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Sometime in 2005 I added the Wikipedia search box to Firefox and my life changed, suddenly enlightenment was only a tab away. I started correcting typos, adding a few paragraphs here and there, until I set myself the challenge of making a serious contribution, of finding a deficient article and bringing it up to standard. The Core Contest, a push to improve flawed or incomplete articles on crucial topics, gave me the impetus needed, and the list of entries confronted me with Pop music, the only candidate I could possibly contemplate. Although a musicologist and a melomaniac, pop is by no account one of my favourite styles, but at least I was versed on its history. My only significant contribution to this encyclopædia, therefore, is encapsulated between these two diffs, 26 November and 27 December 2007.

During the month it took me to research and write the page I discovered the other side of Wikipedia, the talk pages and userspace, the noticeboards, commitees and IRC channels. I didn't like what I found, and as I finish the rewrite I've decided to end my editing days. I shall continue to use Wikipedia as my main reference but never again will I click an [edit] link.

Wikipedia in a nutshell: The white pages are luminous, intelligent, enlightening, the beautiful fruit of human cooperation; the blue pages are dark, asinine, sordid, the contemptible result of human rivalry.

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Yearly or infrequent events

Monthly or continuous events

  • Monthly contest, WikiProject Military history. The contest department of the Military history WikiProject aims to motivate increased quality in military history articles by offering a form of friendly competition for project members making improvements to them. The primary contest available is a simple rolling competition that awards points for improving articles. The contest runs from the first to last day of each month.
  • Guild of Copy Editors' editing blitz. The June 2025 editing blitz was a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes were: articles on the GOCE Requests page from March to June 2025, and articles on the backlog from October 2023 and November 2023. It began on 15 June, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 21 June, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:
Recently completed: Revolutionary women Alphabet run: I & J
New this month: LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: K & L
Ongoing initiatives: Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events: Alphabet run: M & N Women in Red turns 10 Geofocus: Kenya Ideas


Meetups for June 2025 +/-
Melbourne 48 June 2, 2025 (2025-06-02)
London 217 June 8, 2025 (2025-06-08)
Lez Wiki Edit-a-thon June 8, 2025 (2025-06-08)
Singapore 22 June 13, 2025 (2025-06-13)
Brighton 5 June 14, 2025 (2025-06-14)
Oxford 112 June 15, 2025 (2025-06-15)
San Diego 123 June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)
Cape Town 49 June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)
Johannesburg 18 June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)
Aberdeen 3 June 23, 2025 (2025-06-23)
Exeter 4 June 28, 2025 (2025-06-28)
Los Angeles Wiknic June 28, 2025 (2025-06-28)
Lez Wiki Edit-a-thon June 29, 2025 (2025-06-29)


Meetups for July 2025 +/-
San Diego 124 July 12, 2025 (2025-07-12)
London 218 July 13, 2025 (2025-07-13)
Chicago Wiknic July 13, 2025 (2025-07-13)
Minnesota Wiknic July 19, 2025 (2025-07-19)
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Technical news
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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

  • This week, the Moderator Tools and Machine Learning teams will continue the rollout of a new filter to Recent Changes, releasing it to the third and last batch of Wikipedias. This filter utilizes the Revert Risk model, which was created by the Research team, to highlight edits that are likely to be reverted and help Recent Changes patrollers identify potentially problematic contributions. The feature will be rolled out to the following Wikipedias: Azerbaijani Wikipedia, Latin Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, Telugu Wikipedia, Tagalog Wikipedia. The rollout will continue in the coming weeks to include the rest of the Wikipedias in this project. [1]

Updates for editors

  • Last week, temporary accounts were rolled out on Czech, Korean, and Turkish Wikipedias. This and next week, deployments on larger Wikipedias will follow. Share your thoughts about the project. [2]
  • Later this week, the Editing team will release Multi Check to all Wikipedias (except English Wikipedia). This feature shows multiple Reference checks within the editing experience. This encourages users to add citations when they add multiple new paragraphs to a Wikipedia article. This feature was previously available as an A/B test. The test shows that users who are shown multiple checks are 1.3 times more likely to add a reference to their edit, and their edit is less likely to be reverted (-34.7%). [3]
  • A few pages need to be renamed due to software updates and to match more recent Unicode standards. All of these changes are related to title-casing changes. Approximately 71 pages and 3 files will be renamed, across 15 wikis; the complete list is in the task. The developers will rename these pages next week, and they will fix redirects and embedded file links a few minutes later via a system settings update.
  • Recurrent item View all 24 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that had caused pages to scroll upwards when text near the top was selected. [4]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Editors can now use Lua modules to filter and transform tabular data for use with Extension:Chart. This can be used for things like selecting a subset of rows or columns from the source data, converting between units, statistical processing, and many other useful transformations. Information on how to use transforms is available. [5]
  • The all_links variable in AbuseFilter is now renamed to new_links for consistency with other variables. Old usages will still continue to work. [6]
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

  • The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the recent updates for the "Add a Link" Task, two new Newcomer Engagement Features, and updates to Community Configuration.

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I am proud to be Welsh.
I contribute using Mozilla Firefox.
TNS I am a member of the TNS.
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en-gb-N I am a native speaker of British English.
es-es-5 Hablo español castellano a nivel profesional.
ca-5 Parlo català a nivell professional.




This user edits with the gadget wikEd.
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English 		I proofread and translate from Spanish to English and vice versa.
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English 		I proofread and translate from Catalan to English and vice versa.




I actively advocate more cowbell.
I am not The Stig.




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