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Copied my reply from the template's talk page, "@Sdkb & Vchimpanzee, in the issue raised above, it would be fairly straightforward to change the text to "This is an archive of past discussions about Wikipedia:Teahouse." but it would be more complicated to get "This is an archive of past discussions on Wikipedia talk:Teahouse." There was a change done in the past to link from talk page archive banners to the article page. This works pretty well for articles, but quirks have come up outside of article space. I believe Andy came up with the idea, so I'll ping him for his thoughts, Rjjiii (talk) 05:09, 10 September 2025 (UTC)" 09:44, 20 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Are resolved questions getting immediately archived now? If so what's the thinking behind that? Mightn't it be helpful to mark a question as resolved but leave it up to get archived naturally, so that editors have a chance to ruminate on the the responses? -- D'n'B-📞 -- 18:46, 23 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
hi! this is to notify that i have formally retired from hosting for the meantime due to abysmal teahouse activity. as i was one of the hosts listed on Featured Hosts, i have decided to also remove myself from the listing at /24, replaced by Cullen for now as a placeholder.
Thank you for your service, Melecie. Great as he is, we probably shouldn't have Cullen328 listed twice. We could either move everyone after 24 up a place, or perhaps Pigsonthewing, who seems to have been particularly active responding to queries of late, would be interested in being added there? Cordless Larry (talk) 21:44, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
At the top of the page someone added the text "Why is there no Wikipedia page for Jacob Barnett in English?" Does anyone know who added this? I was going to reformat it as an actual topic so that person could get their question answered, but I looked through the page history and can't find who added it. 🏳️🌈JohnLaurens333 (need something? Ping me!) 16:27, 8 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'd imagine nowadays it would be proposed on a central noticeboard like the Village Pump Idea Lab, or the closest that could be found. Obviously I wasn't around then, but it looks like the Teahouse was born out of ideas that came out of an old project called Esperanza and some WMF research that began by focusing on the editor gender gap. Interesting stuff (or maybe only to me, I don't know). Perfect4th (talk) 19:11, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think as a Wikipedia grows it will naturally form the newbie help infrastructure it requires. From my hazy recollection...
First there was Wikipedia:Bootcamp. It also had an IRC channel #wikipedia-bootcamp; live chat can be an excellent way to communicate with a newcomer. At some stage that became #wikipedia-en-help. Jimbo Wales popped in the help channel one day and asked why is it so hard for (maybe theoretically) for his partner to ask for help on Wikipedia and someone created {{helpme}} for talk page assistance.
Bootcamp became WP:New contributors' help page. Esperanza was around during all of this but I don't recall it having a newcomer focus.
The Teahouse became a thing, and now there is Mentorship as part of the Growth Team features.
I am not sure what phase Greek Wikipedia is up to. Someone can be bold there, but don't be surprised if things evolve. Traffic will dictate help infrastructure for individual projects. I imagine a singular Help desk is more than enough for smaller Wikipedias. Commander Keane (talk) 21:40, 15 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wow.
I'm just surprised how much goes into making people get good and reliable answers.
This page is configured to archive sections older than two weeks if there are more than 14 sections present. At the moment, there aren't enough sections meeting that criteria to trigger the bot. SnowyRiver28(talk)08:46, 17 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Temporary accounts
Hey, some time ago I posted a message about deploying temporary accounts here on English WP. The rollout is scheduled for October 7th, and right after it you may be getting questions. Just to be clear, temporary accounts are what will replace* IP addresses as user identifiers (*this is a simplification, and I "well actually" myself and others reminding that well, there are important differences). Anyhoo, precisely because of these differences, people may be expressing confusion all over the place, incl. Teahouse. So, you're most welcome to chime in on VPWMF. Thanks! SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 00:01, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
