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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2025).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open to determine whether the English Wikipedia community should adopt a position on AI development by the WMF and its affiliates.

Technical news

• A new feature called Multiblocks will be deployed on English Wikipedia on the week of June 2. See the relevant announcement on the administrators' noticeboard.
• History merges performed using the mergehistory special page are now logged at both the source and destination, rather than just the source as previously, after this RFC and the resolution of T118132.

Arbitration

• An arbitration case named Indian military history has been opened. Evidence submissions for this case close on 8 June.

Miscellaneous

• Voting for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) election is open until 17 June 2025. Read the voting page on Meta-Wiki and cast your vote here!
• An Articles for Creation backlog drive is happening in June 2025, with over 1,600 drafts awaiting review from the past two months. In addition to AfC participants, all administrators and new page patrollers can help review using the Yet Another AFC Helper Script, which can be enabled in the Gadgets settings. Sign up here to participate!
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In this issue, we give you some updates on the discussion about where to store abstract content, we present you the recordings of our latest presentations and meetings, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we announce the closing of the discussion about where to store abstract content, we remind you about our current discussions about types and our next NLG SIG meeting, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we outline our priorities for the next quarter (July–September 2025), we give you some updates related to our new types, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we share a short essay from Denny about writing an encyclopedia, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we share a short essay from Denny about how Wikipedias cover articles about years, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Category:Space and time has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:46, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2025).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Guideline and policy news

• Following a talk page discussion, speedy deletion criterion G13 has been amended to remove "Userspace with no content except the article wizard placeholder text."
• WP:Manual of Style/Superscripts and subscripts was upgraded to a guideline following a RfC discussion.

Miscellaneous

• The 2025 Developing Countries WikiContest will run from 1 July to 30 September. Sign up now!
• Administrator elections will take place this month. Administrator elections are an alternative to RFA that is a gentler process for candidates due to secret voting and multiple people running together. The call for candidates is July 9–15, the discussion phase is July 18–22, and the voting phase is July 23–29. Get ready to submit your candidacy, or (with their consent) to nominate a talented candidate!

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There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce a measure to limit length of labels and descriptions, we show a video illustrating our work on front-end components, we share some news on new Types, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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Also we remind you that the next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting will be held on July 15, at 16:00 UTC (link to the meeting).

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Hi. In this edit you added "<ref name=":1" />" without defining the reference. I would add it myself but have no idea what the ref should be. Nurg (talk) 02:02, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

done. fgnievinski (talk) 02:43, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The redirect Strobelight (song) 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 July 19 § Strobelight (song) until a consensus is reached. ArthananWarcraft (talk) 04:57, 19 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce a new kind of Type (Wikidata-based enumerations), we remind you of our current sprint in fixing labels and descriptions that are too long, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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There is the second anniversary update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce our work on functions that generate sentences and fragments in several languages, we celebrate our second anniversary, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2025).

Guideline and policy news

• Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, G15, has been enacted. It applies to pages generated by a large language model (LLM) without human review.
• Following a request for comment, there is a new policy outlining the granting of permissions to view the IP addresses of temporary accounts. Temporary account deployment on the English Wikipedia is currently scheduled for September 2025, and editors can request access to the permission ahead of time. Admins are encouraged to keep an eye on the request page; there will likely be a flood of editors requesting the permission when they realize they can no longer see IP addresses.

Technical news

• Administrators can now restrict the "Add a Link" feature to newcomers. The "Add a Link" Structured Task helps new account holders get started with editing. Administrators can configure this setting in the Community Configuration page.

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Indian military history has been closed.
  • South Asia (WP:CT/SA) is designated a contentious topic. The topic area is specifically defined as All pages related to the region of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal), broadly construed, including but not limited to history, politics, ethnicity, and social groups.
  • The contentious topic designations for Sri Lanka (SL) and India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan (IPA) are folded into this new contentious topic.
  • The community-authorized general sanctions regarding South Asian social groups (GS/CASTE) are rescinded and folded into this new contentious topic.
• The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case closed on 31 July.
• The arbitration case Transgender healthcare and people has been opened. Evidence submissions in this case will close on 11 August.

Miscellaneous

• Wikimania 2025 is happening in Nairobi, Kenya, and online from August 6 to August 9. This year marks 20 years of Wikimania. Interested users can join the online event. Registration for the virtual event is free and will remain open throughout Wikimania. You can register here now.

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You created the redirects Cycle (angular unit)Cycle (angular unit) and Revolution (angular unit)Revolution (angular unit). This is perhaps unfortunate. It should be noted that the cycle and revolution have never been regarded as an angular unit by any authoritative body. ISO 80000-3:2006 clearly defined the revolution as a unit of count, though ISO 80000-3:2019 omitted the definition. NIST publishes this, and [1], for example; their continued mention of the 'cycle' in this way hints that they may push to include it as an explicitly defined unit at some point with the meaning of count, not angle. It is evident that these bodies consider the following to hold: Hz = 1/s = cycle per second, which mathematically implies that cycle = 1 ≠ 2π rad = 2π. As you may remember, I have highlighted this sort of confusion in the past, but it is particularly pernicious and difficult to combat. From your edits, you seem to have started to appreciate that there may be subtleties involved here. Would you be amenable to these redirects being deleted due to the confused understanding that they perpetuate? —Quondum 13:21, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I had also created "cycle" as a unit of rotation and "revolution" as a unit of rotation. Then I had cited both the unit of count (number of rotations) and the unit of plane angle in a partial disambiguation page, Cycle (unit). It got merged into the main dab page, Cycle, and the rotational unit had been lost, which I've now restored. Both the angular unit and rotation unit are still mentioned in the dab page Revolution (unit).

I like ISO/ISQ's formalization of the "number of rotations" as new quantity of kind count (dimensionless), defined as the ratio of an angle (a numerical value with units) and a full circle (in the same unit). It facilitates defining ordinary frequency via the temporal rate of change (in units of hertz or reciprocal seconds). I've detailed it all in Rotation (quantity).

Yet one has to admit engineers often take practical shortcuts and may like express a plane angle, such as phase angle, in units of full circles. It's perfectly defensible, it's just confusing when dealing with temporal rates of change, especially their units (it'll be an angular frequency, in units of full circles per second -- it'd have been better to follow the ISO/ISQ approach to start with). The article on turn (angle) sources reasonably well several synonyms, such as plat, cycle, or revolution.

So, unfortunately Wikipedia can only recognize the controversy and show both treatments. Hopefully the ISO/ISQ approach will have more adherents over time. But not long ago, it was not even described in Wikipedia, originally it only got coverage as a significant minority view. fgnievinski (talk) 03:12, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The section Turn (angle) § In the ISQ/SI does a pretty good job and is a reasonable target: I overlooked that, maybe in it the term cycle should to be more visible due to the redirect. I may move the anchor Rotational unit higher (Cycle (rotational unit) seems to arrive at the See also section). Perhaps that article should highlight better in the lead that the term 'cycle' gets used in two incompatible ways: one as a unit of rotation, and one as a unit of angular displacement. Maybe "revolution" should be dealt with similarly. You mention Revolution (unit) above as a dab page, but it is a redirect that just goes to Turn (unit). Perhaps it should be to Turn (unit) § In the ISQ/SI? —Quondum 14:23, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to expand the lead of Turn (angle) to summarize more fully the alternative treatment, I didn't want to push too hard the ISQ view; the discussion was a bit tiring back then: Talk:Turn_(angle)#Revolution. fgnievinski (talk) 04:44, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, though I may not get to this soon (other distractions). This discussion has helped me appreciate in essence that the "revolution" and "cycle" get used quite widely in both ways. My goal is not to push SI/ISO in this context – though they are consistent, IMO their formalism (making angle and count dimensionless) does us all a disfavour, though this is not directly relevant to the discussion here. I would seek to make it clear to readers that there are multiple conventions, and that it is necessary to understand the convention that one chooses to avoid confusion by mixing them. —Quondum 13:08, 12 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we announce that it is now possible to access Wikidata items from embedded function calls, we also inform that Wikifunctions is now available on 60 more Wiktionaries, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2025).

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open on whether use of emojis with no encyclopedic value in mainspace and draftspace (e.g., at the start of paragraphs or in place of bullet points) should be added as a criterion under G15.

Technical news

• Administrators can now access the Special:BlockedExternalDomains page from the Special:CommunityConfiguration list page. This makes it easier to find. T393240

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Article titles and capitalisation 2 has been closed.
• An RfC is in progress to amend the structure, rules, and procedures of the Arbitration Committee election and resolve any issues not covered by existing rules.

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In this issue, we celebrate reaching the milestone of 3,000 functions on Wikifunctions, we discuss our upcoming commitments in outreach, we share with you our latest blogpost, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

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