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Welcome to the drive!
editWelcome, welcome, welcome Tails Wx! I'm glad that you are joining the drive! Please, have a cup of WikiTea, and go cite some articles.
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Your draft article, Draft:Early December 2009 North American blizzard
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Hello, Tails Wx. It has been over six months since you last edited the Articles for Creation submission or draft page you started, "Early December 2009 North American blizzard".
In accordance with our policy that Wikipedia is not for the indefinite hosting of material, 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.
Thank you for your submission to Wikipedia, and happy editing. Liz Read! Talk! 16:51, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
September thanks
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Thank you for improving article quality in September! - Ach, lieben Christen, seid getrost, BWV 114, is one of the pieces in my topic of this year. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 18:07, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, @Gerda Arendt! Oh, it's a Bach piece – I did just now give it a read after a busy day today. Interesting scoring and history of the piece, I'd definitely say! ~ Tails Wx 04:03, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- It's nice to go - because of the 300 years - over these articles more than ten years old, and to listen! The next one is tougher, BWV 130, needs work to achieve the same standard. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 05:42, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- ... but now nominated for GA. - My story today features a pic I took from my position in the choir, I can also offer varied delightful music, some from Venice, also with pics I took, - note the rose in the clarinet ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:57, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
- Ooh, nice work! Good luck with the article, @Gerda Arendt! I do need to visit Venice someday, I've heard some good things from there, on a related note... ~ Tails Wx 16:29, 25 September 2024 (UTC)
September Thanks (continued)
editThank you for Reviewing the, Joshua Shim Article Qb1Coach (talk) 22:08, 22 September 2024 (UTC)
- No problem, thank you for creating the article, @Qb1Coach! (Small note, I think there's a bit too many images in the article – I'd consider removing a few of them. Otherwise, it looks in good shape!) ~ Tails Wx 04:05, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Absolutely. I will fix that now. Qb1Coach (talk) 16:56, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
Question from Khauzz on United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (12:26, 23 September 2024)
editHello
How do I add pictures --Khauzz (talk) 12:26, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
PTC9 Article
editCan you please take a look at my PTC9 Article? I just created it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_Tropical_Cyclone_Nine Wildfireupdateman (talk) 18:59, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- NVM it got speedy deleted Wildfireupdateman (talk) 21:56, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-39
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Weekly highlight
- All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
- Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
- The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight>tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax{{…}}are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [1]- Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [2][3]
- View all 25 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- From Wikimedia Enterprise:
- The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
- The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
- The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
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DYK for David Yong
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On 24 September 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article David Yong, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Singaporean former lawyer David Yong learned Korean and moved to South Korea to become a K-pop singer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/David Yong. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, David Yong), 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.
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- Community view: Indian courts order Wikipedia to take down name of crime victim, editors strive towards consensus
- Serendipity: A Wikipedian at the 2024 Paralympics
- Opinion: asilvering's RfA debriefing
- News and notes: Are you ready for admin elections?
- Recent research: Article-writing AI is less "prone to reasoning errors (or hallucinations)" than human Wikipedia editors
- Traffic report: Jump in the line, rock your body in time
Women in Red October 2024
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Tech News: 2024-40
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Updates for editors
- Readers of 42 more wikis can now use Dark Mode. If the option is not yet available for logged-out users of your wiki, this is likely because many templates do not yet display well in Dark Mode. Please use the night-mode-checker tool if you are interested in helping to reduce the number of issues. The recommendations page provides guidance on this. Dark Mode is enabled on additional wikis once per month.
- Editors using the 2010 wikitext editor as their default can access features from the 2017 wikitext editor by adding
?veaction=editsourceto the URL. If you would like to enable the 2017 wikitext editor as your default, it can be set in your preferences. [4] - For logged-out readers using the Vector 2022 skin, the "donate" link has been moved from a collapsible menu next to the content area into a more prominent top menu, next to "Create an account". This restores the link to the level of prominence it had in the Vector 2010 skin. Learn more about the changes related to donor experiences. [5]
- The CampaignEvents extension provides tools for organizers to more easily manage events, communicate with participants, and promote their events on the wikis. The extension has been enabled on Arabic Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Swahili Wikipedia, and Meta-Wiki. Chinese Wikipedia has decided to enable the extension, and discussions on the extension are in progress on Spanish Wikipedia and on Wikidata. To learn how to enable the extension on your wiki, you can visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-Wiki.
- View all 22 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- Developers with an account on Wikitech-wiki should check if any action is required for their accounts. The wiki is being changed to use the single-user-login (SUL) system, and other configuration changes. This change will help reduce the overall complexity for the weekly software updates across all our wikis.
In depth
- The server switch was completed successfully last week with a read-only time of only 2 minutes 46 seconds. This periodic process makes sure that engineers can switch data centers and keep all of the wikis available for readers, even if there are major technical issues. It also gives engineers a chance to do maintenance and upgrades on systems that normally run 24 hours a day, and often helps to reveal weaknesses in the infrastructure. The process involves dozens of software services and hundreds of hardware servers, and requires multiple teams working together. Work over the past few years has reduced the time from 17 minutes down to 2–3 minutes. [6]
Meetings and events
- October 4–6: WikiIndaba Conference's Hackathon in Johannesburg, South Africa
- November 4–6: MediaWiki Users and Developers Conference Fall 2024 in Vienna, Austria
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Question from Charfaq on Help:Wikitext (17:18, 1 October 2024)
edithi* --Charfaq (talk) 17:18, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
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Guideline and policy news
- Administrator elections are a proposed new process for selecting administrators, offering an alternative to requests for adminship (RfA). The first trial election will take place in October 2024, with candidate sign-up from October 8 to 14, a discussion phase from October 22 to 24, and SecurePoll voting from October 25 to 31. For questions or to help out, please visit the talk page at Wikipedia talk:Administrator elections.
- Following a discussion, the speedy deletion reason "File pages without a corresponding file" has been moved from criterion G8 to F2. This does not change what can be speedily deleted.
- A request for comment is open to discuss whether there is a consensus to have an administrator recall process.
Arbitration
- The arbitration case Historical elections has been closed.
- An arbitration case regarding Backlash to diversity and inclusion has been opened.
- Editors are invited to nominate themselves to serve on the 2024 Arbitration Committee Electoral Commission until 23:59 October 8, 2024 (UTC).
Miscellaneous
- If you are interested in stopping spammers, please put MediaWiki talk:Spam-whitelist and MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist on your watchlist, and help out when you can.
Question from Donchocolate (16:29, 3 October 2024)
editHello --Donchocolate (talk) 16:29, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
September 2024 NPP backlog drive – Points award
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| This award is given in recognition to Tails Wx for accumulating at least 200 points during the September 2024 NPP backlog drive. Your contributions helped play a part in the 19,000+ articles and 35,000+ redirects reviewed (for a total of 26,884.6 points) completed during the drive. Thank you so much for taking part and contributing to help reduce the backlog! Hey man im josh (talk) 15:19, 7 October 2024 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2024-41
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Weekly highlight
- Communities can now request installation of Automoderator on their wiki. Automoderator is an automated anti-vandalism tool that reverts bad edits based on scores from the new "Revert Risk" machine learning model. You can read details about the necessary steps for installation and configuration. [7]
Updates for editors
- Translators in wikis where the mobile experience of Content Translation is available, can now customize their articles suggestion list from 41 filtering options when using the tool. This topic-based article suggestion feature makes it easy for translators to self-discover relevant articles based on their area of interest and translate them. You can try it with your mobile device. [8]
- View all 12 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Updates for technical contributors
- It is now possible for
<syntaxhighlight>code blocks to offer readers a "Copy" button if thecopy=1attribute is set on the tag. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [9] - Customized copyright footer messages on all wikis will be updated. The new versions will use wikitext markup instead of requiring editing raw HTML. [10]
- Later this month, temporary accounts will be rolled out on several pilot wikis. The final list of the wikis will be published in the second half of the month. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 11 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available.
- Rate limiting has been enabled for the code review tools Gerrit and GitLab to address ongoing issues caused by malicious traffic and scraping. Clients that open too many concurrent connections will be restricted for a few minutes. This rate limiting is managed through nftables firewall rules. For more details, see Wikitech's pages on Firewall, GitLab limits and Gerrit operations.
- Five new wikis have been created:
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Hello and thanks for reaching out to me. I would like to know if there is a per week/month/year update limit for any individual account? Do edits need to be reviewed by other, older accounts? Also, I am interested in editing a page about a living person, am I able to do that as well? --Anodyne2 (talk) 23:39, 9 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi there, @Anodyne2! First, there isn't really an "update limit" – individual accounts are never deleted, if that's what you're referring to. Secondly, all edits of yours don't have to be reviewed by other editors, unless for other reasons, especially if the page is under pending changes protection, in which new accounts' edits on the aforementioned protection-implemented pages are reviewed as a result. For your last question, you're free to do so! While it is not required, I do encourage you, as a new editor, to create a draft first and submit it for Articles for Creation for review by AfC reviewers. Feel free to ask additional questions if you'd like! :) ~ Tails Wx 01:32, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
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Tech News: 2024-42
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Updates for editors
- The Structured Discussion extension (also known as Flow) is starting to be removed. This extension is unmaintained and causes issues. It will be replaced by DiscussionTools, which is used on any regular talk page. A first set of wikis are being contacted. These wikis are invited to stop using Flow, and to move all Flow boards to sub-pages, as archives. At these wikis, a script will move all Flow pages that aren't a sub-page to a sub-page automatically, starting on 22 October 2024. On 28 October 2024, all Flow boards at these wikis will be set in read-only mode. [16][17]
- WMF's Search Platform team is working on making it easier for readers to perform text searches in their language. A change last week on over 30 languages makes it easier to find words with accents and other diacritics. This applies to both full-text search and to types of advanced search such as the hastemplate and incategory keywords. More technical details (including a few other minor search upgrades) are available. [18]
- View all 20 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, EditCheck was installed at Russian Wikipedia, and fixes were made for some missing user interface styles.
Updates for technical contributors
- Editors who use the Toolforge tool Earwig's Copyright Violation Detector will now be required to log in with their Wikimedia account before running checks using the "search engine" option. This change is needed to help prevent external bots from misusing the system. Thanks to Chlod for these improvements. [19]
- Phabricator users can create tickets and add comments on existing tickets via Email again. Sending email to Phabricator has been fixed. [20]
- Some HTML elements in the interface are now wrapped with a
<bdi>element, to make our HTML output more aligned with Web standards. More changes like this will be coming in future weeks. This change might break some tools that rely on the previous HTML structure of the interface. Note that relying on the HTML structure of the interface is not recommended and might break at any time. [21]
In depth
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes: updates on Wikimedia's authentication system, research to simplify feature development in the MediaWiki platform, updates on Parser Unification and MathML rollout, and more.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available. This edition include: research about improving topic suggestions related to countries, improvements to PHPUnit tests, and more.
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The Signpost: 19 October 2024
edit- News and notes: One election's end, another election's beginning
- Recent research: "As many as 5%" of new English Wikipedia articles "contain significant AI-generated content", says paper
- In the media: Off to the races! Wikipedia wins!
- Contest: A WikiCup for the Global South
- Traffic report: A scream breaks the still of the night
- Book review: The Editors
- Humour: The Newspaper Editors
- Crossword: Spilled Coffee Mug
Question from Richard perfect on Hydrocarbon exploration (01:22, 20 October 2024)
editWhat is the name of a first well drill in a location --Richard perfect (talk) 01:22, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Jonathan Sauli (15:20, 20 October 2024)
editHello, I am the grandson of the physicist and professor Fabio Sauli from CERN. He does not have a wiki page and I wanted to see how to create it. He is perfectly capable of doing it but I wanted to get these information for him. Could you help me? What are the conditions to create a page? Thank you for your help, Bests regards Jonathan --Jonathan Sauli (talk) 15:20, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi @Jonathan, thanks for reaching out! First off, you're welcome to create an article or page of him – though I strongly encourage you to start doing so in draftspace first. However, since you have a family relationship, that would mean that a conflict-of-interest situation would come into play. Conflict-of-interest (COI) editing is strongly discouraged from Wikipedia – and the page states too: "COI editors are strongly discouraged from editing affected articles directly, and can propose changes on article talk pages instead". This does not apply to draftspace articles most of the time, however; new articles are strongly suggested to go through Articles for Creation for approval by other reviewers for it to become an article on Wikipedia, per WP:COIEDIT. Also, when editing articles you have a relationship with, you should also disclose a COI, following the instructions at WP:DISCLOSE. Feel free to ask any further questions or clarifications, too! ~ Tails Wx 02:08, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
October thanks
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Thank you for improving articles on October! - My story today is a cantata 300 years old, based on a hymn 200 years old when the cantata was composed, based on a psalm some thousand years old, - so said the 2015 DYK hook. I had forgotten the discussion on the talk. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:31, 20 October 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks @Gerda Arendt, the same goes for you as well! I also thank ya for the review on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/December 2017 North American winter storm/archive1, too. :)
- Another Bach piece, Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir, BWV 38. A classic. Neat! ~ Tails Wx 02:17, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Rakshith performics (06:17, 21 October 2024)
editHow do i create a citation --Rakshith performics (talk) 06:17, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, @Rakshith performics! If you're creating a citation through Visual Editor, then you would click "cite" and you would fill in or click the field(s) that follow, especially the url if doing so automatically or the type of reference you're going to insert manually. If you're looking to create a citation through source code, then Help:Citation#Inline citations would be the link to go to, for adding a citation through code. Here's an example of source code for a reference:
- <ref>{{cite web|last=Clash|first=Jim|date=June 13, 2023|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2023/06/13/riders-on-the-storms-tornado-chasings-all-the-rage/?sh=449999e45fb5|title=Riders On The Storms: Tornado Chasing's All The Rage|access-date=April 13, 2024|website=[[Forbes]]}}</ref>
- This produces a citation here:[1].
- If you need any further clarifications on this or have any further questions, feel free to ask! ~ Tails Wx 02:33, 22 October 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-43
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Weekly highlight
- The Mobile Apps team has released an update to the iOS app's navigation, and it is now available in the latest App store version. The team added a new Profile menu that allows for easy access to editor features like Notifications and Watchlist from the Article view, and brings the "Donate" button into a more accessible place for users who are reading an article. This is the first phase of a larger planned navigation refresh to help the iOS app transition from a primarily reader-focused app, to an app that fully supports reading and editing. The Wikimedia Foundation has added more editing features and support for on-wiki communication based on volunteer requests in recent years.
Updates for editors
- Wikipedia readers can now download a browser extension to experiment with some early ideas on potential features that recommend articles for further reading, automatically summarize articles, and improve search functionality. For more details and to stay updated, check out the Web team's Content Discovery Experiments page and subscribe to their newsletter.
- Later this month, logged-out editors of these 12 wikis will start to have temporary accounts created. The list may slightly change - some wikis may be removed but none will be added. Temporary account is a new type of user account. It enhances the logged-out editors' privacy and makes it easier for community members to communicate with them. If you maintain any tools, bots, or gadgets on these 12 wikis, and your software is using data about IP addresses or is available for logged-out users, please check if it needs to be updated to work with temporary accounts. Guidance on how to update the code is available. Read more about the deployment plan across all wikis.
- View all 33 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the South Ndebele, Pannonian Rusyn, Obolo, Iban and Tai Nüa Wikipedia languages were created last week. [22][23][24][25][26]
- It is now possible to create functions on Wikifunctions using Wikidata lexemes, through the new Wikidata lexeme type launched last week. When you go to one of these functions, the user interface provides a lexeme selector that helps you pick a lexeme from Wikidata that matches the word you type. After hitting run, your selected lexeme is retrieved from Wikidata, transformed into a Wikidata lexeme type, and passed into the selected function. Read more about this in the latest Wikifunctions newsletter.
Updates for technical contributors
- Users of the Wikimedia sites can now format dates more easily in different languages with the new
{{#timef:…}}parser function. For example,{{#timef:now|date|en}}will show as "28 October 2024". Previously,{{#time:…}}could be used to format dates, but this required knowledge of the order of the time and date components and their intervening punctuation.#timef(or#timeflfor local time) provides access to the standard date formats that MediaWiki uses in its user interface. This may help to simplify some templates on multi-lingual wikis like Commons and Meta. [27][28] - Commons and Meta users can now efficiently retrieve the user's language using
{{USERLANGUAGE}}instead of using{{int:lang}}. [29] - The Product and Tech Advisory Council (PTAC) now has its pilot members with representation across Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America. They will work to address the Movement Strategy's Technology Council initiative of having a co-defined and more resilient technological platform. [30]
In depth
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available. It includes: an upcoming Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module, new Community Configuration options, and details on new projects.
- The Wikimedia Foundation is now an official partner of the CVE program, which is an international effort to catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This partnership will allow the Security Team to instantly publish common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) records that are affecting MediaWiki core, extensions, and skins, along with any other code the Foundation is a steward of.
- The Community Wishlist is now testing machine translations for Wishlist content. Volunteers can now read machine-translated versions of wishes and dive into discussions even before translators arrive to translate content.
Meetings and events
- 24 October - Wiki Education Speaker Series Webinar - Open Source Tech: Building the Wiki Education Dashboard, featuring Wikimedia interns and a Web developer in the panel.
- 20–22 December 2024 - Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 in Odisha, India. A hackathon for community members, including developers, designers and content editors, to build technical solutions that improve contributors' experiences.
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- J THARUN, CHAIRMAN & chief executive officer of JT WISDOM TECHNOLOGY PVT LTD --Tharun50 (talk) 18:54, 23 October 2024 (UTC)
Hello! Why do my security verification fails whenever I’m registering an account in LinkedIn --Edwardjr1 (talk) 11:28, 25 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from Levslavophile on Help:Contents (23:54, 26 October 2024)
editHi; I apologize for the inconvenience. I find navigating Wikipedia a challenge. I would like to request an English language article for the 1975 Soviet film "Последнее лето детства", "Last Summer of Childhood". I've been trying to find ways to request an article, but I've ended up confused. I am not good with citations, so I do not intend to write this article, but rather request it. Thank you very much, in advance. --Levslavophile (talk) 23:54, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Jumbo's
edit On 28 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Jumbo's, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the owners of Jumbo's claimed it became the first white-owned restaurant in Miami to serve and employ black people in the late 1960s? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Jumbo's. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Jumbo's), 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.
— Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:03, 28 October 2024 (UTC)
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