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Cheshunt Lock and other notes

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Speedy deletion nomination of Germna

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A tag has been placed on Germna requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section R3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a recently created redirect from an implausible typo or misnomer, or other unlikely search term.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. DrKay (talk) 13:45, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not create anymore redirects with typos until the discussion is completed. Editors should not continue a series of edits that is being discussed or contested. DrKay (talk) 13:47, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you had been paying attention, you would know that this is a plausible typo. Please restore it, and try to AGF. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:20, 4 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]
Belittlement ("if you had been paying attention") is in breach of Wikipedia:Civility#Identifying incivility point 1d, as is unjustly implying bad faith (point 1c). DrKay (talk) 22:13, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think that's a bit of a stretch, don't you? All the best: Rich Farmbrough 21:29, 8 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]
It's interesting that had this existed, your argument in the RfD your refer to would have failed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 19:04, 15 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #709

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-08. Missed the previous one? See issue #708.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Mobile statement editing:
    • It's now possible to edit existing references (phab:T405236)
    • We fixed a number of issues such as a problem when adding the first statements to an item (phab:T409069)
    • We started work on showing constraint violation indicators (phab:T400676)
    • We're working on showing errors in the edit form (phab:T408928)
    • We're improving the edit summaries (phab:T411247)
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We continued working on improvements to the Databox Lua module and template
  • GraphQL: We continued working on the first version of GraphQL support

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-50

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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. [18]
  • 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. [19]
  • Recurrent item 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. [20]

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. [21]
  • 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. [22]
  • There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

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

"Tyre rating" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Tyre rating has 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 Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 8 § Tyre rating until a consensus is reached. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 20:16, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Template:LAng" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Template:LAng has 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 Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 13 § Template:LAng until a consensus is reached. Duckmather (talk) 06:10, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Template:ENgvarB" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Template:ENgvarB has 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 Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 13 § Template:ENgvarB until a consensus is reached. Duckmather (talk) 06:12, 13 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Cite tweet template

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Hello Rich, I may have misread your edit summary, but it looks like this might be a good place to use the Cite tweet template Template:Cite tweet. I find it very easy to use, I only use the 3 required parameters, but maybe the expanded parameters could be good for some things too. Mikewem (talk) 19:49, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I have made the change. Feel free to tweak. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 19:55, 14 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]
For the record, I am in awe of the depth of your contributions to the project. Thank you for the work. Mikewem (talk) 20:01, 14 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you, I believe I may be blushing slightly. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 20:13, 14 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

"Cardigan, Cardigan" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect Cardigan, Cardigan has 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 Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 15 § Cardigan, Cardigan until a consensus is reached. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 05:29, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is beginning to seem a little personal. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 16:12, 15 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #710

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-12-15. Missed the previous one? See issue #709.

Discussions

Events

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

  • Broomstick - Broomstick is a tool to uncover Lexemes that can be improved on Wikidata.

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

Did you know?

Development

  • Edit summaries: We made changes that will improve the automatic edit summaries of edits made using the wbeditentity API endpoint. Tools that use this endpoint to edit statements will, in some cases, now have more accurate edit summaries; this also affects how such edits are summarized in edit groups. (phab:T411247)
  • Wikidata integration in the Wikimedia projects: We are collecting feedback from the first wikis who got the new and improved Databox module.
  • Mobile statement editing:
    • We are making remaining changes for the first roll-out as a beta-feature.
    • We are working on showing constraint violations. (phab:T411602, phab:T400676)
  • GraphQL: We are working on making it possible to query for Items by Property/value pair (phab:T403576)
  • REST API: We are improving error messages for requests that failed due to an IP block (phab:T404727)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-51

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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

  • Recurrent item View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [23]

Updates for technical contributors

  • To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [24]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:01, 15 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"History of Child Sexual Abuse as a Social Problem" listed at Redirects for discussion

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The redirect History of Child Sexual Abuse as a Social Problem has 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 Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 17 § History of Child Sexual Abuse as a Social Problem until a consensus is reached. Steel1943 (talk) 00:13, 17 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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