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Question from Nkbok on Alex Burghart (05:59, 2 January 2026)

Can you make the image smaller pls I'm useless --Nkbok (talk) 05:59, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Nkbok, sure, should be good, now. Check it again (you might have to refresh/reload the page, to see the change). How's that, now? Mathglot (talk) 06:20, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

thank you that's perfect 🙏 Nkbok (talk) 06:23, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Question from Nkbok (09:53, 2 January 2026)

What's your favourite source for finding your own pictures to submit --Nkbok (talk) 09:53, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Nkbok, not quite sure I understand, because if you really mean, 'my own pictures', then my favorite source is my camera. But I think you probably meant something else. Can you clarify? Mathglot (talk) 09:56, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

i mean finding pictures online that are allowed on Wikipedia Nkbok (talk) 10:06, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Nkbok, I don't upload *that* many images myself, but by far the easiest, are images I take myself. These are almost guaranteed acceptance, because they don't violate any copyright. Searching for images online is harder, because of the licensing restrictions, but you could try Flickr. Users there have the option to place their images under CC BY-SA and other compatible licenses, and if you find one like that, you can upload it (like thousands have already been uploaded). But it is crucial to understand what copyright pertains to the original image, before you upload it. More information about this is available at Wikicommons; try asking specific questions at c:Commons:Village pump/Copyright. Hope this helps! Mathglot (talk) 10:14, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Template:Uh-page-numbers?

I'm going through a report of unused templates, and {{Uh-page-numbers}} popped up. For most of the templates, I just TFD them, but I recognized your name as a valuable contributor and wanted to check in to see if you have plans for this one. – Jonesey95 (talk) 18:09, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Jonesey95, very thoughtful of you. I did have, and thought I used it, but I guess I didn't (or maybe I hand-wrote it first on a User talk page, and then built the template from it afterward; can't remember now). I'll move it to my user space. Thanks for the heads-up! Mathglot (talk) 04:22, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Groovy. Thanks. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:40, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

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Hello Mathglot!

I'm trying to make an Administrator application, i'll promise that i will be a good admin, but to be honest, it is only available during the Administrator elections or something? not even applications? -- I want more berries in my mouth! (talk) 07:04, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Responded at your Talk page. Mathglot (talk) 07:27, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

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Question from Ziyaj on Talk:Khan Academy (20:18, 9 January 2026)

Hello 👋 guys, My name is ziyaj, I'm in Somalia 🇸🇴 This website is my first website that I viewed And I'm student, highly school, And I'm gonna learn something on this web Also i want a new friends. --Ziyaj (talk) 20:18, 9 January 2026 (UTC)

Hello, Ziyaj, and welcome to Wikipedia! Wikipedia is about building an encyclopedia, and not so much about making friends, although that can happen as part of your volunteer work here. Are you interested in building an encyclopedia? I can help you with questions about editing Wikipedia. Do you have a question? Mathglot (talk) 01:32, 10 January 2026 (UTC)

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Question from Nkbok (15:27, 12 January 2026)

Greg Hands - Wikipedia

Could you add the image caption (official portrait, 2023) and make the image smaller thank u --Nkbok (talk) 15:27, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, Nkbok, and welcome! Images in infoboxes generally do not need captions, as the Infobox makes the context clear. If you think the page Greg Hands should have a caption in the Infobox, please start a discussion at Talk:Greg Hands describing your reasons why adding one would be an improvement. Good luck! Mathglot (talk) 09:02, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

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LLM Translation

Incidentally, for curiosity's sake I tried running an article from the Spanish wiki through the OKA workflow with Grok, after first doing an entirely manual translation myself. I think the results were pretty good, but had some problems. I'm curious how many of the problems you would catch on review, or if you would notice the same ones I noticed. -- LWG ^{talk (VOPOV)} 03:47, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

(talk page stalker). Many links to disambiguation pages. No image in the infobox. Hyphens instead of dashes for year ranges. "Hernando de Magallanes" in the translated quotation. Nonexistent {{Siglo}} used. Untranslated text in |pages= of a citation template. "«" characters used instead of quotation marks. Nonexistent categories added. Many citation template parameter value errors. These are all things that human translators do in draft articles every single day, many of which I find myself tagging and correcting even after they go through the AFC process and are moved to article space. The prose is much better than that produced by a typical human translator. Pretty damn impressive in my book. If you hadn't told me it was LLM-generated, I don't think I would have had a way to know. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:52, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi, LWG, and thanks for this useful experiment. Tbh, I haven't got past the page title yet. It is interesting to note that whereas es:Nao has equivalents in 14 languages (Q516239, English is not one of them. Otoh, en:Carrack (Q220635) has equivalents in 44 languages, including Spanish (es:Carraca (embarcación)). An attempt at an unbiased search in google books shows support for both nao and carrack, with perhaps a lean towards carrack. I would have to go deeper to find what the page should be called in English, but if carrack is right, then that might call into question things like whether the two Wikidata items are really separate topics, and why Spanish has es:Nao and es:Carraca (embarcación) (and so do a number of other languages) but we don't. The last sentence of the lead paragraph of es:Nao shows that Spanish Wikipedia definitely considers them two topics.

The only 'body test' I did was to see if it got the translation of Malvinas right (which it did), but that's a pretty low bar. I can imagine some handy tools that might help, such as a template or script that would find the three longest sentences, and spot-check those, and just thinking about it, all sorts of other little 'sampling tests' (to avoid having to proofread or re-translate the whole thing) come to mind. Maybe we should have a whole, 'nother discussion about that somewhere; I bet people would contribute all sorts of useful ideas. Thanks for providing this example; more like these could also be a good way to add data to the pot. 7804j might want to comment, due to the Grok and OKA connection. Mathglot (talk) 05:47, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for your kind words. The title came from me, not Grok. I chose "(carrack)" simply because San Antonio (ship) wasn't available and we already had Concepción (carrack). I would welcome input if there's a better option there. -- LWG ^{talk (VOPOV)} 06:33, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Happy 25th Anniversary of Wikipedia!!

Feel free to read my story at User:Interstellarity/My Story and join in for some Wikipedia-related fun. I hope you like it. Interstellarity (talk) 22:11, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Fiscal pedaling

The article Fiscal pedaling has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

I am concerned that all of the sources reference Rousseff's impeachment or Operation Car wash (meaning they're not economic or accounting sources informing about a form of fraud but reporting on a political scandal). Additionally, this article only exists in English and Portuguese, indicating that "Fiscal pedaling" is not an established or widespread concept in economics or politics, outside of Lava Jato.

To be blunt, I am not sure that "fiscal pedaling" exists and may have been manufactured for political reason's against the Worker's party of Brazil.

The article in it's current state doesn't really address the controversy and complexity behind Lava Jato. Instead it presents fiscal pedaling as an established concepts in corruption by saying it "is a governmental creative accounting technique" and "gained popularity with the Brazilian Presidential election". Conversely, the Portuguese article better explains that the concept was invented during Rousseff's impeachment.

I think presenting this as an established concept -that is a form of corruption- misleads the reader by not acknowledging that the idea of fiscal pedaling was invented to discredit the Worker's Party in Brazil, whether legitimately or not

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Prod removed; responded at length at Talk. Mathglot (talk) 08:57, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Mathglot (talk) 07:44, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Joining forces for {{edit}} and {{la:nexus ad recensendum}}

Hi Mathglot!

I almost forgot when you mentioned turbocharging the {{edit}} template… Two years ago I wrote its Latin version. Since the English {{edit}} template is quite basic and I would need to translate it anyway, I rewrote it from scratch. To do that, I implemented the URL parameters that are documented in the Edit API (most of them):

Extended content

• &title=
• &pageid=
• &section=
• &sectiontitle=
• &text=
• &summary=
• &tags=
• &minor=
• &notminor=
• &bot=
• &baserevid=
• &basetimestamp=
• &starttimestamp=
• &recreate=
• &createonly=
• &nocreate=
• &watch=
• &unwatch=
• &watchlist=
• &watchlistexpiry=
• &md5=
• &prependtext=
• &appendtext=
• &undo=
• &undoafter=
• &redirect=
• &contentformat=
• &contentmodel=
• &token=
• &returnto=
• &returntoquery=
• &returntoanchor=
• &captchaword=
• &captchaid=
• &discussiontoolsautosubscribe=
• &preloadparams%5b%5d=, &preloadparams%5b%5d=, …

However, as I discovered later, not all URL parameters are supported via wikitext (although many are), and some are supported only in API mode. But I never had the time to test them thoroughly. Now maybe I have a bit of time to fix the Latin template. I will also have to remove some parameters that, although formally supported, are not really useful in an {{edit}} template. Long story short, while the English template migh need turbocharging, the Latin template needs a bit of discharging instead. How about we join forces? :) --Grufo (talk) 17:06, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Question from Lord Nohann on Model United Nations (18:53, 15 January 2026)

Hello, i had a little freetime and decided to contribute for a bit, i've done some hyperlink adding but i struggle to copyedit, particularly i struggle to see the non subjective point of view that must be corrected, in "model united nations" can you help me to see the issue please? --Lord Nohann (talk) 18:53, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Question from Byteleads (16:49, 18 January 2026)

I Wants to add article --Byteleads (talk) 16:49, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Kannywood Films Directors

Sunusi Dan Yaro is a film director and media professional with a background in video editing and post-production. He began his career working as a video editor, where he developed strong technical skills in visual storytelling, content structure, and production workflow. Over time, his practical experience across multiple productions led to a transition into film directing, with a focus on disciplined storytelling, production planning, and audience engagement. His work spans projects within Kannywood and Nollywood, contributing to productions recognized for both creative and academic relevance. His Film A Duniya has made many universities in Nigeria did so many research. Byteleads (talk) 17:06, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Byteleads, writing an article at Wikipedia has a pretty steep learning curve. In addition, Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, so the article would have to be of encyclopedic interest, and not just a CV or resume. Finally, if you are Sunusi Danyaro, or are connected with him personally or professionally, then you will have to WP:DISCLOSE your relationship on your Talk page. If you still want to try to write the article, I suggest you start by reading Help:Your first article, and then WP:Notability to determine whether Sunusi Danyaro meets the minimum threshold of notability required for an article at Wikipedia. Mathglot (talk) 08:10, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

090 520 6960

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Friend of Mahadi, or do you have a question? Mathglot (talk) 20:14, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

The Wikipedia sign up page disclaimer idea

Hi. The project you asked for a link to has been in the making for a couple of years but lost impetus because others who were originally interested either changed their focus on their Wikipedia contributions, or left WP completely, or I took an extended Wikibreak for personal reasons, or the WMF is not interested for the reasons I explained elsewhere. KeyolTranslater is on the right track but is not aware of the history The project has stalled simply because I do not have the basic programming skills to add some simple CSS, js and/or script to a couple of templates in the UIs. It needs to be completed and offered to the community as complete proof of concept leaving only an RfC for a binary decision to run a trial (much in the same way as we did for ACTRIAL). It hinges around this flowchart (it's nowhere near as complicated as it looks) which I designed, along with the elements behind it, some of which are lightly based on other users' ideas which never gained traction. The main hurdle is the tweak to the registration page. If you would like to help or learn more, please leave a message on my talk page. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 23:28, 18 January 2026 (UTC)

Draft feedback request

Hello Mathglot, I’ve created a draft article at Draft:Neuroparasitology using the AfC wizard and would appreciate any feedback when you have time, particularly since this is my first real attempt at a wiki page WCBeckerson (talk) 17:47, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

WCBeckerson, other than this article, can you tell me what other articles or topic areas interest you that you might wish to work on at Wikipedia? Mathglot (talk) 22:16, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

@Mathglot, I am a neuroparasitologist with 10 years of molecular genetics research experience. Neuroparasitology, as a field, is relatively new (last 10 years or so) and I have noticed there is not much on Wiki about it yet, despite an abundance of articles about its subject matter. I would therefore like to mainly contribute to biology-themed articles about molecular genetics, parasite-host relationships, and behavior manipulation.