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Question from MeCantSpelll (00:08, 20 August 2023)

Regarding images to upload can you give me a brief and more understandble guideline as to what I can and cannot upload? --MeCantSpelll (talk) 00:08, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Hello @MeCantSpelll! Lucky for you I can't spell eyether.

I can help you with this but it may be easier for me to describe the rules of something more specific. Do you have specific plans to upload an image, such as an album cover or a piece of architecture? If so I can dive into the rules if there are any.

If instead you just want to be involved in the image field, let me know, and I can give you a general gist instead. Panini! • 🥪 04:21, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Creating a new page

Hi, can I send you a draft of this new article I am writing up for you to check over and let me know if it would end up being approved? Thank you in advance for your time and no worries if you are not able to, regards. Lordrusted (talk) 22:06, 23 August 2023 (UTC)

@Lordrusted I have no power to approve it myself but I would gladly take a look at it for you. Panini! • 🥪 16:10, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

• Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
• Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
• Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

Your GA nomination of Lego City Undercover

The article Lego City Undercover you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lego City Undercover for comments about the article, and Talk:Lego City Undercover/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 18:21, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

Trouted

Whack! You've been whacked with a wet trout. Don't take this too seriously. Someone just wants to let you know that you did something silly.

A self-inflicted trout per Nosebagbear's request at User:Panini!/Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents/Ban The Table. May he rest in peace. Panini! • 🥪 20:42, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from Drecelto on User:Drecelto (05:26, 18 September 2023)

I just posted a Wikipedia on Celts having Dreadlocks and it's new does it Take awhile to show on Google? Or how can it be more Noticeable?

I added photos Dates Timelines other culture associated, Archaeological evidence

Historic References --Drecelto (talk) 05:26, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from Drecelto on User:Drecelto (05:32, 18 September 2023)

Just posted a page how long till it's Noticeable --Drecelto (talk) 05:32, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Drecelto! That's an interesting question that I've never looked into before. New articles, and the additions added to them, can take anywhere from 1 to 90 days to start showing up on Google. Panini! • 🥪 18:28, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

Question from Taxurfer (01:04, 20 September 2023)

Hi Blaze,

I see that you are my mentor on Wikipedia. Thank you. I recently submitted a new article about a person, and it was declined because my primary reference was LinkedIn. Thereafter I found other credible sources on the web and replaced the LinkedIn refence with these.

Unfortunately, the article was rejected again. This time however, it feels like the reasons for rejection are subjective. The person I have written about has had a profound impact on the Internet, heck I'd say even a lot of Wikipedia was written using the code this guy wrote.

Could you please advise what can I do to make the submission stronger?

Article in question - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Henry_Sanders_(engineer)

Regards, Taxurfer --Taxurfer (talk) 01:04, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

@Taxurfer I've double-checked to make sure if you were mine, and it seems from your message that something may have happened with the system. User:Blaze Wolf appears to be your mentor. He's a great guy! I pinged him here so he is aware of the mixup. Panini! • 🥪 01:40, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

@Panini!: Heya! I've set it so all my mentees are redirected to someone else. It should've told them that they won't be talking to the mentor it says they're talking to. I've suggested that be changed in the past but nothing ever came of it. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{blaze__wolf} 02:52, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Ah! I didn't know that was a feature. I'll take this one, then.

Hey @Taxurfer! Those declines can be frustrating because of their template nature, but I assure you that the links you can find within them will be very helpful in guiding you to find what sources you need for the draft to be accepted.

The links that will be most helpful in your source hunt will be this article on our general notability guidelines and this article on what makes a source reliable. I also suggest looking into this article on primary sources. Refs two and three on your article, although in-depth, are associated with the company he works for/college he attended, meaning that they aren't enough to justify the article's noteworthiness on their own.

KylieTastic, would you also like to give some additional personal insight to your decline? Panini! • 🥪 15:25, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi Taxurfer, all new articles on Wikipedia have to show the subject is notable (See WP:N) which in most cases requires significant coverage (WP:SIGCOV) in multiple independent (WP:INDY) reliable sources (WP:RS). See WP:NBASIC for the basic criteria as part of Wikipedia:Notability (people) for the slightly longer version. Your first reference just mentions them (no significant coverage) and also the word "instrumental" is not clearly shown by the source, so more of a puff word. The second source is again just a mention and does not even verify the first half of the sentence it is used for. The third source has more depth and does verify more claims, but as it is not independent is not helpful for showing notability. Your final source is again just a mention and not of the subject, it also does not even link that Vickie Sanders to the subject, so really only shows that someone with the same surname is a board member. So at the moment we have nothing to show notability. You need to look to see if you can find some independent sources with significant coverage of them. Regards KylieTastic (talk) 16:22, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi KylieTastic, thank you for a detailed description of the reasons for rejection. I'll try to find more credible sources. Also, thanks @Panini! for providing links to guidelines and reliable sources. Taxurfer (talk) 00:53, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

By the way, the first reference is a definitive book on Winsock, and this person is an author. Is that not a credible proof for their involvement in its creation? Taxurfer (talk) 01:06, 23 September 2023 (UTC)

Hi Taxurfer, yes the source is find to show they were involved in the creation. There are two separate issues for articles the first having sources to verify (WP:V) claims but separately to show that a subject is notable enough for an article which would be looking that the sources or usually just a subset of them show this. A rule of thumb is at least 3 independent sources with significant coverage. Cheers KylieTastic (talk) 10:52, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for getting to that Kylie! I was out on vacation. Panini! • 🥪 18:32, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Barnstar of Good Humor
	for creating a hilarious and captivating plot surrounding, of all things, buying wikipedia, all with far too many subpages. how much time did this take you?! ltbdl (talk) 08:25, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

@Ltbdl, you forgot some.

Thanks for the recognition! It takes a while, mostly from the fact that I need to write out all of the signatures manually. Panini! • 🥪 18:52, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

You deserve this barnstar more than I do. And I wrote Wikipedia:Yes legal threats. InvadingInvader (userpage, talk) 23:58, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mario Party 10

The article Mario Party 10 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Mario Party 10 and Talk:Mario Party 10/GA1 for issues which need to be addressed. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 18:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Mario Party 10

The article Mario Party 10 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Mario Party 10 for comments about the article, and Talk:Mario Party 10/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has never appeared on the Main Page as a "Did you know" item, and has not appeared within the last year either as "Today's featured article", or as a bold link under "In the news" or in the "On this day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear at DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On this day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Cukie Gherkin -- Cukie Gherkin (talk) 21:01, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Mikzerafa (16:24, 7 October 2023)

How do I create an article that's not written about yet? --Mikzerafa (talk) 16:24, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Hey there @Mikzerafa! To get started you are going to want to read through Help:Your first article. There's a lot of links to other guideline pages, but don't be overwhelmed; you should only look into those further if you don't know what it means or are curious. Click that blue "article wizard" button to get started.

From there, if you have any questions, such as help with formatting or understanding policy, you're welcome to follow up here! Panini! • 🥪 16:50, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Urbanvilij (10:57, 12 October 2023)

I want to add info about my village. How can I do that? --Urbanvilij (talk) 10:57, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from Urbanvilij (12:00, 12 October 2023)

Can i ask why my edit to city burewala was removed? --Urbanvilij (talk) 12:00, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

@Urbanvilij Hello! Your additions seem to accurate ones, but the reasons they were removed was because you did not source them to reliable sources. All additions made to an article need to be verifiably accurate in order to stay. Where did you get this information, and are you able to cite it as a reference? Panini! • 🥪 16:41, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Growth team newsletter #28

Welcome to the twenty-eighth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Configuration, concept A: Accordion style

Community Configuration, concept B: Dashboard style

Community configuration 2.0

• Community Configuration 2.0 is a feature that will enable Wikimedia communities to easily customize and configure features to meet their unique needs. This approach provides non-technical moderators with more independence and control over enabling/disabling and customizing features for their communities.
• Technical approach and associated tasks are detailed in this Epic task on Phabricator.
• Initial designs are drafted for two different approaches (see images). We will soon demo interactive prototypes to interested admins, stewards, and experienced editors (T346109). Please let us know if you have feedback on the design approach, or want to participate in prototype testing.

IP Masking

• The Growth team has been working on several updates to ensure Growth maintained features will be compatible with future IP Masking changes. This work has included code changes to: Recent Changes (T343322), Echo notifications (T333531), the Thanks extension (T345679) and Mentorship (T341390).
• Before December, the Growth team will initiate community discussions with the goal of migrating communities from Flow to DiscussionTools. This move aims to minimize the necessity for additional engineering work to make Flow compatible with IP Masking. (T346108)

Mentorship

• We assembled some resources for mentors at Mediawiki wiki. This resource page is translatable and will be linked from the mentor dashboard.
• We are working to resolve a bug related to mentors properly returning after being marked as "Away". (T347024)
• Half of newcomers at English Wikipedia get a mentor assigned to them. To ensure every newcomer receives mentorship, we need additional volunteer mentors at English Wikipedia to achieve a 100% coverage rate. We also encourage experienced users from other wikis to help newcomers at their own community.

Scaling Growth features

• We continue the deployment of the structured task "add a link" to all Wikipedias. We plan to scale the task to all Wikipedias that have link suggestions available by the end of 2023.
• We plan to scale the new Impact Module to all Wikipedias soon, but first we are investigating a bug with the job that refreshes the Impact Module data. (T344428)
• At some wikis, newcomers have access to the "add an image" structured task. This task suggests images that may be relevant to add to unillustrated articles. Newcomers at these wikis can now add images to unillustrated articles sections. (T345940) The wikis that have this task are listed under "Images recommendations" at the Growth team deployment table.

Other news

• We disabled the “add an image” task temporarily (T345188) because there was a failure in the image suggestions pipeline (T345141). This is now fixed.
• You can read a report about the Growth team’s representation at Wikimania in Singapore here. Growth team members presented two sessions at Wikimania Singapore.
• After a 2.5 years-long collaboration with Bangala Wikipedia, we have decided to start a collaboration with another wiki. Swahili Wikipedia is now a pilot wiki for Growth experiments.

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Question from Simon M. Mwila on User:Simon M. Mwila (19:44, 24 October 2023)

Hello. How do I get my page get published --Simon M. Mwila (talk) 19:44, 24 October 2023 (UTC)

@Simon M. Mwila Hey there! To have an article published you can follow through the steps detailed at Wikipedia:Articles for creation.

I would like to inform you however, that this article seems to be about yourself. Writing about yourself is highly discouraged; you can read more about why that is here. Panini! • 🥪 04:55, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

Shoot for the Stars (talk · contribs)

(megasigh) On Sept. 4, for reasons I am not at liberty to reveal, Shoot for the Stars emailed me asking me to permaban them from UTRS and to remove talk page access and email. Given the history, the UTRS ban I set to expire on Sept. 4, 2024 instead of making it permanent. That was about seven weeks ago. I doubt that the reasons for the unsuccessful unblock requests and that impassioned emailed request have changed in that time. Don't know what to say. They're lucky to have a friend like you. Maybe could you remind then of that emailed request?

If they are truly certain they want to request unblocking, they can email the Arbitration Committee because this is a WP:CHECKUSER block. arbcom-enwikimedia.org. Thanks. -- Deepfriedokra (talk) 23:36, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

The Joy of Music

Hello. After seeing your comments on Sergecross73's talk page, I noticed you'd been extensively working on a draft for The Joy of Music (album). I hope you don't mind, but I cleaned up the repeated text in the lead (which I assume was a placeholder), curly quotes, infobox formatting and removed the component sales charts from the charts table, added the use mdy template and moved it into mainspace over a redirect I made for it as it's definitely notable. I understand you might have felt it was incomplete, but you can still expand it in mainspace. I don't see why any editor would object to it currently being there as it has 30+ citations and charted. Also, as for what I said about that other editor on Sergecross73's talk page, I didn't come up with term "battleground mentality". It's just that the word "mentality" usually follows if somebody mentions WP:BATTLEGROUND, and I think it's fair to say that user has one. Ss112 01:59, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

@Ss112 I thought so, it was just an observation that some trucker would love a shirt with that on it. Thanks for the cleanup! It saved me some time. I took a break from that article to work on 52 (album series) (that's how I edit, I jump all over the place), but you're right, the article was pretty much done. Panini! • 🥪 14:48, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Question from SRSurjo19 (05:00, 31 October 2023)

Hello I am surjo. --SRSurjo19 (talk) 05:00, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Hello there @SRSurjo19! I'm glad you're here. I hope you like it here as did I back in the day.

If you have any questions or need help figuring out the ropes you can reach out to me here at any time. If you also are a bit lost on where to begin, I can help give you an introduction to the site as well. Panini! • 🥪 17:48, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

WikiCup 2023 November newsletter

The WikiCup is a marathon rather than a sprint and all those reaching the final round have been involved in the competition for the last ten months, improving Wikipedia vastly during the process. After all this hard work, BeanieFan11 has emerged as the 2023 winner and the WikiCup Champion. The finalists this year were:-

• BeanieFan11 with 2582 points
• Thebiguglyalien with 1615 points
• Epicgenius with 1518 points
• MyCatIsAChonk with 1012 points
• BennyOnTheLoose with 974 points
• AirshipJungleman29 with 673 points
• Sammi Brie with 520 points
• Unlimitedlead with 5 points

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this year's WikiCup, whether they made it to the final round or not, and particular congratulations to the newcomers to the competition, some of whom did very well. Wikipedia has benefitted greatly from the quality creations, expansions and improvements made, and the numerous reviews performed. All those who reached the final round will win awards. The following special awards will be made based on high performance in particular areas of content creation and review. Awards will be handed out in the next few days.

• Unlimitedlead wins the featured article prize, for 7 FAs in total including 3 in round 2.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured list prize, for 5 FLs in total.
• Lee Vilenski wins the featured topic prize, for a 6-article featured topic in round 4.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the featured picture prize, for 6 FPs in total.
• BeanieFan11 wins the good article prize, for 75 GAs in total, including 61 in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the good topic prize, for a 41-article good topic in the final round.
• LunaEatsTuna wins the GA reviewer prize, for 70 GA reviews in round 1.
• MyCatIsAChonk wins the FA reviewer prize, for 66 FA reviews in the final round.
• Epicgenius wins the DYK prize, for 49 did you know articles in total.
• Muboshgu wins the ITN prize, for 46 in the news articles in total.

The WikiCup has run every year since 2007. With the 2023 contest now concluded, I will be standing down as a judge due to real life commitments, so I hope that another editor will take over running the competition. Please get in touch if you are interested. Next year's competition will hopefully begin on 1 January 2024. You are invited to sign up to participate in the contest; the WikiCup is open to all Wikipedians, both novices and experienced editors. It only remains to congratulate our worthy winners once again and thank all participants for their involvement! (If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.) Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 5 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Vchipilal (19:54, 6 November 2023)

hello --Vchipilal (talk) 19:54, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

@Vchipilal Hello there! Thanks for saying hi. I'm Panini, and my job is to help assist you with the ropes of Wikipedia. It can be intimidating at the start, so let me know if you have any questions! Panini! • 🥪 17:09, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Amongusimposter223 (00:39, 7 November 2023)

hello. Are you real ? --Amongusimposter223 (talk) 00:39, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Amongusimposter223! Yep, I'm a real person, and you can see my specific contributions here for proof. Let me know if you need anything! Panini! • 🥪 17:11, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Regarding My Page

Hi Panini, please can go through my page and let me know what to do next so that i can setup my page soon. Thank you very much. Sarmilan1992 (talk) 05:26, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Sarmilan1992! I must know first, is this page about yourself? If so I ask that you tread carefully, or even reconsider. This page the concerns. If you really feel it's warranted, and it also passes our criteria for notability of an article, then I can help you further. Panini! • 🥪 17:15, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Hi yes it's about myself. Please do consider to go through this page. As I think I'm passed all the criterias for as notable person for this article. I can share my LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram verified blue tick. Thank you Panini. Sarmilan1992 (talk) 21:49, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Sarmilan1992 Unfortunately socials like those would not help establish the passing of our general notability guidelines (GNG). These sources were created by yourself, and would therefore be considered primary sources, which don't apply to the GNG.

The criteria for what counts as a reliable source is that it must be created by a reliable person or work, and is unrelated to the subject material (secondary sources). You can read more about these rules here. Panini! • 🥪 22:13, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Sarmilan1992 on User:Sarmilan1992 (22:23, 7 November 2023)

I think Wikipedia deleted my page. Why yar? I put so much of effort to created that page and suddenly gone. So sad. --Sarmilan1992 (talk) 22:23, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

@Sarmilan1992 The message above on your talk page details this well:

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. A tag has been placed on User:Sarmilan1992 requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section U5 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page appears to consist of writings, information, discussions, or activities not closely related to Wikipedia's goals. Please note that Wikipedia is not a free web hosting service. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you can place a request here.

Panini! • 🥪 22:40, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Demoniccan (03:17, 14 November 2023)

Hello! I've got a question about my watchlist. Is there any way to just see a list of the pages I've watched? It only shows the edits of pages. --Demoniccan (talk) 03:17, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Demoniccan! If you're on desktop in the top right corner is a collection of pages you'll be using often, and that's where you can access your personal watchlist. On other devices it should too be there as far as I'm aware, but you can search Special:Watchlist as well. Panini! • 🥪 03:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Question from Hashira11 on Happy Birthday (20:42, 25 November 2023)

Open sky movie starting from 01/12/2023 - 15/12/2023 events on 24 August 20w4 in Tunisia Tunis Thank you for your cooperation best regards Sofiane Fakhfakh Piko --Hashira11 (talk) 20:42, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

@Hashira11 Hey there, could you clarify to me what it is you need help with? Panini! • 🥪 21:44, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

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Your dedication to inundate inboxes with election fervor is awe-inspiring. I can almost imagine you, a little digital crusader, tirelessly sending these missives out, expecting a chorus of excitement in return. Alas, the sound you hear is just the echo of a vacant room. Please, MediaWiki message delivery, take a moment to absorb my absolute lack of enthusiasm. I hope this message reaches you in good humor, or at least in functional binary code. If not, well, that's the way the cookies crumble in the algorithm, isn't it?

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Growth team newsletter #29

Welcome to the twenty-ninth newsletter from the Growth team! Help with translations

Community Conversations

The Growth team will host its first community conversation Monday, 4 December (19:00 - 20:30 UTC). The topic for this meeting will be Mentorship.

This first meeting language will be English, but we plan to host conversations in other languages, and about other topics. Please visit the conversation page on-wiki for the details on how to join. You can also watch the page, or suggest ideas for upcoming conversations there.

Impact Module

At the beginning of November 2023, the Growth team deployed the New Impact Module to all Wikipedias. We recently released a follow up improvement to how edit data was displayed based on editor feedback. [1]

Add a Link

We released “add a link” to 35 more Wikipedias. [2] [3]

We have a few Wikipedias remaining:

• German and English Wikipedia will be contacted at the beginning of January 2024.
• There are a few small wikis that will not receive the task until they have enough articles for the algorithm to work properly.

Community Configuration

• We shared Community Configuration 2.0 plans with technical stakeholders. [4] 🖂
• Initial Community Configuration design ideas have been shared and discussed with community members.
• A basic Community Configuration 2.0 demo is released on ToolForge.
• Developers can find some initial proof of concept code shared on gitlab.

Mentorship

When a mentor marked themselves as "Away", they were not getting their name assigned to new accounts when they returned. This has been fixed. [5]

We improved the message received by newcomers when their mentor quits, to reduce confusion. [6]

We worked on ensuring that all mentees are assigned to an active mentor. This required reassigning mentees with no mentors to a new mentor. We paused this as the clean-up script confused some editors. We will resume it when the identified blockers are resolved. [7]

It is now possible to create an Abuse Filter to prevent one user from signing up as a mentor. [8]

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Adoption?

Hello. I was looking through Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee's Area/Adopters and saw your name pop up. I was hoping to see if you were still accepting new users. Hemlock :3 leave a message 20:18, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey there, @HemlockVR! I apologize that it says that, but I accidentally never updated my status; I am currently not accepting new adoptees since I'm not as active as I once was.

I don't want to leave you without a path forward though, so my recommendation for a mentor is Tails Wx; he's been killing it as an editor recently, and his personal and Wiki interests align similar to your own! Panini! • 🥪 02:21, 6 December 2023 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hello, Panini!. Thank you for your work on A Ben Rector Christmas. User:Kiwiz1338, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:

Thanks for creating the A Ben Rector Christmas article. Good work!

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Kiwiz1338 (talk) 06:18, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

DYK for 52 (album series)

On 11 December 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 52 (album series), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that country musician Kristian Bush celebrated his 52nd birthday by releasing 52 songs in the span of one year? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/52 (album series). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 52 (album series)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Valereee (talk) 00:03, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Monicaswolf (11:39, 18 December 2023)

Nice to meet you Panini. I found an article in the German Wikipedia on Hugo Wolf but I don't know German. I need to read it in English. The reason is Hugo Wolf was my great-uncle and there is some information that is missing that I can add. Also, I would like to know who wrote it to contact them. --Monicaswolf (talk) 11:39, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Monicaswolf! From a quick look through there's seems to be multiple articles with the name Hugo Wolf and/or are similar to the name. Can you share with me the URL so I can be certain which one you are referring to? Panini! • 🥪 16:40, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Wbigboy69 (14:49, 18 December 2023)

hi --Wbigboy69 (talk) 14:49, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hey there @Wbigboy69! I'm here to help you out with any questions when it comes to editing Wikipedia. Let me know if you need anything! Panini! • 🥪 16:37, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from Crisfern5 (18:19, 19 December 2023)

Hi- I'm trying to start my own wikipedia page, but it seems to want to direct me to another Cristina Fernandez (who is not me - but the ex-President of Argentina) Can you please advise? --Crisfern5 (talk) 18:19, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello @Crisfern5! In order to make different articles with similar names we use disambiguations; for example, Brand New (band) and Brand New (Ben Rector album). We usually differentiate by using parenthesis. The disambiguation you use depends on the subject of the article; you can look at this list for the common ones. Panini! • 🥪 00:29, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Question from PrashantAnand03 (17:54, 20 December 2023)

Sir I want to write an article on ww2 British Indian Army and publish it on Wikipedia please guide or instruct me how I can write an article on Wikipedia? am I eligible to write? Will my article get considered and will it be published. --PrashantAnand03 (talk) 17:54, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello @PrashantAnand03! Whether or not the article is published is based on the quality of both the subject itself and your work on it. All the resources and information you need to get started can be found at Help:Your first article, and don't be afraid to ask me further questions. Happy editing! Panini! • 🥪 19:32, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Edgenuity founded in 1988?

Is this correct? this was an old edit from 2021. 120.28.224.22 (talk) 08:23, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

120.28.224.22, this edit appears to be made by me and was noticed by nobody for a long while (maybe because I'm the only one maintaining the page at this point). I misread this source as 1988 instead of 1998, when the company was actually founded. That's my bad! Panini! • 🥪 20:42, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Also someone made a edit saying it was located in Scottsdale, New York. that's not true either 120.28.229.213 (talk) 05:42, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

So you misread the source; the Edgenuity name or even the E2020 name existed in 1988? 120.28.229.213 (talk) 05:58, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Doesn't look like it; both come from 1998. Panini! • 🥪 14:35, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Didn't Edgenuity use their current name first in 2011? 120.28.229.213 (talk) 11:39, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

It seems likely, as that's what it was referred to prior to being purchased by Weld North in 2011. Before that they were Education2020. Panini! • 🥪 16:34, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

They used Education 2020 from 1988–2011. When it was purchased by Weld North, it became Edgenuity 120.28.229.213 (talk) 16:41, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Thank you

Yesterday, I was doing some vandalism patrol and I made a bunch of mistakes reverting edits that didn't look like good faith edits but in fact were. I've been feeling a bit discouraged and decided to give patrol a rest to stop making further mistakes. However, your essay on mistakes gave me hope for my future on Wikipedia. I just thought you would like to know that that essay is quite helpful. Also, how are you able to make GAs and FAs? I assume it's a lot of hard work, but if you have any tips, those would be of great help. ❤HistoryTheorist❤ 00:20, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the kind words @HistoryTheorist! They mean a lot and I'm glad that little essay gets some readership.

A good and featured article are made just like any other article except you got to do a really stinking good job at it. Writing the article well and arranging the words in the best way, free of grammatical errors. Properly sourcing everything to the highest quality of reliable sources. ensuring comprehensiveness and accuracy. Once you have achieved this you submit the article for review to get second opinions: good articles only have one reviewer, and featured articles have at the very least three, plus a source reviewer, image reviewer, and if it's your first time, a spot-check reviewer. Featured articles should be front page worthy, hence why those bad boys go through a lot.

Good articles are usually simple, and if you "finish" an article thinking it's the best you can do than it most likely is and will pass a good article review. Of course stuff will be caught by others, especially my work; see this review of mine where my work is bashed by linguistic genius IceWelder. I really would have never noticed any of that stuff!

The quality and difficulty difference between a good article and a featured article is massive. Here's the good article review of my second FA Paper Mario, and at the time the article looked like this. Compare that to the humongous featured article review that resulted in what the article is right now.

You can read about the specific criteria for good articles and featured articles here and here. I can help you out with the process once you have a goal in mind. Panini! • 🥪 05:07, 23 December 2023 (UTC)