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Another FACBot miss

See Talk:1927 World Snooker Championship, top of talk page, it seems a bit off to me. MisawaSakura (talk) 02:04, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

What is the problem? It looks okay to me. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 03:47, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ugh, my bad. Sorry. The FAC part is okay, but what I just realized threw me off is that the Article History was second and the projects first, on top. I'm not used to seeing it like that. I'm used to Article History being on top. Sorry to have bothered you for me being confused. I just put the history on top, if that's ok.MisawaSakura (talk) 03:54, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Originally it was; the Qwerfjkl (bot) moved the project banner to the top when it implemented the PIQA. [1] That had me wondering too when I was preparing the new FACBot code, but Wikipedia:Talk page layout is the relevant information page and it clearly states that the {{Article history}} template indeed comes before the {{WikiProject banner shell}} template. So the Qwerfjkl (bot) was in error. Let me know if the FACBot ever messes it up. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 04:15, 4 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

W. A. S. Butement

I have revised a sentence in Early life which you may wish to edit if the change is wrong or incomplete. Also, can you clarify the sentence "The British government filed a patent on the VT fuse in April 1942 and the Americans in September 1943." I can not tell whether the Americans (U.S. Government, I assume) filed a separate patent application or whether the British government filed a patent applicant for Americans, presumably in the United States. Thanks. After that, B class. Donner60 (talk) 04:54, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously they were patenting the fuse, not Americans. But re-worded to make this clearer. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 08:53, 7 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ACE2025

I suggest you address the elephant in the room with regard to your nomination statement Spartaz ^Humbug! 19:52, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The image on your talk page sums it up nicely. I have added a bit about it. (The elephant, not the image.) The real problem was the 400-word limit. I am sorry that your question was removed, but I thought that the ban on questions before start time was a good idea, as in the past it has been a practice of some to nominate at the last minute in order to minimise scrutiny. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:10, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I naturally would not have asked it had I realised there was a ban on early questions. Word limit or not, if you don't address it you haven't a hope in hell of getting elected. Spartaz ^Humbug! 22:36, 9 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This Month in GLAM: October 2025

This Month in GLAM – Volume XV, Issue X, October 2025
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News and notes: Temporary accounts go live and WMF board member self-suspends
ArbCom elections draw close, and Wikimania '27 in Santiago.

Community view: Six Wikipedians' thoughts on Grokipedia, and the humanity of it all
It ain't a five course meal, according to one of our interviewees.

Wikicup report: BeanieFan11, WikiCup victor of 2025, covers the results
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

In the media: Jimbo's book, an argument about genocide, and a train of shame
Wikipedia's new rival, political controversy in Italy and other Wiki-reports.

Recent research: Taking stock of the 2024–2025 research grants
$400,000 USD in total funding: what did we get?

Opinion: With Grokipedia, top-down control of knowledge is new again
Does it shed any light on particular topics that are better suited to LLM-generation than others?

Obituary: Struway
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Tech News: 2025-46

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Example of a talk page with the new design, in French.

Starting November 12, users will see a change in the appearance of talk pages on some Wikipedias. Almost all wikis have received this design change; English Wikipedia will get these changes later. You can read more on Diff. Users can opt out of these changes in their user preferences in "Show discussion activity". [2]
MediaWiki can now display a page indicator automatically while a page is protected. This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled by community request. [3]
Using the "Show preview" or "Show changes" buttons in the wikitext editor will now carry over certain URL parameters like 'useskin', 'uselang' and 'section'. This update also fixes an issue where, if the browser crashed while previewing an edit to a single section, saving this edit could overwrite the entire page with just that section’s content. [4][5][6]
Wikivoyage wikis can use colored map markers in the article text. The text of these markers will now be shown in contrasting black or white color, instead of always being white. Local workarounds for the problem can be removed. [7]
The Activity tab in the Wikipedia Android app is now available for all users. The new tab offers personalized insights into reading, editing, and donation activity, while simplifying navigation and making app use more engaging. [8]
The Reader Growth team is launching an experiment called "Image browsing" to test how to make it easier for readers to browse and discover images on Wikipedia articles. This experiment, a mobile-only A/B test, will go live on English Wikipedia in the week of November 17 and will run for four weeks, affecting 0.05% of users on English wiki. The test launched on November 3 on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese wikis, affecting up to 10% of users on those wikis. [9]
View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example the inability to lock accounts on mobile sites has been fixed. [10]

Updates for technical contributors

Nominations are open on Wikitech for new Toolforge standards committee members. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open through 2025-11-28.
The JWT issuer field in OAuth 2 access tokens for SUL wikis has been changed to https://meta.wikimedia.org. Old access tokens will still work. [11]
The JWT subject field in OAuth 2 access tokens will soon change from local:<wiki id> (for other wikis). This is to avoid conflicts between different user ID types, and to make OAuth 2 access tokens and the sessionJwt cookie more similar. Old access tokens will still work. [12]
MediaWiki's block messages (blockedtext, blockedtext-partial, autoblockedtext, systemblockedtext, blockedtext-tempuser, autoblockedtext-tempuser) now support additional parameters indicating whether the user is blocked from editing their own user talk page $9 or emailing other users $10. [13]
A REL1_45 branch for MediaWiki core and each of the extensions and skins in Wikimedia git has been created. This is the first step in the release process for MediaWiki 1.45.0, scheduled for late November 2025. If you are working on a critical bug fix or working on a new feature, you may need to take note of this change. [14]
The process for generating CirrusSearch dumps has been updated due to slowing performance. If you encounter any issues migrating to the replacement dumps, please contact the Search Platform Team for support. [15][16]
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MediaWiki message delivery 20:36, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FAC Bot gone wild?

Hey @Hawkeye7, want to let you know that @FAC Bot messed up Announcements/New featured content and you cannot see the newly featured pictures, lists, or topics (diff). Additionally, the formatting is off. I don't know how to fix it without breaking the entire template, so I want to let me know. Also, if the template talk is a better place to let you know, please tell me. ❤History Theorist❤ 03:29, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yikes! I will look into this at once. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 07:56, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A fix has been applied, and the problem should not recur. I will reprocess the erroneous entries. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 09:08, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! ❤History Theorist❤ 23:26, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One more thing, Political Philosophy is listed as a FL not an FA. ❤History Theorist❤ 23:27, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. That was my mistake, not the Bot's. I have corrected it. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 23:47, 13 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-47

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 experimenting with reading lists on mobile web, allowing logged-in readers with no edits to save private lists of articles for later. The experiment is running on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias since the week of 10 November, and will begin on English Wikipedia the week of 17 November.
Users who can’t receive their email verification code during login can now get help by submitting a form on a new special page. This update is part of the Account Security initiative. If your account has an email address, please make sure you still have access to it. When logging in from a new device or location without 2FA, you may be asked to enter a 6-digit code sent by email to finish logging in. Learn more.
One new wiki has been created: a Wikisource in Minangkabau (s:min:) [17]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

As part of the Parser Unification project, the Content Transform Team rolled out Parsoid as the default parser to many low-traffic Wikipedias and is preparing the next step to high traffic ones. This message is an invitation for you to opt-in to Parsoid, as described in the Extension:ParserMigration documentation, and identify any issues you might encounter with your own workflow using bots, gadgets, or user scripts. Please, let us know through the "Report Visual Bug" link in the Tools sidebar or create a phab ticket and tag the Content Transform Team in Phabricator.
Unsupported Tools: Several issues with Video2Commons have been fixed, including filename-related upload failures, black-video imports, and retry handling. AV1 support has also been added. Ongoing work focuses on backend stability, ffmpeg errors, subtitle imports, metadata handling, and playlist uploads. To track specific tasks, check the Phabricator board.
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Meetings and events

Save the date for the next Wikimedia Hackathon happening in Milan, Italy from May 1–3, 2026. Registration will open in January 2026. Scholarship applications are currently open, and will close on November 28, 2025. If you have any questions, please email hackathon@wikimedia.org.

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ArbCom 2025 Elections voter message

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ACR closures

Hi, I'm not sure whether Milhistbot has actually closed the ACRs for the Tailhook scandal and Operation Matterhorn articles. Did I stuff up here? Nick-D (talk) 09:45, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It hasn't. There is a bot error. I will investigate when I get a chance. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 11:21, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Bot expected the December newsletter to be created by now. It has instructions on how to create the portion it uses if it is not there, and did so, but due to an error on my part an error was still flagged. The latest version of the Bot does not update any pages if it thinks that one is in error. A one-line change fixed this by marking the newly created page as correctly loaded. The articles have been processed, and the problem will not recur. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:08, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a issue with the nominators, which will have to be corrected manually. I will investigate when I get a chance. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 18:14, 18 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hullo mate, I've approved your latest Cross, should I manually add the award to your talk (and the Bugle Project News) or wait till MilHistBot does its thing? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 03:10, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Ian. Let's give the MilHistBot a chance first. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 05:45, 21 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ian Rose: All good. (See below.) Hawkeye7 (discuss) 01:24, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations from the Military History Project

		The Military history A-Class cross with Oak Leaves
		On behalf of the Military History Project, I am proud to present the A-Class cross with Oak Leaves for Operation Matterhorn logistics, John S. McCain Sr., Project Pluto, Scott Carpenter and Tailhook scandal. Ian Rose (talk) via MilHistBot (talk) 00:30, 22 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello Hawkeye7:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in December!
The goal of this drive is to reduce the backlog of unreviewed drafts to less than half a month of outstanding reviews from the current 2+ months. Bonus points will be given for reviewing drafts that have been waiting more than 30 days. The drive is running from 1 December 2025 through 31 December 2025.

You may find Category:AfC pending submissions by age or other categories and sorting helpful.

Barnstars will be given out as awards at the end of the drive.
There is a backlog of over 3000 pages, so start reviewing drafts. We're looking forward to your help! MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 06:07, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Tech News: 2025-48

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Updates for editors

Last week, the Wikimedia Search Team recreated the "DWIM" (Do What I Mean) gadget functionality server-side, for Russian and Hebrew Wikipedias. This feature adds cross-keyboard suggestions to the standard search-box suggestions. For example, searching for cxfcnmt on Russian Wikipedia will now add suggestions for счастье ("happiness") that the user probably intended. They plan to enable this feature for other Russian and Hebrew wikis this week. [18]
Later this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have syntax highlighting available in DiscussionTools. This requires that the "Enable editing tools in source mode" preference be set. [19]
Campaign events extension – the set of tools for coordinating events and other on-wiki collaborations has now been deployed to all Wikimedia wikis. A new feature known as Collaborative contribution to help organizers and participants see the impact of activities has also been added. Join the upcoming learning session to see the new feature in action and share your feedback.
View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the bug which stopped CodeReviewBot from working, has now been fixed. [20]

Updates for technical contributors

Users of Wikimedia API can join a usability study to help validate the new design of Wikimedia REST API sandboxes. Interested participants should fill the recruitment survey. [21]
The MediaWiki Interfaces team is deprecating XSLT stylesheets within the Action API. Support for format=xml&xlst={stylesheet} will be removed from Wikimedia projects by the end of November, 2025. In addition, it will soon be disabled by default in MediaWiki release versions: v1.43 (LTS), v1.44, and v1.45. Support for XSLT stylesheets will be fully removed from MediaWiki v1.46 (expected to release between April and May 2026). [22]
The WDQS legacy endpoint (query-legacy-full.wikidata.org) will be decommissioned at the end of December 2025, and finally closed down on 7th January 2026. After this date, users should expect requests to query.wikidata.org that require the full graph to fail or return invalid results if they are not rewritten to use SPARQL federation. The team encourages users to ensure that tools and workflows use the supported WDQS endpoints (https://query.wikidata.org/ - Main graph or https://query-scholarly.wikidata.org/ - Scholarly graph). For support with migrating use cases, please review the Data Access and Request a Query pages for details and assistance on alternative access methods.
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MediaWiki message delivery 15:54, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Bugle: Issue 235, November 2025

Your Military History Newsletter

Project news: From the editors; awards and honours; contest results
Articles: Last month's new featured and A-class content
Book review: Hawkeye7 and Nick-D look at four works
Op-ed: Nick-D on 20 years with Wikipedia
Timeline: This month in military history

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If you are a project member who does not want delivery, please remove your name from this page. Your editors, Ian Rose (talk) and Nick-D (talk) 08:11, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations are now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025!

Nominations now open for the WikiProject Military History newcomer of the year and military historian of the year awards for 2025! The top editors will be awarded the coveted Gold Wiki. Nominations are open here and here respectively. The nomination period closes at 23:59 on 30 November 2025 when voting begins. On behalf of the coordinators, wishing you the very best for the festive season and the new year. MediaWiki message delivery via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 18:42, 30 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 1 December 2025

News and notes: Election cycles come and go, and Wikimedia Foundation achieves record revenue in 2024–2025!
Admin and ArbCom elections upcoming, BoT elects two new members, task force advises to close Wikinews and keep Wikispore, and other news from the Wikimedia world.

In the media: Wales walk-off, antisemitism, supernatural powers, feminism turmoil, saints, and sex
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Recent research: At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them?
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Disinformation report: Epstein email exchanges planned strategy, edits and reported progress
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Traffic report: It's a family affair
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Book review: The Seven Rules of Trust
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From the archives: "I have been asked by Jeffrey Epstein ..."
The twists and turns of Epstein’s portrayal on Wikipedia.

Humour: An interview with Wikipe-tan
A conversation about being the mascot of Wikipedia.

Opinion: AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles
Using ChatGPT to fact-check a month's worth of Today's featured articles.

Serendipity: Highlights from the itWikiCon 2025
A recap of the latest convention of the Italian Wiki-community, held in Catania from 7–9 November.

Comix: Madness
It could happen to anyone.

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Tech News: 2025-49

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Updates for editors

The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [23]
Two new wikis have been created:
- a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:) [24]
- a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:) [25]

Updates for technical contributors

Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

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MediaWiki message delivery 18:55, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominations are now open for military historian of the year and newcomer of the year awards for 2025!

Correction: nominations are open until 23:59 (UTC) on 14 December 2025. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 03:20, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Asking for advise. (:

Hi Hawkeye7. I am working on a project involving Barbary Corsairs and the Barbary Nations of the Barbary coast, but I want to find an editor or editors who have some expertise in the area to get an outside opinion on a few things concerning my project. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy is inactive and I do not know the most effective way to ask for this type of help on the Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history.

Any suggestions? Thank you. (: Historyguy1138 (talk) 17:42, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion at User talk:Marchjuly § Question from Boycejpusa

You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Marchjuly § Question from Boycejpusa. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:51, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Hawkeye7. According to its project page, you're the lead coordinator of MILHIST; so, I thought you might be able to help this user out or at least be able to pass the info on to some who can. This user was most likely randomly assigned to me as a mentee when they registered for their account. It's possible they're someone who's either active US Army or a civilian working for/with the Army. I advised them to seek assistance at WT:MILHIST, but they might still be too new to figure out how to do that. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:56, 6 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hawkeye7, I appreciate your assistance. U.S. Army Forces Command at Fort Bragg conducted a "Transition of Command" ceremony on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, to become the new U.S. Army Western Hemisphere Command. I have a draft Wiki page about this in my sandbox and uploaded our new insignia (patch) into Wikicommons ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=u.s.+army+western+hemisphere+command+patch&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image ). I am attempting to create a new page since, technically, a small portion of FORSCOM will continue to exist until October 2026. This is a historic change for our command's mission after 55 years as FORSCOM. Could you please advise me on how to complete the draft page, also incorporating a right-hand column "chimney" similar to our old FORSCOM Wiki page listing our leadership and displaying our new insignia? Thank you!! Our leadership under USAWHC is: Position

Rank and Name

Commanding General, USAWHC

General Joseph A. Ryan

Command Sergeant Major, USAWHC

Command Sergeant Major Nema “Mobar” Mobarakzadeh

Deputy Commanding General, USAWHC

Lieutenant General Stephen G. Smith Boycejpusa (talk) 21:32, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2025-50

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

Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [26]
The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [27]
View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [28]

Updates for technical contributors

Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [29]
Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [30]
There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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MediaWiki message delivery 17:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Promotion of Gordon Cooper

Congratulations, Hawkeye7! The article you nominated, Gordon Cooper, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 23:00, 9 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]