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Interested in improving event management on your home wiki? The CampaignEvents extension offers organizers features like event registration management, event/wikiproject promotion, finding potential participants, and more - all directly on-wiki. If you are an organizer or think your community would benefit from this extension, start a discussion to enable it on your wiki today. To learn more about how to enable this extension on your wiki, visit the deployment status page.

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Users of the iOS Wikipedia App in Italy and Mexico on the Italian, Spanish, and English Wikipedias, can see a personalized Year in Review with insights based on their reading and editing history.
Users of the Android Wikipedia App in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia can see the new Rabbit Holes feature. This feature shows a suggested search term in the Search bar based on the current article being viewed, and a suggested reading list generated from the user’s last two visited articles.
The global reminder bot is now active and running on nearly 800 wikis. This service reminds most users holding temporary rights when they are about to expire, so that they can renew should they want to. See the technical details page for more information.
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View all 27 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, a bug was fixed in the Android Wikipedia App which had caused translatable SVG images to show the wrong language when they were tapped.

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There is no new MediaWiki version next week. The next deployments will start on 14 January. [1]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:22, 16 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question about Battle of Melitene (576)

I have a question about this edit - https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=162886860. For what reason did you delete this draft? I'm asking because I want to create this page. Rxsxuis (talk) 21:54, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rxsxuis as seen here, https://wiki.riteme.site/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=162886858, the article was deleted for copyright infringement of the stated URL – robertsky (talk) 01:04, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for response. Rxsxuis (talk) 03:54, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol January 2025 Backlog drive

January 2025 Backlog Drive \| New pages patrol
On 1 January 2025, a one-month backlog drive for new pages patrol will begin in hopes of addressing the growing backlog. Barnstars will be awarded based on the number of articles and redirects patrolled. Each article review will earn 1 point, while each redirect review will earn 0.2 points. Streak awards will be given out based on consistently hitting point thresholds for each week of the drive. Barnstars will also be granted for re-reviewing articles previously reviewed by other patrollers during the drive. Interested in taking part? Sign up here.
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:53, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy Holidays

Hello Robertsky: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:54, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Spread the WikiLove; use {{subst:Season's Greetings}} to send this message

ITN recognition for Nicholas Chia

On 22 December 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Nicholas Chia, which you nominated and updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Spencer^T•C 08:53, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Khan Stephen (17:17, 22 December 2024)

Hi Robert, how are you been doing? --Khan Stephen (talk) 17:17, 22 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]