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Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2025

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

the 2025 board election is starting soon.

The timeline for the 2025 election will be

• November 25 – December 2: Applications for the election committee
• December 2 – December 15: Vote for election committee (if necessary)
• December 16: Election committee starts work
• December 20 – January 4: Nomination phase for candidacies
• January 5 – January 11: Elections
• January 15: Results announced

In the first step we ask you to be part of the election committe. Please add your name on the Election Page.

We are very much looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this talk page for your thoughts.

All the best

--Ailura (talk) for the CPUG board

Tech News: 2025-49

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• 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.
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• 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]
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• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

In depth

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Commons Photographers User Group: Board Elections 2025/2

Dear member of the Commons Photographers User Group,

thank you for your interest in our board election.

This week we ask you to vote for the election committe.

Please support up to three candidates on the Election Page by December 16th, 00:00 UTC.

We are very much looking forward to hearing from you. Please use this talk page for your thoughts.

All the best

--Ailura (talk) for the CPUG board

FYI

This user’s Internet access will be switched to a new connection around Monday/Tuesday, 8/9 December 2025. The company carrying out the work, a well-known big German telecommunications company and internet service provider, is known for its particular expertise, diligence, and care. Therefore, as experience has shown, the result can be a long-term complete outage of Internet access; fixing that may take weeks of negotiations with the excellent company. The user therefore apologises for any sudden and possibly weeks-long complete absence: this is not intentional, but to a certain extent a natural disaster, as always when you have to deal with these big telcos.

– Aristeas (talk) 17:34, 3 December 2025 (UTC)

 Done OK, the technicians have left and there is again a working connection – seems this time “I am escaped by the skin of my teeth.” ;–) – Aristeas (talk) 13:51, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Tech News: 2025-50

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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.

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Tech News: 2025-51

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• View all 18 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, one of the fixes addressed an issue for temporary accounts adding an external URL, which triggered an hCaptcha request in more cases than intended, and did not display the required popup on the first attempt to publish the edit. [9]

Updates for technical contributors

• To improve database and site performance, external links to Wikimedia projects will no longer be stored in the database. This means they will not be searchable in Special:LinkSearch, will not be checked by the Spam Blacklist or AbuseFilter as new links, and will not be in the externallinks table on database replicas. In the future this may be extended to other highly-linked trusted websites on a per-wiki basis, such as Creative Commons links on Wikimedia Commons. [10]
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Quality Image Promotion (17 December 2025)

Your image has been reviewed and promoted Congratulations! Bretten - Altstadt - Kreuzkirche - Südseite - linkes Kleeblatt-Fenster (1).jpg, which was produced by you, was reviewed and has now been promoted to Quality Image status. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Quality images candidates. We also invite you to take part in the categorization of recently promoted quality images. Comments  Support Good quality. --George Chernilevsky 20:15, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

--QICbot (talk) 05:38, 17 December 2025 (UTC)

AI on FMC

New things calls for new guidelines and rules. Should AI-generated media be allowed on Featured media candidates? Share your thoughts and/or vote on Commons talk:Featured media candidates#AI-generated content. You are being asked since you vote on that project. Thank you, --Cart (talk) 17:27, 18 December 2025 (UTC)

Fröhliche Weihnachten!

Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches, gesundes Neues Jahr 2026! -- Radomianin (talk) 09:59, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays! * 2026 !

	* Happy Holidays! *
	Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Joyeux Noël et bonne année! Frohe Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr! Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! Щасливого Різдва i з Новим роком! Boldog karácsonyt és boldog új évet! Καλά Χριστούγεννα και καλή χρονιά!    -- George Chernilevsky talk 14:15, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

...and a Happy New Year.

Warm greetings from Italy. Terragio67 (talk) 16:41, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Felices festas

=Happy holidays!

Merry Christmas and warm wishes for a joyful, healthy, and peaceful New Year 2026! -- Lmbuga (talk) 10:43, 21 December 2025 (UTC)

Lmbuga (talk) 18:30, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays and best wishes for 2026!

✨ Happy Holidays Aristeas! 🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎉 Best wishes for 2026! -- Giles Laurent (talk) 19:30, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Weihnachtswünsche

Ganz lieben Dank Aristeas für die Weihnachts- und Neujahrswünsche. Dir und Deiner Familie ebenfalls schöne Feiertage, ein besinnliches Weihnachtsfest und einen guten Start ins neue Jahr. Grüße aus Florida. Olga Ernst (talk) 21:20, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

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• From January, edit filters can be set to automatically suppress their details such as rules and list of attempted edits and actions. This will help oversighters use edit filters to prevent doxxing or other suppressible material. [11]
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• View all 16 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the crash that occurred when tapping "First Steps" in the Wikipedia Android Year in Review has now been fixed, and the feature opens as expected. [12]

Updates for technical contributors

• Interface elements such as diffs and categories generated by MediaWiki used to have the attribute data-mw="interface" to distinguish from wiki content. The attribute has been replaced with data-mw-interface="", to avoid potential conflicts with other data-mw attributes, which are generated by Parsoid. [13]
• There is no new MediaWiki version this week or next week.

Meetings and events

• The Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026 will take place on 13-14 March 2026 in Arnhem, the Netherlands. Applications just opened mid-December and will close in mid-January or earlier if capacity is reached. With space for approximately 100 participants, early application is encouraged.

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Happy Holidays!

Thank you very much for the holiday wishes Aristeas! I wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year from Florida as well! – Julian Lupyan (talk) 21:57, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

heylenny (^talk/_edits) is wishing you Happy Holidays! This greeting (and season) promotes WikiLove and hopefully this note has made your day a little better. Spread the WikiLove by wishing another user Happy Holidays, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past, a good friend, or just some random person. Happy New Year!

Spread the cheer by adding {{subst:Happy holidays}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

Warm greetings from Rio Grande do Sul! heylenny (^talk/_edits) 01:54, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Best wishes

Best wishes, with all my heart. With all my heart and admiration. I really enjoy your photos. I hope you take many more this new year.

You are the photographer of light. Lmbuga (talk) 12:36, 23 December 2025 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a happy 2026

			* Merry Christmas and all the best for 2026, Aristeas! *
			Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Joyeux Noël et bonne année! Frohe Weihnachten und ein frohes Neues Jahr! Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! Счастливого Рождества и c Новым годом! Щасливого Різдва i З Новим роком! --Llez (talk) 06:46, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

✨ Happy Holidays Aristeas! 🎉 The year is drawing to a close and many of us have a few holidays ahead of us. I hope you find some time to relax and wish you all the best for the new year 2026! -- XRay I remember a beautiful quote by Selaru Ovidiu that I found this year and think is very fitting: Photography is not made to impress others. Photography is made to discover yourself.

XRay 💬 07:21, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays!

Thank you very much for your kind Christmas and New Year wishes. I really appreciate it. Wishing you a pleasant holiday season and all the best for the year ahead. ArildV (talk) 09:57, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Wesołych Świąt

Happy Holydays and Happy New Year 2025! Tournasol7

--Tournasol7 (talk) 12:30, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Vielen Dank für deine Wünsche mein Freund. Dir und deiner Familie wünsche ich auch eine schöne Weihnachtszeit und nur das Beste für 2026! :) Poco a poco (talk) 14:18, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

--Tagooty (talk) 15:22, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

I wish you a wonderful and peaceful holiday season! Thank you very much for your commitment to WikiMedia, and I wish you all the best for 2026, many great moments in front of the lens, and fantastic photos in Commons. Kind regards, Achim Lammerts • Syntaxys (talk) 15:15, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Happy holidays,

		Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
		Счастливого Рождества и с Новым годом! ¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo! Joyeux Noël et Bonne année! Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo! Frohe Weihnachten und ein gluckliches Neues Jahr! Wesołych Świąt i Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! Rojdestvo bayrami va yangi yilingiz bilan! Hyvää Joulua ja Onnellista Uutta Vuotta! Vrolijk Kerstfeest en Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! God Jul och Gott Nytt år! -- Екатерина Борисова (talk) 19:26, 24 December 2025 (UTC)

Frohe Weihnachten!

Merry Christmas and best wishes for 2026! Joyeux Noël et une bonne année 2026 ! Frohe Weihnachten und alles Gute für 2026! AFBorchert (talk) 07:13, 25 December 2025 (UTC)

Thank you

To be honest, I don't know what to say. Happy New Year. Petro Stelte (talk) 03:14, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

That’s fine, Petro ;–). I just noticed that your uploads and nominations were still not auto-patrolled, and thought that should be changed because you are a well-established trustworthy contributor. Having your uploads and edits auto-patrolled helps us all because it makes it easier to distinguish between edits by trustworthy users and edits by new and inexperienced users who may need attention or even supervision. Wish you a Happy new year, — Aristeas (talk) 10:06, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Meinung erwünscht

Hallo lieber Aristeas,

zunächst einmal wünsche ich dir ein schönes neues Jahr mit viel Gesundheit (wie die zahlreichen vorherigen User ;) ). Ich habe zwei Fotos noch aus Mödlareuth, von dem ich eines als FPC nominieren will. File:Mödlareuth 20251003 HOF0370 RAW-Export.jpg funktioniert mMn. gut, weil ein harmloser Hof von einem Überwachungsturm geprägt ist, und File:Mödlareuth 20251003 HOF0374 RAW-Export.jpg funktioniert mMn gut, weil der Fokus auf der Kontrolle dank Mauer und Turm liegt. Da dein geschultes Auge gutes Urteilsvermögen hat, freue ich mich über deine Meinung :). Viele Grüße --PantheraLeo1359531 😺 (talk) 18:37, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Your Most Memorable Shot Submission!

Hello Aristeas!

Camera1 mgx

Commons-Photographers User Group-logo-en

As we step into a new year, we’re happy to invite you to take part in “Your Most Memorable Shot 2025.”

Since 2018, photographers from across the Wikimedia community have come together at the beginning of each year to share the photographs that meant the most to them over the past twelve months. Now in its eighth iteration, this tradition continues to be a space for reflection, storytelling, and celebrating meaningful moments through photography.

Whether you are a member of the Commons Photographers User Group or not, you are warmly welcome to participate and invite others too. Every image carries a story, and your perspective helps enrich this collective showcase.

Whenever you’re ready, please select your most cherished photograph from 2025 and share it on the designated page.

The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2026, so we hope you’ll join us before then.

We look forward to discovering the moments that made your year memorable and to continuing this wonderful tradition together.

Warm regards, -- Suyash Dwivedi (💬) 22:36, 4 January 2026 (UTC) (CPUG)