User talk:Knightoftheswords281/Archives/2024/January

The Signpost: 24 December 2023

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DYK for Rizz (slang)

On 1 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Rizz (slang), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after popularizing the term rizz, Kai Cenat stopped using the term himself, saying that TikTok had butchered the word? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Rizz (slang). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Rizz (slang)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Letter to the American People

On 7 January 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Letter to the American People, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that a letter to the American people allegedly written by Osama bin Laden has been cited as an example of online youth radicalization? You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Letter to the American People), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.

Aoidh (talk) 00:02, 7 January 2024 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 17,217 views (717.4 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of January 2024 – nice work!

GalliumBot (talk • contribs) (he/it) 03:27, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Your draft article, Draft:Europa Universalis (franchise)

Hello, Knightoftheswords281. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or Draft page you started, "Europa Universalis".

In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material deemed unsuitable for the encyclopedia mainspace, the draft has been deleted. When you plan on working on it further and you wish to retrieve it, you can request its undeletion. An administrator will, in most cases, restore the submission so you can continue to work on it.

Thanks for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 03:41, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Your redirect, 13/50

A page you created has been nominated for deletion as an attack page, according to section G10 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

Do not create pages that attack, threaten, or disparage their subject or any other entity. Attack pages and files are not tolerated by Wikipedia, and users who create or add such material may be blocked from editing.

Do not add slurs, images, symbols, or other content meant to attack, harass, threaten, or disparage certain people or groups based on nationality, race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or other factors. Such content is not tolerated by Wikipedia and as such may be hidden from public view at any time by an administrator (or in extreme cases, suppressed). Articles or files of which the only purpose is to attack, harass, threaten or disparage certain people or groups are speedily deleted. If you add hateful, derogatory, or bigoted content again, as you did at 13/50, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. CJ-Moki (talk) 05:13, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Hello, Knightoftheswords281,

Now that I looked into the symbolism of this number, I don't see how you thought this was an appropriate redirect for Wikipedia. Do we need to go through the rest of your contributions to look for white supremacy symbolism? According to your User page, you identify as African-American but after reading about this, I'm beginning to doubt your truthfulness here. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 05:18, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@CJ-Moki and Liz:, regardless on the merits of the redirect, I ought to ask if this is really the greatest demonstration of Wikipedia's commitment to WP:AGF? There's is a very big gap in thinking that making a redirect about a term used by racists shouldn't be permitted and claiming that it was done with racially malicious, white supremacist intent, and even going so far as to question the racial identity of some editor (who you don't know and have rarely interacted with outside of this instance) because that racial identity somehow tethers you to specific actions?

Additionally, I don't agree with the premise that this page was an attack page. I made it a while ago, so I cannot recall fully, but IIRC, I believe that redirected to Race and crime in the United States and nothing more. There was no disparaging of Black people, no race and IQ nonsense, no phrenology-posting or anything. I find it a bit ridiculous that this was the immediate assumption, considering that other similar redirects that I created when I was a younger and more naïve editor that were deleted never got this type of response. I'm not a white supremacist and in fact as a right-winger has probably railed against their points more than I feel that a lot of other RWs do, and I urge that you retract these rather baseless insinuations. — Knightoftheswords 16:51, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-02

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 is a tool that converts wiki content into the formats of LaTeX, PDF, ODT, and EPUB. The code now runs many times faster due to recent improvements. There is also an optional Docker container you can install on your local machine.
• The way that Random pages are selected has been updated. This will slowly reduce the problem of some pages having a lower chance of appearing. [1]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 9 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 10 January. It will be on all wikis from 11 January (calendar). [2][3]

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Precious anniversary

Precious

One year!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

ITN recognition for 2024 Yemen airstrikes

On 12 January 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2024 Yemen airstrikes, which you nominated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. Stephen 08:21, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

The Signpost: 10 January 2024

• From the editor: NINETEEN MORE YEARS! NINETEEN MORE YEARS!

• Special report: Public Domain Day 2024

• Technology report: Wikipedia: A Multigenerational Pursuit

• News and notes: In other news ... see ya in court!

• In focus: The long road of a featured article candidate

• In the media: What is plagiarism? Oklahoma Disneyland? Reaching a human being at Wikipedia?

• WikiProject report: WikiProjects Israel and Palestine

• Obituary: Anthony Bradbury

• Traffic report: The most viewed articles of 2023

• Crossword: everybody gangsta till the style sheets start cascading

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Tech News: 2024-03

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

• Pages that use the JSON contentmodel will now use tabs instead of spaces for auto-indentation. This will significantly reduce the page size. [4]
• Gadgets and personal user scripts may now use JavaScript syntax introduced in ES6 (also known as "ES2015") and ES7 ("ES2016"). MediaWiki validates the source code to protect other site functionality from syntax errors, and to ensure scripts are valid in all supported browsers. Previously, Gadgets could use the requiresES6 option. This option is no longer needed and will be removed in the future. [5]
• Bot passwords and owner-only OAuth consumers can now be restricted to allow editing only specific pages. [6]
• You can now thank edits made by bots. [7]
• An update on the status of the Community Wishlist Survey for 2024 has been published. Please read and give your feedback.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 16 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 17 January. It will be on all wikis from 18 January (calendar). [8][9]
• Starting on January 17, it will not be possible to login to Wikimedia wikis from some specific old versions of the Chrome browser (versions 51–66, released between 2016 and 2018). Additionally, users of iOS 12, or Safari on Mac OS 10.14, may need to login to each wiki separately. [10]
• The jquery.cookie module was deprecated and replaced with the mediawiki.cookie module last year. A script has now been run to replace any remaining uses, and this week the temporary alias will be removed. [11]

Future changes

• Wikimedia Deutschland is working to make reusing references easier. They are looking for people who are interested in participating in individual video calls for user research in January and February.

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January 2024

You have recently made edits related to Eastern Europe or the Balkans. This is a standard message to inform you that Eastern Europe or the Balkans is a designated contentious topic. This message does not imply that there are any issues with your editing. For more information about the contentious topics system, please see Wikipedia:Contentious topics.

This is a standard message to notify contributors about an administrative ruling in effect. It does not imply that there are any issues with your contributions to date. You have shown interest in the Russo-Ukrainian War. Due to past disruption in this topic area, the community has authorised uninvolved administrators to impose contentious topics restrictions—such as editing restrictions, bans, or blocks—on editors who do not strictly follow Wikipedia's policies, expected standards of behaviour, or the page-specific restrictions, when making edits related to the topic. For additional information, please see the guidance on these sanctions. If you have any questions, or any doubts regarding what edits are appropriate, you are welcome to discuss them with me or any other editor.

— Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 03:28, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Knightoftheswords281. Thank you for your work on Emperor Bonaparte. Simongraham, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Please add redirect categories

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Simongraham}}. Please remember to sign your reply with ~~~~. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

simongraham (talk) 22:28, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

Tech News: 2024-04

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

• A bug in UploadWizard prevented linking to the userpage of the uploader when uploading. It has now been fixed. [12]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 23 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 24 January. It will be on all wikis from 25 January (calendar). [13][14]

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Tech News: 2024-05

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

• Starting Monday January 29, all talk pages messages' timestamps will become a link. This link is a permanent link to the comment. It allows users to find the comment they are looking for, even if this comment was moved elsewhere. This will affect all wikis except for the English Wikipedia. You can read more about this change on Diff or on Mediawiki.org. [15]
• There are some improvements to the CAPTCHA to make it harder for spam bots and scripts to bypass it. If you have feedback on this change, please comment on the task. Staff are monitoring metrics related to the CAPTCHA, as well as secondary metrics such as account creations and edit counts.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 30 January. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 31 January. It will be on all wikis from 1 February (calendar). [16][17]
• On February 1, a link will be added to the "Tools" menu to download a QR code that links to the page you are viewing. There will also be a new Special:QrCode page to create QR codes for any Wikimedia URL. This addresses the #19 most-voted wish from the 2023 Community Wishlist Survey. [18]
• Gadgets which only work in some skins have sometimes used the targets option to limit where you can use them. This will stop working this week. You should use the skins option instead. [19]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)