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January Photo Challenge Voting Page

I tested your code and generate one of the voting page: User:Taiwania Justo/Sandbox/Voting Draft 1 and User:Taiwania Justo/Sandbox/Voting Draft 2. Please check if the contents are correct. Thanks. This is Taiwania Justo speaking (Reception Room) 14:04, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

User:Taiwania Justo, I am looking at it. When running the code the "Brutalist architecture" challenge page had some issues with redirected files. I corrected submission page and rerun the page generation, and got some slightly different results. Unfortunately since you created Commons:Photo challenge/2026 - January - Brutalist architecture/Voting page, User:Jacek79 already voted, so my page creation overwrote his votes. Sorry, Jacek79. Can you vote again? Page Commons:Photo challenge/2026 - January - Peace/Voting seemed OK. I updated Commons:Photo challenge/Voting to open those files for voting. --Jarekt (talk) 15:08, 2 February 2026 (UTC)

Thanks. In the process of using your python code, I found something bugs and add some features (e.g. progress bar). After trying for this month's challenge (January and February), I will release it on my User page and Github for the public review. This is Taiwania Justo speaking (Reception Room) 13:16, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

@Taiwania Justo: , I recently added this code to my github at https://github.com/jarek-tuszynski/Commons_photo_challenge. You can add your proposed changes there.--Jarekt (talk) 13:36, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-06

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Tech News: 2026-07

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

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• Logged-in contributors who manage large or complex watchlists can now organise and filter watched pages in ways that improve their workflows with the new Watchlist labels feature. By adding custom labels (for example: pages you created, pages being monitored for vandalism, or discussion pages) users can more quickly identify what needs attention, reduce cognitive load, and respond more efficiently. This improves watchlist usability, especially for highly active editors.
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Duplicate entries and incorrect date of death in the person's name in Wikidata

• Robert Juliusz Hirszbandt (Q102083542) and Robert Juliusz Hirszbandt (Q116767355) → pilot, officer of the Polish Army (pilot, oficer Wojska Polskiego)
• Aleksander Stephan (1884-1944) (Q111016737) → he died in 1962 in Warsaw

regards (pozdr) ~2026-92352-2 (talk) 21:08, 13 February 2026 (UTC)

Poprawiłem --Jarekt (talk) 14:08, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

User:Ronald Weiss on Wikidata

(en) Hello. You are an admin who works in both English and Polish. I've noticed problems with the Wikidata edits made by user Ronald Weiss. He is making completely unbiased changes to the column regarding the official current English names of places in Poland, inserting the historical German names in parentheses. I've already contacted him on his talk page. I'm asking for your intervention.

(pl) Witam. Jestes adminem operującym w jezyku angielskim i polskim. Zauwazylem problemy ze zmianami na wikidata wprowadzanymi przez użytkownika Ronald Weiss. Dokonuje on pozbawionych jakiegokolwiek obiektywizmu zmian w szpalcie dotyczacej oficjalnych obecnych nazw angielskich miejscowosci w Polsce, wprowadzajac w szpalte przeznaczona dla nazw angielskich w nawiasie historyczne nazwy niemieckie. Napisalem juz do niego na jego stronie dyskusji. Prosze o interwencje. Nazw Cieszyn i Jelenia Gora nie moglem zmienic gdyz hasla sa zablokowane ~2026-92352-2 (talk) 14:33, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

Czy możesz mi pakazać jakieś przykłady? Przejżałem jakieś 20 zmian miejsc w Polsce i one były dobre, np. ta. --Jarekt (talk) 14:07, 16 February 2026 (UTC)