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Could you please adopt me?

Latest comment: 5 days ago6 comments2 people in discussion

I am an auto-confirmed user with over 185 edits and some experience of fighting vandalism on the Recent Changes page. I edit a wide range of articles and would be happy to learn more skills in fighting vandalism. I often warn vandals, welcome newbies, and spend a lot of the day waiting on the Recent Changes page. As a result, I am usually very active throughout the day and even night, in any time zone. Apollogetticax|^talk 09:06, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Apollogetticax Good day and welcome. Sure, I am happy to be your mentor. Just let me know how can I help you. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 09:10, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I don't want to annoy you, but, first of all, what are the best ways to actively fight vandalism? I normally do the old-school way of patrolling recent changes for hours. I know Huggle is good, but I'm not a rollbacker and can't use it.

(Also, I'll be going offline for now.) Apollogetticax|^talk 09:12, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Apollogetticax For most editors they use Recent Changes log and for counter vandalism editors, some of them use Huggle. I suggest you to take up WP:CVUA program first to understand counter vandalism work and guidelines to be a effective counter vandalism editor. You can choose any instructor from the list and I am one of them. To say that you need to have at least 200 main space edits to join the program. At the moment you have a total of main space edits of 81 - see HERE. When you reach the requirement above then pop back here if you still want to join the CUVA program. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 09:19, 24 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

I now have 204 mainspace edits, and I still want to join this program.

Now, without further ado...(drumroll)...Can you please adopt me? Apollogetticax|^talk 08:06, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Apollogetticax I have set up the program for you. Pls read the "communication section" at the bottom of the assignment. If you have any questions regarding the assignment or you have finish the assignment and would like me to review, pls ping me on the "communication section". When I said I will be your mentor on my initial message that meant I adopt you. Welcome to CVUA. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 08:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata weekly summary #633

Latest comment: 7 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-06-24. Please help Translate.

Events

Past: The 200th online Wikidata meetup in Swedish was held.
Upcoming: Lexicodays, online event dedicated to Lexemes on Wikidata, will take place on June 28-30. It takes place across time zone and both in English and Indonesian. Check the program and find the access links on the event page.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Blogs: 20th Century Press Archives – history in newspaper clippings, made accessible by ZBW and Wikimedia. The blog discusses how ZBW and Wikimedia collaborated to digitize and make accessible the 20th Century Press Archives, integrating its metadata into Wikidata items and providing fresh access to 3.8 million digitized pages from raw microfilm1.
Notebooks: Dashboard of European Parliament

Tool of the week

Wikidata in Prometheus - Prometheus is a non-commercial image archive for art and cultural studies. It hosts images from a variety of image and media databases and now works can be connected with Wikidata.
New Mix'n'match feature: For lists of (full or auto) matches where both the MnM entry and the Wikidata Item have coordinates, it now shows the distance between them in the description. (source)

Other Noteworthy Stuff

The Wikidata development team at Wikimedia Deutschland is planning a brief survey to understand the various ways people contribute to the project and identify user contribution patterns. A request has been made for a CentralNotice banner to deploy the survey to a broad audience. Your feedback, comments, and questions on this request are welcome: m:CentralNotice/Request/Wikidata Community Survey 2024
The second iteration of the Wikidata:Open Online Course will begin from July 1 until August 11. Whether you're a beginner taking your first steps, an individual in need of a refresher on Wikidata concepts, or a seasoned trainer looking to level up your skills - this course is right for you.

Newest properties and property proposals to review

Newest General datatypes:
- showrunner (person who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of a television show)
- music mood (qualifier carrying an emotion (mood) relevant to a musical audio recording)
Newest External identifiers: Locomotive Yaroslavl HC player ID, Orthoptera Species File taxon ID (new), Flown From the Nest person ID, Online Swahili - English Dictionary ID, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ID, A Dictionary of Zoology ID, A Dictionary of Contemporary Icelandic ID, Seret film ID, Limited Liability Partnership Identification Number, Paleobiology database reference ID, PNG School Code, Téarma ID, IMAIOS entity ID, Naturalis Repository ID, English-Spanish Dictionary ID, Vikidia ID, thisisbasketball.be player ID, poblesdecatalunya.cat ID, Oqaasersiorfik ID, MNAHA person ID, Greenlandic-English Dictionary ID, Te Aka Māori Dictionary ID, Tropicos person ID, He Pātaka Kupu ID, vehicle keeper marking (VKM), ‎AllGame style ID, FC Metz player ID, MoFo ID, ‎itch.io numeric ID, filmas.lv film ID, ‎filmas.lv person ID, ‎filmas.lv studio ID, Cockroach Species File taxon ID (new), Lygaeoidea Species File taxon ID (new), Phasmida Species File taxon ID (new), Psocodea Species File taxon ID (new), Spanish-English Dictionary ID, Norwegian National Museum producer ID, ‎Burgenwelt ID, Irish-English Dictionary ID, Tesoro della Lingua Italiana delle Origini ID, Tommaseo-Bellini Online ID, danskfodbold.com player ID, DAKA Danish-Greenlandic Dictionary ID, DAKA Greenlandic-Danish Dictionary ID, ‎Canadian Great War Project person ID, English-Irish Dictionary ID, PMC journal ID, Census ID, Douban personage ID, AviBase person ID
New General datatypes property proposals to review:
- Nom dans la langue locale ()
- YAMAP mountain ID (YAMAP mountain ID)
- coin edge (Coin edges may be plain (smooth) or patterned, or a combination of both. They can also include lettering.)
- ozone depletion potential (relative amount of degradation to the ozone layer relative to CFC-11)
New External identifier property proposals to review: Pocket Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary: English-French ID, Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage ID, código del Inventario del Patrimonio Cultural de Castilla-La Mancha, Farhang-i farsī ba rusī ID, Cineuropa international sales agent ID, Cineuropa production company ID, Cineuropa distributor ID, Biodiversity Information System for Europe ID, Elonet company ID, Numista issuer ID, stiga.trefik.cz, European Education Thesaurus ID, Brezhoneg21 ID, Personnel Records of the First World War (Library and Archives Canada) ID, Canadian Virtual War Memorial ID, Federal Reserve Subject Taxonomy ID, Devri ID, OpenCitations Meta Identifier, IGN franchise ID, Plex person key, Overcast episode ID, OBJ ID, NooSFere publisher ID, Metamath statement label, Pocket Oxford German Dictionary: English-German ID, Pocket Oxford Italian Dictionary: English-Italian ID, UNIBO professor ID, Mapes de Patrimoni Cultural ID, Il Nuovo DOP ID, FEI horse ID

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- Number of solar eclipses per decades
- Longest gap between original film and remake (without any intermediate remakes) (source)
Newest WikiProjects:
- Multilingualism - organizes work around achieving 100% Wikidata multilingualism for every language with MediaWiki internationalization support. It is initiated, developed & supported by Wikimedia Language Diversity community volunteers.
- NAVISone
Newest database reports: Identical labels and descriptions
Showcase Items: Kofi Annan (Q1254) - 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1938-2018)
Showcase Lexemes: ʒirilana (L719353) - Dagbanli proverb that translates to "liar"

Development

[Breaking Change Announcement] Upcoming Changes to Wikibase: EntitySchema data type
EntitySchemas: We prepared for the release of the new data type to link to EntitySchemas in statements on July 2nd.
Mul language code: We picked up the remaining issues before enabling it by default on Wikidata
Wikibase REST API:
- We completed the route to modify the data of an Item (phab:T342993)
- We continued improving and reworking errors (phab:T366172, phab:T366175)

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Weekly Tasks

Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.
Contribute to the showcase Item and Lexeme above.
Participate in this week's Lexeme challenge:
Govdirectory weekly focus country: Cameroon
Summarize your WikiProject's ongoing activities in one or two sentences.
Help translate or proofread the interface and documentation pages, in your own language!
Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
Help write the next summary!

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Tech News: 2024-26

Latest comment: 7 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

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. [1]
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. [2]

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. [3]

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). [4][5]
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. [6]

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Question from Apollogetticax on Zerodium (22:52, 25 June 2024)

Latest comment: 6 days ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello, Cassiopeia. I am doing user suggestions to help Wikipedia articles (I am currently taking a break from Recent Changes patrolling), and many suggestions (I am doing copyedits) are pages with not just spelling and grammar mistakes, but also with tags that say they are like advertisements.

In this kind of article don't know where the problem is, and how to fix it. Could you please advice on this? --Apollogetticax|^talk 22:52, 25 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Question from Mick.Caru on Bill Baker (racing driver) (01:23, 26 June 2024)

Latest comment: 5 days ago4 comments2 people in discussion

Hello, This is my first time trying to add a photo. My dad is Bill Baker and I would like to add a couple photos in the article about him. These photos are not copyrighted. How do I do this? Thanks for your time and help. --Mick.Caru (talk) 01:23, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Mick.Caru May I know you hold the copyright for the images (mean you took the photos yourself)? Cassiopeia talk 04:23, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I took the photo myself back in the 1970’s Mick.Caru (talk) 05:55, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Mick.Caru Image needs to be upload on Wikipedia Commons first then copy the file name and paste it on Wikipedia article. Save the image in png or jpg format. Go to Wiki Commons to upload the image - see HERE and follow the instructions. I suggest you to read Wikipedia:Uploading images first prior the upload. Once the upload is done then click "Use this file" with the "W" icon next to it, a window will pop up and copy Thumnail file name and past on the article. Stay safe and best. Cassiopeia talk 06:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)Reply

Women in Red July 2024

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Women in Red | July 2024, Volume 10, Issue 7, Numbers 293, 294, 311, 312, 313

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New: Translation contest 2024 | Science Fiction and Fantasy | Women in Sports

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Wikidata weekly summary #634

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.
This is the Wikidata summary of the week before 2024-07-01. Please help Translate.

Discussions

New requests for permissions/Bot:
- DifoolBot 4 Task(s) - Split single references containing multiple reference URLs into multiple references.
- Bot Bozze Task(s) - Add sitelinks to itwiki draft articles after they've been moved to the main namespace.
New request for comments: Spelling convention for labels and descriptions in English - RfC started 2024-06-25. This RfC requests feedback and input for finding consistency in spelling convention as English has multiple regional variations.