User talk:XXBlackburnXx

SpBot archives all sections tagged with {{Section resolved|1=~~~~}} and sections whose most recent comment is older than 90 days.

ticket to check

Hi XXBlackburnXx, when you get a chance please see ticket:2025110510020553. Best regards, — xaosflux ^Talk 13:54, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

I’ve added a note. -- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 18:42, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

Assigning CU for one week

Is it normal? https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&logid=62170468

Normally it's for hours, not days... Leaderboard (talk) 06:38, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

False positive ?

Hello. I asked Epic about global filter 324 but I didn't receive any answer. Can you check that ? Supertoff (talk) 15:40, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

@Supertoff: I'll look into this over the weekend. It doesn't seem easily fixable without removing that part of the whole regexp, but I'll see what I can do. -- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 15:39, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Supertoff (talk) 07:33, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Supertoff, the filter is not set to disallow, I just configured it to show a CAPTCHA, along with some improvements. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 20:01, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-49

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Updates for editors

• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025 will be available on December 2 for users of iOS and Android Wikipedia apps, featuring new personalized insights, updated reading highlights, and refreshed designs. Learn more on the review's project page.
• The Growth team is working on improving the text and presentation of the Verification Email sent to new users to make them more welcoming, useful and informative. Some new text have been drafted for A/B testing and you can help by translating them. See Phabricator.
• Add a link will now be deployed at Japanese, Urdu and Chinese Wikipedias on December 2. Add a link is based on a prediction model that suggests links to be added to articles. While this feature has already been available on most Wikipedias, the prediction model could not support certain languages. A new model has now been developed to handle these languages, and it will be gradually rolled out to other Wikipedias over time. If you would like to know more, please contact Trizek (WMF).
• View all 34 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where search boxes on some Commons pages showed no results due to switch from SpecialSearch to MediaSearch, has now been fixed. [1]
• Two new wikis have been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Toki Pona (w:tok:) [2]
  • a Wikiquote in Nigerian Pidgin (q:pcm:) [3]

Updates for technical contributors

• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

• The Wikimedia Foundation is in the early stages of exploring approaches to Article guidance. The initiative aims to identify interventions that could help new editors easily understand and apply existing Wikipedia practices and policies when creating an article. The project is in the exploration and early experimental design phase. All community members are encouraged to learn more about the project, and share their thoughts on the talk page.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 18:58, 1 December 2025 (UTC)

Possible to Check?

Hey XXBlackburnXx, Local community is discussing about the feasibility of checking the relationship between 佩奇君 and LBLaiSiNanHai and XZPeiQi. However, when looking at zh.wiki local data, we (by we, I mean myself and other local SPI clerks) noticed that local data is stale. An admin is asking if it's possible to look at login.wiki data, but I doubt those data haven't stale as well. Please let me know if using login.wiki to check is still possible. Since this is not like a formal CU request as I'm not asking for any relationship, I'm posting it here. Thanks for taking your time to read it :) $\int$（☎）dt 19:33, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

@ATannedBurger: Loginwiki’s CU data only lasts 3 months from account creation. So if it’s stale on zhwiki, it’s almost certainly going to be stale on loginwiki. -- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 23:12, 4 December 2025 (UTC)

"3 months from account creation" sounds unbelievable. Is that the result of SUL3 migration?
Nevertheless, each login still has to be logged somewhere to power mw:Extension:LoginNotify. Srapoj (talk) 21:26, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

The original question was whether there could be non-stale log entries for those users. Saying loginwiki was due to the assumption that log entries for logging in are stored there, which seems no longer the case after SUL3 (if my understanding of phab:T348388#10723564 and phab:T363695 is correct). The check should be performed on the wikis where the user has logged in. (Not sure if it includes autologin domains). Srapoj (talk) 21:59, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Wikivikipediya user

Hello dear Stewards,

My account Wikivikipediya was globally locked with the reason “long-term abuse”. I believe this is a mistake.

I am an active contributor mainly on Uzbek Wikipedia, with more than 6500 constructive edits in only 28 days. I create and translate articles, help other users, and never vandalize or disrupt any wiki.

I kindly request a review of this lock. I assure you that I use only one account and I always follow Wikimedia rules. If needed, I can provide any additional information.

Please reconsider the lock, as I only want to contribute constructively.

Thank you very much for your time.

Best regards, Wikivikipediya ~2025-38722-14 (talk) 15:02, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Well, I'm seeing a {{tallyho}} match with a prominent sockpuppeteer in the technical data (also noting Wikivikipedia (talk · contribs · CA) popped up in my queries).

The lock stays in place as long as that doesn't change. -- XXBlackburnXx (talk) 15:42, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

FYI ticket:2025120510007629 where I suspect this same user is trying to file vague appeals. — xaosflux ^Talk 15:46, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

I blocked them locally as they tried to edit your user page then (trying to) blank your user talk page, XXB. Codename Noreste (discuss • contribs) 16:00, 5 December 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-50

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

• Anybody who wishes to secure their user account can now use two-factor authentication (2FA). This is available to all registered users of all Wikimedia projects. This is part of the Account Security initiative. Later, 2FA will be required for all users who can take security- or privacy-sensitive actions.

Updates for editors

• Following last week's deployments, the Add a link feature, which allows editors to add suggested links during editing, will be available to an additional 33 Wikipedias starting on 9 December. This expansion is possible thanks to the new prediction model that now supports all languages, including those that were previously not covered. While the feature has been available on most Wikipedias for some time, this rollout brings us closer to using the improved model everywhere. If you have any questions or would like more details please contact Trizek (WMF).
• Last week, the Search Platform team added transliterated as-you-type search suggestions to Georgian wikis. If there are only a few regular search suggestions, then queries in Latin or Cyrillic script are now rewritten into Georgian script to look for more matches. For example, searching for either bedniereba or бедниереба will now suggest the existing article about ბედნიერება ("happiness"). You can recommend other languages where transliterated suggestions would be useful on Phabricator for future development.
• Later this week, a controlled experiment will begin for editors on the 100 largest Wikipedias who are editing a section in the mobile web visual editor. 50% of these editors will notice a new "Edit full page" button that will enable them to expand their editing session to the whole page. This feature is intended to make it easier for people on mobile web to edit any article section, regardless of which section-edit icon they tapped to begin. The experiment will last ~4 weeks. You can find more details about the project.
• Later this week, the Reader Growth team will launch a mobile web experiment to expand all article sections by default (currently they are collapsed by default) and pin the section header the user is currently reading to the top of the page. The experiment will affect 10% of users on Arabic, Chinese, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias. [4]
• The Wikipedia Year in Review 2025, a feature in the Wikipedia mobile apps (iOS and Android) that provides users with a personalised summary of their engagement with Wikipedia over the year, is now available on the iOS and Android apps. This edition includes expanded personalised insights, improved reading highlights, new donor messaging, and updated designs. Open the app to view your Year in Review and explore your reading journey from 2025.
• A recent software bug caused edits made with VisualEditor to make unintended changes to wikitext, including removing whitespace and replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks inside citations. This was partially fixed last week, and further fixes are in progress. Editors who used VisualEditor between November 28 and December 2 should review their edits for unexpected modifications. [5]
• View all 23 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the incorrect handling of URLs copied from the address bar of Microsoft Edge users, has been resolved. [6]

Updates for technical contributors

• Starting this week, users of the "Improved Syntax Highlighting" beta feature will have CodeMirror as the editor for Lua, JavaScript, CSS, JSON and Vue content models, instead of CodeEditor. With this, the linters will be upgraded. This is part of a larger effort to eventually replace CodeEditor and provide a consistent code editing experience. [7]
• Developers are encouraged to take the 2025 Developer Satisfaction Survey, which remains open until 5 January 2026. If you build software for the Wikimedia ecosystem and would like to share your experiences or feedback, your participation is greatly appreciated. [8]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Tech news prepared by Tech News writers and posted by bot • Contribute • Translate • Get help • Give feedback • Subscribe or unsubscribe.

MediaWiki message delivery 17:45, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Related Global account "Prism-Breaker" Locked: yes

We request that Prism-Breaker's account be locked out immediately, as Prism-Breaker's account is currently inaccessible. ~2025-40425-50 (talk) 03:30, 14 December 2025 (UTC)