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43221 Saud9900 (talk) 23:50, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Saud9900 on Wikipedia talk:RS (23:58, 8 August 2023)

  --Saud9900 (talk) 23:58, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from CipherSage (03:54, 9 August 2023)

Hello, How can I delete a deletion template after I included a valid copyright tag to an image? --CipherSage (talk) 03:55, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Important Request -Wikipedia Entry

Good day, I would like to connect to you regarding a Wikipedia entry.

Please advise how we can connect. Universal Phoenix (talk) 14:15, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Question from Nitinvats03 (08:24, 10 August 2023)

Hi DreamRimmer, I hope you are in good health. I am new to Wikipedia editing. And I want to create a new page about an upcoming short movie and its creator. But my draft ended up in speedy deletion. I am lost and don't know how to approach this. Can you guide me a little bit. --Nitinvats03 (talk) 08:24, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Hello @Nitinvats03 and welcome to Wikipedia! All of our articles must be neutral and reliably sourced. Please see Help:My first article for more information on how to write articles appropriately. Thanks! - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 14:02, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

August 2023 Good Article Nominations Backlog Drive reminder

The August 2023 Good Article Nominations Backlog Drive is at the halfway mark, and has seen incredible progress, dropping the backlog from 638 to 359 unreviewed articles -- a 43.7% reduction in only fifteen days! But we still have over two weeks to go, and there are plenty of articles left to review:

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Recent changes

• The Content translation system is no longer using Youdao's machine translation service. The service was in place for several years, but due to no usage, and availability of alternatives, it was deprecated to reduce maintenance overheads. Other services which cover the same languages are still available. [1]

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• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 15 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 16 August. It will be on all wikis from 17 August (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Latin Wikipedia, Ladino Wikipedia, Luxembourgish Wikipedia, Lak Wikipedia, Lezghian Wikipedia, Lingua Franca Nova Wikipedia, Ganda Wikipedia, Limburgish Wikipedia, Ligurian Wikipedia, Lombard Wikipedia, Lingala Wikipedia, Latgalian Wikipedia, Latvian Wikipedia, Maithili Wikipedia, Basa Banyumasan Wikipedia, Moksha Wikipedia, Malagasy Wikipedia, Armenian Wikipedia, Kyrgyz Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [2]

Future changes

• A few gadgets/user scripts which add icons to the Minerva skin need to have their CSS updated. There are more details available including a search for all existing instances and how to update them.

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The Signpost: 15 August 2023

• News and notes: Dude, Where's My Donations? Wikimedia Foundation announces another million in grants for non-Wikimedia-related projects

• In the media: An accusation of bias from Brazil, a lawsuit from Portugal, plagiarism from Florida

• In focus: 2023 Good Article Nomination drive is underway: get your barnstars here!

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Hi - I got your e-mail. G5 applies when an article's creator was evading a block at the time when they created an article. It doesn't apply to stuff they did before they were blocked, but if we can establish that an account was created by an account being used by someone who was evading an existing block, and the article hasn't been edited substantively by other editors, then G5 applies. Best Girth Summit _(blether) 16:57, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-34

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Recent changes

• The GDrive to Commons Uploader tool is now available. It enables securely selecting and uploading files from your Google Drive directly to Wikimedia Commons. [3]
• From now on, we will announce new Wikimedia wikis in Tech News, so you can update any tools or pages.
  • Since the last edition, two new wikis have been created:
    • a Wiktionary in Pa'O (wikt:blk:) [4]
    • a Wikisource in Sundanese (s:su:) [5]
  • To catch up, the next most recent six wikis are:
    • Wikifunctions (f:) [6]
    • a Wiktionary in Mandailing (wikt:btm:) [7]
    • a Wikipedia in Ghanaian Pidgin (w:gpe:) [8]
    • a Wikinews in Gungbe (n:guw:) [9]
    • a Wiktionary in Kabardian (wikt:kbd:) [10]
    • a Wikipedia in Fante (w:fat:) [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 22 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 23 August. It will be on all wikis from 24 August (calendar).

Future changes

• There is an existing stable interface policy for MediaWiki backend code. There is a proposed stable interface policy for frontend code. This is relevant for anyone who works on gadgets or Wikimedia frontend code. You can read it, discuss it, and let the proposer know if there are any problems. [12]

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Tech News: 2023-35

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

• As part of the changes for the better diff handling of paragraph splits, improved detection of splits is being rolled out. Over the last two weeks, we deployed this support to group0 and group1 wikis. This week it will be deployed to group2 wikis. [13]
• All Special:Contributions pages now show the user's local edit count and the account's creation date. [14]
• Wikisource users can now use the prpbengalicurrency label to denote Bengali currency characters as page numbers inside the <pagelist> tag. [15]
• Two preferences have been relocated. The preference "Enable the visual editor" is now shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis. Previously it was shown on the "Beta features" tab at some wikis. The preference "Use the wikitext mode inside the visual editor, instead of a different wikitext editor" is now also shown on the "Editing" tab at all wikis, instead of the "Beta features" tab. [16][17]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 29 August. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 30 August. It will be on all wikis from 31 August (calendar).
• New signups for a Wikimedia developer account will start being pushed towards idm.wikimedia.org, rather than going via Wikitech. Further information about the new system is available.
• All right-to-left language wikis, plus Korean, Armenian, Ukrainian, Russian, and Bulgarian Wikipedias, will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. This feature will come to more wikis in future weeks. [18]

Future changes

• The removal of the DoubleWiki extension is being discussed. This extension currently allows Wikisource users to view articles from multiple language versions side by side when the <=> symbol next to a specific language edition is selected. Comments on this are welcomed at the phabricator task.
• A proposal has been made to merge the second hidden-categories list (which appears below the wikitext editing form) with the main list of categories (which is further down the page). More information is available on Phabricator; feedback is welcome!

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The Signpost: 31 August 2023

• From the editor: Beta version of signpost.news now online

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• Recent research: The five barriers that impede "stitching" collaboration between Commons and Wikipedia

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Tech News: 2023-36

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Recent changes

• EditInSequence, a feature that allows users to edit pages faster on Wikisource has been moved to a Beta Feature based on community feedback. To enable it, you can navigate to the beta features tab in Preferences. [19]
• As part of the changes for the Generate Audio for IPA and Audio links that play on click wishlist proposals, the inline audio player mode of Phonos has been deployed to all projects. [20]
• There is a new option for Administrators when they are changing the usergroups for a user, to add the user’s user page to their watchlist. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. [21]
• One new wiki has been created:
  • a Wikipedia in Talysh (w:tly:) [22]

Problems

• The LoginNotify extension was not sending notifications since January. It has now been fixed, so going forward, you may see notifications for failed login attempts, and successful login attempts from a new device. [23]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 5 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 6 September. It will be on all wikis from 7 September (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Eastern Mari Wikipedia, Maori Wikipedia, Minangkabau Wikipedia, Macedonian Wikipedia, Malayalam Wikipedia, Mongolian Wikipedia, Marathi Wikipedia, Western Mari Wikipedia, Malay Wikipedia, Maltese Wikipedia, Mirandese Wikipedia, Erzya Wikipedia, Mazanderani Wikipedia, Nāhuatl Wikipedia, Neapolitan Wikipedia, Low German Wikipedia, Low Saxon Wikipedia, Nepali Wikipedia, Newari Wikipedia, Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia, Novial Wikipedia, N'Ko Wikipedia, Nouormand Wikipedia, Northern Sotho Wikipedia, Navajo Wikipedia, Nyanja Wikipedia, Occitan Wikipedia, Livvi-Karelian Wikipedia, Oromo Wikipedia, Oriya Wikipedia, Ossetic Wikipedia, Punjabi Wikipedia, Pangasinan Wikipedia, Pampanga Wikipedia, Papiamento Wikipedia, Picard Wikipedia, Pennsylvania German Wikipedia, Palatine German Wikipedia, Norfuk / Pitkern Wikipedia, Piedmontese Wikipedia, Western Punjabi Wikipedia, Pontic Wikipedia, Pashto Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [24][25]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:31, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

Marking quoted citation as revdel?

I thought that quotation is out of copyright. There is only one quote in the article and according to wikipedia it is okay to quote one in the article. There are many film articles use quoted texts. Mehedi Abedin 13:48, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

And also, please see WP:COPYQUOTE. Mehedi Abedin 13:57, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

@Mehediabedin, I know that quotes can be used in articles, but the paragraph you used was really long. As other experienced folks on the English Wikipedia's Discord server have told me that when adding reviews or quotes, it's better to keep them short, around 8 to 10 words, and express them in your own words to avoid potential copyright issues. That's why I requested the removal of these revisions, and I don't think it was the best call to undo that edit before hearing back from me. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 14:21, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Courtesy link: MR-9: Do or Die ‎

I'm pinging @Ferret, who answered my question on the Discord server. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 15:40, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

No strong opinion but it's quite a lengthy quote. What's stated could easily be paraphrased as well. I do believe that in most cases, when someone adds content and someone else removes it as a potential COPYVIO, they should leave the tag in place for a suitably copyright versed admin to judge. -- ferret (talk) 17:59, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer @Ferret Understood. I will make sure that the same thing will not be repeated. Mehedi Abedin 18:07, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

@Ferret I reduced the quote. Do you think that it is okay now? Mehedi Abedin 18:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

I had intended to mark it as reviewed after addressing the revdel, but due to the delay, I'm now reapplying the revdel tag to those earlier revisions that contain copyrighted materials. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 18:19, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

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	The Special Barnstar
	For your constructive critique of my reviews, which allowed me to improve my reviewing abilities overall. Thilsebatti (talk) 04:10, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 09:59, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-37

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Recent changes

• ORES, the revision evaluation service, is now using a new open-source infrastructure on all wikis except for English Wikipedia and Wikidata. These two will follow this week. If you notice any unusual results from the Recent Changes filters that are related to ORES (for example, "Contribution quality predictions" and "User intent predictions"), please report them. [26]
• When you are logged in on one Wikimedia wiki and visit a different Wikimedia wiki, the system tries to log you in there automatically. This has been unreliable for a long time. You can now visit the login page to make the system try extra hard. If you feel that made logging in better or worse than it used to be, your feedback is appreciated. [27]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 12 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 13 September. It will be on all wikis from 14 September (calendar).
• The Technical Decision-Making Forum Retrospective team invites anyone involved in the technical field of Wikimedia projects to signup to and join one of their listening sessions on 13 September. Another date will be scheduled later. The goal is to improve the technical decision-making processes.
• As part of the changes for the Better diff handling of paragraph splits wishlist proposal, the inline switch widget in diff pages is being rolled out this week to all wikis. The inline switch will allow viewers to toggle between a unified inline or two-column diff wikitext format. [28]

Future changes

• All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on 20 September. This is planned at 14:00 UTC. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [29]
• The Enterprise API is launching a new feature called "breaking news". Currently in BETA, this attempts to identify likely "newsworthy" topics as they are currently being written about in any Wikipedia. Your help is requested to improve the accuracy of its detection model, especially on smaller language editions, by recommending templates or identifiable editing patterns. See more information at the documentation page on MediaWiki or the FAQ on Meta.

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MediaWiki message delivery 21:06, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Bambaşka Biri

Hello DreamRimmer, I hope you're doing well. Did you get a chance to binge watch the first episode. How was it? C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 04:26, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

@C1K98V, I am doing well, thanks for asking. I hope you are doing great too. Despite a busy schedule, I made sure not to miss it. It's really fantastic, and I would definitely suggest watching it when it's available in Hindi. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 05:18, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

@DreamRimmer Great, I can't wait for the series to get dubbed. Thanks for the review of first episode. C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 05:38, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

AfD of Ujjwal Chaurasia

Sir can you check Ujjwal Chaurasia article now? I added good reference and reliable source. Thank you Arumobileworld (talk) 06:59, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

User:DreamRimmer/HotDefaultSort.js

Quick note: I'd recommend re-adding the // <nowiki> and // </nowiki> lines at the top and bottom in your fork of the script, otherwise the software may see templates in your code (E.g. {{DEFAULTSORT}}) and attempt to "transclude" them, landing the page in some tracking categories. Aidan9382 _(talk) 15:07, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

@Aidan9382, I appreciate you bringing this to my attention; it had completely slipped my mind. But I have taken care of it now. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 15:19, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the reviews!

Appreciate it =) BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 16:48, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

@BoomboxTestarossa, You have done a wonderful job on these articles. Keep it up! 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 17:31, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

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Aşk Taktikleri 2

Hello DreamRimmer, I hope you're doing well. Could you please translate the Wikipedia page for the Turkish film Love Tactics 2 into Aşk Taktikleri 2 and add it to the Turkish Wikipedia. Thanks for your consideration. C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 03:24, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

@C1K98V, I am doing well. As you can see, I haven't been active on Turkish Wikipedia, but once I find the time, I will work on translating the article about this film for the Turkish Wikipedia. :) 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 11:50, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

Sure, take your time. There's no rush. Thanks C1K98V ^{(💬 ✒️ 📂)} 17:34, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2023-38

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Recent changes

• MediaWiki now has a stable interface policy for frontend code that more clearly defines how we deprecate MediaWiki code and wiki-based code (e.g. gadgets and user scripts). Thank you to everyone who contributed to the content and discussions. [30][31]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 19 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 20 September. It will be on all wikis from 21 September (calendar).
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• All wikis will have a link in the sidebar that provides a short URL of that page, using the Wikimedia URL Shortener. [33]

Future changes

• The team investigating the Graph Extension posted a proposal for reenabling it and they need your input.

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Tech News: 2023-39

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 Vector 2022 skin will now remember the pinned/unpinned status for the Table of Contents for all logged-out users. [34]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 26 September. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 27 September. It will be on all wikis from 28 September (calendar).
• The ResourceLoader mediawiki.ui modules are now deprecated as part of the move to Vue.js and Codex. There is a guide for migrating from MediaWiki UI to Codex for any tools that use it. More details are available in the task and your questions are welcome there.
• Gadget definitions will have a new "namespaces" option. The option takes a list of namespace IDs. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages in the given namespaces.

Future changes

• New variables will be added to AbuseFilter: global_account_groups and global_account_editcount. They are available only when an account is being created. You can use them to prevent blocking automatic creation of accounts when users with many edits elsewhere visit your wiki for the first time. [35][36]

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• You can join the next meeting with the Wikipedia mobile apps teams. During the meeting, we will discuss the current features and future roadmap. The meeting will be on 27 October at 17:00 (UTC). See details and how to join.

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MediaWiki message delivery 16:49, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Your talk page comment about Mukesh Chhabra

Hello, I had noticed your comment on Draft talk:Mukesh Chhabra about how all the sources are sponsored content. I added a note to that effect as an AFC comment in the draft.

For my own education, how can you tell these are sponsored? Other than the Times of India, which has a reputation for publishing such things, I don't see how one can tell if the other sources are paid articles or not. Please enlighten me. ~Anachronist (talk) 17:45, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

@Anachronist, The sources available at the time of my comment were the news websites included in ANI's public relations plan and when I was in Mumbai in August, I heard on social media about the PR conducted by their company from time to time without disclaimers, so I found it suspicious. After that when I searched for these types of packages on the internet, I found many such packages, including many websites considered reliable on Wikipedia. Although I felt that such articles should be thoroughly checked before accepting them on Wikipedia, that is why I had added that note, but now I think I should remove it. 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 18:25, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

OK, thanks. The sourcing in that draft hasn't changed since you added that note. Rather than removing your note, perhaps expand on it with a comment on which particular sources may still be problematic. ~Anachronist (talk) 19:22, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Will do. Thanks! 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 19:26, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-40

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

• There is a new user preference for "Always enable safe mode". This setting will make pages load without including any on-wiki JavaScript or on-wiki stylesheet pages. It can be useful for debugging broken JavaScript gadgets. [37]
• Gadget definitions now have a new "contentModels" option. The option takes a list of page content models, like wikitext or css. Gadgets that use this option will only load on pages with the given content models.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 3 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 4 October. It will be on all wikis from 5 October (calendar).

Future changes

• The Vector 2022 skin will no longer use the custom styles and scripts of Vector legacy (2010). The change will be made later this year or in early 2024. See how to adjust the CSS and JS pages on your wiki. [38]

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The Signpost: 3 October 2023

• News and notes: Wikimedia Endowment financial statement published

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• Recent research: Readers prefer ChatGPT over Wikipedia; concerns about limiting "anyone can edit" principle "may be overstated"

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Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (September 2023).

Administrator changes

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• Alex Bakharev
• CorbieVreccan
• Cyphoidbomb
• Davodd
• Hog Farm
• JamesR
• KnightLago
• Mark Ironie
• Nosebagbear (deceased)
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• Tamzin
• TonyBallioni

CheckUser changes

DatGuy

• Ferret
• RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Oversighter changes

RickinBaltimore

• TonyBallioni
• Worm That Turned

Guideline and policy news

• An RfC is open regarding amending the paid-contribution disclosure policy to add the following text: Any administrator soliciting clients for paid Wikipedia-related consulting or advising services not covered by other paid-contribution rules must disclose all clients on their userpage.

Technical news

• Administrators can now choose to add the user's user page to their watchlist when changing the usergroups for a user. This works both via Special:UserRights and via the API. (T272294)

Arbitration

• Remedy 9 ("MarioProtIV topic ban") of the WikiProject Tropical Cyclones case has been rescinded.

Miscellaneous

• The 2023 CheckUser and Oversight appointments process has concluded with the appointment of one new CheckUser.
• Self-nominations for the electoral commission for the 2023 Arbitration Committee elections opens on 2 October and closes on 8 October.

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Image vandalism

Hi, please don't bother with warnings in cases like this. Just go straight to AIV. Thanks, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 07:41, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Hey @HJ Mitchell, that was an automatic warning sent by AntiVandal while reverting that edit. I tried to report it on AIV, but it had already been reported there. So, I left a note in the Wikipedia Discord for immediate action. As for that image, I attempted to locate and report it, but it turned out to be on a different project, which made it a bit challenging. Thanks a lot for taking quick action to block that vandal. Appreciate it! 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 08:01, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Tech News: 2023-41

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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• One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Fon (w:fon:) [39]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 10 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 11 October. It will be on all wikis from 12 October (calendar).
• Starting on Wednesday, a new set of Wikipedias will get "Add a link" (Swahili Wikipedia, Walloon Wikipedia, Waray Wikipedia, Wolof Wikipedia, Kalmyk Wikipedia, Xhosa Wikipedia, Mingrelian Wikipedia, Yiddish Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, Zhuang Wikipedia, Zeelandic Wikipedia, Min Nan Wikipedia, Zulu Wikipedia). This is part of the progressive deployment of this tool to more Wikipedias. The communities can configure how this feature works locally. [40]
• At some wikis, newcomers are suggested images from Commons to add to articles without any images. Starting on Tuesday, newcomers at these wikis will be able to add images to unillustrated article sections. The specific wikis are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table. You can learn more about this feature. [41]
• In the mobile web skin (Minerva) the CSS ID #page-actions will be replaced with #p-views. This change is to make it consistent with other skins and to improve support for gadgets and extensions in the mobile skin. A few gadgets may need to be updated; there are details and search-links in the task.

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Auto revert may be incorrect

Hi DreamRimmer, you recently reverted a change referenced here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ankitdimania, because of unclear reason "because it did not appear constructive".

The edit adds details on the full name and referenced from the person herself. Please undo the revert if possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ankitdimania (talk • contribs) 15:00, 27 October 2023 (UTC)

i have a doubt

hello @DreamRimme, I want to ask that is it important to add Alter Server Active(s) in church article Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Kalyan MICHAEL 942006 (talk) 13:50, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

@MICHAEL 942006:, You don't have to fill in every parameter in the infobox; just include information if you can back it up with reliable sources. I have removed that unsourced material for now. - 𝙳𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚁𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚎𝚛 ^{𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚌𝚞𝚜𝚜} 14:33, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

okay thank you MICHAEL 942006 (talk) 14:46, 13 October 2023 (UTC)

Article improvement

hey rimmer could you check this article Draft:Ishaan Shishodia . let me know what could be improved Drakovo (talk) 01:35, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

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