Hello Ladsgroup,

My name is Joris Darlington Quarshie, and I am an Outreach Facilitator for the Capacity Exchange (CapX) — a platform for finding and connecting with peers to exchange knowledge and skills on a global level.

CapX is a community-built tool, designed by and for the Wikimedia Movement, to make it easier for Wikimedians across the world to find and connect, collaborate, and exchange skills and knowledge with peers.

If you don't know it yet, I invite you to access capx.toolforge.org and create your user profile with your Wikimedia account. But, if you already have a profile, I invite you to check out the new features and possibilities we just launched. I am sure you will be delighted.

CapX's new version incorporates valuable community feedback gathered over the past months, including the Organization Profile - a feature for Wikimedia affiliates, initiatives, or community groups to create their own CapX presence (see here how to create yours).

Click to log in using your Wikimedia unified account through authentication:

Explore CapX's new features

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→ Access: capx.toolforge.org
→ Watch the launch video:Meet the Capacity Exchange
→ Navigate CapX's User Guide and Frequently Asked Questions
→ Share your profile on Meta by adding the predefinition {{CapacityExchange}} to your userpage.
→ Visit our Meta Page for all documentation on the project
→ Join our telegram channel: Capx Telegram Group

Please, let me know if you think your community would enjoy a presentation, workshop demonstration, or feedback session. I would be happy to support you on that. Just reach out, and we can schedule the best date and time together.

Best regards,

Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:56, 29 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

Hello Ladsgroup,

We’re excited to invite you to an inspiring global virtual gathering: the first Capacity Exchange Translat-a-thon.

Together with Language Diversity Hub, the Capacity Exchange (CapX) team will host its first Translation Marathon dedicated to ensuring linguistic equity in access to this amazing tool aimed to connect Wikimedians.
If you enjoy contributing to Wikimedia projects through translating and adapting content into different languages, this event is for you! Join us in the celebration of the multilingual spirit of the Wikimedia Movement at an event where communities that contribute in diverse languages will be able to share local knowledge and collaborate across borders.
Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages

  • Date: December 6, 2025
  • Time: 12 PM (UTC) - Check the event page for your local timezone
  • Location: Online (Meta-Wiki + live session links)

If you can’t join the live event, you can still contribute to the translations! Edits will be counted for two weeks, until December 20th. And everyone who participates will receive a special badge to display on their CapX profiles.

Strengthen your collaboration through CapX

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We invite you and your community to join the Capacity Exchange (CapX), a Wikimedia community-built platform for connecting, collaborating, and exchanging skills with peers across the movement.

CapX helps Wikimedians and organizations find each other, share expertise, and build stronger, more connected communities.

Whether you’re an individual contributor, a user group, a community initiative or an affiliate, CapX helps you grow through knowledge exchange.

→ Explore the CapX platform: capx.toolforge.org
→ Read: User Guide & FAQ
→ Watch: Meet the Capacity Exchange video
→ Join our Telegram community chat: CapX Telegram Group

If your community, usergroup or affiliate would like to have a CapX organization profile, please reach out at capx@wmnobrasil.org, and we’d be delighted to support you.

With warm regards,
Joris Darlington Quarshie
Outreach Facilitator,
Capacity Exchange Project – Wikimedia Brasil

MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 14:55, 13 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

For this Friday's community meeting, we will be joined by Bernadette Meehan, the new CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. We will discuss our current work and the challenges we navigate. Lucy Moore from the GRDC will also attend to provide updates on resource distribution. Register yourself at this Event, and join us! --Vic Sfriso (WMLGBT) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:55, 17 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello! I'm doing some cleanup of bots on the Swedish Wikipedia (writing here instead of at svwiki, though). Your bot, Dexbot, has not edited since 2018. Do you intend to use the bot in the foreseeable future? Otherwise, I intend to revoke its bot flag. Best regards, EPIC (talk) 22:27, 23 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

@EPIC Thanks. Please go ahead and remove it! Amir (talk) 13:19, 25 March 2026 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for your response! Done so accordingly. Thanks for your service. EPIC (talk) 16:08, 25 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

You are receiving this message because you are either a Steward or a global renamer. If you are steward and don't perform global rename, you can safely ignore this message.

Hello, this is a general reminder that renames or vanish requests should be reserved for someone who knows the

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on their home wiki or most active wiki for the first 24 hours after the request is placed.

For the first 24 hours after a rename or vanishing request has been placed, it should only be processed by a renamer who has sufficient proficiency in the language of the requester's home or most active wiki, and is active on that wiki.

Refer to the 2025 RFC adding this rule, and following global-renamers mailing list emails: 1, 2, 3. Thank you.

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07:11, 8 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

What kind of work is being done at the other language projects to wind them down prior to going read-only? Thanks. Michael.C.Wright (talk) 01:07, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

@Michael.C.Wright I don't know about anything others are doing. What I am doing is to replace uses of DPL with raw wikitext to avoid them looking bad once we undeploy the extension. For example, see n:es:Special:Contributions/Dexbot. Amir (talk) 13:28, 21 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I have proposed that Dexbot be unblocked at en.WN: n:Wikinews:Water cooler/proposals#Proposal to unblock bot for final DPL cleanup. Michael.C.Wright (talk) 16:24, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Leaderboard has already unblocked Dexbot at en.WN.[1] Can you evaluate n:Wikinews:Archives and let me know what you need from me prior to running the bot to replace DPL with static lists on n:Wikinews:Archives, it's sub-pages, linked pages, etc?

As mentioned on the proposal, please avoid the following pages, which I will do manually:

I'll make myself available to reduce protection as-needed. You previously mentioned something about not needing flood or admin. I don't understand how that technically works, but we do have two local buearucrats that may be able to help with that if necessary. If you need me to make any requests of them, let me know or you are welcome to as well.

Thanks in advance for your help! Michael.C.Wright (talk) 16:39, 23 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hi. On it.wikinews we have some problems with "staticization" of DPL.

  1. 🟡️(not critical) Wrong bullet list (fixed manually in homepage, but I don't know in other places)
  2. 🔴️(critical) nidification of DPL in templates don't work well: our Portals becomes empty (eg.) because they use a parametric Template to call DPL, and the bot delete DPL from the template

I've tested a workaround moving raw code from the Template to a Portal with some changes to de-parametrize, but it's manual and bot must rerun on modified Portal. I hope this (especially 2° point) can be fixed in some fully-automatic way. Tks a lot --Infosfera (talk) 08:18, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Hello @Ladsgroup, we see the same bullet list editing problem on fr.wikinews, for instance : on this article. Nivopol (talk) 13:24, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Please pause use on en.WN until this is sorted out. Thank you. Michael.C.Wright (talk) 13:32, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I just checked n:Australia/2004 and n:Australia/2005 and the lists look accurate, just not consistently formatted with bulleted lists. Michael.C.Wright (talk) 13:39, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
I've corrected bulletized all the Australia/year pages except n:Australia/2009. On that page, all the links are enclosed in <nowiki>. I'm not sure if that is a step in the bot's process, so I haven't touched that page.

Let me know how I can help. Thanks. Michael.C.Wright (talk) 14:02, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
@Infosfera, @Michael.C.Wright and @Nivopol: I actually fixed the bug for bullet point before running on English (with the exception of only one link, I can fix that separately). It is stopped now and I will do a check and revert anything that it has made a mistake. I'll also fix all of the bullet point mistakes in other languages. Amir (talk) 16:53, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Many thanks Amir. What about the problem 2 (DPL nidified in template)? Can we do something on pages/code/template to help the bot to work well, before the 4 May dead(death!)line? -- Infosfera (talk) 19:08, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
My plan for now is to check and revert anything on template namespace. On how to fix those. I'd say we have to do it manually I think, you could theoretically use Special:ExpandTemplates and then parse the results and then translate it back from HTML to wikitext but it's going to be basically impossible to do automatically. Do you have a sense of how many pages need updating in your wiki? Amir (talk) 22:38, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply
Progress update: Checked and reverted anything bad in Italian Wikinews (editing on template, the critical problem). I will check other wikis too. Also wrote a script to fix the mistakes of the bullet list. It's running and fixing stuff (example) Amir (talk) 23:11, 25 April 2026 (UTC)Reply