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[edit]Hi SHB2000,
I hope my message finds you well. Why I'm trying my best to improve Wikivoyage but you are trying to discourage me on my contributions. I'm creating a new article of Ningi now but you tagged it as a {{stub}} ? Your persistent denies many new contributors to come and contribute on the project. Best wishes. A Sulaiman Z (talk) 09:50, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Huh, how the hell is tagging an article with the article status template of all things considered discouraging? This is actually getting ridiculous. //shb (t | c | m) 09:59, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
Move this one too?
[edit]Sex tourism...? Piotrus (talk) 17:45, 23 August 2025 (UTC)
- Hmm, this one is a more difficult one since it has 16 links. //shb (t | c | m) 22:58, 24 August 2025 (UTC)
AI policy
[edit]Do we have a policy on the use of AI? Given recent developments, I'm wondering if this is something that should be discussed and a specific policy page should be created. But I'd be curious what your thoughts are before raising a broader discussion. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 12:07, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
- I believe it was discussed somewhere that it was decided to have no policy but remove AI-related material for being bad in the first place. I can't remember where, though, and given how much AI has evolved since then, I don't think restarting this discussion is a bad idea. //shb (t | c | m) 12:14, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
- Yes — maybe we could have a guideline instead of a policy? I'm not sure, but it feels like a nuanced issue with many outstanding questions that will only increase with time.
- I tend toward waiting for the current VFD discussion to close before suggesting anything, as it's not clear to me yet how that will turn out and whether some of those articles might get rewritten. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 12:29, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-35
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Updates for editors
Template authors can now use additional CSS properties, since the CSS sanitizer used by TemplateStyles was updated. For example: width: fit-content;ruby-align; relative units such aslh; and custom strings inlist-style-type. These improvements are a Community Wishlist wish. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]- On large wikis, the default time period to display edits from, within the Special:RecentChanges page, has been changed from 7 days to 1 day. This is part of a performance improvement project. This should have no user-facing impact due to the quantity of edits on these wikis. [11]
- Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. [12]
- Wikimedia Commons videos were not shown in the Videos tab in Google Search. The problem was investigated and reported to Google who have now fixed the issue. [13][14]
- One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Betawi (
wikt:bew:) [15] 
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- Two fields of the recentchanges database table are being removed.
rc_newandrc_typeare being removed in favor ofrc_source. Queries to these older fields will start to fail starting this week and developers should userc_sourceinstead. These older fields were deprecated over 10 years ago and should not be in use. This is part of work to improve the performance and stability of queries to the recentchanges table. [16] - Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
In depth
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MediaWiki message delivery 00:13, 26 August 2025 (UTC)
Hi, it seems this filter is having an error. It's purpose is to filter articles, but when I import this filter to viwikivoyage, it also filter pages in the Wikivoyage namespace. I found the issues, page_id should be changed page_namespace to work, if it's purpose is just filtering articles but not pages in another namespaces. Nvdtn19 (talk) 11:01, 27 August 2025 (UTC)
- Hmm, interesting – @Codename Noreste:, any chance you know what's causing this issue on viwikivoyage? //shb (t | c | m) 01:12, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Nvdtn19: on voy:vi:Đặc_biệt:Bộ_lọc_sai_phạm/34, I noticed some errors that I can correct for you:
- On line 1, you used
page_namespace == 0instead ofpage_id == 0. If you want to detect only page creations, you should also addpage_id == 0abovepage_namespace == 0. - Besides, when translating viwikivoyage's filter 34's name, it appears to result in tracking coordinates, or something. I am not sure.
- On line 1, you used
- Codename Noreste (talk) 01:22, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- Done, I've fixed it. (I hope you don't mind Nvdtn :)) //shb (t | c | m) 01:30, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Codename Noreste: The purpose of voy:vi:Đặc_biệt:Bộ_lọc_sai_phạm/34 is the same as Special:AbuseFilter/67 here, the only difference is it's tracking {{geo}} template for incomplete parameters. Nvdtn19 (talk) 01:47, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Nvdtn19: on voy:vi:Đặc_biệt:Bộ_lọc_sai_phạm/34, I noticed some errors that I can correct for you:
{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} discrepancy
[edit]At Wikivoyage:Article status stats I've managed to get every discrepancy removed that I can identify. However, there's still a 30-page discrepancy between the two total page columns. Any thoughts on this? Is there a glitch in the numberofarticles function? It would be wonderful to fix this ghost article problem once again. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 14:20, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
- Actually, I figured out! We finally don't have ghost articles for the first time in years, and everythiing at WV:AS checks out. --Comment by Selfie City (talk) (contributions) 15:12, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
- Very nice – and cheers for fixing it, SelfieCity! //shb (t | c | m) 23:44, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
Tech News: 2025-36
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Weekly highlight
- The Editing team wants to compile a list of templates, jargon terms, and policies used in edit summaries when a copyright violation is removed. This will help them identify the number of edits reverted due to copyright issues. We invite community members from the following Wikis to list these terms in T402601, or to share their list with Trizek_(WMF): Arabic Wikipedia, Czech Wikipedia, German Wikipedia, English Wikipedia, Spanish Wikipedia, Persian Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia, Korean Wikipedia, Dutch Wikipedia, Polish Wikipedia, Portuguese Wikipedia, Turkish Wikipedia, Ukrainian Wikipedia, Vietnamese Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia. This project is open until September 9th 2025.
Updates for editors
- The CampaignEvents extension has been enabled for all Wikisources. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. The extension has three features: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation List. To request the extension for your wiki, visit the Deployment information page. [17]
- The lists in the footer of the editing interface, such as "Templates used on this page," will now be organized into columns when there is enough space. This enhancement minimizes scrolling when editing lengthy articles on Wikipedia. [18]
- On September 3rd, 2025 we will increase the sampling percentages of our group by toggle experiment of the
Special:RecentChanges,Special:Watchlist, andSpecial:RelatedChangespages on the Chinese, French, and Portuguese Wikipedias to 100 percent, allowing more editors to be part of this experiment. This adjustment is intended to ensure we have sufficient data to make informed decisions when evaluating the experiment results. [19][20] - Upon clicking an empty search bar, logged-out users will see suggestions of articles for further reading on English Wikipedia beginning the week of September 22. The feature will be available on both desktop and mobile. All non-English wikis received this change in June and July. The goal is to make it easier for users to find articles. Learn more.
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In depth
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:51, 1 September 2025 (UTC)
This Month in Education: August 2025
[edit]This Month in Education
Volume 14 • Issue 8 • August 2025
- Bootcamp Wikipedia in Classroom
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- Breaking Barriers: Yoruba Wikipedia Fan Club Offa's Historic Wins
- Emerging Voices in Free Knowledge: The Journey of Wiki Club SATI
- From a Curious Student to a Wikimedia Leader
- From webinars to conferences: Wikimedia Ukraine’s approach to events for educators
- Higher education with Wikipedia in Spain
- Scientific Contribution from Serbia: Wikipedia in Education Research Published in a Prestigious Journal
- Teachers with Wikipedia. What if we create a Spanish-speaking collaboration network
- The brains behind Wikipedia
- Why EduWiki Should Be Considered by Policymakers
- Wikimedia Chile in Visviri: Free knowledge and education at Chile’s starting point
- Wikipedia as a tool presented at Media Education Summer School for Teachers
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- St Aloysius University – Wikipedia training session for newcomers
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