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Events and projects [add]

Yearly or infrequent events

• Want to help good articles get better? Sign up for the October Good Article backlog drive! New and experienced reviewers welcome.

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 drive. The September 2025 backlog drive was a one-month-long effort by the Guild of Copy Editors to reduce the backlog of articles that require copy editing: those carrying the {{copy edit}} tag (also {{awkward}}, {{copy edit section}}, {{inappropriate person}}, and {{copy edit inline}}, and their redirects) or are listed on the GOCE Requests page. It began on 1 September, 00:00 (UTC), and ended on 30 September, 23:59 (UTC). Stay tuned for the next event.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red 2025 Events:

Recently completed:	Alphabet run: Q & R Women writers & their works Geofocus: Microstates
New this month:	Alphabet run: S & T Women in STEM Halloween
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Meetups for October 2025 +/-

Dunedin 1	October 3, 2025 (2025-10-03)
Perth 89	October 4, 2025 (2025-10-04)
Dunedin 2	October 10, 2025 (2025-10-10)
London 221	October 12, 2025 (2025-10-12)
Minnesota	October 14, 2025 (2025-10-14)
Dunedin 3	October 17, 2025 (2025-10-17)
Brixton 10	October 20, 2025 (2025-10-20)
Exeter 5	October 25, 2025 (2025-10-25)
Brixton 11	October 27, 2025 (2025-10-27)
Seattle	October 28, 2025 (2025-10-28)

Meetups for November 2025 +/-

Template:Meetup/November 2025

WikiProject notices [add]

Also consider posting WikiProject, Task Force, and Collaboration news at The Signpost's WikiProject Report page. Please include your signature when adding a listing here.

• WP Unreferenced articles is trying to clear the decades-long backlog of unreferenced articles. The backlog recently reached under 47,000. Come contribute! Catfurball (talk) 19:58, 10 September 2025 (UTC)
• WikiProject Haiti is newly renovated and looking for interested participants. Averageuntitleduser (talk) 15:38, 21 July 2025 (UTC)
• WikiProject Kabbalah is re-activating as there are a lot of maintenance templates on these articles and new references and inline citations are needed. See Kabbalah Books Online. New participants welcome!! Nnev66 (talk) 23:07, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
• 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:
  • New outlines:
    • Outline of San Diego
    • Outline of Leeds
    • Outline of Glasgow
  • Another outline has been nominated for Featured List status:
    • Outline of caves
  • The following outline covers an ongoing situation, please help keep it updated:
    • Outline of the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • The Outline of the week is Outline of ancient Greece.
  • Please help improve them. —The Transhumanist 11:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

Technical news

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

• A major software upgrade has been made to Phabricator. The update introduces performance improvements, a refreshed search interface, enhancements to Maniphest task search, updates to user profile pages and project workboards, new Herald automation features, as well as general text input, mobile experience improvements and more. [1]

Updates for editors

• The Community Tech team will release the new Community Wishlist extension on October 1, that will improve the way wishes will be submitted. The new extension will allow users to add tags to their wishes to better categorise them, and (in a future iteration) to filter them by status, tags and focus areas. It will also be possible to support individual wishes again, as requested by the community in many instances. The old system will be retired. There will be a brief period of downtime while the extension is deployed and wishes are migrated to the new system. You can read more about this in the latest update or you can consult the current documentation on MediaWiki.
• As announced on Diff blog, the production trial of the hCaptcha service for bot detection has begun. The trial is currently using hCaptcha to protect account creation on Chinese, Persian, Portuguese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Turkish Wikipedias, where it will replace our existing CAPTCHA (FancyCaptcha). The goal with the trial is to better block bots while also improving usability and accessibility for users who encounter CAPTCHA challenges.
• The CampaignEvents extension has been deployed to Wikimedia Commons. The extension makes it easier to organize and participate in collaborative activities, like edit-a-thons and WikiProjects, on the wikis. On Commons, anyone who is a registered user can use it as an event participant. To use it as an organizer, someone needs to have the event organizer right.
• Sub-referencing, a new feature to re-use references with different details has been released to German Wikipedia. You can test the feature on testwiki or on betawiki as well. Please share your thoughts on using templates in sub-references or volunteer to become a pilot wiki.
• On wikis using the Mentorship system, communities can now opt experienced editors out of Mentorship through Special:CommunityConfiguration/Mentorship. Within this setting, communities may define thresholds, based on edit count and account age, to decide when an editor is considered experienced enough to no longer receive Mentorship. [2]
• The Editing Team and the Machine Learning Team are working on a new check for newcomers: Tone check. Using a prediction model, this check will encourage editors to improve the tone of their edits, using artificial intelligence. We invite volunteers to review the first version of the Tone language model for the following languages: Arabic, Czech, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Farsi, Italian, Norwegian, Romanian and Latvian. Users from these wikis interested in reviewing this model are invited to sign up at MediaWiki.org. The deadline to sign up is on October 3, which will be the start date of the test.
• The rollout of multiblocks had the side effect that non-active block logs may have been shown on Special:Contributions and on blocked users' user and user_talk pages. This issue will be fully resolved in a few days. As part of the fix, messages prefixed with sp-contributions-blocked-notice will be removed and replaced with those prefixed with blocked-notice-logextract in a few weeks. Please help translate the new messages and update any local overrides if needed.
• There was a bug with links added using visual editor if they included characters such as [ ] | after the fragment identifier (#). They were not encoded properly creating an incorrect link. This has been fixed. [3]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikiquote in Malay (q:ms:) [4]
• View all 21 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the User Info Card now displays currently active global lock/blocks. [5]

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, editors using Lua modules will be able to use the mw.title.newBatch function to look up the existence of up to 25 pages at once, in a way that only increases the expensive function count once.
• A new Unsupported Tools Working Group has been formed as part of ongoing efforts to collectively determine technical work priorities, similar to the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). The working group will help prioritize and review requests for support of unmaintained extensions, gadgets, bots, and tools. For the first cycle, the group will be prioritizing an unsupported Wikimedia Commons tool.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Requests for comment

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• Biographies
• Economy and trade
• History and geography
• Language and linguistics
• Media, the arts, and architecture
• Politics, government, and law
• Religion and philosophy
• Science and mathematics
• Society, sports, and culture
• Wikipedia policies and guidelines
• Wikipedia style and naming
• WikiProjects and collaborations
• Wikipedia technical issues and templates
• Wikipedia proposals
• Unsorted

General notices

• A request for adminship is open for discussion.
• Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2025 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2025 (UTC).
• Sign up for WikiProject Women in Green's "What Women Do" Good Article edit-a-thon, running through October. Learn new skills, help improve articles about women and women's works, and earn a barnstar!
• You are invited to join the October 2025 Good Article Backlog Drive! Earn barnstars while helping to clear the Good article nominations backlog!
• Stay up to date with what's happening on Wikipedia. The newest issue of The Signpost is out now.

• A request for adminship is open for discussion.
• Replacing CSD U5
• Making years in event titles optional
• Temporary accounts coming Oct 7
• Adding emojis to CSD G15

• Future of Wikinews