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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Ameerah1

Hi! Looks like you might be active? We have an AfD that's hanging on this (Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sam Kiki) and I'd appreciate the eyes if you have the interest/bandwidth? Thanks and of course no worries if not. Star Mississippi 23:08, 12 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Star Mississippi, done :) ~ ToBeFree (talk) 23:37, 12 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Much appreciated! Thank you again Star Mississippi 00:01, 13 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Tul8te

Just letting you know about two privacy claims, at least one of which is from the artist's label. –Skywatcher68 (talk) 13:03, 13 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. Thank you very much for the notification, Skywatcher68.

I'm sure LuniZunie, AntiDionysius, StartOkayStop, JeffSpaceman and CharterTheGoob can find/document a quick consensus at Talk:Tul8te about the reliability of the source and the relevance of the information as well as compliance with WP:BLPPRIVACY and determine if the content should be restored. The page is now extended-confirmed protected to prevent disruptive editing by editors with a conflict of interest, though. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:22, 13 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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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Advice requested

You have been very helpful in the past so I come to you for advice.

I have discovered that a Wikiproject guideline conflicts with Wikipedia policy. It is my opinion that Wikipedia policy should not be cancelled in favor of a Wikiproject guideline. Wikiprojects must follow Wikipedia policy.

I do not want to get into a fight with others. I do want better understanding on how to approach this. Ultimately, despite that administrators are supposed to be just like any other editor, I believe it will have to be an administrator which informs the Wikiproject, not me. If I do it, I will be seen as a troublemaker and a bad person.

Wikipedia policy WP:CRYSTAL binds editors, not reliable sources. Editors must not make edits that predict the future, based on the editor's opinion. Editors may use reliable sources as citations and write of the reliable's sources future information. For example, if a new car model is reported by multiple sources to be released in 2027, that does not violate WP:CRYSTAL.

However, Wikiproject Automobiles bans any reporting unless the manufacturer has stated that it will make a new model in the future. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Automobiles/Conventions#Unannounced_vehicles

Actually, the Wikiproject summary wrongly summarizes WP:CRYSTAL. It writes "In accordance with WP:CRYSTALBALL, information about future or speculative vehicles that have not been officially announced by their manufacturer should not be discussed." but WP:CRYSTALBALL does not say this.

Thank you for your advice. FYI, I first encountered this issue in the Chevrolet Camaro article and started a talk page discussion. I do not ask you to intervene but seek your advice when there is a conflict between Wikipedia policy and WikiProject guidelines. Vanguard10 (talk) 01:17, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Vanguard10, something not being forbidden by WP:NOT doesn't automatically imply it's fine to exist on Wikipedia. So the conflict between that guideline and the policy might not be as significant as you think. WP:ONUS exists and is in favor of not having disputed content unless there's a consensus for including it.

That said, there seems to have been a discussion attempt about exactly such conflicts at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)/Archive 206 § Similarly, should Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles/Conventions be demoted to a WikiProject advice page?, and it was still linked from the top of the guideline until just now ([7]).

I would personally generally treat WikiProject pages as essays and try to find a consensus about specific problems on the talk page of specific articles. I would personally reject attempts to use the existence of a WikiProject page as the sole reason for not adhering to the usual policies and guidelines by starting a formal RfC on the article's talk page, so that uninvolved editors are invited by a bot and can overrule a small, loud minority of people who think their topic should be treated differently than others on Wikipedia. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 02:31, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Request for Wikipedia admin coach

Hello! I have been following your contributions to Wikipedia and truly admire your work as an administrator. I am aspiring to become an admin myself and came across the Wikipedia:Admin coaching page. Since that page seems a bit inactive, I thought it would be better to reach out to you directly through your talk page. It would be a great honor if you would consider mentoring or coaching me to help me grow within the community. I am a dedicated learner and would deeply appreciate any guidance you can offer. VerdictByLogic - Let's Discuss 07:46, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello VerdictByLogic, thank you very much for asking and for the kind words!

I think the current point in your ... "career", if we want to call becoming an administrator that, is equivalent to just having joined a company and being in a traineeship program there. This is not the point where you go to a manager asking how to become a manager. It's the point where you do your best to finish the training as good as possible, which might not exactly be archiving sections on random talk pages when there is a bot for archiving things and the resulting talk page is empty, which would be avoided by the bot. If the reason for doing so is increasing your edit count, your approach to this project is currently problematic.

There is no fixed point in time when it happens, but I trust your judgement to tell me when you're done with the traineeship. I think patrolling recent changes for a year or two would do. If you are comparatively young (please don't respond to this, I'm just saying if) then you'll additionally benefit from life experience and maturity gained for free in the meantime.

Best regards,
~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:16, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your reply brother !. I would like to seek the training under your trainingship. Also, you mentioned for patrolling the recent changes, I would like to know more about this. Basically what are things I have to look for! or what can make me a better you!. VerdictByLogic - Let's Discuss 16:26, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In this you may even appoint some tasks or teach me some good tools for clean up or patrolling per CVU etc. It would be pleasure if I get the response :). VerdictByLogic - Let's Discuss 16:31, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

VerdictByLogic, the most important skill you'll have to obtain (or start to use in case you already have that skill and are lazy, but I'll assume it's not there yet) is to learn by reading Wikipedia's policies, some guidelines, no essays, rather avoid information pages. No essays. None. Don't. The only exception perhaps is WP:DISCFAIL. I can't recommend any other essay. Essays mean nothing. You see someone linking to an essay in capital letters, ignore it. The person doesn't know what they're talking about.

One example I recently encountered: Someone restoring content with an edit summary of "You must discuss the removal of this content per WP:BRD" – nonsense. BRD is an essay. Actually applicable policies: Don't edit war, but consensus is required for inclusion of disputed content and an inline citation is required too. We also have a dispute resolution policy. We have many good policies. Forget the essays.

That's all you need to know. Have a look at the Task Center and have fun experimenting and gaining experience during the next years. As long as you call people "brother" based on name/appearance and with a space before the exclamation mark, you're not ready. Please take your time.

With the company analogy in mind, step 1 is becoming a full employee, and that step is at least a year away at the moment. If that seems too much to you, rather two years. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 16:41, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so my @ToBeFree!. You are so much concerned even about the writing style. Thank you for your valuable guidance. I'll reach out to you if I have any issues in my way to admin. I hope you'll always help me as a mentor during this journey. VerdictByLogic - Let's Discuss 16:49, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No problem.

~ ToBeFree (talk) 17:27, 14 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 7

Here is a quick overview of highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation since our last issue on March 28. Please help translate.

Highlights

Community Wishlist update: This monthly update covers how 44 wishes were fulfilled, 17 are in progress, and 15 more will start work soon. It includes completion of work on Watchlist labels, which allow users to add labels to items in their watchlist to help with managing and filtering; fixing a bug with preview page feature; indexing of Commons on Google & DuckDuckGo search; and a wish simplifying the insertion of maths formulas in articles. You can submit, vote on, and subscribe to wishes here.
Goal setting for edit-a-thons: The CampaignEvents extension now includes a new group goal-setting feature, enabling organizers to set and track event goals such as the number of articles created and participating contributors in real time. This feature is now available on all Wikimedia wikis. Join the Connection Learning Session on April 14 at 16:00 UTC to learn more about this feature and new ways to promote events and campaigns to editors.
Collaboration with the United Nations: Learn how the Foundation engages with the United Nations to secure our collective voice and protect free knowledge.

Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure
See also newsletters: Wikimedia Apps · Growth · Product Safety and Integrity · Readers · Research · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia · Tech News · Language and Internationalization · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org

Navigating articles on mobile: The Foundation is launching an experiment to test how to make it easier and more intuitive for readers to navigate through articles on mobile. To do this, we want to test Mobile Page Previews. This experiment will go live the week of April 20 and will run for four weeks.
Editing tools for new editors: Tone Check was deployed on French, Japanese, and Portuguese Wikipedia as a default-on feature for editors who have published 100 or fewer edits locally. When promotional or subjective language is added, users are prompted to consider "neutralizing" the tone of the edit.
Managing watchlist labels: The new watchlist labels feature is now available via VisualEditor, the source editor, and the "watchstar" (or watch link, for skins that don’t have a star icon). Previously it was only possible to assign labels via EditWatchlist.
Latest experiments: See all upcoming, live, in-analysis, and completed experiments in Product & Technology. A new experiment that just went live is one which aims to establish a baseline retention rate for logged-in readers.
Latest Wikifunctions: Check out the partial list of the 102 new functions created last week – likely the first week we have exceeded 100.
Tech News: The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 14 and 15 include an ongoing A/B test running on 10 Wikipedias to evaluate a clearer, more user-friendly message that promotes account creation on wikis. See also the 68 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.
Community discussions on Semantic Search: The Wikimedia Foundation, in collaboration with the CEE Hub, hosted a discussion session on Semantic Search for members of the CEE Youth Group.

Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support
See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog · Global Advocacy Newsletter · Policy blog · WikiLearn News · The Wikipedia Library · list of movement events

Don't Blink!: This month's highlights from the Global Advocacy team include how the Wikimedia Foundation co-presented alongside the Internet Archive at the State of the Net conference.
Digital rights and inclusion: Take a look at the sessions that Wikimedians and allied partners will lead during Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2026.
Manuscript preservation: The Wikimedia Foundation supported volunteer-lead workshops to write Balinese Wikipedia articles about palm-leaf manuscripts (lontar) from the Leiden University Library collection.
Youth content creators: Wikimedia Indonesia, together with the Wikimedia Foundation, delivered an introductory session on Wikipedia for young content creators representing all 11 ASEAN member states.
Legal and Safety Contacts: The Wikimedia Foundation has created a single "Legal and Safety Contacts" page, to be linked in the footer of each wiki page. This will ensure that everyone has access to accurate and up to date Legal contact information. Insertion of the new links on different wikis will be done in stages, based on assessment of legal risk and necessity.
Building shared principals for the internet as a public good: The Global Advocacy team published a blog with the Center for Studies on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information (CELE) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) summarizing a workshop that brought together digital rights advocates from Latin America to dream of a "digital utopia."

Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness
See also: Progress on the annual plan

Wikidata API: Wikidata’s structured knowledge is now available through Wikimedia Enterprise.
Annual Planning and global trends: Join the America APP call on April 21 at 18:00 UTC. This meeting is an opportunity for the Latin American community to ensure that the region's voice helps shape the Wikimedia Foundation's work and priorities for the next fiscal year. The call will be in Spanish with interpretation into Portuguese and English. The last meeting between Wikimedia EDs and Foundation staff was dedicated to discuss global trends too. More discussions are happening on-wiki and in community spaces around different regions and projects.
Futures Lab: The world is changing around us. As the Wikimedia movement navigates this moment over a hundred Wikimedians from different Wikimedia projects came together to deepen our understanding of how these trends are impacting our people and projects at the Wikimedia Futures Lab.
Fundraising Hub: The Wikimedia Foundation has launched Fundraising Hub on English Wikipedia. The first discussion you can participate in is about distributing fundraising banner on English Wikipedia throughout the year.

Board and Board committee updates
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Ombuds Commission: Announcement of the 2026 Ombuds Commission, the small group of volunteers who investigate complaints about violations of the Privacy Policy, the Access to Nonpublic Personal Data Policy, the CheckUser Policy and the Oversight Policy.
Wikinews closure: All Wikinews editions will be closed and switched to read-only mode on May 4. Content will remain accessible, but no new edits or articles will be able to be added. This closure was approved by the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation following extended discussions.

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