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March 2026 is blanked

Since yesterday, the page for March (which used to have the events since the first day rather than the last 7 days) is blanked, showing instead the link to month inclusion. I guess something wrong happened there. G.J.S. (talk) 18:57, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

G.J.S., thank you for the report. Could you please be more specific? Please include links to where you see an issue when reporting problems. The page Portal:Current events/March 2026 looks fine to me. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:45, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Ah, I see the problem now. The page is over the post-expand include limit. There's too much content, for whatever reason. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:54, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Is there a way in which I could see the raw content or is it just a matter of time until it's up again? I used to read that every day but spent a lot of time without seeing that and then found the page blanked G.J.S. (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Checking on Special:ExpandTemplates, {{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion|2026 February}} produces 1352 lines, ~227 KB of wikitext; whereas {{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion|2026 March}} gives 1834, ~315 KB of wikitext. A solution would be to trim down the pages at Special:PrefixIndex/Portal:Current events/2026 March. —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:08, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you very much. G.J.S. (talk) 20:11, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

For convenience, here are the page sizes of all 2026 March subpages:

—⁠andrybak (talk) 20:20, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

I have made a fix without any trimming needed. Previously the content for each day was counted twice towards WP:PEIS because it was passed through a template. I transcluded the days directly instead. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:36, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

The fact that there is an intermediary template {{Portal:Current events/Month Inclusion}} causes the post-expand size to be double counted? What a weird quirk... —⁠andrybak (talk) 20:56, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

It's documented at Help:Template limits#Nested transclusions. The main purpose of template limits is to reduce server load and I guess the server load does increase when a lot of content is passed around multiple times. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:26, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

The {{Current events}} template, used by each day's sub-page, accepts an alternative syntax that roughly halves the PEIS. It was missing from the template documentation. -- John of Reading (talk) 06:54, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Would it be helpful if User:Cyberbot I used the alternative syntax when creating new pages? Latest example: Special:Permalink/1350471791 (2026 April 23). —⁠andrybak (talk) 00:13, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

I think it would. I've just made some edits to take Portal:Current events/December 2024 and Portal:Current events/September 2025 out of the overflow category. I guess they've been broken for months.-- John of Reading (talk) 06:31, 23 April 2026 (UTC)

I tried contacting the bot operator: User talk:Cyberpower678/Archive 85#Request: change format for subpages of Portal:Current events. —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:58, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Cyberpower678, would you mind taking a look at this thread? A minor change to one of the tasks of User:cyberbot I is needed. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:52, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

 Done —CYBERPOWER (Chat) 12:44, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Looking for suggestions

Hi wiki mates,

I would love to write an interesting article on a current event subject needing coverage but blanking out on what at the moment.

Any suggestions? Henderson Barbara (talk) 05:53, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Read through the discussions at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates. You'll find articles needing coverage there. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:08, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Same anonymous user added too much Xinhua sources on it

This needs to stop and should have been removed and banned. This is not a place for Chinese propaganda.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2026-31547-23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2026-30379-59

--~2026-31821-67 (talk) 15:54, 28 May 2026 (UTC)

Why was the Ebola epidemic removed from the current events section?

As an ongoing outbreak with consequences for the populations of Central Africa and possibly the world, I don’t understand what has changed between one week ago and now to permit a removal from ongoing section as it is still relevant as an outbreak and in the news. ~2026-41276-81 (talk) 15:00, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

It was removed from the "Ongoing" section following the discussion that's been archived at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates/July 2026#(Removed) 2026 Ebola epidemic -- John of Reading (talk) 16:33, 23 July 2026 (UTC)

Is dating based on local time?

Same question as title. Is the dating of events based on the local date and time? Please ping me if you respond, thanks Alexysun (talk) 13:49, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Nevermind I found the answer here:

Portal:Current events/Edit instructions Alexysun (talk) 13:54, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Commonwealth Games

I find it curious that the recently-concluded 2026 Commonwealth Games, in which Australia led the medal tally, did not feature, whilst lesser-known sporting competitions (including the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship, currently on the main page) recently have. Cheers, Will Thorpe (talk) 10:18, 7 August 2026 (UTC)