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Qwerfjkl (bot) – Pandas_planes

Page: Chicago_Fire_Department

Diff: Special:Diff/1376036778

I have changed the source but I don't think the bot did anything in the first place

Pandas planes (talk) 19:45, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

sorry I did not mean to send it 2 times Pandas planes (talk) 19:47, 21 September 2026 (UTC)

Pandas planes, what do you mean [you] don't think the bot did anything in the first place? It notified you of the problem. — Qwerfjkltalk 17:32, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

it said that it deleted the part I wrote,so I went to check and it did not do anything to the article Pandas planes (talk) 22:04, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

@Pandas planes, perhaps you misread "detected" as "deleted"? Qwerfjkltalk 09:38, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

maybe Pandas planes (talk) 14:08, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

"Copy nomination wikitext"

Hello, re the MassXfD feature you added on my request, for me it throws the error "Uncaught TypeError: can't access property "toUpperCase", s[0] is undefined". 1234qwer1234qwer4 21:39, 22 September 2026 (UTC)

1234qwer1234qwer4, what did you fill out the fields with? — Qwerfjkltalk 11:17, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

I was adding these redirects, cf. Special:Diff/1376224506. 1234qwer1234qwer4 21:50, 24 September 2026 (UTC)

1234qwer1234qwer4, okay, I see what the problem was. The logic was CFD-specific and it broke on RFD. I've changed how it works and it should work now (Special:Diff/1376692991). The copy button will take a bit longer to show because it needs to wait for authors for FFD and I'm too tried right now to handle that as an exception, so it waits on any XfD. — Qwerfjkltalk 18:22, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

• The October 2026 administrator elections are set to proceed.
• We plan to use the following schedule:
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October 2026 Administrator Elections – Schedule

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Question from Muffinbutt1985 (02:14, 27 September 2026)

Is it ok to name children if they’re dead? I’ve been going through my articles on jihadists and removing the names of their minor children to comply with Wikipedia’s policy. Since the policy is to protect the privacy of the children, is it all right to disclose their names if they are dead? Since dead people can’t get upset about privacy and have no futures to protect.

Several of the jihadists I’ve written about brought their kids to the Islamic State or gave birth in IS territory and some of the kids subsequently died of war-related causes. I view the children as being victims of ISIS. Right now I’m removing the names of living ones but leaving up the names of dead ones, is that ok?

An example would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasa_P%C3%A9rez_Molleja who brought six kids in and three did not survive. --Muffinbutt1985 (talk) 02:14, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Muffinbutt1985, I'm not familiar with Wikipedia's policy on naming children. can you link to it? I did a quick search but couldn't find it. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:56, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

It’s in their living persons policy. Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons Muffinbutt1985 (talk) 14:58, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Muffinbutt1985, I think you should ask at Wikipedia talk:Biographies of living persons for a more accurate response, but I think probably the children's names should still be omitted even if they are dead. — Qwerfjkltalk 15:05, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-39

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

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday, 23 September 2026 at 14:00 UTC. This is for the datacenter server switchover backup tests, which happen twice a year. During the switchover, all Wikimedia website traffic is shifted from one primary data center to the backup data center to test availability and prevent service disruption even in emergencies.

Updates for editors

• The Growth team tested a new post-edit notice designed to encourage Temporary Account holders to register for a permanent account. The new notice replaced multiple dialogs and a simultaneous welcome notification with a single message highlighting the benefits of creating an account. The experiment increased permanent account creation from 1.94% to 3.66%, an 87% relative increase. The change will now be released to all wikis.
• For Wikipedia editors using the "Suggestion mode" Beta Feature, there is a new opt-in user preference for showing "experimental" edit checks and suggestions. These types are listed at Special:EditChecks, and are intended for early developer-testing and for gathering feedback from experienced users. Administrators can change the configuration details for each suggestion as usual. Administrators can also use this feature to help test their community's ideas for locally created checks and suggestions. Experimental types will have a more distinct visual style later this week. Feedback is welcome.
• The CEE Technical Village Pump has been launched as a space for technical discussions and collaboration among Wikimedia communities in Central and Eastern Europe.
• A new tool, Starter Kit, is now available for new and small language Wikipedia communities. It brings together guided tasks, tools, and resources to help communities get started, monitor their progress, and collaborate with the broader Wikimedia community. Starter Kit is hosted on Wikimedia Toolforge and is designed for Wikipedias with fewer than 50,000 articles. Learn more about how Starter Kit works and how communities have been using it in this Diff blog post.
• The Reader Growth team is launching a retest of the image carousel experiment. The retest will use three new versions of the design, updated based on community feedback. The team will assess results and determine with communities whether or not to proceed with the feature. The experiment will begin the week of September 28 and will run on Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, Farsi, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Vietnamese Wikipedias.
• After successful rollouts to Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, English, French, Indonesian, and Vietnamese Wikipedias, the Reading Lists feature from the Reader Experience team will be available to all logged-in users on all Wikipedia wikis starting September 28.
• View all 28 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where the mentor status script repeatedly updated mentors’ status even when nothing had changed, creating unnecessary Recent Changes entries, has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The abusefilters list query API, used to retrieve specific details about active or historical abuse filters configured on a wiki, has been updated to support the formatversion=2 configuration parameter, thereby leading to breaking changes to the API response. All users who maintain user-scripts or other code need to check if they use the abusefilters list query API, and respond to any breaking changes.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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Qwerfjkl (bot) – Ceren_Ada

Page: September_8

Diff: Special:Diff/1377038708

Comment/question:

Hello. There were no issues with the edits I made on September 8th—or at least, I wasn't aware of making any mistakes. I have been developing my skills in editing Wikipedia over time, though I may have made an error unintentionally. Did I make a mistake in one of the edits? If I did, please feel free to point it out. I don't know many languages. I did wonder if separating sources might have been an error, but I actually verify details—such as the person's dates of birth—individually across multiple sources. Could this perhaps be a misunderstanding? Ceren Ada (talk) 18:53, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Ceren Ada, the author was given as "Author, jbugembe About"; it should be just "jbugembe". — Qwerfjkltalk 14:57, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Question from Kingbelair (00:13, 28 September 2026)

i want to nhelp someone publish his book in wikipedia --Kingbelair (talk) 00:13, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Kingbelair, Wikipedia is not a place for self promotion. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:57, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Question from Bamrxh (10:02, 28 September 2026)

how to make a wiki page --Bamrxh (talk) 10:02, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Bamrxh, Welcome! Creating a new article from scratch is extremely challenging, and new editors are strongly recommended to spend a few months learning how Wikipedia works first—perhaps through some of the tasks on your homepage—before trying it. If you're still interested in creating a new article, you are highly encouraged to read Help:Your first article. The first step is determining whether your topic meets our inclusion criteria by looking for coverage in independent, reliable sources with significant coverage. If you haven't already, also check out the tutorial; it's a lot of fun! Happy editing! — Qwerfjkltalk 14:57, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-40

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

• Users of default skins on desktop and mobile web (Vector 2022 and Minerva respectively) will now be informed if the search suggestions displayed as they type into Search come from page redirects. Previously, users could get confused when the top search suggestions did not match exactly what they had typed. The new redirect notice clarifies that these suggestions are not random, but related to the search. The suggested pages may be redirects to the most relevant destination articles being searched for.
• Logged-out Wikipedia users on mobile web will begin to see a bookmark button for saving articles to their reading lists instead of the current Watchstar button. When clicked, the bookmark button prompts users to log in or create an account to save an article for later. An earlier experiment found that the bookmark icon was four times more likely than the Watchstar button to encourage logged-out users to create an account. This change is part of efforts to encourage more readers to become account holders and use features that help them save and return to content.
• An experiment will begin on September 29 on Spanish, Arabic, English, and French Wikipedias to simplify the experience users encounter immediately after account creation. The test will explore whether removing friction from the current Welcome Survey helps new users understand what to do next more easily. The experiment will run through the end of October.

• The Product and Technology Advisory Council has put out a call for the community to suggest topics that it should consider and discuss with the Wikimedia Foundation. Editors and technical contributors are invited to add topics to the council's talk page.
• Later this week, it will be possible for communities to configure Edit Checks and Suggestions so that they are shown within additional namespaces, such as a Draft: namespace. Feedback is welcome.
• A bug in the Global Watchlist is causing the page to fail to load for users that have unseen changes on Wikimedia Commons. Developers are working on a fix. Until then, affected users can follow the workarounds described in the relevant help section.
• New magic words {{CATEGORYSORT:TIMESTAMP}} and {{CATEGORYSORT:RTIMESTAMP}} are now available for use. They are able to change the default sorting of categories to be based on timestamp of categorization.
• View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the issue where Wikistats for Wikipedias was not reachable has now been fixed.

Updates for technical contributors

• The datacenter switchover, scheduled on September 23, has been postponed. The equinox exercise revealed capacity issues, preventing the switch of all services to the other datacenter. The process has been paused, prioritizing investigating that issue, to ensure that we continue to be able to serve our users reliably. A new exercise will be scheduled. Meanwhile, all traffic and edits continue to work as usual.
• On September 23, a power loss briefly affected all wikis, creating intermittent issues on both reading and editing modes. This also affected Gerrit. This is unrelated to the datacenter switchover postponement.
• Produnto has been deployed to mediawiki.org and some Indic language wikis. We want to hear your feedback on this experimental product. Produnto allows users to use Lua modules hosted in Wikimedia's GitLab. It simplifies the sharing of Lua code between wikis. Instead of copying each individual Lua module from one wiki to another, users will be able to easily share packages across all wikis.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

Meetings and events

• A Cross-wiki code collaboration workshop will be held online on October 2 at 12:30 UTC, bringing together South Asian technical contributors to learn about Produnto and begin piloting it on Hindi, Punjabi, Odia, Telugu, and Malayalam Wikipedias. Produnto is a package manager for deploying Lua modules hosted on GitLab to Wikimedia wikis, and was recently deployed on some pilot wikis.

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October 2026 Administrator Elections – Call for Candidates

The administrator elections process has officially started! Qualified editors are encouraged to find at least one experienced nominator. Self-nominations are also allowed. Please review instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Candidates.

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• September 29 – October 5: Nominations phase (we are here)
• October 8–12: Discussion phase
• October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

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• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed. However, in practice, few candidates succeed without ~10K edits, some content creation, no recent behavioral issues, and a nominator.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
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October 2026 Administrator Elections – Call for Candidates

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The administrator elections process has officially started! Qualified editors are encouraged to find at least one experienced nominator. Self-nominations are also allowed. Please review instructions at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Candidates.

Here is the schedule:

• September 29 – October 5: Nominations phase (we are here)
• October 8–12: Discussion phase
• October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase

Please note the following:

• The requirements to run are identical to RFA—a prospective candidate must be extended confirmed. However, in practice, few candidates succeed without ~10K edits, some content creation, no recent behavioral issues, and a nominator.
• Prospective candidates are advised to become familiar with the community's expectations of administrators, which are much higher than the minimum requirement of having extended confirmed status. This includes reviewing successful and unsuccessful RFAs, reading the essay Wikipedia:Advice for admin elections candidates, and possibly requesting an optional poll on their chances of passing.
• The process will have a seven day call for candidates phase, a two day pause, a five day discussion phase, and a seven day private vote using SecurePoll. Discussion and questions are only allowed on the candidate pages during the discussion phase.
• The outcome of this process is identical to making a request for adminship. There is no official difference between an administrator appointed through RFA versus administrator elections.
• Administrator elections are also a valid means of regaining adminship for de-sysopped editors.

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Question from CuriousPussycat (17:32, 29 September 2026)

I am wondering if my proposed paragraph has been reviewed. It is not yet on the active page and I have not been informed that it was not approved. My paragraph is intended to provide a careful counterpoint to the previous paragraph which is quite tendentious --CuriousPussycat (talk) 17:32, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

I suppose you mean this edit? It was reverted here with the edit summary Unsourced and poorly written. Qwerfjkltalk 09:45, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

Question from CuriousPussycat (11:12, 30 September 2026)

Thank you for taking the time to reply regarding my edit on the entry for Sally Hemings. I believe I can fortify my arguments with proper citations. Upper level editors should review the blatant tendentiousness of the paragraph to which I was offering a counterbalance. The unsubstantiated imputed allegations against Jefferson are outrageous. As the president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation noted, "We really can't know what the dynamic was" I also did not think that my writing was insufficient. I had to bullet point my arguments. --CuriousPussycat (talk) 11:12, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

@CuriousPussycat, I suggest you discuss this at Talk:Sally Hemings. You say the allegations are unsubstantiated, but there are two references, whereas your paragraph had none. Also, don't you think that the president of the Thomas Jefferson may have some kind of bias? Qwerfjkltalk 17:16, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Question from Chris270589 (13:14, 1 October 2026)

wie erstelle ich eine webseite --Chris270589 (talk) 13:14, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

@Chris270589, sprechen Sie Englisch? — Qwerfjkltalk 16:05, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Question from Loganwikidude (21:12, 1 October 2026)

How does this mentor stuff actually work --Loganwikidude (talk) 21:12, 1 October 2026 (UTC)

Loganwikidude, if you have any questions or problems (relating to Wikipedia), feel free to ask. — Qwerfjkltalk 16:03, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – ~2026-53180-39

?There is NOTHING wrong with my citation. It's the exact citation that the original creator(s) should have consulted!It's the freaking CENSUS BUREAU! This robotic nanny app is gibberish and poisonous. Wikipedia should get rid of it or fix it. As things now stand, it appears to exclude all official publications as citations because they are not published as work that is the product of a single author. W.t.h. was Wikipedia thinking ???

Page: Connellsville_Township,_Pennsylvania

Diff: Special:Diff/1378088481

Comment/question:

~2026-53180-39 (talk) 22:50, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

@~2026-53180-39, you gave the author as "Bureau, US Census", but that is not a person's name, so should not be given in the last name, first name format. Qwerfjkltalk 13:38, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

Administrators' newsletter – October 2026

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2026).

Administrator changes

• Cleared as filed
• Dante Alighieri
• Doug Weller
• Gentgeen
• Vacant0

Oversight changes

• Doug Weller
• ToBeFree

Guideline and policy news

• Following an RfC, the good article criteria have been amended to add accessibility requirements.
• Following an RfC, late signatures added to administrator recall petitions after 720 hours from opening are reverted or struck and do not count towards the threshold, even if the petition has not yet been formally closed.
• The post-May 2026 administrator elections RfCs concluded with consensus for election monitors to curate blatantly inappropriate questions after posting, and to remove or merge true duplicates, clearly marking merged questions. Calls for candidates will include advisory guidance that users with less than one year’s experience or 5,000 edits generally lack a realistic chance of success.

Technical news

• Interface administrators no longer need to specify the ResourceLoader option in the definitions for gadgets on MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition as gadgets are always loaded through ResourceLoader. (T298199)
• The list=abusefilters API module now supports formatversion=2 and includes breaking changes to its responses. In particular, the actions property is now a JSON array rather than a string, regardless of the format version. Maintainers of user scripts and other code using this module should check compatibility and update their code as needed. (T435828)

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Gun control 2 has been closed.

Obituaries

• Doug Weller passed away on 30 September 2026. Doug Weller began editing Wikipedia in 2006 and became an administrator in 2008, making nearly 275,000 edits over two decades. He served on the Arbitration Committee from 2015 through 2018 and was also a longtime CheckUser and Oversighter.

Miscellaneous

• The October 2026 administrator elections are scheduled to run from September 29 to October 19. The call for candidates ends October 5.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2026 Arbitration Committee elections is opened and closes on 8 October.
• The Good Article Nominations backlog drive has begun and is scheduled to end on November 3.

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MassXfD edit summary

Minor quibble: Special:Diff/1377769224. Links do appear to be stripped for the XfD templates on the nominated pages, so this should probably use the same. 1234qwer1234qwer4 07:46, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Charles_Matthews

Page: Daniel_Sykes

Diff: Special:Diff/1378173343

Comment/question:

Given that "|editor-first2=" is shown on Template:Cite book in the "Full parameter set in horizontal format" section, this should not be an "Unknown parameter". The report would be a false positive.

Charles Matthews (talk) 08:10, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

@Charles Matthews, strange, I think this is some kind of bug in the citation template. It emits an error in the article, but it's listed at Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist#L-283. Not quite sure what's going on here. Qwerfjkltalk 13:44, 4 October 2026 (UTC)

Fixed in this diff. That would be some type of non-printing character, then. Charles Matthews (talk) 13:10, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

@Charles Matthews looks like two left-to-right characters. Perhaps the CS1 module should give errors for these kinds of characters in the parameter name. Qwerfjkltalk 17:52, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Question from Angel45545 on Sylvester Stallone's unrealized projects (02:19, 5 October 2026)

I like when make 2 park over top ask u fan I watch ever movie my sick cancer before die like 2 part of this movie --Angel45545 (talk) 02:19, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Qwerfjkl (bot) – Beeflin

Page: Chris_Eccleshall

Diff: Special:Diff/1378468493

Comment/question: The link works when I try it. Beeflin (talk) 15:11, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

@Beeflin, you added  l after the url. Qwerfjkltalk 17:56, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

Tech News: 2026-41

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

• The process for this year’s Community Wishlist has been published, incorporating community feedback. The wish submission process will end on November 8. This year, a working group (open for volunteering) that includes community members familiar with the technical aspect of our wikis alongside Wikimedia Foundation staff, will take care of the triage process. The triage is expected to be completed by late November. Votes for wishes will start in January.

Updates for editors

• Editors using the visual editor will now see a warning when they paste text that is likely to have initially been copied from one of five external generative AI chatbots into Wikipedia. This feature is known as LLM Paste Check. It is a type of Edit Check that is community configurable. The check looks for markers in the copied HTML and is not using content watermark detection. Edits will also be tagged so that patrollers can review them more closely. The feature helps newcomers add content that respects Wikipedia’s policies and makes it easier for experienced editors to identify problematic edits. Communities with local policies about LLM usage can adjust the wording and policy that is linked. The team apologizes that this was rolled out without a delay for translations.
• Editors can now easily access the web visual editor directly from the iOS and Android apps. When opening the editor, users will be given a choice between visual editing and source editing. If they choose visual editing, they will be sent to a mobile web window in their phone's browser. After completing their edit, a banner will give them the option to return to the app. This enables readers to make quick contributions while casually reading.
• Users of the Wikipedia Android and iOS apps will now see a one-time account creation prompt after they have used the app for two consecutive weeks. This prompt explains the benefits of having an account. It is intended to help more casual readers become logged-in users who return to the apps regularly.
• Editors on group1 wikis, including Wikiquote, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikivoyage, and Wikisource, will no longer see notifications on Recent Changes and Watchlist when a link to another language version of a page is added, removed, or changed in its Wikidata item. This change will begin on October 5 at 07:00 UTC as a two-week trial to reduce high-volume, low-value notifications and make important changes easier to identify. Editors who rely on these notifications can read more on the project page and share feedback or concerns on the talk page.
• View all 36 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, an issue where mentors who removed themselves from the mentorship program could still have mentees assigned to them and receive questions, has now been fixed. Mentees will now be reassigned when a mentor leaves the program.

Updates for technical contributors

• Wikimedia Brasil has published its Development Best Practices Framework (ABPD). It is a guide for staff, contractors and volunteers building technical tools and projects. It covers the project lifecycle, security, accessibility, personal data protection and responsible AI use, and explains how movement-wide guidelines were adapted to a local context. They encourage other affiliates to reuse it and adapt it. Read more in the Diff post.
• A new, canonical base URL for Wikimedia APIs will soon be introduced. The new canonical route follows a {projectName}/api/ pattern and will act as an alternative path for current REST APIs (for example: {projectName}/w/rest.php/). Both versions will be callable for all existing APIs, but the new structure will be the preferred path for newly created API modules. This change will be non-breaking for most users. The existing pathways will remain available for all existing endpoint requests. However, some endpoints may return URLs following the new pattern in response bodies. Changes will be available on test wiki first, with the rollout expected to cover all wikis by the end of October.
• Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki.

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Question from TechLearnerBD (19:17, 5 October 2026)

Hello! I am new to Wikipedia editing. Could you please guide me on how I can start contributing to articles? --TechLearnerBD (talk) 19:17, 5 October 2026 (UTC)

TechLearnerBD, have you had a look at Help:Getting started? — Qwerfjkltalk 13:05, 7 October 2026 (UTC)

October 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

The discussion phase of the October 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• October 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
• October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 Oct, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for.

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October 2026 Administrator Elections – Discussion Phase

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The discussion phase of the October 2026 administrator elections is officially open. As a reminder, the schedule of the election is:

• October 8–12: Discussion phase (we are here)
• October 13–19: SecurePoll voting phase
• Scrutineering phase

We are currently in the discussion phase. The candidate subpages are open to questions and comments from everyone, in the same style as a request for adminship. You may discuss the candidates at Wikipedia:Administrator elections/October 2026/Discussion phase.

On 13 Oct, we will start the voting phase. The candidate subpages will close to public questions and discussion, and everyone will have a week to use the SecurePoll software to vote, which uses a secret ballot. You can see who voted, but not who they voted for.

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