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Upcoming Dark Mode user interface rollout for anonymous Wikimedia sites users

Hello Wikimedians,

Apologies if this message is not in your language. Please help translate to your language.

The Reader Experience team will launch the Dark mode feature for anonymous users on all Wikimedia sites, including yours, on October 29, 2025.

Dark mode is an option that allows users to view pages in light-coloured text, and icons on a dark background. Once it is available for anonymous users, they can enable it when using various devices. More information on ways to enable it can be found on this page. Given many pages are still not compatible with dark mode this will be an opt-in feature and not automatically apply to pages.

Dark mode requires modifications to content pages and templates, and since our initial launch in July 2024, we have been working with communities and helping them prepare for dark mode. Before the rollout, it is essential that template authors and technical contributors test dark mode and read this page to learn how to make pages Dark mode-ready and address any compatibility issues found in templates.

We will fix most color compatibility issues only on the most-viewed pages on projects with over 5 million monthly page views. Technical contributors with an account should opt into dark mode currently using preferences or settings and test pages and seek help before the release to ensure everything complies before the enablement.

If you have any questions or need help, please contact the Reader Experience team for support.

Thank you!

UOzurumba (WMF) 02:08, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Current adminship rights request.

A discussion is now open at Wikiquote:Requests for adminship#Requests for interface administrator, where longtime admin User:Saroj is seeking interface administrator rights. Cheers! BD2412 T 04:30, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

User:Jni vote of confidence?

• Jni (talk • contribs • global edits • page moves • block user • block log)

This was brought up in 2022 at the Village Pump. It does not appear that they replied either at the VP discussion or on their talk page. At the time, they had no edits in about a year and no logged actions in more than two. Currently they have no logged actions since 5 December 2021 and have made only four edits following that date.

While Jni does seem to contribute elsewhere, it's not clear that they have an interest in participating on WQ.

We do not have a local inactivity policy at this time and Jni does not qualify under the the global policy, having made three edits in the past two years. However, a !vote of confidence as permitted by WQ:ADMIN may be appropriate and requires the consent of three users. GMG^talk 18:19, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Remove Thanks for all your work, Jni. No prejudice against re-applying in the future. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:34, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

I'm not an administrator so I'm not sure if I'm allowed to vote in this but I think I would concur with removal. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:04, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Support - seems like Jni is no longer active. ~ UDScott (talk) 01:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Remove – Thanks for their service, but inactive and unresponsive. Support VoC. --Saroj (talk) 03:39, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Self-removal requested. I have indeed been absent for too long and don't need the admin permissions here anymore. I have requested stewards to remove my sysop access at m:Steward_requests/Permissions#Removal_of_access page, to save others' time with this process. Thanks all! jni (talk) 09:46, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the time you've invested in the project and I hope to see you back when you can. GMG^talk 13:05, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Wikiquote:Votes for deletion

Thanks to @Saroj: for helping clear the backlog. We're now down to only 10 open.

Just noting that we don't just need administrators there. Things would greatly benefit from more interaction from everyone. It doesn't work very well when lots of discussions are just one or two !votes from a small group of users. And admins can only contribute to VfD so much really, because there still has to be someone around to close. GMG^talk 14:52, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Have your say: vote for the 2025 Board of Trustees

Hello all,

The voting period for the 2025 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates are running for two (2) seats on the Board.

To check your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Learn more about them by reading their application statements and watch their candidacy videos.

When you are ready, go to the SecurePoll voting page to vote.

The vote is open from October 8 at 00:00 UTC to October 22 at 23:59 UTC.

Best regards,

Abhishek Suryawanshi
Chair, Elections Committee

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:48, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

AI generated articles

Courtesy ping for @Bembety:

There's been a number of AI generated articles created recently, tagged with #WikiactivateAI, and there are some issues. The most widespread seems to be that it is pulling quotes without regard to whether they make a lot of sense on their own.

• Mary Dinah: "That was how we decided to go into the school feeding programme." "It’s been about three to four years since we started in that region and it’s been absolutely successful." "It still is my greatest high point in life." "We will be doing much more in the coming months and years."
• Seanice Kacungira: "The picture is of some of our Uganda team doing what we love to best in our free time, raising money for charity!" "I don’t think that any country, not just Kenya, but any African country." "I don’t have those numbers in my head." "I know that we feel very strongly that the suffering and the losses that were experienced are deeply regrettable and deplorable."
• Njideka Harry: "I think overall more broadly of those societal challenges are still inexistence." "Why we run gender sensitive programmes for women, girls."
• Denis Yarats: "We start talking and like collaborating together." "I'm super excited about it, but it is very important." "We have a very good people who can generate it as well."

You get the idea. In at least one instance that I nominated at Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Camtel, it also pulled prose from the source that wasn't a quote at all. This is in addition to pulling contextless quotes, and quotes that are both contextless and routine corporate speak. Finally, it doesn't seem to very well or at all discriminate based on type or quality of source. It seems to just be looking for some source that has a lot of quotation marks or are clearly identified as an interview.

I don't know what the best and most agreeable solution is here, but given the ease and rapidity with which these can be made, the quality of the content seems important. GMG^talk 14:45, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the reminder. I’ll make sure to double check all quotes before publishing, and I will not use that sign(") again. I swear in the name of the Lord who created me, I am not using AI to generate quotes. If you review the sources of the quotes, you’ll notice that the quotation marks (") are present, just as I’ve used them. Thanks Bembety (talk) 15:27, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

GMG^talk I have reviewed and corrected all the listed articles. Kindly check them again. Thank you. Bembety (talk) 22:48, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Quote of the Day

user:Kalki yet again ignoring votes at Quote of the Day, and changing his own vote without explanation at the last second. October 10, Wikiquote:Quote of the day/October 10, 2025. Do we have a process here, or does Kalki just get to insert his choice whenever he feels like it? Ficaia (talk) 00:03, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

In regard to your complaints on today's QOTD, I will simply again note for the third time, on each of the three places you have currently placed such complaints, that I have nearly always taken account of ALL the available suggestions on a QOTD suggestion page for a date, and make final choices among what seem to be the best ones in the last hours available to me to do so, before posting them, so as to keep options for new suggestions and quotes open so long as possible, while you have several times now seemed to be intent on simply interfering with the processes of my final selections by casting extremely disruptive and personally spiteful rankings down-voting WHATEVER I select, without any actual regard to merit of the quotes, even AFTER what you quite facetiously and usually quite WRONGLY tend to label "the last second." You seem to take my failure to abjectly and absolutely subordinate my careful considerations among all available choices to your acts of very deliberate and malicious disruption as something to complain about as an injustice on my part. I consider this ludicrous. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:29, 10 October 2025 (UTC) + tweaks

In reviewing what occurred here, I would agree with Kalki that it appears you made an attempt to be disruptive by selecting an obviously intentionally low rating for an otherwise acceptable quote simply because it had been suggested by Kalki. And I also do not understand the problem with any user changing their vote in this process, whether "last minute" or not. As to the larger question regarding the process of selecting the quotes, I believe that Kalki has certainly taken ownership of it over the years - but that was because there really was no one else stepping forward to help manage it. I personally don't have the bandwidth to contribute to this process regularly (with so much elsewhere to work on, including the nearly continuous deluge of new pages needing attention), but when I have been able to participate, I have found that discussion has worked to arrive at a good selection for the QOTD. The problem is more that there is so little participation by others. If there are disputes (and of course there have been over the years - regarding both the quote and image selections), the community has stepped in to correct it. This is not without the occasional argument, but by and large, I believe the process has been handled smoothly by Kalki - and I commend them for doing so. It is not an easy job - and it must be handled within a confined timeline every day. You and anyone else is welcome to be a part of that process, but I suggest a more rational approach to the voting than entering a 0 in an attempt to offset the vote that Kalki had entered (or if you do enter an extreme vote such as this, at least offer some explanation as to why you find the quote so inappropriate). I fully support and endorse Kalki in this process (even with the occasional bumps in the road that are usually quickly addressed). ~ UDScott (talk) 12:07, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

So just to be clear: Kalki gets to choose QOTD whenever and wherever he wants.

QOTD will forever be a stain on this project as a result.

"Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend." -- run three days after Charlie Kirk's murder. Selected by Kalki despite Zarbon having rated it a 1, making it ineligible even with Kalki rating it a 4 at the last second.

Disgraceful Ficaia (talk) 23:58, 12 October 2025 (UTC)

WMF board reform

The m:2025 WMF Board reform petition affects people from across the movement, so I'm posting this here. Feel free to let me know if there is a better venue on this project and I wrote this in the wrong place. I care and am always open to learning more about my fellow wikimedians. Clovermoss (talk) 20:58, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project

Hello. Please help pick a name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. This project will be a wiki that will enable users to combine functions from Wikifunctions and data from Wikidata in order to generate natural language sentences in any supported languages. These sentences can then be used by any Wikipedia (or elsewhere).

There will be two rounds of voting, each followed by legal review of candidates, with votes beginning on 20 October and 17 November 2025. Our goal is to have a final project name selected on mid-December 2025. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Thank you!

-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 11:43, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

How Do I Correct Misspelling in the Title of an Article?

I created the Ann Swinburne Munroe article, but had misspelled her name. Here is the article: Ann Swinbourne Munroe Starlighsky (talk) 15:34, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

I moved the page to the correctly spelled name (and tidied up some formatting). ~ UDScott (talk) 15:53, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Seeking volunteers to join several of the movement’s committees

Each year, typically from October through December, several of the movement’s committees seek new volunteers.

Read more about the committees on their Meta-wiki pages:

• Affiliations Committee (AffCom)
• Ombuds commission (OC)
• Case Review Committee (CRC)

Applications for the committees open on October 30, 2025. Applications for the Affiliations Committee, Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on December 11, 2025. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cstwikimedia.org with any questions you may have.

For the Committee Support team,

- MKaur (WMF) 14:13, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Request to create new author page: Kenny R. Placencio

Hello Wikiquote editors,

I recently verified my account and attempted to create a new author page titled "Kenny R. Placencio," but the "Create" button remains inactive. I believe this may be due to the new-account restriction.

Could an administrator please assist or enable page creation for this entry?

Here is the content I am trying to publish:

Kenny R. Placencio

Kenny R. Placencio (born 1991 in the Bronx, New York City) is an American philosopher, poet, and creative thinker. He is known for his original philosophical reflections exploring resilience, identity, and shared humanity.

Quotes

• "Resemblance is more visible in struggle."

— First published by Kenny R. Placencio on verified social media (LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook), October 2025.

References

• LinkedIn post by Kenny R. Placencio (October 2025)
• Instagram publication (October 2025)
• Brooklyn College official website

Category:1991 births Category:People from the Bronx Category:American philosophers Category:American poets Category:American writers Category:Brooklyn College alumni Category:2025 works Category:Quotes about struggle

Thank you for your help! — Kenny R. Placencio Placenciorimvil (talk) 17:16, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Wikiquote doesn't update sometimes?

It looks like it is being updated now. I noticed before some times it is stuck on a day. I can go to the link for the month and day and find it there. But somehow it doesn't show up in wikiquote? If it happens again I will link the affected page. ~2025-30874-78 (talk) 18:40, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

category help check?

Hello, I rarely contribute to wikipedia and wikiquotes. I get really nervous when I attempt to help out. That being said, may someone check my category/editing history to confirm I'm doing things correctly? Ilikememes128 (talk) 13:55, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

You performed the right steps, but in two of the three, you added general categories that were not really needed. For example, on Gina Bianchini, you added Category:Women from the United States, but there already was the category Category:Businesswomen from the United States/ In this case, Category:Businesswomen from the United States is already a subcategory of Category:Women from the United States, so it is not necessary to add it as well. Make sense? I'll make the appropriate changes to those three pages you edited - just remember that sometimes the general categories are redundant. ~ UDScott (talk) 14:54, 3 November 2025 (UTC)