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Incomplete DYK nomination
Hello! Your submission of Template:Did you know nominations/Voyager 2 at the Did You Know nominations page is not complete; if you would like to continue, please link the nomination to the nominations page as described in step III of the nomination procedure. If you do not want to continue with the nomination, tag the nomination page with {{db-g7}}, or ask a DYK admin. Thank you. DYKHousekeepingBot (talk) 17:27, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
June thanks
story · music · places |
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Thank you for improving article quality in June! - Today we have a centenarian story (documentation about it by Percy Adlon) and an article that had two sentences yesterday and was up for deletion, and needs a few more citations. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:20, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
Hello
I was real stupid to change the Boeing model 1 start to "I ain't readin all that". I am very sorry. So we good 😀 2409:40E5:B5:1765:804A:1E6A:A69F:DD3 (talk) 13:53, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-26
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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As the uploader of the image, I have the right to request it be moved. Why did you decline my request? Mach61 13:08, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Sure, but have a read of the declining policy. The rename is completely unnecessary IMO and satisfies FMNN#1. Hence declined. Thanks. The Herald (Benison) (talk) 13:35, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- IMO the uppercase "JPG" is confusing enough to warrant a rename Mach61 14:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- Again, not exactly a criterion for renaming and totally unnecessary, IMO. If you still want to contest, you may submit it again and let some other file mover or sysop respond. Thanks and happy editing :) — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 15:21, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
- IMO the uppercase "JPG" is confusing enough to warrant a rename Mach61 14:25, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
DYK for Voyager 2
On 30 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Voyager 2, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Voyager 2 has been transmitting data for more than 46 years, making it the oldest active space probe in history? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Voyager 2. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Voyager 2), 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.
Million Award for Voyager 2
The Half Million Award | |
For your contributions to bring Voyager 2 (estimated annual readership: 510,000) to Good Article status, I hereby present you the Half Million Award. Congratulations on this rare accomplishment, and thanks for all you do for Wikipedia's readers! Reidgreg (talk) 22:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC) |
Tech News: 2024-27
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
- Over the next three weeks, dark mode will become available for all users, both logged-in and logged-out, starting with the mobile web version. This fulfils one of the top-requested community wishes, and improves low-contrast reading and usage in low-light settings. As part of these changes, dark mode will also work on User-pages and Portals. There is more information in the latest Web team update. [7]
- Logged-in users can now set global preferences for the text-size and dark-mode, thanks to a combined effort across Foundation teams. This allows Wikimedians using multiple wikis to set up a consistent reading experience easily, for example by switching between light and dark mode only once for all wikis. [8]
- If you use a very old web browser some features might not work on the Wikimedia wikis. This affects Internet Explorer 11 and versions of Chrome, Firefox and Safari older than 2016. This change makes it possible to use new CSS features and to send less code to all readers. [9][10]
- Wikipedia Admins can customize local wiki configuration options easily using Community Configuration. Community Configuration was created to allow communities to customize how some features work, because each language wiki has unique needs. At the moment, admins can configure Growth features on their home wikis, in order to better recruit and retain new editors. More options will be provided in the coming months. [11]
- Editors interested in language issues that are related to Unicode standards, can now discuss those topics at a new conversation space in MediaWiki.org. The Wikimedia Foundation is now a member of the Unicode Consortium, and the coordination group can collaboratively review the issues discussed and, where appropriate, bring them to the attention of the Unicode Consortium.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in Mandailing (
w:btm:
) [12]
Problems
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [13]
Future changes
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Featured list removal nomination
I have nominated List of Indian Nobel laureates for featured list removal. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured list criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks; editors may declare to "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Broc (talk) 12:47, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 4 July 2024
- News and notes: WMF board elections and fundraising updates
- Special report: Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification vote underway, new Council may surpass power of Board
- In focus: How the Russian Wikipedia keeps it clean despite having just a couple dozen administrators
- Discussion report: Wikipedians are hung up on the meaning of Madonna
- In the media: War and information in war and politics
- Sister projects: On editing Wikisource
- Opinion: Etika: a Pop Culture Champion
- Gallery: Spokane Willy's photos
- Humour: A joke
- Recent research: Is Wikipedia Politically Biased? Perhaps
- Traffic report: Talking about you and me, and the games people play
Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Titanus giganteus MHNT.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 02:46, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
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Administrators' newsletter – July 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2024).
- Local administrators can now add new links to the bottom of the site Tools menu without using JavaScript. Documentation is available on MediaWiki. (T6086)
- The Community Wishlist is re-opening on 15 July 2024. Read more
This week's article for improvement (week 28, 2024)
Hello, The Herald. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Mechanism (engineering) • Breaking wave Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:06, 8 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-28
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 the Wikimedia Foundation a new task force was formed to replace the disabled Graph with more secure, easy to use, and extensible Chart. You can subscribe to the newsletter to get notified about new project updates and other news about Chart.
- The CampaignEvents extension is now available on Meta-wiki, Igbo Wikipedia, and Swahili Wikipedia, and can be requested on your wiki. This extension helps in managing and making events more visible, giving Event organizers the ability to use tools like the Event registration tool. To learn more about the deployment status and how to request this extension for your wiki, visit the CampaignEvents page on Meta-wiki.
- Editors using the iOS Wikipedia app who have more than 50 edits can now use the Add an Image feature. This feature presents opportunities for small but useful contributions to Wikipedia.
- Thank you to all of the authors who have contributed to MediaWiki Core. As a result of these contributions, the percentage of authors contributing more than 5 patches has increased by 25% since last year, which helps ensure the sustainability of the platform for the Wikimedia projects.
Problems
- A problem with the color of the talkpage tabs always showing as blue, even for non-existent pages which should have been red, affecting the Vector 2022 skin, has been fixed.
Future changes
- The Trust and Safety Product team wants to introduce temporary accounts with as little disruption to tools and workflows as possible. Volunteer developers, including gadget and user-script maintainers, are kindly asked to update the code of their tools and features to handle temporary accounts. The team has created documentation explaining how to do the update. Learn more.
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Morpho rhetenor rhetenor MHNT dos.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:20, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
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Your Featured picture candidate has been promoted Your nomination for featured picture status, File:Morpho rhetenor rhetenor MHNT ventre.jpg, gained a consensus of support, and has been promoted. If you would like to nominate another image, please do so at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:20, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
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This topic is not sufficiently notable for inclusion in Wikipedia
I still do not understand the point. A lot of Artists are below the quality of Jean-Pierre and figure in Wikipedia. I cannot cite much more since the recognition of Jean-Pierre was mainly documented in newspapers. At this time internet was not very popular. And who can decide if someone is notable or not. I also remove all the mention of the quality of this painter to follow the guidance given by previous comments mentionning "advertising". I reduce all to the bone. Very disappointed by the way this was handled. Jpgroppi (talk) 12:27, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Jpgroppi, 6 editors declined the draft before my rejection and 5 left very useful and lenghty comments regarding improvements that can be brought to the article. But I haven't seen any major improvements that barely makes it pass notability criteria yet. It's close to an year now. So if such citations doesn't exist, as you say, that means the subject simply isn't notable enough to warrant a Wikipedia article. Hence I rejected the draft altogether.
If you still disagree with me, you can contact AfC help desk for a review. Just a heads up, you can devote your time into other articles for which citations are present and improve them. Thanks and happy editing. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 13:06, 11 July 2024 (UTC)- Thanks for your quick reply. What do you mean devoting my time into other article, what do you mean article? Other artists or to find more citations from the actual artist I am trying to publish? Jpgroppi (talk) 14:00, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Jpgroppi, Either. Good luck. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 14:27, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for your quick reply. What do you mean devoting my time into other article, what do you mean article? Other artists or to find more citations from the actual artist I am trying to publish? Jpgroppi (talk) 14:00, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: June 2024
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Redirects
Hi! Thank you for moving the files. Shouldn't the redirects be deleted? Lunar-akaunto
/talk 12:47, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- Not necessarily. See WP:FILEREDIRECT. Happy editing :) — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 14:14, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
- I see. But redirects are for, like, when there's traffic, right? Previously, when i requested the same for other files, the movers moved without leaving a redirect. Currently, leaving a redirect makes the redirect appear in the file usage section. Anyhow, since there appears to be disagreement by another editor over file names, I'll mark the previous redirects for deletion once that's cleared up.
Lunar-akaunto
/talk 07:42, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- I see. But redirects are for, like, when there's traffic, right? Previously, when i requested the same for other files, the movers moved without leaving a redirect. Currently, leaving a redirect makes the redirect appear in the file usage section. Anyhow, since there appears to be disagreement by another editor over file names, I'll mark the previous redirects for deletion once that's cleared up.
Kalki box office
users are changing the box office in the kalki page requesting action 2409:40F3:2:DB4E:8000:0:0:0 (talk) 14:22, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 29, 2024)
Hello, The Herald. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Applied science • Mechanism (engineering) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-29
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Tech News survey
- Please help us to improve Tech News by taking this short survey. The goal is to better meet the needs of the various types of people who read Tech News. The survey will be open for 3 more days. The survey is covered by this privacy statement. Some translations are available.
Recent changes
- Wikimedia developers can now officially continue to use both Gerrit and GitLab, due to a June 24 decision by the Wikimedia Foundation to support software development on both platforms. Gerrit and GitLab are both code repositories used by developers to write, review, and deploy the software code that supports the MediaWiki software that the wiki projects are built on, as well as the tools used by editors to create and improve content. This decision will safeguard the productivity of our developers and prevent problems in code review from affecting our users. More details are available in the Migration status page.
- The Wikimedia Foundation seeks applicants for the Product and Technology Advisory Council (PTAC). This group will bring technical contributors and Wikimedia Foundation together to co-define a more resilient, future-proof technological platform. Council members will evaluate and consult on the movement's product and technical activities, so that we develop multi-generational projects. We are looking for a range of technical contributors across the globe, from a variety of Wikimedia projects. Please apply here by August 10.
- Editors with rollback user-rights who use the Wikipedia App for Android can use the new Edit Patrol features. These features include a new feed of Recent Changes, related links such as Undo and Rollback, and the ability to create and save a personal library of user talk messages to use while patrolling. If your wiki wants to make these features available to users who do not have rollback rights but have reached a certain edit threshold, you can contact the team. You can read more about this project on Diff blog.
- Editors who have access to The Wikipedia Library can once again use non-open access content in SpringerLinks, after the Foundation contacted them to restore access. You can read more about this and 21 other community-submitted tasks that were completed last week.
Changes later this week
- This week, dark mode will be available on a number of Wikipedias, both desktop and mobile, for logged-in and logged-out users. Interface admins and user script maintainers are encouraged to check gadgets and user scripts in the dark mode, to find any hard-coded colors and fix them. There are some recommendations for dark mode compatibility to help.
Future changes
- Next week, functionaries, volunteers maintaining tools, and software development teams are invited to test the temporary accounts feature on testwiki. Temporary accounts is a feature that will help improve privacy on the wikis. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page. [14]
- Editors who upload files cross-wiki, or teach other people how to do so, may wish to join a Wikimedia Commons discussion. The Commons community is discussing limiting who can upload files through the cross-wiki upload/Upload dialog feature to users auto-confirmed on Wikimedia Commons. This is due to the large amount of copyright violations uploaded this way. There is a short summary at Commons:Cross-wiki upload and discussion at Commons:Village Pump.
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Wikimedia Apps newsletter – Second quarter of 2024
Hello, and welcome to the app's second newsletter in 2024!
In this edition, we will review our achievements and progress from the first half of 2024!
- Android
- Edit Patrol is now available on production for all Wikis!
- Donation through G-Pay is now available within the app.
- iOS
- "Add an image" suggested edit is available for all Wikis! It is available to all users with more than 50 edits.
- We now support full-page editing on Talk pages.
And you can subscribe to this newsletter.
Next step?
Opinion by administrator on the sources in question Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film/Indian_cinema_task_force#Expedite_verdict_on_moviecrow.com,_123telugu.com,_Indiaglitz.com,_cinejosh.com,_behindwoods.com,_thesouthfirst.com,_latestly.com. We also have this here Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#Indian_Film_boxoffice_and_review_sources. I carry same opinions from both on the sources. This is good to be added on the list in WP:ICTFSOURCES. I can help with list if you think it is OK with the inputs we got. I'd appreciate your insights. RangersRus (talk) 21:00, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
- RangersRus, Hey, yes I've been following the discussions but is a lil bit busy irl. So I'll give it a go this weekend sometime. As I have said in the talk page, some uninvolved user must close those subtopics and then someone can update the ICTFSOURCES table. Regarding the RSN discussions, I'll cover it this weekend. Thanks and happy editing. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 03:49, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
Books & Bytes – Issue 63
The Wikipedia Library: Books & Bytes
Issue 63, May – June 2024
- One new partner
- 1Lib1Ref
- Spotlight: References check
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery on behalf of The Wikipedia Library team --12:16, 18 July 2024 (UTC)
July thanks
story · music · places |
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Thank you for improving article quality in July! - Today's story is about a photographer who took iconic pictures, especially View from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Manhattan, 9/11, yesterday's was a great mezzo, and on Thursday we watched a sublime ballerina. If that's not enough my talk offers chamber music from two amazing concerts. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:17, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks Gerda. To many more musings and music:) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 15:08, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Third relisting
Hi. I recently came across Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Swadhin Axom where I notice that you relisted a third time. Per the deletion process third relists are discouraged and when they do happen need justification. Barkeep49 (talk) 02:49, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Barkeep49, Hi, thanks for the message. I relisted it due to no consensus, but I'll be careful to write a short rationale next time for a third relist. Thanks and happy editing :)
. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:01, 21 July 2024 (UTC)- Great to hear you will change in the future. I would suggest, when making these statements, you don't just write "I relisted it due to no consensus" but why a relisting to find consensus is appropriate for that particular AfD. Thanks and happy editing to you as well. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:19, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
- Barkeep49, Hey, how would you proceed with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/For the Freedom of Nations!. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 10:08, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for asking. I would close that given that there was no subsequent discussion after the last relist. Depending on the proper weighting of the various !votes I would close it as either delete or (more likely) no consensus. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:47, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Barkeep49, Hey, how would you proceed with Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/For the Freedom of Nations!. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 10:08, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
- Great to hear you will change in the future. I would suggest, when making these statements, you don't just write "I relisted it due to no consensus" but why a relisting to find consensus is appropriate for that particular AfD. Thanks and happy editing to you as well. Barkeep49 (talk) 17:19, 21 July 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 30, 2024)
Cape of Good Hope (left) and Cape Hangklip (right) in South Africa
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Ambush • Applied science Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 22 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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The Signpost: 22 July 2024
- Discussion report: Internet users flock to Wikipedia to debate its image policy over Trump raised-fist photo
- News and notes: Wikimedia community votes to ratify Movement Charter; Wikimedia Foundation opposes ratification
- Obituary: JamesR
- Crossword: Vaguely bird-shaped crossword
Tech News: 2024-30
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature News
- Stewards can now globally block accounts. Before the change only IP addresses and IP ranges could be blocked globally. Global account blocks are useful when the blocked user should not be logged out. Global locks (a similar tool logging the user out of their account) are unaffected by this change. The new global account block feature is related to the Temporary Accounts project, which is a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors that are no longer made public.
- Later this week, Wikimedia site users will notice that the Interface of FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") is improved and consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface and Wikimedia's design system. The FlaggedRevs interface experience on mobile and Minerva skin was inconsistent before it was fixed and ported to Codex by the WMF Growth team and some volunteers. [15]
- Wikimedia site users can now submit account vanishing requests via GlobalVanishRequest. This feature is used when a contributor wishes to stop editing forever. It helps you hide your past association and edit to protect your privacy. Once processed, the account will be locked and renamed. [16]
- Have you tried monitoring and addressing vandalism in Wikipedia using your phone? A Diff blog post on Patrolling features in the Mobile App highlights some of the new capabilities of the feature, including swiping through a feed of recent changes and a personal library of user talk messages for use when patrolling from your phone.
- Wikimedia contributors and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) organisations can now learn and measure the impact Wikimedia Commons is having towards creating quality encyclopedic content using the Commons Impact Metrics analytics dashboard. The dashboard offers organizations analytics on things like monthly edits in a category, the most viewed files, and which Wikimedia articles are using Commons images. As a result of these new data dumps, GLAM organisation can more reliably measure their return on investment for programs bringing content into the digital Commons. [17]
Project Updates
- Come share your ideas for improving the wikis on the newly reopened Community Wishlist. The Community Wishlist is Wikimedia’s forum for volunteers to share ideas (called wishes) to improve how the wikis work. The new version of the wishlist is always open, works with both wikitext and Visual Editor, and allows wishes in any language.
Learn more
- Have you ever wondered how Wikimedia software works across over 300 languages? This is 253 languages more than the Google Chrome interface, and it's no accident. The Language and Product Localization Team at the Wikimedia Foundation supports your work by adapting all the tools and interfaces in the MediaWiki software so that contributors in our movement who translate pages and strings can translate them and have the sites in all languages. Read more about the team and their upcoming work on Diff.
- How can Wikimedia build innovative and experimental products while maintaining such heavily used websites? A recent blog post by WMF staff Johan Jönsson highlights the work of the WMF Future Audience initiative, where the goal is not to build polished products but test out new ideas, such as a ChatGPT plugin and Add a Fact, to help take Wikimedia into the future.
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July 17 Tfd
Your votes are in the wrong place. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 13:39, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
- WikiCleanerMan, Thanks. That was weird. Maybe some bug in the script. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 18:51, 26 July 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 31, 2024)
Hello, The Herald. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Cape (geography) • Ambush Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 29 July 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-31
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Editors using the Visual Editor in languages that use non-Latin characters for numbers, such as Hindi, Manipuri and Eastern Arabic, may notice some changes in the formatting of reference numbers. This is a side effect of preparing a new sub-referencing feature, and will also allow fixing some general numbering issues in Visual Editor. If you notice any related problems on your wiki, please share details at the project talkpage.
Bugs status
- Some logged-in editors were briefly unable to edit or load pages last week. These errors were mainly due to the addition of new linter rules which led to caching problems. Fixes have been applied and investigations are continuing.
- Editors can use the IP Information tool to get information about IP addresses. This tool is available as a Beta Feature in your preferences. The tool was not available for a few days last week, but is now working again. Thank you to Shizhao for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
- There are new features and improvements to Phabricator from the Release Engineering and Collaboration Services teams, and some volunteers, including: the search systems, the new task creation system, the login systems, the translation setup which has resulted in support for more languages (thanks to Pppery), and fixes for many edge-case errors. You can read details about these and other improvements in this summary.
- There is an update on the Charts project. The team has decided which visualization library to use, which chart types to start focusing on, and where to store chart definitions.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikivoyage in Czech (
voy:cs:
) [18]
Learn more
- There is a new Wikimedia Foundation data center in São Paulo, Brazil which helps to reduce load times.
- There is new user research on problems with the process of uploading images.
- Commons Impact Metrics are now available via data dumps and API.
- The latest quarterly Technical Community Newsletter is now available.
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Growth News, July 2024
Community Configuration
The Growth team released Community Configuration at all Wikipedias. You can access it at Special:CommunityConfiguration
.
This new special page replaces Special:EditGrowthConfig
. For now, all Growth features can be configured using Community Configuration. Configuration for AutoModerator (T365046) and other features will be available in the future.
You can help with translations. The interface translation is done at Translatewiki.net. You can also help translate the documentation.
If you attend Wikimania 2024, please join us for the session about Community configuration's future!
Current work
Newcomer Homepage Community Updates module
We will add a new Community Configurable module to the Newcomer Homepage that will allow communities to highlight specific events, projects, campaigns, and initiatives. We have released a simple version available to beta wikis. We will conduct an A/B test at our pilot wikis using the new Metrics Platform. We still welcome community feedback on initial designs and plans, in any language at our project talk page.
Future work
Increase constructive activation on mobile
As part of the Growth team 2024/2025 Annual Plan, the Growth team will explore various ways to increase the percentage of newcomers who successfully start editing.
Editing a Wikipedia page requires too much context and patience. It means many trial and error for newcomers to contribute, meaning a steeper learning curve and potential discouraging reverts. To support a new generation of volunteers, we will increase the number and availability of smaller, structured, and more task-specific editing workflows (E.g. Edit Check and Structured Tasks). The Growth team will primarily focus on Structured Tasks, while working closely with the Editing team to ensure our work integrates well with Edit Check.
Stay informed
Growth team weekly updates are available on wiki (in English) if you want to know more about our day-to-day work. If you want to receive more general updates about technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement (including Growth work), we encourage you to subscribe to Tech News.
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15:08, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25
Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:01, 1 August 2024 (UTC)
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
- inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...
- Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
- Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
- To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
- We want...
- ...watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
- ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
- ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work
- Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per MOS:LINKONCE.
- Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had a ridiculously long original request title and was accidentally moved to WP:US/L by me. Oops!
- An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
- Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop, with perhaps MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js used for inspiration.
- ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Jeeputer and Nardog have been the most active on the page in the past five months.
- After the RIIJ update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
- Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!
- Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
- BilledMammal/Move+ expands the powers of User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.
- On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? CanonNi/StatusSetter puts the fun into Enterprisey/StatusChanger with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!
- In our continuing trend(s?), DaxServer/DiscussionCloser forks DannyS712/DiscussionCloser to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.
- Andrybak:
- user-tabs-on-contribs is a fork of User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs for Vector 2022.
- Archiver is a fork of User:Enterprisey/archiver with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.
- Quite coincidentally, Elli/OneClickArchiver has been forked from User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver to work with the mw:Heading HTML changes.
- FlightTime/OneClickArchiver forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{clear}} to page archives.
Padlock for semi−move protection−designed by User:Chaotic Enby - Andrybak/Not around can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{not around}}.
- BrandonXLF/AddCopied automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{copied}}.
- Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful
- CanonNi/AlertAssistant adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.
- CFA/AttributeTranslation automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.
- In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble Jeeputer/defconIndicator adds the WP:WIKIDEFCON status to the toolbar.
- Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
- Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
- fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
- TheTechie/Help Me Tool is a quick and easy way of responding to {{help me}} requests.
- Per MOS:CONFORM, ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.
Nomination of Onam and Islamic Preachers for deletion
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More to add on ictfsources list
Hello Herold. I forgot where we last left off with our discussion on adding some more unreliable sources to the generally used sources list. I have time to work on updating the list next day or two if no objection. RangersRus (talk) 15:08, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- RangersRus, Ya sure. Go ahead. Happy editing. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 16:31, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
- RangersRus, Hey, thanks for the update of the table. If you can, it will be great to put oermalinks for the discussions which deemed the websites as unreliable. The discussions usually occur at UCTF talk oage or RSN. Permalinks will help the editors to understand why the certain website is not a RS. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 12:27, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Working on it. RangersRus (talk) 12:31, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
- Discussion permalinks added. RangersRus (talk) 14:18, 4 August 2024 (UTC)
This week's article for improvement (week 32, 2024)
Hello, The Herald. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: List of public art in Chicago • Cape (geography) Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Tech News: 2024-32
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- Two new parser functions will be available this week:
{{#dir}}
and{{#bcp47}}
. These will reduce the need forTemplate:Dir
andTemplate:BCP47
on Commons and allow us to drop 100 million rows from the "what links here" database. Editors at any wiki that use these templates, can help by replacing the templates with these new functions. The templates at Commons will be updated during the Hackathon at Wikimania. [19][20] - Communities can request the activation of the visual editor on entire namespaces where discussions sometimes happen (for instance Wikipedia: or Wikisource: namespaces) if they understand the known limitations. For discussions, users can already use DiscussionTools in these namespaces.
- The tracking category "Pages using Timeline" has been renamed to "Pages using the EasyTimeline extension" in TranslateWiki. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match.
Project updates
- Editors who help to organize WikiProjects and similar on-wiki collaborations, are invited to share ideas and examples of successful collaborations with the Campaigns and Programs teams. You can fill out a brief survey or share your thoughts on the talkpage. The teams are particularly looking for details about successful collaborations on non-English wikis.
- The new parser is being rolled out on Wikivoyage wikis over the next few months. The English Wikivoyage and Hebrew Wikivoyage were switched to Parsoid last week. For more information, see Parsoid/Parser Unification.
Learn more
- There will be more than 200 sessions at Wikimania this week. Here is a summary of some of the key sessions related to the product and technology area.
- The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available.
- The latest quarterly Language and Internationalization newsletter is available. It includes: New design previews for Translatable pages; Updates about MinT for Wiki Readers; the release of Translation dumps; and more.
- The latest quarterly Growth newsletter is available.
- The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available.
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County Buildings image
Thank you for the title change. I'm still seeing the "pre-1987" image in the infobox at County Buildings, even though the image is the non-appended version of the title. Should I have had the other image renamed instead? I was following the shadow tag that was placed on the black-and-white image earlier. This is the image that should be appearing in the infobox. Seasider53 (talk) 15:15, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- Seasider53, Hey. The images are two different ones. I only renamed the bnw version. If you want the coloured one, you have to manually change it in the respective infobox. Thanks and happy editing. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 15:24, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- I did that, but when I click on the image link in visual-editing mode, I can see a redirect happening. It may fix itself after a while, I suppose. Seasider53 (talk) 15:31, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
- Seasider53, I have tagged the redirect for deletion. It will be fixed after the deletion. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:47, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
- I did that, but when I click on the image link in visual-editing mode, I can see a redirect happening. It may fix itself after a while, I suppose. Seasider53 (talk) 15:31, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
Administrators' newsletter – August 2024
News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2024).
- Global blocks may now target accounts as well as IP's. Administrators may locally unblock when appropriate.
- Users wishing to permanently leave may now request "vanishing" via Special:GlobalVanishRequest. Processed requests will result in the user being renamed, their recovery email being removed, and their account being globally locked.
- The Arbitration Committee appointed the following administrators to the conflict of interest volunteer response team: Bilby, Extraordinary Writ
This week's article for improvement (week 33, 2024)
Hello, The Herald. The article for improvement of the week is:
Please be bold and help improve it! Previous selections: Happiness • List of public art in Chicago Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 12 August 2024 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • |
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Your GA nomination of Voyager program
The article Voyager program you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Voyager program for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Z1720 -- Z1720 (talk) 02:05, 12 August 2024 (UTC)
This Month in GLAM: July 2024
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Tech News: 2024-33
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Feature news
- AbuseFilter editors and maintainers can now make a CAPTCHA show if a filter matches an edit. This allows communities to quickly respond to spamming by automated bots. [21]
- Stewards can now specify if global blocks should prevent account creation. Before this change by the Trust and Safety Product Team, all global blocks would prevent account creation. This will allow stewards to reduce the unintended side-effects of global blocks on IP addresses.
Project updates
- Nominations are open on Wikitech for new members to refresh the Toolforge standards committee. The committee oversees the Toolforge Right to fork policy and Abandoned tool policy among other duties. Nominations will remain open until at least 2024-08-26.
- One new wiki has been created: a Wikipedia in West Coast Bajau (
w:bdr:
) [22]
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Revert of Good Faith edit
This is the reference of the section removed https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/160919/to-celebrate-or-not-to-celebrate.html . Kindly go through it. Entire line is verifiable. Not sure why you removed it. CheramanMale (talk) 17:03, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- CheramanMale, Hey, you need more citations from independent sources for verifiability. See WP:INDY and WP:VERIFY. Thanks and happy editing. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 18:31, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Please check if this version with the same reference fits into the article.
- Zayn al-Din Makhdoom's 16th-century Islamic jurisprudence text of Malabar(present day Kerala), Fatḥ al-Mu‘īn, promoted an inclusive Islam, including the celebration of festivals with other communities present then. However, modern critics, influenced by Arab cultural interpretations, now denounce such practices as un-Islamic, reversing the region's historical approach to religious harmony. CheramanMale (talk) 22:43, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- Article on Zainuddin Makhdoom I https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zainuddin_Makhdoom_I . You can see the Islamic text I mentioned here in this link CheramanMale (talk) 22:51, 13 August 2024 (UTC)
- CheramanMale, Yes, I saw that. But you can't use Wikipedia as a reference. Wikipedia is not a reliable source. You need other sources that independently verify the fact you provided. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 04:36, 14 August 2024 (UTC)
The Signpost: 14 August 2024
- In the media: Portland pol profile paid for from public purse
- In focus: Twitter marks the spot
- News and notes: Another Wikimania has concluded
- Special report: Nano or just nothing: Will nano go nuclear?
- Opinion: HouseBlaster's RfA debriefing
- Traffic report: Ball games, movies, elections, but nothing really weird
- Humour: I'm proud to be a template
Naming users on edit summaries
Please refrain from naming users on edit summaries. If it is a normal wiki policy, then okay😁 VSankeerthSai1609 (talk) 18:47, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- VSankeerthSai1609, edit summaries mostly are auto-generated. Also, there is no policy to refrain from mentioning the username in summaries. It helps to identify the user better. Thanks. — The Herald (Benison) (talk) 18:50, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
- Oh I see... VSankeerthSai1609 (talk) 18:54, 15 August 2024 (UTC)