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Because I have little time to edit Wikipedia, if there one of my edits needs copyediting and you are not able to perform this task yourself, the best thing to do is to tag the offending article with Template:Cleanup, leaving a note on its talk page if required. As I watch pages I edit, this means that I or other editors will be able to fix errors as necessary.
Please note: to avoid duplication, I'll reply to queries on this page.
Hi, is there a more detailed instruction of this? Umm. I mean, which template should be translated? Phạm NgọcPhương Linh (T•C•CA•L•B) 14:10, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
The wiki needs to use CS1/CS2 templates basically. Many non-english wiki's are switching to these. AManWithNoPlan (talk) 18:24, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
Undefined short citations in Tumblagooda Sandstone
Hi, in a series of edits in 2008 you added short citations to "Opik 1959", "Balme 1962", "Hocking et al. 1987", "Schmidt and Hamilton 1990", and "Gorto et al. 1994" to the article Tumblagooda Sandstone. Would you be able to provide the full citations for these please? As it is, nobody can look them up. Thanks, DuncanHill (talk) 21:08, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
100,000-year problem has been nominated for a good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Z1720 (talk) 19:57, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
I am writing to ask you, if you have time, to help the Romanian-language Wikipedia with the creation of a Romanian-language citation bot, since we don't have one, and many users don't know how to use the Javascript.
I don't know any informatics, which is why I am writing to you. I hope that you will help us, please. Have a nice day! Edward Mike005 (talk) 16:21, 2 August 2025 (UTC)
Ron Mueck Suits
I don't know who else to ask this question except on this platform. Is the wearing of Ron Mueck suits that have taken over London part of some kind of Science Expo where the public are testing them out for a teck startup company, or are they being used to hide the identities of those who are robbing their own family community members here in London? Zoe the original? (talk) 04:39, 14 August 2025 (UTC)
Guide to temporary accounts
Hello, Smith609. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.
Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users' IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.
How do temporary accounts work?
Editing from a temporary account
When a logged-out user completes an edit or a logged action for the first time, a cookie will be set in this user's browser and a temporary account tied with this cookie will be automatically created for them. This account's name will follow the pattern: ~2025-12345-67 (a tilde, year of creation, a number split into units of 5).
All subsequent actions by the temporary account user will be attributed to this username. The cookie will expire 90 days after its creation. As long as it exists, all edits made from this device will be attributed to this temporary account. It will be the same account even if the IP address changes, unless the user clears their cookies or uses a different device or web browser.
A record of the IP address used at the time of each edit will be stored for 90 days after the edit. Users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will be able to see the underlying IP addresses.
As a measure against vandalism, there are two limitations on the creation of temporary accounts:
There has to be a minimum of 10 minutes between subsequent temporary account creations from the same IP (or /64 range in case of IPv6).
There can be a maximum of 6 temporary accounts created from an IP (or /64 range) within a period of 24 hours.
Temporary account IP viewer user right
How to enable IP Reveal
Administrators may grant the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right to non-administrators who meet the criteria for granting. Importantly, an editor must make an explicit request for the permission (e.g. at WP:PERM/TAIV)—administrators are not permitted to assign the right without a request.
Administrators will automatically be able to see temporary account IP information once they have accepted the Access to Temporary Account IP Addresses Policy via Special:Preferences or via the onboarding dialog which comes up after temporary accounts are deployed.
Impact for administrators
It will be possible to block many abusers by just blocking their temporary accounts. A blocked person won't be able to create new temporary accounts quickly if the admin selects the autoblock option.
It will still be possible to block an IP address or IP range.
Temporary accounts will not be retroactively applied to contributions made before the deployment. On Special:Contributions, you will be able to see existing IP user contributions, but not new contributions made by temporary accounts on that IP address. Instead, you should use Special:IPContributions for this (see a video about IPContributions in a gallery below).
Rules about IP information disclosure
Publicizing an IP address gained through TAIV access is generally not allowed (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 previously edited as 192.0.2.1 or ~2025-12345-67's IP address is 192.0.2.1).
Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if "reasonably believed to be necessary". (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
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I hope my follow-ups won’t cause any issues for my account.
I published a draft that hasn’t been reviewed yet, and it was edited by your bot. I wanted to kindly ask you to check it, and if it’s approved, please proceed with transferring it
Smith609, Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
SomeoneDreaming (talk) 04:20, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
Hello! I noticed you're a bot operator, so I thought you might be interested in a hackathon we're organizing: the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, on 13–14 March in Arnhem, Netherlands.
It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Whether you want to work on bot frameworks, tools, or other technical projects, this could be a great opportunity to collaborate with fellow developers. Registration closes mid-January or when full. Let me know if there are any questions. Hope to see you there! Daanvr (talk) 09:20, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
You are invited to participate in the Destubathon of the Americas, a contest/editathon which will run from May 1 to May 31. The goal is to destub as many of our 475,000+ stubs for the Americas (from Alaska down to Chile) as possible. A good chance to have fun in expanding many of our old stale stubs and win up to £2000 ($2680) in Amazon vouchers for expanding stub articles. Sign up in the Contestants/participants section on the contest page if interested. Even if not interested in prizes you are still warmly welcome to participate in it as an editathon! Hopefully we can achieve something significant in the month of May together! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:34, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
