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New tracking category
Hi, Category:Pages that use extended references has become obsolete and could be deleted (or renamed to Category:Pages that use sub-references per Special:TrackingCategories). We are now using MediaWiki:cite-tracking-category-ref-details instead of MediaWiki:cite-tracking-category-ref-extends due to changes to the sub-referencing syntax. Best --Johannes Richter (WMDE) (talk) 12:41, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- Updated - thank you, @Johannes Richter (WMDE)! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 16:49, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
Locked sysop
Hi, could you remove sysop rights from User:MeganHernandez (WMF)? The account is globally locked. Thanks, --Ameisenigel (talk) 08:50, 8 October 2025 (UTC)
Done (and one other, too). Thanks. Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:49, 9 October 2025 (UTC)
Since the license for Wikinews has been updated to CC BY-SA 4.0
Can that information be updated on Legal:Text of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License? Awesome Aasim (talk) 20:04, 10 October 2025 (UTC)
- @Awesome Aasim: Thank you for pointing this out. I have updated the language to reflect that at least English Wikinews is now utilizing 4.0. It appears that not all language editions of Wikinews are doing the same (German as an example), so we still need some caveat in place. Let me know if you think the new wording works. Thank you! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 17:05, 20 October 2025 (UTC)
cannot translate the categories in FR
I tried to translate in french https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki.org containing 2 items: the title and message 1 but each of these 2 translations is rejected with message Publishing the translation failed: Cannot create translation unit for category Category:MediaWiki.org/fr which is empty. not allowing the publication.Can you have a look please, or extend my rights.Thanks. -- Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 17:48, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
- @Wladek92: You should already have sufficient rights to provide a translation. That may have been a bug or system glitch. Have you tried again recently? Alternatively, if you want to provide me the translated text, I can see if I am able to replicate the problem. --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 21:41, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
- Messages of:
- https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ATranslate&group=page-Category%3AMediaWiki.org&action=page&filter=&action_source=translate_page&language=fr
- my stats here: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Wladek92 Christian 🇫🇷 FR (talk) 23:10, 11 December 2025 (UTC)
resolution:Draft_Movement_Charter_and_next_steps/Appendix (translate tags)
Hi, thank you making the page available for translation, at Resolution:Draft Movement Charter and next steps/Appendix. I am working on it into Japanese, and at the headnote (T:117), there is a phrase that exposes English original. I tried the "|" bar trick in Japanese output, but afaik failed to fix that way.
Would you care to fix the tvar please?
- tvar name="2">:m:Talk:Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard/Board resolution and vote on the proposed Movement Charter/Appendix|your feedback</tvar.
Cheers, --Omotecho (talk) 03:10, 10 March 2026 (UTC)
- @Omotecho - should be fixed now - thank you for the ping! --Gregory Varnum (Wikimedia Foundation) [he/him] (talk) 18:46, 10 March 2026 (UTC)