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1. Magic pipe trick: Synonymous article titles may be clarified with terms in parentheses, like this: [[Self (psychology)]]. But when you want to include such a link in the body of an article, this would look rather awkward. So all you have to do is use the "magic pipe trick", like this: [[Self (psychology)|]]. Notice the pipe ("|") character stuck in there at the end of the link? That makes the link look like this: Self, without having to type the name of the link after the pipe! This trick also works with namespaces, so that [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day|]] (again notice the pipe character) displays like this: Tip of the day.

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Question from Anthony jutha on Talk:Telephone numbers in Israel (05:14, 13 March 2025)

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Phone number history --Anthony jutha (talk) 05:14, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Anthony jutha, Goog day. I am not sure what your question was, but I have pinged the editor on the [Talk:Telephone numbers in Israel#Mirs 053|Mirs 053] page, where you addressed their message. Cassiopeia talk 20:29, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Ramencolls (11:50, 13 March 2025)

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Why I am not able to edit protected articles? What should I do to edit them? --Ramencolls (talk) 11:50, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ramencolls, Good day. You can only edit semi-protected pages if your account is at least 4 days old and has made at least 10 edits in the English Wikipedia main space. Both criteria must be met. For pages under extended confirmed protection, an account must be at least 30 days old and have made 500 edits in the English Wikipedia main space. Both criteria must be met. A fully protected page cannot be edited or moved by anyone except administrators. Let me know if you have further questions for I am here to help. Cassiopeia talk 20:22, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Question from Nandita Parihar (05:38, 15 March 2025)

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Hello, How do I create a company information page? --Nandita Parihar (talk) 05:38, 15 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nandita Parihar Good day. In order for a subject to warrant a page in the main space of Wikipedia, it must fulfill the criteria outlined in the Wikipedia guideline on notability, specifically the General Notability Guideline (WP:GNG).
GNG is defined as the subject must fulfill specific criteria to demonstrate significant coverage from independent and reliable sources. These sources should provide in-depth discussions about the subject rather than merely offering passing mentions. This requirement is essential for verification, which is a core policy of Wikipedia. If a source is affiliated/associated/connected with the subject—such as the subject's marketing team, company, social media platforms, information in interviews of the subject or any self-published information—this indicates a lack of independence. Consequently, such sources cannot be utilized to satisfy the notability guidelines.Sources originating from educational institutions, government entities, foundations, social media platforms, and private companies are regarded as unreliable. In contrast, materials published by "major" newspapers and "reputable" books are typically considered reliable sources.
I recommend that you read WP:Your first article and adhere to the provided instructions before beginning the creation of an article. Cassiopeia talk

Question from Ayeshanissa (08:33, 17 March 2025)

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Hi there! How do I do citations, especially if the publication doesn't show the name of the author? --Ayeshanissa (talk) 08:33, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ayeshanissa Good day. For inline citations, please use the horizontal format of Template:Citeweb for web sources and Template:Citebook for books. If the author's name is not specified in the article, please leave the first and last name fields blank. Cassiopeia talk 20:52, 17 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #671

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata in the
week leading up to 2025-03-17. Missed the previous one? See issue #670

Discussions

Events

  • Upcoming events:
    • Call for Wikimania 2025 Programme reviewers. Apply until Monday 17 March 12:00 UTC
    • Wikidata Affinity Group Update: The fourth session of Starting a Wikidata Project, originally set for March 18, will now be an asynchronous Slack discussion in the #wikidata channel of the LD4 Slack Space. Join us at 9am PT / 16:00 UTC to discuss Reporting Your Outcomes and Results. Join Slack here. Note: April programming will pause as we prepare the next series.

Press, articles, blog posts, videos

Tool of the week

Other Noteworthy Stuff

Newest properties and property proposals to review

You can comment on all open property proposals!

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Development

  • Wikibase REST API: We continued the work on adding search to the API (phab:T383126)
  • Search: We are continuing the work on making it easier to search for entities other than Items in the search box (phab:T338483)
  • Query Service: We set up the constraint checks to use the split graph instead of the full graph (phab:T374021)
  • Integration in the other Wikimedia projects: We are looking into how changes from Wikidata are represented on the other Wikimedia projects and how that can be improved (phab:T386200)

You can see all open tickets related to Wikidata here. If you want to help, you can also have a look at the tasks needing a volunteer.

Weekly Tasks

Tech News: 2025-12

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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.

Weekly highlight

Updates for editors

  • The improved Content Translation tool dashboard is now available in 10 Wikipedias and will be available for all Wikipedias soon. With the unified dashboard, desktop users can now: Translate new sections of an article; Discover and access topic-based article suggestion filters (initially available only for mobile device users); Discover and access the Community-defined lists filter, also known as "Collections", from wiki-projects and campaigns.
  • On Wikimedia Commons, a new system to select the appropriate file categories has been introduced: if a category has one or more subcategories, users will be able to click on an arrow that will open the subcategories directly within the form, and choose the correct one. The parent category name will always be shown on top, and it will always be possible to come back to it. This should decrease the amount of work for volunteers in fixing/creating new categories. The change is also available on mobile. These changes are part of planned improvements to the UploadWizard.
  • The Community Tech team is seeking wikis to join a pilot for the Multiblocks feature and a refreshed Special:Block page in late March. Multiblocks enables administrators to impose multiple different types of blocks on the same user at the same time. If you are an admin or steward and would like us to discuss joining the pilot with your community, please leave a message on the project talk page.
  • Starting March 25, the Editing team will test a new feature for Edit Check at 12 Wikipedias: Multi-Check. Half of the newcomers on these wikis will see all Reference Checks during their edit session, while the other half will continue seeing only one. The goal of this test is to see if users are confused or discouraged when shown multiple Reference Checks (when relevant) within a single editing session. At these wikis, the tags used on edits that show References Check will be simplified, as multiple tags could be shown within a single edit. Changes to the tags are documented on Phabricator. [1]
  • The Global reminder bot, which is a service for notifying users that their temporary user-rights are about to expire, now supports using the localized name of the user-rights group in the message heading. Translators can see the listing of existing translations and documentation to check if their language needs updating or creation.
  • The GlobalPreferences gender setting, which is used for how the software should refer to you in interface messages, now works as expected by overriding the local defaults. [2]
  • Recurrent item View all 26 community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week. For example, the Wikipedia App for Android had a bug fixed for when a user is browsing and searching in multiple languages. [3]

Updates for technical contributors

  • Later this week, the way that Codex styles are loaded will be changing. There is a small risk that this may result in unstyled interface message boxes on certain pages. User generated content (e.g. templates) is not impacted. Gadgets may be impacted. If you see any issues please report them. See the linked task for details, screenshots, and documentation on how to fix any affected gadgets.
  • Recurrent item Detailed code updates later this week: MediaWiki

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