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Back up/draft for Minecraft mobs

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Comprehensive list of mobs in Minecraft

Villagers

Mob name	Jobs
Farmer	Trades crops and food.
Fisherman	Trades fishing items.
Shepherd	Trades wool and dye.
Librarian	Trades enchanted books.
Butcher	Trades meat and stew.
Fletcher	Trades archery items.
Cleric	Trades magic items.
Weaponsmith	Trades enchanted weapons.
Armorer	Trades enchanted armor.
Toolsmith	Trades enchanted tools.
Cartographer	Trades maps and banners.
Leatherworker	Trades leather items.
Mason	Trades stone and terracotta.
Nitwit	No trades.
Unemployed Villager	No trades until they get a job
Zombie Villager	Cannot trade until cured

Pillagers

Mob name	Jobs
Regular Pillagers	Armed with crossbows and found in wandering patrols, pillager outposts, or participating in raids.
Pillager Captains	Can be identified by their ominous banner and lead pillager patrols.

Cats

Mob name	Description
Tabby	brown and white with yellow eyes
Black	black with orange eyes
White	white with blue and yellow eyes
Persian	cream colored with blue eyes and a flat face
Ragdoll	white and brown with blue eyes
Calico	mixed orange, white, and dark brown with yellow and blue eyes
Tuxedo	black and white with green eyes
Red	orange with green eyes
Jellie	grey and white with grey-green eyes
British shorthair	silver with yellow eyes

Nether

Mob name	Passive/Hostile
Blaze	Hostile
Enderman	Passive/Hostile
Ghast	Hostile
Hoglin	Hostile
Magma cube	Hostile
Piglin	Passive/Hostile
Piglin brute	Hostile
Strider	Passive
Wither skeleton	Hostile
Zoglin	Hostile
Zombified piglin	Hostile

Overworld

Mob name	Passive/Hostile
Axolotl	Passive
Bat	Passive
Bee	Passive/Hostile
Cat	Passive
Cave spider	Hostile
Charged creeper	Hostile
Chicken	Passive
Cow	Passive
Creeper	Hostile
Dog	Passive
Dolphin	Passive
Donkey	Passive
Drowned	Hostile
Elder gaurdian	Hostile
Evoker	Hostile
Fox	Passive
Glow squid	Passive
Goat	Passive
Gaurdian	Hostile
Fish	Passive
Horses	Passive
Husk	Hostile
Llama	Passive
Mooshroom/ Brown mooshroom	Passive
Pandas	Passive
Parrots	Passive
Phantoms	Hostile
Pigs	Passive
Pillagers	Hostile
Polar bears	Passive/Hostile
Rabbits	Passive
Ravagers	Hostile
Salmon	Passive
Silverfish	Hostile
Spider jockey	Hostile
Skeletons	Hostile
Skeleton horseman	Hostile
Slimes	Hostile
Sniffer	Passive
Snow golems	Passive/Hostile
Skeleton horse	Passive
Spider	Hostile
Squid	Passive
Stray	Hostile
Turtles	Passive
Vexes	Hostile
Villagers	Passive
Vindicators	Hostile
Wandering traders	Passive
Witches	Hostile
Wither (Boss)	Hostile
Wolf	Hostile

End

Mob name	Passive/Hostile
Ender dragon	Hostile
Endermite	Hostile
Shulker	Hostile

Panda

Type (face)
Normal
Lazy
Worried
Playful
Aggressive
Weak
Brown (colour)

Fox

Mob name	Where it is located
Red fox	Typically found in taiga, old growth taiga, and mountain grove biomes.
Snow fox	Found in snowy taiga biomes.

Fish

Type
Cod
Salmon
Pufferfish
Tropical Fish (2700 different colours and variations)

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Starter/Rare

Brawler	Rarity	Trio	Brawler Type
Shelly	Starter	Wild west	Fighter
Colt	Rare	Wild west	Sharpshooter
Nita	Rare	Shaman tribe	Fighter
Brock	Rare	Arcade	Sharpshooter
Bull	Rare	Retropolis	Tank
Poco	Rare	Mexican	Support
Barley	Rare	Town	Thrower
Rosa	Rare	Biology team	Tank
El primo	Rare	Mexican	Tank

Super rare

Brawler	Rarity	Trio	Brawler Type
Jessie	Super rare	Scrapyard	Fighter
Dynamite	Super rare	Mine	Thrower
Tick	Super rare	Pirate	Thrower
8-bit	Super rare	Arcade	Sharpshooter
Gus	Super rare	Ghost station	Support
Penny	Super rare	Pirate	Fighter
Carl	Super rare	Mine	Fighter
Daryl	Super rare	Pirate	Tank
Jacky	Super rare	Mine	Tank
Rico	Super rare	Arcade	Sharpshooter

Epic

Brawler	Rarity	Trio	Brawler Type
Bo	Epic	Shaman tribe	Fighter
Bea	Epic	Biology tam	Sharpshooter
Pam	Epic	Scrapyard	Support
Edgar	Epic	Giftshop	Assassin
Piper	Epic	Town	Sharpshooter
Frank	Epic	Undead	Tank
Bibi	Epic	Retropolis	Tank
Nani	Epic	Scrapyard	Sharpshooter
Griff	Epic	Giftshop	Fighter
Angelo	Epic	Swamp of love	Sharpshooter
Ash	Epic	Fairytale castle	Tank
Gale	Epic	Snowtle	Support
Collette	Epic	Giftshop	Fighter
Belle	Epic	Goldarm gang	Sharpshooter
Larry and Lawrie	Epic	Starr park hub	Thrower
Emz	Epic	Undead	Fighter
Stu	Epic	Stunt show	Assasin
Bonnie	Epic	Stunt show	Assassin
Masie	Epic	Turbo theatre	Sharpshooter
Mandy	Epic	Candyland	Sharpshooter
Sam	Epic	Goldarm gang	Tank
Pearl	Epic	Goldarm gang	Tank
Lola	Epic	Brawlywoods	Fighter
Grom	Epic	Castle courtyard	Thrower

Mythic

Brawler	Rarity	Trio	Brawler Type
Sprout	Mythic	Biology Team	Thrower
Mortis	Mythic	Undead	Assassin
Tara	Mythic	Arabian	Fighter
Gene	Mythic	Arabian	Support
Byrone	Mythic	Town	Support
Mr p	Mythic	Snowtle	Thrower
Squeak	Mythic	Starr Force	Thrower
Max	Mythic	Super city	Fighter
Lou	Mythic	Snowtel	Support
Ruffs	Mythic	Starr Force	Sharpshooter
Buzz	Mythic	Velico-Rapids	Tank
Melodie	Mythic	Unknown	Fighter
Lily	Mythic	Enchanted forest	Assassin
Charlie	Mythic	Bizarre circus	Sharpshooter
Chuck	Mythic	Ghost station	Fighter
Mico	Mythic	Brawlywoods	Assassin
Doug	Mythic	Velocirapids	Tank
RT	Mythic	Starr park hub	Fighter
Willow	Mythic	Swamp of love	Thrower
Eve	Mythic	Starr force	Fighter
Janet	Mythic	Stunt show	Assassin
Fang	Mythic	Turbo theatre	Assassin
Buster	Mythic	Turbo theatre	Tank
Gray	Mythic	Brawlywoods	Sharpshooter
Hank	Mythic	Deep sea	Tank
Otis	Mythic	Deep sea	Fighter

Legendary

Brawler	Rarity	Trio	Brawler Type
Crow	Legendary	Retropolis	Assassin
Spike	Legendary	Wild west	Sharpshooter
Leon	Legendary	Shaman tribe	Assassin
Sandy	Legendary	Arabian	Support
Amber	Legendary	Mexican	Fire breather
Meg	Legendary	Super city	Damage dealer
Cordelius	Legendary	Enchanted woods	Fighter
Draco	Legendary	Mad evil manor	Tank
Kit	Legendary	Starr toon studios	Support
Surge	Legendary	Super city	Tank
Chester	Legendary	Candyland	Fighter

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Cards
Dark prince
Dart goblin
Earthquake
Electro dragon
Electro giant
Electro spirit
Electro wizard
Elite barbarians
Elixer collecter
Elixer golem
Arrows
Executioner
Battle ram
Fireball
Firecracker
Fire spirit
Fisherman
Bandit
Bats
Regular archers
Regular bomber
Flying machine
Freeze
Furnace
Giant
Cannon
Baby dragon
Clone
Giant skeleton
Cannon cart
Goblin barrel
Goblin cage
Balloon
Barbarian hut
Bomb tower
Goblin drill
Archer queen
Goblin gang
Goblin giant
Bowler
Goblins
Golden knight
Golem
Graveyard
Gaurds
Regular barbarians
Barbarian barrel
Heal spirit
Hog rider
Hunter
Ice golem
Ice spirit
Ice wizard
Inferno dragon
Inferno tower
Knight
Lava hound
Healer
Lightning spell
Little prince
Lumberjack
Magic gaurd
Mega knight
Mega minion
Mighty miner
Dagger duchess
Minion Horde
Minions
Mini pekka
Mirror
Monk
Regular mortar
Mother witch
Musketeer
Night witch
Pekka
Pheonix
Poison
Prince
Princess
Rage
Ram rider
Rascals
Rocket
Royal delivery
Royal ghost
Regular royal giant
Royal hogs
Royal recruits
Skeleton army
Skeleton barrel
Skeleton dragon
Skeleton king
Skeletons
Sparky
Spear goblins
Tesla
Log
Three musketeers
Tomstone
Tornado
Valkyrie
Voids
Wall breakers
Witch
Wizard
Xbow
Regular zap
Zappies

Evolution cards

Cards
Evolved knight
Evolved tesla
Evolved wizard
Evolved skeletons
Evolved bomber
Evolved barbarians
Evolved zap
Evolved bats
Evolved archers
Evolved royal giant
Evolved mortar
Evolved Valkyrie
Evolved wall breakers
Evolved firecracker
Evolved royal recruits
Evolved battle ram
Evolved ice spirit

RFD on Joanna Modes

I am working on cleaning up this RFD. Please don't edit it. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 04:17, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

@Auntof6 Oh sorry. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 04:22, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

If you see something like that in the future, please merge the misplaced entries into the correct section so that everything is in chronological order. Otherwise, it's harder for the closing admin to evaluate everything. That's part of what I was doing; it was a big job, so don't feel you have to do it just because you see the problem. :) --Auntof6 (talk) 05:03, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

alright Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 05:58, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

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The 2010 Nahorno karabakh war were a series of exchanges of gunfire that took place on February 18 on the line of contact dividing Azerbaijani and the Karabakh Armenian military forces. Azerbaijan accused the Armenian forces of firing on the Azerbaijani positions near Tap Qaraqoyunlu, Qızıloba, Qapanlı, Yusifcanlı and Cavahirli villages, as well as in uplands of Agdam Rayon with small arms fire including snipers. As a result, three Azerbaijani soldiers were killed and one wounded.

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Revert

Hello. What is your rationale for this revert? My edit was simply fixing formatting for readability as the references generated due to <references/> were inlined in the previous section, at the end of which I appropriately put <references/>. Svartava (talk) 06:08, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

hi, that's not a article page, and is a talk page of and editor. Thus, it does not require any reference template. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 06:29, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

So should all references from all sections of the page be listed combined at the bottom? I thought it is good for readability if references made in a particular section are shown at the end of that section only. Svartava (talk) 06:44, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

There are no references on the page either Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 07:07, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

There are, in the section User talk:Fr33kman#Opinion polling for the 2028 Philippine presidential election 2. Svartava (talk) 07:12, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Ask fr33kman if its okay first. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 07:13, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

@Fr33kman, requesting you to comment. I did the edit because it is the general convention I have seen on other wikis on talk pages and project discussion pages. @Cactusisme, I accept that I can make mistakes, but I do not appreciate your condescending replies here, especially There are no references on the page either which is completely misleading and shows that you don't know what you are doing and you didn't even bother to understand my reason for the edit properly. Since my edit was made in good faith, it is bad practice to revert it without an explanation at the minimum, and even worse practice to not provide a proper reason for the revert when asked on the talk page. Svartava (talk) 07:23, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Relax, I did not mean to be rude. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 07:26, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

No issues - thanks for clarifying. Svartava (talk) 10:02, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

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My test edit

Hi, sorry for not explaining. I'm trying to test if User:Cewbot will sign a comment on an RfD. The bot's supposed to do that but it hasn't been working. I'm going to add another test comment. If it isn't signed within ten minutes, I'll revert it. Tuscan Ant (talk) 03:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Oh, sorry, Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 03:19, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

It's okay. It made sense that you reverted me. Thanks for understanding. Tuscan Ant (talk) 03:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

Reverted my edit, thanks for explaining. :) Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 03:20, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

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Jinnah's Birthday, officially Quaid-e-Azam Day and sometimes known as Quaid Day, is a public holiday in Pakistan observed annually on 25 December to celebrate the birthday of the founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, known as Quaid-i-Azam ("Great Leader"). A major holiday, commemorations for Jinnah began during his lifetime in 1942, and have continued ever since. The event is primarily observed by the government and the citizens of the country where the national flag is hoisted at major architectural structures such as private and public buildings, particularly at the top of Quaid-e-Azam House in Karachi.

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Burundi

Hi, I'm new to editing, can you explain why you've undone all the changes I made to add live links to this page please?

Thanks

Ellena :) Allthecountries (talk) 09:10, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

@Allthecountries Replied in you talk page. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 09:28, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

One Piece

Finally added all the characters -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 17:38, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hi @TS Rubber alt main so good job on adding all of the characters, anywho you need any help? :) 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 ^{(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼)} 17:41, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Yeah adding the East Blue arcs -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 17:44, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

@TS Rubber alt main I will work on it soon bit busy now. Thanks Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 01:40, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

@TS Rubber alt main I made some changes, if you have any questions feel free to ask. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 04:17, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 19:20, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

@TS Rubber alt main Okay! 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 ^{(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼)} 17:52, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

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Please don't mark sections as resolved on the admins' noticeboard. A bot handles the archiving based on date, so we don't need that. In addition, adding the template for resolved sections resets the last-updated date for the section, which delays the archiving. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 11:28, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Oh, alright Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 11:30, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

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@IMNAMNA3 Thanks!! Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 00:49, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

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The French conquest of Corsica was a successful expedition by French forces of the Kingdom of France under Comte de Vaux, against Corsican forces under Pasquale Paoli of the Corsican Republic. The expedition was launched in May 1768, in the aftermath of the Seven Years' War.

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One Piece help (again)

Help with Kari Bari island please. Thanks -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 17:46, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

@TS Rubber alt main Will take a look soon. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 09:12, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

Where is it? Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 09:45, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

It doesn't exist yet -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 14:21, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

I meant like help with creating it. -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 14:21, 5 February 2025 (UTC)

I can try. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 06:42, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

W mans thank you -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 14:23, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

I'll work on Baratie -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 14:23, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Did you do it? Not trying to be impatient or anything just wondering. -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 20:05, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

@TS Rubber alt main Still working on it. Might take a few days Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 22:21, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks -TS Rubber Alt Main (talk) 22:39, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

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On 11 May 1812, at about 5:15 pm, Spencer Perceval, the prime minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was shot dead in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham, a Liverpool merchant with a grievance against the government. Bellingham was detained; four days after the murder, he was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He was hanged at Newgate Prison on 18 May, one week after the assassination and one month before the start of the War of 1812. Perceval remains the sole British prime minister to have been assassinated.

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• The Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has published a draft of their recommendations for the Wikimedia Foundation's Product and Technology department. They have recommended focusing on mobile experiences, particularly contributions. They request community feedback at the talk page by 21 February.

Updates for editors

• The "Special pages" portlet link will be moved from the "Toolbox" into the "Navigation" section of the main menu's sidebar by default. This change is because the Toolbox is intended for tools relating to the current page, not tools relating to the site, so the link will be more logically and consistently located. To modify this behavior and update CSS styling, administrators can follow the instructions at T385346. [14]
• As part of this year's work around improving the ways readers discover content on the wikis, the Web team will be running an experiment with a small number of readers that displays some suggestions for related or interesting articles within the search bar. Please check out the project page for more information.
• Template editors who use TemplateStyles can now customize output for users with specific accessibility needs by using accessibility related media queries (prefers-reduced-motion, prefers-reduced-transparency, prefers-contrast, and forced-colors). Thanks to user Bawolff for these improvements. [15]
• View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the global blocks log will now be shown directly on the Special:CentralAuth page, similarly to global locks, to simplify the workflows for stewards. [16]

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikidata now supports a special language as a "default for all languages" for labels and aliases. This is to avoid excessive duplication of the same information across many languages. If your Wikidata queries use labels, you may need to update them as some existing labels are getting removed. [17]
• The function getDescription was invoked on every Wiki page read and accounts for ~2.5% of a page's total load time. The calculated value will now be cached, reducing load on Wikimedia servers. [18]
• As part of the RESTBase deprecation effort, the /page/related endpoint has been blocked as of February 6, 2025, and will be removed soon. This timeline was chosen to align with the deprecation schedules for older Android and iOS versions. The stable alternative is the "morelike" action API in MediaWiki, and a migration example is available. The MediaWiki Interfaces team can be contacted for any questions. [19]

In depth

• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: Updates about the "Contribute" menu; details on some of the newest language editions of Wikipedia; details on new languages supported by the MediaWiki interface; updates on the Community-defined lists feature; and more.
• The latest Chart Project newsletter is available. It includes updates on the progress towards bringing better visibility into global charts usage and support for categorizing pages in the Data namespace on Commons.

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MediaWiki message delivery 00:12, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Question

I have question, my edit is good or not? I'm respecting you Raayaan9911 09:10, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

@Raayaan9911 No, unfortunatly, the official MrBeast youtube channal is call MrBeast only. Sorry Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 09:12, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

I never do it again, i'm respecting you, i think i made mistake Raayaan9911 09:14, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Its okay. :) Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 09:16, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

thank you for your message :) Raayaan9911 09:18, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-08

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en:2010 Malagasy constitutional referendum

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A constitutional referendum was held in Madagascar on 17 November 2010, in which voters approved a proposal for the state's fourth Constitution. The Malagasy people were asked to answer "Yes" or "No" to the proposed new constitution, which was considered to help consolidate Andry Rajoelina's grip on power. At the time of the referendum, Rajoelina headed the governing Highest Transitional Authority (HAT), an interim junta established following the military-backed coup d'état against then President Marc Ravalomanana in March 2009.

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Tech News: 2025-08

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

• Communities using growth tools can now showcase one event on the Special:Homepage for newcomers. This feature will help newcomers to be informed about editing activities they can participate in. Administrators can create a new event to showcase at Special:CommunityConfiguration. To learn more about this feature, please read the Diff post, have a look at the documentation, or contact the Growth team.

Updates for editors

Highlighted talk pages improvements

• Starting next week, talk pages at these wikis – Spanish Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Japanese Wikipedia – will get a new design. This change was extensively tested as a Beta feature and is the last step of talk pages improvements. [20]
• You can now navigate to view a redirect page directly from its action pages, such as the history page. Previously, you were forced to first go to the redirect target. This change should help editors who work with redirects a lot. Thanks to user stjn for this improvement. [21]
• When a Cite reference is reused many times, wikis currently show either numbers like "1.23" or localized alphabetic markers like "a b c" in the reference list. Previously, if there were so many reuses that the alphabetic markers were all used, an error message was displayed. As part of the work to modernize Cite customization, these errors will no longer be shown and instead the backlinks will fall back to showing numeric markers like "1.23" once the alphabetic markers are all used.
• The log entries for each change to an editor's user-groups are now clearer by specifying exactly what has changed, instead of the plain before and after listings. Translators can help to update the localized versions. Thanks to user Msz2001 for these improvements.
• A new filter has been added to the Special:Nuke tool, which allows administrators to mass delete pages, to enable users to filter for pages in a range of page sizes (in bytes). This allows, for example, deleting pages only of a certain size or below. [22]
• Non-administrators can now check which pages are able to be deleted using the Special:Nuke tool. Thanks to user MolecularPilot for this and the previous improvements. [23]
• View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the configuration for the AV1 video file format, which enables these files to play again. [24]

Updates for technical contributors

• Parsoid Read Views is going to be rolling out to most Wiktionaries over the next few weeks, following the successful transition of Wikivoyage to Parsoid Read Views last year. For more information, see the Parsoid/Parser Unification project page. [25][26]
• Developers of tools that run on-wiki should note that mw.Uri is deprecated. Tools requiring mw.Uri must explicitly declare mediawiki.Uri as a ResourceLoader dependency, and should migrate to the browser native URL API soon. [27]

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:17, 17 February 2025 (UTC)

Level 4im warning

Hi, the level 4im warnings are only given to a user who has made a personal attack or a legal threat to Wikipedia ;)
Thanks, - 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 ^{(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼)} 08:45, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

(talk page watcher)@Adelaideslement8723: Those are common reasons for the 4im warnings, but not necessarily the only ones. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:07, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

@Adelaideslement8723 They are also applicable of those who made constant vandalism with getting warned. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 11:18, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Oh, okay that does make sense, thanks and happy editing! - 𝓐𝓭𝓮𝓵𝓪𝓲𝓭𝓮 ^{(𝓽𝓪𝓵𝓴 ♡ 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓫𝓼)} 16:33, 22 February 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-09

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en:Cooler Heads Coalition
(de:Cooler Heads Coalition) (fr:Cooler Heads Coalition)

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The Cooler Heads Coalition is a politically conservative "informal and ad-hoc group" in the United States, financed and operated by the Competitive Enterprise Institute. The group, which rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, made efforts to stop the government from addressing climate change.

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Tech News: 2025-09

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Administrators can now customize how the Babel feature creates categories using Special:CommunityConfiguration/Babel. They can rename language categories, choose whether they should be auto-created, and adjust other settings. [28]
• The wikimedia.org portal has been updated – and is receiving some ongoing improvements – to modernize and improve the accessibility of our portal pages. It now has better support for mobile layouts, updated wording and links, and better language support. Additionally, all of the Wikimedia project portals, such as wikibooks.org, now support dark mode when a reader is using that system setting. [29][30][31]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wiktionary in Santali (wikt:sat:) [32]
• View all 30 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed that prevented clicking on search results in the web-interface for some Firefox for Android phone configurations. [33]

Meetings and events

• The next Language Community Meeting is happening soon, February 28th at 14:00 UTC. This week's meeting will cover: highlights and technical updates on keyboard and tools for the Sámi languages, Translatewiki.net contributions from the Bahasa Lampung community in Indonesia, and technical Q&A. If you'd like to join, simply sign up on the wiki page.

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Wikimedians for Sustainable Development - February 2025 Newsletter

This is our fortieth newsletter. This issue has news related to SDG 3, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15 and 16.

User group news

• User group meeting in February (minutes).

Other news

• Time to get ready to organize Wiki Loves Earth (SDG 15)
• ‘Women of the Future’ – International Women’s Day 2025 (SDG 5)
• The Experts Behind the Edits: Expanding public understanding of healthcare (SDG 3)
• Wikimedia Enterprise and Ecosia Partner to Drive Sustainable Search Innovation (SDG 13)
• A subproject to WikiProject Climate Change about Climate Change Policies has just started on Wikidata (SDG 13)

Events

• 1 March: Open Data Day 2025 in Côte d'Ivoire (SDG 8)
• 7 March Govdirectory Collab Hour - Open Data Day 2025 (SDG 16)
• 8 March–1 April: Shine Her Light Writing Contest 2025 (SDG 5)

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-10

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pt:Transmissor de Ondas
(en:Wave Transmitter)

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Transmissor de Ondas é um equipamento precursor do rádio, desenvolvido por Roberto Landell de Moura na década de 1890, capaz de transmitir áudio via ondas eletromagnéticas, com sua primeira demonstração pública documentada tendo ocorrido no dia 16 de julho de 1899.

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Tech News: 2025-10

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• All logged-in editors using the mobile view can now edit a full page. The "Edit full page" link is accessible from the "More" menu in the toolbar. This was previously only available to editors using the Advanced mobile contributions setting. [34]
• Interface administrators can now help to remove the deprecated Cite CSS code matching "mw-ref" from their local MediaWiki:Common.css. The list of wikis in need of cleanup, and the code to remove, can be found with this global search and in this example, and you can learn more about how to help on the CSS migration project page. The Cite footnote markers ("[1]") are now rendered by Parsoid, and the deprecated CSS is no longer needed. The CSS for backlinks ("mw:referencedBy") should remain in place for now. This cleanup is expected to cause no visible changes for readers. Please help to remove this code before March 20, after which the development team will do it for you.
• When editors embed a file (e.g. [[File:MediaWiki.png]]) on a page that is protected with cascading protection, the software will no longer restrict edits to the file description page, only to new file uploads.[35] In contrast, transcluding a file description page (e.g. {{:File:MediaWiki.png}}) will now restrict edits to the page.[36]
• When editors revert a file to an earlier version it will now require the same permissions as ordinarily uploading a new version of the file. The software now checks for 'reupload' or 'reupload-own' rights,[37] and respects cascading protection.[38]
• When administrators are listing pages for deletion with the Nuke tool, they can now also list associated talk pages and redirects for deletion, alongside pages created by the target, rather than needing to manually delete these pages afterwards. [39]
• The previously noted update to Single User Login, which will accommodate browser restrictions on cross-domain cookies by moving login and account creation to a central domain, will now roll out to all users during March and April. The team plans to enable it for all new account creation on Group0 wikis this week. See the SUL3 project page for more details and an updated timeline.
• Since last week there has been a bug that shows some interface icons as black squares until the page has fully loaded. It will be fixed this week. [40]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Sylheti (w:syl:) [41]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed with loading images in very old versions of the Firefox browser on mobile. [42]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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MediaWiki message delivery 02:31, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

And(word)

Please see the history of And(word). Thetree284 blanked it. TagUser (talk) 03:54, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

@TagUser done, restored content and tagged. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 03:58, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Ok, thanks. TagUser (talk) 04:00, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

And I saw your QD of the page. When making a QD request, please be sure to use one of the defined QD reasons. "Wiktionary entry, not here" is not one of those reasons. I deleted it anyway as having little or no meaning, but please use the standard reasons. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:06, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

@Auntof6 Okay Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 06:37, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-11

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it:Smoky (mascotte olimpica)
(en:Smoky (Olympic mascot))

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Smoky (Los Angeles, 1931 o 1932 - Los Angeles, aprile 1934), occasionalmente scritto Smokey, è stato un cane che divenne la mascotte del villaggio olimpico estivo del 1932 e, successivamente, dell'evento generale. Pur non essendo oggi riconosciuto dal CIO, è stato, seppur non in modo ufficiale, la prima mascotte olimpica dei Giochi, oltre che a essere attualmente l'unica a essere stata un animale vero. Le successive edizioni non ebbero mascotte, dovendo aspettare i X Giochi olimpici invernali di Grenoble nel 1968 per ritrovarne una ufficialmente riconosciuta, lo sciatore stilizzato Schuss, allora non considerato ufficiale ma successivamente riconosciuto come tale.

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Tech News: 2025-11

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• Editors who use password managers at multiple wikis may notice changes in the future. The way that our wikis provide information to password managers about reusing passwords across domains has recently been updated, so some password managers might now offer you login credentials that you saved for a different Wikimedia site. Some password managers already did this, and are now doing it for more Wikimedia domains. This is part of the SUL3 project which aims to improve how our unified login works, and to keep it compatible with ongoing changes to the web-browsers we use. [43][44]
• The Wikipedia Apps Team is inviting interested users to help improve Wikipedia’s offline and limited internet use. After discussions in Afrika Baraza and the last ESEAP call, key challenges like search, editing, and offline access are being explored, with upcoming focus groups to dive deeper into these topics. All languages are welcome, and interpretation will be available. Want to share your thoughts? Join the discussion or email aramadan@wikimedia.org!
• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on March 19. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks.
• View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: the launch of the Community Updates module, the most recent changes in Community Configuration, and the upcoming test of in-article suggestions for first-time editors.
• An old API that was previously used in the Android Wikipedia app is being removed at the end of March. There are no current software uses, but users of the app with a version that is older than 6 months by the time of removal (2025-03-31), will no longer have access to the Suggested Edits feature, until they update their app. You can read more details about this change.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-12

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en:Amazonas, o maior rio do mundo
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Amazonas, o maior rio do mundo (lit. 'Amazon: The Greatest River in the World') is a 1922 Brazilian silent documentary film produced in 1918 by Silvino Santos. It is a black-and-white film that portrays life in the Amazon rainforest. Completed in 1920, it is considered one of the oldest cinematic records of the Amazon. It was presumed lost in 1931 and only rediscovered in 2023 at the Czech Film Archive.

Silvino Santos produced the work over three years using sophisticated cinematic techniques, which led it to be deemed of "immense artistic value" by Le Monde. It has also been described as the "Holy Grail of Brazilian silent cinema" by The Guardian.

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The search bar

I read your response to fixing the search bar. Do you know if this was an issue both on mobile and desktop view? Because there is a similar problem with infoboxes, which seems to be only on mobile view. For example, on London the line "capital city" and the radio buttons should be centered but instead they're left aligned. 2601:644:8184:F2F0:F8AE:4783:30B2:16C3 (talk) 17:30, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

I am not very sure about mobile, but it now the main page search button should work for desktop. I don't really edit on mobile. Maybe ask @BRPever? Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 11:37, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

Its centralised for me on mobile, maybe its issue at your end? Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 11:39, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

The "capital city" line is centered? 2601:644:8184:F2F0:D096:2E91:B39E:43FF (talk) 15:19, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

@2601:644:8184:F2F0:D096:2E91:B39E:43FF yes Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 01:14, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-12

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

• Twice a year, around the equinoxes, the Wikimedia Foundation's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team performs a datacenter server switchover, redirecting all traffic from one primary server to its backup. This provides reliability in case of a crisis, as we can always fall back on the other datacenter. Thanks to the Listen to Wikipedia tool, you can hear the switchover take place: Before it begins, you'll hear the steady stream of edits; Then, as the system enters a brief read-only phase, the sound stops for a couple of minutes, before resuming after the switchover. You can read more about the background and details of this process on the Diff blog. If you want to keep an ear out for the next server switchover, listen to the wikis on March 19 at 14:00 UTC.

Updates for editors

• The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
• On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
• The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
• Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [45]
• The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
• The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [46]
• View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [47]

Updates for technical contributors

• Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-13

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en:Ali of the Eretnids
(tr:Alaaddin Ali Bey)

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Ala al-Din Ali (January 1353 – August 1380) was the third Sultan of the Eretnids ruling from 1366 until his death. He inherited the throne at a very early age and was removed from administrative matters. He was characterized as particularly keen on personal pleasures, which later discredited his authority. During his rule, emirs under the Eretnids enjoyed considerable autonomy, and the state continued to shrink as neighboring powers captured several towns.

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Tech News: 2025-13

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

• The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking your feedback on the drafts of the objectives and key results that will shape the Foundation's Product and Technology priorities for the next fiscal year (starting in July). The objectives are broad high-level areas, and the key-results are measurable ways to track the success of their objectives. Please share your feedback on the talkpage, in any language, ideally before the end of April.

Updates for editors

• The CampaignEvents extension will be released to multiple wikis (see deployment plan for details) in April 2025, and the team has begun the process of engaging communities on the identified wikis. The extension provides tools to organize, manage, and promote collaborative activities (like events, edit-a-thons, and WikiProjects) on the wikis. The extension has three tools: Event Registration, Collaboration List, and Invitation Lists. It is currently on 13 Wikipedias, including English Wikipedia, French Wikipedia, and Spanish Wikipedia, as well as Wikidata. Questions or requests can be directed to the extension talk page or in Phabricator (with #campaigns-product-team tag).
• Starting the week of March 31st, wikis will be able to set which user groups can view private registrants in Event Registration, as part of the CampaignEvents extension. By default, event organizers and the local wiki admins will be able to see private registrants. This is a change from the current behavior, in which only event organizers can see private registrants. Wikis can change the default setup by requesting a configuration change in Phabricator (and adding the #campaigns-product-team tag). Participants of past events can cancel their registration at any time.
• Administrators at wikis that have a customized MediaWiki:Sidebar should check that it contains an entry for the Special pages listing. If it does not, they should add it using * specialpages-url|specialpages. Wikis with a default sidebar will see the link moved from the page toolbox into the sidebar menu in April. [48]
• The Minerva skin (mobile web) combines both Notice and Alert notifications within the bell icon (). There was a long-standing bug where an indication for new notifications was only shown if you had unseen Alerts. This bug is now fixed. In the future, Minerva users will notice a counter atop the bell icon when you have 1 or more unseen Notices and/or Alerts. [49]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Updates for technical contributors

• VisualEditor has introduced a new client-side hook for developers to use when integrating with the VisualEditor target lifecycle. This hook should replace the existing lifecycle-related hooks, and be more consistent between different platforms. In addition, the new hook will apply to uses of VisualEditor outside of just full article editing, allowing gadgets to interact with the editor in DiscussionTools as well. The Editing Team intends to deprecate and eventually remove the old lifecycle hooks, so any use cases that this new hook does not cover would be of interest to them and can be shared in the task.
• Developers who use the mw.Api JavaScript library, can now identify the tool using it with the userAgent parameter: var api = new mw.Api( { userAgent: 'GadgetNameHere/1.0.1' } );. If you maintain a gadget or user script, please set a user agent, because it helps with library and server maintenance and with differentiating between legitimate and illegitimate traffic. [50][51]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Contesting Speedy Deletion – Establishing Notability

I would like to contest the A4 speedy deletion of the article on Raghav Binani. The subject meets Wikipedia's Notability Guidelines for Actors (WP:NACTOR) due to the following reasons:

1. Significant Roles in Notable Productions:
   • Binani played a recognized role ("Mandy") in the television series Pisachini (2022), which aired on Colors TV, a major Indian network.
   • He appeared in Anupamaa (2023), one of the highest-rated Hindi television shows, airing on Star Plus.
   • He acted in Runway 34 (2022) alongside Bollywood stars Ajay Devgn and Amitabh Bachchan, and Animal (2023), directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, a critically acclaimed filmmaker.
2. Coverage in Independent, Reliable Sources:
   • Articles about his work have been published in News18, Live Hindustan, Bollywood Life, and IWMBuzz, which are independent media outlets.
   • These sources discuss his roles in television and film, establishing third-party coverage.
3. Growing Career in the Entertainment Industry:
   • His recent casting in Kapkapii (2024), alongside Shreyas Talpade and Tusshar Kapoor, indicates an expanding film career.

I request a reconsideration of the deletion request and suggest moving this to an Articles for Deletion (AfD) discussion instead of a Speedy Deletion, so proper assessment of notability can be done.

Thank you. 2401:4900:62CA:C11E:F7:8C24:4E59:B349 (talk) 06:43, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Please wait for an admin to review. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 08:59, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Also, I dont see anything about him in the movies you mentioned. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 08:59, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Left a comment on the article talk page, also did some tweaking of the article text to remove unsourced fluff and simplify a bit. I could have gone either way on this, QD vs RFD. Ravensfire (talk) 18:22, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for taking a look, this is either a hoax or something the author is trying tot promote. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 22:42, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Page deleted Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 22:43, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

The talk page comment you removed

On Talk:.277 Fury . If you didn't understand the comment, it was telling someone that they could link the pages on Wikidata. TagUser (talk) 16:27, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Sorry @TagUser but;

Language link (interwiki)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.277_Fury

. 2001:2020:323:C7BB:601A:5F96:BB13:C398 (talk) 10:55, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

tells no one nothing, Either way pointless and meaningless comment that should be reverted. –Davey2010^Talk 16:35, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Just because you personally don't understand it doesn't make it meaningless. It's saying that that page is the interwiki link for this page to connect to. TagUser (talk) 17:43, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

@TagUser Well given another editor has removed it would therefore be obvious to assume it's not just me that finds it meaningless. But that's the point it's not saying that ..... No one has ever referred to Wikidata as "Language link (interwiki)" or "interwiki" so therefore no one's going to connect the dots here.

This isn't dot to dot - if the IP cannot be specific then that's their problem not ours. –Davey2010^Talk 17:52, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

@TagUser I agree with the comments below. I had no idea what this Ip wanted as they just said inter wiki with an EN wiki. Since the comment had no purpose, I just reverted it. Of the Ip had been clearer I would have made the changes. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 22:46, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Well, connecting to a Wikidata link is referred to as an interwiki or a language link all the time.

TagUser (talk) 17:53, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

I know Interwiki means to link to another project but I've never seen Wikidata being referred to as "Interwiki" but in all fairness I'm not a Wikidata editor so just because I've not seen it doesn't mean it's not true,

To me saying "This should be linked to Wikidata" is better than a vague "Language link (interwiki)" in which case I would've replied and linked the article for the IP (as I'm sure Cactus would have), Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 18:06, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Just to point out, the process of creating the interwiki links is NOT always intuitive. Click on the Languages link when there are no other languages, and the options are to Translate the article and change your Language Settings. Nothing about adding a link to the same article in another Wikipedia site. Doing that simple thing is not trivial, so expecting another editor and especially a casual reader is not really reasonable. Ravensfire (talk) 18:25, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Also, interwiki link added. It turned out that the en wiki article already was in the wikidata item, so easiest approach is to start there, click Language dropdown, click Add Languages which takes you to Wikidata, then add simple and the simple article to the list. It's not what I'd call intuitive or simple and especially not for a casual IP editor. Ravensfire (talk) 18:30, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

WT:BOTS

The link to your GitHub doesn't work. TagUser (talk) 00:28, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

It doesn’t? What do you see? Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 03:22, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

@TagUser it should work now, as I changes from private to public. Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 03:25, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Yes, I can see it now. Thanks. TagUser (talk) 03:51, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

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The Chilembwe uprising was a rebellion against British colonial rule in Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi) which took place in January 1915. It was led by John Chilembwe, an American-educated Baptist minister. Based around his church in the village of Mbombwe in the south-east of the colony, the leaders of the revolt were mainly from an emerging black middle class. They were motivated by grievances against the British colonial system, which included forced labour, racial discrimination and new demands imposed on the African population following the outbreak of World War I.

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Wikipedia translation of the week: 2025-15

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en:1930 Bago earthquake
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An earthquake affected Myanmar on 5 May 1930 with a moment magnitude (Mw ) 7.4. The shock occurred 35 km (22 mi) beneath the surface with a maximum Rossi–Forel intensity of IX (Devastating tremor). The earthquake was the result of rupture along a 131 km (81 mi) segment of the Sagaing Fault—a major strike-slip fault that runs through the country. Extensive damage was reported in the southern part of the country, particularly in Bago and Yangon, where buildings collapsed and fires erupted. At least 550, and possibly up to 7,000 people were killed. A moderate tsunami struck the Burmese coast which caused minor damage to ships and a port. It was felt for over 570,000 km2 (220,000 sq mi) and as far as Shan State and Thailand. The mainshock was followed by many aftershocks; several were damaging. The December earthquake was similarly sized which also occurred along the Sagaing Fault.

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RFP archival

Just letting you know that SPbot archives the resolved section of that page; there is no need to do it manually just marking the section as resolved is enough. Thanks, BRP ^ever 10:07, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

okay Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 10:29, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

I came here to say the same thing. If we let the automated processes handle things, then there is no room for doubt as to whether the archive was handled properly (nothing changed, etc.). I'm not saying I think you changed anything, but there's room for doubt. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:03, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

@Auntof6 Okay!! Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 06:17, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

A cactus for you!

–Davey2010^Talk 12:59, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

@Davey2010 Ooo, Thanks!! Cactus🌵 ^{spiky ツ} 13:05, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

No worries, Happy editing, Thanks, –Davey2010^Talk 13:36, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

A fox for you!

Raayaan9911 13:44, 11 April 2025 (UTC)