing? Please see WP:LLMWRITE and WP:NEWLLM, I’m impressed by the work you’ve done here but it’s important that content adheres to core policies and LLM-generated content usually violates several of them. Kowal2701 (talk) 11:42, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello editor. Your first link is an WP:ESSAY. Thanks for sharing the guideline: WP:NEWLLM. Will you also be sharing the policy WP:HARASS with the other editor(s) who started this so they reign in their poor behavior? If you'd like to be added to that growing list, let me know. Hmlarson (talk) 13:07, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

How to deal with bullies on Wikipedia

Make the articles they don't want written EVEN BETTER. Hmlarson (talk) 05:15, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red February 2026

Women in Red | February 2026, Vol 12, Issue 2, Nos 358, 359, 361, 362, 363

Online events:

New: Alphabet run: countries starting with B | Black Women | Works by women: theatre, opera, music
Continuing: #1day1woman ( year-long initiative) | Sports (year-long initiative)

Announcements from other communities

Join Wikipedia:26 for '26 and create or substantially improve twenty-six Wikipedia
articles during the year 2026, at least one for each letter of the English alphabet.

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Our redlists are a great resource, but not every redlinked subject is notable. Be sure to research before starting a new article.

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Women in Red - March 2026

Women in Red | March 2026, Vol 12, Issue 3, Nos 358, 359, 364, 365, 366

Online events:

March 1-31: Artists & Activists | Artworks by women | Alphabet run: countries starting with C
Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports

Announcements from other communities:

Tip of the month:

Those experiencing difficulties with new articles can follow the guidance in our essays,
perhaps starting with our Ten Simple Rules.

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Women in Red – April 2026

Women in Red | April 2026, Vol 12, Issue 4, Nos 358, 359, 367, 368, 369

Online events:

New: Countries starting with D, E and F | Women's Works: Written works | Cascading Women
Continuing (year-long initiatives): #1day1woman | Sports

Announcements from other communities:

CEE women

Tip of the month:

When creating a new article, take a moment to ensure any notable woman is redlinked.
Someone might be inspired to create an article for her.

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The Signpost: 31 March 2026

News and notes: Entirety of Wikinews to be shut down
All languages to be shut down in May; first AI agent blocked; new name for AfD?

In the media: AI ban, newspapers disrupt archiving; and antisemitism complaints
Perennial challenges with AI, demographic representation, and attacks from people buying media influence.

Community view: Videos from WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC
In attendees' own words.

Disinformation report: Cleaning up after Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Nygard, and Mohamed Al-Fayed
Countering the edits of the rich and dangerous.

WikiConference report: WikiConference North America 2025 in NYC review
About the conference series, and this conference particularly.

Obituary: Dr. Subas Chandra Rout
Rest in peace.

Traffic report: Call in the dogs of war, soldier of fortune
Though of course the picture needs to be Chuck Norris...

Gallery: Canadian Rangers participate in Operation Enduring Encyclopedia
Analogies between how Wikipedia works and how Canada works.

Comix: n00bsitting
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Administrators' newsletter – April 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (March 2026).

Administrator changes

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Checkuser changes

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Oversight changes

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Guideline and policy news

The content of Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models has been updated following a request for comment. It now prohibits using LLMs to generate content, with exceptions for translation and copy-editing.

Arbitration

Following a motion, the GSCASTE extended-confirmed restriction in the Indian military history case has been narrowed. It now applies to caste-related topics in South Asia, and the preemptive protection remedy has been amended accordingly.
The arbitration case Pbsouthwood has been closed.
The arbitration case Maghreb has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 7 April.

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Tech News: 2026-16

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

Weekly highlight

Experienced editors are invited to test the Article guidance feature, designed to help less-experienced editors create well-structured, policy-compliant Wikipedia articles. Testing instructions are available. Also, after reviewing the outlines, please provide feedback on the project talk page. Based on your input, the feature will be refined and transferred to the pilot Wikipedias to translate and adapt. Check out the video explaining the feature.

Updates for editors

On most wikis, all autoconfirmed users can now use Special:ChangeContentModel page to create new pages with custom content models, such as mass message lists, making custom page formats more accessible. Check Special:ListGroupRights for the status of your wiki. [1]
The Growth team has launched an account creation experiment to evaluate whether adding an account creation button to the mobile web header increases new account registrations and encourages more mobile users to contribute to the wikis. The experiment is currently live on Hindi, Indonesian, Bengali, Thai, and Hebrew Wikipedia, and targets 10% of logged-out mobile web users.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where VisualEditor could get stuck loading on Windows devices with animations turned off, has now been fixed. [2]

Updates for technical contributors

Starting later this week, Edit filter managers who have the Improved Syntax Highlighting beta feature enabled will have CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor as the editor at Special:AbuseFilter. This is part of the broader effort to make the user experience more consistent across all editors. [3][4]
Tools and bots that access the Notifications API (action=query&meta=notifications) will need to update their OAuth or BotPassword grants to also include access to private notifications. [5]
Due to a library upgrade, listings on category pages may be displayed out of order starting on Monday, 20th April. A migration script will be run to correct this, and will take hours to days depending on the size of the wiki (up to a week for English Wikipedia). [6]
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:03, 15 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2026-17

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

Weekly highlight

After two years of development, Improved Syntax Highlighting, also known as CodeMirror 6, is to be promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. It brings better code and wikitext readability, reduction in typing errors, and other benefits to all users of the standard syntax highlighter. A huge thank you to volunteer Bhsd who developed many of the new features, including code folding, autocompletion, and linting. [7]
A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS is now rolling out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple's latest "Liquid Glass" visual design. Download the latest version and explore the update.

Updates for editors

Reading lists is a feature which allows readers to save articles to a list for reading later. This feature is now in beta on Arabic, French, Indonesian, Vietnamese, and Chinese Wikipedias and by default for all new accounts on all Wikipedias.
An experiment which explores extending Page Previews to mobile web will be launched in the week of April 20 on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page Previews are pop-ups that display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and a link to open the full article of a blue link, thereby improving content discovery. The feature is already available on desktop and in the apps. Read more about this experiment and others.
On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven't confirmed their email addresses can now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Having the email address confirmed allows a user to restore access to the account if they lose it. Learn more. [8]
View all 15 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where editing very large wiki pages in the 2017 wikitext editor caused slow loading, preview and scrolling lag, and performance issues when selecting, cutting, or pasting content, has now been fixed. [9]

Updates for technical contributors

As part of the promotion of CodeMirror from a beta feature, all users will use CodeMirror instead of CodeEditor for syntax highlighting when editing JavaScript, CSS, JSON, Vue and Lua content pages. [10]
The mirrors.wikimedia.org service for Debian and Ubuntu users will sunset and stop working on May 15. The resources for the service will be replaced with new and better options. Some users may need to switch to a different server which should take about a minute. You can read more. [11]
The image and oldimage table will be removed from wikireplicas. If your tools or queries access image or oldimage directly, please update them to use the file and filerevision table before 28 May. [12]
Following the recent implementation of global API rate limits on unidentified traffic, the Wikimedia Foundation will continue efforts to ensure fair use of infrastructure by applying global limits to identified API traffic beginning the last week of April. These limits are intentionally set as high as possible to minimise impact on the community. Bots running in Toolforge/WMCS or with the bot user right on any wiki should not be affected for now. However, all developers are advised to follow updated best practices. For more information, see Wikimedia APIs/Rate limits and Frequently Asked Questions.
The Attribution API is now available as a beta. The API fetches information for crediting Wikimedia articles and media files wherever they are used. Reference documentation is available through the REST Sandbox special page available on all Wikimedia wikis (such as the REST sandbox on English Wikipedia). Share your feedback on the project talk page.
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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The Signpost: 21 April 2026

News and notes: Six Serbian Wikipedia editors banned following controversy about political bias
Plus, new bans for AI-generated content in place, a new drop in active admins, pranks on pranks, May admin election, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

In the media: Could Wikipedia be involved in Massachusetts' proposed social media ban for minors?
Another regulate-the-internet attempt casts a wide net.

Gallery: March equinox
The progression of seasons in March.

Traffic report: Time to change my galaxy in case, we outta space!
What catches the reader's eye? Death and film, per usual, and a loop around the moon per unusual.

Comix: Of skirts and articles
When significant coverage is only skin deep.

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Good article reassessment for Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. OrdinaryOtter (talk) 08:07, 21 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]