User talk:DreamRimmer

Thank you for improving article quality in May! - Today: Felicity Lott. If you have little time, just give me a click ;) - If you have more, see her story. If you have more, listen to her singing Friendly Vision. If you have more, listen until she sings the word "peace" (Frieden), floating up high, serenely. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:51, 20 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 22 May 2026

News and notes: Offline: Osama Khalid still in prison
He has been imprisoned since 2020 for his Wikipedia edits. A fresh campaign is calling for his release.

In the media: Indonesian editors, you shall return!
And lawspam, may you be away.

Disinformation report: Who is a typical paid editor? Who are their typical clients?
Remember the golden rule!

Recent research: WikiLambda the Ultimate
Does Abstract Wikipedia help fight "One ring to rule them all" solutions for knowledge access - or does it implement one itself?

Traffic report: This is where I'll be, so heavenly, so come and dance with me Michael!
A real off the wall thriller, invincible, can't beat it, or is it dangerous and just bad?

Forum: WikiAnnotate: help us build a dataset of article quality evaluations
A research project to build better automated article assessment tools.

In focus: Demystifying the 2026-27 Annual Plan
A guide to WMF's Tech Annual Plan for the next year.

Opinion: Wikipedia isn't a battleground. So why does it feel like one?
Do we really have to fight?

Serendipity: Wikinews: Into the Wikiverse
The early suggestions for what the wiki could have been.

Special report: Wikimedia Foundation closes Wikinews after 21 years
Displaces 700 active editors among 31 language editions.

Community view: Wikipedia's traffic drop: more on languages and freshness
Which topics are dropping, and is the pattern the same everywhere?

Gallery: Earth Day and Mother's Day
Earth Day was on 22 April, and Mother's Day was on 10 May (in the US and many other countries).

Comix: Brother, can you spare a page?
What would you say?

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Tech News: 2026-22

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

Following a successful account creation experiment, an improved logged-out edit warning message will be deployed to all Wikimedia wikis in the first week of June. The change will only affect logged-out users on mobile web who open an editing session. The updated experience is designed to encourage account creation more clearly, while still allowing users to edit with temporary accounts. Results from the experiment showed a significant increase in account creation, with a 27% relative lift among users shown the updated message. As expected, as more people funnel into account creation, temporary accounts decreased by a relative 16%. The experiment did not show any significant changes in constructive edit rates or other monitored contributor metrics. [1]

Updates for editors

For security reasons, members of certain user groups are required to have two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled. Members of these groups will be unable to disable the last 2FA method on their account, and it will be impossible to add users without 2FA to these groups. Users will still be able to add new authentication methods or remove them, as long as at least one method is continuously enabled. In the next few weeks, users without 2FA will be removed from these groups. Notably, this applies to bureaucrats. See the linked tasks for deployment schedules. [2][3]
WMDE Technical Wishes will run an A/B test on 10 wikis, testing potential improvements for Reference Previews. The experiment will run for ~2 weeks at the end of May / beginning of June and will affect 10% of desktop readers on the participating wikis.
After two successful experiments, the Reader Growth team is rolling out an Image Browsing beta feature for all Wikipedias on mobile on May 25. This means that anyone who has all beta features on by default will start to see this feature, and others can check the box to turn it on in their preferences. 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.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, three dimensional STL files were being rendered incorrectly by the media viewer 3D extension which is now fixed. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

The legacy CSS classes tleft and tright have been replaced with floatleft and floatright as the former do not work consistently across all MediaWiki platforms, notably mobile web and mobile apps. Projects relying on these classes are encouraged to review related usage and plan for migration. Please note that floatleft and floatright may also be deprecated in future, although there are currently no plans to do so. Read more.
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MediaWiki message delivery 21:50, 25 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Replacing Firefly

Hello DreamRimmer, I had asked at WT:Requests for undeletion § Limitation of Firefly bot if DreamRimmer bot III can take up FireflyBot's operation. What do you think? Jay 💬 05:00, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like FireflyBot is still working, but if needed, I can take over the task. I already have an approved backup bot task for this. Not sure blocking the bot would be the best option, since it handles DRN task as well. – DreamRimmer ■ 13:21, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Right, we cannot stop a FireflyBot task that DreamRimmer bot is not handling. Is it possible for DreamRimmer bot to do the subsequent draft deletion warnings that FireflyBot doesn't do? This way their responsibilities won't conflict. Jay 💬 17:42, 28 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can you point to any cases where FireflyBot failed to notify a draft creator? As far as I am aware, it already notifies all eligible users about their drafts. – DreamRimmer ■ 12:26, 29 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

What I had pointed out in the above discussion was one part of Liz's discussion which is: My one issue with FireflyBot is that it only does the 5 month notification once for drafts and I wish it would do so every time the inactivity level hits 5 months but let's leave that matter for another discussion. I had paraphrased it as ..not just the first time, but for every subsequent deletion. A lot of requests I see on RfU are for drafts that had already received the first notification. Jay 💬 03:23, 30 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

NPP School

Hello, I hope you're doing well. I noticed that you're listed as a trainer for the New Page Patrol School. Are you currently taking any students? Your timezone matches mine, which would work well. I previously had NPP rights, but they were revoked due to inactivity. I’d like to relearn and revise the processes properly before reapplying. Please let me know if you're available to take on students. Thank you! - Tatupiplu’^{✦ talk} 10:46, 31 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2026

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

Administrator changes

Bureaucrat changes

WereSpielChequers

Guideline and policy news

Following an RfC, the "persistent usage of large language models" has been included as a common reason for a block.

Technical news

Mandatory 2FA for bureaucrats: Bureaucrats without two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled have already lost access to their advanced rights on 26 May. Those who do not enable 2FA may be automatically removed from the groups in mid-June 2026, and from that point onward, new members must have 2FA enabled before they can be added. (T423119, T423120)

Arbitration

The arbitration case SchroCat has been closed.
The arbitration case Michael Jackson has opened. Evidence submissions in this case closes on 1 June.

Miscellaneous

Voting for the 2026 Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election closes on 1 June.

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Tech News: 2026-23

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

Updates for editors

The Reader Experience team 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 18th on German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Turkish, and Urdu wikis, and it will run for a month.
The Wikimedia Apps team released Phase 1 of the redesigned Home Feed to the Android Beta app. The new Home Feed includes a refreshed "Community" tab and a personalized "For You" tab featuring daily updated reading recommendations. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve content discovery and create more engaging learning experiences in the Wikipedia apps.
View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where images could fail to load for some suggested edits on Special:Homepage, leaving the thumbnail stuck in a loading state, has now been fixed. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

DCWC call for coordinators

Hey DreamRimmer, it's almost that time again! The Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for its third year, and the coordinator team is looking for experienced content contributors willing to volunteer. The coordinators are responsible for keeping the contest running and its pages‍—‌including participants' submissions, the points leaderboard, and the list of eligible articles‍—‌updated.

If you would like to apply, please contact one of the coordinators; you may choose to do so privately if you wish: Arconning (talk · email), sawyer777 (talk · email), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · email). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:25, 3 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

NPP Questions

Hi DreamRimmer, I became an NPP today. I have three questions:

How can I send messages to users when I'm reviewing their pages (All I know right now is "Ways to improve ..." discussion)?
How can I disable the feature were pages I review are automatically added to my watchlist?
Can I see all the pages I've reviewed?

Thank you. Fortek67 (talk) 20:50, 4 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) @Fortek67

Hi, and congratulations on becoming an NPP reviewer!

1. To leave a message for a page creator, you can use the "Send message to Page Creator" option on the Mark as review section on the "Page Curation" Tool, or visit the user's talk page directly and leave a note there.

2. You can disable automatic watchlisting by going to your User Preferences > Watchlist > Advanced, and then disable "Add pages I review to my watchlist".

3. Yes. Your review log can be visible through your contributions and patrol logs, Usually the "Page Curation Log", and The "Patrol Log".

If you need any other assistance feel free to ask on my Talkpage or the Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers. Destiny Okhiria (alt) (talk) 12:07, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! Fortek67 (talk) 14:46, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:DreamRimmer bot II

Hello, DreamRimmer,

The bot has stopped issuing G13 reports. Could you check on it whenever you return? Thanks so much! Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 18:17, 5 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2026-24

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

Wikimedia Enterprise has increased the free usage limits for its API offerings. The monthly request limit for the On-demand API has increased from 5,000 to 50,000 requests, while the Snapshot API limit has increased from 15 to 30 requests per month. In addition, Structured Contents snapshots are now available for free accounts. These changes expand access to Wikimedia Enterprise data for developers, researchers, and organizations using Wikimedia content. [6]

Updates for editors

The refreshed Explore Feed, now called the Home Feed, is rolling out to 50% of users of the Wikipedia Android app. The Home Feed helps readers discover relevant content through two new tabs: Community and For You. The Community tab provides a scrollable feed of curated content and updates from the broader Wikimedia community and movement, while the For You tab offers a full-screen, swipeable experience that shows content tailored to a user's interests. The redesign is part of a broader effort to improve discovery and enhance the learning experience in the Wikipedia app.
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. The game was previously released on Android. Communities interested in making the game available in their languages can read the instructions and requirements.
Sub-referencing, a new MediaWiki feature that allows editors to reuse references with different details, will begin rolling out to Wikimedia wikis following a successful pilot phase. Deployment will start on 8 June for most Group 1 wikis and French Wikipedia, with additional Wikipedia language editions receiving the feature over the coming months. Communities are encouraged to prepare by checking for untranslated Cite extension messages in their language and reviewing any use of Reference Tooltips, which may require updates to support the new functionality. Wikis using Reference Previews do not need to take any action. Communities may also wish to create the cite-tracking-category-ref-details tracking category as a hidden category using __HIDDENCAT__ (or a dedicated template), and connect it to the corresponding Wikidata item d:Q129764848. [7]
The Page Previews experiment on mobile web has concluded. The team decided not to roll out the feature after the results showed no statistically significant impact on reader retention, as the primary success metric was retention improvement. 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. The experiment tested this experience on mobile web across six Wikipedias.
The user interface icon library will be updated later this week or next week. Most of the ~300 icons have been slightly refined and ~30 new icons have been added. These changes improve the icons to make them more consistent and comprehensible, and provide more visual balance when they are used in groups.
The Universal Language Selector (ULS) interface in MediaWiki, which helps users select content in other languages, has been updated. The new version improves speed and accessibility, and users of Wikimedia projects can now pin languages for quicker language switching. The deployment to Wikimedia sites will happen gradually in the coming weeks. You can test it now as a beta feature by selecting beta features in your profile preferences and share your feedback on the project page.
View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the Pageviews Analysis dashboard on pageviews.wmcloud.org stopped updating graph data in May 2026, affecting all users, has been fixed. [8]

Updates for technical contributors

The function signature for mw.util.addPortletLink() has been simplified. Developers can now pass a configuration object instead of a list of positional parameters when creating portlet links. The previous function signature remains supported for backwards compatibility. For example, instead of: mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', '#', 'Stub', 'ca-stubtag', 'Add a stub tag to this page'); use mw.util.addPortletLink('p-cactions', { href: '#', text: 'Stub', id: 'ca-stubtag', tooltip: 'Add a stub tag to this page' });. Script maintainers are encouraged to review existing uses of addPortletLink() and update them where appropriate. This change will be available on all wikis from 11 June. Thanks to community volunteer Gerges for contributing this improvement. [9]
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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