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QOTD sizing issue on main page
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Latest comment:
30 days ago
19 comments
4 people in discussion
QOTD is really hard to read on the main page due to being crushed between two images. This is a screenshot from my tablet which is actually quite wide, and it's just as bad in landscape. It's almost impossible to read as it's so narrow.
Do we really need two pictures? If we had one and let the text wrap around it, it would size ok in pretty much any resolution? The other Wikiquotes I have looked at just have one image in the equivalent slot, e.g.
GrimRob
talk
17:25, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
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Because of that, shouldn't we use just one image on the left or right, and add a
{{
cquote
}}
template? This might solve a potential issue on what you are describing.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
19:51, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
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I think just one image on the left would perhaps work, cquote would work as well for a different look with out image on left, e.g.
User:GrimRob/QOTD
. In either case having images on left and right crushes text on anything but a wide screen.
GrimRob
talk
13:23, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
ok here's the other way. I have
my own template
based on the existing one, and it just uses the left image. I've kept image2 in just to minimise changes. Here it is with the QOTD:
QOTDExample
GrimRob
talk
19:03, 4 March 2026 (UTC)
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Similar concerns about image count/size on main page were raised years ago. I would agree to limiting the QOTD to one image (on the left side to balance out the image illustrating the new pages section). ~
DanielTom
talk
04:04, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
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As I have probably said above, that's a good idea. I also have a suggestion: why don't we use random quotes or Quote of the Week instead of Kalki creating new QOTD pages every day?
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
15:55, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
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Thanks. I don't have permissions otherwise I would be happy to make the change but if I was going to change
Wikiquote:Quote of the day/Template
then I would make it like
User:GrimRob/QOTDTemplate
(apart from the name).
Automating it also seems a good idea. We have thousands of quotes we could use so you might as well do it every day as every week once it's set up. Occasionally maybe if some signficant figure died you occasionally might want to tweak a pre-planned quote. Worse case scenario if it's not been pre-prepared then the quote from the same day as last year gets recycled?
GrimRob
talk
16:23, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
We could adopt the same logic as what
French Wikiquote
's main page quote section does.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
16:37, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Sounds a good idea, no need to reinvent the wheel. If I understand their system, e.g.
Jan 2026
, anyone can enter a quote for the day (most days they don't) otherwise it uses the
Switch template
to generate one.
What's to stop someone putting something inappropriate though? I seem just to be able to volunteer tomorrow's QOTD, or go back and change previous ones?
GrimRob
talk
16:50, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Pinging @
Kalki
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
16:58, 7 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Codename Noreste
how can I make the change to the template? It just needs my the content of my
User:GrimRob/QOTD
page to be copied over it. There seems to be broad agreement on this change (the much wider issue of workflow won't have any impact). I guess I need to ask someone to do it, or be given the permissions (at least temporarily).
GrimRob
talk
21:34, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
GrimRob
Before I implement such a change to the template, I decided to redo a revised version on
User:GrimRob/QOTDTemplate
, using the image and
{{
Cquote
}}
together under the code table.
User:GrimRob/QOTD
and
User:GrimRob/QOTDNewTemplate
may not look good to use on QOTDs, and I hope implementing the revised version to the template would not break any previous QOTD quotes.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
23:41, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
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I am happy with either approach, feel free to adopt whatever you feel is best. I have made the image narrower in the example as it didn't size well on a mobile screen. Obviously it's up to the QOTD creator to pick a suitable size. But definitely an improvement on what we have now. Thanks @
Codename Noreste
GrimRob
talk
10:52, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Codename Noreste
actually there is one further thing. I left the parameter called image1 instead of image so it wouldn't break all the existing pages (e.g.
Mar 14
). Not sure if you are going to create a new template or overwrite the existing one but that was my reasoning for leaving the name as is, to avoid a breaking change.
GrimRob
talk
11:01, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
GrimRob
and @
DanielTom
Done
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
18:15, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
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Great, thanks for doing that. Home page looks much better now on smaller devices. @
Codename Noreste
GrimRob
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18:26, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Codename Noreste
Thank you, this looks great. It's definitely a step in the right direction. One thing I should perhaps note is that this change seems to be affecting all historical QOTD pages. I don't think that's ideal unless there's no technical alternative.
In terms of possible enhancements: I noticed you had to manually reduce the image size
here
. Would it be possible to "force" the smaller size (which the community already agreed on) directly in the QOTD template itself? Finally, though out of scope here, I'd like to flag two other possible enhancements:
There's currently no wikilink on the author's name. Could this be added (so readers can easily click through to see more quotes by that author)?
I'd also favor including the source of the quote as part of the template, since that's one of the things that distinguishes Wikiquote from most other quote websites. (This has been suggested before by
User:Ningauble
.)
Thanks again. ~
DanielTom
talk
05:27, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
I have just posted today's selection for QOTD, but must be leaving in the next few minutes for probably at least a few hours, and definitely do not have time to give any extensive response to any of the above suggestions. I will state that I believe the current system of posting and ranking of suggestions which have been in place for about twenty years now is a far superior system to any which have been suggested to replace it, especially some of these most recent proposals. I will attempt to explicate some of the many reasons why in a response I will try to post within the next day or so. ~
♌︎
Kalki
⚓︎
00:11, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
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Can we have a separate thread for the QOTD workflow, which is a much bigger topic, this thread is a relatively minor one about a change about removing an image which is ready to go? I'll create a new thread.
GrimRob
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11:48, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
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Create a global rights policy?
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Latest comment:
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11 comments
5 people in discussion
I am initiating this proposal to create some rules for users in certain user groups (how they should use their rights), while we keep any bureaucracy at a minimum. Here is what I would propose:
Abuse filter maintainers
and
global interface editors
may use their rights per their respective policy rules at Meta-Wiki.
Global rollbackers
may use some of their rights in the context of counter vandalism efforts (
markbotedits
noratelimit
rollback
, and
suppressredirect
). If they had the rollbacker user group removed locally (as a GR), they will have to request rollback locally.
For
global sysops
, we move the
Non-regular administrators
section text to the GRP, but we might want to consider importing some text from
English Wikinews' global rights policy
, and include
Wikiquote:What Wikiquote is not
Stewards
may use their global rollback and global sysop permissions, use
Special:Undelete
to view deleted revisions in the course of their duties, and use the CheckUser and oversight permissions (per their respective policies), even if local CUs and OSs are appointed locally in the future. They are also permitted to delete pages with more than 5000 revisions (
bigdelete
) via a request at
SRM
Thoughts?
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
20:27, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
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Support
, it sets clear expectations and keeps things simple while improving transparency and consistency. --
Saroj
talk
08:50, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
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Support
This would be a huge help as most of the current admins are inactive.@
Codename Noreste
, Just wanted to clarify on what you wanted to import from wikiquote, as stated in your 3rd point.
PieWriter
talk
10:47, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
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There is a section on
Wikiquote:Administrators
about non-regular administrators (global sysops and stewards). I plan to move that to the global rights policy.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
15:19, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
I created
Project:Global rights policy
as a draft policy, so this proposal is now used to approve it as an official policy.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
02:03, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Codename Noreste
What do we plan to do about Global Bots?
PieWriter
talk
09:58, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
PieWriter
Given that this project just now uses the standard bot policy, we can add information on what they can do here, but any tasks outside a global bot's scope can be requested locally. Also, I don't think we should copy some user group policies from other projects, such as Wikipedia or Wikibooks, and instead only focus on those global user groups that are truly global. I think we should limit the GRP only to global AFMs, global bots, GIEs, GRs, GSs, and stewards.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
17:53, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
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But shouldn’t the global right policy include all the rights as it is a global rights policy? We could remove some that aren’t relevant here.
PieWriter
talk
00:44, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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I'm not really active on Wikiquote. For this reason , my choice is to stay neutral.
Anatole-berthe
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12:11, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
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What about GRs using
checkuser-temporary-account
? As I understand the wording of this proposal would prohibit GRs from checking temporary account IPs.
Tenshi Hinanawi
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23:06, 21 March 2026 (UTC)
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I don't think so. Some wikis' global rights policies do not say about the usage of checkuser-temporary-account. Th ey must agree and follow the WMF's policy on using it.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
00:48, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
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Proposal to change QOTD workflow
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Latest comment:
26 days ago
5 comments
4 people in discussion
This is a new thread spun off from
Village_pump#QOTD_sizing_issue_on_main_page
. It was suggested that we adopt the French WQ system with countersuggestion by @
Kalki
GrimRob
talk
11:51, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
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Support
changing the QOTD workflow to one where by default (as fallback) the QOTD is randomly selected from a pool of high-quality quotes. This would guarantee there's always a quote displayed, even if no one manually prepares one that day. We would still allow manual overrides for special occasions or particularly fitting selections. ~
DanielTom
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00:20, 9 March 2026 (UTC)
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Support
This seems like a reasonable way to ensure continuity.
BD2412
04:42, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Strongly OPPOSE
. Currently there has for roughly twenty years been a page for
each
day of the year for suggestions, which though relatively few people have usually actively contributed to or voted on the suggestions, has actually provided a broad range of selections to actively consider for most days, most of the time, and from the start of this system there has been considerate selection based primarily on the rankings provided, always with the option of adding new suggestions, especially in the cases of major recent events of note (most commonly the recent death of notable figures).
This suggestion seems to me to be a proposal for extremely inept mechanistically randomized selections with little or no regard to the potential and actual complexities of relevant contexts or considerations on any day at all, totally randomly out of a pool of
nominally
"high-quality quotes" with an extremely dubious and unspecified criterion of what actually
constitutes
"high-quality" and how this is to be either initially or ultimately decided.
Even in the current pools of suggestions for each day there are many quotes which many people have ranked highly which have also been ranked very poorly by just one or two others, which significantly lowers their general availability, and some suggestions which generally seem of very dubious or clearly poor quality to most people that yet a few people are inclined to rank highly, including some promoting various forms of ethnically or politically based oppression, injustices, and denigration of human beings. I believe this proposal simply provides greater means and opportunities for the most obnoxious and noxious misanthropic or denigrative statements to be slipped into the "pool", with a nearly guaranteed objections to any "manual overrides for special occasions" that might not suit the various specific or general misanthropic impulses of some.
I perceive nothing else than usually a
likelihood
of far poorer selections, and ultimately a far greater and perhaps nearly constant state of contention over selections than have ever existed in the roughly two decades of the current systems of daily considerate selection from the pages of ranked suggestions of those who choose to participate in providing or ranking them, with the continuously available options of providing new suggestions until the selections are actually made.
♌︎
Kalki
⚓︎
05:55, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
On the "high‑quality" point: I would suggest the pool be drawn from well-established, curated public‑domain compendiums of quotations such as
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
(which has already been imported into Wikiquote by
BD2412
).
Bartlett's
alone contains thousands of quotations—likely enough to support two decades' worth of QOTDs—and could serve as a non‑controversial fallback to ensure continuity. ~
DanielTom
talk
11:39, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Categorisation question
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Latest comment:
29 days ago
11 comments
2 people in discussion
Do we use
Films about …
or
… films
(Example:
Category:Monster films
vs.
Category:Films about reptiles and amphibians
)?
PieWriter
talk
09:37, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
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I think it's better to use 'Films about...'. Recently, many categories have been created in this format, and I also use it personally. It keeps things more consistent with English Wikipedia's categorization style.
Saroj
talk
11:25, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Saroj
Thanks for the reply, I will work on moving the other categories then.
PieWriter
talk
00:54, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Saroj
Is it possible to have pseudobot? There are a few hundred pages to move.
PieWriter
talk
09:26, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Granted. Please remove the group from your account once finished.
Saroj
talk
09:32, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Thanks, will do.
PieWriter
talk
09:34, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
PieWriter
Just a note: not every category needs to be in the “Films about …” format. Some categories work better as “… films,” depending on context and common usage. Please be careful when moving pages and check each case individually.
Saroj
talk
09:57, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
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Yes, I leave the ones that work better as is and only moves the ones that are better in the other format.
PieWriter
talk
09:58, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
I have done about half from
Category:Films by theme
, will do the rest tomorrow.
PieWriter
talk
10:20, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Saroj
Can I have pseudobot again? I am back to working on the cats
PieWriter
talk
10:44, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Done
Saroj
talk
11:52, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Creating
Wikiquote:Criteria for inclusion
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Latest comment:
24 days ago
6 comments
4 people in discussion
Is it true that Wikiquote criteria for inclusion is covered in
Wikiquote:Deletion policy
? If so, what about creating
Wikiquote:Criteria for inclusion
as a redirect? Coming from Wiktionary background, I am familiar with the "Criteria for inclusion" headword and find it convenient to try to find something under it. --
Dan Polansky
talk
09:14, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Dan Polansky
We do have
Wikiquote:Quotability
BD2412
04:40, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
BD2412
Great, thank you. So what about redirecting
Wikiquote:Criteria for inclusion
to
Wikiquote:Quotability
to increase findability? --
Dan Polansky
talk
06:12, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Redirects are cheap.
talk
09:44, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
By what GMG said, feel free to create the redirect.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
15:18, 30 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Done
. Cheers!
BD2412
03:40, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Something nice
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Latest comment:
1 month ago
15 comments
3 people in discussion
I made a script to make requesting vfds much easier,
User:PieWriter/vfd.js
. Free feel to tell me how I can improve it. Thanks.
PieWriter
talk
09:20, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Cool. Used it for Speed Grapher nomination. Definitely a big time saver.
GrimRob
talk
07:13, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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One suggestion, if possible. Add "Delete as nominator" comment. Can't imagine there is ever a case where not wanted.
GrimRob
talk
07:16, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Sure, will work on it.
PieWriter
talk
08:02, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Should be done:
[1]
PieWriter
talk
08:28, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Worked great thanks. Minor thing but if Notability could be added to choices as seems to be most common reason.
GrimRob
talk
09:00, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Sure!
PieWriter
talk
09:17, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Should be done
PieWriter
talk
09:19, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
thanks, looks good. I have exhausted my list of VfD, but will try it when I have someone else.
GrimRob
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10:35, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Sorry, it is not clear how one would use your script to request a VFD - can you add some description and/or instructions on its use for users that may not be as technically savvy? Thanks. ~
UDScott
talk
13:35, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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You need to create a file called common.js in your own user space. Just copy the contents.
GrimRob
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14:45, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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on the Tools menu you get an item called vfd which brings up a dialog. Tools menu does not appear on mobiles I believe.
GrimRob
talk
15:00, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Hmm, didn't see anything when I did that - not sure what I did wrong. No worries. But my point was more that when a new tool/script/gadget is created, if you want people to use it, it would be good to document some explanation (perhaps on the talk page) and direction on its use. Just good practice. Thanks. ~
UDScott
talk
17:38, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
UDScott
Here’s the docs:
User:PieWriter/vfd
PieWriter
talk
00:18, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Great, thanks! ~
UDScott
talk
12:27, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
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Global ban for Faster than Thunder
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Hello, this is a message to notify that there is a global ban for
Faster than Thunder
talk
contributions
) at
m:Requests for comment/Global ban for Faster than Thunder
. Per the
global ban
policy, you are receiving this notification because the user made at least 1 (deleted) edit.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
02:09, 22 March 2026 (UTC)
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Kalki is accused of degrading Wikiquote
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Latest comment:
27 days ago
17 comments
7 people in discussion
Religions
are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling? ~
Mahatma Gandhi
This is a great website. But for many years I've been frustrated by @
Kalki
inserting his irrelevant, half-baked New Age ideas into every article he can get his hands on. "Every religion is one, we are all one human family" seems to be the message. He's entitled to his beliefs, but should he be allowed to slather them over the entire site? I don't think so. If he's serious about them, he can put them onto his own website rather than inserting them into the mouths of everyone he can do so on here, and at the expense of everyone who may not wish to be confronted with them constantly. He may think he's doing humanity a service, but this is not the way to do it.
SpigottoCorenzo
talk
16:39, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
To start this on the right foot, go back to whatever your original account was and continue the conversation from there.
talk
10:48, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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I will confess that I do believe that the most mentally and morally well-developed and wise individuals of most cultural traditions can and do "get along" with sincere appreciations of the virtues and worth of many others within and beyond their particular traditions, and that has indeed been an attitude I have indicated as a primary creator of pages and content on the project, for over 22 years here, probably much to the consternation of some of those inclined to believe otherwise. I will also note that this assertion that with indications of such an attitude I am "degrading" Wikiquote is actually the very first edit made by the above account on this project.
I am very well aware that vary many forms of narrow bigoted religious or cultural
supremacism
are inclined to object to and oppose any forms of broad tolerances and appreciations of humanity with extremely ambiguous and broadly dismissive terms as "wokeness", or even the rather old and quite dated label "New Age", as if to accept or even acknowledge the existence or admirability of "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion" were intolerable "oppression" of their apparently "full-baked" ideologies of the supposed sacredness of their pretensions to superiority or even assumptions of supremacy over all others. To provide any indications of broader senses of appreciation than their own is often counted as intolerable "suppression" of their particular brands of nonsense.
I am all too acquainted with fact that mentally and morally warped notions that acceptance and assertion of the rights of human beings to exposure to broad appreciations of diverse ideas rather than ONLY some narrow cultural supremacist ideologies or other such nonsense is something "degrading" to anything but their own particular sense of absolute "supremacy", but it is a relatively new twist on old nonsense to imply that providing accurate quotes of individuals is expressing their own ideas to be "inserting them into the mouths" of these individuals.
I have added and used notable and accurate quotes of people of various religious and political faiths, as well as agnostics, atheists, anarchists, and absurdists perceiving many of the absurdities in many forms of human assumptions and assertions.
The edit of posting the above accusation against me on this page was followed by a typo correction on the page of
Sri Aurobindo
soon after another new account
Iklak999
talk
contributions
) had made trolling edits on it removing a quite relevant image from that page and two others with declarations "Removing irrelevant art which Kalki seems to love inserting everywhere"; on that page the image was used in conjunction with Aurobindo's assertion: "
Religions
creeds
and forms are only a characteristic outward
sign
of the
spiritual
impulsion and religion itself is the intensive
action
by which it tries to find its inward
force
. Its expansive movement comes in the
thought
which it throws out on
life
, the
ideals
which open up new horizons and which the intellect accepts and life labours to assimilate."
On the page for
G. I. Gurdjieff
it was used with his quote indicating his rejection of shallow vacuous idolatries and assumptions in regard to various forms of faith: "
Conscious
faith
is
freedom
Emotional
faith is
slavery
. Mechanical faith is
foolishness
On the page for
Mahatma Gandhi
it was used with the statement with which it is posted here, in which symbols for major world religions are posted around the circumference of one of the most-used modern "Peace" symbols, with an ideographic representation of a human family at the central region of the image. I am sure many extremists would prefer I defer to their intolerant attitudes and actions, or actually join them in their forms of aggressively narrow POV-pushing, and censorship of any or all other views other than their own, but I am quite glad to state that such is not likely to happen.
I will probably soon attempt to address other issues I have observed going on here in recent weeks — but I know that I will be extraordinarily busy with many important things elsewhere for at least several more days, and probably longer. I will also note that I composed most of this response prior to the remarks posted below, by someone who has been hostilely trolling me for some years. As I am not inclined to agree with or defer to his strong anti-Islamic attitudes he has declared me to be a "friend" of such
Islamist
extremists as
ISIL
and other appallingly
murderous
terrorists
. ~
♌︎
Kalki
⚓︎
11:44, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
+ tweaks
Reply
Brevity is the soul of wit.
talk
12:18, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
How do you justify the inclusion of this crap on the page of
Joseph de Maistre
, an extremist Catholic?
SpigottoCorenzo
talk
21:09, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
I made another account earlier in the day with what I believe was a stupid name which would influence the spirit of this conversation negatively, so I made this new account subsequently. If there's any other information I can offer you, let me know.
SpigottoCorenzo
talk
21:15, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
SpigottoCorenzo
You know this is
Wikiquote:Sock puppetry
right?
PieWriter
talk
09:42, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
Reply
Kalki's POV pushing on
Dinah Craik
(and countless other pages)
I share the concern. Just to give an example for the community's consideration: while adding a couple of quotes from the 19th-century novel
John Halifax, Gentleman
to the
Dinah Craik
page recently, I noticed that it (like so many other author pages that Kalki has edited) is filled with stock images only tangentially connected to the quotes. In particular, the "New Age" image to the right (it wouldn't surprise me if Kalki created it) is very heavily used by Kalki on Wikiquote, but never used on Wikipedia... If a quote so much as mentions the word "Hand", woe be to its author—Kalki will add that image with the Wheel of Dharma on it, even if the author is a Christian. I don't think this is appropriate. ~
DanielTom
talk
09:48, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Yes I remember one of the first things that really alerted me to @
Kalki
's vandalism was the inclusion of these images on the page of
Joseph de Maistre
of all people. The images clutter pages and make them uglier, and the quotes attached, which are usually cherry-picked, all relate to his obsession.
SpigottoCorenzo
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21:00, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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There are many distortions of facts, and there are clearly some quite provably FALSE statements presented as if they were facts, in recent assertions by some.
I remain far too busy to deal with any matters here extensively for at least a few days — I have just completed an extensive timetable of my attempt to attend to MUCH activity elsewhere in the next 48 hours — but I just took the time check in here very briefly, and actually looked at
the history of edits to the "Joseph de Maistre" page
which I am accused of having "vandalized" — and will note the FACT that it has NEITHER of these mentioned images in it, and
I never added ANY images at all to that page
, and the
ONLY
edits I made to it at all were a couple in 2010, on the day it was created by an anon IP, where I added a few links from Wikipedia, and added the caption of his famous statement:
"Every nation gets the government it deserves"
to the only image on the page at that time. That remains the caption to that image to this day.
Someone else who did very extensive work on the page — adding
most
of the quotes on it — also added an available image of multiple religious symbols to use with the caption "Either every imaginable institution is founded on a religious concept or it is only a passing phenomenon" which I certainly find to be an appropriate use of such an image.
So much for that being "remembered" as "one of the first things that really alerted me to @Kalki's vandalism."
I expect to be engaged in nearly constant work elsewhere for most of the next couple of days, and will probably not even have time to even check in here much until next week, let alone address any issues extensively, but hope to do so sometime within the next week or so.
So
it
goes
Blessings
. ~
♌︎
Kalki
⚓︎
10:12, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
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The symbol within the hand, like most representations of wheels, crosses, the sun and rainbows is an ambiguous one such as used by many diverse and even conflicting religious and social traditions which is described as a "representation of Light shining in darkness, with a spectral ring circling it with colors of the rainbow, equatable with a Dharma wheel or Solar cross, amidst a radial matrix, web, or net of dark and light configurations". ~
♌︎
Kalki
⚓︎
12:44, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Wikiquote:Image use policy
says: "An image that is not a literal representation of the subject of the page may be removed by any editor who believes it to be inappropriate. Thereafter, it should not be re-added without first obtaining consensus on the article talk page."
So please do just remove these images when you come across them.
Ficaia
talk
16:13, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Thank you, I appreciate the reply.
SpigottoCorenzo
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20:52, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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I don't know if "degrading" is an appropriate term, but certainly making it weird.
BD2412
04:42, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
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I've blocked OP as an obvious sock, and no, I don't mean of the I-made-an-account-earlier-today type. They're free to explain how they've had years of conflict with Kalki and yet this account has been used for nothing but to immediately come here and stir up some drama.
talk
12:16, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
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I agree with GMG’s decision
PieWriter
talk
12:17, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
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I agree with the block, but I also agree with the broader proposition that we should not be overusing one set of ambiguous images.
BD2412
04:43, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Discontinue
Wikiquote:Requested entries
and its subpages?
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Latest comment:
14 days ago
6 comments
4 people in discussion
Hello, everyone. I would like to propose that we discontinue
Wikiquote:Requested entries
and its subpages (themes for article creations).
The reason is that some people ask questions unrelated to requesting new articles, there is occasional vandalism here and there, and some of these subpages have never been edited in a few years. In addition to that, unregistered and new users can create articles directly in the mainspace, so what's the point of having the requested entries project page?
Therefore, when discontinuing them, they should be fully protected (from edits and moves) and marked with
{{
historical
}}
. Thoughts?
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
16:59, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
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It doesn't encourage people when the items at the top are years out of date. I agree. Not everyone realises that they can just start typing and create content themselves, so maybe keep the "be bold" text about making it yourself, with perhaps a link directly to a relevant page with some info on what to do? e.g.
Help:Starting_a_new_page
GrimRob
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10:49, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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To clarify, does your comment above mean you support this proposal?
Codename Noreste
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contribs
14:02, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
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Yes. The rest falls into "if it's easy"...
GrimRob
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15:45, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
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It is kinda useless at this point, it is rarely used and almost no one knows about it.
PieWriter
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23:40, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
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It can sometime be used in the right way. If we go on "
Wikiquote:Requested_entries/People
" , "
Wikiquote:Requested_entries/Movies
" or "
Wikiquote:Requested_entries/Music
".
We can find some real requests. I gave only three examples.
If we go on "
Wikiquote:Requested_entries/Radio
" , this is empty.
Wikiquote:Requested entries
" and child pages like "
Wikiquote:Requested_entries/Music
" seems to be mainly inactive.
If this function is rarely used. Should we protect the pages then archive these ? I don't know.
As I'm not an experienced user on Wikiquote. I haven't a strong opinion.
Anatole-berthe
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01:22, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
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Can't reply to a message on the Village Pump
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Latest comment:
26 days ago
4 comments
2 people in discussion
I can reply on other pages I have tried. If I try on the VP I get this message.
> The "reply" link cannot be used to reply to this comment. To reply, please use the full page editor by clicking "Edit source".
Looked at this article and couldn't see anything it mentions.
It used to work until a day or so ago. Anyone else got this problem (assuming you can reply somehow!)?
GrimRob
talk
10:37, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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I have to reply to myself by editing the markup.
GrimRob
talk
10:40, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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It happened to me as well, after I updated the headers. The problem was at
{{
Headers/end
}}
, and it was because it was missing an extra div tag. I just fixed it, and the reply tool works again. My apologies.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
15:40, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Great, thanks👍
GrimRob
talk
16:36, 28 March 2026 (UTC)
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Upcoming Wikimedia Café meetup regarding the
the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan
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Hello! There will be a
Wikimedia Café
meetup on
Saturday, 11 April 2026 at 14:00 UTC
timestamp conversion tool
), focusing on the
the 2026-2027 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan
. The featured guests will be
Kelsi Stine-Rowe
(senior manager,
Movement Communications
, Wikimedia Foundation), and
Sam Walton
(senior product manager,
Moderator Tools
, Wikimedia Foundation).
In addition to this Café session,
several additional meetings regarding the Annual Plan are listed on the Collaboration page
, and you may participate on the
talk page
This Café meetup will be approximately two hours long. Attendees may choose to attend only for a part. Please see the Café page for more information, including
how to register
↠Pine
05:31, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
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Action Required: Update templates/modules for electoral maps (Migrating from P1846 to P14226)
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Latest comment:
19 days ago
2 comments
2 people in discussion
Hello everyone,
This is a notice regarding an ongoing data migration on Wikidata that may affect your election-related templates and Lua modules (such as
Module:Itemgroup/list
).
The Change:
Currently, many templates pull electoral maps from Wikidata using the property
P1846
, combined with the qualifier
P180
Q19571328
We are migrating this data (across roughly 4,000 items) to a newly created, dedicated property:
P14226
What You Need To Do:
To ensure your templates and infoboxes do not break or lose their maps, please update your local code to fetch data from
P14226
instead of the old
P1846
P180
structure. A
list of pages
was generated using Wikimedia Global Search.
Deadline:
We are temporarily retaining the old data on
P1846
to allow for a smooth transition. However, to complete the data cleanup on Wikidata, the old
P1846
statements will be removed after
May 1, 2026
. Please update your modules and templates before this date to prevent any disruption to your wiki's election articles.
Let us know if you have any questions or need assistance with the query logic. Thank you for your help!
ZI Jony
using
MediaWiki message delivery
talk
17:11, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
Reply
English Wikiquote is not included on the page change list, so there is nothing for us to do here.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
18:21, 4 April 2026 (UTC)
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Change the protection icons and use the protected page text templates?
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Latest comment:
13 days ago
5 comments
3 people in discussion
Hi, I would like to propose that we utilize the
{{
protected page text
}}
templates on
MediaWiki:Protectedpagetext
. Currently, that interface message is vague, which doesn't mention what level of protection a page is under.
In addition, I would like to propose changing the protection icons to match the English Wikipedia/Wikibooks/Wikimedia Commons:
Extended content
Full protection
Autopatroller protection
Semi-protection
Move protection
Cascade protection
Creation protection
Thoughts?
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
15:34, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
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Sounds fine to me. ~
UDScott
talk
16:22, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
Reply
I will implement the changes by Friday (tomorrow) if there are no objections.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
16:23, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
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I agree with the suggestion.
Anatole-berthe
talk
17:12, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
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Done, mostly
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
16:13, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
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Why are quotes no longer underneath photos?
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Latest comment:
4 days ago
3 comments
2 people in discussion
When I look at wikiquote on my phone all I see is a picture until I swipe left or resize the he frame the I see the quote smashed to the right of the photo? Why did this change?
~2026-21862-27
talk
16:42, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
Reply
On
my sandbox
, I am attempting to figure out a redesign. Anyway, about the change, context can be found at
#QOTD sizing issue on main page
for implementing the new change.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
17:08, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
Reply
~2026-21862-27
I fixed the issue. The quote (picture and all), except the underlying subtitle, is slidable, but it is now better.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
22:15, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
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Proposal on the bots page
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Latest comment:
8 days ago
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1 person in discussion
Feel free to take a look:
Wikiquote talk:Bots#Split the bot request part to its own page?
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
16:06, 15 April 2026 (UTC)
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Ongoing RfA
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Latest comment:
7 days ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
An RfA is currently open at
Wikiquote:Requests for adminship/PieWriter
. Community members are invited to participate and leave comments.
Saroj
talk
10:59, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
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Enable the SandboxLink extension?
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Latest comment:
4 days ago
4 comments
4 people in discussion
I would like to propose enabling the SandboxLink extension on this wiki, because it would be convenient for a user to be able to access their sandbox; according to
this search
, many editors have their own userspace sandboxes.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
00:30, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
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Support
Justin (
ko
vf
00:48, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
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Support
PieWriter
talk
00:52, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
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Support
This would be a great extension to have. Having to manually type out the sandbox link every time is quite inconvenient. --
Saroj
talk
02:55, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
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Wikiquote:Requests for permissions
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Latest comment:
4 days ago
1 comment
1 person in discussion
I created this page for non-administrators to request access to various permissions, such as autopatroller, patroller, rollbacker, etc.; the rollbacker and temporary account IP viewer sections were previously located at
Wikiquote:Requests for adminship
, before I overhauled that page solely for users to request administrator access and other advanced permissions. Thank you.
Codename Noreste
talk
contribs
05:04, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
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Wiki Loves Bangla 2026 has started, Join Now!
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Latest comment:
2 days ago
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Hello,
We are excited to announce that
Wiki Loves Bangla 2026
has started! This year’s theme focuses on
Bengal festivals
, inviting participants to capture and share images and videos of the diverse cultural celebrations across Bengal.
Wiki Loves Bangla
is an international photography contest on Wikimedia Commons aimed at documenting Bengali culture and heritage worldwide. It is organised annually as part of the
Bangla Culture and Heritage Collation Program
, with a dedicated theme each year.
How You Can Participate
, it's easy and simple, and every upload contributes to the world's largest free knowledge repository:
Winning image from Wiki Loves Bangla 2025.
Attribution:
Ashraf747
CC BY-SA 4.0
Capture
: Take photos or videos of Bengal festivals.
Upload
: Share your files to Wikimedia Commons between
14 April and 15 May 2026
Win
: A total of
USD 1,100
in prizes.
Ready to get started?
Click here to upload your media
, or visit the
main project page
for full details.
Your contributions help document and preserve Bengal’s rich cultural heritage for the world.
For any questions, email us or join our
Telegram group
Warm regards,
Wiki Loves Bangla Team
#WikiLovesBangla
Moheen
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20:34, 21 April 2026 (UTC)
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