Talk:Wikipedia 25/Easter egg experiments

Are there ideas or elements that you would love to see implemented on your language Wikipedia?

Thank you for sharing your insights with us! CDekock-WMF (talk) 09:41, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Vietnamese Wikipedia

1. I'm thinking of adding audio files of Vi Wikipedia members saying "Xin chào. Mình là [tên]. Chào mừng bạn đến với Wikipedia tiếng Việt" (meaning: Hi. I'm [name]. Welcome to Vietnamese Wikipedia). Every time someone enters the homepage, it randomly plays one of these files. Should be fun to hear Wikipedia name in different accents, even pronounced wrong. - ABAL1412 (talk) 11:39, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

   • Note: Like English, Vietnamese also has accents. For instance, you have AE, BE, e.t.c. Some is super hard to understand, like West Country accent. Vietnamese also has some super hard accents to hear, even for Vietnamese (like me). For examples: Thanh Hóa, Quảng Nam, Huế,... That's why I think it would be fun.

   ABAL1412 (talk) 14:47, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

   Thank you so much for sharing this fun + funny idea, @ABAL1412! It seems like it might be a bit complex to make this happen, but we are exploring it as a team to see what is possible and will get back to you in the next week or so.

   I also want to make sure we understand what this kind of idea would require: do you already have these recordings of Vi Wikipedia members? Or is it something that you can and want to collect?

   Thanks again for being here and sharing your ideas! CDekock-WMF (talk) 17:35, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

   @CDekock-WMF No. I don't have yet. We should collect. There's a Vi Wikipedia group on Facebook. I can tell them to join there. But I'm not sure how many people will join. ABAL1412 (talk) 18:48, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

   Thank you @ABAL1412, this is helpful information :) For now, please wait before contacting them. I want to first confirm that it is possible for us to build this within the current constraints. Chat soon! CDekock-WMF (talk) 11:27, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

   Ok. Thanks for your respond. - ABAL1412 (talk) 13:31, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Do you have ideas for other fun Easter eggs that work within the concept brief?

Thank you for sharing your ideas! CDekock-WMF (talk) 09:43, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello CDekock-WMF, i appreciate your effort on Wikipedia 25 birthday!

1. Perhaps not the new appearance setting, but instead, we can give all users the opportunity to use the earliest skin: Nostalgia, which emphasizes the history of Wikipedia and has been available since 2001. I believe most readers (especially Gen Z) and millennials) have never seen or read Wikipedia on this interface. In case there are any technical difficulties in reproducing this interface, MonoBook can be the alternative. To prevent disruption to the reading experience, the skin can automatically revert to the default skin after a few seconds (e.g., 10 seconds).
2. Listen to Wikipedia: The user can click to a button (or an interactive element) hear and watch "the sound of Wikipedia." It shows that Wikipedia is contributed to by several volunteers every second. Users may also be invited to start contributing if they have never edited Wikipedia before.
3. BTW there are a lot of interesting data visualization [1] you may interested. Also, WikiRun can be a part of the Easter Egg?

Just my two cents. Thank you! SCP-2000 04:24, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you @SCP-2000! Really love these ideas, I'll share them with the team and get back to you with any questions. CDekock-WMF (talk) 13:24, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Can we also add old logos of Wikipedia as easter eggs? - ABAL1412 (talk) 11:43, 28 October 2025 (UTC)

Do you think your community would be interested in participating? Add your username and we'll be in touch!

CDekock-WMF (talk) 09:44, 6 August 2025 (UTC)

I am willing to help:) SCP-2000 04:24, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

Wonderful, thank you @SCP-2000! We'll be in touch soon :) CDekock-WMF (talk) 13:25, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

We are from Madurese Wikipedia (Indonesia) and are interested in joining this. Alfiyah Rizzy Afdiquni (talk) 11:58, 25 October 2025 (UTC)

Great to hear this, thanks for getting in touch @Alfiyah Rizzy Afdiquni! We will be posting an update with more specific ways for you to get involved in the next week. Please share any questions you may have in the meantime :) CDekock-WMF (talk) 12:36, 27 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Affandy from Wikimedia Jakarta. We all contribute in Wikipedia Betawi. What could we do to take part? Is it depend with certain language (our is bew) or globally? Thanks. Affandy Murad (talk) 11:22, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Affandy Murad :) Thanks so much for your message! I'll answer your last question first: This gadget will be available to any Wikipedia that wants to take part and chooses to turn on the gadget on their Wikipedia. So it is not automatic. We would love to have the gadget be live on Betawi Wikipedia! We think that this could be a very valuable tool for Wikipedia language communities to reach a new reader audience and get press coverage.

We will share details on exactly how to turn it on closer to the time as we are still figuring out a lot of the details and building the gadget.

We are busy setting up "office hours", which we will share on this page. That would be a good place to chat more about ideas you may have and to discuss how Betawi Wikipedians can use this gadget to engage press and reades on social media. We can also of course set up a session or join an existing meeting with just Betawi Wikipedians if you would prefer that :) CDekock-WMF (talk) 09:26, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

From Vietnamese Wikipedia, xin chào! (Hi!) Song Ngư • 🗨️ • 🌐 14:53, 30 October 2025 (UTC)

Xin chào @Song Ngư! Great to have another Wikipedian from Vietnamese Wikipedia join the conversation! CDekock-WMF (talk) 09:28, 31 October 2025 (UTC)

Hi! From our discussion on Indonesian Wikipedia village pump so far, there is no objection. They quite welcome, but maybe concern on how distracting the easter egg may be. Some also suggest to turned the tool on by default if the Birthday Mode is not so distracting.

By this, I would like to ask: should I become sysop or interface admin to help with the setting up?

Thanks!—NikolasKHF (talk) 00:31, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello @NikolasKHF :) So great to have you here and thank you for the offer of help! Let me check with the team and I'll get back to you. I'll also respond to the post lower down where some of the concerns have been raised. Looking forward to working with you :) CDekock-WMF (talk) 10:10, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello @NikolasKHF! Thanks for sharing the discussion on Indonesian wiki. You do not need to be an admin but once your wiki has reached a consensus for turning this on, you could ask the help of an admin from your wiki to activate the Birthday Mode on the Community Configuration.

IKristiani-WMF (talk) 12:09, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I'm Marwan from Wikimedia Gorontalo. Gorontalo Wikipedia volunteers would like to joining in this event. Thank you. MarwanMHD (talk) 00:12, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello @MarwanMHD! Thank you for your message and for being interested in this project! Perhaps you can join us at the upcoming office hour we're hosting this week? If not, there will be more opportunities next week, we'll add a note to announce them here :) CDekock-WMF (talk) 10:17, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello! I'm from Vietnamese Wikipedia. Don't know what I can do, but I'm willing to join. I'm learning composing, so if you need some easter eggs songs, I can help. - ABAL1412 (talk) 14:57, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello. I am from Thai Wikipedia. I am happy to say that our community agree to have easter eggs in our Wikipedia and I am happy to be point of contact in this regards. Let me know what do I need to do or any update I need to know. Best. --Wutkh (talk) 10:46, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Wow! @Wutkh this is such good news! Thank you for being the point of contact, we are very excited to collaborate with you on this. We will share more information soon :) CDekock-WMF (talk) 18:29, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

It seems that French Wikipedia is interested in participating as well. Trizek ^{from FR} 11:15, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

Potential concerns regarding reading experiences

An user on my community (at vi:Wikipedia:Thảo_luận_cộng_đồng/Thử_nghiệm_tính_năng_"trứng_phục_sinh"_dịp_Wikipedia_25) has stated a few points of consideration that might be helpful for the team:

1. Potential for Distraction: If the feature includes audio elements, unexpected sounds could be distracting for readers who are trying to concentrate, particularly on popular, frequently edited articles.
2. Risk of Confusion: Users who inadvertently trigger an Easter egg without understanding why might become confused or assume the website is malfunctioning.
3. Aligning with Reader Intent: Most visitors come to Wikipedia with the primary goal of reading and researching. It's important to consider how a more vivid or interactive experience might interrupt this core reading flow.

As of right now my community is currently leaning towards having this feature enabled by default. With that in mind, I am interested to learn how the development team is planning to mitigate these potential issues (like distraction or confusion) to ensure a positive experience for all users. Song Ngư • 🗨️ • 🌐 08:41, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello @Song Ngư :) Thank you so much for passing on these concerns, appreciate your help and thoughtfulness! We've really enjoyed seeing the good vibes on that discussion, thanks for sharing the link. We also really appreciate that you are concerned about all of these details. These are absolutely things we have also been thinking about and want to be extra careful about. Below I'm sharing how we're thinking about this at the moment, we would love to hear your response! And perhaps you and others from your community are able to joing us at the upcoming office hour on 6 Nov? No stress if not, there will be more opportunities for next week announced soon :)

1. Potential for Distraction: Any sounds will only happen when the user triggers the sound. It will be a very explicit trigger, so it will never be unexpected. This is true for most of the animations too. The way we are thinking about it at the moment is that most bigger animation experiences will happen based on clicks or interaction with the user, so if they want to remain focused, the easter eggs and mascot should not get in their way. We also want to make it easy to dismiss the surprises and mascot so that users have control over when they interact.
2. Risk of Confusion: This is a good point, and could definitely happen if the feature is enabled by default as you said. It might happen that a user triggers an easter egg without knowing about the campaign or birthday mode. We are planning to have a landing page available on the Foundation's website that explains the feature. In various places we are linking to this, but we can also look at adding a link to each egg where users can get more information. In the current wireframes (which we'll share here in the next day or so!) you'll also see that we are trying to keep the space allocated to the easter eggs and mascot limited and not intrusive. This is also related to the next point.
3. Aligning with Reader Intent: The placement of the eggs and mascot here is the biggest way we are trying to minimise the impact on reader intent. We are also working on creating lists of articles where the easter eggs and mascot should not show up -- very serious or controversial topics. This is something we would ideally develop with lots of input from each Wikipedia community since you know your Wikipedia and readers best!

I hope this information helps? I look forward to chatting more and making this campaign feature better with your input and ideas! CDekock-WMF (talk) 10:33, 4 November 2025 (UTC)