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Sorry Saqib, the snippet is taken from the Page Triage API, and internally that only stores about 250 characters of the article to avoid database table bloat. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:35, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
If I am trying to add citations to an English article, is it allowed to use citations in a different language if that language heavily pertains to the page. My example is the page for Chindawol in Afghanistan. I want to use citations in Farsi/Persian for the page (in English) and want to know if it is allowed. --Kayhan313 (talk) 02:56, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
@Kayhan313: This isn't just allowed, it is encouraged. You can make your citation better by adding the following parameters to the citation template:
"|lang=fa" for farsi.
"|trans-title=" which can contain the English translation of the title of the webpage/ref and
"|quote=" which can contain a relevant quote from the webpage/ref.
Where can I find reliable copyright free images? How can I tell if an image I chose is copyrighted? Thanks. --Kayhan313 (talk) 18:23, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
@Kayhan313: Wikimedia Commons has a page about this. Feel free to ping me with a link to an image, if you aren't sure about whether it is ok to upload to Wikipedia. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:18, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-24
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
The software used to render SVG files has been updated to a new version, fixing many longstanding bugs in SVG rendering. [1]
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The HTML markup used for citations by Parsoid changed last week. In places where Parsoid previously added the mw-reference-text class, Parsoid now also adds the reference-text class for better compatibility with the legacy parser. More details are available. [2]
Problems
There was a bug with the Content Translation interface that caused the tools menus to appear in the wrong location. This has now been fixed. [3]
Changes later this week
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]
The new version of MediaWiki includes another change to the HTML markup used for citations: Parsoid will now generate a <span class="mw-cite-backlink"> wrapper for both named and unnamed references for better compatibility with the legacy parser. Interface administrators should verify that gadgets that interact with citations are compatible with the new markup. More details are available. [6]
On multilingual wikis that use the <translate> system, there is a feature that shows potentially-outdated translations with a pink background until they are updated or confirmed. From this week, confirming translations will be logged, and there is a new user-right that can be required for confirming translations if the community requests it. [7]
Hi,
Good day
I have edited some points that are not shown on the page. Can you please check and let me know what to improve? I introduced information taken from important work that has been done and accepted commonly.
@MabdullahBD: Welcome to Wikipedia! I've left a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Read through them when you get the time. Now on to your question. It looks like you are talking about Abdul Hakim Sialkoti. I'm far from an expert on Islamic theology, but since your changes were reverted, you can take the advise of the reverting editor and discuss the changes proposed, on the talk page (Start a new section). You did a lot of changes in one edit, some of which might be more acceptable to watchers of that page. To start with, you can create the list of the new references that you want to add and add them in your talk page discussion. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:12, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
I changed the things I know the most possible correct things with necessary sources. I have read many of your guidelines. I think my changes could be put in the write-up.
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
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. [8]
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. [11]
Problems
Cloud Services tools were not available for 25 minutes last week. This was caused by a faulty hardware cable in the data center. [12]
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. [13]
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). [14][15]
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. [16]
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. [17]
Hi , I am kriti kumari sinha , and i am on wiki to add my biography.
https://www.amazon.com/author/kritisinha . i just created account on wiki for this. and looking you guidance for same.
@Kriti kumari sinha: Welcome to Wikipedia. I think you'll want to read WP:YOURSELF before starting on this project. If you still think it would be a good idea to have an article about you on Wikipedia, then continue with reading Wikipedia:Notability (people) and reply back here with 2-3 sources that meet the criteria shown in WP:NBASIC. In any case, Wikipedia would be happy to have you as an expert on databases/SQL and/or python. If you are interested in this, then reply back here and I can send you some links which will help you on this path. Ciao! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:59, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/TransPennine Express (disambiguation) 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.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished.
(talk page stalker) @EveryDay Matters… ToDay, Welcome to Wikipedia. A page name on Wikipedia refers to the title of an article or entry that provides information on a specific topic. It is what you see in the URL and at the top of the page. For example, "Albert Einstein" is the page name for the article about the physicist. Your username, "EveryDay Matters… ToDay" is your personal identifier on Wikipedia. It is used to log in, make edits, and participate in discussions. It appears in your contributions history and on your user talk page. So, the page name is for content, while your username is your identity as a contributor. I hope this helps. – DreamRimmer (talk) 06:37, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
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. [18]
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. [19]
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. [20]
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). [21][22]
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. [23]
Hey MPGuy2824, would you be able to take a look at the FLC on the Intercontinental Cup to see if I've actioned your comments or not? Would really appreciate it. Thanks. NapHit (talk) 08:01, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
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!
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. [24]
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. [25]
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. [26][27]
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. [28]
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.
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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.
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.
Арсен Павлов, более известный как Моторола, — это двоюродный брат Николая Ивановича Зайцева. Он родился 14 января 1993 года в Покровке, Октябрьском районе Приморского края. --Николай зайцев (talk) 16:07, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
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.
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.
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. [31]
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.
Hey there, I've been using Wikipedia for almost 20 yrs at this point and finally made an account. I've only found so much that would need editing in those years, but I would like to contribute more. Do you have any introductory pointers? --WikiHalfBurnt (talk) 00:43, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
@WikiHalfBurnt: I've left you a message on your talk page which has a bunch of links. Please go through them when you can, but you should start with the Wikipedia Adventure one or the Task Center. Besides that, you can join Wikiprojects (either a subject area or a geographic area based one). Could you tell me the sorts of tasks that you enjoyed doing over these 20 years. Based on that, I could recommend others. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:20, 20 July 2024 (UTC)
Hello i just registered on wikipedia can i write some useful article about businesses and companies for information purpose is there problem if this is the new account? --Kushagra Singh Rathore (talk) 07:15, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
@Kushagra Singh Rathore: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Try to start with the Wikipedia adventure one. Anyway onto your question. If you want to start an article about a company/organization, please note that it would have to meet WP:NORG to be kept on the wiki. You can start the article using the article wizard if you'd like. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:36, 22 July 2024 (UTC)
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. [32]
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. [33]
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. [34]
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.
Hey, I'd like some advice on best practice when writing about a company I am associated with.
I have written a brief draft about "Hyve Managed Hosting" and have tried to be unbiased and just include the facts with citations for them. I have also disclosed on my user page that I am linked in some way.
Is there anything else I'm missing or should consider?
I assume the article be reviewed by other wiki users first to give comments etc, right?
You've put the disclosure in your sandbox, but it should be on your user page.
You can use Wikipedia:Article wizard to start your draft. It should help you take the necessary other things that you need to take care of while writing about something/someone that you are associated with.
Once you have a draft ready, reply back here and I'd be happy to take a look at it and suggest improvements, if any.
I've moved the disclosure to my User Page as suggested.
I can see there another conflict of interest template I might need to add to the talk section of the article but I guess I have to do that after it's published to edit the talk section?
Also I have the draft ready, do I have to click "Publish" to make it so you can give feedback or are you able to see it now? I'm not sure if it's auto-saving or not tbh.
I went to publish and I'm getting an error "No stashed content found for 0/f8d0dc96-3eda-11ef-a0c2-69667cbf7e33". Will I have to start over to get passed this error or is there something I can do? I appreciate you may not know though! JTScan (talk) 13:00, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
Usually this happens when the computer/browser was restarted between editing sessions. Hopefully you have the draft saved on your computer separately. Please try saving it to User:JTScan/sandbox, for example. I'm logging off for the day. Please try what you can. I'll be able to continue on this tomorrow. I've also left a message with a bunch of links on your talk page. Go through whatever seems interesting when you get the time. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 13:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
@JTScan: I took a look at Draft:Hyve Managed Hosting. An organization has to meet WP:ORGCRIT for it to be considered notable enough for a Wikipedia article. The relevant section of that is it should have "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject". Ignoring the references from the company's own website, a few of the sources do seem to meet that standard. I would suggest that you submit the draft for review and somebody from WP:AFC who is more familiar with company articles will take a look at it and give you feedback. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:36, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
Hi, would you be able to look at this draft and let me know it is ready to go ahead. The film is already notable and there are already enough mentions. Khorang 14:03, 23 July 2024 (UTC)
@Khorang: Since I don't review movie articles, I've asked for help about this from a fellow NPP reviewer. Since it was in multiple film festivals, I think it will have an easier time being accepted than most movies. Will ping you back once I get a reply from them. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:44, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
@Khorang: The other NPP reviewer that I mentioned ok'ed it. You should submit it for review by clicking the large blue button titled "Submit the draft for review!". -MPGuy2824 (talk) 09:29, 24 July 2024 (UTC)
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:) [35]
Congratulations, MPGuy2824! The list you nominated, List of presidents of Burundi, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best lists on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured list. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Hey man im josh (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:26, 30 July 2024 (UTC)
Арсен Павлов, более известный как Моторола, — это двоюродный брат Николая Ивановича Зайцева. Он родился 14 января 1993 года в Покровке, Октябрьском районе Приморского края. --Николай зайцев (talk) 16:22, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
@Николай зайцев: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've added a message on your talk page in English and Russian. Now onto your question: We do have an article for Arsen Pavlov, but we don't currently have one for Nikolai Ivanovich Zaitsev. Once we do, and there is a good reference stating that the two are related, then you can add the relationship on both the pages yourself, or as an edit request on one/both of the talk pages. Hope that helps. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 11:05, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
@Idgne: Welcome to Wikipedia. It isn't exactly clear what you are asking, but there is a question there about references. Help:Referencing for beginners is a good place to start. If you prefer to edit in another language, then you can find that language's wikipedia and edit there. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:28, 15 July 2024 (UTC)
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!
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.
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).
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!
Newly maintained scripts
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.
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
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.
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) – 144 points from three good articles, including two about Kiribati elections, and four reviews of good article nominees.
Looking for ways to climb up the leaderboard yourself? Help out your fellow participants by answering a few review requests, particularly the older entries. Several more nominations needing attention are listed at eligible reviews, and highlighed entries receive a 1.5× multiplier! The coordinators would like to extend a special thanks to Thebiguglyalien (submissions) for his commitment to keeping these review pages up to date.
This is an archive of past discussions with User:MPGuy2824. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page.
Hello this may not be a question but I am grateful that I have someone to ask questions and recommendations to! --Theonethat (talk) 16:19, 31 July 2024 (UTC)
@Theonethat: Welcome to Wikipedia. Yeah, feel free to ask any questions you have, no matter how small you think it is. Wikipedia has a lot of nooks and crannies and it sometimes seems daunting to new editors. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:29, 6 August 2024 (UTC)
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 for Template:Dir and Template: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. [36][37]
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.
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.
I hope this message finds you well. I am relatively new to contributing to Wikipedia and recently received some feedback regarding my edits to the John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1675–1732) article. Specifically, I was advised to adhere more closely to the Manual of Style and to use internal Wikilinks instead of full URLs.
I am eager to improve my editing skills and would greatly appreciate any additional guidance or tips you can provide. Your experience and insights would be incredibly valuable as I work to become a more effective and consistent contributor. Do you have any suggestions?
I assume that you've read and followed all the helpful advice that folks have left on your page. Everybody makes mistakes, just try not to make them twice and you'll be an awesome editor. Wikipedia also has a bunch of wikiprojects which focus on specific subject areas (Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory) See if you are interested in any of them. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:33, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
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.
@Sethbjj: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've put a message on your talk page with a bunch of links. Please take a look at them when you get a chance. The most relevant to your question is Help:Your first article. You can start reading that and ping me if you have any questions. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:22, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
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 who want to re-use references but with different details such as page numbers, will be able to do so by the end of 2024, using a new sub-referencing feature. You can read more about the project and how to test the prototype.
Editors using tracking categories to identify which pages use specific extensions may notice that six of the categories have been renamed to make them more easily understood and consistent. These categories are automatically added to pages that use specialized MediaWiki extensions. The affected names are for: DynamicPageList, Kartographer, Phonos, RSS, Score, WikiHiero. Wikis that have created the category locally should rename their local creation to match. Thanks to Pppery for these improvements. [40]
Technical volunteers who edit modules and want to get a list of the categories used on a page, can now do so using the categories property of mw.title objects. This enables wikis to configure workflows such as category-specific edit notices. Thanks to SD001 for these improvements. [41][42]
Bugs status
Your help is needed to check if any pages need to be moved or deleted. A maintenance script was run to clean up unreachable pages (due to Unicode issues or introduction of new namespaces/namespace aliases). The script tried to find appropriate names for the pages (e.g. by following the Unicode changes or by moving pages whose titles on Wikipedia start with Talk:WP: so that their titles start with Wikipedia talk:), but it may have failed for some pages, and moved them to Special:PrefixIndex/T195546/ instead. Your community should check if any pages are listed there, and move them to the correct titles, or delete them if they are no longer needed. A full log (including pages for which appropriate names could be found) is available in phab:P67388.
Editors who volunteer as mentors to newcomers on their wiki are once again able to access lists of potential mentees who they can connect with to offer help and guidance. This functionality was restored thanks to a bug fix. Thank you to Mbch331 for filing the bug report. You can read about that, and 18 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
The application deadline for the Product & Technology Advisory Council (PTAC) has been extended to September 16. Members will help by providing advice to Foundation Product and Technology leadership on short and long term plans, on complex strategic problems, and help to get feedback from more contributors and technical communities. Selected members should expect to spend roughly 5 hours per month for the Council, during the one year pilot. Please consider applying, and spread the word to volunteers you think would make a positive contribution to the committee.
Learn more
The 2024 Coolest Tool Awards were awarded at Wikimania, in seven categories. For example, one award went to the ISA Tool, used for adding structured data to files on Commons, which was recently improved during the Wiki Mentor Africa Hackathon. You can see video demonstrations of each tool at the awards page. Congratulations to this year's recipients, and thank you to all tool creators and maintainers.
The latest Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin is available, and includes some highlights from Wikimania, an upcoming Language community meeting, and other news from the movement.
@LVSDubai: Welcome to Wikipedia. I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Take a look at them when you have the chance. I suggest that you start with WP:TWA. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:49, 21 August 2024 (UTC)
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
Administrators can now test the temporary accounts feature on test2wiki. This was done to allow cross-wiki testing of temporary accounts, for when temporary accounts switch between projects. The feature was enabled on testwiki a few weeks ago. No further temporary account deployments are scheduled yet. Temporary Accounts is a project to create a new type of user account that replaces IP addresses of unregistered editors which are no longer made public. Please share your opinions and questions on the project talk page.
Later this week, editors at wikis that use FlaggedRevs (also known as "Pending Changes") may notice that the indicators at the top of articles have changed. This change makes the system more consistent with the rest of the MediaWiki interface. [43]
Bugs status
Editors who use the 2010 wikitext editor, and use the Character Insert buttons, will no longer experience problems with the buttons adding content into the edit-summary instead of the edit-window. You can read more about that, and 26 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Project updates
Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Do you have a project and are willing to provide a three (3) month mentorship for an intern? Outreachy is a twice a year program for people to participate in a paid internship that will start in December 2024 and end in early March 2025, and they need mentors and projects to work on. Projects can be focused on coding or non-coding (design, documentation, translation, research). See the Outreachy page for more details, and a list of past projects since 2013.
Learn more
If you're curious about the product and technology improvements made by the Wikimedia Foundation last year, read this recent highlights summary on Diff.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
@Martytheguy: Welcome to Wikipedia, fellow "Guy". I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Take a look at them when you have the chance. I'd suggest that you start and complete WP:TWA first. After that you can attempt a few of the easier tasks at Wikipedia:Task Center to see what you find interesting. Also, Help:Your first article gives you a detailed rundown on how to start your first article. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:07, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
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
Editors and volunteer developers interested in data visualisation can now test the new software for charts. Its early version is available on beta Commons and beta Wikipedia. This is an important milestone before making charts available on regular wikis. You can read more about this project update and help to test the charts.
Feature news
Editors who use the Special:UnusedTemplates page can now filter out pages which are expected to be there permanently, such as sandboxes, test-cases, and templates that are always substituted. Editors can add the new magic word __EXPECTUNUSEDTEMPLATE__ to a template page to hide it from the listing. Thanks to Sophivorus and DannyS712 for these improvements. [44]
Editors who use the New Topic tool on discussion pages, will now be reminded to add a section header, which should help reduce the quantity of newcomers who add sections without a header. You can read more about that, and 28 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Last week, some Toolforge tools had occasional connection problems. The cause is still being investigated, but the problems have been resolved for now. [45]
Translation administrators at multilingual wikis, when editing multiple translation units, can now easily mark which changes require updates to the translation. This is possible with the new dropdown menu.
Project updates
A new draft text of a policy discussing the use of Wikimedia's APIs has been published on Meta-Wiki. The draft text does not reflect a change in policy around the APIs; instead, it is an attempt to codify existing API rules. Comments, questions, and suggestions are welcome on the proposed update’s talk page until September 13 or until those discussions have concluded.
Learn more
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
The Developing Countries WikiContest has now been running for two months, and we've seen tremendous improvement in the encyclopedic coverage of several underrepresented areas from a wide range of editors! The coordinators would like to highlght some of the newer faces who have been making notable contributions in the contest, including but by no means limited to:
Only one month remains until the end of the contest, so it's time to make your remaining nominations! Please consider answering some review requests, particularly the older entries, as a way of helping out your fellow participants and moving up the leaderboard. Good luck!
Hello! Reaching out for your help/thoughts as I'm currently helping with NPP Sept backlog drive (relatively new but wanted to take a stab) and I saw you have experience in this area. I came across the Kharai camel page which needs review and noticed that it's flagged for possible copyvio but in looking at the page history it seems that the issue has been resolved. I also looked through the content and didn't see any more info with copyvio. So was jw as I wasn't sure if there's anything I should/need to do on my end to make note that it's been resolved before marking that the page as reviewed? Thanks! Eucalyptusmint (talk) 17:42, 7 September 2024 (UTC)
Hi, The copypatrol page (linked from the page triage copyvio tag ) says that the problem is fixed and if you look at the history, the offending edits have been revdel-ed. Given that, you should ignore this tag and mark the page as reviewed based on the rest of the factors (e.g. whether it meets WP:GNG or not). I'll try to see what can be done on the backend to get such tags automatically removed. Happy reviewing and good luck with the drive~ -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
@Sabakaki Godfrey: Welcome to Wikipedia! I've left you a message with a few links on your talk page. Please go through them when you get a chance. To answer your question: Before starting an article on Wikipedia, you must first ask the question about whether the subject of the article is notable or not. On Wikipedia, we have a different definition of notability than what may be used in common language. Once you read through that, you can go to Help:Your first article and follow the steps there. Please feel free to reply to this message, if you have any questions regarding this. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:30, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
(talk page stalker)GTrang, everything seems to be working fine for me. I checked your draftify logs, and everything loads quickly, including the load more option. You might want to try refreshing with F5 or doing a hard refresh with Ctrl+F5; it could be a browser cache issue. – DreamRimmer (talk) 16:54, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
I'm facing similar issues to yours. Since it is working for DR, at least we know it isn't fully broken. Could you give me an idea about how important you feel this issue is to you? I wan't even aware that (m)any people used that Special url. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 07:39, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
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
Starting this week, the standard syntax highlighter will receive new colors that make them compatible in dark mode. This is the first of many changes to come as part of a major upgrade to syntax highlighting. You can learn more about what's to come on the help page. [47][48]
Editors of wikis using Wikidata will now be notified of only relevant Wikidata changes in their watchlist. This is because the Lua functions entity:getSitelink() and mw.wikibase.getSitelink(qid) will have their logic unified for tracking different aspects of sitelinks to reduce junk notifications from inconsistent sitelinks tracking. [49]
Project updates
Users of all Wikis will have access to Wikimedia sites as read-only for a few minutes on September 25, starting at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. More information will be published in Tech News and will also be posted on individual wikis in the coming weeks. [50]
Contributors of 11 Wikipedias, including English will have a new MOS namespace added to their Wikipedias. This improvement ensures that links beginning with MOS: (usually shortcuts to the Manual of Style) are not broken by Mooré Wikipedia (language code mos). [51]
Hi, I need your help. I'm working on a project related the Virgin Mary, and the pictures I would like to use, are on wikipedia. For example Our Lady of Akita article has a picture by SICDAMNOME. How can I contact him/her? Thank you very much for your help. --Alexa Szentmihályi (talk) 08:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
As far as I am able, I have amended all the relevent links (to Runswick Lifeboat Station), and believe the redirect can now be deleted - but I don't think I can do that.
Hi Martin, This is a lifeboat station in Runswick Bay, and I believe that "Runswick Bay Lifeboat Station" is therefore a good redirect. In any case, if you think a redirect should be deleted, you can look through Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#Redirects. If none of those criteria apply you can take the redirect to WP:RFD. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 15:34, 12 September 2024 (UTC)
There are cases for retention, such as North Sunderland, which was renamed Seahouses, in which case, you still find images, documentation, etc for the old station name, so the redirect should remain.
Hi Saqib, since the article has been taken to WP:AFD, it has been marked as reviewed. Some time (variable) after being marked as reviewed, it is removed from both these places so as to keep database tables to a manageable level. Hopefully that explains your question. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 06:51, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
It's not showing because it's marked as reviewed. We mark AfDed pages as reviewed since the community decides their notability at AfD, so no further review is needed. – DreamRimmer (talk) 07:21, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
Question from Gerbil Snoot (01:22, 15 September 2024)
@Gerbil Snoot: Welcome to Wikipedia! Yes, you can add a page that doesn't exist yet, but you should read Help:Your first article first. If you tell me what article you want to create, I'd be happy to weigh in with my thoughts. On a different note, I was looking over at some of your edits, and you should know that there is no particular need to link common words (See MOS:OL). Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 04:10, 15 September 2024 (UTC)
Question from I'mhoot01 (08:22, 16 September 2024)
Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.
Improvements and Maintenance
Editors interested in templates can help by reading the latest Wishlist focus area, Template recall and discovery, and share your feedback on the talkpage. This input helps the Community Tech team to decide the right technical approach to build. Everyone is also encouraged to continue adding new wishes.
The new automated Special:NamespaceInfo page helps editors understand which namespaces exist on each wiki, and some details about how they are configured. Thanks to DannyS712 for these improvements. [52]
References Check is a feature that encourages editors to add a citation when they add a new paragraph to a Wikipedia article. For a short time, the corresponding tag "Edit Check (references) activated" was erroneously being applied to some edits outside of the main namespace. This has been fixed. [53]
It is now possible for a wiki community to change the order in which a page’s categories are displayed on their wiki. By default, categories are displayed in the order they appear in the wikitext. Now, wikis with a consensus to do so can request a configuration change to display them in alphabetical order. [54]
Tool authors can now access ToolsDB's public databases from both Quarry and Superset. Those databases have always been accessible to every Toolforge user, but they are now more broadly accessible, as Quarry can be accessed by anyone with a Wikimedia account. In addition, Quarry's internal database can now be queried from Quarry itself. This database contains information about all queries that are being run and starred by users in Quarry. This information was already public through the web interface, but you can now query it using SQL. You can read more about that, and 20 other community-submitted tasks that were resolved last week.
Any pages or tools that still use the very old CSS classes mw-message-box need to be updated. These old classes will be removed next week or soon afterwards. Editors can use a global-search to determine what needs to be changed. It is possible to use the newer cdx-message group of classes as a replacement (see the relevant Codex documentation, and an example update), but using locally defined onwiki classes would be best. [55]
Technical project updates
Next week, all Wikimedia wikis will be read-only for a few minutes. This will start on September 25 at 15:00 UTC. This is a planned datacenter switchover for maintenance purposes. This maintenance process also targets other services. The previous switchover took 3 minutes, and the Site Reliability Engineering teams use many tools to make sure that this essential maintenance work happens as quickly as possible. [56]
Tech in depth
The latest monthly MediaWiki Product Insights newsletter is available. This edition includes details about: research about hook handlers to help simplify development, research about performance improvements, work to improve the REST API for end-users, and more.
To learn more about the technology behind the Wikimedia projects, you can now watch sessions from the technology track at Wikimania 2024 on Commons. This week, check out:
Hackathon Showcase (45 mins) - 19 short presentations by some of the Hackathon participants, describing some of the projects they worked on, such as automated testing of maintenance scripts, a video-cutting command line tool, and interface improvements for various tools. There are more details and links available in the Phabricator task.
Co-Creating a Sustainable Future for the Toolforge Ecosystem (40 mins) - a roundtable discussion for tool-maintainers, users, and supporters of Toolforge about how to make the platform sustainable and how to evaluate the tools available there.
Hey MPGuy, and thanks for your contributions in the Developing Countries WikiContest! I've had to decline your submission of this FLC review as it is unfortunately too short to award points for. Please see the relevant section of the scoring rules for more information. However, it looks like the candidate has not yet received a source, image, or accessibility review, so your submission could be accepted if you conducted one. I hope you'll consider that, and please let me or another coordinator know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:47, 19 September 2024 (UTC)
@TechnoSquirrel69: There is no actual difference between a short review because it was done half-heartedly, and a thorough review that is short because there isn't much to nitpick about (prose-wise). I do understand that it is impossible for someone else to know which of the above cases is true. In any case, no worries: the inclusion/exclusion of these points aren't going to change my rankings in the contest much. On a side note, I hope this contest will be repeated next year too. I assume that you guys are going to write something about it in the Signpost once it concludes, which would serve as a recruitment ad for any future contests. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:41, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
Thanks MPGuy; yes, we had the issue of short (but still probably comprehensive) reviews at FLC before, and the solution that the coordinators agreed on was to allow for resubmission with one of the technical aspects completed as well. We are indeed hoping to make the contest a repeating event as this year's participation and content improvement results were miles beyond what we were expecting! I'm planning on inviting the participants to a general reflection discussion after the contest is over so we can get some feedback about how to move forward with it in the future, which I hope you'll join in on — keep your eyes open for a talk page link in the mass message at the start of October. We hadn't actually discussed a Signpost article, but that makes perfect sense to me, so I'll talk to the other coordinators and see what we can do. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 16:22, 20 September 2024 (UTC)
Tech News: 2024-39
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
All wikis will be read-only for a few minutes on Wednesday September 25 at 15:00 UTC. Reading the wikis will not be interrupted, but editing will be paused. These twice-yearly processes allow WMF's site reliability engineering teams to remain prepared to keep the wikis functioning even in the event of a major interruption to one of our data centers.
Updates for editors
A screenshot of the interface for the Alt Text suggested-edit feature
Editors who use the iOS Wikipedia app in Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Chinese, may see the Alt Text suggested-edit experiment after editing an article, or completing a suggested edit using "Add an image". Alt-text helps people with visual impairments to read Wikipedia articles. The team aims to learn if adding alt-text to images is a task that editors can be successful with. Please share any feedback on the discussion page.
The Codex color palette has been updated with new and revised colors for the MediaWiki user interfaces. The most noticeable changes for editors include updates for: dark mode colors for Links and for quiet Buttons (progressive and destructive), visited Link colors for both light and dark modes, and background colors for system-messages in both light and dark modes.
It is now possible to include clickable wikilinks and external links inside code blocks. This includes links that are used within <syntaxhighlight> tags and on code pages (JavaScript, CSS, Scribunto and Sanitized CSS). Uses of template syntax {{…}} are also linked to the template page. Thanks to SD0001 for these improvements. [57]
Two bugs were fixed in the GlobalVanishRequest system by improving the logging and by removing an incorrect placeholder message. [58][59]
The API now enables 5,000 on-demand API requests per month and twice-monthly HTML snapshots freely (gratis and libre). More information on the updates and also improvements to the software development kits (SDK) are explained on the project's blog post. While Wikimedia Enterprise APIs are designed for high-volume commercial reusers, this change enables many more community use-cases to be built on the service too.
The Snapshot API (html dumps) have added beta Structured Contents endpoints (blog post on that) as well as released two beta datasets (English and French Wikipedia) from that endpoint to Hugging Face for public use and feedback (blog post on that). These pre-parsed data sets enable new options for researchers, developers, and data scientists to use and study the content.
In depth
The Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) is used to get answers to questions using the Wikidata data set. As Wikidata grows, we had to make a major architectural change so that WDQS could remain performant. As part of the WDQS Graph Split project, we have new SPARQL endpoints available for serving the "scholarly" and "main" subgraphs of Wikidata. The query.wikidata.org endpoint will continue to serve the full Wikidata graph until March 2025. After this date, it will only serve the main graph. For more information, please see the announcement on Wikidata.
Thanks, Jean. There are other reviewers doing the same, but its possible that I might have reviewed a lot of the ones you created. Since you seem to be interested in them, do consider joining Wikipedia:WikiProject Redirect. In any case, happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 10:38, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
سلام
من یک شهروند افغان هستم برای بورسیه در یک سایت خواندم دولت روسیه ۹ ماه آموزش زبان میدهد سپس آزمون زبان را میگیرد میخواستن در رشته موسیقی در دانشگاه روسیه تحصیل کرده و چگونه درخواست بورسیه بدهم؟ --Nastaran Ebrahimi (talk) 08:34, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
@Nastaran Ebrahmi: Hi, I think you are confused. This is Wikipedia, which isn't related to any Russian university. I found this site, but I don't know how trustworthy it is. Good luck with your studies and your scholarship application.
سلام فکر کنم گیج شدی این ویکی پدیا است که به هیچ دانشگاه روسی مربوط نمی شود. من سایت رو پیدا کردم ولی نمیدونم چقدر قابل اعتماده. در ادامه تحصیل و درخواست بورسیه موفق باشید. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 08:47, 27 September 2024 (UTC)
Question from Ancient seekr (02:49, 29 September 2024)
I have edited and article that was misleading and gave source to every piece of information but an editor keeps reverting it giving baseless reasons. How do i got about this? --Ancient seekr (talk) 02:49, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
@Ancient seekr: Welcome to Wikipedia. The usual way to avoid an edit war is to bring up the issue on the concerned article's talk page and discuss it with the other editor(s) there. In this case, a third editor has already started the topic. You should make your case there on why certain sources and their points of view should be added to the article, in a civil manner. Try to remain polite, even if you think that you are instigated. Hopefully, you can come to some sort of consensus with the help of the third editor. Happy editing! -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:58, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
@MPGuy2824 Thank you. I have added information with clear citations to enhance the article's content. While I am open to suggestions and improvements from other editors, including the addition of "citation needed" templates, I believe the recent revert was unjustified. The reverted edit lacked proper structure, lacked citations for even existing information, and displayed a clear POV push. Despite the other editor's seniority, their reason for the revert appears baseless. I have expressed my concerns on the article's talk page and am waiting for their response. Ancient seekr (talk) 05:03, 29 September 2024 (UTC)
The HTML used to render all headings is being changed to improve accessibility. It was changed last week in some skins (Vector legacy and Minerva). Please test gadgets on your wiki on these skins and report any related problems so that they can be resolved before this change is made in Vector-2022. The developers are still considering the introduction of a Gadget API for adding buttons to section titles if that would be helpful to tool creators, and would appreciate any input you have on that.
The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 11 June. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 12 June. It will be on all wikis from 13 June (calendar). [4][5]
Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!
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Newly maintained scripts
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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.
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) – 144 points from three good articles, including two about Kiribati elections, and four reviews of good article nominees.
Thebiguglyalien (submissions) for his commitment to keeping these review pages up to date.
Please review and vote on Focus Areas, which are groups of wishes that share a problem. Focus Areas were created for the newly reopened Community Wishlist, which is now open year-round for submissions. The first batch of focus areas are specific to moderator workflows, around welcoming newcomers, minimizing repetitive tasks, and prioritizing tasks. Once volunteers have reviewed and voted on focus areas, the Foundation will then review and select focus areas for prioritization.
Vigilantcosmicpenguin (submissions) – 141 points, who created multiple articles about abortion rights and laws in African countries
TheNuggeteer (submissions) – 126 points, who has contributed to several articles associated with the Phillippines
Averageuntitleduser (submissions) – 119 points, and has written about several Haitian topics and historical figures.
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. The thread is User conduct issue: MPGuy2824 at Zamduar College. Thank you. Shirt58 (talk) 🦘 10:30, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
