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Ongoing low participation in image-related discussions
[edit]I'd like to discuss this matter at Wikimedia Commons or English Wikipedia. However, after re-reading the discussion made a few/several years ago, as I learned, this issue has been persistent in not only English Wikipedia but also Wikimedia Commons. Is the Wikimedia Foundation responsible for these projects? How can this participation matter be resolved or something? George Ho (talk) 06:38, 19 October 2025 (UTC)
- I agree with you. From what I've observed, discussions related to both images and audio tend to receive low participation. Yiye2002 (talk) 02:38, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
- I don't know about files on English Wikipedia, but regarding Commons, I think it's largely because Commons has much more individual contents, many of which are semi-automatically uploaded. It's natural that there is less attention given per content. There are 129 million files on Commons vs 7 million content pages on English Wikipedia. whym (talk) 11:40, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
Help locating June 2023 English Wikipedia pages-articles dump ('enwiki-20230601-pages-articles.xml.bz2')
[edit]Hello, I am seeking help locating or accessing the June 2023 English Wikipedia pages-articles dump ('enwiki-20230601-pages-articles.xml.bz2'). The official dumps.wikimedia.org site does not appear to have the directory for this specific dump, and I have not found alternative mirrors hosting this file. Could anyone provide guidance, a direct link to the file, or advice on how to obtain historical Wikipedia dumps for research purposes? Thank you! ~2025-31863-54 (talk) 11:27, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
- The best place to ask about data dumps is this mailing list. — xaosflux Talk 13:46, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
Does this limit still apply with temporary accounts?
[edit]I was going through a module and came across this slide which links to Learning patterns/Six-account limit. Is this limit still applicable now that temporary accounts exist? Clovermoss (talk) 03:19, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
- @Clovermoss: Pure guesswork, but I think it still does, as it applies to the underlying IPs (the limit for temporary accounts is also six per day). You might get better answers at mw:Talk:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 03:28, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
Reminder: Help us decide the name of the new Abstract Wikipedia project
[edit]Hello. Reminder: Please help to choose name for the new Abstract Wikipedia wiki project. The finalist vote starts today. The finalists for the name are: Abstract Wikipedia, Multilingual Wikipedia, Wikiabstracts, Wikigenerator, Proto-Wiki. If you would like to participate, then please learn more and vote now at meta-wiki. Thank you!
-- User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:21, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
Wiki without human administrators
[edit]The Kikuyu wiki has no human administrators. How do we go about appointing one or more humans in that role? If this question should be asked elsewhere, please tell me where to go. ChriKo (talk) 14:48, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
- Hi. kiwiki is not large enough to support permeant local administrators yet (w:ki:Special:Statistics), meaning that administative tasks can be handled by the Global sysops via requests at Global sysops/Requests and Steward requests/Miscellaneous. If you, or another active user, wants to become an interim administrator on that project see the information at Steward_requests/Permissions#Administrator_access (and especially the Steward requests/Permissions/Minimum voting requirements). — xaosflux Talk 15:23, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
Identifiable contradictions between Wikipedia articles of different languages and other Wikimedia pages is a phenomenon that could be used for improving accuracy, spotting errors, fixing outdatedness, improving categorization, and further things. It's a subject of ongoing research and development. Take a look at the new page about this and if you know of more types of examples, please add them to the page. Prototyperspective (talk) 15:20, 26 November 2025 (UTC)