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Nomination for deletion of Template:2024 Women's Premier League Points table
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Deletion discussion about 2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) Squads
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Nomination for deletion of Template:2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) squads
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Features of Ben 10 moved to draftspace
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Nomination of 2024 Women's Premier League (cricket) squads for deletion
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A tag has been placed on Category:Women's Premier League current squad templates indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
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Concern regarding Draft:Notable Moments at the MTV Video Music Awards
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April 2024
Hi, I can see that you have conveniently deleted select content from the page Chennai Super Kings in the name of "clean-up" without any due reason. Please provide appropriate and suitable comments when you do the same.
Also, as per MOS:IMGSIZE, it is not a good practice to specify a fixed width of an image in pixels unless with reason. Rather you can use upright with a scaling factor if a enlargement is required.
Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 03:18, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- It was removed at Royal Challengers Bangalore. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 03:26, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- And then restored, sorry. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 03:46, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- It was removed by a disruptive user despite earlier reverts by other editors as well. I am trying to take the article Chennai Super Kings to GA. The format is inline with similar club related featured articles from sports category (you can refer to the same!). It would help if you do not make contradicting edits which would mean further re-work during GA review process. Thanks for your understanding. Magentic Manifestations (talk) 05:00, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
- Okay, I am sorry for the troubles caused by me. 𝓥𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷24𝓑𝓲𝓸 (ᴛᴀʟᴋ) 05:13, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Women's Premier League teams
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- Just as an FYI, I moved the 3 categories that were in here to Category:Women's Premier League (cricket) teams, which has existed since 2023-02-17 and follows the naming scheme of the primary article at Women's Premier League (cricket). Hey man im josh (talk) 12:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
I have an idea! You should make that page a redirect page! Snipertron12 (talk) 12:28, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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- This one is just because Category:Women's Premier League (cricket) navigational boxes existed already since 2023-03-05. Hey man im josh (talk) 12:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
Custom signature
Hi Vestrian24Bio. Would you please consider using regular text in your signature instead of the mathematical symbols? It makes it more difficult to copy your username and it's bad for accessibility. You can get a similar effect using fonts like Vestrian24Bio. Actually, using unusual fonts is bad for accessibility in general, but it would still be an improvement. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 08:56, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- How about this one: Vestrian24Bio (U, T, A, C, S) 11:37, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Adjusted font size now. Vestrian24Bio (U, T, A, C, S) 11:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- That's definitely better, thanks. Five subsequent links is a bit out of control, but it's in the eyesore category rather than usability. You only really need a talk page link. Regards. Daniel Quinlan (talk) 19:17, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
- Adjusted font size now. Vestrian24Bio (U, T, A, C, S) 11:43, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
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CS1 error on List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains
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ITN recognition for 2024 Indian Premier League final
On 28 May 2024, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article 2024 Indian Premier League final, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. — Amakuru (talk) 10:21, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Discussion
I have begun a discussion on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cricket about the name of the T20 WC. Feel free to participate! Pharaoh496 (talk) 09:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the notice! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 10:01, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
Template:2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Group A
We should to restore the earlier format atleast until the end of the tournament, what was the reason for removal of runs scored, overs bowled and such attributes from the template? Cric editor (talk) 04:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- In the earlier format. the NRR is calculated each time when loading the page, which takes up memory to execute; specially for pages like 2024 T20WC which has 6 points tables. But, we could keep the earlier format until the end of the Group stage. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 04:35, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yes I guess we can settle with that till group stage, like it's done for all other tournaments. Cric editor (talk) 04:37, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Also in the 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup qualification, There are 5 "Final standings (Sub-regional qualifier)" and 5 "Final standings (Regional final)"; It's better to avoid similar headings in a same page as it would result in the anchors being misdirected. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 04:39, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- Also, we don't need the final standings here; only points table is enough. ( see 2023 Cricket World Cup qualification) Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 05:41, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
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Change back to Detailed Result
Hello there! Can you kindly change it back to old result board in 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup that it written in details 2400:ADC5:164:3000:9496:392F:75CE:AD63 (talk) 19:26, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
- The detailed results are included in the Group articles, only a summary is kept at the main page.
- Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 04:23, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
Edit at Smriti Mandhana
You reverted my edit on Smriti Mandhana by stating it was non-constructive. I want to clarify that I only removed one of the two citations used in the lead for the pronunciation of her name, as both citations serve the same purpose and are redundant. I used the same video as the previous citation but from the original upload on the channel of Asian Paints. Therefore, I don't understand why you consider my edit unconstructive. Please clarify. I am writing this to avoid edit war on the Smriti Mandhana page. Thanks. VK wiki100 06:34, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- The citation given is supposed to state how to pronounce the name like this previous one. But, the one you added is "Asian Paints Presents Where The Heart Is Season 4 Episode 02 featuring Smriti Mandhana". How is that relevant? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:20, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't add it; it was already there. I just pointed it to the original upload. It is the same as the previous second citation, and Smriti herself pronounces her name in it. That's the reason why it is cited. I've removed the previous first citation because it had only 930 views, and the channel was not trustworthy. It still showed the same pronunciation as Smriti in the second citation, so it was redundant to include both. That's why I've removed the less trustworthy one. VK wiki100 08:01, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- When it comes to pronunciation, simple videos like these: [24][25][26] which only contains the pronunciation are better. Unlike the above 7 minute video which includes many other unrelated contents; these only have what's needed. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 13:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- I understand, but the issue lies in the uncertainty of the reliability of these videos. All three videos you provided have different pronunciations of her name. In this situation, it's best to use a primary source. If you could find a shorter and more to-the-point video of Smriti herself pronouncing her name, that would be very helpful. VK wiki100 16:31, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- When it comes to pronunciation, simple videos like these: [24][25][26] which only contains the pronunciation are better. Unlike the above 7 minute video which includes many other unrelated contents; these only have what's needed. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 13:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
- I didn't add it; it was already there. I just pointed it to the original upload. It is the same as the previous second citation, and Smriti herself pronounces her name in it. That's the reason why it is cited. I've removed the previous first citation because it had only 930 views, and the channel was not trustworthy. It still showed the same pronunciation as Smriti in the second citation, so it was redundant to include both. That's why I've removed the less trustworthy one. VK wiki100 08:01, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
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Incorrect revert done by Vestrian24Bio
@Vestrian24Bio : About your revert ---> "Reverting edit(s) by IndoPakAfgh (talk) to rev. 1229017290 by Pkr206: Non-constructive edit (UV 0.1.5)". on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3A2024_ICC_Men%27s_T20_World_Cup_Group_C&oldid=prev&diff=1229033107
How my edit was a "Non-constructive edit"?
as per /2024_ICC_Men%27s_T20_World_Cup#Super_8, Afghanistan has already qualified to Super 8, which means other three teams are eliminated.
Either you have been Non-constructive or Super 8 section is incorrect. IndoPakAfgh (talk) 14:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Q, E is placed only when the qualification isn't complete for the group with the table text saying "Advance to Super 8". But, now that the Qualification in Group C is over it's not needed anymore; instead the table text says: "Advanced to Super 8" stating that both
West Indies and 
Afghanistan have qualified for Super 8 and there's no need for the Q, E text anymore. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 14:53, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- Yeah but Afghanistan is still listed as "Q", and the eliminated teams are listed as "E". Your revert makes it inconsistent @Vestrian24Bio.
- As the group stages are still ongoing, we should stick to consistency between the groups, and use Q/E everywhere. It's confusing to use them for some groups and skip them for others.
- Also, this should be discussed in the talk page not on user talk. Soni (talk) 16:34, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
- I agree this should be discussed in the talk page; I just continued what started by @IndoPakAfgh here. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:46, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
Unfounded justification for reverting edit
If you didn't like the edit, it doesn't mean it's not constructive. I just resized the poster image in ""Please Please Please"" which is unnecessarily large in the article. How can this be a non-constructive edit? Should have put "I prefer the large image" in the reason for reverting. Damitinha (talk) 07:10, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Thumbnails aren't supposed to have a size limit per MOS, because thumb file display size is user preferred. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:12, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- See MOS:IMGSIZE Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:13, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- And why is doing something to improve the layout and visualization of the article a non-constructive edit? From what I saw here on your talk page you use the term "non-constructive editing" incorrectly Damitinha (talk) 07:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Read MOS:IMGSIZE Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:15, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- I may have been hasty, but at least justify correctly when reverting an edit, simply using "non-constructive edit" does not justify or explain anything. Damitinha (talk) 07:23, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- I'm sorry about that; I usually leave a talk page message after reverting, missed this time. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:31, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- I may have been hasty, but at least justify correctly when reverting an edit, simply using "non-constructive edit" does not justify or explain anything. Damitinha (talk) 07:23, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Read MOS:IMGSIZE Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:15, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-25
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Recent changes
- People who attempt to add an external link in the visual editor will now receive immediate feedback if they attempt to link to a domain that a project has decided to block. Please see Edit check for more details. [34]
- The new Community Configuration extension is available on Test Wikipedia. This extension allows communities to customize specific features to meet their local needs. Currently only Growth features are configurable, but the extension will support other Community Configuration use cases in the future. [35][36]
- The dark mode beta feature is now available on category and help pages, as well as more special pages. There may be contrast issues. Please report bugs on the project talk page. [37]
Problems
- Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [38]
- Last week, styling updates were made to the Vector 2022 skin. This caused unforeseen issues with templates, hatnotes, and images. Changes to templates and hatnotes were reverted. Most issues with images were fixed. If you still see any, report them here. [39]
Changes later this week
- The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 18 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 19 June. It will be on all wikis from 20 June (calendar). [40][41]
- Starting June 18, the Reference Edit Check will be deployed to a new set of Wikipedias. This feature is intended to help newcomers and to assist edit-patrollers by inviting people who are adding new content to a Wikipedia article to add a citation when they do not do so themselves. During a test at 11 wikis, the number of citations added more than doubled when Reference Check was shown to people. Reference Check is community configurable. [42]
- Mailing lists will be unavailable for roughly two hours on Tuesday 10:00–12:00 UTC. This is to enable migration to a new server and upgrade its software. [43]
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Nomination for deletion of Template:Indian Premier League final preload
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Tech News: 2024-26
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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. [44]
- 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. [45]
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. [46]
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). [47][48]
- 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. [49]
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Songs
What was the purpose of these articles: Samgrame (song) and Lokiverse (song). I have redirected them because the sourcing was very poor and the sourcing in the article did not mention it. Samgrame sounds cool wish there was a full version. DareshMohan (talk) 08:09, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!
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WikiCup 2024 July newsletter
The third round of the 2024 WikiCup ended on 28 June. As with Round 2, this round was competitive: each of the 16 contestants who advanced to Round 4 scored at least 256 points.
The following editors all scored more than 400 points in Round 3:
Generalissima (submissions) with 1,059 points, mostly from 1 featured article on DeLancey W. Gill, 11 good articles, 18 did you know nominations, and dozens of reviews;
Skyshifter (submissions) with 673 points, mostly from 2 featured articles on Worlds (Porter Robinson album) and I'm God, 5 good articles, and 2 did you know nominations;
Sammi Brie (submissions) with 557 points, mostly from 1 featured article on KNXV-TV, 5 good articles, and 8 did you know nominations; and
AryKun (submissions) with 415 points, mostly from 1 featured article on Great cuckoo-dove, with a high number of bonus points from that article.
The full scores for round 3 can be seen here. So far this year, competitors have gotten 28 featured articles, 38 featured lists, 240 good articles, 92 in the news credits, and at least 285 did you know credits. They have conducted 279 featured article reviews, as well as 492 good article reviews and peer reviews, and have added 22 articles to featured topics and good topics.
Remember that any content promoted after 28 June but before the start of Round 4 can be claimed during Round 4, which starts on 1 July at 00:00 (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether for a good article, featured content, or anything else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed.
If you would like to learn more about rules and scoring for the 2024 WikiCup, please see this page. Further questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 21:30, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final
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Spare some time?
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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. [50]
- 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. [51]
- 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. [52][53]
- 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. [54]
- 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:) [55]
Problems
- Editors can once again click on links within the visual editor's citation-preview, thanks to a bug fix by the Editing Team. [56]
Future changes
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Your GA nomination of 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final
Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. 
This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Magentic Manifestations -- Magentic Manifestations (talk) 13:02, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
Your GA nomination of 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final
The article 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final you nominated as a good article has failed 
; see Talk:2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final 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 Magentic Manifestations -- Magentic Manifestations (talk) 13:40, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Vestrian24Bio Hi! I had taken this as a review and provided comprehensive comments on it. If you require any clarification or want to engage in a discussion, ping me as required. With the required modifications and some time for stability, the article might be good to go. As a suggestion, I can still see a lot of edits on this happening, if there are non-constructive, you should probably seek a page protection again as it might hamper your efforts to take it to a GA. All the best! Thanks! Magentic Manifestations (talk) 08:36, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
About your DCWC submisison
Hey Vestrian24Bio! This is about your (potential) submission 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup final. For points tracking purposes, please make sure you're submitting articles under a single country, even if they qualify under more than one. The same applies for the reviews request sidebar, where horizontal space is a rapidly diminishing commodity and too many flags can be distracting. Let me know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 23:06, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- At first, I didn't even know this article qualified for DCWC, until someone listed it on Eligible reviews; I just copied what was there, that's all. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:17, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
ITN recognition for R. Sampanthan
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Nomination of List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains for deletion
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Women's Premier League (cricket) captains until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
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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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Tech News: 2024-29
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Tech News survey
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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. [57]
- 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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Happy First Edit Day!
 | Happy First Edit Day! Hi Vestrian24Bio! On behalf of the Birthday Committee, I'd like to wish you a very happy anniversary of the day you made your first edit and became a Wikipedian! The Herald (Benison) (talk) 06:44, 16 July 2024 (UTC) |  |
July 2024
Hi Vestrian24Bio! I noticed that you have reverted to restore your preferred version of an article several times. The impulse to undo an edit you disagree with is understandable, but I wanted to make sure you're aware that the edit warring policy disallows repeated reversions even if they are justifiable.
All editors are expected to discuss content disputes on article talk pages to try to reach consensus. If you are unable to agree, please use one of the dispute resolution options to seek input from others. Using this approach instead of reverting can help you avoid getting drawn into an edit war. Thank you. Trailblazer101 (talk) 18:31, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
|
The Teamwork Barnstar | |
| For continuous collaboration with the WP:TOP25, particularly in helping with the South Asian perspective that is frequently necessary. igordebraga ≠ 19:30, 20 July 2024 (UTC) |
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. [58]
- 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. [59]
- 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. [60]
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.
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- 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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Welcome to the DCWC!
Welcome to the 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest, Vestrian24Bio! The contest is now open for submissions. List your work at your submissions page to earn points. If you haven't done so already, please review the following:
- Got open nominations? List them at review requests.
- Looking for a topic to work on? Check out suggested articles and eligible reviews.
- Not sure if your article qualifies? See the guidelines for more information or contact a coordinator for verification.
- New to Wikipedia? Many experienced editors are part of this contest and willing to help; feel free to ask questions about the contest on the talk page.
- Know someone else who might be interested? Sign-ups remain open until 15 July, so don't hesitate to invite other editors!
On behalf of the coordinators, we hope you enjoy participating and wish you good luck! If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page or ask one of the coordinators: Ixtal (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove yourself from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 00:01, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
- Sorry to see you go, Vestrian24Bio; thanks for your contributions to the contest to this point! I have processed your withdrawal, and you can let me know if you'd like to unsubscribe from further messages about the DCWC. See you around, and I wish you the best with your off-wiki endeavors in the meantime. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 08:11, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-31
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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:) [61]
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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JSON coding
Hi! I have a JSON coding from XTools which is supposed to generate a table; Is there any possible way to add the coding to wikitext. I currently have the coding here. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 15:04, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- You can write a lua module (if this is only for you, put it in <module name> sub spage of Module:Sandbox/Vestrian24Bio/). Use a Sribunto JSON function to get the data from JSON into a Lua table (
mw.loadJsonData(),mw.text.jsonDecode()). Use the html library functions to create an html table from the Lua table. - —Trappist the monk (talk) 15:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Created a module here; but it prints this error message... Can someone please help me fix it. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- A modified module here; but same error message... Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:22, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Trappist the monk after your change; the JSON you added appears; but, how do I add a custom JSON do I have to change it in the module directly??? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- That is why I added the comment:
IRL this could be replaced or the real JSON could be kept in this module's doc page
. Were it me, I would put the JSON in the ~/doc page or perhaps a subpage of the module (with nothing else) and then have the module fetch the content of the your chosen page. Of course, the simpler way is to just put your 'real' JSON in the module in place of the test JSON. - —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:23, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:25, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- One other possibility, you might could leave the JSON where it is and wrap it with the invoke so that the JSON is the first positional parameter:
{{#invoke:Sandbox/Vestrian24Bio/JSON table 2|jsonToHtmlTable|<JSON goes here>|}}– the extra trailing pipe may not be needed; I didn't test for that condition
- Then change the module to fetch
jsonTablefrom theframe:local jsonTable = mw.text.jsonDecode (frame.args[1]);
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:38, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- tried now; but gives an error Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:41, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Because
frameis out of scope there. If we are going to continue this conversation it would probably be better to have it on your talk page. - —Trappist the monk (talk) 18:47, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Because
- tried now; but gives an error Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:41, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- One other possibility, you might could leave the JSON where it is and wrap it with the invoke so that the JSON is the first positional parameter:
- Thanks! Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:25, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- That is why I added the comment:
- @Trappist the monk after your change; the JSON you added appears; but, how do I add a custom JSON do I have to change it in the module directly??? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:14, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- A modified module here; but same error message... Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:22, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- Created a module here; but it prints this error message... Can someone please help me fix it. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 16:11, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
I've moved the discussion to my talk page now. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 18:50, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Trappist the monk: How do I fix this error? Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 07:38, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
- What error where?
- —Trappist the monk (talk) 11:57, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
DCWC August update
The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for a month, and we've already seen some momentous improvement in the quality of many articles about underrepresented subjects! So far, our top-scoring participants are:
Magentic Manifestations (submissions) – 338 points, mainly from nine good articles. He's a contender for the "most submissions for a single country" specialty award, with nine submissions for India.
Arconning (submissions) – 305 points, including from six seasonally-appropriate Olympics-related good articles.
Generalissima (submissions) – 290 points, the bulk from her featured article about Greenlandic interpreter Qalaherriaq and two China-related good articles.
AirshipJungleman29 (submissions) – 245 points, mostly from the achievement of bringing Genghis Khan to featured status.
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2027 CWC Qualifier
Hey there! You didn't mention why the pages 2027 Cricket World Cup Qualifier and 2027 Cricket World Cup Qualifier Play-off were moved to a redirect page again? Thanks! Sneshik (talk) 11:09, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- There too far events and to avoid them being just stubs they can be developed in draftspace. i.e: Draft:2027 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:12, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe we can just mark it as a stub page with a stub template. The reason why I created these articles is because there were a lot of redirects when I wanted to know more about 2027 CWC qualification process. I think stub pages are better than redirects. What do you think? Sneshik (talk) 11:23, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- It's just WP:TOOSOON, also there was an afd for this qualifier - Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2026 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 11:28, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- Maybe we can just mark it as a stub page with a stub template. The reason why I created these articles is because there were a lot of redirects when I wanted to know more about 2027 CWC qualification process. I think stub pages are better than redirects. What do you think? Sneshik (talk) 11:23, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Speedy deletion nomination of Category:2027 Cricket World Cup stadiums
A tag has been placed on Category:2027 Cricket World Cup stadiums indicating that it is currently empty, and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. If it remains empty for seven days or more, it may be deleted under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion.
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and removing the speedy deletion tag. Liz Read! Talk! 16:56, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Liz Thanks for the notice; the thing is I have a poor connectivity problem due to which my edits are sort of delayed. Otherwise, I am adding the pages to this category. There will be a total of 12 pages here. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 17:10, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
File:2027 CWC Fanmade Logo.png listed for discussion
A file that you uploaded or altered, File:2027 CWC Fanmade Logo.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for discussion. Please see the discussion to see why it has been listed (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry). Feel free to add your opinion on the matter below the nomination. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 12:06, 10 August 2024 (UTC)
- This isn't a fandom site, so "fan made" fake logos are not appropriate encyclopedic content. Please don't make any more of these. Joseph2302 (talk) 06:53, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Joseph2302:
- I didn't create/design the image.
- I am not the initial uploader.
- I didn't name it that way.
- It was already in Commons, I just cropped it to the text and added it to the Sidebar, that's all. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 09:27, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- My apologies, the image history on English Wikipedia implied you had created it. Joseph2302 (talk) 13:09, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
- @Joseph2302: