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Redirects you have created have been listed at redirects for discussion ↗ to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines ↗. Anyone, including you, is welcome to comment on this redirect at '''{{slink| Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 April 7#Persia War }}''' until a consensus is reached.  LIrala (talk) 19:36, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

The Necromancer's Tale ↗ moved to draftspace

Thanks for your contributions to The Necromancer's Tale ↗. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing as a live article at this time because '''it consists of machine-generated text''' and '''I want to give a new editor a chance to understand Wikipedia’s WP:NOLLM ↗ policy, and to rewrite the article themself in Draftspace before resubmitting.

Hi @StickyMan1982 and welcome to Wikipedia! I’m sorry to draftify your newly created page, but I’m afraid it appears to be AI-generated and the Wikipedia does not allow AI-written articles. I wanted to explain the problems in the article because I hope you’ll stay here at Wikipedia and write and edit yourself instead of using AI. We need editors who are interested in video games. If you are using AI because English is your second language please understand that we prefer typos and grammatical errors to AI because they are FAR easier to correct.

The language in the article is very AI-ish, and scored 59% AI-generated on GPTZero, which is not, of course, always correct. But after carefully checking your text and the sources, I think it would have been difficult for you to write this article without using AI. There is a lot of LLM paraphrasing of sources with slight errors and added hallucinations that sound plausible.

EXAMPLE 1: The description of the trust system as having severe social consequences" is a typical LLM type of paraphrasing where concrete examples are generalized. When I asked ChatGPT to compare the paragraph starting with “Necromancy is a central part of the game's structure” to the source you gave for it, ChatGPT not only noted that the bits about "hex-based battlefields" and "mental states" are not in the source, it also described the closest match in the source to the "mental states" as being the trust system, and it used exactly the vague paraphrasing "social consequences" that I noted above as sounding LLM-ish.
<blockquote>The closest match in the source is this section:
“The decisions we make also affect how much trust other characters place in us… we may start encountering problems… in extreme cases we may fall victim to lynching or be brought to court and sentenced to death.”
This describes:

A reputation / trust system

Social consequences of your actions</blockquote>

EXAMPLE 2:

Source (Vice) “Beautifully written dialogue, paired with stylistic portraits, evokes the spirit of Disco Elysium.” (..) “If you’ve been searching for a dark, gritty, and sometimes disgusting RPG to engross yourself in, you can’t go wrong with this one.”[1]

Article: “Vice praised its dialogue, visual style, and writing, calling it a dark and engrossing role-playing game and giving it a verdict of "Highly Recommended.”[4]”

Here we see in the generated text in the article first the LLM template of a list with three items, and you also see that the summarised list is LESS SPECIFIC than the source text. The second bit is just wrong - Vice does NOT call it a “dark and engrossing role-playing game”, this is a revising that slightly changes the meaning of the original source - and it’s the kind of paraphrasing that humans don’t usually do. It’s remixing words, not summarising a source for its meaning.

You're a new editor so may not be aware of Wikipedia's prohibition of using LLMs to write articles, so I just wanted to let you know about this. In this case it looks as though the AI-generated material isn't VERY wrong but it is wrong - using LLMs is very risky for an encyclopedia like Wikipedia that aims to be authoritative and that we know will also be used to train new LLMs.

I sent this back to draft to give you a chance to rewrite it. I hope you do so - and PLEASE WRITE IT YOURSELF!
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I have converted it to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page ↗.
When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit the draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Lijil (talk) 08:52, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

:Hi - sorry, I ticked the box saying to notify you as well as the page creator, didn't realise it would show up looking as though you created the page! The AI-generated articles take so much time to check, it's a nightmare. The article looked really polished and the topic is notable so I can see why you approved it in AfC. Lijil (talk) 09:00, 8 April 2026 (UTC)
::Heya, no worries! I appreciate the heads up nonetheless, as it gives me the chance to double check issues that I missed. Some of the phrasing did seem odd, but I didn't find any immediate issues in the spot checks I performed – obviously I didn't delve deep enough in this instance. Thanks for catching! <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 10:21, 8 April 2026 (UTC)

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hello this is a kurdish myth creature and there is no other sources i found so thats why i wanted to put everything i know to wikipedia, this is like greek, scandinavian mythology it is allowed on wikipedia because there are a lot of resources around the internet and real life but because kurdish history is not really protected it gets lost very easily. Thanks.

Canada9090 (talk) 00:50, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
:Hi @Canada9090, one of the core policies of Wikipedia is Verifiability ↗, which states:{{quote|Wikipedia's content is determined by published information rather than editors' beliefs, experiences, or previously unpublished ideas or information. Even if you are sure something is true, it must have been published in a reliable source before you can add it.}}Unless it's been written about in reliable sources ↗, it's not suitable for inclusion on Wikipedia. Sources aren't limited to online sources either; books and journals are also good sources if you can find them. <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 01:54, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

Followup on Sockpuppet Investigation on WelpThisIsMyUsername

Hey Nil Niz, I know you made the two sockpuppet investigations and I wanted to update you in case you missed it. The somewhat blatantly sockpuppet account WelpThisIsMyUsername is denying that they're another account of Jaden ↗ and appear to be ignoring ↗ the recommendations admin had given by making more unconstructive edits, which were very generous/forgiving from admin given just how many accounts the sockpuppeter made. Just wanted to give you a heads up. Sunnyediting99 (talk) 00:33, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
:@Jack Frost is an experienced SPI clerk and I'm sure is aware of the reply. I wouldn't worry too much about it at this stage; I agree with the assessment that this is just a kid doing kids stuff, which – while sometimes disruptive – certainly isn't malicious or ill-intended. As for their claim that they're not the same editor, Jaden is welcome to request an unblock following the instructions left on his talk page.<br> I have no opinion on the redirect creations; some redirects-from-typos are useful, and these creations will be reviewed by New Page Patrollers anyway, who can escalate if there's an issue. There's just been a handful created thus far, and I see a few of them have already been tagged and deleted, which is a sign the system is working. <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 00:55, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
::Hi Nil Niz, thanks for the reply. Just wanted to make sure you were aware of it and Im glad admin is too. I do agree its definitely just a kid messing around and that their edits aren't really from a place of spite, though it was kinda getting pretty disruptive/annoying given how active they were with it. Regardless, thanks again for your initial investigation since it saved a lot of talk page discussion time for me and other editors on the stratocracy page. Ill trust admin then to deal with it. Sunnyediting99 (talk) 01:02, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
:Hi both{{hp|Sunnyediting99}}, thanks for the note and looping me in. I agree with Nil. I have dropped a message on their talkpage in reply; my overall take is that they've now been given a solid shot across the bow about what's acceptable and what's not, and the ball's now firmly in their court in terms of how they choose to act from here on (I won't be losing any sleep over the connection between the accounts either). Thanks again for both of your work keeping an eye on things. Cheers, Jack Frost (talk) 01:21, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
::Glad to hear that, I do agree with your overall reading of the situation as well. Yea I guess since the connection is pretty blatant we dont have to worry too much over it. Appreciate both you and Nil for all your work on this. Sunnyediting99 (talk) 01:29, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

AfC Review Request

Hello Nil Niz, I want to ask if you could review my article: article ↗ as it is not been noticed for a long time. I understand it might not be fair to other writers, but since I saw that you reviewed a few articles just then, I want to ask for your review, thank you! <span style="font-family:Cambria;color:#069494;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Welovecontributors!</span> [talk ↗] [contribs ↗] 03:53, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
:Hi @Welovecontributors!, AfC reviewers generally don't perform reviews on request.<br> Schools are not an area I'm personally interested in or knowledgeable about, so aren't the sort of drafts I particularly seek out. I understand the wait can be disheartening, but rest assured a volunteer will get to it eventually! <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 05:58, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
::Thank you, and I totally understand. <span style="font-family:Cambria;color:#069494;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Welovecontributors!</span> [talk ↗] [contribs ↗] 06:09, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

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'''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.

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'''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 ↗.

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Draft

Hello,
I was wondering how you found this draft ↗ to be LLM generated. Cheers, 🚂<span style="color:blue"><b>That</b></span><span style="color:red"><b>Train</b></span><span style="color:blue"><b>Guy</b></span><span style="color:red"><b>1945</b></span> <sup>Peep peep!</sup> 13:46, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

:Hey @ThatTrainGuy1945, there were a couple of things. First was that a decline template was added ↗ when the page was created, which is an error some LLMs make. There were also some WP:LLMSIGNS ↗ in the text – such as {{tq|Seymour was profiled by the American Federation of Musicians, where his work on Ain’t Too Proud and his approach to musical direction were discussed.}} – which is a classic WP:AIATTR ↗, because it doesn't actually give us any in depth analysis from the source. <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 20:37, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

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AFCRD

Hi there! I was having a look at Wikipedia:Articles for creation/Redirects#Redirect request: Honda S2K, Honda s2k ↗ and was wondering if you'd mind creating them, since after I had a look at the article even some of the sources used there used the abbreviation. Since I don't have much experience in AFCRD I wanted to ask you to for some advice: do you usually create both versions (upper and lowercase) even if they are redundant in the search field unless there's a particular reason to do both. Kind Regards Squawk7700 Squawk7700 (talk) 17:08, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
:{{done}} – usually I wouldn't worry about doing both upper and lower, unless there's a specific need to – there is a {{tl|r from miscapitalisation}} template to tag such redirects, but would only create them if it was commonly being misused. <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 01:37, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks appreciate it, rgds Squawk7700 (talk) 07:01, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
::Hey me again. I just realized that I miswrote here entirely what I ment to say, that should have said "[...] and was wondering if you'd mind ''me'' creating them." Terribly sorry for how I said it, I did not want to tell you how to do your job. Kind Regards Squawk7700 (talk) 17:31, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

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'''Annual Planning''': The Wikimedia Foundation published the draft Annual Plan ↗ for the coming fiscal year (2026–2027) which will focus on four main goals that directly respond to the external trends. The goals include increasing our reach, deepening engagement, protecting our projects and building speed and resilience to enable the change needed to respond to the internet being at an inflection point. Feedback welcome on the talk page ↗ and many other places ↗.

'''Global conversation''': A global conversation about the Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan ↗ will take place on May 7 at 5:00 PM UTC.

'''Sustainable reuse of Wikimedia content''': The Attribution API ↗ is now in beta ↗. It makes it easier to credit Wikimedia content fairly wherever it is used. It provides all information required by the Wikimedia Attribution Framework ↗ in a single, well-structured and easy-to-use endpoint, simplifying attribution for off-wiki reuse. Share your feedback on the project talk page ↗.

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'''Games Hub available on Android''': The Games Hub is live in the Wikipedia app for Android. This new feature offers a space for users to find all available games ↗ in one place, explore archives, and get updates on new games. It currently includes ''Which Came First? ↗'', with more games coming soon.

'''Update to Wikipedia app for iOS''': A major update to the Wikipedia app for iOS has rolled out, redesigning the interface to align with Apple’s latest “Liquid Glass” visual design. Download the latest version ↗ and explore the update.

'''Confirming email addresses''': On several wikis, logged-in editors who haven’t confirmed their email addresses ↗ now see a banner encouraging them to do so. Confirming the email address ↗ helps users restore account access if they lose it and receive messages about their accounts. It also provides an easy option to communicate with other users off-wiki if they choose. As of early 2026, about 62.9% of all registered Wikimedia user accounts ↗ that have an email set had not confirmed it.

'''Testing mobile web page previews''': Mobile page previews ↗ experiment was launched on Arabic, English, French, Italian, Polish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. Page previews are pop-ups that show a thumbnail, a lead paragraph, and a link to the full article to improve content discovery. It is already available on desktop and in the apps.

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'''Wikifunctions''': Wikifunctions crossed 4,000 functions, with subtracting two complex numbers ↗ as the 4,000th function. Also, Abstract Wikipedia reached 1,000 articles. The article about the famous Indian Brahmin Chanakya ↗ marked this milestone.

'''Reading lists now a beta feature''': New accounts are now opted into Reading lists ↗ by default on all Wikipedia wikis. This brings the "Save pages" feature to the web, which has been popular in mobile apps. For users in the beta, a "Save page" (bookmark) button appears in the toolbar on every page. The watch/unwatch (star) option moves to the tools menu. The "Watchlist" button in the top navigation shifts to the user menu. A new "Saved pages" button takes its place. In June, the feature will be available to all users and a user preference will be added to choose between two sets of buttons: Watch + Watchlist or Save + Saved list. The other set will be in the tool and user menus.

'''Structured Contents''': Article Images and Lists now in Structured Contents payloads ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 16 ↗ and 17 ↗ include CodeMirror 6 being promoted out of beta on Tuesday, April 21. See also the 45 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

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Please see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David McKenna (actor) (2nd nomination) ↗

I concur with your view and have opened a further discussion. 🇵🇸&zwj;🇺🇦 <span style="color:#800">Fiddle</span><sup><small>Timtrent</small></sup> <span style="color:#070">Faddle</span><sup><small>Talk to me</small></sup> 🇺🇦&zwj;🇵🇸 12:22, 30 April 2026 (UTC)

Hello again

Could you please review the latest changes to the page titled "Mir Muhammad Rebellion ↗"? BEFOR01 (talk) 18:17, 1 May 2026 (UTC)

Feedback request: Media, the arts, and architecture request for comment

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Request on 04:35:49, 9 May 2026 for assistance on AfC ↗ submission by WhiteVolta7

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To whom it may concern,

Thank you for reviewing my article. I appreciate your willingness to review. I was wondering what criterion must be met to get something like this published? The article I submitted was for a rock band in Austin, Texas called The Wayfarer Incident. Most of the citations I submitted were album reviews from other authors and links to music pages where The Wayfarer Incident's music is available for streaming.

WhiteVolta7 (talk) 04:35, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 9

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'''Community Protection''': Wikimedia Foundation secured Indonesian government’s commitment ↗ to user safety, privacy, and content integrity ahead of administrative registration in Indonesia.

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'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 18 ↗ and 19 ↗ include improvements on Global Watchlist ↗. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

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Regarding Draft:Be The One Company and Account Updates

Kia ora Nil NZ,
I am writing to you regarding the resubmitted draft for Be The One Company. I noticed your feedback on the need for significant coverage and have updated the draft with independent secondary sources, including in-depth interviews and project details for our artists.
I also want to update you on my account status to ensure full compliance with Wikipedia’s policies:
Username Change: I have already submitted a formal request to change my username to avoid any perceived promotional conflict.
Email Update: I have recently updated my account's contact information back to my personal email address to ensure proper communication and account security during this process.
Source Improvements: The draft now includes references for Mun Si-eun, Lee Ja-in, Hong Hee-seo, Bang Chae-yu, Shim So-ye, and Jung Ha-yoon from reputable outlets.
I have disclosed my COI in the draft and am waiting for the username change to be processed. I would greatly appreciate it if you could review the updated sources and provide any further guidance.
Thank you for your time and your dedicated "gnome-ish" contributions to the community!
Best regards,
Betheonera (talk) 00:00, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

Waipiro Stream

After creating the Kumutoto Stream ↗ article are you interested in creating any more culverted stream articles? Because I've finally found out what the green things ↗ near the cenotaph are: they represent the Waipiro (or Wai Piro, apparently) Stream. Can't find many sources but thought you might be interested, don't know. <span style="font-family:Poppins, Helvetica, Sans-serif; background-color: #7164d6; color:#FFFFFF; padding: 0px 3px;">Panamitsu</span> ✨ 08:17, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

:Oh I must have walked over those a hundred times without realising what they were for! Funny you should ask, as I'd recently begun looking into the Waimāpihi Stream (which runs down Aro Valley, and then under Vivian/Cuba/Te Aro Park ↗) as a potential article.
:After that I'd definitely be keen to eventually get around to Waipiro and Waitangi too (though anyone's welcome to beat me to it – Waitangi Park ↗ already has info on the stream that could be used as a basis for an article) <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 09:23, 13 May 2026 (UTC)
:: Interesting! <span style="font-family:Poppins, Helvetica, Sans-serif; background-color: #7164d6; color:#FFFFFF; padding: 0px 3px;">Panamitsu</span> ✨ 09:45, 13 May 2026 (UTC)

New Page Patrol Newsletter - May 2026

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'''Backlog update'''

At the time of this message, there are 15,282 articles and 32,951 redirects awaiting review.

After the January–February drive the article backlog was reduced to 15,179 articles and the redirect backlog to 19,053 respectively. Great job! However, both queues are growing rapidly and any additional reviews are highly appreciated.

'''2024 and 2025 NPP Awards'''

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{{no ping|Hey man im josh}} and {{no ping|MPGuy2824}} won the Redirect Ninja Master Award for 2024 and 2025 respectively, for reviewing the most redirects.

Overall in 2024, one Platinum, two Gold, eight Silver, 12 Bronze and 45 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 66 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year. In 2025, one Platinum, ten Silver, 13 Bronze and 38 Iron Barnstars were awarded. Additionally, 38 reviewers got the NPP barnstar for doing more than 100 reviews through the year.

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'''January–February backlog drive'''

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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 23:38, 14 May 2026 (UTC)

My Apology

User:MadEnderman/My Apology MadEnderman (talk) 01:00, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Some bubble tea for you!

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Thank You from a New User

Hello! I didn't get the chance to thank you for the help on my page about the List of Snakes from Wyoming before my ask page got archived, but I really really appreciate the help with it. I'm still getting the hang of it all, and your edits were very helpful. Thank you so much! Cheers! Churchcoyote (talk) 07:02, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
:Hey @Churchcoyote, my pleasure! I've seen you've resubmitted it, so I've gone through and accepted it, and moved it into mainspace – nice work! <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 00:01, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
::Oh, wonderful! Thank you so much! Churchcoyote (talk) 03:02, 21 May 2026 (UTC)

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:I hadn't even realised – thank you! <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 00:00, 25 May 2026 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you

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:@AxonsArachnida Thank you!!! It's probably been one of my favourite little articles to write, so stoked to be able to share it with the world :D <small>In solidarity ↗</small>, <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 00:12, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

DYK for Kumutoto Stream

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Request for gift article

Hello! First of all, congrats on getting your DYK article for Kumutoto Stream ↗. This was a very interesting read!

I saw the bottom of your user page noting you can gift articles. Two days ago, I created an article about a board game created by two New Zealanders, '''''Endeavor: Deep Sea ↗''''' (EDS). It is in fact going through the DYK process at the moment. As part of my research for this article, one article I found was this one from ''The Post'' ↗ which relates to Wellycon ↗ and at some stage mentions EDS was the featured board game. If there is any chance you could gift me this article this would be very helpful. I am not sure exactly how it works, so let me know if anything further is needed from me. Thank you. '''<span style="color:#ff9400">JaumeBG</span>''' <small style="color:#ff9400">(talk)</small> 09:57, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
:Thank you!! More than happy to help with that – the Post don't do gift urls, but I'll email you a plain text copy instead. It doesn't look like it says too much about EDS, but hopefully it's still of use. <small>In solidarity ↗</small>, <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 10:34, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks for sending that through. That's much appreciated. Yes, I was able to use that reference on the article for Wellycon, so that's useful. And it's interesting to read the article anyway as not too much media reported on Wellycon this year it seems. Thanks — have a good day! '''<span style="color:#ff9400">JaumeBG</span>''' <small style="color:#ff9400">(talk)</small> 10:55, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for AfC work + apology

Hi Nil: I wanted to thank you for your work reviewing Articles For Creation. I also wanted to apologize re: "Decline of Draft: St. Martin Unity Flag" ↗. You are fully correct. I got cranky about fixing ref formatting, I'll use a maintenance tag in the future. :) CopyleftEverything (talk) 02:03, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
:Hi @CopyleftEverything, no worries at all! Understandably, AfC can feel like a slog at times, so there's no harm in skipping drafts and leaving them in the queue – I've certainly had moments when I've started a review, got halfway through and gone "''what tf is this?''" before deciding I did not have the brain power to deal with it in that moment😅 <small>In solidarity ↗</small>, <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 04:48, 7 June 2026 (UTC)

":Sea squirt shrimp ↗" listed at Redirects for discussion ↗

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Feedback request: Society, sports, and culture request for comment

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10

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'''Community Wishlist discussion''': Product & Technology introduced changes ↗ meant to increase the number and complexity of wishes fulfilled, including the disbanding of the Community Tech team. They are engaging in discussions ↗ about a proposed direction for the wishlist ↗ from community members. Includes ways to structure annual voting, better tracking of wishes, removing focus areas, and staffing updates ↗.

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'''A better way to give credit''': The Wikimedia Attribution Framework and API ↗ makes it simple for developers to fairly credit volunteer contribution. When anyone encounters Wikimedia content, we want them to know that it comes from our projects, and they are invited to participate.

'''Baby Globe joins the Reading Challenge''': The Android and iOS Wikipedia apps released the 25-day reading challenge ↗, to drive readers engagement through reading milestones. To track their reading streak during the challenge, users can add a widget featuring Baby Globe to their home screen.

'''Account security''': The Foundation is technically enforcing that all privileges that enable users to take security- or privacy-sensitive actions ↗ can only be held by users who have enabled two-factor authentication ↗. Logging in with passkeys is quicker than logging in without two-factor authentication. In addition, logged-in users can see a banner encouraging them to confirm their email address. These changes secure individual accounts as well as communities and the wikis.

'''Incident reporting form''': The Foundation began a trial on English Wikipedia ↗ of the incident reporting form. 60% of unblocked logged-in users see a new Report button, allowing them to report conduct issues.

'''Encouraging account creation''': Following a successful account creation experiment ↗, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis this week. The change ↗ will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session.

'''Wikimedia Android App''': The Wikipedia Android App is at the Phase 1 ↗ of redesigning its Home Feed. The new feed includes two tabs: ''Community,'' featuring refreshed Explore content, and ''For You,'' with personalized reading recommendations based on reader interests and activity. The ''For You'' feed refreshes daily with updated suggestions.

'''Better discovery of images''': The Image Browsing ↗ beta feature was rolled out for all Wikipedias on mobile following two successful experiments. The beta feature will include a carousel of all an article’s images at the top of the article, with controls for editors to exclude images from the article’s carousel or to exclude an article from the feature entirely ↗.

'''Reading Lists feature''': The Foundation is conducting an experiment to show the reading lists ↗ feature, which is still in development, to logged-out mobile readers to test whether it encourages account creation at a higher rate compared to the watchstar button. The experiment ↗ was launched on May 18 on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and will run for a month.

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'''Testing Suggestion Mode''': Suggestion Mode ↗ was released as an A/B test ↗ for newcomer editors on the mobile website at ~15 Wikipedias ↗. The experiment will measure its impact on the proportion of newcomer mobile web edit sessions that result in constructive (un-reverted) article edits. It will also evaluate the feature’s impact on editor retention and monitor changes in revert and block rates.

'''Wikifunctions now supports Wikidata references''': References in Wikidata statements are now available on Wikifunctions ↗, and you now can use external links in Wikifunctions-generated citations ↗. This allows the use of more than 1.3 billion references available in Wikidata and adding them as citations to individual statements in Abstract Wikipedia.

'''Pilot wikis adopting Abstract Wikipedia:''' The Abstract Wikipedia team has identified five potential pilot wikis to assess their interest in adopting abstract articles on their wikis. The pilots are Malayalam, Bengali, Dagbani, Arabic, and Indonesian Wikipedia. If your community is interested in becoming a pilot, let us know on Meta ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News weeks 20 ↗, 21 ↗, 22 ↗, 23 ↗ include an experiment to test a new Share Card feature ↗ that allows readers to create visually engaging cards from Wikipedia articles and share them online See also the 92 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br/><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Tech blog moved to Diff''': The migration of the Techblog to Diff ↗ is now complete: 138 posts going back over a decade have been successfully migrated. Diff is now happy to welcome technology-focused blog posts with renewed vigor.

'''What’s new in the Wikipedia Library''': Access to the American Psychological Association was renewed and collections from the Harvard Business Review and Swiss Media Database (Swissdox) are now available to editors who are eligible for The Wikipedia Library ↗.

'''New course on WikiLearn''': A free self-paced online course ↗, designed for researchers who want to make their field more visible on Wikipedia, was launched on WikiLearn. Share "Wikipedia for Researchers ↗” if you work with early-career researchers, teach in an academic institution, or support open knowledge communities.

'''Wiki Mentor Africa:''' The first edition of Wiki Mentor Africa - Women Tech Summit ↗ brought together over 315 registered participants across Africa to learn, explore, and grow in tech together.

'''Let's Connect Learning Clinic''': If you missed it, you can now watch the recording ↗ of the Let's Connect Learning Clinic "How to support up-and-coming groups in the movement as a long-time Wikimedian" with Wikimedistas El Salvador.

'''Community Conferences''': Registration for WikiConference North America ↗ and Queering Wiki Conference ↗ is now opened. Call for Speakers ↗ for the Queering Wiki is also opened until June 30.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Sharing the Form 990s:''' The Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment published their Form 990s, covering the fiscal year that ran from July 2024 to June 2025. The Form 990 is an annual form required of all nonprofit organizations in the United States. You can read the highlights ↗ on Form 990 for the Foundation ↗ and Form 990 for the Endowment ↗ on Meta-Wiki.

'''Wikimedia Enterprise''': Wikimedia Enterprise's free API accounts gets a substantial upgrade ↗ across the Snapshot and On-demand APIs, including free access to Structured Contents Snapshots.

'''Structured Contents''': How Databricks Parsed Wikipedia ↗ to Markdown with Python.

'''Board and Board committee updates'''<br/><small>''See Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard ↗ · Affiliations Committee Newsletter ↗''</small>

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I'm trying to create a Wiki page for one of the Gaslight Anthem members, but for some reason the sources aren't being seen as sufficient. However, the other Gaslight Anthem members that have Wiki pages published use some of the same sources. I'm not sure why this particular member is getting flagged. As a fan of the band, I was looking to establish pages for each member, and there's plenty of evidence that this person is a part of the band.

Knowyourenemy40 (talk) 14:48, 10 June 2026 (UTC)
:Hi @Knowyourenemy40, so the issue here is WP:BANDMEMBER ↗, which is our inclusion guidelines for articles about band members. Essentially, it needs to be demonstrated that Horowitz meets our inclusion criteria for musicians ↗ ("notability") as an individual, separate to that of the band. If the only reason he is notable is because he's a member of Gaslight Anthem, then he is unlikely to qualify for a standalone page. If he is notable as an individual (e.g. he releases a solo project, or he's the subject of multiple indepth profiles from independent reliable sources ↗), then a standalone page may be appropriate.<br> I had a look at the two other band members who already had their own pages, and see that they were both created in 2010; Wikipedia had much poorer processes and criteria back then, so using other pages as a point of comparison ↗ doesn't always help. If it was submitted today, the page for Alex Rosamilia ↗ would also not be published.<br> My recommendation would be to continue improving the page for Gaslight Anthem ↗, and in the future, when more sources may exist, creating a separate article for Horowitz. <small>In solidarity ↗</small>, <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 02:07, 12 June 2026 (UTC)

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Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 11

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[[File:Baby Globe in Paris.gif|thumb|150px|The Wikimania program is now live ↗!]]

'''Community Wishlist''': Weigh in on proposals and open questions on how the wishlist will operate in the future. ↗

'''Simplifying account creation:''' The Foundation is working on improving the account creation process ↗ to reduce potential friction for newcomers to create an account. Improvements include making "Create Account" icon more prominent on mobile, simplifying the registration form, and introducing real-time username validation.

'''New U4C members elected:''' The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) has new members ↗ and has two remaining vacancies in Middle East & North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa.

'''Wikimania conference program''': The Wikimania 2026 program is now live ↗! Take a moment to review the program, and, if you are logged in, you can mark your "must see” sessions with a star to start building your personal schedule. Register for a virtual ticket ↗ here, if you haven't signed up yet.

'''Neutral Point of View''': A proposal for a baseline NPOV standard ↗ for Wikipedias that do not have one was published, with a community discussion ↗ open until July 15, 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Infrastructure ↗'''<br/><small>''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 ↗''</small>

thumb|250px|Screenshot showing the Explore Feed refresh in the Wikipedia app (from the Community tab entry point) ↗

'''App Explore feed''': The redesigned App Explore feed ↗, now called "Home", has been released to all Android users. The update introduces a refreshed feed experience along with the first set of new content modules, including Did You Know, Places of Interest, Random Article, and a new end-of-feed experience. Additional content and improvements are planned in future releases.

'''Wikipedia games''': The Which came first? ↗ daily trivia game is now available in the beta version of the Wikipedia iOS app in English, German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, and Turkish. The game uses historical events from Wikipedia’s “On This Day” content and challenges readers to guess which of two events happened first.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, has been rolled out to Group 1 wikis ↗ and French Wikipedia following a successful pilot phase.

'''Article guidance''': The Article guidance ↗ feature is being tested with some editors creating new articles on the Simple English, French, and Turkish Wikipedias. The experiment will soon begin on the Arabic and Bangla Wikipedias as well. The outlines guide less experienced editors in creating high-quality articles. A quick guide to markups used in outlines can be found on this page ↗. Example outlines ↗ that can be adapted and instructions for how to adapt them are on this section ↗ of the project page.

'''Mobile Page Previews''': The Page Previews experiment ↗ on mobile web has concluded with the decision not to roll out the feature. The results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention – the primary success metric. Page Previews, which are already available on desktop and in the apps, display a thumbnail, lead paragraph, and link to the full article when readers tap a blue link.

'''Wikifunctions''': You can now add images ↗ to Abstract Wikipedia and the loading and display of test results when viewing Functions has been improved.

'''Wikidata''': The Foundation is migrating the Wikidata Query Service ↗ (WDQS) away from the Blazegraph backend since it no longer scales efficiently with Wikidata’s growth. The migration will take place in several phases. Here is the timeline ↗.

'''Growth features:''' Growth features are now available at Wikidata ↗!''' ''' Wikidata administrators are still configuring the features through Community Configuration, but this update enables access to Mentorship (if configured ↗), Impact, the Help Panel, and a simplified Newcomer Homepage (without Suggested Edits).

'''Mentors' management''': The Growth team will soon provide a system to automatically suspend or remove inactive mentors from the list of mentors ↗. Communities can already start configuring the process in the Community Configuration.

'''Collaborative''' '''Contributions''': If you need help setting up the Collaborative Contributions and the Goal setting features, check out these video guides ↗. These features allow you to view which edits are made during an event and allows the group to track progress against a goal with a public progress bar. Learn more ↗.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing whether we can serve readers better when a footnote click in read mode shows the full bibliographic information rather than flying them to the reference list. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 24 ↗ and 25 ↗ include how the user interface icon library ↗ is being updated. ↗ Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. See also the 62 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Volunteer Support ↗'''<br /><small>''See also blogs: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗''</small>

'''Digital Safety''': Join a conversation about Using AI Safely. ↗ It'll explore risks & concerns of using AI tools in personal and organisational contexts and practical strategies to reduce those risks. It will take place at 03:30 UTC & 14:30 UTC on June 26. This session is not about using AI to edit Wikipedia. It's focused entirely on safe personal and organisational use.

'''Don't Blink''': Read the latest developments ↗ from around the world about protecting the Wikimedia model, its people and its values. Highlights include exploring the implications that new child safety regulations have on privacy online.

'''Grantmaking strategy & Affiliate model''': Members of the Global Resources Distribution Committee ↗ (GRDC) and the Affiliations Committee (AffCom) ↗ met to advance two key movement initiatives: the development of a new Grantmaking strategy and a refreshed Affiliate Model. They produced initial proposals and advanced work on both initiatives ahead of broader conversations planned for Wikimania 2026.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Effectiveness ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Progress on the annual plan ↗''</small>

'''Enterprise''': SimPPL Uses Wikimedia Enterprise ↗ to Map Online Conversations and Fact-Check Social Media.

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Appreciate twin this idiot was fighting me 😭 happy late pride 🏳️‍🌈 ~2026-37733-34 ↗ (talk) 22:21, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

:No worries, and welcome to Wikipedia! Please don't call other editors idiots though or make other personal attacks ↗; they were using a semi-automated tool, and may not have seen the full context. And happy belated pride month to you too! <small>In solidarity ↗</small>, <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 02:49, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

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Hi. Sorry, a bit late on this, but I noticed you reverted my edit ↗ on Mr. Skin ↗. I changed the "Type of site" descriptor to "Adult website" because I noticed that was the descriptor on the article of the website's spin-off site Mr. Man ↗, so I thought the main site should have the same descriptor to be consistent. Should the piped link on the Mr. Man article also be removed? ~2026-38668-22 ↗ (talk) 21:10, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
:Hello, no worries! I'd say so by my reading of WP:EUPHEMISM ↗: "internet pornography" is a lot more obvious/less vague than "adult website" is when describing the site's contents. <small>In solidarity ↗</small>, <span style="color:#000;font-family:Comic Sans MS;border-radius:30px;background-color:#8ACE00;padding:4px 7px 5px 7px">nil</span><sup> <span style="color:#000">nz</span></sup> 21:59, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks for your reply and advice. I edited the Mr. Man ↗ article as you suggested. (TA changed, but still the same person.) ~2026-38835-03 ↗ (talk) 02:54, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 12

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'''Wikipedia 25''': Wikipedia's 25th birthday was celebrated with various projects designed to grow awareness and support for Wikipedia and the people who make it possible. This includes the virtual birthday event on January 15, which garnered 10,000 live viewers and 15,000 reactions. Find more details on all related projects and results in the program report ↗.

'''Sustainable use of Wikimedia infrastructure''': A valid user-agent string will now be required for automated dumps downloads from the dumps.wikimedia.org website. Automated requests that provide a generic or empty user-agent will be blocked. This extends enforcement ↗ of the long standing user-agent policy ↗. Access to dumps through Wikimedia Cloud Services will not change.

'''Increasing account creation''': The experiment ↗ providing direct access to “Create account” and “Log in” actions on mobile increased account creation by about 20% without negatively affecting edit quality. The feature will now be rolled out to all wikis ↗ on mobile web.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Engage ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Growth ↗ · Product Safety and Integrity ↗ · Tech News ↗ · Language and Internationalization ↗ · The Wikipedia Library ↗ · list of movement events ↗ · Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia ↗''</small>
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'''Add A Link''': The Foundation deployed Add A Link ↗ as a default-on suggestion within Suggestion Mode ↗. It is now launched on all wikis to all editors who have opted in to the Suggestion Beta Feature.

'''Reusing references''': Sub-referencing ↗, the new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, was deployed to most small and medium-sized Wikipedia language versions.

'''Wikifunctions''': Check out the 71 new functions ↗ with implementations to get a taste of what functions have been created.

'''Range calculator''': The special page Special:RangeCalculator ↗ has been created. It allows users to find an IP range without needing to rely on external tools. Until now, this tool was only available to CheckUsers.

'''Captcha verification''': Abuse filters that are set to “require CAPTCHA verification” now also affect users ↗ with the <code>skipcaptcha</code> right, which includes most autoconfirmed users. Bots are exempted. This change only affects edits that trigger an abuse filter.

'''Latest experiments''': An upcoming experiment ↗ is testing two variations of a "thank you" badge shown to donors after a recent donation to deepen the relationship between donors and the Wikimedia movement. See all live, upcoming, and completed experiments in Product & Technology ↗.

'''Account security on private wikis''': Two-factor authentication ↗ will become mandatory for user accounts on private wikis. This will protect private information from being exposed by an account with a compromised password.

'''Tech News''': The latest highlights from Tech News week 26 ↗ and 27 ↗ include users will now get a notification when they are blocked or unblocked from editing, or if this block changes. See also the 65 community submitted tasks that were resolved over the last two weeks.

'''Team Challenges''': The core organizing team for Wikimania is introducing Team Challenges ↗, a different approach to Wikimania Hackathon. This year, Wikimedians and professionals from other fields will join forces to undertake one of the 2026 technical challenges.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Enable ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Research newsletter ↗ · WikiLearn News ↗ · other newsletters on MediaWiki.org ↗''</small>

'''Wikimedia Hackathon''': A look at the 2026 edition of Wikimedia Hackathon ↗ which brought together 216 participants from 29 countries building, collaborating, and shaping the future together.

'''Wikimedia Hubs''': The Hub Fund ↗ will pause funding for new pilots ↗ in fiscal year 2026–2027 to align with the work on the Ecosystem of Movement Organizations and the Global Resource Distribution Committee. Existing pilots in transition will be offered an additional year of funding.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Protect ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Global Advocacy blog ↗ · Global Advocacy Newsletter ↗ · Policy blog ↗''</small>

'''Open Knowledge And Digital Rights''': Wikimedians shared their reflections ↗ on how Digital Rights and Inclusion Forum reinforced the role of our movement within broader digital rights conversations.

'''Annual Goals Progress on Reach ↗'''<br/><small>''See also: Wikimedia Apps ↗ · Readers ↗''</small>

'''Journalism Award''': Wikimedia Foundation announced ↗ three journalists from Africa as recipients of the Open the Knowledge Journalism Awards, ↗ run in partnership with the International Center for Journalists ↗ (ICFJ). The awards celebrate the essential role journalists play in creating well-researched articles that volunteer editors can use as source materials to develop content on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. In total, 320 submissions were received from 40 African countries.

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June 2026 Good Article Backlog Drive

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