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- The Core Contest. April 15 - May 31, an contest to improve broad and important articles, together with others or alone. Sign-ups are open until the end of the competition.
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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 April 2025 editing blitz is a one-week-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce its backlog. The themes are: articles on the GOCE Requests page from January to April 2025, and articles on the backlog from September 2023 and October 2023. It began on 13 April, 00:00 (UTC), and will end on 19 April, 23:59 (UTC).
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2024 Events:
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Christchurch 38 | April 6, 2025 |
Minnesota | April 6, 2025 |
Adelaide 24 | April 12, 2025 |
Perth 88 | April 13, 2025 |
London 215 | April 13, 2025 |
Seattle | April 22, 2025 |
Los Angeles | April 26, 2025 |
Oxford 110 | April 27, 2025 |
Aberdeen 1 | April 28, 2025 |
Exeter 3 | May 3, 2025 |
San Francisco | May 8, 2025 |
London 216 | May 11, 2025 |
Los Angeles | May 11, 2025 |
US Mountain West online | May 13, 2025 |
WikiCon New Zealand | May 16–18, 2025 |
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- WikiProject Christianity is back and running! We are looking for new and interested editors to join. We look forward to working with you! Sheriff U3 12:51, 5 April 2025 (UTC)
- WikiProject Outlines news:
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- Another outline has been nominated for Featured List status:
- The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
- The Outline of the week is Outline of jazz.
- Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 67,000 -- down from 90,000 half a year ago. Come contribute! Mrfoogles (talk) 21:44, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
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
- Later this week, the default thumbnail size will be increased from 220px to 250px. This changes how pages are shown in all wikis and has been requested by some communities for many years, but wasn't previously possible due to technical limitations. [1]
- File thumbnails are now stored in discrete sizes. If a page specifies a thumbnail size that's not among the standard sizes (20, 40, 60, 120, 250, 330, 500, 960), then MediaWiki will pick the closest larger thumbnail size but will tell the browser to downscale it to the requested size. In these cases, nothing will change visually but users might load slightly larger images. If it doesn't matter which thumbnail size is used in a page, please pick one of the standard sizes to avoid the extra in-browser down-scaling step. [2][3]
Updates for editors
- The Wikimedia Foundation are working on a system called Edge Uniques which will enable A/B testing, help protect against Distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS attacks), and make it easier to understand how many visitors the Wikimedia sites have. This is so that they can more efficiently build tools which help readers, and make it easier for readers to find what they are looking for.
- To improve security for users, a small percentage of logins will now require that the account owner input a one-time password emailed to their account. It is recommended that you check that the email address on your account is set correctly, and that it has been confirmed, and that you have an email set for this purpose. [4]
- "Are you interested in taking a short survey to improve tools used for reviewing or reverting edits on your Wiki?" This question will be asked at 7 wikis starting next week, on Recent Changes and Watchlist pages. The Moderator Tools team wants to know more about activities that involve looking at new edits made to your Wikimedia project, and determining whether they adhere to your project's policies.
- On April 15, the full Wikidata graph will no longer be supported on query.wikidata.org. After this date, scholarly articles will be available through query-scholarly.wikidata.org, while the rest of the data hosted on Wikidata will be available through the query.wikidata.org endpoint. This is part of the scheduled split of the Wikidata Graph, which was announced in September 2024. More information is available on Wikidata.
- The latest quarterly Wikimedia Apps Newsletter is now available. It covers updates, experiments, and improvements made to the Wikipedia mobile apps.
View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition includes: an invitation for tool maintainers to attend the Toolforge UI Community Feedback Session on April 15th; recent community metrics; and recent technical blog posts.
Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki
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- murder of chang
- media reaction to the murder
- victor chang foundation
http://download2.wikimedia.org/tools/view_deleted_article.
This is an incomplete list that is currently biased toward current and popular programming.
- A nivel de cancha
- Al calor de la noche
- American Hits
- Arte lírico W
- Azúcar
- Back in time
- Beatlemanía
- Beatles and friends
- Bombazo al pasado
- Cancha caliente
- Cristo es la respuesta
- Contacto informativo
- De 1 a 3
- Domingo antillano
- El club de los Beatles
- El club de la mujer
- Espacio deportivo
- Espacio para tu salud
- Fox en vivo, Fox contigo
- Free radio
- Golden music
- Grupo FM Noticias
- Hoy por hoy
- Imagen informativa
- Juan Gabriel y sus invitados
- La caverna
- La medicina y el hombre
- La máquina escondida
- La mano peluda
- La taquilla
- La piedra angular
- La hora nacional
- Líderes de Opinión
- Los amos del camino
- Los rollos del sábado
- Los trovadores
- Lounge and Chillout
- Malacatonche
- Memorias Pulsar
- MVS Noticias
- Mi forma de sentir
- Misa dominical
- Monitor
- Noticentro
- Noche mágica
- Noche latina
- Noticiero Siglo XXI
- Oldies
- Panorama informativo
- Palomitas
- Pasión W
- Programa X
- RASA en la Noticia
- Rectoría de la Divina Providencia
- Salud hable mente W
- Special music
- Score 1210
- Y usted qué opina?
- Yo el poeta
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