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{{R with possibilities}} should be respected as well. That template exists in about 20 languages. Beyond those, I don’t think we could justify having this suggestion at all, as they have no way to mark which redirects can be bypassed vs. which cannot. I would not trust newcomers to understand the considerations that go into deciding which redirects to bypass.

I was able to get the patchdemo to show me green categories. I'm not sure the number of items in a category is all that relevant to me as I'm deciding whether to add it or not. I'm more interested in being able to click through to the category to see any description info it has, examples of the photos in it, and what its parent/child categories are.

I notice that in this task the proposed solution is to have the "publish changes" button actually publish, whereas in the duplicate task I submitted I suggested changing the button to instead say "done" (it could also have a check icon) and then return to the "save your changes" window.

See T439643 for the newcomer tasks equivalent.

See also: T426362 for the suggestion mode equivalent.

This looks good! A few notes:

I really liked the falling apart globe animation that @AAlhazwani-WMF made at the 2026 Hackathon. Wikipedia's quirkiness is a central component of its branding, and it'd be nice to use the 404 page as an opportunity for some of that. Would that be possible?

@Jonesey95, the task itself does not include any details on how to reproduce the error, but skimming the discussion above, it seems that you all have since worked out how it is happening. Updating the task description might help push this toward resolution.

Note: The idea for this feature came up at en-wiki in this thread.

@Michael, could you say a bit more about why it wouldn't be possible to just adapt the existing functionality for excluding sections we have for Community Configuration of Add-Link-Structured-Task?

Copying a comment I made offline:

Sketching a theoretical mechanism for how we might evaluate this (and other possible changes to the model):

@Lock46, some good news! I believe we've been able to restore your reading lists, and have rolled out a fix to prevent this from happening to other users. Let us know if you are still not seeing them. Apologies again you had to experience this!

Per our offline discussion, we're keeping them separate!

@Soda I created a screengrab, but Phabricator won't let me upload it because it's too large. Will DM you on Discord with it (and if anyone else wants it, lmk).

Works for me!

I just tested this out and noticed it only works if you type #redirect in all-lowercase. The more common way to type it, which is what the source editor inserts via its button, is #REDIRECT in all-caps. Could we adjust this so that it handles this case? Reopening this task since, given the prevalence of the all-caps format, I don't think it can be considered resolved until it handles that.

From Johan: At Swedish Wikipedia and many medium-sized wikis, the patrol process for new articles looks like this.

Looking at the equivalent of the New Pages Patrol in other languages, it really seems to vary a lot. For instance, Spanish Wikipedia appears to have a "Librarian" or "Verifier" role that marks pages as reviewed.

@ppelberg, please let me know how I can help with this!

Yeah, if there isn't a caption in the language of the wiki you're adding an image in, then this wouldn't apply. You're right that, in practice, this gives an en-wiki focus. That said, I do wonder e.g. what percentage of images added to Japanese Wikipedia have Japanese captions; I'm guessing it'd be significantly higher than the percentage of Commons images with Japanese captions overall.