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Hello! Your submission of Nischal Basnet at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Toa Nidhiki05
WikiProject India Newsletter – October 2019
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News
- Article India appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on October 2, 2019.
- Vijayadashami (pictured) has ended, which celebrates the victory of good over evil.
- There are a lot of high-quality images on Commons uploaded by Itsmalay which can be used on some India cultural monuments articles.
- Parinda is nominated to appear on the main page on November 3.
Miscellaneous
- You can join the discussions opened at Noticeboard for India-related topics.
- You can join the RfC on superlatives sentence at Talk:India.
Events
- Events that occoured on October.
- Gandhi Jayanti (2 October)
- Digital Society Day (17 October)
- Martyrs' Day (21 October)
- Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir) (26 October)
- Thevar Jayanthi (30 October)
- Rashtriya Ekta Diwas (31 October)
MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 13:20, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
WP:INDIA
Hi greetings, thank you for your efforts on creating the newsletter. I'd like to share an information about the project. There were a quiz competition held as a part of project and now it is inactive. I'd like to re-activate it. The current round was in the brim of ending. So I think a fresh round will be better (a new start). We can end this round by declaring the top user as winner and start a new one. The information about quiz can be added in newsletter. Thank you.--PATH SLOPU 16:14, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
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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
- You can post proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals until 11 November. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- Mobile users now have a specific design for their Watchlist. [1][2]
- You can share feedback and ideas on the Desktop Improvements project. The goal is to make the interface easier to use for readers and editors without removing any functionality. The Foundation's Readers Web team will work on this over the next two years.
OOUI now allows using px(pixels) instead ofem(em) for some specific cases. [3][4]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 October. It will be on all wikis from 31 October (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 30 October at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There will be no software changes from 19 December to 2 January. The first MediaWiki version next year will come the week of 6 January. [5]
- Gadgets and user scripts can access variables about the current page in JavaScript. In 2015, this information was moved from global variables named
wg*tomw.config. The old global variables will be removed later this year. You can know more about it and tell the developers if you want to try this out on your wiki first.
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16:11, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Copy edit request for Nischal Basnet
Hi! I saw that you removed your copy edit request for Nischal Basnet and wanted to quickly check if there was a problem. I notice that Nischal Basnet filmography was copy edited earlier this month. – Reidgreg (talk) 15:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
- Reidgreg, It had been copyedited by another user who is not part of GOCE. CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 17:40, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk pages project
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
11:11, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
Category:Polara albums has been nominated for discussion
Category:Polara albums, which you created, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 20:07, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
November 2019 at Women in Red
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Big Brother
Hi, could you move Big Brother (2019 film) to Big Brother (2020 film)? Release date changed. Thanks in advance. 2409:4073:206:99CD:59E2:FE21:A9C1:B266 (talk) 13:43, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
Boo! 
Hello CAPTAIN MEDUSA:
Thanks for all of your contributions to improve Wikipedia, and have a happy and enjoyable Halloween!
– PATH SLOPU 14:54, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 31 October 2019
- In the media: How to use or abuse Wikipedia for fun or profit
- Special report: “Catch and Kill” on Wikipedia: Paid editing and the suppression of material on alleged sexual abuse
- Interview: Carl Miller on Wikipedia Wars
- Community view: Observations from the mainland
- Arbitration report: October actions
- Gallery: Wiki Loves Broadcast
- Recent research: Research at Wikimania 2019: More communication doesn't make editors more productive; Tor users doing good work; harmful content rare on English Wikipedia
- News from the WMF: Welcome to Wikipedia! Here's what we're doing to help you stick around
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
Hello..You have recently reverted my edit which was a short description about the movie mentioned. The Current short description is "2019 Indian Assamese-language" which is confusing. I think there should be the the word "Film" or "Movie" to give it a proper form. Thanks Abhroneel 15:58, 31 October 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankur Jyoti Dewri (talk • contribs)
- Ankur Jyoti Dewri Hey thanks for leaving a message. The reason I had reverted your pending changes is that you added another short description. To edit a short description
{{short description|2019 Indian Assamese-language by Jatin Bora}}simply edit this code in the curly brackets rather than adding a new one. No problems I have gone and added film part to the short description. Thanks. CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 12:32, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
- Ankur Jyoti Dewri Hey thanks for leaving a message. The reason I had reverted your pending changes is that you added another short description. To edit a short description
New Page Review newsletter November 2019
Hello CAPTAIN MEDUSA,
This newsletter comes a little earlier than usual because the backlog is rising again and the holidays are coming very soon.
- Getting the queue to 0
There are now 805 holders of the New Page Reviewer flag! Most of you requested the user right to be able to do something about the huge backlog but it's still roughly less than 10% doing 90% of the work. Now it's time for action.
Exactly one year ago there were 'only' 3,650 unreviewed articles, now we will soon be approaching 7,000 despite the growing number of requests for the NPR user right. If each reviewer soon does only 2 reviews a day over five days, the backlog will be down to zero and the daily input can then be processed by every reviewer doing only 1 review every 2 days - that's only a few minutes work on the bus on the way to the office or to class! Let's get this over and done with in time to relax for the holidays.
Want to join? Consider adding the NPP Pledge userbox.
Our next newsletter will announce the winners of some really cool awards.
- Coordinator
Admin Barkeep49 has been officially invested as NPP/NPR coordinator by a unanimous consensus of the community. This is a complex role and he will need all the help he can get from other experienced reviewers.
- This month's refresher course
Paid editing is still causing headaches for even our most experienced reviewers: This official Wikipedia article will be an eye-opener to anyone who joined Wikipedia or obtained the NPR right since 2015. See The Hallmarks to know exactly what to look for and take time to examine all the sources.
- Tools
- It is now possible to select new pages by date range. This was requested by reviewers who want to patrol from the middle of the list.
- It is now also possible for accredited reviewers to put any article back into the New Pages Feed for re-review. The link is under 'Tools' in the side bar.
- Reviewer Feedback
Would you like feedback on your reviews? Are you an experienced reviewer who can give feedback to other reviewers? If so there are two new feedback pilot programs. New Reviewer mentorship will match newer reviewers with an experienced reviewer with a new reviewer. The other program will be an occasional peer review cohort for moderate or experienced reviewers to give feedback to each other. The first cohort will launch November 13.
- Second set of eyes
- Not only are New Page Reviewers the guardians of quality of new articles, they are also in a position to ensure that pages are being correctly tagged for deletion and maintenance and that new authors are not being bitten. This is an important feature of your work, especially while some routine tagging for deletion can still be carried out by non NPR holders and inexperienced users. Read about it at the Monitoring the system section in the tutorial. If you come across such editors doing good work, don't hesitate to encourage them to apply for NPR.
- Do be sure to have our talk page on your watchlist. There are often items that require reviewers' special attention, such as to watch out for pages by known socks or disruptive editors, technical issues and new developments, and of course to provide advice for other reviewers.
- Arbitration Committee
The annual ArbCom election will be coming up soon. All eligible users will be invited to vote. While not directly concerned with NPR, Arbcom cases often lead back to notability and deletion issues and/or actions by holders of advanced user rights.
- Community Wish list
There is to be no wish list for WMF encyclopedias this year. We thank Community Tech for their hard work addressing our long list of requirements which somewhat overwhelmed them last year, and we look forward to a successful completion.
To opt-out of future mailings, you can remove yourself here
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Tags on articles
Hi. First, thanks for all you do on WP, especially over at NPP. I reverted the tags you placed on two stubs I created, and wanted to explain my rationale. First, the refimprove tag: My understanding is that this tag should only be used on beyond stub articles which either have unreferenced info, or insufficient in-line footnotes. However, on the template page (Template:More citations needed), it states in the usage section, "Don't use this tag for articles that contain no unreferenced material, even if all the material is supported by a single citation." Since all the information in the stub comes from the AFI source, this then would not be an appropriate tag. I used to use this tag in like instances as well, but now use either the "single source" tag (which I have added to both of the pages you tagged). Second, the update tag should only be used when info on the page is out of date. This is normally used on articles which are currently in flux, or articles which include information which needs updating on a routine basis (daily, monthly, yearly), such as [List of United States cities by population]], which needs to be updated every time a new census or estimated population count comes out. There's nothing in a stub about an almost 100 year old film which needs updating. These are very basic stubs, and while both films meet WP:NFILM, there's very little on-line info about them. I do intend to (and have started) going back over all the stub films I've created and flesh them out as much as possible. Regardless, just wanted to explain in detail my reverts. Onel5969 TT me 16:06, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Memory: The Origins of Alien
Hello! Your submission of Memory: The Origins of Alien at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 22:04, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
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 Special:Contributions you could see up to 5000 edits at the same time if you edited the URL. This has been lowered to 500. This is to stop requests which break the sites. [6]
Changes later this week
MediaWiki:ipb-default-expirycan set the default length to block a user for your wiki. You will be able to useMediaWiki:ipb-default-expiry-ipto set a different default block length for IP editors. [7]- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 November. It will be on all wikis from 7 November (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 6 November at 15:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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16:47, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Sources needed for Days of the Year pages
I see you recently accepted a pending change to October 14 that did not include a direct source.
You're probably not aware of this change, but Days of the Year pages are no longer exempt from WP:V and direct sources are required for additions. For details see the content guideline and the WikiProject Days of the Year style guide. I've gone ahead and un-accepted this edit and backed it out.
All the pages in the Days of the Year project have had pending changes protection turned on to prevent vandalism and further addition of entries without direct sources. As a pending changes patroller, please do not accept additions to day of year pages where no direct source has been provided on that day of year page. The burden to provide sources for additions to these pages is on the editor who adds or restores material to these pages. Thank you and please keep up your good work! Toddst1 (talk) 01:13, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Toddst1, Sulli's death made worldwide headlines. this brings 78,500 results. Some coverage by BBC The Washington Post The Guardian NPR ABC NY Times Variety CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 14:13, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Fantastic. Now, please be much more careful when patrolling pending changes. Toddst1 (talk) 16:23, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
- Toddst1, You Too... CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 00:21, 7 November 2019 (UTC)
- Fantastic. Now, please be much more careful when patrolling pending changes. Toddst1 (talk) 16:23, 6 November 2019 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 10
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (October 2019).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 10th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Newsletter/Members
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Newsletter/Members. I've made some changes in the page. Is there any problems in doing so. (like history, etc). Kindly please check. PATH SLOPU 14:08, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Path slopu, Woah thanks!. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 14:09, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Is there any problems with history? Please help. --PATH SLOPU 14:10, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Path slopu, I don't think we can get the history back. Looks fine anyway. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 14:13, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- I've also a doubt, if I had swapped (round-robin) the MMS shell and our previous page, could we have saved the history? PATH SLOPU 14:16, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Path slopu, All of the histories are now located at Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Newsletter/Members/test because you moved Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Newsletter/Members to it. Then you moved MMS shell which keeps the history separate. No problems. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 14:19, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- I've also a doubt, if I had swapped (round-robin) the MMS shell and our previous page, could we have saved the history? PATH SLOPU 14:16, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Path slopu, I don't think we can get the history back. Looks fine anyway. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 14:13, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
- Is there any problems with history? Please help. --PATH SLOPU 14:10, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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DYK for Nischal Basnet
On 10 November 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Nischal Basnet, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that before becoming a film director, Nepal's Nischal Basnet went to Australia to study 3D animation, but ended up studying hospitality and becoming a chef? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Nischal Basnet. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Nischal Basnet), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
superjump
Hi! Saw you asked about Enterprisey/superjump a while ago. So with the configuration that you have set up, you should be able to press ALT+SHIFT+A and get a little menu. If that doesn't work, check out WP:KBD#Using access keys for the keys to press along with A. Hope this helps! Enterprisey (talk!) 19:02, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
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
- MediaWiki2LaTeX can put different pages from a Wikimedia wiki into a PDF. It can now make a PDF with around 5000 pages. Previously this was 800 pages.
Changes later this week
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 13 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- Wikimedia will take part in Google Code-in. This is for young students who want to help with open source software. You can read more. Experienced technical Wikimedians can mentor students.
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22:03, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
TFL notification
Hi, CAPTAIN MEDUSA. I'm just posting to let you know that Sanjay Dutt filmography – a list that you have been heavily involved with – has been chosen to appear on the Main Page as Today's featured list for December 6. The TFL blurb can be seen here. If you have any thoughts on the selection, please post them on my talk page or at TFL talk. Regards, Giants2008 (Talk) 22:24, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
Hey Captain Medusa! I wanted to let you know that there is a volcano named Ice Peak with a Wikipedia article. By this extent, Icepeak could refer to either of the two terms, (the band and the mountain), and I would argue that a disambiguation page is very much the better option to put at Icepeak, which is what I have done. Utopes (talk) 01:58, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Oops
- About Joy of Cooking :: looks like that we 2 obeyed the same move request at the same time. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 05:51, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Anthony Appleyard, oops. Oh that's why it moved it to disambiguation page. And thank you for fixing the page. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 05:52, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Re:Template:WikiProject Italy
Nessun Problema per me :-) Alex2006 (talk) 18:00, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks. Moved to WP:WikiProject Italy talk page. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 18:05, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of Memory: The Origins of Alien
Hello! Your submission of Memory: The Origins of Alien at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! BlueMoonset (talk) 17:21, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
DYK for The Elephant Queen
On 15 November 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The Elephant Queen, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that for their 2019 documentary film The Elephant Queen, the two directors followed elephant herds for four years? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Elephant Queen. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, The Elephant Queen), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
Changes to The Elephant Queen wiki page
Hi
I am very closely related to the film and had started to correct inaccuracies on the page but they were taken down by you - how do I ensure my corrections stay up there. I am new to editing wiki so any advice gratefully received. Thank you. TEQmanager — Preceding unsigned comment added by TEQmanager (talk • contribs) 11:00, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
- @TEQmanager: can you let me know the inaccuracies. I will correct them if backed up by a source. Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 11:03, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
DYK nomination of The Feeling of Being Watched
Hello! Your submission of The Feeling of Being Watched at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 21:40, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
- BTW you should try to find more production notes for the film. Is there music, etc. I added some more detail to the Production section along with a new source. Best, Yoninah (talk) 21:40, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
Growth team updates #11
Welcome to the eleventh newsletter from the Growth team!
The Growth team's objective is to work on software changes that help retain new contributors in mid-size Wikimedia projects.
General news
- Expanding to more wikis: the team is preparing to deploy Growth features to Ukrainian and Hungarian Wikipedias. Wikis that already have the features are Czech, Korean, Arabic, Vietnamese, and Basque Wikipedias. If your community is enthusiastic about welcoming newcomers, we encourage you to contact us so that we can verify together if your wiki is eligible. Then you can go through the checklist to start the process of configuring the features.
- Mentor training: we tried out our first training for mentors with the Czech community, so that experienced users can build skills that help them retain newcomers.
- The guide for mentors has been updated. Translations are welcomed!
Help panel results
The help panel was first deployed to newcomers in January 2019, and we have now finished analyzing data to determine its impact. A brief summary is below, and more in-depth information can be found here (in English).
- In summary, although we have seen a good amount of usage of the help panel, the help panel has not shown an increase in activation (whether a user makes their first edit) or retention (whether a user returns to edit again).
- This is a disappointing result, and our team has discussed potential reasons for the result and ideas for the future. Although we have many ideas for how to improve the help panel, we have decided to keep our attention on the newcomer homepage and newcomer tasks projects for the coming months.
- We'll be using the help panel as part of the newcomer tasks project: using it to guide newcomers while they complete suggested edits.
- We welcome questions and thoughts about this on the project's talk page.
Newcomer tasks deployment
- The first version of the newcomer tasks workflow (V1.0) will be deployed in the next weeks on our 4 priority wikis. This version will suggest articles to edit based on maintenance templates. In this first version, we expect many newcomers to initiate the workflow, but not many to select articles to edit or complete edits. We expect future versions of the feature to increase those behaviors.
- We're excited about this project because the majority of newcomers visit their newcomer homepage, and this will be the first element of the homepage that clearly asks the newcomer to start editing.
- These are the next two versions of the feature, which are already being planned:
- V1.1 (topic matching): will allow newcomers to choose topics of interest (such as Art, Music, Sports, or Technology) to personalize their suggestions. After evaluating several approaches, we have decided to use a new ORES model built by the WMF Scoring team. The model will automatically identify the topic area of each article. We expect this to increase how often newcomers select articles to edit.
- V1.2 (guidance): once newcomers arrive on an article to edit, we will use the help panel to provide guidance about how to complete the editing task. We expect this to increase how many newcomers actually complete productive edits.
- The project page includes links to the designs of the workflow, and we welcome questions and thoughts on the talk page.
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15:02, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Problems
- You will be able to read but not to edit some wikis for up to 30 minutes on 26 November at 06:00 (UTC). You can see which wikis. It will probably last much shorter than 30 minutes. This will also affect the
centralauthdatabase. This could for example affect changing passwords, logging in to new wikis, changing emails or global renames. [8]
Changes later this week
- You can soon vote on proposals for the Community Wishlist Survey. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can vote on proposals from 20 November to 2 December. This year the wishlist will focus on Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikiversity, Wikispecies, Wikivoyage and Wikinews. You can read more about the format for this year.
- There is no new MediaWiki version this week.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 20 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
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20:16, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
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- Thanks! —Anomalocaris (talk) 17:20, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
Nope: User talk:Meeanaya#I have unreviewed a page you curated 48 –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:39, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- MJL, welcome to the team. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 17:40, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hey, I was testing it out! At this point, I don't think my 48th spam message is going to make much of a difference. (edit conflict) –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:40, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- MJL, Oh. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 17:43, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- {[Thank you for the ping] Not sure what to do now tbh. I hope Barkeep finally saw my messages, but I don't know what the alternative to using pageTriage is. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:46, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- MJL, Maybe Barkeep49 just went offline for a bit. I can see that he [9] [10] [11] just mass-unreviewed Meeanaya's patrolled pages. probably per this request [12] ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 17:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- I got a reply. :D –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 18:20, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- MJL, subbed at Phab. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 18:23, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- I got a reply. :D –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 18:20, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- MJL, Maybe Barkeep49 just went offline for a bit. I can see that he [9] [10] [11] just mass-unreviewed Meeanaya's patrolled pages. probably per this request [12] ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 17:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- {[Thank you for the ping] Not sure what to do now tbh. I hope Barkeep finally saw my messages, but I don't know what the alternative to using pageTriage is. –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:46, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- MJL, Oh. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 17:43, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- Hey, I was testing it out! At this point, I don't think my 48th spam message is going to make much of a difference. (edit conflict) –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 17:40, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Review
The feedback in your review is a great example of why vagueness and meaningless could possibly be merged into a new single word — Preceding unsigned comment added by 4mckeowns (talk • contribs) 13:09, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Vicky Knight
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Vicky Knight you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 13:41, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of Vicky Knight
The article Vicky Knight you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold 
. The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Vicky Knight for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of MWright96 -- MWright96 (talk) 16:01, 23 November 2019 (UTC)
Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!
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Your GA nomination of Vicky Knight
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Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Changes later this week
- The mobile beta mode will be disabled to have less maintenance. The developers will focus on the desktop improvements project. You can turn on advanced mobile contributions mode if you want to see the categories. You could also jump back to the top. This can instead be done with a gadget or user script. [13]
- Parsoid is software we use for the visual editor, content translation, Flow and the Android app. This has been rewritten. It will come to the wikis gradually over the next two weeks. It has been tested, but there could be some diffs or previews that don't look right. If you see any you can report them. [14]
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 November. It will be on the other wikis next week (calendar). This is because of holidays.
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 27 November at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- You will switch between the article and the talk page in a new way in the mobile view in the future. It will use tabs. This is more like in the desktop view. [15]
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16:51, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
December events with WIR
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RfA vote
I am here just to understand your vote. I personally have supported him since I consider he has enough contribution. May I know what among the points in oppose, have convinced you to not support. It is not necessary to respond to this thread, if you dont want to elaborate more. cheers. --DBigXrayᗙ 10:32, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- DBigXray, I have not opposed the RfA candidate. Right now, I am in Neutral side due to 3 three months of inactivity. I have seen the user around; seems like a good editor. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 10:59, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- yes, you have not opposed. I know that. I was asking the reason not to support. If it is just the 3 months then you are being harsh IMHO. --DBigXrayᗙ 12:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- DBigXray, moved the neutral vote to support. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 20:43, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- CAPTAIN MEDUSA, ok but please note that I was more interested in a discussion here, to know your thoughts and the objective was not to influence you to change your position. DBigXrayᗙ 09:29, 27 November 2019 (UTC)
- DBigXray, moved the neutral vote to support. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 20:43, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
- yes, you have not opposed. I know that. I was asking the reason not to support. If it is just the 3 months then you are being harsh IMHO. --DBigXrayᗙ 12:27, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 11
News and updates associated with user scripts from the past month (November 2019).
Hello everyone and welcome to the 11th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter:
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Enjoy your thanksgiving --DannyS712 (talk) 08:22, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
WikiProject India Newsletter – November 2019
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- Created by Sahibdin and nominated for Featured Media by TheMandarin
- News
- A significant number of the new articles received each day are about South Asian topics, mainly biographies and cultural themes, along with the usual spam for companies. There is a huge backlog at the NewPagesFeed and more editors with experience and knowledge of Indian subjects are urgently needed to patrol the pages. If you are already a New Page Reviewer, please help out as much as you can. If you are not, please check out WP:NPP, then take a look at the requirements at WP:NPR and if you feel up to it, apply for the New Page Reviewer right at WP:PERM.
- Kalapani territory has been a subject of edit warring by multiple editors. Kalapani is a disputed area between Nepal and India. The page was fully protected from 10 to 17 November. You're welcomed to patrol the page and keep your eyes on the new editors. Makes sure to assume good faith while editing the page.
- An editor is pushing too high Jain POV in Jainism related articles. Join the conversation about the user at the noticeboard
- India Search Result is a bot-generated page that tracks newly created articles related to India. It is a place to look out for new page pages. The page is updated daily and make sure to add it to your watchlist.
- Miscellaneous
- There are 14 Did You Know nominations, 25 Good Article nominations, 2 Featured Articles candidates, and 1 Featured List candidate to be reviewed.
- The Swaminarayan Sampraday and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are opened for requested comments.
- You can review these article: Mouna Ragam, Everest (Indian TV series), Arjun Sarja filmography and Mullum Malarum for a peer review.
--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 12:34, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Verify my edit
Hi, I have created a section on the talk page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hermione_(given_name)
I would appreciate it if you can accept the proposed edit please.--Doctor987654 (talk) 01:11, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
WP:TV taskforces
I see you're in the process of turning several WIkiProjects into taskforces. However, there was consensus thatanimation related WikiProjects should become work groups under WP:ANIMATION rather than taskforces of WP:WPTV. (The redlinks just hadn't been updated yet.) Do you want to fix that? – sgeureka t•c 20:55, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sgeureka, oops I was following the table format. I will complete that right now. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:02, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sgeureka I have moved South Park. Is anything else missing? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:08, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Oh i see more. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:10, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Done I have completed it as requested. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:14, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Oh i see more. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:10, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Sgeureka I have moved South Park. Is anything else missing? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:08, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
Reports to AIV
Doing a good job reporting vandals to AIV but you need to work on your descriptions. Please note that IP Addresses cannot be "vandalism only accounts" and are only blocked for a limited period of time. -- Alexf(talk) 21:49, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Alexf, I was using Twinkle's default descriptions. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:50, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Is there any way to add custom descriptions at Twinkle? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:51, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Not sure it has when reporting to AIV (see Twinkle Docs under ARV). -- Alexf(talk) 21:55, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Alexf, I couldn't find anything at Twinkle Docs. I started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Twinkle ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 22:01, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Not sure it has when reporting to AIV (see Twinkle Docs under ARV). -- Alexf(talk) 21:55, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
- Is there any way to add custom descriptions at Twinkle? ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 21:51, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
The Signpost: 29 November 2019
- From the editor: Put on your birthday best
- News and notes: How soon for the next million articles?
- In the media: You say you want a revolution
- On the bright side: What's making you happy this month?
- Arbitration report: Two requests for arbitration cases
- Traffic report: The queen and the princess meet the king and the joker
- Technology report: Reference things, sister things, stranger things
- Gallery: Winter and holidays
- Recent research: Bot census; discussions differ on Spanish and English Wikipedia; how nature's seasons affect pageviews
- Essay: Adminitis
- From the archives: WikiProject Spam, revisited
Non approval of page
Hi Captain Medusa,
Just curious as to why this page has been declined.
Regards,
Jake — Preceding unsigned comment added by Crazykangarookoala (talk • contribs) 14:11, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
- Crazykangarookoala, It only has primary sources. It needs a published, reliable, secondary sources that are independent of the subject. I suggest expanding the article. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 13:02, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
SPI ContentEditman
Could I ask why you deleted the info on that page and wrote blank? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8805:DC00:14D0:19B1:D5BB:25A4:6AA3 (talk) 15:36, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
- Because you copied the content from the SPI and pasted it into the talk page. Then you made an edit request saying "Please move this page to the WP space". Also, I noticed you are modifying archived content please do not do that. Thanks. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 13:05, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
Note about autopatrolled redirects RfC
Hi. Since you participated in the preliminary discussions, I thought I should let you know that I've opened an RfC at Wikipedia talk:New pages patrol/Reviewers/Redirect autopatrol#RfC on autopatrolling redirects. Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 01:35, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
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
- Mix'n'match is a tool to connect Wikidata items to information in other databases. It can be used to find subjects that are missing in a Wikipedia. It now has more than 3000 datasets. Before it was closer to 2000.
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 December. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 December. It will be on all wikis from 5 December (calendar).
Meetings
- You can join the technical advice meeting on IRC. During the meeting, volunteer developers can ask for advice. The meeting will be on 4 December at 16:00 (UTC). See how to join.
Future changes
- There will be a new schema for XML dumps. Scripts and apps that use them will need to be updated. If they are not updated they will no longer work. [16]
- The
{{REVISIONID}}magic word will no longer work in the content namespaces. This is for performance reasons. When you preview a page it returns""(empty string). When you read a page it returns"-"(dash). In the future this will also affect other namespaces. The next ones are file and category namespaces. [17]
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16:58, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
3RR?
I take it that you issued the warning on my page for the 3RR then removed it based on the mess on List of Serbian inventions and discoveries? I am going to go on a limb and say that this was done accidentally? — Mr Xaero ☎️ 18:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
- yes, that this was done accidentally. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 19:43, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
- Thought so. No big deal. 😀 — Mr Xaero ☎️ 19:52, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
The Clansman
Hi there! I'm wondering what happened with the recent move of The Clansman. I think there may have been an error, but I'm not sure how best to correct it. Thanks, 142.160.131.220 (talk) 06:38, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- See Talk:The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. There was a requested move that received no consensus. ~~ CAPTAIN MEDUSAtalk 06:40, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- Exactly, why is the IP not using the RM system for these? In ictu oculi (talk) 09:16, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
Can you revert this please. The IP has been asked before not to do these as TRs but submit to RM process. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:15, 3 December 2019 (UTC)