Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2025-04-09/News and notes

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|caption = Credential stuffing attacks do not attempt to use brute force or guess any passwords – the attacker simply automates the logins for a large number (thousands to millions) of previously discovered credential pairs.

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The Foundation announced that it has locked 35,893 accounts that were found to be compromised after a credential stuffing attack. Apparently, no accounts that utilized two-factor authentication were affected.

WMF representatives stated on the Meta page for the announcement that:

{{signpost inline quote|We don't currently have any reason to believe Wikimedia's systems were the source of the compromise, nor do we have any evidence that any particular user or group of users, or any specific community were targeted.}}

A discussion on English Wikipedia ensued over at the Village Pump. Off-wiki discussions of the matter happened on the Discord, which anyone using the platform is welcome to join through: https://discord.com/invite/wikipedia .– {{small|B}}

On March 25, 1995, American programmer Ward Cunningham officially launched WikiWikiWeb, the first wiki (user-editable website) in history, to accompany the Portland Pattern Repository website discussing software design patterns.

Despite being in read-only mode [https://web.archive.org/web/20150203073828/http://forage.ward.fed.wiki.org/view/migrating-wiki since February 2015], WikiWikiWeb celebrated its 30th birthday on March 25, 2025. The anniversary gained some media coverage, including from Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera {{Small|([https://www.corriere.it/tecnologia/25_marzo_15/trent-anni-fa-nasceva-la-prima-wiki-il-progetto-poi-diventato-wikipedia-che-ha-reso-democratica-la-conoscenza-d9b4a01b-f5fa-4f5a-9be4-36fec8906xlk.shtml in Italian], behind pay-wall)}}; plus, Cunningham himself has been [https://www.elmundo.es/la-lectura/2025/04/03/67e52124fdddff3f278b457e.html interviewed] by Spanish newspaper El Mundo, as well as MediaWiki developer Yaron Koren – as part of [https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-179-ward-cunningham an episode of his Between the Brackets podcast]. – {{small|O}}

The programming proposal application phase for Wikimania 2025 has officially closed; the convention's organizers will now review the submitted programs, before starting announcements in May. Set to be hosted in Nairobi, Kenya, from August 5 to 9, 2025, Wikimania 2025 is tied to the theme "Inclusivity. Impact. Sustainability", with the organizing team writing:

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As part of this year's fifth bulletin, it was announced that a new Wikimedia Research Fund is launching: researchers aiming to advance free knowledge through Wikimedia projects can submit their proposals until April 16, with application notifications being set to be issued on May 14. Updates about [https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/03/14/wikimedia-design-jam-introduces-codex-to-designers/ Wikimedia’s Codex design system], an [https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContentTranslation&filter-type=automatic&filter-id=previous-edits&active-list=suggestions&from=en&to=es&wprov=wppw2 improved and up-coming Content Translation tool dashboard] for all Wikipedias, a [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WMF_support_for_Commons/Upload_Wizard_Improvements#Improve_category_selection new system to select the appropriate file categories], and the latest objectives and key results of the Product & Technology department have all been highlighted, as well.

At a call for volunteers for the Global Resource Distribution Committee (see prior Signpost coverage), a deadline for self-nomination was extended to March 31, and several individuals withdrew their offers to participate. – {{Small|S, O, and B}}

• New administrators: The Signpost welcomes the English Wikipedia's newest administrator, {{U|Goldsztajn}}.
• Active administrators: The number of active administrators is a bit wobbly and hit 447 on 28 March – taking us back to where we were almost exactly a year ago, despite the gains in November 2024 due to administrator elections (see prior Signpost coverage). It fell again to 443 on 7 April 2025, just as we go to press.
• A new admin recall petition passes: The 3rd ever admin recall petition passed earlier last month, gaining the required 25 signatures in under 5 hours. After the petition passed, {{U|Master Jay}} chose to resign at the bureaucrats' noticeboard.
• Articles for Improvement: This week's Article for Improvement is Plate (dishware) (beginning 7 April 2025), followed by Honshu (beginning 14 April 2025). Please be bold in helping improve these articles!

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