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Question from BeacHal1 (20:35, 6 May 2024)

Hiyah! So, the editor that declined my most recent article has past on my revisions and it all seems a bit odd. They were being assessed at the time for a higher ranking on here… would you be able to revisit it and make sure that it’s still in the works. It seems as though that editor’s actions have caused it to be mothballed… and I saw you edited too. Thanks again --BeacHal1 (talk) 20:35, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello @BeacHal1, articles aren't reviewed in a specific order; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions. In the meantime, you might want to do a bit of basic copyediting as well as make sure that the article conforms to the Manual of Style, and even though it's just a guideline, it's still best to use this style guide so that articles are consistently formatted. (Here is an introduction to the Manual of Style) If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 03:04, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, just sent you an email but please ignore! I’ve just realised I had a vpn setting on my iPad that meant I was auto-blocked. All good. Although, I have found it quite frustrating re my most recent article and the slightly bullying behaviour on here has put me off doing more!

I might reengage asp but life’s tough enough without a mob rule in Wikipedia too… BeacHal1 (talk) 20:54, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Dee'Jordan (23:57, 1 June 2024)

How do I add my profile information --Dee'Jordan (talk) 23:57, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Dee'Jordan, there are many policies and guidelines when it comes to conflict of interest editing (COI). Wikipedia strongly discourages COI editing as it could backfire and cause embarrassment, especially if not written in a neutral point of view.

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing.

COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article.

Before creating a new article, you must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved.

The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 03:11, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• It is now possible for local administrators to add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without JavaScript. Documentation is available. [1]
• The message name for the definition of the tracking category of WikiHiero has changed from "MediaWiki:Wikhiero-usage-tracking-category" to "MediaWiki:Wikihiero-usage-tracking-category". [2]
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Kadazandusun (w:dtp:) [3]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 4 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 5 June. It will be on all wikis from 6 June (calendar). [4][5]

Future changes

• Next week, on wikis with the Vector 2022 skin as the default, logged-out desktop users will be able to choose between different font sizes. The default font size will also be increased for them. This is to make Wikimedia projects easier to read. Learn more.

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Administrators' newsletter – June 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2024).

Administrator changes

Graham Beards

• Deskana
• Mets501
• Staxringold

Bureaucrat changes

• Deskana
• Warofdreams

Oversight changes

Dreamy Jazz

Guideline and policy news

• Phase II of the 2024 RfA review has commenced to improve and refine the proposals passed in Phase I.

Technical news

• The Nuke feature, which enables administrators to mass delete pages, will now correctly delete pages which were moved to another title. T43351

Arbitration

• The arbitration case Venezuelan politics has been closed.
• The Committee is seeking volunteers for various roles, including access to the conflict of interest VRT queue.

Miscellaneous

• WikiProject Reliability's unsourced statements drive is happening in June 2024 to replace {{citation needed}} tags with references! Sign up here to participate!

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The Signpost: 8 June 2024

• News and notes: Wikimedia Foundation publishes its Form 990 for fiscal year 2022-2023

• Technology report: New Page Patrol receives a much-needed software upgrade

• Deletion report: The lore of Kalloor

• In the media: National cable networks get in on the action arguing about what the first sentence of a Wikipedia article ought to say

• News from the WMF: Progress on the plan — how the Wikimedia Foundation advanced on its Annual Plan goals during the first half of fiscal year 2023-2024

• Opinion: Public response to the editors of Settler Colonial Studies

• Recent research: ChatGPT did not kill Wikipedia, but might have reduced its growth

• Featured content: We didn't start the wiki

• Essay: No queerphobia

• Special report: RetractionBot is back to life!

• Traffic report: Chimps, Eurovision, and the return of the Baby Reindeer

• Comix: The Wikipediholic Family

• Humour: Wikipedia rattled by sophisticated cyberattack of schoolboy typing "balls" in infobox

• Concept: Palimpsestuous

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Tech News: 2024-24

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [6]
• The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
• The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [7]

Problems

• There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [8]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [9][10]
• The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [11]
• On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [12]

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Question from Lucas Silvester (19:03, 17 June 2024)

How can i edit information on wikipedia --Lucas Silvester (talk) 19:03, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Lucas Silvester, welcome to Wikipedia! First, is the subject you are editing closely related to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, financial or other relationships (having a conflict of interest or COI)?

If you have a COI, click [show] to the right of this box for important rules

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing. COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly and to write autobiographies. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article. The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

A guide to editing Wikipedia is available at Help:Introduction. For student editing as part of a course, go to Wiki Education student training. There is also a single-page guide to contributing, and even an interactive training game, The Wikipedia Adventure.

When you're ready to edit articles, you can find some to edit on your Homepage and Citation Hunt to get rid of the tags. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 01:28, 20 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-25

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [13]
• The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [14][15]
• The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [16]

Problems

• Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [17]
• Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [18]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [19][20]
• Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [21]
• Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [22]

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Question from Cotcae (22:16, 18 June 2024)

Hello. I am in possession of concrete evidence proving that my great, great, great grandfather was actually the oldest man to ever live. However, I'm not sure what to do with this information or how to edit Wikipedia to reflect this. Do you have any suggestions? --Cotcae (talk) 22:16, 18 June 2024 (UTC)

Question from Sohaib.arshad758 (12:32, 22 June 2024)

Hi Hope you are well. I want to know how we can add pictures in wikipedia. --Sohaib.arshad758 (talk) 12:32, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Sohaib.arshad758, here are the steps to upload and use an image and other media files:

1. Check if the file is free (as in freedom)

   If you made the file yourself, you'll need to license it under a free license. For example:

   • CC BY—Permits use and modification (including commercially) as long as the author is credited
   • CC BY-SA—Permits use and modification (including commercially) as long as the author is credited and modifications are under the same license
   • CC0—Public domain (no rights reserved); permits any use and modification (including commercially), even without credit

   Most files found on the Internet are not considered free. Files that you didn't create must be licensed under a free license or in the public domain, either expired, too simple to be copyrighted, or the auther released it to the public domain. If in doubt, don't use it.

   Be mindful of freedom of panorama laws.

   If you are a copyright holder, published your work elseware, and would like to confirm permission, please contact the Volunteer Response Team instead of proceeding with the next step here.

2. Upload the image to Wikimedia Commons

   Wikimedia Commons (or simply Commons) is a central repository of free media files that can be used on Wikipedia, other Wikimedia projects, and anyone worldwide (like in a presentation).

   Use the Upload Wizard to upload files.

   You'll need to log in. Use the same username and password as your Wikipedia account.

   Please fill the information accurately. If you add incorrect information, the file will be deleted.

3. Use the file

   After you upload the file to Commons, you can now use it. Click in the toolbar (you may need to click Insert first), and enter the file name you entered in Upload Wizard, enter a descriptive caption, then click Insert.

You just added a file to Wikimedia Commons! Now that the file is under a free license, anyone in the world can benefit from your file. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 23:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-26

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Editors will notice that there have been some changes to the background color of text in the diff view, and the color of the byte-change numbers, last week. These changes are intended to make text more readable in both light mode and dark mode, and are part of a larger effort to increase accessibility. You can share your comments or questions on the project talkpage. [23]
• The text colors that are used for visited-links, hovered-links, and active-links, were also slightly changed last week to improve their accessibility in both light mode and dark mode. [24]

Problems

• You can copy permanent links to talk page comments by clicking on a comment's timestamp. This feature did not always work when the topic title was very long and the link was used as a wikitext link. This has been fixed. Thanks to Lofhi for submitting the bug. [25]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 25 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 26 June. It will be on all wikis from 27 June (calendar). [26][27]
• Starting 26 June, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link at English Wikipedia, making this feature available for you to use at all wikis. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they were linked to, even if this comment has since been moved elsewhere. You can read more about this feature on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [28]

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Question from THE Prodigy that no one can explain (19:39, 1 July 2024)

Hello, I am new to Wiki links. I was 17 years old when I graduated from the Rome Ga Police Academy. Became the youngest Deputy Sheriff in Georgia, After I researched it, I am the youngest Deputy Sheriff in America History. Question I want to contribute and author an article on this event. Can you provide any suggestions and or Headings? Searched for the youngest deputy sheriff in America? This was not found? Thank you God Bless Rodney Bearden --THE Prodigy that no one can explain (talk) 19:39, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello @THE Prodigy that no one can explain, welcome to Wikipedia! First, is the subject you are editing closely related to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, financial or other relationships (having a conflict of interest or COI)?

If you have a COI, click [show] to the right of this box for important rules

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing. COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article. The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

A guide to editing Wikipedia is available at Help:Introduction. For student editing as part of a course, go to Wiki Education student training. There is also a single-page guide to contributing, and even an interactive training game, The Wikipedia Adventure.

When you're ready to edit articles, you can find information about the subject at the Reference desk. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 15:58, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Question from Mazerunnersbiggestfan on Proposed Title (22:29, 1 July 2024)

Im so confused how do i make a page --Mazerunnersbiggestfan (talk) 22:29, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Mazerunnersbiggestfan, creating a new article is a complicated process. Before creating your first article, you should learn editing and rules of Wikipedia and complete smaller tasks at the Task Center.

First, is the subject you are editing closely related to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, financial or other relationships (having a conflict of interest or COI)?

If you have a COI, click [show] to the right of this box for important rules

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing. COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly and to write autobiographies. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article. The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

Before creating a new article, you must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 16:00, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-27

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [29]
• Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [30]
• If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [31][32]
• Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [33]
• Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (w:btm:) [34]

Problems

• Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [35]

Future changes

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Question from Eboedusa1 (20:05, 3 July 2024)

Hi sir. Please can you guide me with tips for creating new page for a musicians. Thanks for the help --Eboedusa1 (talk) 20:05, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Eboedusa1, there are many policies and guidelines when it comes to conflict of interest editing (COI). Wikipedia strongly discourages COI editing as it could backfire and cause embarrassment, especially if not written in a neutral point of view.

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing.

COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article.

Creating a new article is a complicated process and you should learn editing and rules of Wikipedia and complete smaller tasks at the Task Center before creating a new article. You must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved.

The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 23:18, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 4 July 2024

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).

Administrator changes

• Elli
• HouseBlaster
• Pickersgill-Cunliffe

• Brianga
• De728631
• Georgewilliamherbert
• Hyacinth (deceased)
• ProveIt
• The Night Watch

Technical news

• Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)

Miscellaneous

• The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more

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Question from Jumanji7567 on Jelena Pavičić Vukičević (00:33, 8 July 2024)

Hallo, how do I delete this complete page?

Disgracefull for wikipedia is to allow opposite political party members to arrange article text about living person, trying to insult her. Fact is that reference list and complete text, was written by member of the Tomislav Tomasevic political party "Mozemo" with only target to spread hate, discredit living person, discredit her family and it is requred to be deleted completly, because it is written without her permission. --Jumanji7567 (talk) 00:33, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-28

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• At the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
• The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
• Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
• Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.

Problems

• A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.

Future changes

• The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.

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Question from Theroeful (18:43, 9 July 2024)

So, how do you add links to articles? --Theroeful (talk) 18:43, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Theroeful, and welcome to Wikipedia! It appears you may have a conflict of interest (COI) based on a deleted user page:

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing.

COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article.

The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

To link to other articles in the wikitext editor, put two square brackets around the article's name. For example:

[[Wikipedia]] → Wikipedia

If you want to change the text of the link, use a pipe symbol:

[[Wikipedia|The Free Encyclopedia]] → The Free Encyclopedia

If you simply want to add a few extra letters to the end of the article name, just add them right after the brackets:

[[Encyclopedia]]s → Encyclopedias

For more information about linking articles, see Help:Link. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 23:29, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-29

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Recent changes

• Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
• The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
• Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
• Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.

Changes later this week

• This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.

Future changes

• Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [36]
• Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.

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@85.12.29.254: Your edit was reverted as it contained vandalism as well as an inaccurate edit summary. You do not have to donate to Wikipedia, and you can hide fundraising banners. (I also find some of the banners annoying when reading Wikipedia logged out of my account.) ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 17:54, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2024-30

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature News

• Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
• Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [37]
• Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [38]
• Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
• Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [39]

Project Updates

• Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.

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• Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
• How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.

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Tech News: 2024-31

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

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• Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.

Bugs status

• Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
• Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
• There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (voy:cs:) [40]

Learn more

• There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
• There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
• Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
• The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.

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Tech News: 2024-32

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Two new parser functions will be available this week: {{#dir}} and {{#bcp47}}. These will reduce the need for Template:Dir and Template:BCP47 on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [41][42]
• Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
• The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.

Project updates

• Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
• The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.

Learn more

• There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
• The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
• The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
• The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.

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Administrators' newsletter – August 2024

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).

Administrator changes

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Interface administrator changes

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Technical news

• Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
• Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.

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• The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ

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Making sure im doing the right thing

Ive edited a few articles now, the most extensive editing ive done was on Academic freedom, is there any chance you can check over what ive done and my summaries to let me know how im doing so far? Dont want to be accidentally creating more work. I plan on mainly contributing through citations so really need to make sure im doing ok at finding relevant ones. Thanks :) Thatonegroingly (talk) 05:26, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Silalahisasustrapanggabeana (08:18, 10 August 2024)

How do i create the page? --Silalahisasustrapanggabeana (talk) 08:18, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Silalahisasustrapanggabeana, creating a new article is a complicated process. Before creating your first article, you should learn editing and rules of Wikipedia and complete smaller tasks at the Task Center.

First, is the subject you are editing closely related to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, financial or other relationships (having a conflict of interest or COI)?

If you have a COI, click [show] to the right of this box for important rules

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing. COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly and to write autobiographies. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article. The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

Before creating a new article, you must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 18:23, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Oum Majeudy on Chasqui I (09:30, 10 August 2024)

Digital Creator Mrarady Um --Oum Majeudy (talk) 09:31, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Oum Majeudy Wikipedia Program developer Hardware ( talk page ) Oum Majeudy (talk) 11:43, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Combined from "Oum Majeudy Wikipedia". ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 18:18, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Oum Majeudy, do you have a question about editing Wikipedia? If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 18:21, 10 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-33

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [43]
• Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.

Project updates

• Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (w:bdr:) [44]

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Question from Bhoirnikhil on Bigg Boss (Malayalam TV series) season 5 (19:01, 13 August 2024)

सुरज ला जर तुम्ही बिग बॉस मधून बाहेर काढले तर बिग बॉस बघणं खूप जण सोडून जातील प्लीज सुरज बाहेर काढू नका plz🙏 --Bhoirnikhil (talk) 19:01, 13 August 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 14 August 2024

• In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse

• Recent research: STORM: AI agents role-play as "Wikipedia editors" and "experts" to create Wikipedia-like articles, a more sophisticated effort than previous auto-generation systems

• In focus: Twitter marks the spot

• News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded

• Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?

• Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing

• Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird

• Humour: I'm proud to be a template

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Question from 3.14159265459AAAs (21:05, 15 August 2024)

Hello, I translated a page about Slavitza Jovan from the German Wikipedia, but it doesn't have any references, besides IMDb and All movie. Do I have to find references myself?

3.14 (talk) 21:05, 15 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @3.14159265459AAAs, sorry for the delay (working on other stuff). Per Wikipedia:Verifiability, [t]he burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material. Also, IMDb is user-generated and considered unreliable, and mostly same for AllMovie (which is operated by RhythmOne, who also owns other "All*" websites). You might want to see the verifiability policy, the reliable sources guideline, and Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources for frequently discussed sources. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 21:10, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

P.S: Thank you for answering my question instead of Raydann.

Question from King Scruff (00:24, 17 August 2024)

Hi 2NumForIce, I'm King Scruff, a musical artist.

My question is: am I doing this the right way?

I'm trying to create an Artist Page, and I'm not sure if what I just did was that. Wiki tells me I created a "User Page", is that the same thing? I don't see it appearing in the search, is why I ask. And I couldn't find anything specific on Wiki about "artist pages".

Can you please guide me on how best to proceed? I'd like to link to some reviews and some other activities, but would like to make sure I'm doing it on the right page, and in the right way.

Thank you! - Scruffy --King Scruff (talk) 00:24, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Eymett (15:25, 17 August 2024)

Hi! I recently tried to request a media move/rename but I don’t think it worked. On the page for the rename media template, it says to just past the template into the file page. Trying to do that, I tapped edit on the File page and pasted the template with the appropriate parameters and saved the edit. Now when I look at the media page, it doesn’t display the actual template, but just the text that I entered. I also looked at the Cagegory:Wikipedia files requiring renaming where my request should have been automatically added, but I don’t see it there. Not sure exactly what to do. Would appreciate your help and thank you for being a mentor! --Eymett (talk) 15:25, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Solved! It added a <nowiki> tag to my template text for some reason, which is what made it display as plaintext. Oh well, fixed now!

Eymett (talk) 21:44, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Nevimahesh (12:12, 18 August 2024)

Hello, Can I publish my own articles here? --Nevimahesh (talk) 12:12, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Nevimahesh, creating a new article is a complicated process. Before creating your first article, you should learn editing and rules of Wikipedia and complete smaller tasks at the Task Center.

First, is the subject you are editing closely related to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, financial or other relationships (having a conflict of interest or COI)?

If you have a COI, click [show] to the right of this box for important rules

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing. COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly and to write autobiographies. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article. The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

Before creating a new article, you must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 03:45, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from General people (13:05, 18 August 2024)

আমার আইডি link কিভাবে পাবো? --General people (talk) 13:05, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

I noticed that you have posted comments in a language other than English. At the English-language Wikipedia, we try to use English for all comments. Posting all comments in English makes it easier for other editors to join the conversation and help you. If you cannot avoid using another language, then please provide a translation into English, if you can. If you cannot provide a translation, please go to the list of Wikipedias, look in the list for a Wikipedia that is in your language, and edit there instead of here. For more details, see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines. Thank you. ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 20:10, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-34

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Feature news

• Editors who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
• Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [45]
• Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [46][47]

Bugs status

• Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
• Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.

Project updates

• The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.

Learn more

• The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
• The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.

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Question from Smartpickup (16:06, 24 August 2024)

I want to publish my biography

_Title:_ Adejube John Olusola Temitope

_Biography_

Adejube John Olusola Temitope (born February 24, 1998) is a Nigerian philanthropic activist, writer, councilor, and businessman from the Oyegbata Royal Family of Ibapeju Quarter, Ipe Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria.

_Early Life and Education_

Adejube John Olusola Temitope was born in Ose Local Government, Ondo State, Nigeria, and raised in Ipe Akoko, his father's homeland. He attended Olawale International Nursery and Primary School and proceeded to Olawale International Secondary School, graduating in 2010. He studied Public Administration at the Polytechnic, graduating with a Higher National Diploma (HND) in 2015. He served in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from 2016 to 2017 and holds a Postgraduate Diploma (PGD) in Education from the National Open University of Nigeria and a Master of Education in Administration and Planning from the same university.

_Career and Achievements_

Adejube John Olusola Temitope is a philanthropic activist, writer, councilor, and businessman. He has written and published various books and projects. He is the founder and owner of:

1. Smartpickup & Son Global Services 2. Smartpickup Jst General Services

His companies deal with:

- Logistics and transportation - Agriculture produce - Chemist store - General merchandise

_Personal Life_

Adejube John Olusola Temitope is a Christian with Yoruba culture and heritage. --Smartpickup (talk) 16:06, 24 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Smartpickup, creating a new article is a complicated process. Before creating your first article, you should learn editing and rules of Wikipedia and complete smaller tasks at the Task Center.

First, is the subject you are editing closely related to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, financial or other relationships (having a conflict of interest or COI)?

If you have a COI, click [show] to the right of this box for important rules

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing. COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly and to write autobiographies. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article. The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

Before creating a new article, you must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 20:11, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-35

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Question from Divine Itotup (09:40, 27 August 2024)

Please how do I add my biography to my account? --Divine Itotup (talk) 09:40, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Divine Itotup, creating a new article is a complicated process. Before creating your first article, you should learn editing and rules of Wikipedia and complete smaller tasks at the Task Center.

First, is the subject you are editing closely related to yourself, family, friends, clients, employers, financial or other relationships (having a conflict of interest or COI)?

If you have a COI, click [show] to the right of this box for important rules

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing. COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly and to write autobiographies. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article. The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done.

Before creating a new article, you must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 20:11, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

Question from Evcentric (04:26, 28 August 2024)

Hi! I'm just starting so I'm sure I'll have many more questions later, but the main thing I've run into so far that I'm not quite sure how to tackle issues with tone. Do you have any recommendations on how to edit articles tagged as having an advertising or otherwise unencyclopedic tone to be more neutral, without removing the information itself? Thanks! --Evcentric (talk) 04:26, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia, @Evcentric. The policy you're looking for is Wikipedia:Neutral point of view (NPOV), which essentially states that articles must be written from an impartial tone without bias, representing all significant views published by reliable sources without giving undue weight to minor opinions. There is a much stricter policy for living people. Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not is about what is not acceptable in Wikipedia, such as promotion.

For an introduction on tone, see WP:TONE (essay, not a policy or guideline). A tutorial on editing Wikipedia is at Help:Introduction, which includes information about NPOV. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 08:00, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Editing Zero Waste

Dear Nameunknown: I understand that you function as a mentor for someone wanting to edit. I once did a series of edits on the Zero Waste page but haven't for twenty years. I am at a point where editing (and just reading) seems to depend on a huge dictionary of exotic and arcane special forms, links to unknown pages, abnormal references etcetera. IOW, a very difficult enterprise to penetrate. For example, it took me much searching around to get to this message window and I really don't know where to expect the answer.

   I am the person who invented the term Zero Waste in 1974, long before all of these latecomers referred to came along. I created the signature company Zero Waste Systems Inc. which took on the most difficult of all the reuse programs,  the reuse of all the excess and unwanted chemicals (call them byproducts) coming first from Silicon Valley and then from all the laboratories in the SF Bay Area. It was a very successful company which I believe therefore set the tone for an effective interpretation of Zero Waste, far beyond the efforts of these dabblers who try to recycle a bit of plastic here or copper there. These amateurs who now write the page by and large are simply recyclers, who have had essentially no success in any of their ventures over the last fifty years but refuse to recognize their defeat and insignificance. I know how to directly confront and actually solve the problems of willy-nilly waste generation by making use of scientific approaches, something these parvenus have no concept of.
   You are wondering by now, why I am bothering to try to convince you of all this when your "job" is to help me edit. The reason is that I went to the page and found it so lacking, so erroneous, that I thought that the best way to correct the errors is to start a new page entitled Zero Waste Institute referencing the history of Zero Waste since I first entitled it and built around a reference to my website zerowasteinstitute.org, my book called Getting To Zero Waste in a second edition which entirely replaces the first and now obsolete edition that the existing article leads to in one of its references (using an old, obsolete Wayback Machine link) and a sales site linked to by gettingtozerowaste.com. Take at look at zerowasteinstitute.org to get an idea of the very large effort that is being sidelined and downplayed by the existing page which makes no mention of it (see especially PRINCIPLES and PROJECTS). Starting a new page seems like a serious effort which I am not prepared to take on at this time. In the preparatory materials which I read over on the subject of how to edit, starting a new page was held up as a particularly difficult subject. 
  By the way, as you can see, I have no respect for the people who are controlling the existing page Zero Waste. I believe they are mired in perpetual failure, pursuing irrelevant and meaningless efforts. This attitude turns off some people - perhaps you. Not only did I create and lead an actually successful company for reuse of chemicals, a company that has never been reproduced in the past fifty years, but I also have a PhD in Chemistry and am situated to understand scientific methods.
  Do you have any advice for me? I will take a look at the Wikipedia Adventure to see if there is anything useful there.

Paul Palmer Vacaville CA Zerowasteinstitute (talk) 20:25, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello @Zerowasteinstitute,

First, regarding your username: I have left a message on your talk page as your username appears to represent the Zero Waste Institute, not an individual, which is against the username policy. Before you edit, you should change your username

Subjects of Wikipedia articles must be notable, which means either meeting the general notability guideline (GNG) or a subject-specific notability guideline (SNG), which, in this case, is Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). The notability guidelines mainly state that subjects who received significant coverage in independent, reliable sources are presumed to be notable. The Zero Waste Institute does not appear notable per the GNG nor the SNG as it has not appeared in reliable sources.

It also appears that you have a conflict of interest. There are many policies and guidelines when it comes to conflict of interest editing (COI). Wikipedia strongly discourages COI editing as it could backfire and cause embarrassment, especially if not written in a neutral point of view.

Editors with a COI must disclose the COI, especially if you are being paid per the Terms of Use, in which case, there is a separate (but similar) process for disclosing paid editing.

COI editors are strongly discouraged to edit affected articles directly and to write autobiographies. Instead, use the {{Edit COI}} template to propose changes to an existing article and Articles for creation for creating a new article.

Before creating a new article, you must make sure that the subject is notable enough for inclusion. Text on Wikipedia must be cited by reliable sources so that information is verifiable. Also, an article about yourself isn't necessarily a good thing, as you don't "own" what you write on Wikipedia.

When you're ready to create a new article, go to Help:Your first article, which will guide you through creating a new article. You should go through the entire page before proceeding to the Article Wizard. After creating a new article draft, it will be reviewed by an Articles for creation volunteer. Be patient; there are currently 2,020 pending submissions, and they are not reviewed in any specific order. In the meantime, you might want to do some basic copyediting so that the article is more likely to be approved.

The bottom line is, COI editing is just not a good idea. COI editing can cause many problems, and there are even legal consequences for hidden advertising mimicking a content format such as a Wikipedia article. If your company tells you to make or edit a Wikipedia article about them, tell them it can't be done. If you have more questions, don't hesitate to ask me using your Homepage or at the Teahouse and learn about editing Wikipedia through our introduction. Happy editing! ~~2NumForIce (^speak|_edits) 21:08, 29 August 2024 (UTC)