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FP Promotion

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/FPCBot (talk) 21:01, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strandaufspülung -- 2025 -- 9763.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Uoaei1 04:54, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Cumberland-Denkmal -- 2025 -- 9390.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Uoaei1 04:54, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Postamt -- 2025 -- 9418.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Uoaei1 04:54, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strandaufspülung -- 2025 -- 9758.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 17:52, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:26, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Kurtheater -- 2025 -- 9426.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 05:23, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Georgshöhe, Denkmal -- 2025 -- 2738.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --MB-one 17:32, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:42, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Round 2 of Picture of the Year 2024 voting is open!

Dear Wikimedian,

You are receiving this message because we noticed that you previously voted in the Picture of the Year contest. Wikimedia users are invited to vote for their favorite images featured on Commons during the last year (2024) to produce a single Picture of the Year.

Hundreds of images that have been rated Featured Pictures by the international Wikimedia Commons community in the past year were entered in this competition. These images include professional animal and plant shots, breathtaking panoramas and skylines, restorations of historical images, photographs portraying the world's best architecture, impressive human portraits, and so much more.

In this second and final round, you may vote for a maximum of three images. The image with the most votes will become the Picture of the Year 2024.

Round 2 will end at 11 October 2025, 23:59:59 UTC.

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Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Dünenlandschaft -- 2025 -- 9440.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Jacek Halicki 06:26, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Conversationshaus -- 2025 -- 8918.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 06:16, 26 September 2025 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --Tournasol7 06:24, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Postamt -- 2025 -- 9399.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Tournasol7 06:24, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Wasserturm -- 2025 -- 2743.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Tournasol7 06:24, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Pumpstation -- 2025 -- 9542.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 06:16, 26 September 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:31, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-40

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.
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FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Trilogie "Hexentanz" -- 2025.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Trilogie "Hexentanz" -- 2025.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

/FPCBot (talk) 05:02, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Sonnenuntergang -- 2025 -- 9100.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Harlock81 06:54, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Kurpark, Denkmal -- 2025 -- 9551.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 05:46, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Hafen, Dalbe -- 2025 -- 9316.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 05:46, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Promenade, Wegbeleuchtung -- 2025 -- 9013.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Llez 05:37, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:37, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Buhne -- 2025 -- 9196.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Екатерина Борисова 04:08, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Küstenschutz -- 2025 -- 9468.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:18, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Hafen, Rettungskreuzer "Otto Schülke" -- 2025 -- 9372.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:18, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Dünenlandschaft, Wegweiser -- 2025 -- 9437.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Syntaxys 07:32, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Leuchtturm -- 2025 -- 9428+30+32.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Fdy3k 23:24, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Postamt -- 2025 -- 9401.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Giles Laurent 07:42, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Wasserturm -- 2025 -- 9497.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --GoldenArtists 08:15, 28 September 2025 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --George Chernilevsky 08:21, 28 September 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:35, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Fragmente der Seefestung -- 2025 -- 9433.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 03:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Pumpstation -- 2025 -- 9533.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 03:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Wasserturm -- 2025 -- 9516.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 03:53, 30 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Pumpstation -- 2025 -- 9532.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Tagooty 14:56, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Buhne -- 2025 -- 9190.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --MB-one 16:02, 29 September 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:40, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

You have a message on my User talk page

--JotaCartas (talk) 12:02, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

You have a message on my User talk page

Kind regards Lukas Beck (talk) 14:54, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Commons Photographers User Group Virtual Meeting, October 2025

Hello XRay!

You are receiving this message because you are one of our esteemed members of the Commons Photographers User Group.

You are invited to the next virtual meeting of the Commons Photographers User Group! This is a great opportunity to connect, discuss important updates, and plan for the future of our group. Please register for the event using the link below!

Agenda:

1.   Welcome and CPUG Updates
2.   Upcoming Election
3.   Commons Conference
4.   Community Updates
5.   Other topics

Date and Time

•   Date: Sunday, October 12, 2025
•   Time: 4:00 PM UTC (Check your local time)
•   Venue: Online (Google Meet link will be shared closer to the date on Registration page)
•   Register here: Sign up on Meta-Wiki

We look forward to seeing you there!

Thank You, -- Suyash Dwivedi (💬) 19:23, 2 October 2025 (UTC) - (Chair, CPUG)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Promenade, Wegbeleuchtung -- 2025 -- 9652.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Kurpark, Bunker -- 2025 -- 9549.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Angler -- 2025 -- 8967.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:31, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Hafen, Mast -- 2025 -- 9373.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Екатерина Борисова 04:08, 29 September 2025 (UTC) Would be more useful in Commons going forward if flags were identified in image description. --GRDN711 23:58, 29 September 2025 (UTC)  Done Description updated. Back to former decision. --XRay 04:37, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:34, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Tolles POTD File:Dülmen, Kirchspiel, ehem. Sondermunitionslager Visbeck, Bunker 26 -- 2024 -- 5531-5.jpg

Lieber Dietmar / XRay! Ein großartiges POTD vom heutigen Tage. Das Foto zieht mich richtig in den Bann. Großartig wie du hier mit Licht und Schatten, Kalt-Warm-Kontrasten und der Gitter-Struktur vom Eingangsbereich spielst. Glückwunsch zu der tollen Aufnahme! Ich lese momentan ein tolles Buch zum Thema Licht. Falls du das noch nicht kennst, vielleicht eine Empfehlung: Capturing Light: Vorhandenes Licht in der Fotografie einfangen und optimal nutzen von Michael Freeman, Momentan für 10 EUR zu haben s. https://www.mitp.de/FOTOGRAFIE-GRAFIK/Capturing-Light.html Tuxyso (talk) 19:01, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Danke! Und auch vielen Dank für den Buchtipp. Das Buch steht schon lange in meinem Regal. Es begeistert mich noch immer und ich empfehle es auch immer wieder in meinen Fotokursen. --XRay 💬 19:13, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Irgendwie hatte ich angenommen, dass du das Buch bereits kennst. In deinen Fotos spielt die unterschiedliche Wirkung von Licht eine sehr große Rolle. Ich wünsche weiterhin gut Licht. Tuxyso (talk) 20:45, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Münster, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Lichtkunstwerk "Silberne Frequenz" -- 2025 -- 2787 (bw).jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Uoaei1 04:51, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Pumpstation -- 2025 -- 9536.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Uoaei1 04:51, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Sonnenuntergang -- 2025 -- 9104.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Юрий Д.К. 18:33, 1 October 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:27, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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FP Promotion

★ This image has been promoted to Featured picture! ★ The image File:Silhouette of Sultan Quli Qutub Shah Tomb.jpg, that you nominated on Commons:Featured picture candidates/File:Silhouette of Sultan Quli Qutub Shah Tomb.jpg has been promoted. Thank you for your contribution. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so.

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Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Sonnenuntergang -- 2025 -- 9708.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 05:23, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Friedhof der Inselkirche -- 2025 -- 9416.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Giles Laurent 07:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Evangelische Inselkirche -- 2025 -- 9408.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 05:35, 3 October 2025 (UTC)

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--QICbot (talk) 05:43, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-41

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

• Paste Check is a new Edit Check feature to help avoid and fight copyright violations. When editors paste text into an article, Paste Check prompts them to confirm the origin and licensing of the content. Starting Wednesday, 8 October, 22 wikis will test Paste Check. Paste Check will help new volunteers understand and follow the policies and guidelines necessary to make constructive contributions to Wikipedia projects.

Updates for editors

• Mobile devices will receive mobile articles directly on the standard domain (like en.wikipedia.org), instead of via a redirect to an "m" domain (like en.m.wikipedia.org). This change improves performance. This week it will be enabled on Wikipedias. The existing mobile URLs and the "Desktop view" opt-out remain available. Learn more. [6]
• New date filters, creationdate: and lasteditdate:, are now available in the wiki search engine. This allows users to filter search results by a page's first or last revision date. The filters support comparison operators (e.g. >2024) and relative dates (e.g. today-1d), making it easier to find recently updated content or pages within specific age ranges. [7]
• Wikifunctions now supports rich text in embedded calls across the 150 wikis where it's enabled. To showcase this, the team created a Latin declination table that Wiktionary editors can use to automatically generate noun forms, producing clear, formatted results — see an example output. If you need any help or have any feedback, please contact the Wikifunctions Team. [8]
• An edit link will now appear inside the categories box on article pages for logged in users, which will directly launch the VisualEditor category dialog. [9]
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, there was a problem downloading pdf files last week and that has been resolved. [10]

Updates for technical contributors

• The field rev_sha1 in the revision database table is being removed in favor of content_sha1 in the content database table. See the announcement for more information.
• The Reader Experience team will roll out Dark Mode user interface on all Wikimedia sites on October 29, 2025. All anonymous users of Wikimedia sites will have the option to activate a color scheme that features light-colored text on a dark background. This is designed to provide a more comfortable reading experience, especially in low-light situations. Template authors and technical contributors are encouraged to learn how to make pages ready for Dark mode and address any compatibility issues found in templates in their wiki before the enablement. Please contact the Web team for questions or any support on this talk page before the enablement. [11]
• Starting on Monday, October 6, API endpoints under the rest.php path will be rerouted through a new internal API Gateway. Individual wikis will be updated based on the standard release groups, with total traffic increased over time. This change is expected to be non-breaking and non-disruptive. If any issues are observed, please file a Phabricator ticket to the Service Ops team board. [12]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Talkback|JotaCartas

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JotaCartas (talk) 05:33, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Quality Image Promotion

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Kurpark, Denkmal -- 2025 -- 9553.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments Good quality. --Jacek Halicki 06:30, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Badebereich -- 2025 -- 9118.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 06:16, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Muscheln -- 2025 -- 8998.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 06:16, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Sonnenuntergang -- 2025 -- 9267.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Uoaei1 04:41, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Promenade, Wegbeleuchtung -- 2025 -- 9015.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Agnes Monkelbaan 04:27, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Möwendüne -- 2025 -- 9445.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Agnes Monkelbaan 04:28, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Badebereich -- 2025 -- 9130.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Agnes Monkelbaan 04:31, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Krummhörn, Greetspiel, Nasenschild -- 2025 -- 9816.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Plozessor 02:57, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand -- 2025 -- 8828.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Lvova 18:48, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

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Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Klinik Norderney (Rehaklinik) -- 2025 -- 9006.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Great color mix, so pleasant. --LucaLindholm 03:53, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Münster, Horsteberg, Gitter der Marienburg Coesfeld -- 2025 -- 2796.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:00, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Pumpstation -- 2025 -- 9538.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 04:00, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Wasserturm -- 2025 -- 9540.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 03:59, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand -- 2025 -- 8827.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 03:59, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Krummhörn, Greetspiel, Hafen, Fischerboot -- 2025 -- 9802.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Famberhorst 04:37, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand -- 2025 -- 8829.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Famberhorst 04:38, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Dünenlandschaft -- 2025 -- 9204.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Famberhorst 04:39, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Trilogie "Hexentanz" -- 2025.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Rarely promoting photo art, but this one IS good. --Plozessor 04:02, 7 October 2025 (UTC)  Support Very very nice.--Lmbuga 13:37, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Baumgruppe -- 2025 -- 9207.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments CA and green fringing --Julian Lupyan 01:54, 6 October 2025 (UTC)  Done I've improved CA reduction, but honestly, I can't find CAs. --XRay 05:13, 6 October 2025 (UTC)  Support Good quality. --Harmonide 00:46, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Buhne -- 2025 -- 9245.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments To be honest, it's a beautiful picture and the shallow DoF works well for it, but it seems to be slightly motion blurred. --Syntaxys 07:31, 5 October 2025 (UTC)  Done Sorry, I can't see visible motion blur. But I've made several improvements including sharpness. Hopefully it's OK now. --XRay 08:36, 6 October 2025 (UTC)  Support I doubted because of the blur, but it's such a beautiful picture when you don't zoom too much on it to examine details. --Harmonide 00:46, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Krummhörn, Greetspiel, Hafen, Fischerboot -- 2025 -- 9800.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Екатерина Борисова 02:41, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

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Quality Image Promotion

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand, Sonnenuntergang -- 2025 -- 9669.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 03:51, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Nationalpark, Schild -- 2025 -- 9222.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Jakubhal 03:52, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Promenade -- 2025 -- 9281.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality.--Agnes Monkelbaan 04:04, 9 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Buhne -- 2025 -- 9161.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --Ermell 05:36, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Pumpstation -- 2025 -- 9543.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --MB-one 13:03, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Norderney, Strand -- 2025 -- 8971.jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments {{{3}}}

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